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TRAVEL
Getting the best of both worlds on the island of Ammouliani
By Natasha Siniori
Most Greek and foreign visitors to Halkidiki, a popular destination, don’t know Ammouliani exists, but for the residents of Thessaloniki in general and Halkidiki in particular, it is a well-guarded secret.
 INSIDE LIFE
MUSIC
Re-energizing Greece’s music industry
Tall, beautiful and young, Anna-Maria Antippas looks straight out of the pages of a fashion magazine. In fact, the executive recen...
MUSIC
Famed singer Georges Moustaki dies at 79
French singer and composer Georges Moustaki, who sang in several languages and whose romantic ballads won him global fame, died on...
Russell Crowe praises Greek islands on Twitter after visit to Myconos
Reports of Oscar-winning Russell Crowe vacationing on the cosmopolitan Aegean island of Myconos earlier this week were accompanied...
TRAVEL
Getting the best of both worlds on the island of Ammouliani
The first time I visited Ammouliani, years and years ago, it had just a handful of hotels, tavernas and bars. There was little to ...
FILM
Filmmaker’s debut gets award-winning attention
Ektoras Lygizos’s unusual psycho-drama “Boy Eating the Bird’s Food,” which participated in some 30 film festivals last year and ha...
FOOD
Epirus, the pie lover’s destination
Pies are household favorites nationwide, though the greatest variety is probably found in Epirus, northwestern Greece, whose mount...
´Alcohol is free´ gives Greece sixth place at Eurovision as Denmark wins
Greece achieved one if its best results in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday when the group Koza Mostra, featuring Agathon I...
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FILM
Filmmaker’s debut gets award-winning attention
 
For his debut feature film, "Boy Eating the Bird's Food," Ektoras Lygizos was inspired by Knut Hamsun’s 1890 novel “Hunger.” It follows Giorgos, an educated young man who has become alienated from friends and family, sinking into a state of moral bankruptcy and desperation.
NEWS
Russell Crowe praises Greek islands on Twitter after visit to Myconos
 
Reports of Oscar-winning Russell Crowe vacationing on the cosmopolitan Aegean island of Myconos earlier this week were accompanied by tweets from the actor himself.

WHAT'S ON
Cultural diary
 
COMMENT
PERCEPTIONS
Greece: A reality check
By Nick Malkoutzis
To start talking about a “success story” now would be to insult the feelings and intelligence of 1.3 million Greeks that are out of work, some 400,000 families that have nobody earning an income, about 300,000 workers whose employers have not paid them for months, hundreds of thousands who have work but are finding it difficult to make ends meet and numerous young people who see their future away from Greece.
TRAVEL
AMMOULIANI
Getting the best of both worlds
By Natasha Siniori
Ammouliani may not be Greece’s most beautiful island but it is pretty in its own low-key way even though its charms may not suit everyone.
FOOD
EPIRUS
The pie lover’s destination
By Evi Voutsina
Pies are household favorites nationwide, though the greatest variety is probably found in Epirus, northwestern Greece, whose mountains are covered in a wide variety of wild greens, herbs and mushrooms that are used in an equally vast array of pies.
 RECENT NEWS
1. IMF chief Lagarde to be ´assisting witness´ in corruption trial
2. Industries protest over delays in drop of energy costs
3. TaxisNet opens late and not without problems
4. Tourism arrivals confirm record expectations
5. NBG posts remarkably high profits
6. Diamantopoulou is latest ex-PASOK minister to break from party, eye new group
more news
Today
This Week
1. Pangrati shootout leads to officer taking bullet in vest
2. Court rejects Tsochatzopoulos appeal for ex-PM to testify
3. Data on courtesy cars for politicians submitted to Parl't
4. Papaconstantinou has 'huge responsibility,' publisher tells Lagarde list inquiry
5. SYRIZA looks to overhaul of 'oligopolistic' media
6. Submission of online tax declarations begins
Today
This Week
1. Golden Dawn MP ejected from Parl't after 'Heil Hitler' incident [UPDATE]
2. Slovenian philospher Zizek proposes 'gulag' for those who do not support SYRIZA
3. Eurozone decisions on direct bank recap and debt relief for Greece imminent, says Dijsellbloem
4. On a dangerous path
5. Greece isn't turning the corner
6. Poll shows SYRIZA edge ahead, low faith in all parties
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