DiCamillo wins Newbery for best children's book
Thursday, 13 February 2014, 13:41
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Kate DiCamillo's "Flora & Ulysses," a comic superhero tale featuring a deadly vacuum cleaner and a mighty squirrel, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's best work of...
Cases may mean more than legal woes for Bieber
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 16:21
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Justin Bieber's court cases on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border could complicate the pop star's jet-setting ways as his troubles bring more scrutiny by judges and...
Friends of the Manoel support Baroque Festival
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 16:02
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
‘Coffee with Venus’ was the title of a concert within the Festival held at the beautiful painted salon of the Archaeology Museum Valletta. This concert was specifically chosen by the...
Jesse Eisenberg cast as Lex Luthor
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 14:29
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Warner Bros. says Jesse Eisenberg will play Lex Luthor in the studio's planned Superman-Batman film. The casting of the 30-year-old Eisenberg was met with a wave of surprise on...
Al From recounts rebuilding of Democratic Party
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 13:35
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
"The New Democrats and the Return to Power" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Al From Al From's "The New Democrats and the Return to Power" tells the important story of how...
Beatlemania: A moment in time never to be repeated
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 16:17
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Musical moments that capture the attention of a national audience — and beyond — never seem to be in short supply. Last week, Bruno Mars set a ratings record with 115 million people...
'Infinitely Polar' about director's troubled youth
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 14:23
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
At the beginning of Maya Forbes' directorial debut, "Infinitely Polar Bear," we meet two young sisters who are locked inside a car with their mother as protection from their father...
A writer devoted to George Eliot and "Middlemarch"
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 13:12
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
"My Life in Middlemarch" (Crown), by Rebecca Mead New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead first read George Eliot's "Middlemarch" at age 17, when she was an ambitious...
Immanuel Mifsud poetry collection published in Slovenia
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 10:58
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Immanuel Mifsud’s poetry collection A Handful of Leaves has just been published in Slovenia by the IRIU Institute, one of Slovenia’s most innovative and culturally committed entities at...