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The quintessential modern Greek experience flourishes day and night in Athens: staying up until sunrise, swaying to the intoxicating strains of songs about love and loss, ordering still more bottles of whiskey and wine.


September’s Best Event: Athens Film Festival

The Lowdown: Hardly in the league of Cannes or Venice, this quirky up-and-coming ten-day festival is still worth checking out, although some claim it’s less a festival and more a series of screenings. It shows about 100 features and short films: a mix of mainstream Hollywood fare, old black-and-whites, and independent European flicks. The most interesting and oddball offerings are premieres of Greek films and pictures that are somehow connected to Greece, such as a movie about Maria Callas.

When: Ten days in September; prices vary.

Where: Attikon, Apollon Film Center, Danaos 1 & 2

Contact: 210-606-1363; aiff.gr




ATHENS (2008):
Petros Kostopoulos (Media Stylemaker) and Dakis Ioannou
(Art Collector and Hotelier)

2 Petros Kostopoulos has risen from magazine editor and radio commentator to cultural innovator over the last decade, putting his own indelible mark on the aesthetics of the capital along the way. Through Klik, a groundbreaking magazine he edited, and later through Nitro and Downtown, titles published by his own Imako publishing group, he introduced Greeks to lifestyle concepts that helped reshape Athens from a London wannabe into a vibrant city with its own edgy personality. "We are trendsetters, almost pathologically giving birth to and searching for new ideas," he has said of his cadre of provocateurs. Okay, so Greek excess has taken lifestyle fads to a ridiculous extreme, giving outsiders the impression that Greek society, once politically aware, is now starstruck and preoccupied with celebrity gossip. But the fact that innovative chefs like Lefteris Lazarou came back to open Michelin-starred restaurants like Varoulko is largely the result of Kostopoulos’ ability to create a market for haute cuisine and trendy bars. Kostopoulos even served as Donald Trump on Greece’s version of the reality show, casting out hopeful apprentices with “Efiges,” slang for “You’re out.”

Dakis Ioannou, an art collector of international renown with a sharp eye for the avant-garde, proved his acumen as a connoisseur and businessman by endowing the city with landmark establishments like the Semiramis Hotel in Kefalari a place that has taken concept design to new levels with striking results. His DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art introduced intellectually starved young Greeks to Jeff Koons and proved that art, style, and leisure can happily coexist under the same roof in this case the oh-so-cool Cosmos bar-restaurant without being starchy.

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September 2010
· Athens Int’l Film Festival
· Trash Art
· Vavel Comic Art Festival

October 2010
   none

November 2010
· Athens Marathon

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