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Three Apples Fell from Heaven: RELICS OF ASH, BLOOD, AND EXILE By Paul Chaderjian photo by Areg Balayan A FIRE THAT NEVER GOES OUT A single ember, unremarkable in its origin, finds its way onto a rooftop, silent, unnoticed, until it catches the wind . It glows for just a moment, then vanishes into the vast emptiness beyond. But embers do not truly disappear. They settle, drifting into the air like forgotten thoughts . I am sitting on my balcony in West Los Angeles , watching the hills to the north. The city lies beneath a heavy sky, but it’s the hills I cannot stop staring , the landscape that still bears the memory of something lost . The smoke is long gone. The flames that tore through the Palisades have been subdued. Yet, in their wake, they leave a silence more profound than the fire itself . The Palisades Fire swallowed 23,448 acres with savage force, turned thousands of homes i...

Three Apples: Sing Armenians, Sing

- December 18, 2009

a column by Paul Chaderjian for the Asbarez newspaper Once there was and there was not … … one moment in our collective history when we came together despite our differences to celebrate our diversified popular culture. On Sunday, December 13, our hyphenated people came from the north and south of the Equator and the left and right of the Meridian to the entertainment capital of the world, to honor the Armenian stars, the modern makers of Armenian Culture, the ones who shone bright center-stage at the Nokia Theatre. At 777 Chick Hearn Court in the heart of Los Angeles were the sons and daughters of Hayk singing their hearts out and celebrating their vibrant, ancient yet modern culture. Their ancestors had witnessed the formation of a new people and a new culture two thousand years before Christ. Their people had ruled kingdoms and celebrated their golden age of literature just a mere 1500 years before the printing press. These descendants of Noah and the Arc had mastered m...

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- April 12, 2025

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Three Apples: Let's Talk Story

- August 23, 2011

BY PAUL CHADERJIAN (Published in Asbarez, August 2011) Once there was and there was not … A massive jetliner approaches Honolulu International. It is the size of a feathered crane from six miles away, wings spread, neck sticking out as it passes above a miniature Coast Guard Cutter that’s gliding across the sun-drenched, orange and blue harbor. Groong, where do you come from? Crane, do you have news from our country? (Groong, oosdi gookas, dzara em tsaynit) In my panoramic widescreen view of the sparkling downtown skyline from my balcony on the 38th floor of One Archer Lane, the jet with hundreds of stories on board is dwarfed by the Waianae Mountains behind, the dramatic clouds above, and the setting sun that pierces through the clouds, silhouetting everything as it reaches to grab my pupils. Hello my heart, hello my life, Hello to you, unfamiliar world, open your door, I have arrived. (Barev kez, undzanot ashkhar, doort patz, yes yega) How long have I bee...

Karekin II reconsecrates Armenian church in Chennai

- November 12, 2008

by Paul Chaderjian Chennai, India - The bells of the Armenian Church in India's fourth-largest city rang once again on Sunday, November 9, after decades of silence. Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, came to Chennai from Holy Etchmiadzin to reconsecrate the newly renovated Soorp Asdvadzadzin or St. Mary Mother of God Church. Chennai - formerly known as Madras - is approximately 850 miles from Kolkata and on the southeastern coast of India and the Bay of Bengal. This city, created by the British in the 18th century, was once home to a vibrant Armenian community. Part of the legacy of the Armenian merchants who once thrived in India is a set of foundations that support Armenian community and church activities in the country. It's not known whether any Armenians live in Chennai now. Erma Aghajanyan and Parthic Rathanam, a husband and wife now living in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, attended the reconsecration service Sunday. They said that they were planning to buy an apa...

Print Reporting

- June 10, 2020

Reporting from Armenia: Doctors to perform 50 life-changing surgeries A new smile, and a new life for a 16-month-old Surgeons heal broken smiles, deliver hope Tatev aerial tramway Print Features: Cher the Armenian ABC News' Lara Setrakian Vahe Berberian profile Reporting from India: Karekin II reconsecrates Armenian church in Chennai Armenians make pilgrimage to Kolkata 300th anniversary of Kolkota church Deacon becomes priest Book Reviews: The Daydreaming Boy The Bullet Collection My Brother's Road Blogs/Columns: Three Apples, Asbarez Newspaper Belonging & Belongings Diasporas Can Disappear The Seat of the Armenian Soul Cycles of Life Novel: Letters to Barbra

Three Apples: The Architect in a Box

- April 24, 2015

by Paul Chaderjian Once there was and there was not… There was nothing but sand here. Now, a picture-perfect 21st century metropolis stands tall with pride. Highrises of steel and glass, cemented with the sweat and blood of foreign workers, stab the clouds to reach the gods. They pierce and punch the Maker, challenging her dominion over mankind and its destiny. Where there were dunes of sand long before humanoids traversed this shallow, now reclaimed seabed, there are now swaths of hyper-development and buildings on illegal steroids. All those commutes in solitary gas-guzzlers out west is how these towers were built, how these cities were birthed. This isn’t Manhattan; it would never strive for that type of mediocrity or excellence. New York is too real, too historic, too known, too worn and too weak to compete with these new economic dynamics. Here is an Elysian vision, one perhaps only a Hollywood miniature set builder would dare create, a reali...

