Acropolis Museum’s Annual Performance Positive Despite Covid-19

By admin 19 Ιουνίου 2020 No comment

Photo © Acropolis Museum / Giorgos Vitsaropoulos One of the world’s leading museums, the Acropolis Museum in Athens, welcomed 1,283,125 visitors from June 2019 to May 2020 despite its forced closure on March 14 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The famed Greek museum marks its 11th anniversary over the weekend and reopened to the public after […]

Acropolis Museum Turns 11 on June 20

By admin 16 Ιουνίου 2020 No comment

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The underground excavation site of the Acropolis Museum. © Acropolis Museum / Giorgos Vitsaropoulos The Acropolis Museum in Athens will soon celebrate the 11th anniversary since its grand opening in 2009. Athens’ iconic museum will turn 11 on Saturday, June 20, and will celebrate by offering reduced entry (at 5 euros) to all exhibition areas. On this […]

The Problem of Police Powers for People Living While Black

By admin 14 Ιουνίου 2020

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Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images. A message chalked on the road during a demonstration protesting the police shooting death of Philando Castile after a traffic stop, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 7, 2016 A few years back, I was on my way to an appearance at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, in Vermont. My coauthor, Peter […]

Greece Renews Efforts to Bring Back the Parthenon Marbles

By admin 10 Ιουνίου 2020 No comment

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The narrative of the story of the Panathenaic Procession is pieced together with a combination of the original blocks of the Parthenon’s frieze and cast copies of the pieces in museums abroad, such as the British Museum and the Louvre. Acropolis Museum, Athens. Photo Source: @Acropolis Museum A new advisory committee tasked with bringing the […]

Ransacking the Republic

By admin 7 Ιουνίου 2020

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The Watergate scandal left many Americans wondering if they could ever trust their government again. In October 1978, hoping to restore public confidence in federal institutions, Congress created new mechanisms for oversight and new agencies to administer them, including the Office of Government Ethics, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Office of Personnel

Meeting Thomas Mann

By admin 3 Ιουνίου 2020

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by Susan Sontag READING and listening to music: the triumphs of being not myself. That nearly everything I admired was produced by people who were dead (or very old) or from elsewhere, ideally Europe, seemed inevitable to me. I accumulated gods. What Stravinsky was for music Thomas Mann became for literature. At my Aladdin’s cave, […]

Amorgos to Become Movie Location for New International Production

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Photo Source: @Municipality of Amorgos The island of Amorgos in the Cyclades is expected to draw global attention as it will be the filming location of “Tochter” (Daughters), a new feature film co-produced by three companies from Greece, Germany and Italy. Based on the novel “Tochter” by Lucy Fricke, the movie is a “dramedy” (comedy-drama) […]

Greece’s Outdoor Cinemas Open Offering Post-covid-19 Relief

By admin 1 Ιουνίου 2020 No comment

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Open-air cinema Cine-Thisio Open-air cinemas across Greece are opening their doors to the public starting June 1 running on a 70 percent capacity with open bars and no breaks. Safety measures in the aftermath of Covid-19 include operating with one empty seat for every two, single-way corridors, and allowing a distance of at least 1.5 […]

Who Cares? Now, All of Us Must

By admin 31 Μαΐου 2020

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Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images / ManorCare workers gathering as people parade past the retirement facility where they work to thank them, West Reading, Pennsylvania, May 5, 2020 I came to realize in a series of waves the enormous impact this pandemic would have on the domestic workforce. The first was quite early […]

Greece to Increase Cash Rebate for Producers Filming in the Country

By admin 29 Μαΐου 2020 No comment

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Photo Source: EKOME The Greek digital governance ministry announced this week that it would be increasing a cash rebate for film productions made in Greece from 35 percent to 40 percent in efforts to enhance the country’s position as an attractive filming destination and bring in investors. The decision was announced during a cabinet meeting […]