Louisiana is known for delivering food with big, bold flavor. The same can be said for the founder of the Popeyes fried chicken empire, who put spicy chicken, red beans and dirty rice on the national...

Christmas comedy fans of Malta, 'welkim, welkim' - The Comedy Knights have released a book in the run-up to its upcoming 10th year anniversary show, The Comedy Knights: Ten Years of...

Billy Gardell is scrupulous about giving credit where it's due, at home and at work. He describes his wife, Patty, as the "North star" who helped him through tough times and kept their family on...

As a percussion protégé growing up in the Bay Area, Sheila Escovedo would ask visiting bands if she could sit in. She was often told to beat it. "They're looking at me like, well,...

Time always flew in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World but it has lately seemed to catch up to the Potter pop cultural sensation. Those long lines outside bookstores are a long time ago now. The books...

Biographers try as best they can to walk in the shoes of their subjects. Charles Leerhsen took it a step further: He slept in the same French hotel room where Anthony Bourdain killed himself, earning...

On Wednesday 14 December at 6:45pm the Gżira Parish Church will be the venue of a book launch of "Dun Carlo Manché, Fi Kliem Niesu". This book gives an account of the life and times of the...

The camera pans across a vast expanse of desert before careening toward an artificial island lined with luxury homes in the Persian Gulf. Eerie chords ring out, as though warning viewers: This is not...

"Birds in the Ceiling" by John Moreland (Old Omens/Thirty Tigers) John Moreland has more questions than answers these days, and he's OK with that. On his new album, "Birds in the Ceiling,"...

"Metropolis." Bruce Lee. Woody Woodpecker. A pet cobra. All of these things have been inspirations behind Nicolas Cage performances — sometimes private homages that the actor has used like...