Cher the Armenian

- February 16, 2008

** Frank dialogue with one of the brightest stars in entertainment * The secrets of her success, her visit to Armenia, her childhood, and her new gig by Paul Chaderjian BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Seven nights before the giant presses in Gardena, California, or Westwood, New Jersey, printed these black letters on the paper that is in your hands now, the writer of this article had writer's block. After all, how does one come up with the perfect opening sentence of an Armenian Reporter cover story about Cher, a modern-day legend? She's a superstar with more than four decades of staying power. She has sold more than 100 million albums and is an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe-winning performer. She has starred in movies and on television and has directed; she has been known for her tastes in fashion and men. Her life and her loves have been chronicled by media around the world. And now, entering her sixth decade of life, she is making a comeba...

Kim Kardashian appears on US-Armenia TV

- April 04, 2009

The Armenian Reporter April 4, 2009 BURBANK, Calif. – Celebrity and fourth generation Armenian-American Kim Kardashian gave an exclusive interview to US-Armenia TV on April 1, telling her Armenian and non-Armenian fans that she was proudest of her Armenian genes and her Armenian vor (derriere in Armenian). Noting that her late father, O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Kardashian, had dreamed of visiting Armenia, she announced that she plans to fulfill her father’s dream. Casual, gracious, funny, flirtatious, and always mesmerizing, the drop-dead gorgeous 20-something reached out to some 7 million US-Armenia TV viewers over-the-air on digital channel 18.5 in Southern California, via cable and the Globecast satellite to the United States and North America, to Europe, the Middle East and Africa on the global Hotbird satellite, and via terrestrial antennas all over the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Kim spoke to Armenia...

Three Apples Fell from Heaven: RELICS OF ASH, BLOOD, AND EXILE

- April 11, 2025

Three Apples Fell from Heaven: RELICS OF ASH, BLOOD, AND EXILE By Paul Chaderjian photo by Areg Balayan A FIRE THAT NEVER GOES OUT A single ember, unremarkable in its origin, finds its way onto a rooftop, silent, unnoticed, until it catches the wind . It glows for just a moment, then vanishes into the vast emptiness beyond. But embers do not truly disappear. They settle, drifting into the air like forgotten thoughts . I am sitting on my balcony in West Los Angeles , watching the hills to the north. The city lies beneath a heavy sky, but it’s the hills I cannot stop staring , the landscape that still bears the memory of something lost . The smoke is long gone. The flames that tore through the Palisades have been subdued. Yet, in their wake, they leave a silence more profound than the fire itself . The Palisades Fire swallowed 23,448 acres with savage force, turned thousands of homes i...

ABC News’ Lara Setrakian: 21st-century all-platform journalist

- January 22, 2009

Based in Dubai, Setrakian covers the Gulf states and beyond by Paul Chaderjian DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – You’ve seen her on the ABC evening news, on Good Morning America, and on the round-the-clock ABC News Now cable-satellite-Internet network. You’ve heard her voice on ABC News Radio, and you’ve read her bylines from Beirut, Tehran, and cities of the United Arab Emirates, where she resides and works. “Nowadays they say, Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or bye-bye. That’s the line. This is where the growth is. This is where the money is. It’s different and it’s fast pace, and they know they have some sense of what they want,” she explains to me the enigma of Dubai as we sit feet away from the Dubai Marina. “And you see other cities in the Gulf trying to create for themselves the same effect. They’re not trying to copy Dubai. They’re trying to do it their way. Qatar and Doha, Abu Dhabi is trying to do it. Everyone is trying to ramp up. They don’t want to let this oil boom pass by...

Producing Reels

- April 12, 2025

Documentaries/Newscasts: KTTV Fox 11's Good Day LA @ 10 A.M. Al Jazeera Inside Story: Western Media Bias Al Jazeera Inside Story: War on Gaza Al Jazeera Inside Story: New Armenia PM Al Jazeera: Talk to Al Jazeera Al Jazeera: Nepal in Ruins KITV ABC 11 Honolulu: News at Ten KITV ABC 11 Honolulu: News at Six KITV ABC 11 Honolulu: News at Five KSEE 24 Fresno We Are Fresno LIVE KSEE 24 Fresno: We Are Fresno LIVE KSEE 24 Fresno: We Are Fresno LIVE KSEE 24 Fresno: Stefani's Armenia

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