Spyros

A crowd of relatives, friends, and people from the artistic community gathered at Zografou Cemetery to bid farewell to Dani Katranidis, who passed away last Sunday at the age of 75.

“Can an offender also be a poet? A prisoner thinker, a human being with sensitivities, dreams, fears, worries, like everyone else?

The Electra Palace (electrahotels.gr) will be hosting a Christmas gala in its ballroom with live music from the Karaviotis brothers on December 23. Spyros and Makis Karaviotis are undoubtedly the modern exponents of a great tradition in Ionian island and Athenian serenades, but also of Greek bel canto in general.

The rural town of Salisbury, Maryland is an unlikely place from which a young man imbued with the high ideals and values of Hellenism would make his way to the world stage. It is in this small town on Maryland's Eastern Shore that on February 3, 1933, Panagiotis Spyros Sarbanes was born, who would in time grow into the legendary Senator Paul S. Sarbanes.