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Maltese Folk Music Collection restoration

Monday, 21 March 2016, 13:43 Last update: about 12 years ago

The Friends of the National Archives of Malta bought the Leli Muscat folk music collection in 2012 and started the digitization of 207 good quality tape reels and 27 reels which are cut and...

Two Big Band Easter Sunday Concerts at Teatru Manoel

Monday, 21 March 2016, 13:35 Last update: about 12 years ago

On Easter Sunday (27 March), and for the second year running, the Big Band Brothers will be featuring in another fun concert aimed at the whole family (children aged 6+) - a perfect dessert after the...

Brit rockers the 1975 funky on sophomore album

Sunday, 20 March 2016, 16:58 Last update: about 12 years ago

British pop-rockers 1975 get downright and reasonably funky on its latest album with a title so long it will barely fit anywhere. For the record, the 17-track release is called "I like it when you...

Baron Cohen's 'Brothers Grimsby' is truly shameless

Sunday, 20 March 2016, 15:21 Last update: about 12 years ago

The "they did WHAT" anticipatory glee is generally bound to be a letdown - especially when the big joke is someone getting a disease. In the off-chance that you've managed to stay blissfully unaware...

New autism book urges parents to give kids 'Loving Push'

Sunday, 20 March 2016, 14:43 Last update: about 12 years ago

In a new book by autism's most famous spokesperson, Temple Grandin gives credit to her mother for nudging her outside her comfort zone, and she urges today's parents to do the same for their...

Loretta Lynn is stellar on 1st album in 12 years

Saturday, 19 March 2016, 16:57 Last update: about 12 years ago

Loretta Lynn has titled her first album in a dozen years "Full Circle" partly because she opens the 14-song collection with "Whispering Sea," the first song she ever wrote, back in the late...

Beware _ your nails may not survive '10 Cloverfield'

Saturday, 19 March 2016, 15:17 Last update: about 12 years ago

I'd like to apologize to those who were sitting next to me for my aggressive popcorn munching during "10 Cloverfield Lane," the new J.J. Abrams-produced nail-biter starring a creepier John Goodman...

New bio refreshes Bronte energy for modern readers

Saturday, 19 March 2016, 14:41 Last update: about 12 years ago

Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bronte's rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as relevant as ever, and a new biography by Claire Harman makes the "Jane Eyre"...

Shooter Jennings pays tribute to Giorgio Moroder

Friday, 18 March 2016, 16:56 Last update: about 12 years ago

Shooter Jennings opens his seventh album, "Countach (For Giorgio)," with a famous lyric by his father Waylon Jennings: "Don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand?" The elder Jennings...

Disney's 'Zootopia' is wildly entertaining

Friday, 18 March 2016, 15:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

Just when it was looking like animated animal movies had run out of anything original to say, along comes the smartly amusing, crisply relevant "Zootopia" to handily demonstrate there's still plenty...

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