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Book review: The sad and gentle poet

Sunday, 27 August 2023, 08:30 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

'Fejjaqtni int: Ruzar Briffa - u jien' Author: Paul P. Borg Published: 2023 Pages: 466   This sympathetic and readable book comes from one of the most prolific authors in...

Stage and Proms on the Sea by The Gozo Youth Wind Band

Thursday, 24 August 2023, 15:02 Last update: about 4 years ago

The Gozo Youth Wind Band within the The Gozo Youth Wind Band & Orchestra is proud to present a spectacular concert titled Stage and Proms on the Sea. Youth musicians hailing from all over Gozo...

Ricky’s Tribute Series to be launched Saturday

Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 09:39 Last update: about 4 years ago

The first night of what promises to be a series of music nights with a difference will be held on Saturday, 26 August at the Vilhena Band Club in Floriana. Starting at 9pm, the two-hour event...

Three generations relive original sin

Sunday, 20 August 2023, 11:54 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

Holm tal-bierah u tal-lumAuthor: Salv SammutPublisher: Horizons / 2023Pages: 212 It is a pity that the publishers gave this book a misleading title and an irrelevant front cover. It is also sad...

A voice crying in the wilderness

Sunday, 20 August 2023, 11:51 Last update: about 4 years ago

In a review article by Edward L. Zammit of Sociology of the Maltese Islands, edited by Michael Briguglio and Maria Brown, Zammit states "that if there is anything about Malta that strikes an observer,...

'Fatal Attraction' series attempts to balance affair blame

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:53 Last update: about 4 years ago Associated Press

" Fatal Attraction," the 1987 thriller film, introduced a female character (played by Glenn Close) who has a fling with a married man (played by Michael Douglas) and then obsesses and stalks him and...

Senegal's Baaba Maal returns after years with new album

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:51 Last update: about 4 years ago Associated Press

Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, "Being." The...

Wrenching and riveting, 'The Son' leaves you shaken

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:49 Last update: about 4 years ago Associated Press

If you don't have children, you will likely walk out of "The Son" shaken and deeply moved. If you do have kids, you may have to be eventually pulled to your feet after collapsing into a fetal ball for...

'She Said' chronicles the scoop that fed a movement

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:48 Last update: about 4 years ago Associated Press

Those old Hollywood newspaper flicks are great, but today's journalists don't run around newsrooms yelling "Get me rewrite!" Nor do they sprint across the room shouting "Stop the presses!" over the...

Back to DeLillo's doomed future in 'White Noise'

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:47 Last update: about 4 years ago Associated Press

Like Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, the heart of Noah Baumbach's "White Noise" is in the supermarket. There, in the gleaming aisles of neatly arranged cereal boxes and produce, DeLillo found America's...

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