As The World Churns5-14
By Bob NIcolaides
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| An Exclusive find |
The only existing gold coin with the portrait of Alexander the
Great, circulated during his life, has been discovered in a bazaar in Peshawar,
Pakistan during his adventurous forays there of Dr. Osmund Bopearachi,
professor at the universities of Sorbonne and Berkeley, who runs the department
of Archaeology ‘ Hellenism and Civilizations of the East’ at the French
National Institute for Research. He is the same man who during his excursions in
those lands he has discovered coins with portraits of heretofore unknown
HindoHellene kings at localized Helleniccities, as well as the discovery of a
treasure of coins weighing four tons. The good doctor has been in Greece for
the inauguration of the exhibit under the bname of Hellenic kingdoms of Bactria
and India at the Numismatic Museum which will run through June 16th… The
exhibition "Hadrian and Greece. Villa Adriana between Classical and
Hellenistic Period" was inaugurated on Tuesday 4/8 evening in Rome. The
exhbition that is dedicated to Roman Emperor Hadrian's very close relation to
Greece, which is depicted on ancient objects from Greece hosted at Hadrian's
villa in Tivoli, at the outskirts of Rome. The exhibition, organized by the
Antiquities Ephorate of Rome in cooperation with the Greek Culture Ministry and
the Italian Archaeological School of Athens, will run until November 2. Fifty
works of art, twenty of them from Greece, which according to the Italian
Culture Ministry are 'of great value", are displayed for the first time
abroad. The director of the National Archaeological and Numismatic Museum Giorgos Kakavas noted that the 'most
important piece of art is a portrait of Antinoos that travels outside Greece
for the first time."..
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| Dimon:Must we be proud? |
Does anybody know which is the earliest recorded Greek association
in the US? If you don’t, I’ll be glad to inform you! It is the Tsintzinian
Heritage Society of America, Tsitzina being a village in Laconia, an
organization formed in Jamestown, NY around the 1890s and meeting every year at
the very site of its inception…A report from In the Markets reveals that JPMorgan Chase
& Co.’s Greek American Jamie Dimon
was the highest-paid CEO of a major New York bank in 2013, according to a
regulatory filing Wednesday (4/9). Dimon’s $20 million in compensation was
double what he earned in 2012, and just ahead of the $19,928,813 that Goldman
Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein pocketed.
Now I ask: Must we be proud of this fellow?... There’s a professor of Economics
at NYU’s Stern School of Business whose
name is associated with economics. Is that a coincidence for Nicholas Economides who recently
discussed Greece’s bond sale... Peter
Nicolaides, (no relation) has a brand new job now. His new duty is being the
coordinator of the Marine Protected Areas in the Aegean Sea at Cousteau
Divers
Recordings of Maria Callas (1923-1977), the soprano who left an indelible mark in
opera globally, will greet and accompany visitors at a museum dedicated to her
life in downtown Athens expected to open in 2015. The plans for the Maria
Callas Museum were presented at a press conference in the building that will
house the museum, on 44 Mitropoleos. The building to house the museum is under
historical preservation status and was purchased by the state in 2010....On Mother’s
Day, the Greek School of Plato’s PTO presents the 17th Annual Fashion
Show featuring students and Alumni. It’s being held at the Rex Manor, Brooklyn,
on Sunday, May 11th... George Tsetsekos,
director of Drexel’s LeBow Business school asks you to mark your calendar for
the Greek Heritage night at the Phillies May 28th game. “The Phyllie
Phanatic will be dressed in Foustanella leading a Greek Dance Troupe on the
field! For the record, the Phyllie Phanatic is a Drexel LeBow graduate and I
will offer him Greek dance lessons so he cannot disappoint us! “
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| A Hercules that cost 200 jobs |
It's not every actor who is willing (or
able) to take on one of the world's most iconic roles, but Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is hardly your run-of-the-mill
thespian. The 6-foot-five action star jumped at the chance to portray Greek
mythology's most famous demigod — and based on the pictures he's shared on
Twitter so far, he quite possibly embodies Hercules like no man has before.
Whether he embodies Hercules is one issue, but this stunt that was pulled cost
quite a few jobs to people that were involved or knew anything about it….
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| Gaga and company |
Say what, big monster?! Lady Gaga has complete control on stage and on camera, but back home
she's willing to let her man take charge. The "Applause" singer
admitted during a radio interview on Sirius XM's The Morning Mash Up on
Monday, March 24 that she's submissive to boyfriend Taylor Kinney. Should we believe her?. Meanwhile, the popular American singer will give a
concert at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on September 19, as it was announced
by the Greek company "Lavrys" and the "Live Nation Global
Touring". Her Athens concert will
be one of the many on her world tour called "Lady Gaga's artRAVE: The
Artpop Ball". She has confirmed her visit in Athens while her world tour
is held up by the release of her multi-platinum new album ArtPop which climbed
to the No 1 of the Billboard charts from the first week of its release. The
songs of the new album will be included in the concert's program along with
earlier hits.... Celebrating its 40 years of functionality, the greek Cultural
Center holds a Tribute to Mikis
Theodorakis on Sunday, May 4th, at 7 pm, at Hunter College’s
Assembly Hall in NYC, (69th
St, bet Lexington & Park.) Partcipating in the Tribune to the great
musician, are Vasilis Lekas, Gerasimos
Andreatos, Giota Negga, Anna Linardou, Nikos Kouroupakis and the OCC Vocal
Ensemble....
The one episode we
got this season devoted to the mother How
I met your Mother(instead
of the entire season I was hoping for) focused on how she was the perfect
fit for Ted, how her entire life was basically built for her to be primed to
meet him. Cristin Milioti was great,
but the character was never one we could root for. Thankfully, instead of
trying to force us to fall in love with a new character, the show did what it
did best in its finale: called back earlier plots and storylines, rewarding
longtime viewers for paying attention to the major details.
And in the process, the Ted of the pilot was able
to keep his romantic side, but to face reality, with a little help from his
children, who kindly told him what we already knew: “This is the story of how
you’re totally in love with Aunt Robin.”
The humanitarian and social dimensions
of the economic crisis will be at the centre of the modern art exhibition “No
Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis” that opened
to the public at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts) in
Brussels on March 27 with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The exhibition is part of a series of events
organized by BOZAR in Brussels, in the context of the Greek EU Presidency.
Curated by art historian Katerina Gregou,
the exhibition focuses on the dramatic changes that have occurred both in
Greece and across Europe as a result of the economic crisis, internationally
showcasing the creations of 32 contemporary Greek artists and art groups. The
exhibition will be hosted at BOZAR until August 3 and admission is free..... After making
history as the first non-Greek artist exhibitng in the National Archaeological
Museum of Greece, fine art photographer J.
Josh Garrick returned from a tour in Greece and Turkey to the Consulate
General of Greece in New York for an exhibit of his Seeking the ancient ‘Kallos’ which was inaugurated April 10 and was
exhibited through May 2….
Word of the Μοnth:
Mix –Gr. Μιξη, Μίγμα
