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To those who think that Greece does not matter today, let me say that they could not make a bigger mistake. Today, like old Greece, is of the utmost importance for anyone looking to find himself.
Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American author
(For International Mother's Day) I do not praise you, Mother, as if you were an untouched statue, nor as a mute sacrifice that only gives and remains silent. I sing of you as a deep root, as the first school. You are the one who taught without praise, often without even knowing it — with your back...
After several years, in November (November 5-10) Juan & Ivan Nunez del Prado will once again teach a comprehensive Andean worldview in Athens. The emeritus professor of the Department of Anthropology in Cusco, Peru, Juan Nunez del Prado, and his son...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL Quietly but in an organized manner, some people carry out their work and offer services to our fellow citizens who need help. This is exactly how the Alzheimer Society of Athens operates, and that is why I...
For two weekends, those who attend this seminar will have the opportunity to experience healing, on a holistic level. Specifically, Juan & Ivan Nunez del Prado will visit Greece once again, to share the ancient...
An interview by Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL A conversation with archaeologist, author and social media personality, Konstantinos Loukopoulos, or The Mythologist. More than 210.000 people are watching a very live...
Labdanum or ladania, or rockrose, or hook-shaped, or Cistus Landaniferus, or myrrh (according to the scriptures), is a plant that we find very often in Greece, but also in our neighboring Cyprus. We mainly find it in Crete, where it is collected in May, by beating with a special...
Silybum marianum, milk thistle are its names, and it is a member of the Asteraceae family. Known in the Mediterranean, but known all over the world because it serves our health in many ways. Among its ingredients are vitamins, minerals, antioxidants,...
Dandelion, wild lettuce, mountain radish, wild radish or taraxacum officinale, is the plant that most people (mainly outside Greece) know as dandelion. A herbaceous plant, it is found almost all over the world, in meadows, where there is sufficient shade,...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL What happened this time is something I enjoy: talking to all the actors in a play. And the interesting thing again is that starting from the play, we end up unraveling...
A medieval manuscript wrote about the agrimony: “And if you put it on a man’s pillow, he will fall asleep”... In Saxon England it was used as a treatment for wounds, while in the 15th century it was the main ingredient in “harquebus water” (a...
In 1597, John Gerard, referring to the hot cayenne pepper, wrote: "It hath in it a diabolical quality...". However, he added that "being exceedingly hot and dry, it is recommended for scurvy" (a widespread infection of the throat and skin, known as "the...
Interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL George Hatzimanolis was born in Crete but studied Exercise Physiology in Boston. A student, practitioner and teacher of Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and Kung Fu, he was the most suitable...
Interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL In this interview, children speak. Our world, in the eyes of a 10-11 year old child, seems huge. This may mean to an adult "the world is full of opportunities". What...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL A retired couple who discover the dark web by accident is the subject of the play starring Antonis Antoniou and Natasa Asiki this season, at the Theatrical...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL I have always believed that in the city, on rooftops and ground floors with closed doors and with the lights on until late, beautiful things happen. There is always someone there creating,...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek Radio and News FL An artist with a 50-year career in music, theater, and cinema, has released his new album titled "Spacetime", true to his music and in an era when...
Secret Stories of the Women of Thessaly This performance is an experience. Initially, it is a theatrical performance of a research, which was based on documents and interviews of women in Thessaly (women's voices answering and narrating,...
1943 in Aigio, with the war (supposedly) raging outside the Stage, and the young men of Greece dying in battle. This is the context of the story of this play, and the word in parentheses is what struck me. In the Stage there is a...
We have already entered the year of the wood snake, as of January 29, according to the Chinese calendar. And as a Chinese friend assured us, "it's good, because the snake is shedding its skin, so we will see pleasant changes." Otherwise, the Chinese embassy in Greece...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL This very special conversation with Niki Markoyannis, owner of the "Ippolisis" estate, I am sure is the interview you need to read, as the torrent of knowledge and truth that...
I'll start with the fact that few people still have time to see this performance, since it is being performed for three performances in Athens, the last of which will take place on January 27th, at the Acropolis Theater. And for those waiting to see his "Agamemnon"...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi, for Greek News and Radio FL I have been following the actions of the "Technodromo" association for years, and it seems that now was the right time to talk with Yannis Nikolopoulos, as in a few days he will begin his journey...
Interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL I met Reno Charalambidis at the tribute he presented for Vassilis Diamantopoulos at the Technis Theatre, on New Year's Eve. These days it is in the preparation stage of the new...
For Greek News and Radio FL The work "Heart of a Dog" by Mikhail Bulgakov is a novel - let me start with this information. It is not a play, although it has been performed as a play several times. This is a direct review...
The Art Theater and Renos Charalambidis bid farewell in 2024 with a significant theatrical speech. For the first time excerpts from Vassilis Diamantopoulos' play "The Clowns" were presented, in a special presentation, accompanied by piano by Thanos Marietis...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL The conversation with Takis Chrysikakos took place a few days before Christmas with the weather changing from summer to winter at a rapid pace. A Doric style discussion, around the words...
An interview with Konstantina Rodi for Greek News and Radio FL I met Giorgos Kimoulis with the intention of discussing about the Theater, about the Actor, about how the eyes of an actor look one day in Greece and in the world. In the show "The...
I saw a very special play, staged in a completely cinematic way, at the Coronet theater. And even as "a movie" almost in black and white, if one excludes the scream of a rainbow that appears revealingly on stage, on a cloth. OR...
The ceremony held at the invitation of the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Konstantinou Tasoula, but the room was packed and the atmosphere was emotional. The President of the Hellenic Parliament Mr. Konstantinos Tasoulas invited the citizens to...
An interview with Natasa Bombolaki, President of the Panhellenic Federation NEMESIS (Environment, Animals instead of Hunting) This is probably the most difficult interview I have ever had, because the subject is difficult. Although one would expect the rights issue...
Children draw in the sun, their eyes and a beautiful tear, the world looks with love, children draw in the sun, their laughter and a ray of their soul, its breath sweetens the pain, children draw in the sun , their happiness and a...
"Circus of Souls", the theatrical performance that came to be discussed, presents six souls of our current society, characterized by diversity: disability, femicide, pedophilia, sexual segregation, addiction, racial discrimination. In the Scene of...
The most special hatun karpay is organized this June in Greece and Asia Minor, thus bridging the northern and southern hemispheres. Hatun Karpay means "The Great Initiation" in the Quechua language of the Andes. It is a series of teachings and...
In 1980 the television series Cosmos was created, with Carl Sagan as presenter and narrator. It was a very important initiative, which raised many interesting issues. Today we present the episode that referred to the Library of Alexandria, a city that...
If one considers that today there are professions that did not even exist in our imagination a few years ago, it is easy to understand that in the near future there will be professions that today have not yet appeared. Slowly but surely,...
From January 15 to 19, the World Economic Forum 2024 takes place in Davos, and for the first time it presents representatives of indigenous nations, who introduce themselves in their own way in the world that also belongs to them. Specifically, the individual...
January 15th was a day of remembrance for Martin Luther King, and an occasion to remember the vision of this great Man. Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta. The son of a teacher and a pastor, but he lived in an era that did not respect the...
Academics and historical scholars objected to using the Holocaust of the Jews during World War II as an excuse to proceed with the massacre of Gaza. The names of the signatories are as follows: Omer Bartov, Professor Samuel...
Although officially the Civil War came to an end with the Agreement of Varkiza, its traces, usually bloody but also psychotic, took a long time to end. Their echo, even today, holds well. In the early 50s, life in Greece was not easy....
It seemed that the strongest blow that world tourism received, from ancient times to today, was the two years of confinement due to the corona virus pandemic. During that period, world tourism reached zero. Since then, and while professionals...
In the early hours of Saturday October 7, Hamas attacked Israel in every way, surprising both the military forces and the secret services of the state. The beginning took place in a place in the desert where a music festival was taking place, as a result of which they were kidnapped...
So many tons of water that Greece received in the last days, there were no forests in the mountains to absorb them, although it still wouldn't be enough. Its volume was unprecedented. And while the Greeks tried to hide numb from the extreme rain, a hand was enough for...
Waiting for the August wind to die down, Greece experiences unending devastation as wildfires burn through every remaining natural lung. But also every source of crop income for a large number of farmers and ranchers. But also houses,...
