Fresno

(Fresno’s Mary Ekmalian is the current Home Guild President at the California Armenian Home. Here are excerpts of a story from April 19, 2009 published in The Fresno Bee, written[...]

FRESNO — Both of these recipes from Fresno’s Mary Elia are featured in Breaking Bread with William Saroyan (by Janice Stevens and Pat Hunter, published in 2016 by Heliograph Publishing),[...]

A special note: Alice Vartanian, a beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother, is the mother of Christine Vartanian Datian, a longtime contributor to the Armenian Mirror-Spectator. In May, Alice celebrated[...]

It’s never easy existing in the shadow of a more famous or accomplished artist, just ask Salieri who labored for years, an accomplished composer who never quite reached his friend[...]

WATERTOWN — Dr. Sergio La Porta presented a lecture titled “When Things Fall Apart: Disentangling Christian-Muslim Relations in Medieval Armenia” at the Baikar Center in Watertown, for the Tekeyan Cultural[...]

FRESNO — Kef! It’s Armenian for let’s party and that is exactly what about 450 people did the evening of January 25, when, after a delicious dinner prepared by the[...]

FRESNO — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, Dr. Hakem Al-Rustom, will give a presentation on his new book, “From Natives to Foreigners: Enduring[...]

Serving Fresno’s St. Paul Armenian Church was something Diane Boyajian learned at a young age. One of her fondest memories of her mother, Helen Shehrian, took place around 1943 at[...]

As told by William Saroyan: Well, I was born there, if that helps, for birth is into the world, into the unresolved and unresolvable universe, into the entire dynamic mystery[...]

FRESNO — This family recipe is featured in Reedley chef, author and restaurateur Jon Koobation’s Cooking With Jon, the celebrated cookbook he published in 2017. For decades he owned Jon’s[...]