Harry Karapalides

I have seen the future, and the future is soaring like a phoenix rising from the ashes of destruction. Very deep quote, wouldn’t you say? I would, and I like it since I wrote it,…

I finally get to write about two of my most favorite subjects; Greece, and, of course, the Beatles. So what is the relationship between Greece and the Beatles, you ask? The most famous connection is…

It’s 2018. We’re smack in the middle of the “Information Age.” Access to information is only a click or tap away. I can ask Siri or Alexa, “when was the Parthenon built?” and they will…

The bouzouki. Some people think of it as a novelty item, hanging from a keychain, or an Ouzo bottle in the shape of a bouzouki (I think I have one somewhere in my house). Others…

Recently, I was watching a movie titled, “The Lost City of Z.” The movie was nice and I had read the book too. It’s based on a true story. The story is about an Englishman,…

This is it. My 100th article written for Cosmos Philly. Not really. This is number 105. Those pompous owners of Cosmos Philly, sitting in their leather-bound chairs high up on the 30th floor of Cosmos…

This past summer the family visited Greece. It had been twelve years since my last visit with my older daughter. My younger daughter had never been to Greece so we decided to pack the bags…

Some time ago I wrote an article about the “Greek Discount.” You know, when a fellow Greek finds out that you’re Greek, and they take care of you – wink, wink. That article described how…

Usually I write an article about my experiences as a Greek-American, but today I will take a break and let my father, Jerry (Vangeli) Karapalides, tell his stories about growing up in Greece back in…

Back in May 2012, I wrote a blog about Greek-Americans over the last few hundred years, which included some famous people. There were some from the 1700’s and movie stars over the past few decades. But in…