Homeboy wishes to all of our readers and friends a Happy Easter time!
Homeboy as from today Holy Thursday 24 April will remain closed until next Tuesday 29 April and will be on Easter holidays. As a result of our short vacations, there will be no updates during these days. Will resume back on Wednesday 30 April. Until then, [...]
April 24, 2008 | Posted in
The Easter Special |
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New York has hundreds of specialized stores, but only one that puts the spotlight on mastic, the aromatic resin of an evergreen that grows on the island of Chios in the eastern Aegean in Greece.
Artemis and Kalliopi Kohas, sisters from Chios, opened the bright green Mastihashop on Orchard Street a few months ago. In [...]
“Grandpa’s New Pipe” went for 664,535 euros.
Giorgos Iakovides, Constantinos Volanakis, Nikolaos Gyzis, Diamantis Diamantopoulos, Constantinos Parthenis, Giorgos Bouzianis and Theophilos are some of the names that occupied the top 10 places in the recent Greek Sale that took place at Sotheby’s in London on April 17.
To be more specific, Iakovides’s “Grandpa’s New Pipe” earned [...]
April 24, 2008 | Posted in
Art Auctions Greece |
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The PhotoBiennale, which opened recently in the northern city, is a varied, international event > Each year around this time, Thessaloniki is transformed into a lively center for photography.
PhotoBiennale, the name of the photography festival which opened just recently and is organized by the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, is a richly varied, international event that [...]
Yiannis Alafouzos, Chairman and Managing Director of Skai Television, announced the “Great Greeks” project at a recent press conference.
The search is on for the greatest Greek of all time, take your pick of five prominent Greek men and women and cast your vote up to May 7. Skai Television recently announced the launch of [...]
A new 11-kilometer stretch of highway on the Maliakos Gulf section of the Athens-Thessaloniki National Road was opened yesterday, ahead of the expected Easter rush to leave Athens.
Meanwhile, the National Road Fund (TEO) revealed that the tolls it operates on some National roads, including those in Elefsina and Corinth, would not charge drivers who [...]
Greece’s Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, the world’s second-largest Coke bottler, has rejected a proposal for the transformation of a Russian paper production plant into a bottling unit.
The Athens-listed company currently owns 14 plants in Russia. Its official visited the plant in question after an invitation by the Russian Natural Resources Ministry and decided against undertaking [...]
April 24, 2008 | Posted in
Business Economy |
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