One day Alessia Cara got a request from a friend: Write a song about my breakup. "He was like, 'Listen, I'm not a songwriter, I'm not good at writing. Could you maybe one day ... write a song...

"Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street...whether in Jackson, Mississippi, or in Harlem, New York," reads the title card that begins director Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could...

"Freefall: a Novel" (HarperCollins), by Jessica Barry "Freefall" begins as an action-packed/heart-stopping thriller as it logically and smoothly leads into the self-examination of two women...

As the fifth-season adventures of "Grace and Frankie " begin, viewers can rest assured there's more to come. Series creator Marta Kauffman and Netflix said Tuesday that the series starring Jane...

The 1975, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (Interscope/Dirty Hit) The English band the 1975, practitioners of some of the smoothest electropop in recent memory, have delivered another...

Julia Roberts is sitting on a couch in a Soho hotel when Lucas Hedges bursts in and begins frantically searching for his phone, sending pillows flying. "This is what I say to Finn," Roberts says,...

Ever wondered why boys and girls choose particular toys, particular colors and particular stories? Why is it that girls want to dress in pink and to be princesses, or boys want to be Darth Vader,...

The international stars of The Acrobat (Blood Ties), which will be staged for the first time in Malta next month by Unifaun Theatre Productions, have arrived this week to start cast...

Ed. Sergio Grech'L-Avukat Herbert Ganado - Bejn Storja u Miti'Horizons2015260pp   When I worked at Il-Hajja, I had a small, walk-on, part in producing some of the original volumes of...

Celebrate an Unforgettable Valentine's Day with your loved one at Maltese tenor Nico Darmanin's upcoming big band swing concert, Unforgettable, in the magnificent Grand Salon at the National Museum of...