Vartabedian: A Guy Named Joe…Art…Bud
What’s in a name? Plenty, especially if you’re Joe, Art, Bud, or any number of first-name-only people who have little or no regard for a surname. Let me explain. Back in my military years, when […]
What’s in a name? Plenty, especially if you’re Joe, Art, Bud, or any number of first-name-only people who have little or no regard for a surname. Let me explain. Back in my military years, when […]
I’ve been telling my Armenian story a lot lately. I’m repeatedly faced with the challenge of expressing why I’ve remained engaged with Armenia and the Armenian people for the past 13 years. Armenians used to […]
“Hers is a compositional style in which neo-classicism and neo-romanticism meet, along with an ethnic flavor—the influence of Armenian, her first spoken language,” said one critic about the music of composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, who […]
By Michelle M. Michelle is a summer intern with the AYF Internship Program, working at the Hrayr Mahroukhian Foundation at the ARF Bureau office in Yerevan. She is from Los Angeles. 4 a.m.: The airbus […]
Institute’s 25th Anniversary Will Be Celebrated Next Year NEW YORK—His Eminence Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, Prelate of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, recently praised the conclusion of another successful St. Gregory […]
Elizabeth A. (Artroogian) Vagshenian, or “Betty” as she was known, of Barrington, R.I., passed away on Sat., July 31 at RI Hospital in Providence. She was the beloved wife of the late Simon Vagshenian. Born […]
WASHINGTON—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee postponed a vote on U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan-designate Matthew Bryza until after the Senate August recess, in response to a “hold-over” request by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), reported the Armenian […]
The day is September 1 at the place Vienna, Austria. Throughout the city, church bells are ringing. It is not a Viennese custom, nor an Austrian. Instead, it is the day when the Mekhitarists parade […]
Growing up in Somerville, I had a dear Armenian friend. His name was Ralph Bedrosian and he could do no wrong. He had a body that looked like it was chiseled from granite. In school, […]
In June and July 2010, Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian presented a lecture titled “The Sound of Footsteps: Commemorating the Armenian Genocide in Turkey” in several cities and towns in Massachusetts, Illinois, California, Michigan, Rhode Island, […]
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