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Five of the best ... films Apostasy (PG) (Daniel Kokotajlo, 2017, UK) 95 mins Dour, intense gut-punch of a drama set among a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in England’s north-west. Siobhan Finneran is the devout mother told to shun her older daughter (Sacha Parkinson) after she shows signs of leaving the faith; the younger one (Molly Wright) struggles to remain pure despite ongoing health issues. Tough stuff. Maurice (15) (James Ivory, 1987, UK) 134 mins A restored print of Merchant Ivory’s 1987 adaptation of EM Forster’s self-suppressed novel about gay love in pre-first world war England, starring James Wilby and an astonishingly fresh-faced Hugh Grant. It has been given new cultural charge by the success of Call Me By Your Name, written by Maurice’s director James Ivory. Tracking Edith (PG) (Peter Stephan Jungk, 2016, Aus/Ger/Rus/UK) 92 mins Absorbing documentary profile of a largely overlooked and forgotten figure. Edith Tudor Hart was an Austrian-born émigré to the UK who ended up playing a key role in cold war espionage – out of communist fervour rather than for money. Director Peter Stephan Jungk is her great-nephew – hence the slightly ungainly film title, as he tries to uncover evidence of her activities in one archive after another. He excavates a gripping, if inevitably incomplete, story of a fascinating figure. Generation Wealth (18) (Lauren Greenfield, 2018, US) 106 mins This essay film from photographer Lauren Greenfield, of The Queen of Versailles renown, has not gone down well in some quarters for its perceived leniency towards the super-rich. But it’s still an insightful study of American privilege and money worship, configured as a reinvestigation of her early photographic subjects, including former school classmates. Incredibles 2 (PG) (Brad Bird, 2018, US) 125 mins Pixar’s superhero family return in style 14 years on, with everyone on scintillating form. This time the hijinks have been given a feminist makeover as Elastigirl leads a mega-corp’s attempts to rehabilitate the “supers” and take on virtual nasty the Screenslaver. AP Five of the best ... rock & pop Capital Xtra Presents Homegrown Live As the title of this one-off London gig suggests, the people behind Capital Xtra’s Saturday afternoon radio show Homegrown are throwing a party. Celebrating the best in UK rap, the lineup includes freestyle queen Lady Leshurr, south London’s finest Yungen, and his recent collaborator on top 10 single Bestie, Yxng Bane. KOKO, NW1, Tuesday 31 July Rita Ora Three Top 10 singles in a row suggested Rita Ora’s “quite” delayed second album (her debut was released in 2012) was about to be unleashed. Then the tepid, controversy-baiting, No 22-peaking Girls came along to ruin everything. Still, Ora is nothing if not resilient and this gig in a big park seems like a good opportunity to remind people of her pop nous. Slessor Gardens, Dundee, Saturday 29 July Wilderness festival “How posh is Wilderness festival?” asked the BBC ahead of last year’s festivities. The answer: quite. And this was before pictures of David Cameron looking glum in the crowd behind a man in a bowler hat emerged online. This year, as well as music from Kamasi Washington (above), IAMDDB and Justice, there’s the annual State of the Nation debate, billed as “Question Time with balls”. Good luck, Dave! Cornbury Park, near Chipping Norton, Thursday 31 July to 5 August Made festival Celebrating its fifth year, Birmingham dance festival Made has conjured up an eclectic lineup, including a resurgent Dizzee Rascal, breakbeat polymath DJ Zinc and endearing jokers Kurupt FM. As is the way with all festivals these days, music isn’t the only thing on offer, with a promise of live art, a stage on an old double decker bus (!) and – why not? – glitter stalls. Perry Park, Birmingham, Saturday 29 July MC Norma Winstone In British jazz singer Norma Winstone, a unique creative voice and a selfless talent for listening and sharing are elegantly balanced – never better than in her long relationship with German reeds-player Klaus Gesing and Italian pianist Glauco Venier. They’re touring the film-music repertoire from Winstone’s new Descansado album and more. Ealing jazz festival, Sunday 29; Pizza Express Jazz Club, Monday 30, W1; Watermill Jazz, Dorking, Tuesday 31 July JF Four of the best ... classical concerts Three Choirs festival Hereford is the 2018 host city for the choral bonanza, which kicks off with a revival of Ethel Smyth’s large-scale Mass in D. Later highlights include tributes to Hubert Parry (Thu) and Lili Boulanger (Fri), and a rare outing for Elgar’s early cantata King Olaf (Mon), with Andrew Davis conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. Various venues, Hereford, Saturday 28 July to 4 August An Alpine Symphony Ilan Volkov’s latest reunion with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings a characteristically diverse programme to the Proms. It begins with Mozart’s unfinished Notturno and ends with Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony; in between there’s the UK premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Concerto Grosso No 1, featuring a quartet of alphorns. Royal Albert Hall, SW7, Monday 30 July National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain The astonishingly talented band of teenagers is conducted by George Benjamin for its summer tour. The programme is a typical Benjamin mix: Mussorgsky and Ligeti frame Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with the brilliant Tamara Stefanovich as soloist, and Benjamin’s own Dance Figures. Snape, Thursday 2 August; Birmingham, Friday 3 August; London, Saturday 4 August Five Telegrams Anna Meredith’s son et lumière, composed to mark the centenary of the end of the first world war, opens the Edinburgh international festival, one of the few novelties in this year’s music programme, with images by 59 Productions projected on to the outside of the Usher Hall. Festival Square, Edinburgh, Friday 3 August AC Five of the best ... exhibitions Free the Pussy! Hayley Newman, Yoko Ono, Judy Chicago and Layla Sailor are among the international artists who have come out in support of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot, in what promises to be one of Edinburgh festival’s fieriest art shows. Recently, members of Pussy Riot were again jailed for defying Putin. A timely act of solidarity. Summerhall, Edinburgh, Thursday 2 August to 23 September Orson Welles The great actor and director made a brilliant film about art forgery called F Is for Fake, and was a lifelong art lover and former student at the Art Institute of Chicago. Yet this is the first exhibition of his own art works. Welles is the kind of genius whose doodles on hotel stationery are worth seeing – and here they are. Summerhall, Edinburgh, Thursday 2 August to 23 September Mark Wallinger Leonardo took time off from painting the Mona Lisa to build a flying machine. Mark Wallinger offers his own take on human flight in a new work inspired by the International Birdman contests held along the Sussex shore. Wallinger has collaged images of competitors in what he calls his “very end-of-the-pier” homage to humanity’s longing to fly. He also explores the photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s studies of the body in motion. Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, to 7 October Rembrandt: Britain’s Discovery of the Master Wondrous paintings, including Rembrandt’s vision of an old woman reading and his mysteriously entrancing landscape The Mill, are juxtaposed with much-less-magical prints, letters and captions that document British attitudes to this great Dutch artist. Silliest of all are contemporary takes on Rembrandt by the likes of Glenn Brown. Make a beeline for the masterpieces. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, to 14 October Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up The Catholicism of Mexico’s art has never been so graphic. Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera collected popular ex-voto paintings, and these intense religious artworks are the key to this arresting exhibition. Kahlo is presented here as a modern saint. The orthopaedic braces she wore after an accident and the prosthetic leg she needed in her final years are displayed like a martyr’s relics. Victoria & Albert Museum, SW7, to 4 November JJ Five of the best ... theatre shows Switzerland The queen of the psychological thriller, Patricia Highsmith, takes centre stage in this play by Joanna Murray-Smith, covering the final, bitter years of the reclusive writer of The Talented Mr Ripley in the Swiss Alps. Here she is visited by a young man who, seemingly, wants to persuade her to write another Ripley novel. Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan stars. Theatre Royal: Ustinov Studio, Bath, Wednesday 1 August to 1 September Midsummer The annual festival kicks off this week, appropriately with a feelgood love letter to the host city. The original 2008 show with music, by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre, has been expanded as two thirtysomethings – a failing car salesman and a high-powered divorce lawyer – break free from their midlife crises for a night of wild antics. The Hub, Edinburgh, Thursday 2 to 26 August Home, I’m Darling This new play from Posh author Laura Wade is a riot of eye-watering 1950s colour, kitsch decor and period music but the supposedly happy couple here are actually living in the 21st century. Clearly, Wade is hinting at darker issues behind the toothpaste-commercial smiles of stay-at-home wife Judy and her dapper hubby. Katherine Parkinson is superbly brittle as the childless woman in this co-production between Theatr Clwyd and the NT. National Theatre: Dorfman, SE1, to 5 September Kneehigh Asylum Kneehigh, the company behind the wonderful Brief Encounter, offers three shows set in a purpose-built tent. Ubu Karaoke is a promenade musical inspired by Alfred Jarry’s absurdist satire; based on Jim Dodge’s cult classic about a whiskey-swilling duck, Simon Harvey’s Fup: A Modern Fable returns; and for all the family there’s The Dancing Frog, a new version by Mike Shepherd of Quentin Blake’s classic book. The Lost Gardens of Heligan, St Austell, Thursday 2 August to 22 September End of the Pier Bobby (Les Dennis) is a washed-up comedian in Blackpool, one part of a double act whose career ended when they made a racist joke. His son Michael, now a popular observational standup, also finds himself facing ruin after a similar offence. Danny Robins’s joke-filled comedy looks at racism from many angles but the highlight is a devastating turn by Michael’s Bangladeshi victim, memorably delivered by Nitin Ganatra. Park Theatre, N4, to 11 August MC Three of the best ... dance shows Upswing/Motionhouse A circus double bill celebrating female power and grace. Motionhouse’s Captive, inspired by Rainer Maria Wilke’s poem The Panther, takes place within a giant cage, exploring issues of confinement and liberation. Upswing’s update of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes features scarlet, stiletto-heeled shoes, Chinese poles and aerial virtuosity. Guildhall Yard, EC2, Thursday 2 & Friday 3 August Carmen La Cubana Inspired by the classic Oscar Hammerstein musical Carmen Jones, this update of the Bizet opera is set in revolutionary Cuba, circa 1958, and mixes the original score with a hot texture of Latin-inflected dance and music. Christopher Renshaw directs, with new orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Wednesday 1 to 18 August Wasabeats: Break Free Tokyo B-boy crew Wasabeats return to the fringe with an urban comedy about dancers who plot their escape from prison by the staging of virtuoso dance diversions. It includes the dazzling Aichi Ono, the world record holder for the fastest head spins. Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh, Wednesday 1 to 27 August JM Main composite image: Nick Rampling; Curzon films; Sam Pollitt/Rex/Shutterstock; Nobby Clark; Lauren Greenfield

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Late-night hosts on Wednesday discussed the release of a bombshell tape in which Michael Cohen and Donald Trump discuss hush money payments, as well as the alleged Russian spy Maria Butina’s affiliation with the NRA. Samantha Bee On Full Frontal, Samantha Bee discussed Maria Butina, the young Russian woman who is charged with being a spy and infiltrating the National Rifle Association (NRA). “If the news is starting to feel like a bad movie, it’s because thanks to Maria Butina, it is,” Bee began. “Butina is the founder of the Russian pro-gun group Right to Bear Arms, which she allegedly used to infiltrate the GOP and NRA,” she continued. “Her boss, Russian mobster and naughty little boy Alexander Torshin, is being investigated for funneling Russian money into the NRA to push a pro-Russian agenda.” Bee went on to explain that Butina struck up a relationship with Paul Erickson, a South Dakota-based GOP operative who, as court documents revealed, Butina “disdained” living with. “This is why Russia hates America,” Bee joked. “When their spies go to England they sleep with Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan. When they come here they have to do collusion with Kevin from Dunder Mifflin.” By 2016, Bee explained, Butina was a fixture at NRA events. “Who cares if Butina fancied herself a half-assed James Bond character?” the host said. “The scariest thing is that foreign interests are literally working with powerful conservative groups like the NRA and it just got even easier.” The host was referring to the news that the IRS no longer requires organizations like the NRA, Goodwill and Planned Parenthood to hand over personal information about their donors. “The fact that Butina and her shady Russian criminal chose to infiltrate the NRA probably isn’t a coincidence,” Bee said. “Any of these organizations can spend up to 49% of their money on political causes and don’t have to tell anyone where it came from. This would be and is worrying with any organization, but the NRA has spent years making videos specifically to divide Americans.” Stephen Colbert “Unlike Donald Trump, I know I’m being recorded right now,” Stephen Colbert began. “Because folks, there’s a tape. Not that tape, but still. “Longtime viewers of Stormy Watch will recall that Karen McDougal is a Playboy playmate who claims she had a 10-month affair with Donald Trump,” the host continued. “McDougal’s story was hushed up after she sold the rights to it to the National Enquirer for $150,000.” Colbert added: “Trump denies the affair, and any knowledge of that payment, but last night CNN obtained one of the 12 secret Trump-Cohen tapes, this one from September 2016.” The host proceeded to air audio of the tape, “with Cohen detailing for Trump how they’re going to pay for Karen McDougal’s story”. In it, Cohen discussed opening up a company and references David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer. “He already has the rights to McDougal’s story at this point and Trump and Cohen want to buy the rights from him ASAP,” Colbert explained. “The juiciest part of the tape, and the most difficult to hear, is the section where they discuss exactly how they’re going to pay Pecker.” Trump, in this section of the tape, can be heard suggesting they pay in “cash”. “Cohen’s legal team says that on the tape Trump suggests paying off McDougal with cash, but Giuliani called into Fox News last night to disagree,” explained Colbert, who showed footage of Giuliani’s appearance, where he said no one would have paid in cash “unless you’re a complete idiot”. “OK,” Colbert concluded. “So he used cash.” Trevor Noah Finally, Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah addressed the Trump-Cohen tape. “We’ve known for a long time that President Trump once had an affair with Playboy playmate Karen McDougal,” Noah said. “But yesterday, we learned more about the conspiracy to keep this affair quiet, thanks to Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and Sopranos background actor.” Noah added: “It turns out, like so many Sopranos characters, Cohen was wearing a wire.” After playing the tape, the host continued: “Just so we’re clear on what this is, this tape is about hush money for Trump’s playmate affair, not the porn star affair, which are separate affairs. And all of that is also completely different from the whole Russia affair.” “Maybe that’s why Trump always tweets ‘witch-hunt’,” Noah joked. “Maybe he was asking: ‘Which hunt is this again?’” The host went on to clarify what legal issues are at play. “Remember this,” he said. “An affair with a playmate isn’t illegal. Neither is paying hush money. Neither is having your campaign spokesperson lie about it. The issue here is whether, by paying off the playboy model shortly before election day, Trump and the world’s worst lawyer made an unreported campaign contribution, which would be illegal.” Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, Noah noted, told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham he believes the tape is actually exculpatory for the president. “I love that the secret Playboy affair hush money tape is the evidence to help Trump,” Noah quipped. “It can, but you have to admit, it’ll probably make an awkward dinner with Melania. ‘Great news, honey. The tape about my second mistress totally gets me off the hook.’”

