Valletta’s open-air piazzas may feel a world away from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but when ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night segment last week after pressure from the White House, Maltese stand-up comics felt the chill all the same. “If a superstar like Kimmel can be muzzled, what hope do we have in a country…
**Masters in Deception: How Malta’s Age-Old Art of Ħajja Ħela is Alive, Well and Thriving on TikTok** *By a Hot Malta Correspondent* Valletta’s Strait Street, 11 p.m. on a humid Friday. A hen-party from Manchester is cheering as a street magician turns three coloured balls into a live goldfish. Thirty metres away, outside the old…
Spain stubbed out its last legal loophole last week when Health Minister Mónica García signed a decree extinguishing cigarettes on bar terraces, in public parks, and even on the sandy fringes of the Costas. From August, Spaniards will have to choose between their cortado and their Marlboro—no more café con leche in one hand, smoke…
