WEST MILFORD, N.J. (A.W.)—For the past decade, the YY Sisters trio has been performing classical Armenian songs with a jazz flair. Based in New Jersey, the sisters have performed at venues all across the northeast. […]
“TEZETA is a song form famous in Ethno-Jazz. In Amharic (the language of Ethiopia), it translates to ‘my memory,’ but it means much more. It conveys a sense of nostalgia that can be lost in […]
“My film has no messages, only questions that beg for answers,” an honest director divulges. His words do not exude the typical slick-oil salesman persona that accompanies many movie ensembles who try to pitch their […]
From Yerevan to Carnegie Hall, Kariné Poghosyan has worked her way to becoming a high-class pianist. Armenian Weekly intern Lilly Torosyan recently conducted the following interview with Poghosyan, who resides in New York City, where […]
Armenian Weekly intern Lilly Torosyan recently conducted the following interview with Julia Tashjian, the former Secretary of Connecticut from 1983-91. Tashjian is an active member of St. George’s Armenian Apostolic Church in Hartford, Conn., and […]
Every year, one college-aged member of each parish in the Diocese is chosen to make the pilgrimage to the Holy City of Jerusalem. The nine-day journey consists of frequent church visits and Bible study, in […]
On Sat., Nov. 10, the Connecticut branch of the Vanoush Khanamirian Dance Academy of New York will perform with the sensational sister duo, Inga and Anush Arshakyan—famous in Armenia for their contemporary take on traditional […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (A.W.)—It is a warm, calm Sunday afternoon, the kind that makes you want to doze off in your backyard hammock. It is coffee hour in the basement of St. George’s Armenian Church in […]
The story of Eduard Pogosiants starts in Baku, Azerbaijan, a city that was once home to Armenians, Russians, and Jews alike, in addition to Azeris. Eduard was one of many who fled the country at […]
WEST HARTFORD, Conn.—Every year, in the first or second weekend of June, a fair in the town of West Hartford draws in people from all over the state to gather, ride carousels, pitch local businesses […]
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