**Watch: Fireworks start blaze that destroys buses but enthusiasts blame owner** A spectacular fireworks display turned into a nightmare on Sunday evening when stray pyrotechnics ignited a fire that destroyed three vintage buses parked near the Qormi feast celebrations, sending shockwaves through Malta’s tight-knit community of festa enthusiasts and vintage vehicle collectors. The incident, captured…
Midnight at Merkanti, and the queue outside Agenda bookshop snakes past the gelato stand and down the cobbled lane. It’s not a new iPhone dropping—it’s Dan Brown’s *Wild Symphony*, the thriller maestro’s first adult novel since 2017, and Valletta is treating it like a festa firework. By 00:01 the first 200 copies are gone, snapped…
Valletta’s newest cultural gem isn’t another baroque palace or a Knights-period armoury. It’s a 19th-century coal-fired power station reborn as MUŻA Industrija, the first national museum dedicated solely to Malta’s industrial heritage. When the doors swung open last Friday, former dockworkers arrived in Sunday-best jackets, teenagers posed against 10-ton cranes for TikTok clips, and tourists…
Watch: Ireland’s coast (ARTE) – and why Maltese eyes should care By Hot Malta contributor The first drone shot lifts off the Cliffs of Moher and, for a split second, every Maltese viewer thinks: “That’s like Dingli, but greener.” Then the camera keeps climbing, revealing 300-metres of vertical Atlantic limestone that could swallow our entire…
It’s-a-him, Malta: 40 years of Mario and the island that never stopped jumping Valletta’s evening air was thick with nostalgia last Friday as the capital’s biggest gaming café, Glitch, projected a pixel-perfect speed-run of Super Mario Bros. on the façade of the old Embassy Theatre. Passers-by—grandparents clutching pastizzi, teenagers in Fortnite hoodies, tourists fresh off…
An excellent source of protein: health, hype and hard truths Monday evening, 18:55. The last rays of sun bounce off the limestone walls of the Għarb parish square while a queue already snakes past the baroque church. At the front, 78-year-old Nanna Rita clutches a reusable bag emblazoned with “Gozo Pride” and waits patiently for…
Mid-September in Malta has always felt like the hinge of the year: the sea is still warm enough for a sunset dip at Għajn Tuffieħa, the vineyards of Gozo are heavy with the season’s first Ġellewża grapes, and village band clubs are polishing their brass for the last festa of the summer. Between 8 and…
St Julian’s waterfront shimmered under a setting sun last Sunday, but the real glow came from the long wooden tables set up outside the Love Bites community kitchen. There, Maltese octopus stew simmered next to Nigerian jollof rice, while a pot of Sri Lankan kottu roti sizzled beside a tray of qassatat. For the third…
Russell Crowe shaken by Nazi role in ‘Nuremberg’ – and why Malta’s cinema lovers should care Valletta’s Grand Harbour may be 1,700 km from the ruins of Nuremberg, but when Oscar-winner Russell Crowe admitted last week that portraying a Nazi war criminal in the upcoming film “Nuremberg” left him “shaken to the bone”, the ripple…
Valletta’s morning sun had barely cleared the bastions when the first carnations appeared at the foot of the Great Siege Monument. By 9 a.m. the bronze figures of Faith, Fortitude and Civilisation were swimming in a tide of red and white—some blooms still dewy from florists in Hamrun, others wrapped in the plastic sleeves that…
Rick Davies, the British keyboardist who co-founded the progressive-rock band Supertramp and co-wrote the global anthems “The Logical Song” and “Breakfast in America,” has died at 81. While the news broke on the band’s official website late Tuesday, it was felt keenly across the Mediterranean—especially in Malta, where Davies spent stretches of downtime and where…
New Book Unveils the Hidden Malta Chapter of Pope Pius V’s Legacy Valletta’s narrow cobblestones once echoed with the footsteps of a pope who never set foot on the island, yet whose shadow still drapes across our skyline, our feasts, and even the honey-coloured limestone of the Grand Harbour bastions. Historian Dr. Maria Micallef’s freshly…
