Armenia

Nobody Wakes Up Literary: Writers & Activists & Teachers Saturday's Lit O

As promised, Mr. Bib is back this Sunday morning with Part II of a charming if rambling post about Literary Orange, next Saturday, April 6 at the Irvine Marriott. There's something for everybody here - and there - but since I am not everybody, I'll gasbag today mostly about my own panel and the terr ... More >>

Armenian Hoodlum Involved In Massive LA-OC Identity Theft Ring Gets Prison

A 26-year-old Armenian man living in Southern California and deemed an "illegal alien" by federal officials participated in a massive, Burbank-based, $7 million identity theft ring operating for six years in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. But Hovhannes Dilboyan hoped that his role ... More >>

Levon Marashlian, Noted Armenian Historian, Details TV Coverage of Karabakh Conflict

After the parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in Azerbaijan voted to unify the region with Armenia on Feb. 20, 1988, inter-ethnic fighting broke out. This devolved into a war that lasted through May 1994 and likely received little coverage on the nightly news. Here to fill us in on ... More >>

OC Bookly in Little Armenia and West Covina: Not Orange County. Elsewhere. (But Close!)

This modest blog's ostensible focus is OC reading, writing, literary people and generally what the highly-opinionated Mr. Bib deems bookly about our benighted, beatific and beloved county but, of course, no county is an island entire of itself, every county is a piece of the continent, a part of the ... More >>

Vagan Adzhemyan, Former Champion Armenia Wrestler, Gets 30 Years for Violent Kidnapping

​A former Armenia wrestling champion living in Costa Mesa was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for kidnapping a business associate who was accidentally shot during the abduction before being beaten, tased and denied medical attention while his captor negotiated a $1 million ransom."No one d ... More >>

Hasan Nouri Still Helps War Orphans in Afghanistan--and He Still Needs Your Help

​Remember the native Afghan and Orange County civil engineer featured in my cover story "Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened"? One thing that has changed since the piece was published in December 2008: Nouri now resides in San Clemente ... More >>

Into the Mystic

Cults and the uncertain futures dominate Sundance

The Who's Tommy

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Monday Night = Zov's Kebobs

​For $13.95 you get three kebobs (angus beef, chicken and harissa tuna), rice and two sides...We went last Monday to Zov's Bistro, Bakery & Café in Tustin to check it out. It's a generous fill--not tons, but certainly enough (we took a box of leftovers home, only to wolf them down the minute ... More >>

Local Armenian Genocide Denier Demands Apology...From Armenians

*Updated, with new information on the bottom...In the Department of WTF comes this: local Armenian genocide denier Ergun Kirlikovali is circulating an online petition demanding an apology from, amongst other groups, the Armenians that the Ottoman Empire genocided in the early 1900s!In his most recen ... More >>

Old Home Week

Zena's evokes the kindness of strangers

Letters

'You are smart and funny. And have a very cute cooter'

Newport Beach Film Festival: Schedule of events

Compiled by Greg Stacy

Voices for the Voiceless

Hip-hops Freedom Smugglers know injustice

Bushies Order Takeout

Look Back in Anguish

Egoyans dizzying, exhausting Ararat