Books & Arts

According to our information the House of Writers has sold an apartment at Israelyan 37/8 address, which was their property and intended for writers to work there. The responsible person for this apartment used to be Hamo Sahyan, but after he died it was given to writer Vahan Tamaryan to live there. After Mr. Tamaryan …

A talk show aired on public television (H1) last Sunday regarding the song that Andre will sing at the “EuroVision” song contest. The guests included the writer of the song and composer Armen Martirosyan, Ara Gevorgyan, who did the song arrangements, video clip producer Hrach Keshishyan, television journalist for “Kentron” television Petros Ghazaryan, television journalist …

Maral Petyan and Artur Papazyan make a beautiful couple. Both live for art and experience it each day. Pianist Artur Papazyan is well-known among Armenians. He was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He has studied at the Tchaikovsky music school and has performed at concerts. Then he went to the U.S. Armenian culture benefited a lot …

“All the intellectuals, including the minister of culture, who are against Andre performing his song at “EuroVision” can go to the Garni temple and make sacrifices to the Gods to forbid Andre from singing that song. There’s nothing else they can do,” says president of the Armenian Public Television/Radio council Alexan Harutyunyan. What’s interesting is …

Mikhail Piatrovski, head of the Russian “Hermitage”, has visited Armenia on the basis of the invitation of the “Caucasus Institution for Democracy”. Mr. Piatrovski says that it is his pleasure to return to his Homeland and says that he clearly remembers his street and yard. “Yerevan has changed much but its appearance is still alive. …

The cinematographers’ union building will no longer look the same. The façade of the building has been destroyed and a new hall will be built in its place. The contractor plans on constructing a 21-story building and the owners have promised to allot 4 floors to the union. The transaction between the cinematographers’ union and …

Recently Italian producer the Paolo and Vitoria Tavianas have spoken about their intention to make a film on the basis of a piece of work by writer Antonia Arslan. Recently the European “Euromages” foundation has promised the brothers 600000 dollars to make this film. The purpose of the “Euromages” foundation is to support making European …

Columbian musician Cesar Lopez has invented a new musical instrument. This instrument is called “La Escopetarra” and it’s like a rifle and guitar. “I have combined the worst invention with the most beautiful musical instrument”, says Lopez. He came up with the idea of creating such an instrument after an explosion in Bogota, which killed …

Many people didn’t approve of Andre’s song, which he is going to sing during EuroVision. Not everyone liked the music and the video clip. We wrote about this song in our previous editions and made a mistake to write that the reason was the melody. But in spite of this the author of the melody, …

People were a little bit disappointed about the decision that singer Andre will represent Armenia in the “Eurovision” world song competition. Only Azerbaijan tried to politicize this issue just because Andre was born in Karabakh. His physical appearance is not bad and there is nothing surprising in him, but then again, most of the pop …