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Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

JG Vassallo reviews ‘The Bonham-Carter Diaries 1936-1940’ Edited and with an introduction by John Manduca. PEG Publications, 508 pages....

Decanters 1760 - 1930

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

For centuries wine has been served at table out of expensive and often elaborate serving vessels. The unrivalled transparency of lead crystal, invented in late seventeenth-century England, led to glass, rather than silver or ceramics, increasingly be...

Up close and personal

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

At a musico-literary evening at the Sanctuary of St Paul Shipwrecked, St Paul’s Bay, organised by Fr Michael Agius, tenor Joseph Calleja was accompanied by First Violins Marcelline Agius, Tatjana Chircop, Second Violin Stephen Zammit, Stephen Galea o...

Greener than green

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

Although originally trained as a graphic artist, the works of John Busuttil Leaver (born 1964) always betray an abiding bias for expressive colour at most times wedded to natural rhythms....

The fickle art of gilded tongues

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

Gushing? Mushing? Slushing? Albert Fenech comes out all guns blazing on those addicted to unfettered fawning but has no sympathy for them...

Crystal magic

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

Crystals meet couture for a sparkling evening of glamour...

Man about town

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

David Agius, Nationalist M.P. started by being an activist and while at Sixth Form established the Students Representative Council. From there he went on to be elected at Local Council level and thence to Parliament. He believes that the most frail i...

A wedding to remember

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Ms Dona-Lynn Polidano daughter of Mr Charles Polidano and Mrs Josephine Polidano married Mr Ian Magro, son of Mr John Magro and Mrs Rita Magro a few months ago. ...

A voice for those who have none

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

Danielle Vella on ‘Five Kinds of Silence’, Masquerade's lastest offering...

Planet fashion

Monday, 17 May 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

Pierre-Henri Mattout has been designing his own collection of menswear since 1998. The spring summer ready-to-wear collection is young-casual-chic. ...

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