Descendants

Away from typical tourist destinations, city is flavored by Caribbean cultural influences. Read More

The story of Rabat is the story of a river and of the pirates who made Morocco. Read More

And, frequently, we measure the time we live in by its music. Read More

Ugly enough that when the West Berlin Senate tried to put one of them in a 1978 museum exhibition about Prussia, a different one was substituted because the original was judged too embarrassing. Read More

"Fearless" singer Taylor Swift graces the cover of People's "most intriguing of 2009," on a list that names mom-of-eight Kate Gosselin the "mother of all reality stars" and British singer Susan Boyle as "the surprise hit," the magazine said on Wednesday. Read More

Posted 4:09 p.m. Mon., 12.14.09 - When the Mississippi River empties into the Bay of Bengal, it means one of two things: 1.) cataclysmic environmental disaster beyond our wildest imaginings; or 2.) jazz, that music that captures the body and soul of America and has so much of its history rooted in the muddy banks that connect St. Louis and New Orleans, has found its way to the shores of a different land. Read More

The Blind Boys of Alabama performed Friday evening for the first time in Hays, but you can bet this visit won't be their last. Read More

There is a moment in [his book] The Audacity Of Hope when Barack Obama is questioning his very essence: his restlessness, his need to keep moving. Read More

Merdinian Student Recognized as Top Math Scholar in US 5- Fresno AYF Begins Winter Toy Drive 6- $16 Million Pledged to All-Armenian Hayastan Fund for Artsakh Project 7- Armenians Have Difficulty Finding Mates in Turkey ************************************************************************** 1 - Jewish Editor and Turkish Commentator Protest Against Genocide Denial By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Armenians are understandably distressed when they encounter statements that distort or deny the facts of the Armenian Genocide, and feel comforted when it is properly acknowledged. Read More