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 […]
A few days ago, a bunch of journalists at the Economist got together and decided, like kindergarten teachers doling out their ‘best student’ award, which of the world’s countries has ‘most improved’ in the last […]
LEXINGTON, Mass.—Cary Memorial Library of Lexington, Massachusetts is home to a growing World Language Collection, a program offering members of local ethnic groups an opportunity to request library books in their mother tongue. As the […]
In 1929, two Armenian immigrants set up a modest dairy facility in Andover, Massachusetts. Their production was centered on a food item often consumed in the old world: a sourish, white substance derived from milk. […]
For years, I’ve eyed my mother’s recipe cabinet longingly. Brimming with books slung together in no particular rhyme or reason, it occupies two giant floor cupboards in my parents’ kitchen. I have hoped to one […]
BOSTON, MASS. — Just over five-hundred miles away from the Tree of Life synagogue, where a Jewish community has been grieving the loss of 11 of its innocent worshippers, hundreds in the heart of Boston […]
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