Nitza Melas was born in Montreal, Canada, but she’s performed all over the world (she’s a knockout in Japan), she’s produced and co-produced a number of CDs, was named “World Music Artist of the Year” at the Los Angeles Music Awards and is currently working with musician, magician and television performer Criss Angel on a Cirque du Soleil show scheduled to premiere in September at the Luxor Hotel called Criss Angel: Believe. (view entire article)

Archimandrite Tikhon's film on the
Lesson of Byzantium and on Modern Russia

Russian Greek-Orthodox Archimandrite Tikhon (born 1958 in Moscow Georgi Alexandrovich Shevkunov) studied film production before entering the clergy, and when his first work as a director and narrator was released earlier this year in “The fall of an Empire - The Lesson of Byzantium” documentary (http://vizantia.info/docs/73.htm), it created an uproar! The film deals with the Empire’s degradation and how it lost its “ability to respond to the calls of history.” A Greek version has already been released and an English version is underway. Due to a reference to the Emperor Constantine as The Drunkard, not a few critics saw in the film a portrayal of the late President’s Yeltsin’s crumbling Russia and considered the documentary an attempt to help President Putin’s hand-picked successor and current President Dmitri Medvedev win the election. (view entire article)