Since leaving the Weekly, I have kept relatively quiet on issues related to Armenian and international affairs, to focus on reporting about plastic pollution and climate change, which I view as existential threats (and, more […]
Journalism can be a polarizing industry. Stories featuring clear villains and protagonists vie for our attention and our eyeballs. But reality isn’t always so black and white. Just about anywhere you look, there’s plenty of […]
Stephen Kurkjian is your quintessential Bostonian: a red-blooded and Red Sox-loving native of Dorchester, blessed with the gift of gab and a hearty appetite for a good story. Those last two things, he made […]
For me, probably the worst part of working in news is the industry’s magnetic pull to crisis. (There’s even a saying: “If it bleeds, it leads.”) Of course, there is good reason to fret, especially […]
If there’s anything I’ve learned running a Diasporan newspaper, it’s that there seem to be—at any given point—a million reasons for Armenians in the Diaspora to disagree with one another. We are by no means […]
A few weeks ago, I received on my desk a handwritten letter from one of our longtime readers. Penned in gorgeous scrawl, it is perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing note I’ve received during my tenure […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass.—Mondays at ONCE Ballroom, a grungy performance space in the heart of Somerville, do not typically enjoy a full house, but on March 18, nearly 300 folks lined up in the cold an hour […]
In this week’s issue, we published the English translation of a recent opinion piece, authored by former advisor to Armenia’s Prime Minister, Igor Zargaryan, who has recently formed a new political party, National Agenda. In […]
Louisa (Kalikian) Kazandjian was born in 1921 in Bucharest, Romania. She was the oldest child of Hagop and Haigui (Artinian) Kalikian. She died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, at the Armenian Nursing & Rehabilitation Center […]
Erik Wesner Jossey Bass Imprint 2010 203 Pages Available for purchase on Amazon It was American essayist and agriculturalist Wendell Berry who wrote, “the Amish question ‘What will this do to our community?’ tends […]
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