- Greece and Cyprus: the success story of the Eastern Mediterranean, says Endy Zemenides
- A Visit to St. Nicholas National Shrine at the WTC
- Hellenic Lawyers Association Holds 32nd Annual Gala
- National Hellenic Society Fundraiser in NY for the Promotion and Preservation of Greek Heritage a Great Success
- Carol Burnett The First Lady of Television Comedy
All posts by Dimitri C. Michalakis
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A Happy New Year
It was heartening to hear from Endy Zemenides in our cover story that Greece and Cyprus not only survived their crises but are doing better than ever and there has been a “sea change” in how Greece...
- Posted December 27, 2022
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Greece’s True Heroes
When I lived in Greece I remember my grandfather had an old Army trunk from his days fighting in the Balkan wars. And inside were all his treasures: all the books he had used to teach himself...
- Posted October 30, 2022
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Summer Rituals
When I was a kid living in Greece, I remember how the summers used to be just a little different. I lived with my grandparents on a farm and I remember most summers my yiayia and I...
- Posted July 12, 2022
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One Easter in Ohio
We lived in Chicago during the ‘60s and during the holidays we would often drive to visit our relatives in New York. One Easter holiday my father and I drove from Chicago to New York (my mother...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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The Pappades In My Life
Priests were a big part of my life. When I was a kid, I was an altar boy at Kimisis Theotokou Church in Brooklyn, where Father Titos was the pastor. He was a nice man, who pretended...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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So Who Was Bouboulina?
For one, she was a tough cookie. According to legend, she was born in a Turkish prison in Constantinople (where her father had been imprisoned), she became the Capetanissa of her own fleet, gave birth to seven...
- Posted March 22, 2022
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The Shining Example of Greek Liberation
A new book has been published called, simply, THE GREEK REVOLUTION, by Mark Mazower (Penguin Press), and it’s the first dense and scholarly work about the great event that I can remember for a long time. Its...
- Posted March 22, 2022
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Billy’s Christmas Gift
The first American Christmas I experienced was in Chicago in the ‘60s, when Kennedy was president, Chubby Checker was doing the Twist, Marilyn Monroe was the resident sex symbol, and Greece still had a king and queen....
- Posted December 25, 2021
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Our Special Place
I was talking to my barber the other day, an older Italian man who cut your hair with no frills (I have little hair to cut), and who told me that when he was a young man...
- Posted December 24, 2021
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PAUL LOUNTZIS, THE DEPENDABLE NAME IN THE MONEY GAME
When Paul Lountzis fainted during an autopsy while he tried studying medicine, he decided that business was a safer course and the career of investment titan Warren Buffett (“The Oracle of Omaha”) was more his inspiration. “I...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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ELEVEN DAYS TO THE PROMISED LAND BY DINO PAVLOU
How an immigrant kid became friends with the most famous people in the world Dino Pavlou was a seventeen-year-old kid from Valtesiniko, Arcadia who came to America in 1952, wearing Mitso the shepherd’s borrowed sheepskin coat, and...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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SMALL-TOWN GREEK AMERICA
We forget sometimes how Greeks have permeated not just the big cities where they put down roots in ethnic enclaves, but also the small towns of this country. Weirton, West Virginia had a vital community which produced...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE
When we started this magazine over a dozen years ago we wanted to connect the various generations of Greeks, and the various regions of Greek America to each other, and be a community forum: the platia where...
- Posted July 3, 2021
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STEFANIE G. ROUMELIOTES AND THE ART OF FUNDING AND PROMOTING POLITICAL CANDIDATES AND THE CAUSE OF WOMEN
A fundraising and strategic dynamo behind the campaigns of among others California Governor Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the national campaigns of everyone from Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden to...
- Posted April 30, 2021
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GENDER POLITICS
Is politics a man-only province? Maybe not when we have a vice president a heartbeat away from the presidency. Maybe not when we have mayors and governors all over the United States that are women. And members...
- Posted April 30, 2021
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Eternal Greece
One of the most accessible books of modern Greek history is by D. George Kousoulas called simply Modern Greece (Charles Scribner’s, 1974), and it begins with how the Greeks, despite nearly 400 years of subjugation to the...
- Posted March 23, 2021
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Men of Service
I called to do an interview with Senator Sarbanes several years ago and he called me back in the car while I was driving. “Senator, do you mind if I call you back?” I asked him. “Surely,”...
- Posted December 24, 2020
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Fifteen years and counting
The death of George Bizos in South Africa, a friend and partner of Nelson Mandela in his long fight for justice, highlights both a remarkable and historic partnership, and a remarkable man, who saw injustice, and dedicated...
- Posted October 10, 2020
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Hellenic Medical Society President, Dr. Panagiotis Manolas: The pandemic from a doctor’s point of view
Dr. Panagiotis Manolas is a surgeon affiliated with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, among others, and a founding partner of Surgical Specialists of Greater New York. He is a member of the Athens Medical Association, the...
- Posted April 29, 2020
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Dr. George Liakeas on His Miraculous Recovery from The Virus
Dr. Liakeas, 48, is in family practice and the medical director of Lexington Medical Associates in Manhattan. He is affiliated with Lenox Hill and Mount Sinai Hospitals and has been in practice for sixteen years, with a...
- Posted April 29, 2020
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Spring is here
For the past few weeks I have seen my two daughters (who also live in Brooklyn, minutes away) only in passing—from the car. When we drop off food to them my wife cooks, to help them, and...
- Posted April 29, 2020
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The Revolution
His wife and his son stood apart at the railing of the ship while he stood back and smoked along with the old man with the hairy arms and striped shirt and the one gold tooth where...
- Posted March 24, 2020
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Keeping the darkness at bay
The streets are quiet, the shelves are bare, people wear blue masks and blue gloves, and even family and friends shy away from each other with apologies and make sure not to touch. It seems a different...
- Posted March 24, 2020
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Nassau County DA Madeline Singas: “It’s Not About Being a Man or a Woman; It’s about the Work that You Do”
Madeline Singas just won reelection to be the Nassau County District Attorney in Long Island, New York based on her record: crime went down 25% during her watch, the notorious MS-13 gang in the county was decimated...
- Posted January 13, 2020
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The Kalanda
A cousin sent me Facebook greetings for the New Year and included a recording of the old “kalanda” from some gathering long ago in Chios. According to Myparea blog, the singing of “kalanda,” carols, goes back to...
- Posted January 13, 2020