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Airport Impressions releases new single’s music video

Thursday, 2 January 2014, 10:58 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Airport impressions has released a new music video for the new single Hymns of June, which is the first single from the band's upcoming album due to be released early next year.   The...

Beyonce announces, releases new album on same day

Wednesday, 1 January 2014, 15:19 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Beyonce has released her new album in an unconventional way: She announced and dropped it on the same day.   The singer released "Beyonce" exclusively on iTunes early Friday. She...

'Saving Mr Banks' a spoonful of sugar

Wednesday, 1 January 2014, 14:34 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

For most scribes who have toiled in the movie industry, portraying Hollywood as a healing paradise is roughly equivalent to regaling a lobster of the soothing properties of a boiling pot of...

Coloring book featuring Sen. Ted Cruz selling fast

Wednesday, 1 January 2014, 14:22 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A coloring book featuring tea party darling Sen. Ted Cruz has become a hot-selling item in the U.S. this holiday season.   The cover features the beaming senator, a Texan who...

At 65, Kenny Loggins sings on with Blue Sky Riders

Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 15:17 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Logic, it turns out, isn't always the way to go, at least not for Kenny Loggins.   Had he listened to that particular little voice in his head, the two-time Grammy winner with 12...

Reeves comes off bogus in 'Ronin'

Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 14:33 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

In Japan, the story of the 47 ronin is so central to the country's national identity that a special word exists for the act of retelling it: Chushingura. But despite this long tradition of...

Book on Roosevelt, Taft offers lessons, wild tales

Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 14:21 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

"The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" (Simon & Schuster), by Doris Kearns Goodwin   In her beautiful new account of the...

The dramatic in spiritual ecstasy

Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 09:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Although published research in Maltese has increased significantly, there is still a dearth of academic material where theatre studies are concerned. A recently published book by Horizons, the...

AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year

Monday, 30 December 2013, 15:14 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Associated Press Music Writers Mesfin Fekadu and Chris Talbott pick their top 10 albums of the year.   Mesfin Fekadu's picks (twitter.com/MusicMesfin):   1. Ariana...

Pomp, amoral 'Wolf of Wall Street' is rich

Monday, 30 December 2013, 14:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Digging into deep-pocket gluttony, Martin Scorsese's dark comedy "The Wolf of Wall Street" highlights a world rich in drugs, fast cars and private jets. The American dream is amplified,...

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