Community

Hollywood ANC Urges Community To Vote In Upcoming Neighborhood Council Elections

Hollywood ANC Urges Community To Vote In Upcoming Neighborhood Council Elections

With neighborhood council elections in the greater Hollywood area fast approaching, the Armenian National Committee of Hollywood is urging residents and stakeholders to learn more about the candidates and vote....

March 12 2010 / No comment / Read More
Encino Public Safety Committee Organizes CERTt Classes

Encino Public Safety Committee Organizes CERTt Classes

The Public Safety Committee of the Encino Neighborhood Council has partnered with the Los Angeles Fire Department to sponsor Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) classes. CERT is a disaster preparedness program designed to help protect...

March 12 2010 / No comment / Read More
ANC-WR and Local Activist Meet With Councilman Paul Krekorian

ANC-WR and Local Activist Meet With Councilman Paul Krekorian

The Armenian National Committee – Western Region (ANC-WR) met with newly-elected Los Angeles Councilmember Paul Krekorian at his City Hall office to discuss issues of concern to the Armenian American community. The meeting was led...

March 12 2010 / No comment / Read More
Arizona ANC Activists Visit Rep. Giffords’ Offices

Arizona ANC Activists Visit Rep. Giffords’ Offices

The Armenian National Committee of Arizona visited the office of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on March 2nd as the House Foreign Affairs Committee prepared to mark-up the measure on March 4th. The meeting was led...

March 11 2010 / No comment / Read More

Top Stories

Clinton Invites Sarkisian To Washington on Eve of Genocide Anniversary

Clinton Invites Sarkisian To Washington on Eve of Genocide Anniversary

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday invited President Serzh Sarkisian to visit Washington next month, in a telephone conversation that appears to have centered on the stalled rapprochement talks between Turkey and Armenia....

Mar 12 2010 / No comment / Read More

Turkish Ponzi Scheme Revealed in US

Turkish Ponzi Scheme Revealed in US

A group of executives in the United States, including Turks, have been accused of involvement in a Ponzi scheme to defraud retirees by a U.S. court order sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission on...

Mar 12 2010 / No comment / Read More

Azeri Victory in New Karabakh War ‘Impossible,’ Says Minsk Co-Chair

Azeri Victory in New Karabakh War ‘Impossible,’ Says Minsk Co-Chair

Victory for Azerbaijan in a renewed war for Nagorno-Karabakh is “impossible,” the French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group mediating the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks said on Friday....

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Polish Premier Lauds Armenian Commitment To EU Ties

Polish Premier Lauds Armenian Commitment To EU Ties

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk commended Armenia on Friday for seeking to forge closer ties with the European Union under the bloc’s Eastern Partnership program which his country helped to launch last year....

Mar 12 2010 / No comment / Read More

Karabakh Leader Blasts Talk Of Imminent Peace

Karabakh Leader Blasts Talk Of Imminent Peace

Ashot Ghulian, the speaker of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s parliament, on Friday brushed aside talk of an impending end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, saying that attempts to “hasten” its settlement would be counterproductive....

Mar 12 2010 / No comment / Read More

Commentary

After the Vote: Turkey’s Banter and Obama’s Cowardice

After the Vote: Turkey’s Banter and Obama’s Cowardice

The vote, last Thursday, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to approve H. Res. 252—the Armenian Genocide Resolution—has increased Turkey’s usual banter and has sent the Obama Administration into a tailspin, in the end showing how truly uncommitted this White House and State Department are...

Mar 10 2010 / 1 comment / Read More

An Armenian Family’s Life in Norway

An Armenian Family’s Life in Norway

As young woman growing up in Providence, R.I., Christine Varadian was prominently immersed in Armenian life. When she wasn’t breaking records in the AYF Olympics, she was displaying strong leadership skills at chapter meetings and at the Central Executive level. As an active member...

Mar 10 2010 / No comment / Read More

Robert Fisk: Living Proof Of The Armenian Genocide

Robert Fisk: Living Proof Of The Armenian Genocide

It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children, Armenian orphans of the great 1915 genocide who...

Mar 9 2010 / 2 comments / Read More

Will Our Community Win in the 43rd Assembly District Election?

Will Our Community Win in the 43rd Assembly District Election?

Last Tuesday evening, I watched a paid program by an Armenian candidate on an Armenian channel and wondered if the April 13 Special election to fill the State Assembly seat vacated by Paul Krekorian would result in a victory for the Armenian Community of the...

Mar 9 2010 / 1 comment / Read More

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Critics' Forum

Soaring Satire: The Best of Theater In 2009

Soaring Satire: The Best of Theater In 2009

This year’s trend in Armenian theater had to be satire, given that it seemed to thread virtually every significant production of the past 12 months. It appeared in both Armenian- and English-language...

Dec 28, 2009 / More

Society

UCLA Releases Program for Conference On Armenian Communities Of Asia Minor

UCLA Releases Program for Conference On Armenian Communities Of Asia Minor

WESTWOOD, CA–The Armenian Communities of Asia Minor from Adabazar, Bursa, and Banderma to Kutahia and Konia will be featured at UCLA on Saturday, March 20. This is the 18th and final conference in...

Mar 10, 2010 / More

Reviews

Varujan Voskanian And ‘The Book Of Whispers’

Varujan Voskanian And ‘The Book Of Whispers’

In France, everyone instinctively connects Charles Aznavour to Armenia and Armenian causes. In Romania, Varujan Voskanian is similarly associated with Armenia and Romania's Armenian community....

Feb 17, 2010 / More

Arts & Culture

Works of Arthur Sarkissian to be Exhibited on Thursday

Works of Arthur Sarkissian to be Exhibited on Thursday

LOS ANGELES—Arthur Sarkissian’s exhibition is a rare opportunity to view many of the famed artist’s finest works at the 1927 Gallery in The Fine Arts Building in downtown Los Angeles. The opening reception...

Mar 10, 2010 / More

Three Apples

Three Apples: A Slab of Meat in Your iPod

Three Apples: A Slab of Meat in Your iPod

It's past one o'clock on a Thursday morning, and "Coast to Coast AM," my favorite late-night radio talk show is beaming via headphone into my left ear from an AM radio station in...

Mar 8, 2010 / More

People & Places

People & Places: The Argentinean Musician

People & Places: The Argentinean Musician

There’s a deceptive lightheartedness to Levon that masks his serious side. Of his three closest friends, he is the one that speaks the least Armenian and generally does not participate in the discussions...

Mar 8, 2010 / More

By Any Means

By Any Means: The LATimes and Kurdish Coverage

By Any Means: The LATimes and Kurdish Coverage

In this third of what started as a three part series on LATimes coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Kurdish-topic patterns I noticed over the past two-plus years. ...

Mar 8, 2010 / More

My Turn

My Turn: If Turks Hadn’t Denied the Genocide, CBS Wouldn’t Have Aired This Show

My Turn: If Turks Hadn’t Denied the Genocide, CBS Wouldn’t Have Aired This Show

Turks have only themselves to blame for their unhappiness with the airing of a revealing program on the Armenian Genocide by CBS on February 28. Were it not for the Turkish government’s constant...

Mar 8, 2010 / More

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