Friday, July 4, 2008 
Comic-book artist Frank Miller was interviewed on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” this week, as part of a “diverse group of creative thinkers” talking about the United States’ state of the union from their vantage points.
I’ve always been (and still am) a huge fan of Miller’s artwork and much of his storytelling, and the […]
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Marjane Satrapi’s PersepolisThe NY Times printed a great article about the English-language version of Persepolis, the animated feature based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical comic books. We covered the movie a couple of weeks ago and can’t wait to see it. (The photo above is of Satrapi and her co-director Vincent Paronnaud, by Ed Alcock for […]
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My father was in town a few days ago, helping me move to a new place. I hadn’t seen him in over a year and it was good just to sit and talk again. Over a few games of backgammon, he caught me up with what family and friends were up to. My hometown of […]
We’re big fans of Iranian.com and its founder, Jahanshah Javid, so we were really excited that he linked ParsArts.com today. And it was flattering to be deemed “artsy smartsy.” Welcome, all you Iranian.com readers - we hope you like Pars Arts, pass it along to your friends, will want to contribute your writing to help […]
We’re pleased to present our first post in the Interviews with Young Iranians Series on parsarts.com. In this series, we’ll be talking to young Iranians to watch - they’re doing cool things in their respective fields, and getting noticed for them. One of these is up-and-coming actor Omid Abtahi, who has been a cast member […]
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Seeing Haale this weekend reminded me of another talented Iranian female musician, Laleh, who I first heard a year and a half ago. She lives in Sweden and won three Swedish Grammis in 2005 (best artist, best new artist, and best producer) for her self-titled debut album, which also happens to be trilingual - English, […]
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Just coming off a tour in California, Iranian artist Haale played at Tonic in NYC this weekend. Her style is equal parts whirling dervish and guitar god, and her voice is like a hurricane. She’s tiny in person, with dark curly hair that hides half her face as sings, and when she rocks out, you […]
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