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Samantha Bee on Maria Butina: 'The news is starting to feel like a bad movie'

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26. Speech Debelle: Speech Therapy (2009) It’s hard not to feel sorry for Speech Debelle. In some ways a precursor to Kate Tempest, she channelled experiences such as homelessness into her debut’s smoothly jazzy raps, but her Mercury winner was met with poor sales and sparsely attended gigs. Speech Therapy isn’t bad – none of these albums are – but perhaps it’s not great enough for such an unforgiving spotlight. 25. Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future (2007) For many, the wizard-costumed, glowstick-wielding Klaxons’ victory was a “What the …?” moment. The band’s debut certainly ticked all the Mercury boxes – it felt zeitgeisty, it blended dance and psychedelia and it was rooted in the then painfully trendy “new rave” genre – but perhaps too determinedly so. Still, Golden Skans remains a cracker. 24. Alt-J: An Awesome Wave (2012) The album cemented the band’s journey from University of Leeds DIY types to the Top 20 and made them bookies’ favourites for the prize. The well-connected posh boys’ success spawned predictable social media outrage, but their debut’s clever mix of experimental glitches, daft lyrics and quirkily catchy tunes nonetheless shifted 100,000 copies. 23. Ms Dynamite: A Little Deeper (2002) Niomi McLean-Daley’s Mercury triumph was a rare early victory for British hip-hop in a field dominated by US culture; you heard Dy-na-mi-tee’s hook being sung by fans everywhere. Sixteen years on, A Little Deeper’s mix of Lauryn-Hill-inspired singing, ragga and R&B sounds somewhat of its time, but it’s not without its charms. 22. James Blake: Overgrown (2013) The classically trained electronic musician triumphed at the second attempt. Following his debut’s Mercury near-miss two years before, Overgrown saw off previous winners Arctic Monkeys and the critically beloved Laura Mvula with its disembodied vocals and eerie, neo-dubstep songwriting deconstructions. 21. Benjamin Clementine: At Least for Now (2015) The London-born winner accepted his prize in tears – as you would, had your career taken you from sleeping rough to being hailed (by Debrett’s, no less) as “one of the most influential people in Britain”. At Least for Now didn’t shift units, but the pianist tenor mixed emotion, grandeur, poetry and humour with a striking, anguished voice. 20. M People: Elegant Slumming (1994) Controversially, this saw off such era-defining albums as the Prodigy’s Music for the Jilted Generation and Blur’s Parklife. Although the Hacienda-influenced band’s advert-hogging pop was seen as dance music for Mondeo man, it shrewdly took club culture into the mainstream. 19. PJ Harvey: Stories from the City/Stories from the Sea (2001) Polly Harvey’s first Mercury-winning album is her most commercial. The title recognises the songs’ inception in New York and her coastal home in Dorset. While Big Exit is contemporary, punky melodrama, not all fans were comfortable with the album’s shift from her former edgy, ramshackle, indie-blues to a more FM radio sheen. 18. Young Fathers: Dead (2014) This Edinburgh-based, Liberian/Nigerian/Scottish experimental hip-hop trio overcame long odds to win. The Mercury did its job in shining a spotlight on a relatively unknown but deserving band whose music inventively fused electro punk and African sounds. 17. Gomez: Bring It On (1998) Gomez’s winner sold shiploads, but it was not received well among elements of the music press. However, the Bring It On 20th anniversary tour proved a hot ticket: there’s still much love among its dusty psych-blues-funk and vim-filled tales of youthful escapades. 16. Sampha: Process (2017) The singer-songwriter-cum-Beyoncé-producing-whizzkid’s winner is one of the Mercury’s most personal: the south London soul singer addressed his mother’s death from cancer and his fears for his own physical health. It’s beautiful and moving. 15. Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid (2008) The Bury band’s fourth album has quite a story behind it. They had been dropped from their label and suffered the death of a close friend, Bryan Glancy (the “seldom seen kid”). Guy Garvey and the band poured their frustrations into a set of emotional but uplifting songs, including the exuberant One Day Like This, arguably the best song of their career. 14. Roni Size/Reprazent: New Forms (1997) The Bristol collective’s debut was doubly significant: it was the first Mercury winner to come out of leftfield and, conversely, the album that took drum’n’bass into the mainstream. Twenty-one years on, the likes of Brown Paper Bag and Heroes still hold up admirably. 13. Talvin Singh: OK (1999) The tabla-player/producer’s prize marked a triumph for the emerging British-Asian underground dance music over established acts such as Manic Street Preachers and the Chemical Brothers. Although OK stalled at No 41, it remains beautifully enriching: a global travelogue of sound. 12. The xx: xx (2010) The young Londoners’ debut has been widely imitated. Still, in 2010, the Mercury winners’ stripped-down, minimalist, spacious sound – a sparse negative of Joy Division, with whispered tales of sexual longing and shades of contemporary R&B – felt as fresh as a daisy. 11. Suede: Suede (1993) Although it’s debatable whether Suede’s debut is even their best album, it certainly helped justify frothing music-paper claims about “the best new band in Britain”. Brett Anderson’s voice soars over Bernard Butler’s guitar, a pirouetting, pre-Britpop collision of glam-era David Bowie and the Smiths. 10. Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000) A man who single-handedly made the scruffy woolly hat a fashion item and performed drunken press-ups onstage, Bolton singer-songwriter Damon Gough was an uncomfortable victor. However, the mega-selling Bewilderbeast’s 18 beautifully observed songs remain widely loved. 9. Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand (2004) After the Strokes revitalised indie rock, the 2004 Mercury winners gave it an art-school makeover. The Glaswegian four-piece stylishly combined influences from Edinburgh’s Fire Engines to Los Angeles’s Sparks into sharp lyrics and killer pop songs, especially the No 3 hit Take Me Out. 8. Skepta: Konnichiwa (2016) Skepta’s British-sounding album had an international reach, finding room for a guest spot from Pharrell Williams and lyrical references to male stripping troupe the Chippendales. The 2016 winner beat off David Bowie’s Blackstar, its triumph cementing grime’s commercial second wave. 7. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (2011) Harvey is the only artist to win two Mercurys. Her most recent triumph was almost unanimously well received. Let England Shake is a dark but strangely uplifting collection of anti-war contemporary folk songs, with mesmerising lyrics, articulations of soldiers’ experiences in Iraq, zinging tunes and rabidly strummed autoharps. 6. Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (2005) Few expected the transgender vocalist now known as Anohni to triumph with an album about death and identity. There was a subsequent ruckus about whether an artist who had lived in the US since the age of 10, despite being born in Chichester, should win a British music prize at all. Still, I Am a Bird Now is beguiling, a Mercury winner unlike any other. 5. Portishead: Dummy (1995) Its impact in popularising trip-hop was gradually dulled by its own ubiquity and a glut of inferior soundalikes. Now that shoddy replicas of Sour Times and Glory Box no longer blare from shops, Dummy’s mix of Beth Gibbons’ haunting vocals, well-placed samples and inventive production sounds special once again. 4. Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006) Still the fastest-selling debut by a band in British music history, the young Sheffield indie rockers’ album swept the Mercury and the nation with Alex Turner’s tales of urban romance and prostitution, memorable put-downs (“you’re not from New York City, you’re from Rotherham”) and pithy tunes. 3. Pulp: Different Class (1996) The Sheffield sextet’s big breakthrough still sounds like the record Jarvis Cocker had waited all his life to make. Pulp’s gangly frontman poured years of sexual, social and class frustrations into Disco 2000 and, of course, Common People. The long-struggling, charismatic misfits stormed pop’s gilded palace. 2. Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (2003) Dylan Mills may have acquired a slightly goofier image since Bonkers slayed the chart, but it’s hard to overemphasise what a game-changing original this was. Startling, grim tales of inner-city life combine with stomach-rumbling bass and disorienting synths to form one of the foundation stones of grime. 1. Primal Scream: Screamadelica (1992) It’s faintly disturbing to think that the first Mercury winner is the best, but Primal Scream’s genre-busting colossus remains the benchmark. The hedonistic, record-box-scouring Scots had already been fey, jangling Byrdsy types and leather-trousered Stooges aficionados before the combined influence of ecstasy, acid house clubs and DJ Andrew Weatherall (as co-producer) came into the mix. Screamadelica captured the zeitgeist, like any Mercury winner should, with its mix of dub, house, indie-dance and – in Loaded, Movin’ On Up and Come Together – era-defining but timeless anthems.

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2018-07-26T10:45:01Z

Every Mercury prize-winning album – ranked!

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Last December, when Lily Cole was appointed creative partner of the Brontë Society for 2018, it caused a brouhaha. Brontë expert Nick Holland resigned from the society, describing the decision as “a disgrace” and “rank farce”. Yes, Cole might have a double first in history of art from Cambridge University, but what concerned him was that she had chosen to make her living as a model. “The central question,” Holland huffed, “should be, ‘What would Emily Brontë think if she found that the role of chief ‘artist’ and organiser in her celebratory year was a supermodel?’ We all know the answer to that, and anyone who doesn’t isn’t fit to make the decision or have any role in the governance of the Brontë Society.” Today Cole says she was not shocked by Holland’s fury, but by the fact that it became a global story. “It’s not surprising when you get people with negative behaviour and attitudes. I was definitely more surprised by the shit-storm that followed. I just thought it was a nice little project to support. I was surprised by the media’s attention.” Perhaps she shouldn’t have been. After all, it came in the midst of #MeToo. Women were calling men out for inappropriate behaviour and, in this case, Holland had happily outed himself as a snob deluxe. Cole refers to him as “He who shall not be named” and laughs. Does she genuinely not like naming Holland? “I don’t like giving it more attention than it’s due. It’s actually really easy to join a society and leave a society. That’s how the story read, right? ‘Man leaves society’ – as if it’s a big deal.” Well no, I say. It read more like: “Man attacks woman for being model.” She nods. “Totally. In the zeitgeist of the moment, the seeming prejudice was what enlisted such a counterargument.” She looks at me. “Does that make sense?” Cole tends towards the wordy. “I was quite warmed by people’s intolerance of what was seen as prejudicial.” Which is her way of saying she appreciated the support she got. Now – and Holland may not like this – she has had the temerity to make a short film inspired by Heathcliff, the character in Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights. To celebrate the writer’s bicentenary, it will be screened this weekend at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Yorkshire, where the family lived. After three short documentaries, this is the first fictional film Cole has directed. Called Balls, it’s a moving, elliptical reimagining of Heathcliff’s first few months. His black Liverpudlian single mother takes him to the Foundling Hospital to see if they will accept him because she cannot bring him up by herself. The title refers to the fact that, initially, the hospital accepted children on a lottery basis: mothers who picked white balls from a bag were accepted, those who picked black balls were turned away, and reds meant the reserve list. In the film, the hospital is governed by a board of stern, moralistic men dedicated to helping the deserving poor. So we see Heathcliff’s mother asked whether she was raped (no), whether she had sex with the man more than once (yes), how she has supported the child (through selling everything she owns), and whether it is a child of colour (“Are you kidding?” she replies). Another character, a white mother, is regarded more sympathetically – because she went to Sunday school, her baby is a product of rape, and she was supported by a family friend. It is 16 years – more than half her lifetime – since Cole was whisked away from school on the sly at the age of 14 and transformed into a supermodel (by 21, she was worth at least £4m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List). At 30, she is little changed: tall with a small, doll-like face, startling blue eyes and a tiny buttercup mouth. What makes her such a fascinating model is her ability to shape-shift, segueing from plain to beautiful, angelic to creepy, little girl to old hag, sex bomb to Victorian prude. This chameleon-like quality has served her well in her acting career, where she is equally at home playing Elizabeth I, a teenage temptress in the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, and Polly the geek in St Trinian’s. We meet at Impossible, the social enterprise she runs with her partner Kwame Ferreira. It’s an apt name because the business is as impossible to pigeonhole as she is. Cole variously calls it a “Tinder for favours”, a skills swap-shop, and an “innovator and incubator”. Impossible, like Cole, aims high. “We are a group of people,” says its website, “who have come together to help solve meaningful problems and guide global change.” The office, situated at London Bridge, is painted electric blue on the outside and looks like a cross between an art gallery and a dream playroom inside. In the kitchen area, two plates are piled high with onions. The charming Ferreira tells me it’s an art installation called Don’t Cry For Me. He’s joking – but I don’t think the onions are there for the eating. Over the past year, Cole has also researched the life of Brontë and the world of Wuthering Heights. She talks about how everything has changed over the past 200 years, largely for the better. “We have developed cures for diseases and doubled our lifespans. In the last few decades alone, global hunger has dropped 20% and maternal mortality by 44%.” Yes, she says, there are still huge problems – “I was shocked to learn that one to two women die every week in the UK because of domestic violence” – but it is too easy to accentuate the negative. Cole likes to have “data” to hand for every issue she discusses. And, true to form, she pulls out a fact to prove her point about negativity. “In his book Enlightenment Now,” she says, “Steven Pinker shows that bad news travels faster than good news.” Cole’s university thesis was called Impossible Utopias. It argued that, just because utopia is an impossibility, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for it. It’s funny, I say, so many people think of you as serious-minded, forever banging on about environmental catastrophe or the refugee crisis, yet at heart you are relentlessly ... She finishes off the sentence for me: “Optimistic.” She smiles. “Look at multiple data points. We have made such huge progress over the last however many hundreds of years. It’s important to recognise that trajectory because it’s inspiring.” Her own trajectory is inspiring, too. Cole and her sister were brought up in London by her mother, an artist called Patience Owen. Her parents split up when she was seven weeks old. Cole’s early life was tough, though she doesn’t like to talk about it. Her mother struggled with a rare genetic tissues disorder that required many operations. Young Lily was farmed out to relations and went from school to school. Between the ages of six and eight, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London and hated it. “It felt very competitive and Fame-y and I was bullied a bit.” I ask why. She looks at me and says it’s a boring question that she’s answered many times. “I was bullied for having red hair. It’s still an issue in schools.” She pauses. “This is not related to Wuthering Heights. This is deeply personal.” Cole guards her privacy ferociously. At the age of eight, she returned to a regular state school, joined the football team, formed a band, acted in plays, made great friends, and loved it. It was at school that she first read Wuthering Heights – and it made a huge impact. “I had a really strong reaction to Heathcliff.” In what way? She looks embarrassed. “It was, unfortunately, positive. I fell for the really bad thing, like people do. I found him attractive. But the more I read it, the less I like him, the more I see how violent and awful he is. ” There’s no need to apologise, I say. “I’m not apologising, but it’s interesting to recognise it, right? It’s interesting how polarising he is. I asked a lot of ordinary people about Heathcliff. Half the women find him a violent domestic abuser and can’t understand why he has been painted as a romantic figure. Others still paint him as a romantic figure.” The genius of the novel, she says, lies in the characters being so flawed. By the time you get to see what a monster Heathcliff is, you already love him for his passion and pity him for the abuse he suffered as a child. At 14, Cole started modelling and began to live a double life: schoolgirl and international star. She loved her state school, but it did not love her trotting off around the world during term-time. “I had to pretend I was sick to go and do jobs, which was quite stressful. There was one job where they cut my hair and dyed it. I was in tears because I had to hide it under hair clips and try to pretend I’d been ill.” She left for the prestigious selective grammar school Latymer, which was more tolerant. We hear so many horror stories about the modelling world – the abuse, the pressure to lose weight and take drugs – but Cole says it transformed her life. “It can be a horrible industry. But it was a massive escapism for me. I was a kid on the streets of London and I could suddenly travel the world.” By the time she got to Cambridge, she was a renowned supermodel. What was it like being well known as a student? Did it change the way people interracted with you? She gives me a forbidding look. “Oh, these questions are so boring! Come on, Simon, do better than that. I’ve been asked it so many times .” Look, I say, few students are famous. “I did feel slightly alienated because I had paparazzi there occasionally, which is a weird thing, right? Walking out of a lecture hall – to paparazzi. There are lots of dodgy pictures of me poorly dressed on a bicycle going around Cambridge. But everybody has crazy stories.” Not everybody has stories like that, I say. Your experience was hardly the norm. “Cool. Great. I’ve found my therapist,” she says sarcastically. “You gave me permission to not be normal.” Ferreira walks into the room with Wylde, their gorgeous two-year-old daughter who is named after Oscar, albeit with an exotic twist. “He’s digging so deep,” she says. “You need to rescue me.” It’s unclear whether she’s talking to Ferreira or Wylde. Cole is lovely and natural with Wylde, who is wearing a T-shirt that says B is for Bob alongside a picture of Bob Marley. “Do you like her T-shirt?” says Cole. “That’s how we teach the alphabet.” She giggles. Despite her data-driven answers and her displeasure at having her personal space invaded, there is something warm and coltish about Cole. It’s great to go through life with such a desire to do good, and the absolute conviction that you can make a positive difference. Did she ever consider resigning from the Brontë Society after Holland’s attack? She looks aghast. “No. I had a commitment. That would have made no sense at all. It would have suggested there was credence to what he was saying.” What she particularly disliked about his comments were how proscriptive they were. “There was definitely a judgment of what modelling represents – how once you’ve made that choice, it limits your choice in later life. We all do lots of jobs, right?” She mentions Andrea Arnold, a film-maker she adores who also made a Wuthering Heights film. “She used to present a kids’ TV show. We all have a history of doing different jobs when we’re younger. That shouldn’t colour our options in later life.” If she had to restrict herself to one one job, what would it be? “Film-making, because it’s the thing I’m most excited by. I don’t really model any more.” Does she regard that as her former life? “Yes.” Anyway, she says, there was nothing new about what Holland said. She’d heard it all before and continues to do so today. “If I put a political opinion on Twitter, I’ll often find people replying saying, ‘You’re a model – how can you have an opinion about what the government should do?’” In 1850, Charlotte Brontë explained why she and her sisters Emily and Anne all used pseudonyms. “We did not like to declare ourselves women,” she wrote, “because we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice.” When Cole first reacted to Holland’s onslaught, she said she was considering using a pseudonym for her film as an act of solidarity with the Brontë sisters. Was she being serious? “I did genuinely consider it,” she says. “It would be nice to see people’s responses disassociated from whatever they might expect from me. But in reality, it wasn’t feasible.” More importantly, she decided it was inappropriate. “My producer said, ‘Own it. Be proud.’” She has done – and she is. Balls premieres at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, on 29 July. It will be presented at the Foundling Museum, London, 31 July-2 December. Lily Cole and Bonnie Greer will be in conversation after a screening at FACT, Liverpool, on 2 August.