Omogenia knows very well what it means to be a stranger in a place, that's why we will not mention the expressions of hatred that followed the tragic discovery: 18 immigrants were burned alive in Dadia today. Let's stick to the fact that 18 people were burned. Will not...
The sudden news of the death of the great songwriter Sinead O'Connor, aged 56, came as a thunderbolt to the ears of international music lovers, yesterday, Wednesday 26 July. The announcement came from the Irish Times, which informed us that the great singer...
The two dead pilots who were called "heroes" by the Greek state, as they fell in the line of duty, trying to put out the fire in Evia, driving a 1975 Kanander (at least a 48-year-old boat that is), were two young, skilled aircraft pilots, with ...
The word "initiation" in the title is literal for an important reason. Many of the people who came to enjoy this magnificent concert were parents who brought their children to the stadium. Wearing t-shirts of the legendary band, parents and children, "so that the children can learn rock", to hear and see "the band" up close.
Despite the occasional arrests of arsonists that have occurred over the past few years, we have never heard of any follow-up charges. The questions then remain: a random old man (average of the profiles of arsonists caught),...
The first contact with Themis Andreadis took place during the hottest week of July, with the thermometer reaching record temperatures for Greece. I was consumed by a question, watching the events unfold around me, and I wanted to talk to him: Themis...
While the first week of riots in France closes, after the killing of 17-year-old Nael by police fire, the side of the government seems to be dynamiting public opinion, especially at the moment when everyone believed that the riots would begin to subside. The Association of French Mayors...
Fifth day of riots By the evening of Saturday 1 July, a total of 2.300 arrests had been made in France, with most of those arrested being aged 17 and under. Emmanuel Macron advised parents "to collect their children from the...
Issues of "smart surveillance" have come to the fore, regarding security cameras with AI software, which on the one hand promise to keep citizens safe, on the other have raised debate and tensions, as fears have been expressed about their future use with...
A brief recap of the drama 104 migrants have been rescued since yesterday, while at least 500 people were on board the fishing boat. In the hold, there is talk of locked children and women, and their number is not yet clear. The vessel was for...
With the count having reached 99,59% on the morning of Monday, May 22, it appears that the map characterizing the 2023 national elections and their outcome is shaping up like this... An undeniable and sweeping, one would say, trend, brings the...
Many people know this famous song by Nobel Prize winning rock poet Bob Dylan, but few remember that the song is a soundtrack. Much sung and many times covered, Knocking on Heaven's Door, made its first...
With photos on social media, they are trying to locate their people, who are missing in the wreckage of the head-on train collision, the tragic figures of this story. There have been people who have left with some ashes in their hands, saying "I can't...
The sun sadly set tonight, from the weight of the unfaithfulness of the people, the betrayal is buried quietly and beautifully like the snow that hypnotizes the gaze with the dancing flakes of its lullaby, from the painlessness of the usurpers of power, from the cruelty of their slaves, from...
There was one thing left in Greece, which was not up for negotiation: the intellect. Because the Greek thinks, and this turns out to be very important, when the Greek leaves Greece. Then, he is vindicated. Because within his homeland, to be vindicated...
While we were talking with Christos Panagopoulos about his path to Shaolin Kung Fu, it was clear that - although the conversation was about the art of physical exercise, we still ended up talking about our society. I often felt like I was watching them have an immediate...
A conversation with Daniel Armando, after all. All. Daniel Armando is the soul of Apurimac. Together with the rest of Apurimac he has been filling us with music for years now, bringing the authentic musical idiom of South America to Greece, with Spanish...
While I was waiting for Vassilis Kyriakou for the interview, I had a big question: "how easily can someone decide to play Che Guevara on the stage?" When the conversation started I saw in his eyes, that he too had the same inquisitive look towards me,...
The study by the Luxury Tourism Organization KUONI, after researching 445 TikTok hashtags, came to the conclusion of the most popular destinations for honeymoons: Greece is internationally, in 4th place. At the top of the list are the Maldives, where villas in...
My meeting with Mrs. Christina Moustaklis was a meeting with recent Greek history. That's how I felt, hearing in her voice the events of her life, but also of the lives of all of us more or less. The presence of Spyros Moustaklis is intense in the area of:...
