| Searching for the historical St. Nick
Somewhere in the commercialization of Christmas the truth about St. Nicholas was hidden. Over the years, the beloved Byzantine saint had been transformed into a caricature of himself. The transformation didn’t sit well with Andreas C. George, a radiation physicist with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Energy.
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Greek-Americans stand with Armenians in recognizing Armenian Genocide
The wall of genocide denial, obstructing the recognition--and future prevention--of the scourge of genocide is finally crumbling. Despite decades-long, state-- sponsored and now multi-million dollar campaigning by Turkey to distort history, buy off politicians, and threaten the interests of nations with the courage to
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A doctor's musical journey
Mike Vasilomanolakis was returning from Greece as a boy on the Queen Frederica when the ship stopped in Naples and he made the first investment of his musical career: he bought himself an accordion and later learned to play it.
“As I learned to play this somewhat complex instrument, I developed my passion for music,”
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Patricia Kakridas is now the morning and noon anchor on WAND-TV in Decatur, Illinois and no longer has to lug around her own camera and shoot her own video as she once did as a beat reporter. But she sometimes misses that. “That’s probably my major complaint,” says the 28-year-old Californian (though she was born in New York and once lived in the Dominican Republic). “I love going out and getting the story and being the one to break a story or do the investigating. I do miss that quite a bit.”
