Sugar, spice and all things nice
You’re coming to the end of your Greek sojourn and want to return with edible souvenirs that, with one bite, will bring you back to the Aegean. Or perhaps ...
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Athens Refugee Food Festival 2018
Athens Insider, UNHCR and Food Sweet Food organise a week of inspiring culinary ...
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Athens’ Best LGBT+ Addresses
The gritty glamour and ceaseless drama of Athens makes us a top LGBT+ ...
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What you need to know about ordering coffee in Greece
Mastering the complex glossary of the coffee-ordering ritual can be daunting. But fear not, Insider deciphers the Greek coffee code to make your summer a caffeine-filled one. Coffee-speak When ordering traditional Greek coffee, the four magic words you need to master are: sketos, if you'd like it without sugar, metrios, with a teaspoon of sugar, ...
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A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
WHAT: A magical night devoted to Leonard Cohen to be a memorable highlight of the Megaron’s marvelous summer line-up of outdoor performances in their Concert Hall Gardens. The energetic Sugahspank trio will showcase the great poet and musician who, throughout his full life, was both a teacher and a student, and who touched many across the world wit...
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Greece is a Bestseller!
"Books are dreams that you hold in your hands" Neil Gaiman A new page has been turned for Athens as our city assumes its place in the cultural spotlight as “Book Capital of the World”. For one year, the written word will take centre-stage in Athens throughout a richly stimulating calendar of over 250 events hosted by the City of Athens under th...
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Cinema under the Stars
Nothing defines the beginning of Greek summer as open-air cinemas do. Every neighbourhood has one – some with a view of the Acropolis; others, right on the water and still others surrounded by perfumed gardens that fill the sultry evening with the quintessential Greek fragrance of orange blossoms and jasmine. With over 60 open-air cinemas...
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Paul Chan in Athens
The New Yorker once described him as a “deep-thinking American making art out of shadows”. Now, Athens audiences can soon encounter for themselves the cerebral creations of Paul Chan that combine fashion with psychics when he presents a body of new and recent works – Odysseus and the Bathers – at the Museum of Cycladic Art. Ch...
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Fashion at the Cycladic Museum
Fashion and art’s natural synchronicities are being celebrated in an exciting new alliance between the Museum of Cycladic Art and 14 of Greece’s top design stars. As part of the fashion project, Cycladic Forms, leading fashion brands including Deux Hommes, Angelos Bratis, Zeus & Dione and Di Gaia have each created a unique...
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George Condo at the Cycladic
WHAT: Encounter the fractured portraits and aggressive imagery that have made George Condo one of the most vital figurative sculptors in America at his first major solo exhibition in Greece. The showcase will include paintings, sculptures and drawings spanning his 40-year career, with a catalogue to be published on to mark the occasion. In the 1...
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