Athens

Techniques Festival presents deep house superstar Solomun, who is returning to Greece after four years for an open-air show at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus. With his devoted local fan base, he is sure to make Athens dance once again. Tickets start from 35 euros and are available at more.com.

Nko Efstathiou, an Athens-based journalist and author of a best-selling biography on Olympic Champion Pyrros Dimas, joins me to look at the buzz around the Olympics in Greece this summer, and break down whether Greek sport - which took a hit during the crisis - is bouncing back. 

For the first time in our country, a camping program for 50 children aged 13 to 18 from the Greek diaspora in Brazil and Tanzania was held with great success.

Moxy Athens City hotel (65 Stadiou) will host a live performance of the London-based post-rock band Electric Litany and the Athenian ambient pop phenom Johnny Labelle. The artists will perform their atmospheric music against the backdrop of the Acropolis on the hotel rooftop. Tickets cost 18 euros at more.com.

Elli and her partner made the big leap about a decade ago, giving up their jobs in Athens and moving to the Cycladic island where her family was from. It was a massive financial risk because they both worked in the private sector, earning very good salaries and with great prospects of advancement.

Wrapped around one of Athens' most spectacular monuments, the Panathenaic Stadium or Kallimarmaro, thrives a historic community park on Ardittos Hill.

The dilemma for the shopkeepers was clear: Either they would pay to have immunity from inspections or they would be forced to go to court every so often.

I always had a ready excuse for not visiting the island of Kea, also known as Tzia, which lies a convenient one-hour ferry ride away from the coast of Lavrio in southeastern Attica: "It's so close; we'll go another time." Well, the years went by and that "other time" only came one weekend earlier this summer.

The permanent population of Greece, which reached 10.482 million in the recent census, is extremely unevenly distributed across the country. The two most populous Regional Units (RU), those of Thessaloniki and the Central Sector of Athens, host 2.09 million people (20.0% of the total population) while occupying only 2.8% of Greece’s area.

The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies (74 Mitropoleos, Monastiraki, europeanarch.eu) and the Chicago Athenaeum present "The Athenians, Short Stories of Art (Vol II)." In this group show, artists share small stories inspired by the Greek capital and expressed through various mediums. Admission is free of charge.