City Life
City Life | Dec 2018
A shrine for avid gamers and competitive types with a taste for the old, the Athens Pinball Museum hopes to bring back the nostalgia and recharge the Athenian public's love of this pastime. Panos Bitharkas speaks to Sudha Nair-Iliades on why he believes pinballs are here to stay.
It all started when Chrysanthe offered her husb...
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City Life | Dec 2018
Stuck for a Christmas present idea? Adopt a stray and take home a new family member. Guaranteed licks and cuddles for a lifetime!
We’re getting all warm and fuzzy again for the holidays. Meow is the best time of year to think about giving a loving home to animals who linger at shelters or on the streets waiting for families to take them in. As som...
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City Life | Dec 2018
Shakespeare, Cinderella, Broadway – the world’s greatest stories and songs are flooding Athens this December along with a myriad of exhibitions and collections that will make this holiday season fly by.
National Theatre Live: Antonios and Cleopatra
WHAT: The National Theatre Live program successfully brings Athens yet another m...
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City Life | Nov 2018
Psyrri Insider Nicholas Pisaris has the ultimate guide on the storied Athens neighborhood and reveals the charms and quirks of this underappreciated area.
I purchased my flat in 2001, and Psyrri has changed a great deal since then. I likened it to TriBeCa in NY; it had light industrial and some retail by day, but it was a sec...
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City Life | Nov 2018
WHAT: There’s nothing better than sipping a warm drink and shopping for gifts for your loved ones, especially when there are hundreds of different choices in one festively decorated market. Local merchants will be selling their goods all weekend long at the Christmas Meet Market. There’s even a solution for the kids being towed along in the form of...
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City Life | Nov 2018
Diana Farr Louis, Diane Shugart and Alexia Amvrazi map out their seven fave under-the-radar spots in Psyrri. Excerpts from 111 Places In Athens That You Shouldn’t Miss.
To Kompoloi tis Psyrri
All about worry beads, a unique Greek tradition
Not long ago a man twirling worry beads was a common sight – on the street, in a café, o...
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City Life | Nov 2018
Three Athenians have fun mapping out under-the-radar sites and sights of their beloved city. This is the first in a series of excerpts from 111 Places In Athens That You Shouldn’t Miss, an offbeat guide to the Big Olive by Alexia Amvrazi, Diana Farr Louis and Diane Shugart.
For almost a century this warehouse-like shop has sol...
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City Life | Nov 2018
by Emily Howard
The Athens Classic Marathon is, without doubt, a race. It is by definition a competition and there are always winners and losers. But anyone who watched or participated in the festivities that took place this past weekend would tell you that the 18,500 that participated ran as a city united.
With the ever present reminders of the ...
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City Life | Nov 2018
WHAT: “My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions,” James Joyce once wrote. For a journey into those decayed ambitions visit the exhibition on the great writer’s life, supported by the Athens 2018 World Book Capital. The official opening ceremony takes place tomorrow and will include a discussion on the life and works of Jam...
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City Life | Nov 2018
Insider breaks down the world’s most famous foot race in Athens …
2.12.16
The time to beat in Athens in 2018
17
The number of elite athletes from Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda (of which 5 are women)
55,000
is the total number of participants registered for this year’s race.
18,500
is the number of marathoners registered fo...
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City Life | Nov 2018
By Diana Farr Louis
What do a shop that sells 20 types of olives, an underground river, an Ottoman gate, a Roman loo, and a virtual reality lab have in common? They all lie within ten minutes of Monastiraki Square and are among the places featured in this new guide to Athens. Along with other eclectic sights and sites, they form part o...
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City Life | Oct 2018
A peek under the 400-pleated fustanellas and elaborate uniforms worn by the elite Evzones, a real labour of love, embroidered and hand-crafted by the 10-member tailoring department of the Presidential Palace. A photo essay on a unique tailoring tradition by Angelos Giotopoulos.
Often the most-photographed subjects of tourists,...
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