House Speaker Paul Ryan was surprised and proud to find out he has Jewish roots. The Wisconsin Republican discovered his family history while filming a segment for the upcoming season of the PBS...

Lori McKenna "The Tree" (CN Records via Thirty Tigers) It's rare to read about Lori McKenna without hearing that she got married at 19 and had the first of her five children at 20. And since her...

"Blindspotting," the directorial debut of Carlos Lopez Estrada, stalks the streets of Oakland with a heightened, spoken-word flow, passionately freestyling on race, police brutality and gentrification...

"Caged" (Minotaur Books), by Ellison Cooper The FBI's hunt for a serial killer fuels Ellison Cooper's intense debut that introduces FBI special agent and neuroscientist Sayer...

The Gaulitanus Choir's will shortly be returning to the UK after an absence of 24 years for its 14th concert-tour abroad. Following the invitation of the Malta High Commission, the choir will be...

A new Foundation that aims to raise awareness regarding domestic violence, drug abuse, mental health, HIV and child abuse was launched today by its founder and chairman, tenor Cliff Zammit Stevens,...

The Strada Stretta Concept, under the auspices of the Valletta 2018 Foundation, presents Medieval Bohemian Cabaret, a music concert with Tom Armitage and Kirsty Williamson, under the artistic...

Gina Rodriguez credits "Jane the Virgin" with many things: changing her career (she won a Golden Globe for her work on The CW series in 2015), giving her a platform for activism and humanitarian work,...

When four-piece hard rock band Halestorm went back into the studio to work on their fourth album, they had already thrown out a bunch of songs they felt sounded too much like songs they had recorded...

I like to imagine what King Kong, as a popcorn-chomping moviegoer, might make of "Skyscraper," the latest summer actioner staring Dwayne Johnson. Would he, watching a goliath ascend the exterior of a...