Fear & Loathing: The crisis in Greece has seen the far-right soar, along with...
I was at a bar in Gazi, the gay-friendly neighborhood of Athens, when my friends started talking about Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesperson of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, who had slapped a...
View ArticleTerrence McNally’s Golden Dawn
Some artists never lose their boyish looks. Jonathan Franzen, John Dowd, Terrence McNally—all these men seem to retain those adolescent smiles. As Terrence McNally shakes my hand by the fireplace of...
View ArticleChasing My First Line — From personal, to artistic, to civil disobedience
A couple of years ago I was offered the chance to salvage the original Beatrice Inn furniture, the nautical-looking sofas that Paul Sevigny used in his infamous Manhattan club between ’06 and ’09....
View ArticleCosta Manos’ Global Ease
Take a stroll on the second floor of the Benaki Museum in Athens and Magnum photographer Constantine Manos’ exhibition will take you to a world of lost slowness. His peripatetic years in rural Greece...
View ArticlePatmos, Payne and Paradoxes
Is there a God? Life after death? An apocalypse in store for us? Age-old questions crossed my mind on the ferry approaching Patmos, the Aegean island reined by a thousand-year old monastery, a...
View ArticleDebauched Sci-ethics in Dennis Iliadis’ New Film, Plus One, May Launch a New...
I wasn’t 20 when I walked into Iliadis’ bedroom. It was during one of the raucous parties that he threw with his brother at their bachelor-pad of a home in Athens; their father being the prime playboy...
View ArticleOnly God Forgives: The Professional Democrat and the Rise of Demopublican...
The Democratic Party has reached the point of no return in distancing itself from the common people. This trend has been in the works for two decades, but today’s political landscape suggests a...
View ArticleGreenwich Village Stories
“What was so special about this “West Village”?” Malcolm Gladwell asked, when all he knew about New York was “from Martin Scorsese movies.” He is one of the authors of Greenwich Village Stories, a...
View ArticleJulian Lennon: I Wait for Things to Tell Me What to Do
Liverpool-born Julian Lennon had his exhibition, Horizon, opening this week at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in New York. A portfolio of 15 large photographs shot during Lennon’s traveling through Kenya...
View ArticleTravel to Greece to Live History — The Huffington Post
Growing up in Greece, I was obsessed with tales of the South Seas–Fletcher Christian’s romantic odyssey, standing up for the underdogs at the Bounty, his journey as far as possible from homeland. I...
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