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Category Archive: Culture

George’s Greek Golf Dream

Golfers are a peculiar breed. They live and breathe the game, curse it, hail it, read every book […]

June 20, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport

My Big Fat Greek Golf Movie

There is a moment in the movie Big Fat Greek Wedding when Gus Portokalos, the father, explains how […]

June 14, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport

Greek government chooses wrong target in closing down state broadcaster ERT

Greeks like to talk. So much so that it is possible to have ten or 15 Greeks sitting […]

June 12, 2013 Culture, Greece

Teenage Kicks at La Maroquinerie

If Steve Earle is an artist who has only recently tripped the light fandango across my musical dance […]

June 6, 2013 Culture, Music

On the Low Highway with Steve Earle

A few years ago when I lived in Athens, gigging was something of an everyday event, the invitations […]

June 5, 2013 Culture, Music

When we were Kids

Patti Smith has been rattling around my birdcage for a few years now. Last week I read her […]

May 19, 2013 Books, Culture, Greece, Music

Van Gogh and the Iranian freedom fighters

It’s a strange day when you head off for a quiet walk in the country to track the […]

May 4, 2013 Culture, France

What’s my Crime?

I don’t remember the first crime novel I ever read – probably something by Enid Blyton – but […]

April 18, 2013 Books, Culture

Face to face with cancer: Paul Johnston

I first met Paul Johnston when I was living in Athens; 2004 I think it was, in the […]

January 28, 2013 Books, Culture, Dryathlon 2013, Greece

Calexico-A-Go-Go

My old friend Georgos Voudiklaris was in town a week or so ago. We met at Le Mistral, […]

November 26, 2012 Culture, Music

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