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Zurrieq event in aid of L-Istrina to be held on 30 November

Monday, 24 November 2014, 10:40 Last update: about 10 years ago

An event in aid of L-Istrina is to be held at Zurrieq's main square from 8 a.m. till around 2 p.m. on Sunday, 30 November. A number of food stalls, a children's corner and entertainment for all...

Sheila E. wants to write more, expand book to film

Sunday, 12 October 2014, 13:26 Last update: about 11 years ago

Days before the release of Sheila E.'s autobiography, news spread that she was once engaged to Prince. The bigger bombshell, however, didn't get nearly as much attention. "Pretty much, I was...

'Paying Guests' filled with romance, sex

Saturday, 11 October 2014, 13:25 Last update: about 11 years ago

Fans of Sarah Waters will feel cloaked in comfy familiarity when they sink into her new novel, "The Paying Guests." The setting is London, 1922. The post-war economy forces upper-class Frances, a...

'Do Fathers Matter?' says something new

Friday, 10 October 2014, 13:24 Last update: about 11 years ago

From the tiniest microbe or fragment of DNA to the origins of the universe, it sometimes feels as if every subject generates a vast tide of scientific studies and that virtually nothing escapes...

Critic & museum director on encounters with art

Thursday, 9 October 2014, 13:20 Last update: about 11 years ago

Stendhal wrote about feeling faint in the presence of great art. Goethe said that merely knowing that a sculpture he admired could be created made him "twice the person" he was. Proust, in an episode...

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