1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (621+ words) EXTRA! The Armenian Weekly has offered me my own column. Me, a columnist? The guy who's run his own business measuring buildings for 35 years. The fellow the Boston Globe called the "Glove Whisperer" and our beloved Tom Vartabedian of Poor…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (314+ words) Inspired by a true story of resistance during the Armenian Genocide, this stirring coming-of-age novel is a parable of courage and impossible choices in the midst of unimaginable horror. The government wants them dead. Fourteen-year-old Suren Simonian, an Armenian, lives…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (214+ words) From humble beginnings in a fractured family, Aram Saroyan, author of the most controversial one-word poem in history, charts an unforgettable journey through art, fame and the 20th-century bohemian counterculture. In Before I Forget, Saroyan remembers his beginnings in Manhattan,…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (148+ words) The ARF Boston Sardarabad Gomideh expresses its deepest condolences to the family, relatives and friends of Tatul Sonentz-Papazian. Unger Tatul was a dedicated ARF member whose distinguished organizational career included literary, humanitarian, academic and political contributions, including years of service…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1339+ words) Motherhood is not a role to be taken on casually; for better or worse, mothers and grandmothers can shape who we are, what we believe, and the decisions we make throughout our lives. Moms are often the ones putting their…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (356+ words) Under the pretext of adopting Christianity, we have been deceived time and again, and each time we have forgotten that we were deceived. Sometimes we realized it and resisted, rebelled, but later we were again carried away by false promises…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (717+ words) A khachkar hid behind a minaret. It was carved into the wall of what was once the church of Surb Prkich, or Holy Savior. Unlike countless other khachkars erased from countless other churches, someone allowed this one to remain. The…...

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2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (851+ words) I'm licking the salt off my stubbled seventeen-year-old mustache in a crowded van. Yerevan passes. Concrete and dust. A flash of Sevan (so blue it looks fake). The Genocide Memorial. Dalma Mall. I get off, fan the sweat off my…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (360+ words) Hey, are you guys the mafia?" No, kid, we're not the mafia, I replied curtly with a sly smile. Deep down, I wanted it to be true somehow. Yeah, you are. You're the mafia. Hey, you see these guys? They're…...