They have not forgotten their brave and illustrious past. And with the same intense dedication to their Armenian roots, the Detroit Avak-Vanig chapter of the Vasbouragan Society is planning their 41st biennial convention to be […]
Sometimes the things a person has done so often becomes the hardest to do again and again. Commemorating April 24, 1915 has become so entrenched in my life that it is looked upon with both […]
Thursday night diners at the Armenian Community Center in Dearborn, though in a celebratory mood, were cautiously optimistic when the genocide resolution passed committee. It had been bouncing around D.C. longer than journalist Helen Thomas, […]
Just who is Ara Baliozian? He is the Athens-born intellectual who since 1956 has resided in Canada. And he is the winner of many prizes and government grants for his literary work, which include fiction, […]
The cause must go on Occasionally I need a movie “fix,” falling back on old favorites like “The Quiet Man” starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, Peter O’Toole in “Lawrence of Arabia,” or on a […]
What’s a nice girl doing in a place like this? It was one of those freezing Michigan winter evenings and there I was, just a snip of a girl, standing in the bitter cold waiting […]
As book talks and signings go, the Feb. 25 launching of Mitchel Kehetian’s Giants of the Earth assured the long-time newspaperman and editor his place in the literary sun. Over 70 people gathered in the […]
Suzy Arakelian’s lovely eyes may have been dimmed by the passing years, but oh how they lit up when representatives of the Metro-Detroit area Armenian Relief Society (ARS) recently awarded the devoted octogenarian her 50-year […]
She’s daddy’s little girl and possible future swimmer. She’s mommy’s little stunner and perhaps dancing will be her destiny. But little Kyaneh Sevan Karapetian has a lot of time and loads of loving family members […]
Araxi Baliozian passed away during the early morning hours of Jan. 28 at her home in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, one week short of her 96th birthday. She was surrounded by her devoted daughter, Dirouhi, and […]
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