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'Descendant' chronicles a Black history uncovered

Monday, 14 March 2022, 10:38 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Rarely have past and present mingled in a documentary the way they do in "Descendant," a nonfiction account of the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement....

Kellyanne Conway memoir 'Here's the Deal' coming out May 24

Monday, 14 March 2022, 10:17 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has a memoir out May 24: "Here's the Deal" is billed by her publisher as a look beyond the headlines of the Trump administration and her family life,...

Life in early 17th Century Malta

Sunday, 13 March 2022, 10:12 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

In 1632 Johann Friedrich Breithaupt published in Frankfurt am Main a book which was, up to then, the most detailed description of Malta. It was only 15 years later that Gio Francesco Abela...

Bastille invites listeners to escape in 'Give Me The Future'

Thursday, 10 March 2022, 07:20 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

In 2020, Bastille found themselves in a unique position. Coming out of their last album and into the pandemic, the English pop rock band not only had one album's worth of songs, but two or...

'Sanford and Son' at 50, 'double-edged' Black sitcom pioneer

Thursday, 10 March 2022, 07:18 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

When Demond Wilson heard that Redd Foxx was going to star in a TV sitcom, the actor brushed it off as a joke. Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to...

'Scream' calls again, with plenty of self-mockery

Thursday, 10 March 2022, 07:16 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Twenty-six years after the original, "Scream" calls again. We're now up to the fifth film in the franchise, but the first since 2011's "Scream 4." Enough time has passed that this one, titled simply...

Brian Cox hopes memoir doesn't put 'full stop' on his life

Thursday, 10 March 2022, 07:09 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Finishing a book is usually cause for celebration. Not for actor Brian Cox. The book in question, "Putting the Rabbit in the Hat," out now, chronicles the actor's journey from humble beginnings...

Kampus Kotba 2022

Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 10:19 Last update: about 6 years ago

The National Book Council (NBC) is pleased to release the events' programme of Kampus Kotba - the 2022 Campus Book Festival, taking place between Wednesday 23 and Friday 25 March at the University of...

FM Theatre to stage hit musical ‘La Cage Aux Folles’

Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 10:09 Last update: about 6 years ago

The producers behind sell-out musicals including Fiddler on The Roof, My Fair Lady, Mamma Mia! and We Will Rock You is preparing to stage its latest hit for audiences in Malta later this...

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