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‘Stejjer Stretti Jirxoxtaw’

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 11:10 Last update: about 6 years ago

As part of the Valletta Cultural Agency's 2021 cultural programme, The Strada Stretta Concept is collaborating with local għannejja for a performance dedicated to the re-telling of infamous...

Vassallo Group chairman visits CareMalta homes

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 11:09 Last update: about 6 years ago

Entrepreneur Nazzareno Vassallo recently visited all homes run by CareMalta as part of an initiative to celebrate active ageing and the month dedicated to older persons. Natalie Briffa Farrugia...

How ‘Taralalla’ came to be

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 11:06 Last update: about 6 years ago

When I was first commissioned to write a play for Spazju Kreattiv last year, I took it as an opportunity to learn and dive into the world of theatre which was still so very new to me. I couldn't just...

‘Dr Brombos’: Pre-Second World War humour magazine

Friday, 22 October 2021, 11:26 Last update: about 6 years ago

One of the best natural healing medicines that comes free of charge is humour, joy and laughter. In a fast-moving world, where our minds are caught up with so much distraction, preoccupations and...

Death, Alzheimer’s and gays

Friday, 22 October 2021, 09:05 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

This is the third book in the author's latest trilogy. Fortunately, as against the first two, there are no problematic political overtones. The main actor is still the same - retired police...

Marie Benoit's Diary: Good food in Mgarr

Sunday, 17 October 2021, 10:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Marie Benoît

Geography is not my strong point. My husband always blamed my lack of sense of direction for the reason I landed in Mauritius. A friend invited me to go to dinner with her one evening a month or...

Don Bosco, the prisons in Torino and his educational vision

Saturday, 16 October 2021, 12:25 Last update: about 6 years ago

Giovanni Bosco, son of Margherita' Occhiena and Francesco Bosco, born in Castelnuovo d'Asti on 16 August 1815 and died in Torino on 31 January 1988 at the age of 73. I think that only a few people had...

Things that happen to ‘normal’ family

Saturday, 16 October 2021, 12:23 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The book is set in vintage Alfred Massa territory - a plain lower middle class family living, from the details one gleans, in the southeast area of Malta. A perfectly normal family but one where the...

Four authors win Nazzareno Vassallo Award 2021

Thursday, 14 October 2021, 16:36 Last update: about 6 years ago

Maltese authors Charles Casha, Joseph Debono, Rita Saliba and Trevor Zahra recently received the Nazzareno Vassallo Award 2021 organised by CareMalta as part of the Vassallo Group's 75th anniversary....

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