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MISSION HILLS, Calif. — In honor of all Armenian-Americans who have served in the US military, a local Boy Scout has dedicated a veterans tribute garden at the Ararat Home in Mission Hills. Andrew Levon Krekorian of BSA Troop 36 in[...]
BEVERLY HILLS — On May 21 , trustee Amanda Quinn Olivar hosted the Smithsonian Archives of American Art to celebrate the appointment of its new director Anne Helmreich. The event was held at the home of Amanda’s twin sister, Jennifer[...]
WASHINGTON — One of the oldest American parades, the Rose Parade, aka the Tournament of Roses, began 133 years ago. On New Year’s Day of 1890, the beautiful tradition of featuring roses and flowers was launched in Pasadena.[...]
By Colin Cortbus Special to the Mirror-Spectator SAN JOSE, Calif. — Last week, a well-known US-based Iranian-Azeri businessman was viciously beaten at an airport hotel in San Jose, California, leaving him with life-threatening spinal[...]
GLENDALE — On April 27, the American University of Armenia (AUA) Office of Development hosted a talk on “AUA’s Direction Forward & Up” with Dr. Sharistan Melkonian, AUA’s dean of General Education and accreditation liaison[...]
LOS ANGELES — The ever-intriguing and talented photographer Alexandra Hedison opened her travelling show “A Brief Infinity” on April 22 at Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles. The polymath daughter of actor David Hedison (Albert[...]
By Sedda Antekelian Over the past month, for the first time, I listened to the testimony of my late great-grandmother, Mary Antekelian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. The interview is an audio recording, but I could picture the[...]
GLENDALE, Calif. — Perhaps appropriately, the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE), an enterprise to foster the progress of high technologies in Armenia, came into being with the new millennia, in 2000. Back then,[...]
By Camila Castellanos GLENDALE, Calif. (Glendale News-Press) — Glendale Unified School Board of Education (GUSD) members urged decency and respect among meeting attendees and the community at large at the April 18 school board meeting as[...]
By Eliza Partika GLENDALE, Calif. (Glendale News-Press) — The Glendale Unified School District Board of Education recently voted to make April the official month of Armenian Heritage, while highlighting the district’s progress on[...]