A discussion about music management in Greece, the music production scene, record companies, and rock that has come of age. A midday in the center of Athens, in Syntagma Square, is never quiet. The noise of the city is...
How many decades have we watched in horror as life is wasted on women's clothing? The fate of the world hangs on whether the woman will have sex, whether she will wear minis or pants, whether the woman will go to the beach for a swim... The fate of the whole world, a long...
The seven lawsuits received by the Metropolitan of Dodoni, from women, after the "lovely" words he expressed, in view of Sunday's election regarding abortions, are the result. The world of the church, this world of Love, performed the miracle again...
The German Spiegel visited Evros to speak with the family of the 5-year-old girl who died from a scorpion sting on August 9, when she was with other refugees trapped in a place in the area. The journalists who did the report...
Six dead and several injured are the latest toll from the accident in the Netherlands, when a truck crashed into a group of people at a neighborhood barbecue. The accident happened on Saturday night, August 27, in the village of Nieuw-Beijerlanda, south of Rotterdam,...
Stephanos Tsitsipas, who defeated Daniil Medvedev 2-1, made it to the finals of Cincinnati and the Masters event. His opponent in the final was Croatia's Borna Coric, who qualified against Cameron Norrie. Unfortunately, and while it seemed that the...
Three incidents from the international press reasonably raise this question: Why is violence taken for granted? The answer could be: For profit - Due to psychological or livelihood problems of the "owner" - Due to fatigue - Due to lack of education -...
The first goal, which was for the child to pass the entrance exam to a School or University, has been achieved. The child wrote well, collected the necessary points and passed, so now he is a student. The child who until yesterday was a student at school...
When Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev declared that "a nuclear war can never be won" in 1987, the little boy of Enola Gay had already destroyed, had already reset time, with his ironic mission. So ironically the business was named...
The daily walk in the park or in the surrounding alleys is something that is eagerly awaited, but these days protect your dog from the heat so that it does not suffer... There are not a few times that we humans have also felt the road ...
There are not a few mishaps - accidents - crimes - or I don't know what to call them, which end in "excuse me, I forgot you"... Whenever the news reminds us of such an incident, we feel anger for the heartless father or careless mother - where...
The newspaper and radio Greek News and Radio FL is a bridge between Greece and the USA. Their headquarters is in Florida, but finally, with the help of the internet, Greeks can meet here regardless of location. Why Ioanna Lazarou doesn't work...
A few months ago we presented XAM, the father of Thracian rap, both through the newspaper Greek News and Radio FL but also through Greek Radio FL and the show Kalimera Miami. So, no special recommendations are needed for this musician...
Many incidents of violence against women in India have reached our ears in recent years to such an extent that they are unfortunately now a routine in the news. India -politically and legally- seems to treat women as a ...
Kalimera Miami's latest show for 2021 hosted the soul of Apurimac, Daniel Armando. Daniel Armando spoke about his journey from Argentina to Cuba, and from there to Italy and finally to Greece - about the Apurimac and the ...
Much has been written and much has been said about the years of Jesus, which is not mentioned in the New Testament. From the age of 12, when we let him enter the Temple, until the age of thirty, no one knows where he was, but many ...
Wishes of the Department 601 AHEPA
Europol data on loverboy activity could be called human trafficking, with girls or boys as victims. The loverboy is a character, usually digital, who tries to make his victims fall in love with him, in a way. The reason...
Aristotle was named the most famous man in the world by MIT, the Massachusetts Academy of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). This decision comes from the data received from one hundred countries, and was the source for compiling the list with ...
At the touch of a button, the panic bracelet sends an alert signal via email to a person selected by the wearer. In this way it informs about the danger. The B-Safe bracelet was made by the students of the 6th General Lyceum of Kavala, in order to take part ...
A ... total restart. The leading researchers of the national tradition of Peru, and of the indigenous worldview of the Andean regions of South America, Juan Nunez del Prado and Ivan Nunez del Prado, return to Athens in June, bringing again ... the ...
The culture of Western Europe has shaped the current of Catholic Christianity, this particular current with the taste of the West that we all know. The second "current" was formed by the mixture of the Greek tradition with Christianity, Orthodoxy. And on ...
