Friday, July 4, 2008 
Hey, remember when we said we were going to the Noor Film Festival red carpet thingy? No? Well, we went. And Amy Malek - Pars Arts contributor, anthropology genius, NGO-starter, and fearless press photographer extraordinaire - took some amazing photos that you should definitely not miss. Seriously, it was elbows-out in this press pit and […]
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Norooz Productions, the people behind the popular animated film Babak & Friends, recently unveiled their latest project. Mixed Nutz is an animated extension of the Babak brand with a bunch of other multicultural characters added. It’s airing on Tapesh TV (which I’ve honestly never watched, so unfortunately I probably won’t see this until it’s out […]
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Meet Payam Bavafa, songwriter/guitarist in a San Francisco-based experimental rock band called Sholi. The band’s most recent EP, “Hejrat,” features an awesome cover of Googoosh’s song by the same name. We asked Bavafa, the group’s sole Iranian-American member, what Persian music means to him, and why he and his bandmates - drummer Jonathon Bafus, bassist […]
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Check out the work of Jonathan Harris and Iranian-American Sep Kamvar at the MoMA in NYC. Their project entitled I Want You To Want Me is part of the new Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit. If you can’t make it to New York, there’s a YouTube video above that demonstrates the project, which pulls […]
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Iranian eco-architect Nader Khalili died early last month (here is the LA Times obit). He was an advocate of “earth architecture,” inventing techniques for building really cool dome-shaped structures. Khalili founded an institute called Cal-Earth to teach others how to build these houses, which got the stamp of approval from the UN, where he was […]
Filed under: ARCHITECTURE, OBITUARIES, RADIO
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Check out 127 (”saad o bist o haft”), a smart band out of Tehran that takes Iranian scales, adds a trombone, a dash of jazz, and a pinch of punk, then stirs it all together with sharp lyrics to make some delicious, delicious music. Think a cross between the Decemberists and Nellie McKay, but speed […]
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Zaman Zamani’s art in this Iranian.com gallery is really, really amazing. First, his style has a really great range, from this lebas-mahali-with-attitude portrait to this cute plate of what look like dancing dervishes to this more illustration-like painting of a girl in a green chador. Ladies, check out the line drawing/painting of the woman above, […]
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