The interview of Maroulia Kontou took place the day after the 1st Choir Meeting held by the Mythodia Conservatory. She was exhausted but exhilarated; she had managed to realize yet another plan, yet another dream of hers. Two highly competent mixed choirs had travelled all the way from Athens to meet the audience of Paros and, along with the choir of Mythodia, offer them a sensational musical evening.
6,885 nautical miles! That’s the distance that lies between San Francisco and Paros. That venture also comprised other, shorter journeys, but it mainly entailed a long inward journey for Dimitra Skandali which, thankfully, keeps on going...
Susan Daboll was a familiar face and name even before we actually met. I had noticed her tall juvenile figure pass through the Holland Tunnel Gallery, the old Azari house and I had seen her photos in an exhibition at the same space. The interview with Susan Daboll opened for me a window to two worlds: the world of the artist and the world of the wife of the late Takis Dimitrakopoulos who passed in 2020 and their home, the iconic mansion of this historic family, right in the heart of the town of Parikia.
At the heart of Drios, in a space that lives and breathes the sea even without facing it, Myrto Tabouratzaki has set her dream into motion: putting forward solutions that turn a mere dwelling into a home. And successfully so, as she carries fond memories of Paros while being open to what the future may hold.
On the occasion of the publication of the book "Un Enfant de Paros" by Yannis Ragousis, the journalist Alain Desauvage presents us the work and its author.
In that June of bygone 1958, the then fledgling writer Truman Capote arrives at the Meltemi Hotel in Paros. He has just finished his short novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s and is looking for a break from the turbulent waters of the New York literary scene. Now was the time for letting the sun and the blue Aegean, parties, drinking, adventure and love into his life.
Captained by Nikos Chr. Aliprantis, the boat of PARIANA has travelled us, over all these years, across the seas of Parian history, tradition, arts and letters providing us with valuable insights and intellectual stimulation.
Liz was born in New York, studied at New York University, and from her late twenties lived on Paros. We were married in 1965, when I was twenty, so she was the companion of my whole adult life. It turns out that she was important to a great many others as friend, mentor, and as artist.
It may not have always been called Anagennisi (“renaissance”), but the well-known bookshop-cum-stationer’s-cum-Greek and international newsagent’s has been around since 1932, always owned by the Biza family.
If you are into locally-sourced produce and one-of-a-kind sophisticated items, a very special concept store awaits you on the ring road of Naoussa.
Naoussa Ring Road, Paros - Tel.: 22840.55377
