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New Beginnings
Elise Kalfayan EDITOR’S NOTE: Asbarez welcomes Elise Kalfayan and Catherine Yesayan as authors of a new column called “Community Links.” We welcome their perspective, insight and views to our...
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Reflection on 4th of July
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN As I drove down Glendale Avenue just south of Glenoaks last weekend, I noticed small flags on the front lawns of the residential properties on the west side of...
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Celebrating Vardavar from Tehran to Glendale
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN Last Sunday as I drove past Verdugo Park in Glendale, I noticed a big crowd picnicking under the shades of the trees. Instantly it occurred to me that they were...
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Community Journalism, Online: Changes, Challenges, Opportunities
Elise Kalfayan BY ELISE KALFAYAN Zanku Armenian and I connected via Facebook more than a year before we met. I “liked” his Think Again page, which features his monthly column in the Glendale...
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A New Book for the Glendale Public Library
Elise Kalfayan BY ELISE KALFAYAN Tapping into U.S. reserves of shale gas is criticized as environmentally risky, even though it offers potential for boosting U.S. energy production, creating jobs, and...
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Last Week at Arpa Film Festival
BY CATHERINE YESAYAN I enjoy the gratification that comes from watching movies at film festivals. They open up new windows and allow us to see new perspectives. This proved true again last week at the...
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A Tribute to Mayor Zarian
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN A week after the passing away of Larry Zarian, from an aggressive blood cancer, I am still in shock. I cannot imagine Glendale without him. He had so much energy...
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Heaven Should be Like an Apple Store
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN Today, November 5, marks exactly one month since Steve Jobs, the father of modern day communication industry, closed his eyes forever. For most of us familiar...
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Lives of Service: Three Generations, Confronting and Commemorating Genocide
Elise Kalfayan BY ELISE KALFAYAN Luther Eskijian, founder of the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and my grandmother’s cousin, had a focused, intense character. Only later in life did I learn that his father,...
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Musing on the End of the War in Iraq
Catherine Yesayan “It’s hard not to think of my war as bizarre camping trip that no one else went on.” – Alex Lemons, Iraq-war veteran (taken from Time Magazine Nov 21, 2011) BY CATHERINE YESAYAN Since...
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Occupying Thanksgiving Weekend…
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN Instead of flocking to the shopping malls on Thanksgiving weekend to grab the best bargains, around 500 people, concerned with Armenian issues, headed to the...
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Odar Aperoom… (On Foreign Shores)
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN On Sunday morning, my sister-in-law called and said she had one extra ticket for Ruben Matevosyan’s sold out concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium that...
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A Vital Link to History, Culture, Memory: Library Programs in California...
Elise Kalfayan BY ELISE KALFAYAN Libraries are quiet places; perhaps that is why the news hardly mentioned that in addition to slashing funds for higher education and home health care, California’s...
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Our Traditions and Customs are Alive and Well
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN In Tehran, when I was growing up, my father’s side of the family belonged to the Armenian Evangelical Church, which was founded by Protestant Missionaries from...
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Views from Ohanian, Sahakian on Congressional Bills Addressing Digital Piracy
Elise Kalfayan BY ELISE KALFAYAN “SOPA/PIPA” have been major topics online, but I didn’t read up on them until a message appeared on my blog’s upload screen last week from the project leaders of...
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So I Hear… And The World Watches…
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN EDITOR’S NOTE: Following the passage of the French Senate bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide, the author submitted a timeline, which reflects...
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About a Slice of History
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN Learning a slice of history from the city of Tabriz, where Armenians have thrived for centuries, is one of the attractions of a special March 10 banquet planned...
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The Year of the Armenian Book in Glendale
Elise Kalfayan BY ELISE KALFAYAN 2012 is The Year of the Armenian Book, but I don’t need an excuse to visit any bookseller, bookstore, or online book site. These are interesting times for the product...
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Pasadena’s Sister Cities Program and the Children of Vanadzor
Catherine Yesayan BY CATHERINE YESAYAN What better way than to spend the first Sunday of spring, outdoors under the Southern California sun, and raising funds for a good cause! Come join us and...
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Baseball and the Armenian Dimension: Glendale Little League Memories
Elise Kalfayan BY ELISE KALFAYAN Little League baseball in Glendale was a semester-long refresher course each year on the American way of life. Demanding coaches, a hectic schedule, and a win-lose...
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