Dora Houpis
Life –
Signs of our (non-coronavirus) times
Weary from reading about the coronavirus? Anxious about the future? Relax. Here are five signs spotted in inner-city Melbourne this week to make you laugh and think about other things. …
Dialogue –
The Greek name is no ordinary name
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” William Shakespeare,”Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespeare and Juliet were wrong. A name is …
Dialogue –
Forget Holden and Ford, the early Greeks drove Valiants
Holden recently foresakened us, announcing it was leaving Australia without so much as a shop front after 164 years. Ford and Toyota might be next, while Mitsubishi left us years …
News –
The Australia Day that ‘The Age’ came to see the Greeks party at Sorrento
Memories are a curious thing. You don’t know what you remember until your memory is jolted. Like by the old faded colour photograph Neos Kosmos printed last week of Greeks …
Life –
Go to the Greek islands if you must, but then there’s Nea Kerdillia
I went to Greece in May for four months. Throughout the duration of that time, I didn’t go to one single island. I stayed put in the village where I …