General News
Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
TARPON SPRINGS, FLA – On Saturday, May 19, from 6:00-11:00pm, the City of Tarpon Springs will present Night in the Islands–a free event on the world famous Sponge Docks. Enjoy Greek music, dancing, and dining! And we will offer an hour of free Greek dance lessons by Levendia Dance Troupe from 6-7pm.
“Thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tarpon Springs Merchants Association, Night in the Islands is featuring the music of Odyssey in May, and in July, August, and September we will feature Ellada in front of the Sponge Exchange. In May we are also featuring the music of Demetri Kousathanas in the block between Hope & Roosevelt Streets,” Tarpon Springs Arts (www.tarponarts.org) says via its press release.
Future Nights in the Islands will take place on July 7, August 4, and October 6, 2018.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.