Today is Family Day in Ontario. It’s a relatively new addition to the calendar, one that, if I’m being completely…
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“Motherlands are castles made of glass. In order to leave them, you have to break something — a wall, a…
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*MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR ‘THE SOPRANOS’ for those who somehow still haven’t watched it. I was one of you until…
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I turned 37 this year and, according to Armenia’s life expectancy tables, that places me on the wrong side of…
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I do not usually go out of my way to watch Christmas rom-coms. I know the genre, but I have…
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*Content warning: This article contains references to suicide and psychological trauma. The Armenian translation of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s…
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Seen in a bigger picture, five years isn’t much time. Still, it’s long enough for novelties to wear off, for…
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I was 14 when I first watched “Ararat” (2002) at the now-shuttered Cumberland Theater in Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood. It was…
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It’s May 26, 2025: Jerusalem Day. I’m sitting inside a temporary structure built by the Save the ArQ movement in…
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I’ve been sitting with the announcement all morning now, letting it settle. “A new chapter,” it begins; a title, a…
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