Cafe Culture

In this article, Hold the Froth: Armenian-American Youth Revel in Cafe Culture, Ishkhan Jinbashian writes about Little Yerevan in Glendale.

What perhaps most palpably distinguishes Glendale's sprawling Little Yerevan from any number of cities with a large Armenian presence is its kitschy ostentation. Here we don't just drive late-model German and Japanese cars, we insist on driving them extremely fast, wearing some kind of determined malevolence as a badge of honor. And we don't merely put ululating rabiz music on in our apartments and souped-up road machines; we make sure entire neighborhoods reverberate with the stuff.

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Posted by Matt on January 11, 2005 | TrackBack | Email to a friend