Know what beats going on a lunch date to a restaurant that has a dance floor? Two lunch dates. In all honesty, if you went at night during dancing hours, you might have more fun, well, dancing. Lunch ...

IRVINE Farah Toosi and Paul Rosenthal decided to follow the signs on Sunday morning. “GREEK FESTIVAL,” the placards proclaimed, and that was all it took for the couple, hungry after participating in ...

I didn’t expect a cultural explosion, or an immersion into the raucous waters of the Mediterranean, but that’s what I got. When I pulled up to the tall white building on Northwest Highway, wrapped in ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Every year in Knoxville, thousands of people pack into an area near the St. George Greek Orthodox Church for a festival filled with food, dancing, music, history and plenty of fun.

It looks like a mandolin, but it also looks like a guitar. And it makes the special sounds heard in Greek movies and at Greek restaurants. It’s called a bouzouki, and George Karidakis and his brother, ...