What piqued our interest, what did we like and what didn't last week?
The contributors to the magazine make their own account of current affairs and everyday life through the individual filter of each one.
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plus The artists' strike. When across Europe citizens take to the streets and stage massive strikes, our artists make white faces.
minus The reappearance in the political life of Giorgos Karatzaferis. The man who was permanently against the ND and raised Adonis Georgiadis politically, with a checkmate proposal shows how low he can go, like his student.
Yvonne Polygenes
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plus Where I saw for the first time in the cinema the film of my beloved Fatih Akin.
minus Where the screening was a bit crowded. Cinema has become rather an expensive sport.
Thodoris Krachtis
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plus Events around the world to commemorate the victims of the Jewish Holocaust.
minus The unacceptable condition of the Larissa railway station. And perhaps the only one in the civilized world without toilets!
Giannis Achyropoulos
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plus This week's LIFO cover features artwork by visual artist Irini Karagiannopoulou from the just-released second issue of her feminist fanzine -JANUS femzine- intended to be the most up-to-date misbehavior manual for modern femininities.
minus The fact that in the year 2023 in Greece, by Presidential Decree, the diplomas of higher drama schools and schools of dance and cinema are equated with high school diplomas, thus equating the study of these artists with no study, declaring them "unskilled workers".
Valentini Margaritopoulou
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plus The fact that the events in Elefsina for the Cultural Capital of Europe are starting. Let me be allowed a personal perversion, as I participated in the Larissa Nomination Office for the institution. The fact that the launch coincides with the artists' strike makes it even more interesting.
minus The pre-election toxicity of all to all and the big words said before the polls that are like the words heard in sex; you should never take them at face value...
Evi Botsaropoulou
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plus King pies that are still being cut at a blistering pace. She weighs 29the May for the last!
minus The gas bill for two months! Where he was not privileged!
Costas Kontogias
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plus The new AI digital app ChatGPT designed to write any type of text asked of it
minus Plagiarism, Greek for plagiarism
Dimitris Karamanavis
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plus The concerted struggle of artists
minus The unjust loss of two more Air Force pilots
Spyros Cavallieratos
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plus The "exclusion" of the so-called party of Kasidiaris from the Parliament with a special amendment that seems to be supported by most parties
minus The change in the weather that in many areas has created problems and damages, which the residents have to deal with together with the multiple crises of the season
Fani Durdura
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plus What I learned about the Verdaccio technique, used by Italian Renaissance painters
minus The now daily occurrences of extreme violence between young children
Anna Zarra
*Cover photo: Jane Bown