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Lily Cole: why I made a film about 'violent, awful' Heathcliff

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Donald Trump’s star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood has been destroyed. According to the Los Angeles Times, the LAPD received a call from the man who allegedly took a pickaxe to the president’s spot on the strip in Los Angeles. Reports claim the suspect arrived with a guitar case before taking out the implement to destroy the star. While he had fled the scene by the time officers arrived, he has since turned himself in and remains in police custody. A source claimed he would probably be charged with felony vandalism. While there is private security in the area, they struggled to intervene as they do not possess the same powers as law enforcement officers. It’s not the first time the star has been the target of an attack, with multiple incidents of vandalism. In 2016, James Lambert Otis, 53, was recorded using a jackhammer and a pickaxe to remove Trump’s name. He said he was motivated by the infamous Access Hollywood video in which the future president used lewd terminology to describe infidelity. Otis was sentenced to three years’ probation, 20 days of community service and paid $4,400 for the damage. The star has also been the subject of protest art, with a wall erected around it in 2016 to symbolize the president’s policy on immigration. The strip in Hollywood features multiple stars dedicated to celebrities, with 2018 honorees including Jeff Goldblum, Jack Black, Kirsten Dunst and Zoe Saldana. Recipients are selected by a committee that considers applications throughout the year and stars are purchased for $30,000.

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2018-07-25T14:47:02Z

Donald Trump's Walk of Fame star destroyed in Hollywood

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Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed reports that Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of former government officials and the latest from the interior and education departments. Stephen Colbert “You’ve got to remember that you’re not crazy, no matter what Donald Trump says,” Stephen Colbert began, showing a clip of Trump at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention saying: “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” “Oh, good,” the host joked. “I was worried because what I’m seeing and reading is that the president is a racist, horny, old burger-goblin who literally steals children from poor people. “Every day, just like that, Donald Trump gets a little more brazen,” Colbert continued, referencing a New York Times report that the president is considering removing the security clearances of former officials who have criticized him. Colbert went on: “Up until this moment, former senior officials typically kept their intelligence clearances because having such status allows them to be consulted by their successors on issues of vital national security interest, where their experience and institutional knowledge can offer priceless context. “But you know what they say?” the host added. “Those who fail to learn from history … are Donald Trump.” Colbert then showed footage of Senator Rand Paul stating, in reference to the former CIA director John Brennan, “I don’t think we should reveal secrets to people who are calling the commander-in-chief treasonous. “So the only people who should have security clearance are people who always agree with the president?” asked Colbert. “Well, then, please welcome new CIA director Don and Eric stacked on top of each other in a trench coat.” Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah turned his focus to the administration’s rollback of Obama-era policies protecting the environment and endangered species. “They’re fighting so many battles,” he said, “sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all their enemies: Crooked Hillary, fake news media, the deep state witch-hunt, Canada and then, of course, their biggest enemy of all, the environment.” Noah showed news coverage revealing that the secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, attempted to shrink national monuments for logging, ranching and energy development, plans shown in released emails the department later tried to retract. “I don’t know what’s worse,” Noah said. “The fact that the interior department was scheming about how to handle federal land to help oil and timber businesses, or the fact that they thought they could take back the emails they mistakenly sent out.” Referencing reports the government would dismiss archaeological discoveries to procure more oil, Noah joked: “Imagine if Trump was president during Jurassic Park.” Additionally, Noah said, the administration planned to end protections for animals in danger of extinction, guaranteed under the Endangered Species Act. “What the fuck? This is insane,” Noah said, showing news coverage explaining how Trump’s policies are a boon to large corporate polluters. “You may be wondering: why would anyone want to weaken the Endangered Species Act? Well, it’s the same reason the Trump administration does anything: money.” Seth Meyers Meanwhile, NBC’s Seth Meyers discussed changes Betsy DeVos is making to the department of education, specifically its office of civil rights. “It’s important to know that while the media focuses on Trump’s daily tweets and scandals, outbursts and distractions, the government he installed is hard at work making policy that affects our lives,” he began. “And one of those installations, secretary of education Betsy DeVos, has been quietly overseeing the massive rollback of civil rights regulations in her department. “Within the department of education, there’s an important office called the office for civil rights,” the host explained. “Now, for people who can’t afford a lawyer, appealing to this office is often the only way they can seek justice if they feel a civil rights violation has occurred.” Meyers added: “The problem is, it doesn’t seem like Betsy DeVos knows much about it.” The show cut to DeVos’s appearance in May before a House committee, where, when asked what “vigorous enforcement of civil rights in the context of schools today” would look like, she replied: “Following the law and enforcing the law as stated.” “Shortly after that exchange,” Meyers said, “three civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, which incidentally is how Betsy Devos spells kneecap, sued the Department of Education over new procedures that allow its office for civil rights to dismiss complaints that it determines to be burdensome.” Instead, the office is using its resources to look into other claims, like whether programs supporting women at Yale violate a federal law by discriminating against men. “That’s right, the civil rights office is taking up the cause of white guys trying to get into Yale,” Meyers quipped. “I believe it was Martin Luther King who said, ‘I have a dream, that my bro Chad could be accepted to Yale with a 2.6 GPA and a letter from his dad.’”

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2018-07-25T14:25:06Z

Stephen Colbert: 'Those who fail to learn from history … are Donald Trump'

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Late-night hosts on Monday discussed Donald Trump’s threat to the Iranian president and reports that former the Trump attorney Michael Cohen secretly taped conversations with his client about hush payments to a Playboy playmate. Stephen Colbert: ‘Trump is very upset’ Stephen Colbert began by ringing in another Shark Week. “Why is Shark Week different from all other Shark Weeks?” he asked. “Because this is the first Shark Week since we learned that, in an attempt to seduce Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump invited her to watch two and a half hours of Shark Week. “Speaking of Stormy Daniels, it’s time for tonight’s edition of Stormy Watch, Karen McDougal edition,” said the host. “McDougal is the former Playboy playmate who allegedly had a yearlong affair with Donald Trump beginning just three months after the birth of his and Melania’s son, roughly the same time he slept with Stormy Daniels. “Trump has always denied the affair with McDougal,” Colbert continued, “but on Friday we found out that Michael Cohen secretly taped Trump discussing payments to McDougal.” Before launching into an impression of Richard Nixon, Colbert showed news coverage of the bombshell. “Trump is very upset,” he explained, citing a report from the Daily Beast that claimed the president said, “I can’t believe Michael would do this to me.” Colbert then showed footage of Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, saying he thinks there are additional tapes of Trump. “Avenatti was right, because today it was revealed the feds actually have 12 Michael Cohen audio recordings,” Colbert said, before launching into his rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas. Trevor Noah: ‘Putin annexed Trump’s balls in Helsinki’ Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah also covered reports about Cohen’s audiotapes. “Ever since Vladimir Putin annexed Trump’s balls in Helsinki, President Trump has been having a rough time back home,” the host began. “Half of America thinks he acted treasonous with Putin, some Republicans say he’s being manipulated, and last week Paul Ryan furrowed his brow extra hard, so you know he means business. “Things weren’t going well for Trump, and then this story broke,” Noah added, referring to the news that Cohen recorded then candidate Trump discussing payments to McDougal. The host called the tapes “the perfect audiobook for America’s road trip to hell”. “The president wants you to know that he has nothing to hide,” said the host, showing Trump’s tweet in which he calls the act of an attorney recording conversations with his clients “inconceivable” and “perhaps illegal”. “At this point, it would be weirder if Russia didn’t have blackmail material on Trump, because everyone seems to have blackmail material on President Trump,” Noah said. “Michael Cohen has tapes, Access Hollywood has tapes, Howard Stern has tapes. Even Eric has tapes: his most prized possession is a voicemail his dad left him during a butt dial.” Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Is it possible he thinks he’s on Snapchat?’ Finally, Jimmy Kimmel addressed Trump’s escalation of rhetoric with Iran. “The president was up past his bedtime last night lashing out after the president of Iran,” Hassan Rouhani, “said that ‘America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.’ “And to that, Trump responded with the mother of all-caps,” said Kimmel, reading aloud the president’s tweet directed at President Rouani. “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,” wrote the president. “WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!” “It’s interesting that Trump would react so strongly to what’s typical Iranian rhetoric,” said Kimmel. “These people have the word ‘Death to America’ on their license plate frames.” The host then wondered with Trump “would threaten Iran with nuclear war when he let Vladimir Putin practically run his fingers through his hair”, before invoking past tweets from Trump in which he claimed Barack Obama would attack Iran in order to get re-elected and project toughness. “And now look at who’s threatening Iran to show how tough he is,” Kimmel said. “He does know these tweets don’t disappear, right? Is it possible he thinks he’s on Snapchat?”

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2018-07-24T14:34:23Z

Trevor Noah on the Michael Cohen tapes: 'The perfect audiobook for our road trip to hell'

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A group of UK museums is making a $20m (£15.2m) bid to acquire thousands of relics of the Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. The objects recovered from the seabed over decades of deep-sea diving expeditions include parts of the doomed vessel, furnishings, personal possessions, and fittings from the ornate first-class rooms, which helped convince the passengers they were cocooned in luxury on an unsinkable ship. The collection is at risk of being split up because the company that owns it in the United States, and has toured it worldwide in a series of blockbuster exhibitions, has filed for bankruptcy. It has also sought permission to sell off individual star items. If the bid to keep the entire 5,500-object collection in public ownership succeeds, the UK museums will also try to acquire responsibility for protecting the wreck itself, which lies at a depth of 3660 metres (12,000ft) in the north Atlantic. The bid from the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, Titanic Belfast – which is on the site where the ship was built and launched – the Northern Ireland Titanic Foundation and the National Museums of Northern Ireland, has the backing of James Cameron, director of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, and Robert Ballard, the former US naval commander who located the wreck site in 1985 and led diving expeditions from 1987. The National Geographic Society is also backing the bid and has launched the fundraising appeal with a $500,000 donation. Ballard attended the launch of the appeal at the award-winning Titanic visitor attraction in Belfast. “I’m lending my voice to this campaign as it is the right thing to do,” he said. “This bid is the only viable option to retain the integrity of the Titanic collection. The collection deserves to be returned home to where its journey began.” Cameron sent a video message of support. “The story of the Titanic has captivated the imaginations, hearts and minds of people around the world. It’s played an important role in my own life — as a film-maker, a deep-sea explorer and as an advocate of deep-ocean research. “The sinking of the Titanic was a heart-breaking moment in history. Securing the irreplaceable collection of artefacts – protecting and preserving them for future generations by placing them in the public trust – is a unique and important opportunity to honour the 1,503 passengers and crew who died.” Sections of elaborate carving from the Titanic were included in the Ocean Liners exhibition at the V&A in London this year, and there have been queues across the world for every major exhibition about the wreck. The 1994 exhibition at the museum in Greenwich was opened by two survivors, Edith Haisman and Millvina Dean. Dean, the youngest known passenger, who was lowered to a lifeboat in a mail sack, became the last survivor of the disaster, dying aged 97 in 2009. Her ashes were scattered from a launch at the docks in Southampton from which the Titanic set sail. Months of delicate negotiations have preceded the public announcement of the bid, after the US company Premier Exhibitions Inc, which owns the company that holds both the Titanic collection and the salvage rights to the wreck, announced bankruptcy. Late last year, as the joint museums bid came together, it suspended an attempt to win legal permission to split up and auction the collection. Kevin Fewster, director of the National Maritime Museum, said in Belfast: “In early 2017, when I heard the news of the current owner’s bankruptcy, I felt it was our duty to try to save the collection as a whole.Alongside our partners, we will ensure that the collection is protected and preserved for generations to come.” Conal Harvey, deputy director of Titanic Belfast, which opened in 2012 in the derelict former Harland and Wolff shipbuilding docks, and was voted the leading visitor attraction in the world in 2016, said the relics risked being sold to private collectors and lost as an identifiable collection: “We are campaigning to bring these artefacts home where they will protected and preserved through public ownership and on display for the world to enjoy.” The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich has a poignant collection of Titanic souvenirs, including a watch whose hands stopped at the moment 27-year-old Robert Douglas Norman entered the icy water and drowned, and a music box toy pig, a gift from the mother of a survivor, Edith Rosenbaum.

