‘Lampedusa’ by Anders Lustgarten opens this week
Monday, 22 February 2016, 15:04
Last update: about 12 years ago
In its overseas premiere, the powerful play Lampedusa contrasts the lives of a fisherman retrieving the bodies of refugees drowned at sea with a Syrian woman facing daily prejudice in the...
Teatru Manoel takes music to the elderly
Monday, 22 February 2016, 14:40
Last update: about 12 years ago
An agreement was signed this week at Teatru Manoel between Parliamentary Secretary for Rights of Persons with Disability and Active Ageing Justyne Caruana, Josianne Cutajar, CEO of St Vincent de Paul...
'Zoolander 2' tries a little too hard to up the ante
Saturday, 20 February 2016, 16:10
Last update: about 12 years ago
In case you don't follow the global fashion calendar, Fashion Week has just begun in New York, bringing with it a few nice clothes plus the usual over-the-top weirdness - bizarrely themed runway shows...
A workaholic dad learns to adapt in 'This Was Not the Plan'
Saturday, 20 February 2016, 15:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
Charlie Goldwyn's life plan has gone awry. He didn't plan on being raised by a single mother. He didn't plan on his wife dying. He didn't plan on relying on his twin sister to help him parent his...
The Weeknd, Stapleton, Lovato perform a pre-Grammy brunch
Friday, 19 February 2016, 16:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
Grammy album of the year nominees The Weeknd and Chris Stapleton performed at a brunch honoring their record label on Sunday, where trailers for new documentaries on The Beatles and jazz great John...
In 'Hail, Caesar!' a studio fixer's faith is tested
Friday, 19 February 2016, 16:07
Last update: about 12 years ago
The Coen canon reaches a crescendo - or rather a warped inversion of one - in "Hail, Caesar!" when the brothers assemble a quartet of religious leaders from various faiths before Josh Brolin's 1950s...
In 'How to Be Single,' a rom-com quest for me time
Friday, 19 February 2016, 16:04
Last update: about 12 years ago
Momentarily untied from "50 Shades of Grey" and its planned sequels, Dakota Johnson is again looking for love in "How to Be Single," a mild and fittingly discombobulated ode to singlehood that plays...
'The Language of Secrets' is action-packed novel
Friday, 19 February 2016, 15:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
The hot-button issues of religion and culture - sometimes wrapped in controversy and suspicion - make a compelling foundation in Ausma Zehanat Khan's second novel about Esa Khattak, head of Toronto's...
Rock band kicks off rescheduled tour after Paris carnage
Thursday, 18 February 2016, 16:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
Jesse Hughes, frontman of the U.S. band whose Nov. 13 gig at the Bataclan theater in Paris was stormed by Islamic extremist suicide bombers killing 89 people, says "my friends died very beautifully,...