This past weekend on May 13-15th a sonic rumble was felt in NYC's famed West Village's Players Theatre. Labeled as "Byzantine Rock" by the press, "Porphyra, A Grecian Rock Opera. Anna and Vladimir: The love that ROCKED the world," blew all expectations on their three day Off Broadway run. As a little known production one year ago, Anna and Vladimir, became the first Greek themed Rock Opera to debut at the prestigious Carnegie Hall. Now re-inspired and revamped with fresh new talent the show that blended Hard Rock and Metal with Greek and exotic sounds send the audience on that distant trip again back to the year 988AD, to medieval Greece.

After a thrilling encounter, Olympiakos won 68-66 against Panathinaikos at the Olympic Stadium of Athens, even Basket League's finals' series to 1-1 and regained the home advantage.

Greek News Agenda presents Manos Hatzimalonas, founder of the Philotimo Foundation, an initiative aiming to define the unique concept of "philotimo", currently without any direct literal translation from Greek into English or any other language. The international team of experts gathered around the "philotimo" initiative believe that the timing is right to engage in active dialogue around the meaning and social dynamic of philotimo for both Greeks and the global community, aiming to adding it to the word's dictionaries and encouraging its use in the international public sphere. Manos Hatzimalonas spoke to Greek News Agenda about the initiative, giving us an insight on the issue (Interview taken in December 2015*).

American guard of Olympiakos Daniel Hackett spoke to SDNA about his team's home loss against Panathinaikos in Game 1 of Basket League's finals on Thursday.