Freddie Portelli, the island’s beloved King of Rock ‘n’ Roll , would perhaps be the last person you would expect at a pool party for Malta’s alternative music scene. Yet on August 14, that is exactly where the 82-year-old singer turned up, taking the microphone at a poolside house party in Birżebbuġa, organised by local band Kodin Hill ’N The Pressed
Maltese theatre director and educator Patrick Vella has returned from Kerala following his latest actor training project at Lokadharmi, an Indian theatre institution with which he has developed an ongoing artistic relationship. Vella led Paper Alive , an intensive five-day workshop at Lokadharmi in Vypin, an island forming part of Kochi, from July
Girl with a Pearl Earring will go on show in Osaka this week, on a rare trip abroad for the 17th-century Johannes Vermeer masterpiece and potentially its last to Japan. The work will be displayed from Friday at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka while its home museum, the Mauritshuis in The Hague, closes until September 20 for maintenance. “For
When he sat down to write Insidious: Out of the Further , the sixth instalment of the blockbuster horror franchise, director Jacob Chase channelled his fears over a major life event: becoming a parent. “I became a dad for the first time, and I was terrified of being a dad,” he said. “I was really nervous I would raise my child in the wrong way, and