It is not that we forgot the yard games, those of us who grew up a little. It's that we would love to take our friends (we are all a little taller ... since then), make a circle, and start playing again. Like then ... It was a given that ...
A flash back to the childhood of a little more ... "big teens" can only cause a smile, when one remembers the "breakfast" (because then we did not know the word "brunch" which is very fashionable today) Most of the time breakfast was not something ...
Sweet hour. She lies down beautifully,
Athens in April as a courtesan.
Myrrh is a delight in the ether,
and the soul no longer expects anything.
(K. Karyotakis)
Greece, keep your eyes on the child. Children in the role of victim in the news.
It so happened that I came across an accordion at the age of 21. From the first notes I started to play, I felt an energy of attraction towards it.
In the midst of a difficult international journalism, Greece is watching with shock as the investigation into a crime unfolds, which is almost called "the perfect crime".
James Jakob Williams was a man whose life, unfortunately, we do not know much about. We did not learn about him at school, and they did not tell us about him. But he learned about us, and he did a lot. James Jakob Williams, was an African-American from ...
Information from the Consulate General of Tampa. Center for Byzantine, Modern Greek and Cypriot Studies of Granada In collaboration with the research group "Studies on Byzantium and Modern Greece" of the University of Granada, the publications of ...
While in the beginning we anxiously counted the days of the war, now we see most people focusing on its indirect consequences: Accuracy, lack of food, etc. The logic of social media seems to have shaped the reactions to ...
In 2013, two of the most famous scientists and teachers of the Andean tradition, the Peruvian Juan Nuñez del Prado, Anthropologist and Archaeologist, and Ivan Nuñez del Prado, Mechanical Engineer, visited Greece for the first time. They came to teach ...
Amalia Moerman Pavlidi is an angel of animals. In recent years she has been dealing with the physical and mental health of our friends and has studied her art globally, aiming at their well-being. When I was preparing this short interview, I did not know which of the ...
The news of the Greek Consulate in Florida Piraeus Bank has supported a series of anniversary publications with primary research content, unpublished material, hitherto unknown written evidence, that contribute to the timeless research and scientific ...
In the rhythm of the war in Ukraine, tourism is also moving, which is once again experiencing a major economic downturn worldwide. Cancellations, reduced demand, numb traffic. Nevertheless, the investments of large hotel units, such as Hilton, Hyatt, ...
On the occasion of the creation of the platform - bookstore publishing and distribution of books for Greek authors, created by the company Businessrise in February, and watching the finale of the Panorama International Literature Festival 2022, in which I participated, ...
The head of US services has said that Vladimir Putin may escalate his attacks on Ukraine, saying that the coming weeks will be bad. This of course is based on the findings of analysts and not on the statements of his own ...
Healing wounds of the past, you can breathe freely, walk quietly now, without having to carry whole pounds of weight at every step. You can look the same people in the eye, without thinking that you are looking at an opponent ....
An important event, in the aftermath of the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821, is organized these days, with a very rich and interesting program, by the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce, the Cultural Tribute to Freedom ....
Instructions for use, let it be unnecessary ... Let us look at this article with humor, as a great source of information, and let us hope that it will remain forever "the useless information of the day". Nuclear weapons are not an event that if they explode, then they will ...
If you want to be strong, treatment is not an alternative. It is the only solution. The ancient Andean tradition does not come from the Incas, which is why it is ancient. It's one of the oldest traditions in the world right now. Why the state ...
After so many years, the Return of the Mother. I do not ask if the fact that women have been underestimated in recent centuries has come to your mind. I think it's more than clear. There are corners of this planet, which are still in the embryonic stage ...
Keep your mind on the child, because if the child survives, there is hope. ..
We suggest you two walks in the beautiful Peloponnese, to keep them in mind for your plans, or to make them immediately (do not forget to send us photos in both cases).
Tourism and Pandemics If we have something to remember from the catastrophic, business, passage of the pandemic, it will be the cessation of every tourist activity that cost financially but also in terms of operation to professionals, but also the new trends ...
Omicron is here. Things seemed to be reaching a recession, a few weeks ago, on the subject of pandemics, at least in terms of travel. The demand, from travelers, in the travel agencies of Greece, after the three days of October 28, ...