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Museums join forces to bring Titanic relics to the UK

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1. Jason Momoa is king of the oceans – and of Hall H The clear highlight of DC’s big Hall H presentation was the unveiling of a full trailer for their upcoming Aquaman solo film. A longtime Comic-Con favorite from his Game of Thrones days, star Jason Momoa got a hero’s welcome when he took the stage to promote the comics giant’s most CGI-heavy adventure yet. Momoa’s Aquaman rules the underwater kingdom of Atlantis with a certain unease, feeling self-conscious about his heritage as half-human and half-Atlantean, but he’ll have to find himself in time to broker a peace between his war hawk half-brother and the surface world. The trailer promised a pre-viz extravaganza of zero-gravity camerawork and seafaring fauna, from steed-sized seahorses to massive claw-clacking crab-monsters. Vibrant, odd and rowdy as its trucker-turned-god protagonist, Aquaman looks like a refreshing change of pace for a DC universe that’s been mired in the dour as of late. 2. Shazam will bring some levity to the DC Universe Speaking of DC moving in new directions: the often po-faced studio commits fully to funny with this resurrection of a second-stringer superhero created as a goofier alternative to Superman. DC’s presentation also included a first look at the action tentpole in which Disney Channel grad Asher Angel plays Billy Batson, a 14-year-old foster kid trying to adjust to his latest home and family. On an ordinary subway ride, he’s imbued with the power to transform into a strapping, cape-clad crimefighter (with the chiseled face of former Chuck star Zachary Levi) simply by uttering “Shazam!” The new trailer plays up a lighter tone and treats the premise as something closer to a body-swap comedy à la Freaky Friday, complete with Billy using his grownup good looks to impress the ladies. It’s safe to laugh again! 3. Godzilla’s got company for King of the Monsters The final scene of 2014’s Godzilla reboot heralded the impending arrival of the mega-lizard’s kaiju brethren, but the public got their first eyeful of the complete cast of characters with the trailer for this hotly anticipated sequel. Roll call: Godzilla’s back, as is his winged foe Mothra, while new on the scene are the pterrible pterodactyl Rodan and the three-headed behemoth known as King Ghidorah. Even more beasts will be up and about during this cataclysmic clash for the fate of the planet, as the “Titans” emerge from an ancient slumber to purge the world of the humans poisoning it. (It’s hard not to root for the giant airborne reptile torching the US Capitol building.) The puny humans scurry to avoid getting crushed underfoot as elemental forces eons old draw on the power of Mother Earth’s volcanoes, oceans, sky – and, again, there’s going to be a three-headed dragon. 4. Doctor Who’s first female lead has a new zest for life It’s been a full year since the BBC announced that the 13th iteration of the time-hopping traveler known as The Doctor would be played by Jodie Whittaker, and with fandom excitement reaching frothy-mouthed levels, the time was right to show off the first footage from next season’s episodes. The first female Doctor has a sense of guileless excitement about her, eager to explore a great big universe with a childlike wonder. The quick clip shows her wielding a newly redesigned sonic screwdriver, whizzing through the space-time continuum, and inviting a fresh trio of companions (Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill) to be her “best friends”. Bright primary colors and an altogether bouncier visual sensibility make this a bold step in an unprecedented direction, even for a series that’s made its name on whimsy. 5. American Horror Story is hurtling toward end times TV overlord Ryan Murphy landed his most popular creation with the unkillable American Horror Story anthology series, and for the show’s eighth season, he’s dipping into his own past. The most well-received seasons were the first and third, the Murder House and Coven arcs, so that’s just where Murphy’s taking his inspiration; the to-be-released Apocalypse season will focus on the arrival of a satanic infant destined to bring about the final reckoning for humankind, and will reportedly fuse mythology from those earlier episodes. Casting has yet to be revealed, but fans will be up in arms if perennial favorites Jessica Lange and Evan Peters aren’t on the call sheet. Murphy described the episodes in the can as “heightened”, a return to the all-out lunacy of his more outré work – as if audiences expected anything less. 6. Fantastic Beasts returns with an easy-on-the-eye Dumbledore “Hot Young Dumbledore”, as his adoring public has nicknamed him, was the toast of Warner Bros’ panel promoting the follow-up to the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The ornately titled Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald features Jude Law as the Hogwarts head during his salad days, as he tangles with the evil wizard that lends the film its title (portrayed by an aptly cast Johnny Depp). Somewhere in the mix is our man Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), continuing to catalogue the magical animal kingdom as a secret war rages around him and his romantic opposite Tina (Katherine Waterston). So it’s only natural that the clip contains more enchanted critters than you can shake a wand at, from giant glowing-eyed cats to serpents made of seaweed to one particularly quizzical-looking bird – the whole computer-generated menagerie. 7. Supergirl and Nicole Maines create TV’s first trans superhero The CW had no shortage of sizzle reels and A-lister appearances, but the most significant revelation from the youth-geared channel’s presentation was a bit of casting. When Supergirl returns for its fourth season in October, the new episodes will include a small but meaningful milestone: in her role as humanoid alien Nia Nal, activist Nicole Maines will be television’s first transgender superhero. Those in the know speculate that her character will be a reinterpretation of the comics’ Nura Nal, AKA the clairvoyant Dream Girl, a trusted ally of the caped defender Supergirl (Melissa Benoist). Whether she’ll be friend or foe in this new incarnation has yet to be seen, but either way, it’s another step in the right direction for a trans community fighting for representation and visibility. Maines invoked a famous comics quotation when asked for comment: “With great power comes great responsibility.” 8. Sarah Paulson could be the secret weapon of Glass A stinger scene smuggled at the end of Split foretold a crossover with Unbreakable, an earlier M Night Shyamalan film that introduced the unhinged terrorist Mr Glass (Samuel L Jackson) and the extrasensory-enabled David Dunn (Bruce Willis). That day is close, with a tantalizing trailer for this unorthodox superhero thriller now online. Fans had an especially strong reaction not to the main trio (completed by James McAvoy as Split’s dissociative mutant Kevin, better known as “The Monster”) but to their therapist Dr Ellie Staple, an expert on delusions of grandeur who has diagnosed her superpowered patients with a bad case of being crazy. Played by people’s champion Sarah Paulson, she’s the major new face in a film that also brings back Anya Taylor-Joy’s Casey Cooke from Split. The Shyamalan connected universe is getting bigger all the time. 9. Ladies take the lead for The Walking Dead’s ninth season Change is in the humid, stench-heavy air on AMC’s ongoing zombie drama. Cast members Andrew Lincoln and Lauren Cohan have both declared that the ninth go-round will be their last as grizzled survivor Rick Grimes and hardy leader Maggie Rhee, respectively. More upheaval still comes from a switch-up in the showrunner’s seat, as seasoned writer Angela Kang will take over for Scott Gimple. She’s made no bones – gnawed-upon or otherwise – about her intention to foreground the female characters in a season moving on from the late tyrant Negan and the All Out War arc. The new primary villain will be Alpha (Samantha Morton), the leader of a clan that wears the skin of the undead to blend in and call themselves The Whisperers. On a show that deals death as its stock in trade, nobody is safe, and some major characters are sure to meet with a bloody demise as this series saunters on like so many flesh-starved walkers. 10. Familiar face will emerge from shadows on Better Call Saul The ballad of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) continues as this prequel series to Breaking Bad inches closer and closer to overlapping with its source material. A sign of the advancing times arrives in a young Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), the motivated young conniver who would grow up to be the mild-mannered kingpin/fast-food magnate that terrorized Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Completist viewers will also recognize the doomed Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and Lydia (Laura Fraser) as the man who would be Saul Goodman attempts to build his rickety legal empire while straddling assorted moral dividing lines. He’s trapped in an existential funk following the – spoiler alert – death of his estranged brother Chuck at the finale of last season, but constant peril tends to shake a man out of suck states. His dealings with bottom-feeders and other disreputable types always places him in someone or other’s crosshair, and Gus didn’t build his kingdom on fried chicken alone.

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From Aquaman to The Walking Dead: 10 things we learned from Comic-Con 2018

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Comedian Trevor Noah has responded to criticism of a racist joke he made about Aboriginal Australians in 2013, after footage of the routine was circulated on social media, saying he had “vowed never to make a joke like that again”. A number of prominent Indigenous Australians called for the boycott of Noah’s upcoming tour of Australia after the video of a standup routine in which he made racist jokes about Aboriginal women and their appearance resurfaced online. “All women of every race can be beautiful,” the comedian and host of the Daily Show said during the routine from five years ago. “And I know some of you are sitting there now going, ‘Oh Trevor ... I’ve never seen a beautiful Aborigine.’ But you know what you say? You say, ‘Yet.’ Because you haven’t seen all of them, right? “Plus it’s not always about looks, maybe Aborigine women do special things, maybe they’ll just like, jump on top of you.” Noah also imitated the sound of a didgeridoo to imply oral sex during the routine. The routine was shared on Twitter by former NRL player Joe Williams, who called it “utterly unacceptable”. Williams, who is Indigenous, wrote to Noah that “as a man of colour, you are usually in point with racism & divide - here you are perpetrating & encouraging racial abuse”. The Tweet prompted anger on the social media site, and calls to boycott Noah’s August appearances in Australia. Writer and academic Anita Heiss wrote that she was “disgusted and appalled” by Noah’s comments, and called on fans to boycott his show. “That kind of ‘humour’ is not funny and does damage!” she wrote. Noah responded to the criticism in the early hours of Monday morning in Australia, conceding the routine was inappropriate. “After visiting Australia’s Bunjilaka museum and learning about Aboriginal history first hand I vowed never to make a joke like that again,” he wrote to Williams and Heiss. “And I haven’t. I’ll make sure the clip from 2013 is not promoted in any way.” The South African-born comedian rose to prominence after he took over hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show in 2015 following Jon Stewart’s retirement. Immediately after the hosting gig was announced, Noah was criticised for many tasteless jokes he had previously made on Twitter about women, Jews and other groups. Noah also made headlines recently after he quipped that Africa had won the World Cup, not France, a reference to the football side’s racial diversity.

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Trevor Noah responds to boycott calls over racist joke about Aboriginal women

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jul/22/on-my-radar-rose-wylie-escobedo-picasso-sportsman

Artist Rose Wylie was born in 1934 in Kent. Not finding fame until her mid-70s, she has since exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and at Tate Britain. As a young woman, she was painted by Anthony Devas for the Aero Girl ad campaign. Her current work juxtaposes bright, abstract paintings with plain, unprimed canvases. In 2014 she won the John Moores Painting prize and in 2015 the Charles Wollaston award for “most distinguished work” in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She is the subject of Imagine, which airs on BBC One tonight. 1. Book Dark Ecology, Timothy Morton (2016) A little while ago I decided to give up reading, so I’d have much more time for painting and drawing. But I’ve been told I must read this book, and I think it’s very important. It argues that the current dualism between man and nature is a mistake; that separation shouldn’t exist, but we’ve pushed it in terms of agriculture, industrial food production and so on. On a smaller scale, I’m interested because I have a garden which I do not try to control; it takes its own shape. A lot of people see it as neglect, but I don’t, and it’s interesting to substantiate what I’m doing with more general movements as expressed in books like this. 2. Talk Frida Escobedo, Serpentine Gallery I went to this very good live panel discussion last month. Escobedo, who has done this year’s pavilion at the Serpentine, was in conversation with one of her tutors [architect Mohsen Mostafavi], the woman who’d written the text for her catalogue [Marina Otero Verzier] and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. They talked about building in a sense which embraced nature: her pavilion has opacity and transparency, depending on where you stand, so the outside comes in sometimes but not all the time. This led to her ideas about duration and modality. I actually found the pavilion more interesting after the talk. And Escobedo reminded me of Frida Kahlo, because she is Mexican and her name was Frida and she had a quite lively, very definite face. I liked her a lot. 3. Film A Fantastic Woman (Dir: Sebastián Lelio, 2017) I thought it was interesting that it was actually a transgender actress, Daniela Vega, taking the part of a transgender woman in this film. It’s about the difficulty she has, as a transgender person, with the society around her in Santiago, Chile. Vega was brilliant, and as a painter I appreciated that she has a marvellous face. Someone in the film referred to her legs as footballer legs, but in fact she had wonderful legs and she wore the most terrific little ankle boots, which cut her legs off visually in a very good proportion, rather like Pina Bausch would have done. The very notion of somebody acting according to what they felt was their identity, and finding opposition from society, is a very contemporary theme. 4. Architecture The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba I can’t stop using the Mosque of Córdoba as an example of glorious, defiant excess. I haven’t actually been there, but my son went to Córdoba recently and showed me photographs of the mosque, which dates back to the tenth century and was later converted to a Roman Catholic church. I was exhilarated to see these rows and rows of pillars and striped arches running down visually on top of each other. It’s so wondrously excessive, and the colours – flowerpot-orange on stone putty – completely fit. I used a similar colour in a painting I did called Tube Girls, based on a photograph by Malick Sidibé. 5. Exhibition Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy, at Tate Modern I haven’t seen the Frida Kahlo show at the V&A yet, so I’m going with Picasso at Tate Modern. It was a great idea to narrow it down to one year’s painting, and I liked the difference between the beginning of the show – which was darker and more serious – and the marvellous relief as you go through. There were a few paintings I hadn’t seen before, and I found them very good. One that stood out was of Dora Maar, with a very white and completely round face turned up. It reminded me of a painting I’d just done of a completely round face on a plain canvas. When I saw the Picasso, I got a sort of shimmer from it, a sense of shared invention. 6. Restaurant The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent I rarely go to restaurants – I’m a poor artist – but the chef-owner of the Sportsman, Stephen Harris, is a friend of my children, so I do occasionally go there. I like the building, the fact that it doesn’t look tarted up – it’s the right colour for the edge of the sea. There are nice planks on the floor… I like planks. He makes his own butter and salt, which doesn’t actually matter too much to me, but I think it matters to other people. He once sent me this delicious steak and kidney pie with an oyster in the middle – that was a nice touch. I very much like his attitude.

