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Fotis Kapetopoulos

Life

Islands of authentic life in Athens’ inner city Psiri

In a forgotten part of the inner-city quarter of Athens, Psiri (Ψυρρή), enterprising young Athenians are opening new restaurants, tattoo parlours, and barbershops. They are nestled amongst ramshackle, cluttered, and …

Life

Filo the Greek

It’s early, 7:30am. Filo sits outside a coffee and pita hole-in-the-wall, in the inner-city suburb of Psyri. I order a freddo espresso and a mushroom pie and a frape for …

Life

Zavros wants to party like it’s 1400BC

Will there be wild orgies? “I’ll organise it for you later,” visual artist Micheal Zavros promises. Raise the Roof – Dionysus Redux curated by Zavros at Lina at Brisbane’s Southbank, …

Dialogue

Father’s Day – time to memorialise

Time creates chasms in memory. Mnemonic landscapes become difficult to define and past lives become increasingly opaque. On this Father’s Day when my son gave me my presents, they became …

Life

Achilles and Patroclus: love in war

David Morton, the director of Holding Achilles, wants to reclaim the queer aspects of Achilles’ and Patroclus’ relationship in Homer’s Iliad. It is doubtful that their relationship would have been …

Life

The Parthenon to be reimagined at the NGV in a blaze of colour

There will be a reimagining of the Parthenon” as part of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Architecture Commission for 2022. Australian architects have been invited to create a site-specific …

News

Prof. Pirpiris: Too many Greeks are not following up with boosters

Too many Greek Australians are getting sick from COVID and are missing out on COVID vaccine boosters. Professor Marinis Pirpiris PhD, the perioperative COVID expert in Victoria, is concerned. Greeks, …

News

Arvanitakis appointed as Director of the Forrest Research Foundation in WA

Professor James Arvanitakis, a regular contributor to Neos Kosmos, was appointed as the new Director of the Forrest Research Foundation. The Foundation was established in Western Australia to support a …

News

Dalidakis: “You may have been writing my obituary”

“Instead of doing this interview, you may have been writing my obituary,” Philip Dalidakis said over the phone. “And it’s not Jewish-Greek fatalism” laughed the former Victorian government minister, “this …

News

Predatory poker machines make victims of Greek Australians

Since the introduction of poker machines in Victoria 30 years ago, an astounding $66 billion has been lost. Reverend Tim Costello, the lead advocate from The Alliance for Gambling Reform, …

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