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A French take on Athens

The French comedy series 'Greek Salad' ('Salade grecque') which has been available on Amazon Prime for a few weeks now, vividly depicts the less touristy side of Athens. Filmed almost entirely in the capital, the series also features many Greek actors.

Victim of pandemic, Hong Kong floating restaurant towed away

A landmark floating restaurant that fed Cantonese cuisine and seafood to Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise and millions of other diners was towed from the Hong Kong harbor front on June 14 after being closed by the pandemic.

The parent company of Jumbo Floating Restaurant couldn't find a new owner and lacked funds to maintain it after months of COVID-19 restrictions.

'Unorthodox' director charms Berlin fest with robot love story

"Unorthodox" director Maria Schrader on March 1 premiered her sci-fi comedy "I'm Your Man" starring Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens as a robot ready to beat human rivals in the game of love.

The Emmy winner's soulful futurist romp is one of 15 contenders for the Golden Bear top prize Friday at the 71st Berlin film festival, which has gone all-virtual due to the pandemic.

At least today, 131 years after Eminescu morphed into Hyperion, let us not criticize him

Mihai Eminescu has "unveiled" the soul in its purest forms, said on Monday the president of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, who urged that at least today, on the 131st anniversary of the poet's death, we do not criticize him. "In adolescence, we learned that on January 15 and June 15, we are entitled to think of Eminescu as our homeland.

Greek Orthodox church issues statement on fallen “cake porn” priest (Read full text)

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the United States has issued a statement following the scandal that broke out concerning Washington Heights priest, Father George Passias, and adult female parishioner Ethel Bouzalas.

After the news story went viral in the international press with detailed description of the priest’s cake porn, the church elders write: