- Michael Georgiou Levels Up the Game in Digital Technology
- The Many Hats of Sting: Rock and Roll’s ‘Englishman in New York’
- Greeks who Whistle Dixie
- Sold-Out PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation Gala Celebrates the Future of Our Community
- The House of Stathopoulo and Epiphone: The Greeks that Helped Pioneer the Modern Electric Guitar
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Michael Georgiou Levels Up the Game in Digital TechnologyNo one said start-up companies were easy, but Michael Georgiou, Co-Founder of Imaginovation, a B2B turn-key technology and digital product development company, knows that with a little bit of elbow grease, perseverance, and imagination, you can jumpstart...
- Posted July 13, 2022
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The Many Hats of Sting: Rock and Roll’s ‘Englishman in New York’By Markos Papadatos Sting is a world-renowned composer, best-selling singer-songwriter, actor, producer author, philanthropist, and activist. He sat down and chatted with Markos Papadatos prior to Shaggy’s “Com Fly Wid Me” album release party, which he hosted,...
- Posted July 13, 2022
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Greeks who Whistle DixieThe Greek Confederate Company’s battles were won by wanderers, opportunists and lonely people far from home by Dean Kalimniou* By now we are used to seeing Greeks crop up in the most unconventional pages of world history....
- Posted July 13, 2022
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Sold-Out PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation Gala Celebrates the Future of Our CommunityFirst live gala since pandemic culminates a weekend of events designed to nurture future leaders by Maria A. Karamitsos* After two years of virtual galas and events due to the pandemic, the PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation (PHSF) made...
- Posted July 13, 2022
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The House of Stathopoulo and Epiphone: The Greeks that Helped Pioneer the Modern Electric Guitarby Billy Chrissochos When the two inventors/scientists Serbian-American Nikola Tesla and American Thomas Edison began harnessing and transmitting electricity in the 1880s, they paved the way for a myriad of possibilities for humanity; like electrifying and amplifying...
- Posted July 13, 2022
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Michael Bublé the Modern King of Contemporary Pop Musicby Markos Papadatos Four-time Grammy award-winning music superstar Michael Bublé chatted with Markos Papadatos about his upcoming studio album “Higher,” which waw released on March 25, 2022, via Warner Records/Reprise Records. U.S. Army general and former Secretary...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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The Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown UniversityMore than a decade after providing seed capital to establish a financial markets and policy center at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, Michael G. (B’89) and Robin Psaros (Parents’21) are committing $11 million to...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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The Cathedral School Makes A Comeback: An Interview with Principal Meropi KyriacouIn the past seven years, The Cathedral School, a flagship school of the NYC Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, has gone through several administrative changes that almost brought the school to its knees and caused it to nearly crumble....
- Posted April 25, 2022
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On The Quay at Smyrna Ernest Hemingway and 1922by Dean Kalimniou* “The worst thing was … how they screamed every night at midnight. I do not know why they started screaming. We were in the harbor and they were on the pier and at midnight...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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From the Shores of the Aegean to the Edge of the PacificA tribute to Alexander Pantages (1864/75–1936) By Ilias Chrissochoidis, Ph.D. Few Greek-American stories can match the roller coaster life of Alexander Pantages, a penniless boy from the Aegean who built a theatrical empire in the American West...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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The End of Disinformation On Social Media? George Sehremelis and Overlooked.comIf George Sehremelis gets his way, disinformation on social media will find itself at the receiving end of a proverbial knockout punch. It’s not every day you’ll find a twenty-four year old Greek-American millennial who is on...
- Posted March 22, 2022
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Calamos Investments Wins 2022 Refinitiv Lipper’s Best Overall Small Fund Family AwardCalamos Investments, a global investment management firm with more than $40 billion in assets under management, announced today that it has received the US 2022 Best Overall Small Fund Family Award from the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards....
- Posted March 22, 2022
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So Who Was Bouboulina?For one, she was a tough cookie. According to legend, she was born in a Turkish prison in Constantinople (where her father had been imprisoned), she became the Capetanissa of her own fleet, gave birth to seven...
