This Side of Fifty

A Monthly Letter of Musings & Meanderings

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Improvising at my first Tigran Hamasyan concert experience

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  Tigran Hamasyan (Photo courtesy of the artist) About a month ago, there was a notice in Chicago Armenians on Facebook that Tigran Hamasya...
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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Joe Lieberman (1942-2024)

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  I learned yesterday that Joe Lieberman passed away.   I was sorry to hear. He was US Senator from Connecticut the entir...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

The Clock is TikToking

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  TikTok, is the widely used app that was built around and actually popularized the short video clip format of social medi...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Ben Grum for Lake County Board

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  Photo with the candidate One of the rewards of teaching is the memorable and impressive students I have had the pleasur...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Sprung Forward

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  Changing the time at Stonehenge At 2 am this morning, it became 3 am. It was the annual spring ritual to move to dayl...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Hachig Kazarian’s new book a must-read for Western Armenian music lovers

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  Western Armenian Music: From Asia Minor to the United States By Hachig Kazarian Published by The Press at Fresno State University Publi...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Chidem Inch: Watching “Armenia, My Home”

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Aerial view of Dilijan Armenia (Photo: So Much Film) Armenia, My Home is simply a wonderful documentary – another Armenian-themed document...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Wild Swings in the Weather

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       There are a lot of memes this past week about experiencing all four seasons in one day.   The weather around the M...

Happy 90th to The Armenian Weekly

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Per the internet, the first Armenian language newspaper ever published was Az...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Britannia Rules the Waves?

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  historic-uk.com Per usual, I was listening to NPR on my way into North Park University.   There was a report of the mis...
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