Mexican Armenian comedian Jack Assadourian, stage name Jack Jr., left, and Armenian chef Ara Zada sample Arm-Mex Fries, celebrating their cultures, while making a food video at Zada's home in ...

Glendale-born comedian Jack Jr. will perform at the Alex Theatre for a hometown special taping. (Emil Ravelo / For The Times) A birthday, a graduation and a homecoming all rolled into one. That’s the ...

Writer-director-actor Michael A. Goorjian crafts a timely metaphor for displacement in Armenia’s shortlisted Oscar entry. The movie’s dreamlike prologue follows a young Armenian boy escaping the ...

New stand-up concert by the famous Armenian comedian conveys a story of a forced relocation and overall suffering from the recent world events.

Armenian comedy star Vahik Pirhamzei brings his signature character to American shores with My Uncle Rafael, an insufferable import indebted to Mrs. Doubtfire in which a man in prosthetics helps a ...

Maintaining a wry pH balance between Kaurismäki and Paradjanov, this Armenian comedy about a post-Soviet mountain village, its boondocks cemetery, its single bus, and two sexagenarians finding love in ...

Using late-night munchies to crossbreed cultures is a long-held tradition of the L.A. food scene. Add in comedy, a rekindled friendship between a Mexican Armenian comic and an Armenian chef to the mix ...

A birthday, a graduation and a homecoming all rolled into one. That’s the feeling comedian Jack Assadourian Jr. — better known as Jack Jr. — gets when he pulls up to the Alex Theatre in Glendale, a ...