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2018-07-22T09:00:00Z

Rose Wylie’s cultural highlights

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/22/on-my-radar-rose-wylie-escobedo-picasso-sportsman

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jul/20/stephen-colbert-marina-butina-trump-colbert-meyers-fallon

Late-night hosts discussed relations between the US and Russia following the fallout over Donald Trump’s much-criticized press conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Stephen Colbert On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert referred to the US-Russia summit as “Helsinki Helsucking” before joking that “Putin was playing chess while Trump was eating his own checkers”. News emerged yesterday that the president wanted to invite Putin to the White House in the fall, an idea that’s been widely condemned. In character as Trump, Colbert joked: “I want Putin for a sushi dinner, I want Cosby for the slumber party, Harvey Weinstein for movie night and security will be handled by MS-13.” He continued: “We know Trump is in Putin’s pocket but the reason remains, why? There are two possible answers: either Putin has something on him or he’s an idiot, and there’s plenty of proof on both sides. He does everything Putin asks for, but on the other hand, he can’t spell, he confused HIV with HPV and he doesn’t understand why we fought the civil war.” Trevor Noah On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah took time to dissect the story of Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who is being charged with spying for the Kremlin. “It’s no surprise that Russians send spies to the US,” Noah said. “I mean, a spying Russian is as normal as a white person calling the cops on their shadow.” Noah also invited correspondent Michael Kosta to discuss the story and he expressed frustration over how she used social media and appeared in a GQ photoshoot rather than remaining as covert as old-fashioned movie spies. “Maria Butina put less effort into her mission than I put into my first marriage,” he said. “These Russians aren’t even trying any more.” Seth Meyers On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host stated: “Russia isn’t just an adversary, it’s a repressive state that interferes in our elections, kills journalists and dissidents, uses nerve gas on foreign soil and invades its neighbors.” Meyers played footage from Trump’s interview on Fox News with Tucker Carlson as the two discussed Montenegro. “There’s a zero chance Trump heard of Montenegro before his meeting with Putin,” Meyers said. He also expressed frustration with Republicans refusing to do anything about Trump’s increasingly dangerous behavior. “This is one of the keys to understanding what’s happening right now,” he said. “The GOP establishment and donor class are fine with Trump’s attacks on democracy as long as they can enrich themselves. They’re hostile to democracy because democracy is hostile to their agenda.” Jimmy Fallon On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon also spoke about the president’s proposed second meeting with Putin. “Trump said there are some things he didn’t get around to screwing up in the first one,” he joked. He continued:“Some lawmakers want the translator from Trump and Putin’s meeting to tell Congress what was said behind closed doors, though it turns out the translator was just Don Jr with a copy of Rosetta Stone.”

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2018-07-20T15:33:13Z

'Putin for dinner, Weinstein for movie night': late-night hosts on Trump-Russia

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Five of the best ... films Generation Wealth (18) (Lauren Greenfield, 2018, US) 106 mins Photographer Lauren Greenfield made waves with her 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, a lacerating study of American privilege. Now she follows it up with this even more blunt examination of the US’s money worship, configured as a reinvestigation of early photographic subjects, including former school classmates. A Prayer Before Dawn (18) (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, 2017, Fra/UK/Cam/US/Chi) 116 mins Brutal, no holds barred – and that’s just the Thai boxing. Adapted from a book by Billy Moore, about his time fighting to stay alive in Thai jails, Peaky Blinders’s Joe Cole stars in a gruesome behind-bars chronicle with authenticity, filmed with flair by French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. Incredibles 2 (PG) (Brad Bird, 2018, US) 118 mins Pixar’s superhero family return in style 14 years after their first outing, with everyone – including the animators – on sharp-witted and scintillating form. This time, the hijinks are given a feminist makeover as Elastigirl leads attempts to rehabilitate the “supers” and take on virtual nasty the Screenslaver. First Reformed (15) (Paul Schrader, 2017, US) 113 mins A dour, agonised fable of faith in crisis from master of the form Paul Schrader – and this film is arguably his most uncompromising yet. Ethan Hawke is Ernst Toller, the pastor of a venerable, barely used church, owned by a big-money religious corporation. When one of his flock threatens violence, Toller succumbs to a life of uncertainty, doubt and despair. Yellow Submarine (U) (George Dunning, 1968, UK) 85 mins ... or Sgt Pepper v the Blue Meanies. This 50th-anniversary restoration of the Beatles’ delightful animation is one for retro nostalgists (it’s completely stuffed with mid-period classics, from Nowhere Man to Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds) as much as their kids, who are likely to love the lysergic, Alice in Wonderland-ish story. AP Five of the best ... rock & pop Standon Calling Having started life as an intimate barbecue for friends in 2001, boutique festival Standon Calling now houses more than 10,000 punters. While the headliners are very Ford Focus: The Playlist (Paloma Faith, George Ezra, Bryan Ferry) there is plenty to be excited about elsewhere: Little Simz, Shame and the Horrors, for example. Nr Ware, Thursday to 29 July Girli Channelling Le Tigre, early Charli XCX and mid-90s novelty pop duo Shampoo, Milly Toomey, AKA Girli, creates a scruffy take on in-your-face agit-pop. Last year’s fiery Hot Mess calls out male producers who think they know best, while current single Day Month Second pairs a jittery electronic squiggle with the tale of a messy breakup. Expect moshing. The Old Blue Last, EC2, Thursday 26 July Kaleidoscope festival While a new music, comedy and arts event situated in north London doesn’t exactly sound like a novel idea, Kaleidoscope – which takes place in and around Alexandra Palace – at least offers a fairly intriguing lineup. Ghostpoet, Mystery Jets and the Flaming Lips take care of the music, while John Cooper Clarke and Katherine Ryan take care of the wordy bits. M People’s Mike Pickering wil be DJing, too. Alexandra Park & Palace, N22, Saturday 21 July HRVY The jury is still out as to whether HRVY, AKA 19-year-old TV presenter/vlogger/singer Harvey Leigh Cantwell, can convert his “social media stats” into proper pop star potential. He is certainly not taking any risks: current single Hasta Luego rides pop’s current Latin wave and features Cuban social media superstar Malu Trevejo. Manchester, Sunday 22; Glasgow, Monday 23; London, Thursday 26; Camp Bestival, nr Wareham, Friday 27 July MC Zakir Hussain Percussion genius Zakir Hussain is the best known and most musically open-minded tabla virtuoso to have emerged from Hindustani musical roots for five decades. For the Edinburgh jazz festival’s closing weekend, he’ll join jazz virtuosi Chris Potter (saxes) and Dave Holland (bass) in a typically freewheeling voyage across jazz and Indian classical tradition. Manchester, Saturday 21; Edinburgh, Sunday 22 July JF Three of the best ... classical concerts London Sinfonietta This year’s Saturday afternoon series of Proms at … begins at a north London venue that used to be a regular part of each season’s programme. George Benjamin (pictured) conducts a concert that’s anchored by 20th-century masterpieces by Ives, Stravinsky and Benjamin’s teacher Olivier Messiaen. It also includes four world premieres, commissioned as part of the events to mark the centenary of the end of the first world war, from Luca Francesconi, Isabel Mundry, Hannah Kendall and Georg Friedrich Haas. Mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley is the featured soloist. Roundhouse, NW1, Saturday 21 July Prom 11: Symphony of a Thousand The chief conductors of two of the BBC’s orchestras are stepping down from their posts this summer, and giving their final concerts at the Proms. Juanjo Mena says his farewells to the BBC Philharmonic next month with Britten, Copland, Walton and Barber, while Thomas Søndergård is signing off from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the grandest way, conducting Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the combined forces of five choirs and eight soloists. Royal Albert Hall, SW7, Sunday 22 July Prom 17: Parry Centenary One of the anniversaries being duly acknowledged at this year’s Proms is the centenary of the death of Hubert Parry. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC NOW in a programme that begins with Parry’s Fifth Symphony and also includes his choral Hear My Words, Ye People, alongside works by British composers from the following generation: Vaughan Williams (The Lark Ascending, the Third Symphony), and Holst (Ode to Death). Royal Albert Hall, SW7, Friday 27 July AC Five of the best ... exhibitions Emil Nolde This is a raw and raging exhibition of some of the fiercest paintings of the 20th century. Nolde lived through the darkest years of German history. His support for the Nazis cannot be ignored: his paintings bristle with racist caricatures. Yet his energy and passion make him an heir of Van Gogh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, to 21 October Jacob’s Ladder Space has entranced artists for as long as they have looked up. From Galileo’s drawings of the moon to William Blake depicting a ladder to it, art and science have both tried to visualise the cosmos. The artists doing so here include Katie Paterson, Cornelia Parker, Vija Celmins and the Apollo astronauts. Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Thursday 26 July to 20 October Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy There is still the whole summer to catch this sensational encounter with the greatest artist of modern times. Just one year in Pablo Picasso’s life provides a cascade of masterpieces and a torrent of raw feeling. He always said his art was a diary and carefully catalogued it so that his life and work would be easy to connect. It is only by seeing the day-to-day flow of his creativity that you can truly gauge the power of Picasso’s genius. Tate Modern, SE1, to 9 September Ross Birrell and David Harding Trinity Apse is the Edinburgh art festival’s most intriguing venue. It is all that’s left of a medieval royal chapel demolished in 1848 to make way for Waverley station. Birrell and Harding use its gothic architecture as the atmospheric stage for an installation about musical fugues and refugees that centres on their film of an orchestra performing Henryk Górecki’s 1976 Symphony No 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Trinity Apse, Edinburgh, Thursday 26 July to 26 August Biodiversity Siobhan Healy makes tiny fragile sculptures that draw attention to endangered species and the plight of the natural world. For the Edinburgh art festival, she has collaborated with Scotland’s greatest living writer, Alasdair Gray, a powerful artist in his own right. The resulting delicate creations pay homage to the urban ecosystems of Geddes Garden, a tiny wilderness near Grassmarket. Edinburgh College of Art, Thursday 26 July to 26 August JJ Five of the best ... theatre shows Exit the King Surprisingly, this is the first time a work by the Romanian-French absurdist Eugène Ionesco has been performed at the National. This 1962 tragicomedy finds a 400-year-old king contemplating death and the disintegration of his kingdom. The cast includes Rhys Ifans and Indira Varma, while Patrick Marber directs his own new adaptation. National Theatre: Olivier, SE1, to 6 October The Fishermen The world premiere of Gbolahan Obisesan’s stage adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel from 2015, set in a small Nigerian town in the 90s. Vengeance, family and fate are the themes when four brothers slip off secretly to a forbidden river to fish and a local oddball makes a terrifying prediction that tears their relationship apart. HOME, Manchester, to 28 July An Ideal Husband This production, directed by Theatre Royal chief Jonathan Church, was proclaimed the best show of the year-long Oscar Wilde season at London’s Vaudeville Theatre. The husband of the title is a successful politician guilty of an early career indiscretion and at the mercy of the blackmailing Mrs Cheveley. Frances Barber excels in the role, while Edward and Freddie Fox provide a star turn reprising their real-life father-and-son roles on stage. Theatre Royal, Bath, to 4 August The King and I It may be the creakiest of all Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musicals but this Broadway production comes trailing awards – and with a more sensitive approach to some of the un-PC elements in the story of the 19th-century governess who seeks to “civilise” the king of Siam (played by Ken Watanabe). Kelli O’Hara’s Anna (think of a laidback Julie Andrews) is outstanding: her captivating rendition of Hello, Young Lovers is as fine as you’ll ever hear. London Palladium, W1, to 29 September The Lieutenant of Inishmore Cat-lovers look away now. Martin McDonagh is currently best known for his award-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, but this 2001 play was one of several he set in Ireland. Poldark’s Aidan Turner (and, no, he doesn’t get his top off) is an IRA man who has a rather softer spot for his pet pussy than the people he kills and tortures. Michael Grandage directs a work that’s tasteless, violent and surreally funny in equal measure. Noël Coward Theatre, WC2, to 8 September MC Three of the best ... dance shows Alexander Whitley Dance Company: Triple Bill Whitley’s intelligent dance-making gets a fabulous showcase in this spacious gallery. The evening includes Noumena, made in response to Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia, and Between Two Fires, a new duet exploring a couple’s emotional journey between risk and tenderness, set to music by Rival Consoles. Messums, Salisbury, Friday 27 & Saturday 28 July Y Dance: Project Y This year’s programme from the admirable youth dance project features work by four choreographers, among them James Cousins – winner of the 2012 New Adventures award – and Sophie Laplane, the fiercely talented dancer-turned-dance-maker with Scottish Ballet. Glasgow, Wednesday 25; Stirling, Thursday 26; Aberdeen, Friday 27; Dundee, Saturday 28 July Thick & Tight A full-length London premiere for Daniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry’s wild mix of dance, drama and burlesque: a triple bill with an assorted cast of characters, including Queen Victoria, Miss Havisham, Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana. Wilton’s Music Hall, E1, Monday 23 July JM Main composite image: Paul Watt; Everett Collection/Rex Feature; Simon Annand; Disney/Pixar

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Late-night hosts on Wednesday discussed the continued fallout from Donald Trump’s comments in Helsinki and the White House’s attempt to walk them back. Samantha Bee “Like many of you, I am shocked by President Trump’s press conference with Vladimir Putin this week,” began Samantha Bee, before showing footage from the summit in Helsinki. “I guess we’ll never know who to believe: Trump’s own intelligence agencies and his Department of Justice, or the guy who smiles like he can only orgasm when a journalist dies. “Let me just say, as an American citizen and as a believer in a true and free world,” Bee continued, “seeing those two next to each other makes me think, how many phone books is Putin standing on? We do not talk enough about how Putin is tiny.” The host went on to say that “there is not one part of that groveling display that Trump hasn’t said before”, showing video of the numerous occasions where he has called into question the validity of US intelligence agencies’ claim that Russia meddled in the 2016 election. “The most shocking thing on TV this week wasn’t Trump and Putin standing on a platform and roasting the United States like a geopolitical Statler and Waldorf,” Bee said. “What shocked me was the fact that Republicans seemed shocked.” Bee then took aim at the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and House speaker, Paul Ryan: “Republicans could make sure that our next elections aren’t vulnerable to Russian hacks, which approximately no one is doing,” she said. “They could also pass a bill to protect the Mueller investigation, like the one Mitch McConnell killed in the Senate and Paul Ryan said wasn’t necessary. “Republican leaders are every bit as compromised by Russia as Trump,” she concluded. “McConnell and Ryan have so far put up with whatever Putin wants and, as far as we know, they haven’t been peed on by anyone.” Stephen Colbert CBS’s Stephen Colbert also weighed in. “They say that time heals all wounds, and they are wrong,” the host began. “Time can also fester all wounds and then you have to start lopping stuff off before it spreads. I’m beginning to think it’s time to reach for the bone saw because anybody who still believes Donald Trump at this point is gangrene on the body politic. “I’m about as shaky as I have felt since the night he won,” Colbert added. “Back then, my biggest fear was that we had elected an asset of the Russian government who would sell out America at every opportunity just to save his own hide. My biggest fear now is that I was right. “After getting caught publicly betraying the country he’s the president of, Donald Trump cunningly fixed it,” said the host, in reference to Trump’s claim that he intended to say “wouldn’t” instead of “would” in Helsinki. “Trump doesn’t even understand why people on all sides of the political spectrum are horrified,” Colbert said, reading aloud Trump’s tweet which stated: “So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference performance in Helsinki.” “That, I believe,” Colbert quipped. “I’m sure the highest ends of Russian intelligence loved it.” Seth Meyers Finally, NBC’s Seth Meyers discussed the spectrum of the GOP’s reaction to Trump’s Helsinki comments. He began: “It’s tough to judge exactly how bad any given moment is for Trump politically, but one of the best barometers we have is the reaction of his closest allies, like Fox & Friends, who’ve defended him relentlessly even in his worst moments.” Meyers proceeded to show footage from the show, where host Brian Kilmeade said that Trump missed the “one moment you had to stand up for your own country”. “But this actually captures the rift that Trump’s summit has opened up within the GOP,” Meyers said. “Because on that same show, after Fox & Friends criticized Trump, they also had on one of his staunchest defenders, Fox anchor Jeanine Pirro, who flipped out at the suggestion that Trump could’ve been tougher on Putin.” In a clip from the interview with Pirro, the anchor suggests Trump was merely “recognizing” Russia as a nuclear power and is “doing what he’s supposed to be doing, and that is protecting us”. “Even when Republicans do criticize Trump, they seem much less interested in doing anything about it,” Meyers said. He then discussed the Republican senator Jeff Flake, who called Trump’s Helsinki performance “shameful” but demurred when asked on CNN what substantive legislation or action would come from it. Meyers replied: “I feel like at least once a week Jeff Flake tweets something about Trump that ends with ‘This is shameful’ and then votes with him anyway.”

