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Greek singers Giota Negka and Haroula Tsalpara are coming to Australia
Fans of Giota Negka have much to be excited about; the singer is coming to Australia for the first time ever this month. She will be doing three performances, the …
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Diana Rouvas gets set to battle it out on ‘Eurovision– Australia Decides’
For Diana Rouvas there isn’t a time she can remember before music. Her formal training started from just four years of age, though it started way before that. Her parents …
Zoe Ventoura’s gay kiss edited from Australian television
Greek Australian Home and Away star Zoe Ventoura, who plays Alex on the show, had one of her scenes, involving a lesbian kiss, cut out from the show. The scene …
Emma Stone in Greece to work with Yiorgos Lanthimos again
Actress Emma Stone is in Athens to work again with award-winning Greek director Yiorgos Lanthimos – this time on a short film that will be exclusively filmed in Greece. Mr …
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Celebrating Australia Day the Greek way!
For many Melbourne-raised Greeks, memories of celebrating Australia Day evoke the scents of… sunshine and outdoors. It was almost a given that the public holiday falling in summer would be …
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Put on your dancing shoes, St Nicholas is hosting a ‘zorbathon’
A local Greek school is inviting Melbourne residents to kick up their heels in an inaugural ‘zorbathon’ Greek dancing competition to coincide with the 2020 Yarraville Festival. St Nicholas Greek …
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Australia goes Greek for a weekend
No words can describe the passion, the culture and the incredible atmosphere that 32,000 people had the opportunity to experience at last weekend’s Delphi Bank Semaphore Greek Festival, which celebrated …
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Greece extends honorary citizenship to Tom Hanks’ family
Actor and philhellene Tom Hanks was granted honorary Greek citizenship just last month by President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Now the offer has been extended to Hanks’ wife, …
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Nicking the style of David Sedaris
I hand David Sedaris his book. It has a yellow post-it note poking out with my name on it for the author to copy. My new friend Roger and I …
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Idyllic world that draws the stars to Greece
Greece with its fabulous summer weather, sparkling waters and numerous islands has long been a magnet for the rich and famous. 1 TOM HANKS AND RITA WILSON This Hollywood power …