Greek pharmaceutical magnate Achilles Vigopoulos planned on spending his holidays in style: with family at the ultra-posh South Beach hotel, the Delano, where the average room costs more than $800. At 9:30 the night of December 21, according to a police report, the well-heeled Vigopoulos went out to dinner, leaving his 10-year-old son, Nikolas, alone [...]
Archive | January, 2010
White House Budget Director Peter Orszag Has Love Child With Greek Heiress
The former girlfriend of White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has given birth to his third child, the New York Post reported Wednesday. Claire Milonas, the daughter of New York-based Greek shipping magnate Spiros Milonas, gave birth to a girl, named Tatiana Zoe, on Nov. 17 — six weeks before Orszag announced his engagement to [...]
Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Celebrated her New Position with a Party
The new year was celebrated at a Sunday open house hosted by Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis (Photo left with her Dad), newly confirmed U.S. ambassador to Hungary, and her husband, Washington Monthly President and Publisher Markos Kounalakis. The party was crammed with well-wishers, many of whom had driven down from Sacramento, where the new ambassador grew [...]
Epiphany Day Celebrated in Tarpon Springs
Tarpon Springs- a small city in Florida, is well known for two things: Sponges and the Epiphany. Both due to the town’s large Greek population. Tarpon Springs is notable for having the highest percentage of Greek-Americans of any city in the U.S. The first Greek immigrants arrived to this city during the 1880s, when they [...]
Astoria: Got Parking Ticket?
What’s the number 1 issue on the minds of Astoria residents? Overzealous traffic cops ticketing their vehicles. City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. has been getting an earful about it, and he says his constituents are being unfairly targeted because the city knows they’re a bunch of responsible, law-abiding citizens who actually pay up. “I’ve seen [...]
Lakis Lazopoulos will be the Honoree of the Aesculapian Thessalian Brotherhood’s Dinner Dance
Lakis Lazopoulos, the renowned and successful artist, actor, and, for the past years, presenter of the very popular show, Al Tsantiri News, will be the honoree of the 105th Annual Dinner Dance of the Aesculapian Thessalian Brotherhood. We are honoring the Individual, the Artist, the Entertainer, and Person, who, with his Aristophanes-influenced work and contributions, [...]
Greek Octopus of Portland for sale on eBay
Greek Cuisina, a longtime Portland institution with the famous purple octopus, has closed. The restaurant’s owner, Ted Papas, has been at odds with the city of Portland for nearly two years over code violations. In May 2008, an inspection turned up 50 fire code violations, prompting the city fire marshal to close off all but [...]
Greek Priest from California Helps African Village
Simon Thomas (left with his family), 34, is one of two ordained priests produced in recent years by Modesto’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. For 3½ years, he’s been head priest at Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, leading 175 families, about half the size of Modesto’s congregation. In February, a local opera star’s performance pulled in [...]
Greek Orthodox Services to Bless the Atlantic Ocean
Father Steven J. Vlahos, pastor of the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in North Wildwood has announced that the sacred observances commemorating and celebrating the Epiphany/Theophany, the major feast day that recalls the baptism of Jesus Christ in the River Jordan by John the Baptist will be observed at sacred worship services on Jan. 3, [...]
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05 / 23 Greek Relief from Archaeological Museum of Athens Goes on View At Getty Villa
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05 / 23 2012 Global Summit of Women to Take Place in Athens
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05 / 23 Τsantes Family Donates $100,000 in Support of Hellenic Studies Program
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05 / 23 George Tsetsekos to Step Down as Dean of LeBow College
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05 / 22 Campaign Calls on Greeks Outside of the Country to Support Their Homeland
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07 / 23 St. Nicholas of Manhattan in Ruins while Mosque Rises
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08 / 12 John Thomas Financial CEO Thomas Belesis Is Optimistic @FoxBusiness
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11 / 27 Greek American Pihakis Busted by Feds for $5.8 Million
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08 / 03 George Demos Tells Fox News We Must Rebuild St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero
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12 / 27 Greek Orthodox Community of America Renounced Anti-Semitic Statements by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus
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