Email Author Siran Babayan

2006 Stories by Siran Babayan

• Hanukkah Punks and Christmas Queens

  published December 21, 2006

  FRIDAY, December 22Though us gentiles have it much worse — a shiksa goddess like me has to be talked off the ledge every time... More >>

• The Mousse That Roared

  published December 14, 2006

  Until the Key Club starts hosting weekly Grunge Skool nights, or Penelope Spheeris directs The Decline of Western Civilization Part IV: The... More >>

• Katt Williams

  published November 23, 2006

  Katt Williams is short, his hair (relaxed or permed or shooting for the stars) is prettier than yours, and his diamonds look like they were... More >>

• Arpa International Film Festival

  published October 26, 2006

  In addition to turning a lens on Armenian filmmakers and subject matter — a documentary on composer Aram Khachaturian narrated by Eric... More >>

• Celebreality

  published October 12, 2006

  Since 1998, writer/comedian Eugene Pack has been assembling his actor friends to dig through the literal garbage of celebrity autobiographies... More >>

• The Nellie Olesons

  published October 5, 2006

  If you’re conservative, overweight, handicapped or squeamish at the site of two naked men playing the flute while their bits and pieces... More >>

• Bullshit! (But Thanks)

  published September 28, 2006

  KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, ?Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu ?at Hyundai Pavilion, September... More >>

• Mime Talkin'

  published September 14, 2006

  FRIDAY, September 15Away from the beach and teen-infested Third Street Promenade is the Santa Monica Arts Festival, where... More >>

• Shine On, You Crazy Gem Sweater

  published September 14, 2006

  Take a plump, 24-year-old girl from the Midwest who raps about her affinity for gaudy, adorned sweaters only the mother of a Solid Gold dancer... More >>

• For Those About Türoque

  published August 24, 2006

  It takes Yngwie Malmsteen–sized balls to always be the bridesmaid of competitive air guitar. A few years ago, Dan Crane quit his job as a... More >>

• Gypsies, Vamps and Queens

  published July 20, 2006

  “After the nuclear holocaust there’ll be cockroaches and Cher.” We were reading one of the T-shirts in a booth set up inside... More >>

• Bow Down!

  published July 13, 2006

  Nine Inch Nails, with Bauhaus and Peachesat the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, July 7Traffic and the uphill death march to... More >>

• Snap, Crackle, Punk

  published June 29, 2006

  Friday, June 30Sultans of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief 6 features Max Amini, Irish Bahr, Elham Jazab, Aron Kader, Lory... More >>

• Fresh Mozzarella

  published April 27, 2006

  Morrissey . Ringleader of the Tormentors . SanctuaryThe really great, excellent, fantastic news is Morrissey’s yodeling again. Why... More >>

• Literary Armenia

  published April 20, 2006

  Instead of the musty smell of old novels, one is more likely to get a whiff of cigarette smoke rising from the back of Abril Books, where owner... More >>

• That Golden Moment

  published March 23, 2006

  As part of the Museum of Television and Radio’s William S. Paley Festival at the Directors Guild of America, cast and crew members of... More >>

• Out With the Old

  published March 2, 2006

  If your closet is bursting at the seams with dust-collecting clothes that fit 20 pounds ago, there’s a simpler way of getting dough for... More >>