- Posted March 22, 2022
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The Greek American Abolitionistsby Dean Kalimniou* “Ye sons of burning Afric’s soil, Lift up your hands of hardened toil Your shouts from every hill recoil Today you are free.” When John Celivergis Zachos penned the above verses in 1862, he...
- Posted March 22, 2022
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The tragedy with the 4,000 Greek children who were sent to the USA during the Cold War (1950s-1960s)“Imagine someone who chooses clothes from a fashion catalogue. This is exactly what happened to the infants from Greece at that time. Americans ordered a baby, and if they were not satisfied for a number of reasons...
- Posted March 22, 2022
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The most influential Greek since Alexander the Great? A reappraisal of Spyros P. Skourasby Ilias Chrissochoidis, Ph.D. In the long and distinguished history of Greek presence in America, no individual can match the breadth, depth, and duration of influence of Spyros P. Skouras (1893–1971), whose 50th death anniversary we commemorate...
- Posted December 25, 2021
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Art of Ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire George D. and Margo Behrakis Wing, Level 2 Opens December at the Museum of Fine Arts BostonFine newly transformed galleries at the heart of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston George D. and Margo Behrakis Wing for Art of the Ancient World, invite visitors to explore nearly 550 objects from one of the...
- Posted December 25, 2021
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“Echoes of The Past”: a Movie on the Kalavryta Massacre Perpetrated by the NazisOn December 13, 1943 German soldiers executed close to peo1200 people in the Greek town of Kalavryta. It’s a grim 78-year anniversary of one of the darkest moments in modern Greek history. Now, a powerful new film...
- Posted December 25, 2021
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The Hellenic Initiative Raises More Than $2M To Aid Greece At Ninth Annual NYC GalaThe Most Successful Global Greek Diaspora Fundraising Event Held In Person and Streamed To An International Audience The Hellenic Initiative (THI) raised a spectacular USD $2 million+ at its Ninth Annual Fundraising Gala that took place in...
- Posted December 25, 2021
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Chaos: A Creative, Hot, Amazing, Outstanding, SupercarSpyros Panopoulos, the creator of the Greek supercar, talks to NEO By Kelly Fanarioti When in his early childhood, he discovered his passion for speed and cars, Spyros Panopoulos could not have imagined that a few decades...
- Posted December 25, 2021
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PAUL LOUNTZIS, THE DEPENDABLE NAME IN THE MONEY GAMEWhen Paul Lountzis fainted during an autopsy while he tried studying medicine, he decided that business was a safer course and the career of investment titan Warren Buffett (“The Oracle of Omaha”) was more his inspiration. “I...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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October 28, 1940: Greece Has a Long History of Defending the Westby Constance Baroudos, M.A. Only five of 28 NATO members meet the alliance goal of dedicating two percent of gross domestic product to defense: the United States, United Kingdom, Estonia, Poland and Greece. As threats increase around the...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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Michalel Psaros Donates $3 Million to Georgetown University for the Establishment of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ChaplaincyOn October 25, 2021, Archon Michael Psaros announced the establishment of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endowed Orthodox Chaplaincy at Georgetown University, endowed by the Psaros family. The announcement was made at a dinner at Georgetown University held in...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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The Hellenic Initiative’s Annual NY Gala Is Back In Person!The Hellenic Initiative’s Annual NY Gala Is Back In Person! The Hellenic Initiative (THI), the leading group uniting the Greek diaspora and philhellenes internationally, is once again hosting its Annual Gala in person after last year’s virtual-only...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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NHS celebrates Greece’s Bicentennial by releasing on several streaming platforms Cliffs of Freedom, a historical drama romance movie written by Marianne MetropoulosThis past year, the National Hellenic Society, a non-profit foundation that celebrate, share, and pass on Hellenic heritage in America, completed the acquisition of all rights to a major motion picture, Cliffs of Freedom. The film is...
- Posted October 28, 2021
