By Michael J. ARVIZU Recently, a colleague shared a story about the style of dress people choose when attending Sunday services. The story made me think about the evolution of the style of Sunday dress over the decades and even across generations. Looking around my own church on a Sunday morning, the type of attire […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU Before I begin this column, please take some time to extend your thoughts and prayers to the people of India and Nepal, following the devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake, which has killed over 7,000 and injured over 14,000 people. April began with the news that the state of Indiana was getting ready to […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU While millions commemorated the 100th anniversary of what is generally accepted to be the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, in a darkened auditorium in a small corner of the world called Glendale Community College, students, faculty and staff staged a remembrance of their own to honor the more than 1.5 million […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU his year, on April 24, the world will commemorate the 100th anniversary of what is traditionally considered to be the beginning of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. I admit I know very little about the Armenian Genocide. I remember learning a lot about the Jewish Holocaust while in school – studying […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU ow that the glitz, glamour and excitement of the Academy Awards has come to an end for another year, it’s time to look forward to the crop of new movies that will make the rounds at movie theaters in 2015. As we all know, attached to each movie is a rating, […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU The world continues to reel over the tragic deaths of 12 satirical journalists and cartoonists shot in Paris on Jan 7. The deaths of what accounted for more than half the staff of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo stunned the world and once again brought to the forefront the question of […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU In life, Dr. Maher Hathout made it his life’s work to give the American-Muslim community an identity while preserving the faith and values of Islam. Even as members of the faith continued to face prejudice in the face of terrorism, Hathout strived to teach the community more about the faith. Now, […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU Just as if she were about to compete in a track and field event, La Crescenta resident and Special Olympics athlete Antonia “Toni” Gonzalez was pumped up and ready to go, as she prepared to ride on the Kaiser Permanente Rose Parade float moments before the start of the 126th […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU It was all made possible thanks to a donation given out of the kindness of their hearts. When Artificial Grass Liquidators heard that the Tujunga Little League’s field of synthetic grass had been stolen a month ago, the Temecula-based company decided to take action to replace it. Around the night of […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU Television actress Sarah Drew is by means no doctor. But she does play one on television. And in the course of her performances on the small screen, she has used her faith as a guiding principle. The daughter of a pastor, Drew visited La Cañada on Thursday morning, Nov. 6 to […]