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Genocide Survivor Siran Kassabian Receives State House Proclamation
WATERTOWN — The Armenian Community of Massachusetts, with the sponsorship of several state senators and representatives, has organized the Armenian Genocide commemorations at the Massachusetts State House for the last 28 years. At the commemoration, survivors receive proclamations. This year’s commemoration was scheduled to take place on April 19 but was scrapped due to the [...]
Holy Trinity Armenian Church Hosts CNN’s Peter Bergen
CAMBRIDGE — As part of its Dr. Michael and Joyce Kolligian Distinguished Speaker Series, Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boston hosted a May 7 lecture by CNN national security analyst and journalist, Peter Bergen, who shared his first-hand experience of meeting al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. Bergen, best-selling author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Osama [...]
Mark Geragos Speaks at St. James Men’s Club
By Nancy Kalajian Special to the Mirror-Spectator WATERTOWN — Attorney Mark Geragos, the featured speaker on Monday, May 6, at the monthly dinner meeting of the Men’s Club of St. James Armenian Church of Watertown, MA drew an audience of over 500 men and women. The noted criminal defense attorney spoke about his new book, [...]
Banquet Honors Nazar and Artemis Nazarian
NEW YORK — About 400 friends and family members attended a banquet, jointly sponsored by the Armenian General Benevolent Union and the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, honoring Nazar and Artemis Nazarian for their lifetime of service and philanthropy, on Friday May 10, at the Plaza Hotel. Presiding over the event was the [...]
Nerkararyan Featured in Rachmaninoff Opera
By Tom Vartabedian BRIGHTON, Mass. — In celebration of the 140th anniversary of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, the Commonwealth Lyric Theater will perform his opera, “Aleko: The Gypsies” June 9-13 at Center Makor. Appearing in the lead female role will be popular Armenian soprano Knarik Nerkararyan, who has performed frequently throughout Greater Boston and the North [...]
Speier Tackles Increase in Military Sexual Assaults
WASHINGTON (San Francisco Chronicle) — One day after a Pentagon report revealed a jump in military sexual assaults, more evidence has emerged of disturbing behavior directed towards female service members. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) issued a letter last week to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Marine Commandant James Amos and Inspector General Lynne Halbrooks, alerting them [...]
Tsarukyan Says Prosperous Armenia Will Not Join Opposition
ABOVIAN (Arminfo) — While attending the consecration ceremony of St. John the Baptist Church, Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan announced that the party would not join the formal political opposition in Armenia. Tsarukyan told media that Prosperous Armenia will further defend the public interests and fight for the “welfare and proper life of the [...]
Talleen Hacikyan Exhibit Opens at ALMA
WATERTOWN — Talleen Hacikyan, an illustrator and printmaker, will give an informal talk about her work at the opening of her exhibit at the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) on Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m. The exhibit will include prints and illustrations, including monotype, woodcut and linocut printing. Collagraphy is Hacikyan’s “medium [...]
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