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Samantha Bee: 'Republican leaders are every bit as compromised as Trump'

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The makers of S-Town are being sued by the estate of John B McLemore, the hit podcast’s central subject. In a lawsuit filed by the estate’s administrator, it has claimed that McLemore’s privacy was invaded and that profits made from the podcast haven’t reached the family. The story of S-Town, from the team behind Serial and This American Life, follows the eccentric life of McLemore and a murder he alleges happened in the town of Woodstock, Alabama, referred to as “Shit Town”. During production, McLemore killed himself and the show’s host Brian Reed continued to tell his story. “McLemore never gave consent to Reed or the other defendants to use his indicia of identity for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, goods, merchandise or services,” the estate’s attorneys wrote. “Additionally, McLemore never gave consent to Reed or the other defendants to broadcast the intimate details of his sexual orientation, and experiences, depressed thoughts, suicidal tendencies, financial affairs, physical and mental health issues and his interpersonal relationships with friends, family members and sexual partners.” On release, the podcast was a record-breaking success with 10m downloads in just four days. It has since gone on to be downloaded more than 40m times. It also won a Peabody award and is set to be adapted into a movie from Spotlight’s Tom McCarthy. But despite its success, a debate has raged on about the morality of sharing details about McLemore after his death. The Guardian’s Gay Alcorn referred to it as “morally indefensible” while the New Yorker’s Sarah Larson called it “well-intentioned voyeurism”. The suit is seeking “punitive damages and profits from the podcast”. In a statement to the Associated Press, executive producer Julie Snyder claimed it “lacks merit”. “S-Town is produced consistent with the highest journalistic standards and we intend to defend against this lawsuit aggressively,” she wrote.

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2018-07-18T14:26:54Z

Makers of S-Town podcast sued by subject's estate

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Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed Donald Trump’s attempt to walk back his comments in Helsinki, where he sided with Vladimir Putin over American intelligence agencies on the subject of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Jimmy Kimmel “We thought yesterday was the craziest day of this ridiculous presidency,” ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel began. “Turns out today made yesterday feel like a visit to historic Gettysburg.” He continued: “The news today is that our president is a liar and not even a good one. President Trump today, in an attempt to explain what the Helsinki was going through his cotton-candy covered head when he stood next to Vladimir Putin, of all people, and took sides with Russia over our own American intelligence agencies, now says it was just a tiny little slip-up, even smaller than his fists.” Showing video of Trump’s statement on Tuesday, Kimmel replied: “Papa John must be at home right now going, ‘Wait, you can do that?’ “What I want to know is which genius on his team came up with this idea,” the host joked. “I bet it was Melania, she hates him the most.” On Trump’s typed notes for his meeting on Tuesday, he had scribbled the words “There was no collusion,” spelling collusion incorrectly, with one L. “This is something he says every 90 seconds,” the host said. “It’s something he wakes up in the middle of the night and shouts. He needed a note to remind himself to say it once again?” Stephen Colbert “One day after his disastrous summit with Vladimir Putin, it is starting to dawn on some people Trump may be a bad president,” said Stephen Colbert. “Even Trump officials are embarrassed by his Putin show.” Colbert was referring to the bipartisan criticism that emerged after Trump’s summit with Putin, which stunned even the president’s staunchest supporters. Colbert joked: “Look, I was with him with the Nazis and imprisoning children, but siding with the Russians? They killed Apollo Creed. “Right after the summit Trump thought he did great until he got on Air Force One,” Colbert said, citing an article in the New York Times, “and his mood grew foul as the breadth of the critical reaction became clear.” Colbert then explained that, after the summit, “Trump went into emergency spin mode,” calling a meeting of Republican leaders at the White House “to watch his induction into the Lying Hall of Fame”. At the meeting, Trump talked about the Nato summit and said, “When I left, everybody was thrilled.” “That is not a lie,” Colbert quipped. The host then showed additional footage of the meeting, where Trump said he had “full faith” in US intelligence agencies, at which point the lights in the room mysteriously turned off. Trump then changed his tune regarding his most talked-about comment in Helsinki, when he said “I don’t see any reason why it would be” Russia, in reference to 2016 election meddling. “There is need for some clarification,” said the president. “The sentence should have been I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t have been Russia. “So of all the terrible words he said in that press conference,” Colbert asked, “you’re only taking back one of them?” Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah also addressed Trump’s reversal. “After President Trump threw America under the Russian bus, everyone stateside lost their shit,” Noah said, before showing news clips that described the summit in Helsinki “as disgraceful”, “disgusting” and a “giant middle finger from President Trump to his own country”. “Look, President Trump is no stranger to criticism,” the host added. “But it’s not often that even his closest allies slam his actions. Even Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House and swollen Mike Pence, tweeted that this was the most serious mistake of Trump’s presidency and that he must clarify what he meant. “So, just like after Trump praised the Charlottesville Nazis, today the president was forced to come out and pretend to believe something different than what he said,” Noah said, going on to show clips from Trump’s meeting with House Republicans. At one point, Trump said he believed American intelligence agencies but said meddling in the election could be attributable to “other people” as well. “All Trump had to say was that he believes Russia meddled in the election, full stop,” Noah said. “But he can’t help himself.” Noah went on: “How do you convince people that one flight changed your mind completely? The answer is: not like this.” In the clip in question, Trump claimed he meant to say “wouldn’t” instead of would. “That makes sense. I actually believe Trump on this,” Noah said, before mocking the president’s logic-defying reversal. “Sorry, what I meant to say was, get the fuck outta here, man.”

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2018-07-18T14:03:24Z

Jimmy Kimmel: 'Our president is a liar and not even a good one'

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On 19 May 2016, Texas mother Candace Payne filmed a Facebook Live video of herself, sitting in her car, gleefully modelling a Star Wars Chewbacca mask she’d just bought. The video was captioned “It’s the simple joys in life …” The pre-recorded Wookiee growls from the mask mingle with Payne’s helpless laughter and her interjections, “That’s not me making that noise – it’s the mask!” and “I am such a happy Chewbacca!” Payne’s video was disarmingly funny; I watched it on 21 May, and shared it with the caption “THIS IS SO HILARIOUS I LOVE HER”. Payne’s “simple joys” took social media by storm; and when sharing the video, many users commented that it was “so pure”, or even “too pure for this world”. * We live in a foul world that incentivises the exploitation of the many and the indulgence of the few. A world that condemns people to endless, dehumanising work and invasive unfreedom, even (and especially) in what is sold to us as pleasure. And what’s the opposite of foul? Pure. You might have seen pure stuff on social media: stories of people spontaneously helping others, innocently misreading social situations, or being playful for no reason. Dogs are way too pure – especially when they do “human” things, like “paying” for treats using leaves. Interspecies friendships are pure. Cheering on your ex is pure. Being delighted by babies in Pope costumes is pure. Children’s emotions, beliefs and gestures are pure. Using your acting skills to grant a dying boy’s wish is pure. Gentle, creative, non-competitive activities are pure. Old people are pure, especially when they care for their grandkids, awkwardly navigate modern technology or, conversely, are enthusiasts of contemporary culture. Dads are pure, whether they’re having meltdowns over the softness of alpacas, being overwhelmed by newborn kittens, or leaving uncool comments on their kids’ Instagram pics. Puns are the purest joke, possibly because taking joy in simple wordplay is so strongly associated with dads. These moments appeal to universal human values, and have been shared in many different media under many different names. The colloquial sense of “priceless”, meaning “delightful”, first appeared in 1907; the term “warm fuzzies” dates from 1981. But we can trace the internet-specific use of “pure” to an Onion article from January 2014: Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure. Praising the pastry for its transcendent perfection, the story concludes: “As of press time, the cinnamon roll had been purchased along with a medium cup of coffee.” Tumblr users began to juxtapose a screenshot of the article with images of fan-favourite film and TV characters. From there, phrases including “too good, too pure” and “too pure for this world” spread through fan culture. Fans use them as hashtags and captions describing moments when celebrities – often, youthful male heartthrobs – behave guilelessly, express joy or show care for their families and friends, colleagues and fans. As the anonymous author of one clickbait listicle muses: “It takes some time and patience to find something so pure and authentic. When we do find it, it’s usually in a place we wouldn’t expect it to be.” Perhaps the pure operates as a genuine circuit-breaker: a welcome moment of surprised relief. Dads are pure because men are foul. Old people’s texts are pure because young people’s experiences of text messaging are foul. Everyday heroes are pure because celebrities and admired leaders turn out to be foul. Crucially, the pure is redemptive and liberating. Neoliberal capitalism treats us as rugged, atomised individuals ascending a hierarchy; but the pure brings supposed antagonists or asymmetrical social agents together in moments of egalitarian camaraderie and joy. A neighbour slips a note under a pianist’s door; but instead of a noise complaint, it’s a request. A little girl skateboarder is intimidated by the older teenage boys at her local skate park; then one of them kindly helps her learn to balance and steer. A high-school principal comments on two students’ paint-splattered jeans, so they buy him a matching pair … which he wears. “Pure” is sometimes used interchangeably with “wholesome”, as in wholesome memes. A subreddit devoted to sharing instances of this phenomenon defines a wholesome meme as one “that promotes health or wellbeing of body, mind, and/or soul … a meme that is pure of heart, devoid of corruption or malice, modest, stable, virtuous, and all-around sweet and compassionate”. Common to many wholesome memes is an ethic of “support, positivity, compassion, understanding, love, affection, and genuine friendship”. Wholesome memes are post-ironic, in that they self-reflexively deploy the familiar architecture of memes, but actively subvert snark and mockery in favour of sincerity and empathy. But while wholesomeness is a feelgood antidote to online culture, performed to a likeminded audience, pureness is innocent and uncultivated, and its objects are unaware of being dubbed “pure”. Perhaps we characterise the pure as innocence because the objects of pure memes don’t “know” they’re not “supposed” to treat others with care, tenderness and respect. Their untutored goodness gives us hope. People respond to the pure in pure ways. Comments on pure social-media posts range from the delighted (“This warmed my heart. I’m content now”) and bewildered (“WHY IS THIS SO CUTE IM CONFUSED”) to the surprised (“I didn’t realise until the end that I was smiling while watching this”) or overcome (“This made me happpppyyy!”). We share the pure with pure intentions: to make others as happy as the meme made us. But as one of the earliest Tumblr users to blog the cinnamon roll meme noted, the roll was “too pure to be a meme”. The logic of “virality” is what degrades the pure; so perhaps for something to be truly pure, it can never achieve widespread popularity. Intense media scrutiny often creates a Milkshake Duck: a pure moment that becomes crushingly disappointing when it’s revealed to involve prejudice, capitalistic venality, or perhaps the worst sin of all in an artless genre – premeditation. Within days, Candace Payne’s Chewbacca mask video was well on its way to becoming the most-watched Facebook Live video ever. Kohl’s – where she bought the mask – was only the first organisation to shower her with freebies and perks. She appeared on James Corden’s Late Late Show repeating her “signature” lines, toured Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Facebook’s headquarters, and met with Hasbro, the makers of the mask, who also created a Star Wars figurine of Chewbacca with Payne’s head. By mid-2016, Payne had made nearly half a million dollars – and that’s when she stopped being pure. In 2017 she wrote a book with the unpleasantly ironic title: Laugh It Up!: Embrace Freedom and Experience Defiant Joy. What was she defying? Multiple corporations had leveraged Payne for their own purposes. A fan’s pure pleasure had become a profitable media spectacle. At least Payne’s emotions had at one point been authentic. I can already see myself beginning to distrust pure moments, not letting myself feel good about them in case they turn out to be milkshake ducks, or fakes concocted by advertisers. It annoys me that we express the pure within proprietary social networks. It frustrates me that online content farms aggregate the pure into listicles. It is exhausting to dwell in a grim purgatory where even our emotional responses are weaponised by the forces of capital. No matter where you find your joy, your community, your sense of authentic good, it will inevitably be exploited. “Too pure for this world’” can be a warning label. But perhaps the inevitable ephemerality of the pure is poignant to contemplate. Like that cinnamon roll, it’s eventually going to be consumed and shat out; corruption comes to all things. Nonetheless, while we’re alive, still striving to be good, the pure challenges us to be surprised, subversive and spontaneous – human qualities the culture industries only seek to strip from us. • This is an edited version of the article Too Pure for this World that originally appeared in the literary magazine Kill Your Darlings

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'Too pure for this world': how unfiltered joy became the internet's antidote

