Despina Vandi: Hard Nights in America

Για τη σπουδαιότητα της μητρότητας αλλά και τις δυσκολίες που αντιμετώπισε όταν λόγω της περιοδείας του «Γεια», αναγκάστηκε να λείπει πολλές μέρες μακριά από το σπίτι της και τη νεογέννητη κόρη της, μίλησε πρόσφατα στο ραδιοφωνικό σταθμό της Θεσσαλονίκης «Κοσμοράδιο 95,1» η Δέσποινα Βανδή και τη συνέντευξη της τραγουδίστριας αναδημοσιεύει σήμερα το περιοδικό «People».

Μιλώντας για τη δύσκολη εποχή του «Γεια», όπου αναγκάστηκε να βρίσκεται στην Αμερική την ώρα που η κόρη της Μελίνα ήταν πολύ μικρούλα, η Δέσποινα αποκάλυψε: «Ήταν πολύ δύσκολο όλο αυτό με την περιοδεία του Γεια. Βγάζω το καπέλο σε όσους το κάνουν αυτό. Ήταν μια περίοδος της ζωής μου, τότε που το Γεια είχε σκαρφαλώσει στο billboard στην Αμερική κι εγώ έτρεχα από Αμερική, Ρωσία και από Ρωσία σε Γερμανία και από εκεί δεν ξέρω πούπου τρελάθηκα και είπα: “δεν είναι τρόπος ζωή αυτός. Θέλω τώρα την Ελλάδα μου”».

Στη συνέχεια η τραγουδίστρια δε δίστασε να αποκαλύψει τις δύσκολες νύχτες που περνούσε στην Αμερική. «Το “μάνα” ήταν πιο ουσιαστικό για μένα. Ήταν τόσο μεγάλο αυτό που συνέβαινε, ωστόσο το επισκίαζε το γεγονός της μητρότητας. Εγώ ήθελα να γυρίσω πίσω στη μινιόν Μελίνα μου και δεν μπόρεσα να το απολαύσω, όπως έπρεπε να το απολαύσω. Στην Αμερική, δώδεκα μέρες πήγαινα για συνεντεύξεις και γυρνούσα το βράδυ κι έκλαιγα στο ξενοδοχείο γιατί ήθελα να γυρίσω στο παιδί μου», he confessed.

Η τραγουδίστρια μίλησε επίσης και για τα παιδιά της και πώς στην αρχή συνεχώς αναρωτιούνταν γιατί την πλησιάζει ο κόσμος και της ζητά αυτόγραφα, ενώ δεν έκρυψε και τον προβληματισμό της, μήπως όλη αυτή η δημοσιότητα κάνει κακό τελικά στα παιδιά της.«Προβληματίζομαι μήπως αυτή η δημοφιλία δημιουργήσει στα παιδιά μια διαφορετική ψυχολογία. Αλλά είμαστε από πάνω τους, κι εγώ και ο Ντέμης, προσπαθώντας να τους προστατεύσουμε από ο,τιδήποτε τους δημιουργηθεί», he said.

Source : protothema.gr

Adel : Answers for "first and last time"

In the rumors that want her partner, Simon Konecki still married, Adele replied via her personal website. The 23-year-old singer wrote features: “This is the first and last time I will comment on details of my relationship with Simon. Against the reports and headlines in the press today, Simon has been divorced for four years”.
“Everyone in our lives separately but also together, they wish us only the best. These are the facts. Take care and I'll see you all in February”, he added, referring to her appearance at the Brit Awards next month.
 Reports said the 36-year-old businessman was still married to fashion stylist Clary Fisher, whom he married in his summer 2004. The couple, in fact, he has a 5-year-old daughter together. When they got married, he was the director of an investment company and they immediately found themselves in high social circles, to hang out with his son Ronnie Wood, Jamie and Lucas White. but when Koneki decided to establish an ecological company with the latter, outside New York, his marriage is over. Although he moved with his wife to Brighton, they started to move away.
Adele met him through singer Ed Sheeran a few months ago. His ex-wife, in the meantime, he lives in Sussex and still uses his surname.
Source : yupi.gr

Record number of license plate deposits in Chania

Close to 4.200 signs

The number of car license plate deposits reached a record number in Chania. The turnout from taxpayers has been huge in recent days in A’ and B'΄D.O.Y. Chania as the deadline for traffic fees has expired. Thousands rushed to pay the fees to receive the special badge.
Alongside, thousands more rushed to deposit their car plates. Overall, the number of registration plates filed in the A' and B' D.O.Y. Chania it 2011 reached them 4.200!
This number is a record, after surpassing all previous data. It is clear that the financial crisis has forced many to retire the cars they owned in order not to pay the increased road tax.
It is noted that by the end of December, approximately 2.000 signs, a number that nearly doubled in its final days 2011 and its first fortnight 2012.
Source : newsbeast.gr

More details on the European VW CC

VW reveals even more details about the new CC (ex Passat CC) at an event, held in Nice, France, shortly before its sales start in Europe.
VW presented the updated Passat CC for the first time (Coupe-Comfort), which will now be called CC, in November at the Los Angeles show. The German brand though, just before the new sports sedan went on sale organized an event that took place in Nice, France. There, the specialist press enjoyed all the new features of the new CC, which has new lighting bodies with the LEDs integrated inside, rear LED lights, new bumpers, chrome details and a new trunk design.

