Despite the assumption that traditional customs erode over time, Greek Melbourne has over the decades evolved into an Apokriatic town.

Using the Lonsdale Street Greek Festival as a melting pot is apt because this is a festival that is staged every year with the sole purpose of celebrating diversity

‘Semi-articulation of opinion is no loss to an ochlos that is not interested in listening to any viewpoint that does not reinforce its own narrow prejudices.’

19 May, is a public holiday in Turkey; a celebration of the legacy of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day. For Hellenes, it signifies the genocide of the Greek peoples of Pontus.

Dean Kalimniou on the ‘Macedonia’ name dispute.

Dean Kalimniou tackles the Greek obsession with blondeness, and the community’s outrage at the use of black actors in Troy – Fall of a City.

Who gets the coin?

Every year, Odisho and his nostalgic of Greece Assyrian friends who lived there in the late 70s and early 80s, get together to have a pre-Christmas dinner

And the Tatlin monument inspired Christmas tree in Ioannina.

News the Victorian Government is co-sponsoring a visit of a smattering of eugenic euzones next year to the tune of $30,000 has been met largely with euophoria.