What a head and brain it did not have The following most delicious was adjudicated in the local misdemeanor court. Mr. A. Petsalis sued the butchers G. Papadopoulos or Dirikos and Nikol. Kakos for selling him a lamb's head without marrow, which they had embezzled by cleverly closing the skull afterwards! The misdemeanor court sentenced them in absentia to three weeks' detention each. New Newspaper YEAR XII, NO. 169 Friday, June 18, 1893 The newspaper Rambagas in June 1882 announced that due to the proliferation of pickpockets, citizens decided to establish an Anti-Pickpocket Association. Each member carries on their back a sign clearly stating the phrase No Approach Allowed. The pickpockets respond by establishing their own association. Each member carries on their chest the inscription: Grab to eat and steal to have. BACK COVER People crossed paths in the streets and neighborhoods, gave the pulse of everyday life, painted with the warm and cold colors of their emotions, again and again, the changing landscape of the city. They played roles of protagonists or silent figures, dynamic or apathetic spectators, orchestrated in the anonymous crowd of the community's named members. […] The face of Athens would be colorless, with a vacant gaze, without their presence, their stories, their lives. History needs microhistory, aspects of which are vividly captured in the columns of newspapers and inscribed in the collective memory; the memory of the city. [From the introduction of the book]   THANASIS GIOCHALAS was born in 1955 in the city of Corfu, where he spent his school years. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens, in the Department of History and Archaeology. He works as a teacher in secondary education. He co-authored with Tonia Kafetzaki the book Athens, Tracing the city with history and literature as a guide, published in December 2012 by Estia. ZOI VAIOU was born in 1958 in Vasiliko Chalkidas. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens, in the Department of History and Archaeology. She works as a philology teacher in secondary education. Thanasis Giochalas and Zoi Vaiou co-authored the book Kitsos the Brave and other advertisements, published in December 2016 by Estia.