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How To Make Greek Yogurt At Home
  • Lauren Chattman - Newsday
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  • May 22, 2013
It is amazing that people still get excited about yogurt, considering that it has been around since 6000 B.C., when Neolithic herdsmen discovered that storing milk in animal skin containers curdled th...
The Merger
  • Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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  • August 16, 2012
John sat among his friends, coffee before him and stated with glee that, soon, the monthly burden of sending money to his sisters in Greece will terminate. “Katingo has found herself a husband, at las...
Crushed
  • Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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  • July 19, 2012
It was almost five o’clock. I chucked my homework aside and dashed out of my house, situated in brick building in Inwood, to stand on the stoop like I always did that that hour. I was in love – again....
Special Guest Alexander Payne Starts off Chicago’s Greek Film Festival
  • John Zurz
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  • July 19, 2012
CHICAGO, IL – The FilmHellenes organization, in association with the National Hellenic Museum, hosted their Greek Film festival kick-off event on June 23 in the Museum’s Dr. Mary Dochios-Kamberos Spec...
Beyond the Big, Fat, Greek Wedding: Nia Vardalos a Mom in New Film
  • July 19, 2012
By Scott Huver NBCNewYork.com NEW YORK – Nia Vardalos has moved on to parenthood, on screen and off. After getting famous as a big screen bride in her breakout indie film a decade ago, Vardalos ta...
Greek Actors of The Silent Film Era
  • Steve Frangos
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  • July 19, 2012
Part 2 The era of silent film can be roughly marked between 1894 and 1927. During that period Greeks in Hollywood often enjoyed a privileged position. From the early 1900s to the Great Depression, Al...
GREEK AMERICAN STORIES: What’s Fare - Is Fare
  • Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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  • July 05, 2012
Papa didn’t like crowds. That’s why he got out at 59th Street station, adjacent to Central Park, where he could stretch his legs, take a breath, and sit on a bench until the rush hour crowd thinned ou...
Looking to Buy Property in Greece? Then George Stroumboulis is Your Man
  • Andy Dabilis
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  • July 05, 2012
A couple of years ago, George Stroumboulis, a young Canadian-American was searching to buy some property in Greece when he fell into the nightmare many would-be buyers of Greek land do: it was an endl...
GREEK-AMERICAN STORIES: “Boo-Cee-Fa-Loze”
  • Kiki Sembos
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  • June 07, 2012
My papa was an avid reader of Greek history and mythology. In Simi, when it was under Italian occupation, from the end of WWI until 1945, he read Greek history whenever a book was available. And he w...
GREEK-AMERICAN STORIES: TAKEN!
  • Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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  • May 24, 2012
The perennial bachelor, Kipreos, arrived late at Dixon’s cafeteria, seating himself among his friends, John, Dimos, George, and Yiannis. “No coffee?” Yiannis asked, worried he’d be asked to treat. “...
GREEK-AMERICAN STORIES: “Panayia, Panayia”
  • William Koonan Mentsas
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  • May 17, 2012
Uncle Sophocles and Aunt Andromahi were the respective patriarch and matriarch on Hellenic Hill. Well into their nineties, they were a motley and backward pair from the town of Ploumari on the island ...
Vitamin D, a panoply for health defense
  • Dr. Frixos O. Goussis
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  • May 07, 2012
Vit D is a collection of fat soluble steroids, the 2 dominant forms of which are vitamins D2(ergo calciferol) and D3(cholecalciferol). Vitamin D2 is manufactured by invertebrates and plants after expo...
The Dawn of a New Light of the True Faith on the Horizon
  • April 26, 2012
After 30 years since its founding and in the vision of it's dynamic Pastor of blessed memory, Father John Limberakis,today, with Father Peter Thornberg at the helm along with a dedicated Leadership te...
TNH Presents First Installment of New Feature Column: Greek-American Stories
  • TNH staff
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  • April 19, 2012
A few years ago an all-but forgotten piece of the history of New York and the Greek-American community was revealed on 8th Avenue and 43rd Street in the Chelsea (formerly Hell’s Kitchen) neighborhood ...
Crisis: The Cardio-Metabolic Syndrome of Insulin Resistance Epidemic
  • Dr. Frixos O. Goussis
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  • April 05, 2012
The twin epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes mellitus have spawned a public health crisis. In the United States 1.5 million of new cases of diabetes occur every year. The projected micro vascula...
VP and Soon-to-Be Author, at 13
  • Theodore Kalmoukos
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  • March 15, 2012
MANHASSET, NY – John Petrakis, a smart 13 year-old eighth grader, is Vice President of the Manhasset Preservation Society, and is coauthoring a book with Norman Nemec, the Preservation’s chairman. Pet...
Greek Composer Dinos Constantinides Makes Impression in America
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • February 23, 2012
NEW YORK – The music of award-winning composer Dinos Constantinides has been heard all over the world and has been enshrined in more than 60 CDs. On February 12 Distinguished Concerts International N...
Athan Galanis: Odyssey of the Seven Seas
  • Theodore Kalmoukos
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  • February 23, 2012
BOSTON, MA – Athan Galanis of Boston heaved up anchor from his homeland Paralia-Kymis and traveled as a navigation officer in all the ranks of captainship to all the “Seven Seas” and many lands. The...
Vassilis Angelopoulos Studies the Innumerable Wonders of the Universe
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • February 16, 2012
NEW YORK – Greek-American scientist Vassilis Angelopoulos, PhD, a space plasma physicist at UCLA, led a team of scientists that has made major contributions to understanding geomagnetic storms trigger...
Nanotechnology Expert Paul Alivisatos Wins Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • February 09, 2012
NEW YORK – Dr. Paul Alivisatos, director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Larry and Diane ...
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