Inside the CC we find an almost new image, while VW states that it will have rich standard equipment, which among others will be the fatigue detection system, the active head restraints, the new sound system, as well as the bi-xenon lights. As for optional equipment, can the customer select the lane change alert system, dead center detection system, massage seats and more.
Engines and gearboxes for Europe will remain unchanged. So, the CC is fitted with the TSI range (160, 210 and 300 horses) and TDI(140 and 170 horses) engines. It is worth noting that the 2-liter TDI performance engine 140 of horsepower with the manual 6-speed gearbox has a consumption of just 4,7 lt./100 km. End, all TDI engines will have the Stop/Start system as standard which further reduces consumption.
Source : autotriti.gr

The Melas-Papadopoulos gallery opens with an exhibition by G. Sagri

The first official exhibition of the new Melas-Papadopoulou gallery is the presentation of the artist Georgia Sagri, who many remember from her performance some years ago outside the Polytechnic, which had also occupied the Greek news.

Sagri began by recycling and translating visual practices of female artists of the 70s and 80s, (like Mona Hatoum, Marina Abramovic and Orlan) and in the years that followed he continued experimenting on the platform of performance but also trying other media. Lately it seems that she has found her own personal identity that has matured her work and made it interesting. THE “migration” her time in America has done her good and now a path is emerging that is probably worth watching carefully.
For her first exhibition at the Andreas Melas gallery & Helena Papadopoulos, Georgia Sagri presents a flexible composition of Courtyards where plants grow, plastic and ceramic objects appear, actions are outlined and reproduced by the artist in the performance that will take place in the gallery, for three consecutive nights.

A double no or a double yes, a strategy for re-appropriation. The Yards, variable wooden boxes with aromatic plants, scattered sculptures and attached benches, refer to a closed place, in a scene where actor and spectator are subject to already formed narrative structures.
However, the Sagri, in an attempt to circumvent the tragic decline of social and political imaginaries, offers the fact of the love of the French philosopher Alain Badiou – love as a material and practical embodiment of miracle-making – as a potential site for the production of truth. The Yards exhibition includes an installation, show/loop, a PowerPoint presentation, a series of drawings/collages and a collection of texts by the artist. Georgia Sagri was born in Athens in 1979. He lives and works in New York.


GEORGIA SAGRI
Yards
19 January – 8 Of March 2012
inauguration: Thursday 19 January, 7-9:30 pm
performance: 19, 20, 21 January, at 7.30 mm EXACTLY.
Melas-Papadopoulos
Epicurus 26 & Korini
Scabies
Source : protothema.gr

The Patras Carnival begins

Opening ceremony on Saturday
Patrines are donning their festive gear and preparing events for the patrine carnival with the opening ceremony scheduled for Saturday.

Young and old will take part in an outdoor celebration, which is expected to pleasantly upset the city center. Music, dance, original happenings, street performers and a host of surprises will unfold through inventive acts generously spreading fun, vitality and joy.

The events will start from 11 in the morning and will last all day, converting the pedestrian streets, the streets, the square of Georgiou and the city hall in the field of carnival action.

From early on Saturday the auctioneer, accompanied by carnival performers, the municipal band and the bandina, they will play familiar carnival motifs and convey the message of joy and fun

From the 11:00-14:00  the children's Carnival Town on the pedestrian street of Riga Feraios will invite Lilliputians and not only to a festive date, envisioning the children's carnival.

At the same time, various events will be held on the pedestrian streets of the center and in Georgiou Square, associations, groups, schools, crews, while the free entries of crews of the "hidden treasure" are expected to give their own color, groups and carnivalists, who will flood the center with their spontaneous carnival appearances.

At 1.30 at noon the telalist with his carnival entourage will arrive at the town hall and hand over the paternal carnival banner to the mayor of Patreon, Yiannis Dimaras 2012, which will remain at the town hall until the end of the events, at 26 February.

At 2 at noon the mayor of Patreon will announce the official opening of the patreon carnival in Georgiou Square, where King Carnavalos will make his impressive appearance.

A concert by the band "The Burger Project" will follow, while until the evening there will be a music program in Georgiou Square. The celebration will conclude with Samata of the "Outraged Carnivalists"’ in collaboration with the dance department of the municipality's cultural organization.

From their side, the "hidden treasure" crews will have their own parade, which will start on 7 on Saturday night from Olgas square. The parade will end at Georgiou Square, where the carnivalists will present events, promising many surprises.

"In an environment of insecurity, uncertainty and anxiety, we attempt through the carnival to light up the dark landscape as much as possible, to create oases of entertainment and fun for our fellow citizens, to keep the great institution of the city at its height" said the mayor Yiannis Dimaras.

Source : newsbeast.gr

Movie premiere Thursday 19 January 2012

J. EDGAR
Case : As America's law enforcement spokesman for approx 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover inspired fear and admiration, while his actions were condemned by others and glorified by others. But back, through closed doors, there were secrets that if leaked would ruin the image, his career and life. Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (“Inception”, “Blood Diamond”) he stars in the film's title role “J. Edgar”, a drama that explores the public and personal life of one of the most powerful, of contradictory and enigmatic personalities of the 20th century.

Watch the trailerhere






THE WAR HORSE(WAR HORSE)
Case : Shortly after the outbreak of A’ World War, Albert, a teenager living on a farm in the British countryside, he is informed that his father has decided to sell Joey, his favorite horse, in the British Cavalry. Very soon, Joey ends up on the front lines of the French front, where he magically changes the lives of the people he comes in contact with. Back to England, however, Albert, feeling that he has lost a very good friend, decides to defy fate and enlist in the army, in the hope of finding him again…

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THE DARKEST HOUR(THE DARKEST HOUR)
Case : After an inexplicable global catastrophe, electronic devices stop working in all parts of the world. A group of Americans and Brits, who have visited Moscow, they are trapped in the city. The real chaos begins, when an unknown force begins to stalk the human population. The team members find refuge underground and try to survive in any way possible. Five days later they arrive in a haunted town, which once teemed with life, but while they are looking for other survivors, it becomes clear that the threat is still visible. Now, to save themselves, they should adapt and work as a team.
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