by Guy Chazan
Baku - The manat, Azerbaijan's new currency, is graced with a picture of the Virgin's Tower, one of Baku's finest monuments. It is no surprise the Tower found its way onto the national banknote. Yet it could prove to be a bad omen for...
by Guy Chazan
Baku - There is a place a short car-ride from the Azerbaijani capital Baku called "Burning Hill." Drop a match on the jets of propane gas that stream from its soil and a plume of fire jumps out at you.
It is easy to see how...
by Guy Chazan
At the Shehidler Khiyabani park in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, a huddle of women wail and keen by a graveside. They are grieving over yet another victim of the Karabagh war, a conflict that has claimed over 2,000 lives and...
by Elise Nakhnikian
The woman sitting next to me on the plane to L.A. was one of the "California girls" the Beach Boys eulogized in song two decades ago. Now in her mid-30s, her hair streaked blond and her skin crisscrossed with fine lines from...
by Elise Nakhnikian
The United Armenian Congregational Church is the only parish in the Greater Los Angeles area offering simultaneous translation each Sunday during services. Reverend Berdj Djambazian, Pastor of the Church, explains the dilemma of...
by Elise Nakhnikian
St. John's Armenian Cathedral and the headquarters of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church are located just a few blocks from historic Hollywood and Vine Streets. Once considered the center of the movie industry, with film...
by Elise Nakhnikian
If you need a sign, in any shape or size or for any purpose, Designs by Arpiar, located on Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood, is definitely the place to go. Owner Arpiar Janoyan has added a new line recently to his vast...
by Elise Nakhnikian
Half a block from Abril bookstore and print shop, on the corner of Santa Monica and Western, twisted steel and heaps of rubble lie inside the shell of a building burned during the recent riots. Down the street, another burned...
by Elise Nakhnikian
It's happened to most of us: you hear or read a news story about Armenians that contains an infuriating error. Maybe it mentions the Genocide but takes the official Turkish point of view that nothing happened; maybe it reports...
by Elise Nakhnikian
Deciding to base their magazine in L.A. was the easy part for the founders of Armenian International Magazine (AIM). As managing editor Raffi Shoubookian tells the story, the glossy monthly started as a vision shared by a...
by David Zenian
The so-called Armenian "gangs" are at present nothing but a small and harmless group of mixed up teen-agers who roam the streets of Hollywood in packs after dark, but neglect by the community could turn them into real social misfits...
by Elise Nakhnikian
A silent man with tired blue-gray eyes stands in the corridor outside the Armenian Evangelical Social Services (AESS) center in Hollywood, his shoulders slumped as if to occupy as little space as possible. Except when he takes a...