Pet Shop Boys stay danceable and electric on 'Super'
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 14:19
Last update: about 12 years ago
Pet Shop Boys take another drink from the fountain of youth on "Super," offering more dance than pop 13 studio albums and more than 30 years after "West End Girls." Written in Berlin and recorded...
Innovative storytelling lifts 'Louder Than Bombs'
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 12:47
Last update: about 12 years ago
Few actors, male or female, are better at portraying an innate sense of mystery than the great French actress Isabelle Huppert. Her face seems to hold dozens of expressions all at once. You get the...
'Peacekeeping' transcends pre-quake Haiti setting
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 12:29
Last update: about 12 years ago
While plenty has been written, fiction and nonfiction, about Haiti's political disgraces, natural disasters, cultural enigmas and entrenched dysfunction, Mischa Berlinski's new novel stands out for...
Jeff Buckley posthumously relevant on 'You And I'
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 14:16
Last update: about 12 years ago
"You and I" is a hearty posthumous collection of previously unreleased tracks by Jeff Buckley. It's a sparkling, raw mix of covers and rehearsal tracks recorded in 1993, four years before he died from...
Grief gets weird in Vallee's 'Demolition'
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 12:46
Last update: about 12 years ago
What if a young man who just lost his young wife in a car accident experienced none of the stages of grief? What if he felt nothing? What if he, instead, started writing letters to a vending machine...
'Baseball's No-Hit Wonders' is fascinating book
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 12:25
Last update: about 12 years ago
Spring is almost official, and that means the other season about to start is baseball season. Author Dirk Lammers examines the history of a pitcher's dream to throw a no-hitter in "Baseball's No-Hit...
Fifth Rock the South next weekend
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 10:26
Last update: about 12 years ago
Mathias Mallia
Rock the South will be back for the fifth time next weekend in a three-day alternative music festival from 15 to 17 April at Zion Bar in Marsascala. The event promises two stages packed with live acts...
Another quality book for young Maltese readers
Monday, 11 April 2016, 12:49
Last update: about 12 years ago
Parents will be familiar with the scene: an array of children's toys strewn about the whole house including the least likely places such as the kitchen cupboard. Yes indeed, little children and...
The birth of an idea
Monday, 11 April 2016, 12:48
Last update: about 12 years ago
Noel Grima
The Augustinian Fathers have two convents in Paceville - the St Rita Convent up on the hill and the Our Lady of Good Counsel down the road from the Hilton in the midst of Paceville. The latter,...