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Account of Monet's last work a chronicle of war, too

Friday, 30 September 2016, 15:56 Last update: about 10 years ago

Anyone who has stood before Claude Monet's monumental water lily paintings may recall feeling dissolved into their world of ineffable light and seemingly perfect tranquility. A new book makes clear...

Michael Sweet vs. heavy metal competition: A 'One Sided War'

Thursday, 29 September 2016, 16:55 Last update: about 10 years ago

If there's anyone else doing more than Michael Sweet to keep '80s metal alive and vibrant decades later, I'd love to meet him or her. The Stryper vocalist-guitarist, who also co-fronted a reborn...

Streisand's new album with Hollywood stars is uneven

Thursday, 29 September 2016, 16:54 Last update: about 10 years ago

On her new album of duets, Barbra Streisand is asked by one of her guest singers one of those ridiculous, starry-eyed questions that only someone who lives in an oceanfront estate in Malibu would...

The Head and the Heart go pop on 'Signs of Light'

Thursday, 29 September 2016, 16:52 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Head and the Heart reinforce their sunny pop tendencies on "Signs of Light," all but leaving their Seattle folk roots behind, in sounds if not themes. The band's third album retains the ace...

Eastwood's 'Sully' stubbornly refuses to soar

Thursday, 29 September 2016, 16:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

In "Sully," Clint Eastwood's haunted and sterile docudrama of Capt. Chesley Sullenberger's 2009 landing of Flight 1549 on the Hudson, Eastwood has drained away all the superficial, rah-rah...

A guide to the history of 'Star Trek'

Thursday, 29 September 2016, 15:53 Last update: about 10 years ago

Authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross follow up volume one, which looked at the history of the original "Star Trek" series, with a new volume covering the behind-the-scenes details of "Star Trek:...

The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie

Monday, 26 September 2016, 15:17 Last update: about 10 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...

Book Launch: Sociology of the Maltese Islands

Monday, 26 September 2016, 14:20 Last update: about 10 years ago

'Sociology of the Maltese Islands', edited by Dr Michael Briguglio and Dr Maria Brown will be officially launched on Thursday 6 October at the University of Malta, 7pm, GW Hall E. Hon Evarist...

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