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Late-night hosts on Monday discussed Donald Trump’s summit in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, where the US president sided with Putin over his own intelligence agencies when asked about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah discussed what occurred in Helsinki. “If your name is Vladimir Putin, then today was a very good day,” he began. “Because today the president of the United States took your side in a fight between you and the United States.” On the notion that the summit marked “the most embarrassing performance by an American president”, Noah replied: “Do you know how hard it is to achieve that? George HW Bush once threw up on the Japanese prime minister, and Trump is now on top.” Noah then said that, when the summit was officially announced, it was unclear what would be addressed. Then, last week, Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military intelligence agents for their role in hacking the 2016 election. “So now the formerly purposeless meeting Trump and Putin had a meaning, right? It was time for Trump to put his foot down,” Noah said. “And he did, right on America’s dick.” After showing footage from the press conference, Noah addressed Trump: “You don’t see any reason not to trust Vladimir Putin? The man was a top KGB spy. You can’t trust this man. On the list of people to never trust, Putin is right between WebMD and the mom from Get Out. “Once again, all of this brings up the old question of what exactly is going on between Putin and Trump,” Noah said. “If Trump was some sort of Russian Manchurian candidate, what would he have just done differently? Would there be a difference? “This,” the host concluded, “is what you get when you put a KGB agent against a KFC agent.” Stephen Colbert “Today has shaken me to my core and I don’t think I need to point out that, at 54, there’s not a lot of core left,” Stephen Colbert began. “Before we get into whether our president is the Siberian candidate, I’d like to take a moment right now to remind you of something [Abraham] Lincoln said.” The host then quoted the 16th US president, saying: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Colbert went on: “So, Trump’s in Helsinki with his buddy Vlad, and this meeting is just three days after 12 Russian military intelligence agents, under direct Kremlin control, were indicted for hacking the 2016 election. “First the two men had a private meeting with only translators in the room,” said Colbert, who then showed news segments about the public press conference the two leaders held afterwards. The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper called it “one of the most disgraceful performances” by a US president, while others branded the meeting “the surrender summit” and the “worst-case scenario”. “Why so bad?” asked Colbert. “Well, he was asked about Russian meddling with our elections and whether he believes all of our intelligence agencies or Putin.” Trump, in response, had said: “I don’t see any reason why it would be,” referring to Russia’s hack of the 2016 election. He continued: “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.” One reporter, Colbert said, gave Trump a chance to denounce Russian meddling, to which Trump asked “Where is the server?”, a reference to Hillary Clinton. Colbert continued: “If Trump’s spineless toadying to Putin made you think, what’s Vlad got on him? you’re not the only one.” The host then showed footage from the press conference, were Putin was asked, via translator, whether he was compromising information on Trump. In the clip, he begins to chuckle. “I’m sorry,” said Colbert, launching into a Russian accent. “I was just remembering funny video I saw of Mr Trump.” Jimmy Kimmel In his opening monologue, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel called Monday “maybe the strangest of all 542 bizarre days of Donald Trump’s reign of error”. The president’s trip to Europe, where he attacked Nato allies and the British prime minister, Theresa May, “turned out to be nothing compared to what happened in Finland this morning”. “The president of the United States today publicly sided with Russia over our own FBI on the subject of cyber attacks on our election campaign,” Kimmel said. “Trump and Putin gave a joint press conference, at the top of which Trump put their meeting into historical context.” Kimmel then aired a clip from the press conference where Trump says that the relationship between the US and Russia “has never been worse than it is now; however, that changed as of about four hours ago”. Kimmel went on: “After all this tough talk, Trump was asked to weigh in on Russia’s role as hack master in the 2016 election, something the FBI, the justice department, even Trump’s own secretary of state, says happened without question.” Showing Trump’s deference to the Russian president, Kimmel said: “We haven’t seen an American so owned by a Russian since Rocky IV.” He also noted that Trump called Putin’s proposal to have his investigators work with Robert Mueller “an incredible offer”. “Putin’s just having fun with this now,” Kimmel said. “He actually offered to have his intelligence agents investigate the hacking of our election.”

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Trevor Noah: ‘If your name is Vladimir Putin, this was a very good day’

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Cher has revealed that she has recorded an entire album of Abba covers, following her appearance in the jukebox musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Speaking to the Today Show in the US, the 72-year-old singer said: “After I did Fernando [in the film], I thought it would be fun to do an album of Abba songs, so I did! It’s not what you think of when you think Abba, because I did it in a different way.” No more details are yet available about the project. Eyebrows were raised at the news that Cher was cast in the Mamma Mia! sequel as the mother of the character played by Meryl Streep, who is just three years Cher’s junior. Cher performs Fernando in the film alongside Andy Garcia, who plays hotel manager Fernando Cienfuegos. Writer-director Ol Parker said that “people brought their husbands, wives, children and dogs” to watch the scene being filmed. Tom Hanks, executive producer on the film, said “we were all in awe, and a bit nervous” of the veteran actor and singer. Speaking to Sky News at the world premiere in London on Monday night, Cher explained how she got the role: “The head of Universal used to be my agent, and he and I are best friends. He called me up and he said: ‘You’re doing Mamma Mia!’ And he hung up … It was beyond fun. I’ve never been on a movie that had less tension.” She said the film is “fun at a time when we need fun”. Cher continues to perform live: as well as continuing her concert residencies in Washington DC and Las Vegas throughout 2018, she will tour Australia in the autumn. A jukebox musical of her own work, The Cher Show, premiered in June in Chicago and will transfer to Broadway in November.

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Cher to release album of Abba covers following Mamma Mia! role

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Musician Anna Calvi was born in 1980 in London. She studied guitar and violin at the University of Southampton before working as a guitar teacher, only beginning to sing in her mid-20s. Both her albums to date, Anna Calvi (2011) and One Breath (2013), were nominated for the Mercury music prize. She has collaborated with David Byrne and last year wrote the music for the opera The Sandman. Her third, Hunter, is released on 31 August on Domino. She performs at Green Man festival (16-19 August) and tours the UK in the autumn. 1. Gig Nick Cave and Patti Smith, All Points East, London, 3 June The first tour I did was supporting Grinderman, Nick Cave’s other band, and he taught me a lot about how to be on stage. The way he can command a crowd feels like a religious or mythic experience. His last song in this set, Stagger Lee, was a masterclass in how to engage an audience. I’ve also seen Patti Smith several times before and it’s always really emotional. There’s something incredible about her – it’s important to see older, strong women that are so commanding. This gig was special: it gave me fire and inspiration for my own shows. 2. Festival Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, east London, November This festival started in 2011, and it’s like a smaller version of the BFI’s LGBTQ+ festival, Flare. I’ve been going for a few years and it’s interesting to see how it’s grown. There’s a feeling of community because everyone volunteers and they’re really passionate about the work. It’s a great place to meet like-minded people and I’ve discovered a lot of amazing films from going. Last year there was a really elegant and interesting documentary [Out of This World] that Mykki Blanco made with Matt Lambert about going to South Africa and meeting queer artists there. 3. Restaurant The Gate, Hammersmith I’m always looking for good vegetarian restaurants, and this one has great food and an outdoor space which is quite calm. I like calm restaurants because I talk very quietly so I often find when I’m in loud places no one can hear what I’m saying. It has nice memories for me since it was where I went with my girlfriend to celebrate the end of recording this album. Sometimes you go to a vegan or vegetarian restaurant and the food is so healthy it’s not really enjoyable, but this has a nice balance. 4. Documentary Drag Kings (Dir: Elizabeth-Valentina Sutton, 2016) This follows three drag kings and how they have explored their gender through creativity and playfulness. It’s really interesting, because drag queens get so much more publicity and are so much more well-known – I hope drag kings can get more recognition now. Since my new record is very much about exploring gender, when I watched this short film I was really moved by it. There’s one drag king who through performing realised that maybe being a woman wasn’t the right way to describe who they were. It’s a very intimate and introspective film but powerful. 5. Film Exhibition (Dir: Joanna Hogg, 2014) Joanna Hogg is one of my favourite directors and I love this film because it explores what it’s like to be an artist. It’s based around the idea that this couple is going to be moving out of their house and that the house somewhat represents their relationship. It’s very poetic and slow-moving. What’s really interesting is the sound design, because Joanna doesn’t use any music, she uses the sound of the traffic outside or the sound of the trees instead. It really adds to the drama and feels like you’re capturing a real moment. 6. Album Nightclubbing, Grace Jones I love how powerful Grace Jones is and how she puts her character into everything she does – she would only have to sing one word and you would know that it’s her. Nightclubbing is one of my favourite records and sounds like nothing else. Even the cover is groundbreaking. I love the way she’s exploring gender in songs like Walking in the Rain or Pull Up to the Bumper. It’s really exciting when you see an artist who has such a strong vision. The record has a galvanising energy – it makes me feel stronger.

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On my radar: Anna Calvi’s cultural highlights

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/15/on-my-radar-anna-calvi-hunter-interview

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Late-night hosts on Thursday discussed FBI agent Peter Strzok’s testimony before Congress and the Nato summit in Brussels, where Donald Trump had contentious talks with allies. Jimmy Kimmel “What a day it was on Capitol Hill,” began Jimmy Kimmel. “FBI agent Peter Strzok had his turn in the hot seat. Peter Strzok, for those of you that haven’t been following the president’s tweets, is the guy Republicans are trying to use as proof of some sort of FBI conspiracy against Donald Trump. “Strzok,” the host explained, “was on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigations team, but then Mueller found out that Strzok, in 2016 during the election, had exchanged anti-Trump texts with his girlfriend Lisa Page, who was an FBI lawyer at the time, and he removed him from the investigation.” At Thursday’s nearly 10-hour meeting, which quickly turned into a partisan melee, Strzok was asked to read his texts with Page aloud. In two texts referring to Trump, he wrote: “OMG, he’s an idiot” and: “How was Trump other than a douche?” “So Strzok says these personal texts were his personal opinions,” said Kimmel. “But the bozos in the House, and they really are a collection of clowns, when you see them actually speak it is shocking. They desperately want to use this to discredit the whole investigation.” House Republicans, the host noted, believe Strzok was not only biased against Trump during his time with the FBI investigation but favorable toward Hillary Clinton in the bureau’s investigation of her use of a private email server. “In particular, this buckethead from Texas, Louie Gohmert, decided to focus on the fact that Strzok was married and having an affair with Lisa Page at the time,” said Kimmel, showing footage of Gohmert’s comments, which quickly sparked a shouting match on the House floor. Stephen Colbert Meanwhile, CBS’s Stephen Colbert discussed the Strzok hearing before covering Trump’s ongoing visit to Europe, where he is meeting with Nato allies, Theresa May and, next week in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin. “We were talking about the complete meltdown of institutional integrity in Washington,” Colbert said of the Strzok hearing. “You know who wasn’t there? Donald Trump. “Today, he was in England getting to have tea with the Queen,” Colbert said, launching into an impression of the president. “Your Majesty, I was watching The Crown on Netflix and I’ve got to say, you used to be smoking hot.” “But just this morning he was busy making Nato great again,” the host continued. “For instance, he was in Brussels at a meeting about Russian aggression in Ukraine and Georgia and – surprise surprise – Trump quickly changed the subject to military spending and warned allies that if they didn’t increase their payments, ‘I’ll do my own thing’.” Trump’s comments were taken as a threat to dismantle the Nato alliance, which led to an emergency meeting among world leaders, where one senior European official described Trump’s comments as “a stream of incoherent sentences”. “Trump walked away triumphant and immediately called an impromptu press conference where he boasted about what he’s accomplished,” said Colbert, showing footage of Trump claiming to have convinced allies to increase defense spending, saying: “We are doing numbers like they’ve never done before.” Colbert replied: “Getting the Nato countries to agree to more spending is an accomplishment, and I never thought I’d be standing here saying the president did a good job and I’m not because Trump’s claim is false. Nobody agreed to spend more than the previously agreed upon 2% target.” “He is taking a victory lap for stuff that was already going to happen,” the host concluded.

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Jimmy Kimmel: congressional Republicans are 'a collection of clowns'

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Hovak Johnston is breathing new life into her ancestral culture, one tattooed woman at a time. The Inuk artist grew up in the remote community of Umingmaktok, Nunavut, in northern Canada. As a child, she was intrigued by an elder woman with traditional Inuit tattoos – the only member of the community to have them. The memory never left her. Years later, she decided to research the sacred practice, which by then had become almost extinct. Johnston was a guest at the Adäka festival, the Whitehorse cultural event now in its eighth edition. Those very themes – oppression followed by resurgence and revival– were weaved through the programing, reminding visitors that no matter how impossible the fight against oppression can be, art remains a beacon of hope, a cornerstone of the resistance. Johnston has now tattooed dozens of Inuit women – including some in their 70s and beyond. The markings, often made using a stick and poke method, are highly personal and usually emblematic of defining life events, as well as family connections. They adorn women’s fingers, arms, thighs and – perhaps more strikingly – their faces. For a century, the markings were expressly forbidden by missionaries, who denounced the practice as shamanistic and contrary to the Christian beliefs imposed on the Inuit population. Consequently, those who dared to get the ornaments were shunned. It took enormous efforts by the younger generation to reclaim it – including archival and on the ground research by artists like Johnston and artists like Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, whose documentary Tunniit retraces her quest to get markings on her forehead, cheeks and forearms. Adäka’s programming was bursting with similar stories of revitalisation. In the space of a week, more than 100 artists – visual artists, dancers, throat singers, musicians and fashion designers – took the stage, taught workshops and gave talks about topics as varied as herbalism, dog ownership in the Arctic or moose hide tanning at a “fish camp” set on the bank of the Yukon river. The festival welcomed everyone – from members of the Yukon’s 14 indigenous First Nations to locals and international visitors – and the joyous mood embodied this generosity of spirit: young children took part in special activities, tourists admired and purchased art in the gallery and artists mingled with the crowd, imparting their knowledge as they weaved, sculpted or carved in front of the crowd. Ashley Cummings, 20, from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, was tattooed by Johnston during the festival. Through tears, she explained that no one in her family could remember a member sporting the markings, so effective was the ban. To be able to finally reclaim the practice felt like “a huge relief” and an honor. The tide is finally turning – but it was a close call, and the blame can be squarely put at the feet of Canada’s residential school system. ‘Our identity is coming back to us’ Starting in the 1840s until the last school closed in 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their family, and forced to assimilate. Gone was their right to see their family, to speak their ancestral language, to dance, to play the drums – to exist. The system’s aim was to “kill the Indian in the child”. Physical and sexual abuse was endemic, and ignoble “nutritional experiments” were conducted. More than 6,000 children have died at the hands of missionaries. In less than 100 years, a cultural genocide had effectively been committed. Dennis Shorty, 60, was also a guest artist at the festival. He was just five years old when a float plane landed in his remote community of Ross River and took him away to a residential school 400 kilometres away. Separated from his family and Kaska community, he found himself in a system which, he says, “stripped away his spirit and his dignity”. He was beaten if he tried to speak his ancestral language, and endured unspeakable abuse. In adulthood, to make sense of his trauma, Shorty found solace and meaning in his art, which was on display at Adäka. His work – intricate wood and antler carving, sculptures and paintings – has been purchased to sit in the Yukon’s permanent collection. He never forgot his Kaska language, and remains a fluent speaker. (He taught his German wife, Jennifer Froehling, who impressively speaks it, too.) The idea of transmission also occupies the mind of the Selkirk artist Carmen Baker. When she moved to Pelly Crossing (population 354), Baker was struck by the lack of music. There were no drumming, no singing. Her Northern Tutchone culture had been erased by the residential schools’ legacy. The world was quiet. In 2004, Baker started a drumming and dancing group with only six young girls enrolled. Today, she has more than 30 dancers (the youngest is nine months old and performed at Adäka in his mother’s arms). As she introduced dancers to the stage, she said she believed that “our identity is coming back to us. Our young people are catching on - this is part of who they are, it’s in their bloodline.” From Ross River to the Eiffel Tower Sho Sho Esquiro, 38, grew up in Ross River, a community of only 350 people – “but thousands if you count the dogs”, she says, laughing. The Kaska Dene and Cree designer showcased her work at the festival’s eagerly anticipated fashion show. Her exquisite one-of-a-kind creations have been displayed in many galleries, including the Smithsonian. In 2014, when she was contacted to showcase eight pieces in Paris, Esquiro decided to be bold: her collection would be dedicated to the 4,000 murdered and missing indigenous women of Canada. At the time, the prime minister, Stephen Harper, had denied indigenous people an inquiry into the matter, and Esquiro saw it as her chance to bring both awareness and honor to the families affected. Her latest work, titled No Apology Necessary, is a reference to the Catholic church’s steadfast refusal to apologise for running two-thirds of residential schools. (The cornerstone of her collection is a jacket with the picture of the pope printed upside down; another is a fur coat with the slogan “no apology necessary” printed on the back – the crowd cheered as the model walked down the runway wearing it). Esquiro’s father, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all survivors of the school system, and when it was recently announced than any acknowledgement would be denied to them, she says she saw firsthand how hurt her community was by this. She understood the reaction, but she says it also “made her angry – that we sit around waiting for an apology that may or may not come … We need to be accountable for our own healing.” Shorty, the antler and wood carving artist who survived residential school, agrees. He says he doesn’t care that the Catholic church never apologised. “I want to move forward, teach my craft, teach people how to move forward regardless of they apologise or not.” So what, then, helps to right this monumental wrong? Shorty doesn’t hesitate. “Hard work, being back on the land, using our language and sharing our culture with other cultures.” Adäka, then, is entirely part of the solution. To learn more about First Nations cultures while visiting the Yukon The Long Ago Peoples Place (Open year-round) An hour’s drive from Whitehorse, Harold Johnson, a member of the Crow Clan, welcomes you to his camp, where he recreated a traditional First Nations village with living structures, tools and hunting recreations. His interpretive walk will introduce you to trapping, hunting and shelter building techniques, and if you are lucky you will meet Nessi, his loyal dog who once fought a grizzly bear. Teslin Tlingit Heritage Center (Open 1 June – 1 September) Nestled between a lake and a mountain range, the center offers guided tours, demonstrations and story-telling, as well as a gallery showcasing Tlingit art. Moosehide Gathering festival (From 26-29 July) A biennial celebration of indigenous culture open to all – includes performances, demonstrations, tastings and a craft market.

