Mason Regional Park Sunday to celebrate the Persian New Year, or Sizdeh Bedar. The daylong celebration typically causes traffic to back up on roads near the park on University Drive at Culver The ...

Friends and relatives use the Sizdeh Bedar festival as an opportunity to meet up with friends they've not seen for some time. It is at the tail-end of the extended celebrations period for the ...

Mehdi, 45, a businessman: “For our family, Sizdeh Bedar has always been about enjoying the outdoors and soaking up the sunshine. With Ramadan upon us, combining iftar with our traditional picnic feels ...

Mason Regional Park on Sunday in a celebration of food, family and culture. March 28 marks “Sizdeh Bedar,” a day when Iranian families traditionally congregate in parks from sunrise to sundown.

Iran's hard-line ruling clerics have discouraged many pre-Islamic rituals, but they've been unable to put Iranians off the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, and its ending celebration of Sizdeh Bedar. The ...

With warm weather predicted Sunday, thousands are expected to attend the Persian New Year festival of Sizdeh-Bedar at William R. Mason Regional Park in Irvine. The gathering, which celebrates the ...

Families played ball games, barbecued and relaxed during the day, called Sizdeh Be-dar, a public picnic day in early April. The day marks the end of the Iranian New Year holidays and falls on the ...

Iran's hard-line ruling clerics have discouraged many pre-Islamic rituals, but they've been unable to put Iranians off the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, and its ending celebration of Sizdeh Bedar.

and its ending celebration of Sizdeh Bedar. The festival falls on the thirteenth day of Nowruz – Sizdeh is 13 and Bedar means “passing” in Persian. It is believed to be bad luck to stay ...