By Philip Kennicott WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — The rug was woven by orphans in the 1920s and formally presented to the White House in 1925. A photograph shows President Calvin Coolidge[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN —How can you express “the unspeakable” in writing? Is it at all possible? The unspeakable or indescribable, in this case, being[...]
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff LOS ANGELES — When Spanish filmmaker, Eric Boadella, experienced the ancient Armenian tradition of the tamada or toastmaster, “It was love at first sight,” he[...]
By Talinn Grigor, PhD The architecture of Rostom Voskanian can be described as a sober, real and deeply persuasive answer to the wide-ranging dilemmas of modernism between the 1960s[...]
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff NEW YORK — Musician Alan Semerdjian’s recently released his album, “Quiet Songs for Loud Times,” represents a fresh, personal take on the challenges that affect[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator POTSDAM, Germany — On September 20, the Gumri music school (“Octet”) will officially celebrate its reopening. And, if all goes as planned, a[...]
By Armen Festekjian Special to the Mirror-Spectator NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — A recent interview with David Kherdian felt more like an educational journey through human development than a discussion focused on[...]
NEW YORK — In just one year, the AGBU Musical Armenia Program (MAP), which was launched last summer to connect talented young artists with their cultural heritage, has given participants[...]
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff NEW YORK — Actress Nora Armani, founding artistic director, and Mike Camoin, founding director of the Filmmakers’ Lab, first announced their plans for a unique[...]
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff MADISON, Wisc. — The late Josephine Mangasarian’s Diyarbakir Exodus is more than the story of a singular life; the memoir is an extensive family history[...]
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff The recently-released Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin begins with an introduction by editor Donna-Lee Frieze into the life of the “Insistent Prophet,” international[...]
