Stadiou Street

Afoi Vassilopouloi, one of the oldest delicatessens in Athens, has joined the Spar family as the multinational proceeds with its penetration of the Greek retail market.

A hooded youth prepares to throw a petrol bomb during clashes with riot police in central Athens as high school pupils protested a draft bill changing university entrance requirements. The march turned violent when it reached Syntagma Square outside Parliament.

The theme of the 6th Athens Biennale is "ANTI," and this edition of the event features works by around 100 Greek and foreign artists in which they offer a distinct, idiosyncratic and uneasy screenshot of our political, social and cultural momentum. This time around, the venues of the Biennale are in the vicinity of the Old Parliament near Syntagma Square.

In its 24th outing, the annual Opening Nights Athens International Film Festival boasts more than 100 new feature films from around the world, along with workshops and masterclasses, presentations and appearances by acclaimed filmmakers and other artists, as well as myriad parallel events.

I can't forget the day in 2011 riot police fired 1,000 rounds of CS gas into Syntagma. I started at the top of the square, where the nationalists told me to get lost because I was "Zionist Media." When I asked, "Don't you want me to tell your story?" they replied, "It's too late for that." And it was only June 2011.

Far from the summits, the markets, the polemics and the posturing, the Greek crisis was about ordinary families whose lives were upended. Few more so than the Papathanasopouloses.

I met them on a drizzly day in Patra, southwestern Greece. They had recently lost their daughter Angeliki in the Marfin fire.

Hotels and offices are at the center of the future utilization of 50 properties that belong to the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) and other state entities which the Labor Ministry has selected for commercial use.

The Ianos bookstore will be hosting a discussion with acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, on Thursday, June 28.

Tourism is breathing new life into Athens's beleaguered commercial triangle - the area encompassed by Syntagma, Omonia and Monastiraki squares - as the share of shuttered shops has dropped below 25 percent for the first time since September 2012, when the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESSE) started the relevant survey.

Members of the "I Won't Pay" movement and the Popular Unity (LAE) party were on Wednesday staging a protest outside a notary-public's office on Stadiou Street in Athens.

A riot police unit were guarding the building.

Protesters were opposing the auction of foreclosed properties, a key demand of Greece's international creditors.