:: OCT 2009 $2.95 Ecumenical Patriarch to visit US US business leaders revisit Cyprus NYC Real Estate Expo Earth Friendly Products of California New face of HABA: Georgia S. Mouzakis Tavlarios Vassilios at NY Kostetsos Fashion Week A Milestone This issue marks the fourth anniversary of NEO, and while it is no longer “neo,” it is now :: magazine established as a vital milepost of the Greek American media landscape and we have striven Editor in Chief: every year to improve it (Dimitri Rhompotis has Dimitri C. Michalakis worn the big hat in these efforts, as he often does
[email protected] in life). Features Editor Most of our past issues from the past four years Katerina Georgiou are now available online and our website has
[email protected] become a familiar place to “hit” when catching Lifestyle Editor up on the Greek American scene. Books and music and civic endeavors are Maria Athanasopoulos prominently featured, as are interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, both
[email protected] here and across the ocean (NEO is also distributed to the Parliament in Greece). Western Region Desk Did we expect NEO to become so familiar and visible a part of Greek America Alexander Mizan when we started it four years ago? We hoped so, because both Dimitri and I and
[email protected] Kyprianos Bazenikas were all veterans of the Greek American media and knew Baltimore Desk both its potential and its shortcomings. We wanted NEO both to address those Georgia Vavas shortcomings and blaze new trails of its own, and over the four years of its
[email protected] existence, I think the magazine has made a splash and people have Photo/Fashion acknowledged both its presence and its influence—which is not easy to do in ETA Press the backwater where the ethnic press is often relegated.