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NYLA Hottie of the Week: Meet Niki Ghazian, Professional Football Player

The quintessential NYLA Persian Hottie of the Week is equal parts spicy, sophisticated, sexy, and for good measure, into sports. L.A. resident Niki Ghazian is all of that, and then some.
You want spicy? The 27-year-old model has appeared in Maxim and FHM magazines, garnering a nomination for Miss FHM in 2006 and the nicknamed “Persian [...]

NYLA Premiere: Lady Gaga’s ‘Alejandro’ Music Video

A Lady Gaga music video on a Persian website? Besides the fact that Persians love her, we also posted this clip because of her Persian ‘Gher’ dancing and shoulder action at the 4:24 clip of her newest video!

Breakfast with Coach Wooden

ESPN.COM columnist and NYLA correspondent Arash Markazi takes you inside the life and the heart of the UCLA basketball coaching legend in this Sports Illustrated piece from 2008. Wooden passed away on June 4.

Toub Throws a ‘Toup’: Actor Delivers Ceremonial 1st Pitch at Dodgers Game

Iranian-American actor Shaun Toub, star of the upcoming summer flick Airbender, joined the likes of Matthew McConaughey and other famous figures when he threw out the first pitch at an L.A. Dodgers baseball game recently.

Milani Goes From Million-Dollar Briefcases to Million-Dollar Manes

After 200 episodes, the popular television game show Deal or No Deal was halted in 2009. Oprah’s favorite briefcase model, Leyla Milani, has evolved into an entrepreneur with the her own line of hair extensions.

Yellow Dogs: The Latest Iranian Underground Rock Band to Breakthrough

Following the success of Iranian underground rock bands Hypernova and Tarantist, the Yellow Dogs have landed in Brooklyn. The group was featured in Bahman Ghobadi’s flick, No One Knows About Persian Cats.