Due to popular demand (and Petros’ Mom’s request for his birthday—Happy Birthday Petros!), we are rerunning the Oct. 30, 2013 Local-Express. Greek American film producer and screenwriter, Petros Georgiadis, 25, has had his first film, Running Out, featured in the New York City Greek Film Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image. His collaborator on the film, Dennis Latos […]
Undulant Fever In Cattle And People
Normally, when a bacterium invades your body, it’s surrounded and engulfed by a white blood cell. If all goes well, the white blood cell kills the bacterium. But a few bacteria have some tricks up their sleeves. One of them is the rod-shaped Brucella bacterium, the agent that causes brucellosis or what is sometimes known as “undulant fever” because it […]
Internet In Bloom For The Layperson
Libraries revolve around equitable access for everyone. The probability of the Internet evolving to the revolutionary, global giant of communication it is today is almost nonexistent, considering the staggering challenges of the 20th century, such as: two horrible World Wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the rise of unparalleled global terrorism and vicious militias. The current economic depression, which […]
SJP Junior Varsity Volleyball Captures Third Championship
The High School Volleyball A Division Championship on November 5 was won by both St. John’s Prep H.S. (SJP) teams, in games held at SJP. The St. John’s Prep Junior Varsity Volleyball Team defeated Bishop Kearney in straight sets to capture their third consecutive championship. The SJP Junior Varsity defeated Bishop Kearney by scores of 25-9 and 25- 16 to […]
Heartless Thief Steals St. Demetrios Poor Box
Queens detectives last week released a video surveillance photo of a thief who walked into St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Astoria on November 6 and made off with a poor box containing cash and jewelry. Cops said the man entered through an unlocked rear door of the cathedral on 31st Street and 30th Drive in Astoria at about 2:30 […]
Social Security Serves Those Who’ve Served
On November 11, we honor our Nation’s veterans for their service to America. What better time than now to tell you—and for you to help spread the word—about the many benefits and wealth of information Social Security has available for veterans and military personnel? Social Security recognizes those who put their lives on the line for our freedoms. Members of […]
Wounded Vets Saluted In Grand Style
This Veterans’ Day weekend, American Airlines partnered with MGM Resorts International and the United Service Organizations (USO) to host more than 80 wounded warriors and their guests from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, for the fifth annual “A Salute to the Troops” weekend in Las Vegas. The servicemen and women traveled aboard […]
TU CASA in Astoria
TU CASA is my favorite place to go for authentic Peruvian and Latin American fare. The portions are generous, the prices moderate, and the staff friendly and professional. Whether you come here for lunch, dinner, weekend entertainment, Sunday brunch, or just drinks, you will find the atmosphere welcoming and relaxed. Both in the front of the restaurant where a few […]