"I was trying to create a character that I myself would identify with." A film from Belarus titled Crystal Swan premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this year, the feature directorial debut of ...

At Persian restaurant Sadaf, located in a plain, single-story building along Encino’s bustling main drag of Ventura Boulevard, a manager wearing a crisp black button-down greets diners with a smile ...

Stormy Waldeck eats lunch five days a week at Darya, an acclaimed Persian restaurant in South Coast Plaza Village. The sales manger for a Tustin-based insurance company will head to the restaurant’s ...