Athens Authentic Marathon, a photo essay
It might have been a different race - but the glorious spirit of the Marathon lives on! Photographer Nikos Karanikolas' compelling images capture...
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Wines of Santorini: A taste journey into a fascina...
Yiannis Karakasis’ new book explores one of Greece’s greater wine regi...
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Sofka Zinovieff unpacks Athens
Acclaimed author and Athens-based anthropologist Sofka Zinovieff delve...
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Meet Karim Ghattas, Zenith Music Festival’s charismatic founder
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 LibanJazz, in a music career spanning two decades, he has befriended, produced and managed some of the most talented musicians from the Med, while leaving his own vibrant, enduring imprint on the mus...
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Leonard Cohen’s Greek destiny: It was the promise of a suntan that brought him to Hydra
Who knew that a random conversation with a bank teller on a dreary, dank September afternoon in London would have such a profound impact on a young writer’s destiny? A superficial exchange about the clerk’s unusually dark tan led to Cohen hopping on a plane to Athens and heading out to Hydra. Hydra promised the life Cohen had craved: spar...
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Farewell Mikis!
Not firearms or empty threats. Mikis Theodorakis used the power of his words and his music to rebel against the oppressive junta regime in his native Greece. He passed away on September 2, 2021, to a hero’s farewell. A living legend, he was known world-over for his catchy score for Zorba the Greek, a film that captures the gen...
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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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