The essays offered in British Writers and the Experience of Italy (1800-1940) by Prof Peter Vassallo this book explore some of the significant Romantic and post-Romantic constructions of Italy, its...

The US Civil War saga ‘Lincoln’ leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honours for British-born Daniel Day-Lewis,...

Best-picture favorites for Thursday morning's Oscar nominations include "Lincoln," Steven Spielberg's portrait of the great emancipator who abolished slavery and reunified the United...

The two Sundays in the calendar of events for the Valletta International Baroque Festival will be dedicated to events that will be open to all the family, free of charge.   On 13 January,...

In the comedy Here Comes the Boom, former college wrestler Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a 42-year-old biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and...

Pip, a 10-year old orphan boy from a working class family, is surprised one winter's day by an escaped convict who demands food and tools to remove his chains. Terrified, Pip does as he's...

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and—if he has his...

A feature about a British music collector, Robin Ash, on the online version of the UK's Daily Mail newspaper, yielded an interesting artist name in one of the pictures dedicated to the list of...

Too often we reflexively think that music is born when it is recorded, that it simply comes into existence fully formed. But every riff, every melody, every harmony has its own rich history. When it...

Oh progressive R&B, how I enjoy your sound.   That trend in music – a movement that includes Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Miguel and Dawn Richard – will continue to blow up in...