Meet Karim Ghattas, Zenith Music Festival’s charismatic founder
[Lead] A visionary and a go-getter, Karim Ghattas has been one of the most influential personalities in Lebanon’s cultural scene. As the founder of Liba...
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Leonard Cohen’s Greek destiny: It was the promise ...
Who knew that a random conversation with a bank teller on a dreary, da...
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Farewell Mikis!
Not firearms or empty threats. Mikis Theodorakis used the power of his...
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Wines of Santorini: A taste journey into a fascinating volcanic terroir
Yiannis Karakasis’ new book explores one of Greece’s greater wine regions that produces intriguing whites with a mouth-watering acidity and mineral characteristics but also interesting reds born in the shadow of the volcano. Words by Angela Stamatiadou Wine writer, wine consultant and wine...
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Meet Andrea Gilbert of Athens Pride: What makes an Activist
“We are in a better place,” smiles Andrea Gilbert, the driving force of Athens Pride festival. “(But) a lot still needs to be done.” As Athens Pride approaches its 16th outing, Karine Ancellin meets the former art critic from Brooklyn as she reflects on the great positive progress that’s been made in Greece - and the injustices still left...
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Sofka Zinovieff unpacks Athens for an 8 series podcast
The new 8-part series, Athens Unpacked premieres with its first two episodes on 19 May. Produced by Pod.gr for This is Athens. A brand new podcast series that’s designed to decode our captivating capital—with acclaimed author and Athens-based anthropologist Sofka Zinovieff getting under the city's tangled chara...
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Sculptural Poetry: Tom von Kaenel’s uplifting creations in Naxian marble
From Pheidias to Michaelangelo, few materials signal high art more than marble—the medium of sculptors. And for Swiss sculptor Tom von Kaenel, it was his quest to work with antiquity’s most prized marble that led him to Naxos, where his sublime and sinuous creations honour the pure lines of the earliest Cycladic sculptors. The...
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Daniel Craig to heat up Spetses this summer
Bond star Daniel Craig has got his knives out for Spetses. The English actor is set to be in stylish Spetses - and Porto Heli - in May to reprise his role as super sleuth Detective Benoit Blanc in the sequel to the 2019 ensemble hit, Knives Out. Daniel Craig is all set to send the temperature soaring this summer as he and his ...
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Humans of Athens II: Portraits of a City
In our second set of weekly snapshots designed to chronicle our captivating capital, we introduce a backgammon whiz, a Russian student who decodes her fellow Athenians in supermarkets, and a first-time Syntagma busker. Images by Molly Herring. Kostas Plakoutsis, 45, Owner of Ekavi Shop for Traditional Games, @manopoulos.handcraf...
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Humans of Athens: Portraits of a City
The tapestry of any city is woven stitch by stitch by the people who call it home. From flag-hoisters to alfajores sellers and café owners, Insider sets out to chronicle our wonderful capital in a weekly photo essay of interesting Athenian personalities, encountered on the streets of Athens. Images by Molly Herring. Martina Mat...
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Breaking The Silence One Doll at a Time
The powerful dolls of Greek sculptor Ioanna Paraskeva speak for those women and girls who can’t. Through her ‘I am Not a Doll’ Project – the conceptual artist hopes to create a bridge between children and adults, allowing them to break down taboos about brutal topics – from domestic violence and rape, to sexual harassment and cyber abuse ...
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Harley and the Holy Mountain: a Greece Travel Memoir with Heart, Soul and Humour
Why on earth would a 70-plus Englishman, who’s terrified of traffic, hop on a decrepit 50cc “papaki” bike named Harley and embark on a road trip from his village in Evia, all the way to Mount Athos? John Mole’s charming latest book, Harley and the Holy Mountain, is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with creaky knees, lashings of h...
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