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California Armenians Find Cultural Reconnection in Armenia; Flavor Profile: LA's Saucy Chick; Petaluma Teens' Find Community at the Phoenix Theater

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Five people, two adults, two teens and one younger child sit at a table laid out with food.
The Manucharyan family seated at their home in Yerevan, Armenia, on February 13, 2023. The family, who formerly lived in Glendale, moved to Yerevan, Armenia two years ago, to be closer to the country they love. (Courtesy of Levi Bridges)

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More California Armenians Are Moving Back to Their Parents’ Native Land

Communities in LA County, like the city of Glendale, are home to the world’s largest Armenian population outside of Armenia. Starting more than a century ago, Armenians fled their homeland during the Armenian Genocide and many of them ended up in California. But now, some LA Armenians are moving in the other direction, back to Armenia. Reporter Levi Bridges traveled to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to meet some of the Angelenos who’ve made the move.

Flavor Profile: The LA Couple Behind Saucy Chick’s Mexican and Indian Roots

This week we kick off our new series “Flavor Profile,” about folks who opened successful food businesses during the pandemic. Some of them had little or no experience, like Rhea Patel Michel and Marcel Michel in Los Angeles. They took flavors from their Indian and Mexican heritages to start Saucy Chick Rotisserie. Sasha Khokha brings us their story from Los Angeles.

Teens Helped Save This Historic Bay Area Theater by Making It Their Own

Petaluma has a lot of beautiful historic architecture, in part because many of its buildings were spared the devastation of the 1906 earthquake. One building dates back to 1904, and though its name has changed, it’s been a theater for over 100 years. The group that is keeping it alive is not a historic society, but rather teenagers. For our series Hidden Gems, Jessica Kariisa brings us the story of the Phoenix Theater.

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