On Friday, 21 November, the St Paul Choral Society, one of Malta's leading polyphonic choirs, on the occasion of the feast of St Cecilia, patron saint of music, will present a choral and orchestral...

The Pleasures of Gardening in the Maltese Islands by Maurice Mizzi is a book dedicated to the hundreds of trees and shrubs which can be grown successfully in the Maltese Islands.  Maurice...

Poet Carmel Attard died in 1994 at the age of 51. He was known for his protest poetry and the deep insight shown in his reflections. He published two books of lyrics, Taħt qillet ix-Xemx in 1972...

  In an age of luvvies and media hype Mario Azzopardi, an author who has built and cemented an artistic career as an iconoclast who opposes institutional rigidity and group-think, perseveres...

Klabb Kotba Maltin has just launched Oliver Friggieri's new book L-Istorja tal-Innu Malti - Kif Sar u xi Jfisser, an original account of how the national anthem of Malta was composed in 1922. Medical...

This Christmas, the Comedy Knights will be presenting 12 Months of Funny, a show that is made up entirely of locally-written, original sketches that poke good-natured fun at Malta's socio-political...

On Wednesday, 26 November two books, Alhambra and My Pizza and Toffee Apples in the 1950s will be launched at the Italian Cultural Institute at 6.30pm.  Above is an old black and white photo...

Taylor Swift's all-out move into pop music on her fifth album, "1989," is the sound of a young artist who has gradually evolved from a teenager obsessed with boys and journal writing into a young...

Not since Paddy Chayefsky's "Network" have characters been chewed and spit out by TV news quite like they have been of late at the movies. "Nightcrawler" and "Gone Girl" both present portraits of...

For those unfamiliar with the beautiful and searing short stories of Ron Rash, "Something Rich and Strange" is a generous, well-timed introduction. Rash's stories tell in crisp, gripping prose...