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Reminiscences of His Lordship Emeritus Mgr Joseph Mercieca

Monday, 3 October 2016, 14:31 Last update: about 11 years ago Joe Zammit Ciantar

Joe Zammit Ciantar   Mgr Ġorġ Mercieca In my childhood, in the very late 1940s and early 1950s - since my family lived some 150 metres down the road from Our Lady of...

Of poetry and hunting

Monday, 3 October 2016, 14:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

Alfred Palma   A keen animal lover and strongly against all forms of cruelty to animals, I couldn't but welcome this little book of poems, edited by poet Patrick J. Sammut, with...

Erbatax-il Vers

Monday, 3 October 2016, 14:26 Last update: about 11 years ago

Geoffrey G. Attard   Erbatax-il Vers (Fourteen Lines) is the name of the latest anthology of poems written by renowned Gozitan lawyer and writer Dr Alfred Grech. This is the third...

Marie Benoit's Diary: End of summer notebook

Monday, 3 October 2016, 14:25 Last update: about 11 years ago

I haven't been up to much as it has been hot and therefore not happy to have to venture out to some concert or reception in mostly uncomfortable clothes because my diet isn't working. Anyway, all...

An insider’s view of the postgraduate student art exhibition

Monday, 3 October 2016, 14:24 Last update: about 11 years ago Nikki Petroni

The Master's in Fine Arts course was opened by the Department of History of Art, University of Malta in October 2014, exactly two years ago. The course was designed by Dr. Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci who...

The Maltese explorer who discovered Obama’s tribe

Monday, 3 October 2016, 14:11 Last update: about 11 years ago

His actual name was Antonio Martini, later Anglicised to James or Jimmy Martin, born in Marsa in 1857 to Maltese parents. His father had emigrated from Italy in his youth and was a seaman, more abroad...

Maltese cuisine takes centre stage in international cookbook

Monday, 26 September 2016, 15:19 Last update: about 11 years ago

Renowned blogger and food writer Meike Peters's first cookbook, Eat In My Kitchen: to cook, to bake, to eat and to treat will be published on Tuesday 4 October and will feature numerous local recipes...

The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie

Monday, 26 September 2016, 15:17 Last update: about 11 years ago

MADC opens its new season with 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' directed by Chiara Hyzler, at Blue Box theatre. "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." So speaks Jean...

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