Stamatis

Songs that are timeless gems by important Greek composers will be performed by Eleonora Zouganeli on November 4 at the Pallas Theater. Titled In Other Paths, this music performance builds on the program the singer presented this summer at the Little Theater of Ancient Epidaurus.

"You'll find me if you do a search on the internet. Just type in 'Christina-Maria, excursions and cooking on a traditional fishing boat on Naxos.' Did you find it?" Stamatis Sergis is proud of the website created by his daughters. "I have four girls and none wants to work with the boat. I get it. It's a tough job. You've got to love the smell of the sea to do it.

Jazz nights at the Mikros Kerameikos theater's foyer (mikroskerameikos.gr) continue with the Street Cafe Trio. Alfred Ruci on the flute and guitar, Bledhi Telha on the guitar and Kostas Arsenis on the double bass have invited vocalist Giorgos Christodoulou to join them in a performance of beloved jazz standards spiced up with some Latin and funky arrangements.

The bronze medal won by Greece's national team at the FIDE World Youth U16 Olympiad in Eindhoven in the Netherlands this past Saturday marks our country's second prize in this esteemed global event.

The Greek National Theater (n-t.gr) presents Henrik Ibsen's controversial "Ghosts," a drama that shatters the edifice of the sacrosanct family, at the main stage of the Ziller Building. Directed by Stamatis Fasoulis, the production features English surtitles on January 19, 21, 25 and 28, and on February 1.

Prolific composer Stamatis Spanoudakis, who has recorded more than 60 albums over his career to date, will be sharing the stage of the Herod Atticus Theater with a string orchestra and choir on Tuesday, October 1, in a charity concert from which the proceeds will go the children's institutions of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Singapore and South Asia.

Two retired officers of the Greek fire service and navy have called for a higher level of handling in the probe into the east Attica wildfire that claimed nearly 100 lives on July 23.