NEW YORK — More than 400 guests from around the world gathered at Cipriani 25 Broadway in support of the 16th Annual Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) Holiday Gala on December 14. This year’s benefit surpassed previous fundraising[...]
By Gayane Ghazaryan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN — Some may think of Armenian fashion as being fairly conservative, especially when they associate it with the traditional famous carpets. Ask a member of the older generation[...]
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/SUOMENLINNA, Finland — Young sculptor Spartak Khachanov was born in Azerbaijan, lived in Armenia and Ukraine, and has now settled on a Finnish island. Spartak, the first time[...]
By Ruth Bedevian FAIR LAWN, N.J. — On Sunday, December 8, the choir members of St. Leon Armenian Church, Fair Lawn NJ, wore their robes and sang Khoroott Medz and Oorakh Lehr at the Pan-Orthodox Christmas Concert sponsored by St.[...]
YEREVAN — On November 11, the first episode of the “One Province, One Song” project by Argentine-Armenian singer-songwriter Alin Demirdjian was released. After this first episode, a new one will be released every Monday on[...]
YEREVAN – Prof. Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the world-famous State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg for almost three decades, was in Armenia in mid-October to explore projects of museum cooperation, meet with government[...]
By Marietta Khachatryan YEREVAN (Azg) — Cartoonist Sukias Torosyan, known as Toto, has been the cartoonist for the Armenian Mirror-Spectator and its sister publication, Azg, in Armenia, for a long time. Earlier this month, two events[...]
WATERTOWN — On Saturday, November 16, a crowd of more than 400 supporters and friends gathered at the Westin Waltham to celebrate St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School’s (SSAES) 35th Anniversary. The cocktail hour featured light[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Armenia is once again among the top 2020 tourism destinations, this time in Condé Nast Traveler luxury magazine’s “20 Best Places to Go in 2020” article. According to Condé Nast Traveler, the list is made[...]
By Joshua Kosman SAN FRANCISCO (San Francisco Chronicle) — It’s no easy matter getting an opera audience to warm to the title character of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.” She’s vain, flighty, materialistic — no, a straight-up[...]
By Jennifer Wheelock LOS ANGELES — The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) plans to launch The Promise Armenian Institute, an entity that will establish a world-class research center and platform for public outreach about[...]
