The local band Ring Finger No Pinky will take its song to the Rebel Lounge stage when it opens for Twin Ponies on Saturday, May 29.Â
This will not be Ring Finger No Pinkyâs first performance at the venue. The band played there just before the pandemic in December 2019.Â
âItâs cool to see all the renovations theyâve done to the Rebel Lounge,â said vocalist/guitarist Griffin Brown, a Glendale Community College student.Â
Formed in 2018 as a four-piece band, Scottsdaleâs Ring Finger No Pinky was forced to downsize after two of its members moved away to attend college.Â
Professor George Bournoutian
The Society for Armenian Studies sponsored a special event in honor of Professor George Bournoutian, a prominent scholar of Armenian Studies, on May 14. Prof. Bournoutian was recognized by the SAS for his outstanding service and contribution to the field of Armenian Studies during his more than forty-year career in the field. Born and raised in Isfahan, Iran, Bournoutian is the author of over thirty books, particularly focusing on Armenian, Iranian, and Caucasian history. His books have been translated into Armenian, Farsi, Turkish, Polish, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic.
Bournoutian is one of forty editors of the “Encyclopaedia Iranica
Changed by pandemic, many workers won t return to old jobs
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DEE-ANN DURBIN, STEPHEN GROVES, ALEXANDRA OLSON and JOSEPH PISANI
May 22, 2021
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1of17Nate Mullins, a former bartender from Oak, Harbor, Wash., who quit his job last November after clashing with managers over enforcing mask rules, poses for a photo near a street mural Monday, May 17, 2021, in Mount Vernon, Wash. There s a wild card in the push to return to post-pandemic life: many workers don t want to return to the jobs they once had. Mullins unemployment checks don t match what he was making at the bar, but they re enough to get by while he looks for jobs that would provide health care and retirement benefits.Elaine Thompson/APShow MoreShow Less