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Tattoos, tanning and tears: inside the Yukon's great indigenous festival

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No mere scrape of a ditch surrounding an upended bucket of sand will do: a proper sandcastle, according to an English Heritage curator should have curtain walls, an inner bailey, a great tower or keep, a gatehouse and a ditch and bank. Roy Porter said: “By studying hundreds of years of trial and error by the real castle builders, our ultimate sandcastle contains everything you’d like to see, with each element showing off castle-building ‘perfection’ from a different era.” Sand sculptor Jamie Wardley has followed Porter’s instructions to the letter, creating what is billed as the ultimate sandcastle within the walls of the real castle at Dover, where it will be on display until mid-August. As part of its #LoveCastles season, English Heritage is urging people not only to visit the 66 real castles in its care, but to compete by sharing photographs of their own sandy fortifications – topped with English Heritage flags available for £1 donations to the castles fund – on the charity’s website, Instagram or Facebook pages. There will also be castle-building workshops at eight castles, from Pendennis in Cornwall to Warkworth in Northumberland.

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Sands of time: beach sculpture inspired by Britain's best castles

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Five of the best ... films Incredibles 2 (PG) (Brad Bird, 2018, US) 118 mins Fourteen years on, the sequel to one of Pixar’s most admired films serves up an equally brilliant helping of sharp-witted superhero antics, this time given a feminist makeover. Elastigirl takes the foreground as she is singled out to front a campaign to rehabilitate the “supers”, and ends up battling with virtual nasty the Screenslaver. First Reformed (15) (Paul Schrader, 2017, US) 113 mins Schrader is no stranger to the dour, agonised fable of faith in crisis, and this is arguably his most direct treatment yet. Ethan Hawke is the pastor of an ancient, barely used chapel, operated by a big-money megachurch; meanwhile, the husband of one of his flock is behaving erratically. Cue an unfiltered clash of guilt, idealism and despair. Vertigo (PG) (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, US) 128 mins The creepy Hitchcock masterwork starring James Stewart was largely scorned on release, but in 2012 made No 1 in Sight & Sound’s all-time greatest film poll. In 2018, it gets a 60th-anniversary restoration and reissue. Combining lurching special-effects trickery and traditional Hitchcock themes of voyeurism and obsession, it remains a much-copied, much-parodied discussion of the male gaze. Yellow Submarine (U) (George Dunning, 1968, UK) 85 mins “In the town, where I was born ... ” The Beatles’ contract-filler film, released here as 50th-anniversary restoration, turned out to be a delight: a lysergic animation stuffed with mid-period classics, harking back to everything from Alice in Wonderland and forward to the comic buffoonery of Monty Python. Mary Shelley (12A) (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2017, UK) 121 mins The teenage Frankenstein author gets her own biopic, tangling with a conceited Percy Shelley, a callous Lord Byron and stern but sympathetic father William Godwin. Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour brings out an intense melancholy in the character as the script grapples effectively with #MeToo-ish concerns over relationship rights and authorship. AP Five of the best ... rock & pop gigs Citadel festival “A Sunday well spent brings a week of content,” runs the proverb on the ethos page of this London festival’s site. That its website has an ethos page in the first place tells you all need to know: expect dance workshops, a sports day and even a science camp as well as music from holistic yoga soundtrackers Tame Impala and synthpop nerds Chvrches. Gunnersbury Park, W3, Sunday 15 July Eminem While last year’s Revival album continued the once-potent rapper’s descent into hollow navel-gazing (and introduced us to a truly awful beard), it did at least give him another UK No 1 in the shape of the Ed Sheeran-assisted River. Expect it to slot nicely alongside his other empty-but-catchy recent mass singalongs, The Monster and Love the Way You Lie. Twickenham Stadium, Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 July HMLTD Fusing glam, industrial electronica and pop (recent single Pictures of You was co-written by Selena Gomez collaborator Justin Tranter), the immaculately made-up HMLTD tread the fine line between avant-garde renegades and NME also-rans King Adora. Not boring, though, which seems like a win in 2018. St Albans, Tuesday 17; Tunbridge Wells, Wednesday 18; Guildford, Thursday 19; Thirsk, Friday 20 July Faith Evans While the last thing anyone needed was another rummage around the late Notorious BIG’s threadbare vault, 2017’s duets album The King & I was put together with affection by his widow Faith Evans (pictured, below), whose bruised vocals offer the familiar verses a touch of raw emotion. This short UK tour is in support of that album, but will hopefully act as a reminder of Evans’s incredible voice. Manchester, Friday 20; touring to 22 July MC Julian Siegel Quartet Though gifted multi-instrumentalist Siegel has been an inspired contributor to many bands, his decade-old quartet – a fiery and percussive fusion of postbop, rock, Latin music and more – is his personal creative triumph. Siegel’s group joins a classy programme at the Swanage jazz festival, revitalised following its much-mourned apparent demise last year. Swanage Jazz Festival, Sunday 15 July JF Three of the best ... classical concerts Isabeau Opera Holland Park continues its explorations of the dustier corners of the late 19th-century Italian repertory with Mascagni’s take on the medieval legend of Lady Godiva. Isabeau was an attempt to get away from his well-known verismo style into a nostalgic world of chivalry and romance. Martin Lloyd-Evans directs this UK premiere, with Anne Sophie Duprels in the title role. Holland Park Theatre, W8, Saturday 14, Wednesday 18 & Friday 20; to 28 July Juliana The very last event in this year’s Cheltenham music festival brings the most substantial new work of the fortnight. Joseph Phibbs’s chamber three-hander is based upon Strindberg’s play Miss Julie, updating the action to present-day Sweden. In Nova Music Opera’s production, which is directed by Richard Williams and conducted by George Vass, Cheryl Evener sings the role of Juliana, with Rebecca Afonwy-Jones as Kerstin and Samuel Pantcheff as Juan. Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, Sunday 15 July; touring to 21 October L’Ange De Nisida The Royal Opera and the CD label Opera Rara join forces to resurrect one of the rarest of Donizetti rarities. L’Ange De Nisida was never performed as intended in 1839, and Donizetti recycled some of its music in later works, particularly La Favorite. These concert performances will be the world premiere of the painstakingly reconstructed original score; they are conducted by Mark Elder, with Joyce El-Khoury, David Junghoon Kim and Vito Priante leading the cast. Royal Opera House, WC2, Wednesday 18 & 21 July AC Five of the best ... exhibitions Life in the Dark This exploration of the nocturnal world promises a sensory as well as scientific journey into the lives of Mexican blind cave fish, deep sea creatures and subterranean bats. What is it like to live without light, and why did so many animals evolve that way? Should be fascinating, but look out for the cave boa. Natural History Museum, SW7, to 6 January Liverpool Biennial Everything from the abstract paintings of Sean Scully at the Walker Art Gallery, to a conversation between fillm-maker Agnès Varda and curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist can be experienced at Liverpool’s multi-site, multimedia art festival. Melanie Smith, George Osodi, Silke Otto-Knapp and Annie Pootoogook are among the global mix. Various venues, Saturday 15 to 28 October Tim Stoner Sunshine and gardens, parks and shadows play pleasantly in Stoner’s contemporary British take on impressionism. Abstract geometries and featureless figures prove he is no nostalgist, however. There is something missing but it seems to be intentional; Stoner’s scenes of modern life are elegant yet empty, cool yet melancholy. Is he saying something about our pursuit of pleasures that never really mean anything? Modern Art, E2, to 11 August Yves Klein The monochrome art of this bold French painter, performer and alchemist has proved an enduring classic of the contemporary. Klein patented his own shade of blue and put it on everything from corals to one-colour canvases. He controversially also made blue imprints of female models in performances whose absurd 1960s sexism can make him look like the Austin Powers of art. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Wednesday 18 July to 7 October Jameel Prize 5 Islam has been inspiring great art for more than a millennium, from the medieval Alhambra in Granada to European artists including Matisse, who drew on its beauty to invent, or rather import, abstraction. This prize highlights eight artists and designers who adapt Islamic traditions, such as Hayv Kahraman’s paintings on linen and Wardha Shabbir’s abstract watercolours. Victoria & Albert Museum, SW7, to 25 November JJ Five of the best ... theatre shows Milton Keynes international festival The biennial festival has a host of events – from large-scale outdoor performances to circus, music, standup and free family events – and tackles such issues as migration, identity and community. This year, it kicks off on Friday with the Catalonian company Sarruga parading from nightfall through the city centre with its towering mechanical insects on bikes. Various venues, Friday 20 to 29 July Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret Leaving Dame Edna Everage behind, Barry Humphries, along with cabaret star Meow Meow, explores the music of the culturally experimental interwar period in Germany, including Kurt Weill, a lifelong fascination since finding sheet music in a Melbourne bookshop as a teenager. Barbican Theatre, EC2, to 29 July The Meeting Charlotte Jones is best known for her award-winning 2001 play, Humble Boy, and the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of The Woman in White. The actor and writer has been quiet of late but a new play, The Meeting, gets an airing at Chichester. It concerns a frustrated daughter and her deaf mother who find sanctuary from the world’s troubles amid a Quaker community where silence is sacrosanct, until a stranger arrives to fracture their peace. Chichester Festival Theatre, to 11 August Spamilton: An American Parody If you haven’t been able to get to, or afford, Hamilton (and it does live up to the hype), then this might work as a second best. It does what it says on the musical theatre tin, taking the mickey out of the award-winning hip-hop musical about the American founding fathers, and other shows too. It is written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, who also gave us Forbidden Broadway, the long-running spoof on show toons. Menier Chocolate Factory, SE1, to 8 September The Lehman Trilogy Not long after a musical about the Rothschild banking dynasty comes this, a three-part play (over one evening) about the Lehman Brothers, the trio who founded the New York firm that, 163 years later, collapsed and triggered the largest financial crisis in history. Ben Power’s version of Stefano Massini’s play is directed by Sam Mendes and stars Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles. National Theatre: Lyttelton, SE1, until 20 October MC Three of the best ... dance shows Che Malambo French choreographer Gilles Brinas celebrates the poetry, machismo and heart of the history of the South American gauchos. This high-powered combination of drumming, dancing and traditional song, with some cowboy rope twirling and contemporary beats added in, is performed by an all-male cast from Buenos Aires. Peacock Theatre, WC2, Wednesday 18 to 22 July National Youth Dance Company: Used to Be Blonde Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal brings her trademark mix of club, trance and intensity to the bright young dancers of NYDC, drawing together their distinctive individualities to create a 41-strong ensemble of formidable dynamism and style. Brighton Dome, Friday 20 July Rough Fiction and London Arts Orchestra: The Expected Two superb dance artists, Christopher Akrill and Sonya Cullingford, work with the musicians of LAO to reimagine the dark and dramatic love story at the heart of Schoenberg’s haunting string sextet Verklärte Nacht. Wilton’s Music Hall, E1, Monday 16 July JM Main composite image: Trustee’s of the Natural History Museum; Kevin Winter/Live Nation; Pixar/AP

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What to see this week in the UK

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The UK’s historic churches are at serious risk from the impact of climate change, including higher levels of rainfall and invasive pests such as termites, according to the National Churches Trust. Roofs, towers and spires are threatened by strong winds and more frequent storms. The trust saw a 26% year-on-year increase in applications for grants for urgent repairs, maintenance and development projects in 2017, its annual review says. A total of 480 churches and chapels around the country sought financial help from the trust, which awarded 230 grants worth £1.7m – an increase of £300,000 compared with 2016. Claire Walker, the trust’s chief executive, said many church buildings had reached a tipping point due to the combined impact of climate change, cuts to Heritage Lottery Fund grants and the end of the government-funded roof repair scheme for listed places of worship. “The intensity of extreme weather patterns, including heavier rainfalls and storms, is putting church gutters and drains under strain, and systems designed in the past cannot cope,” she said. “Looking to the future, the impact of climate change could have a serious impact on the UK’s historic churches. Higher levels of rainfall in the UK, such as the 20% increase seen in Scotland since the 1960s, with more cycles of wetting and drying, will cause damage to timber and stonework. Stronger winds and more frequent storms will threaten roofs, towers and spires. “Climate change is also making the UK ever more vulnerable to invasive pests. The biggest danger for church buildings would be from termites, which are now widespread in France, with infestations being found close to the Channel coast.” Termites can cause extensive damage to structural timber. The pests excavate it from the inside, leaving a thin skin of unharmed wood which can conceal the damage being caused. The only colony of termites known to have become established in the UK was found in south Devon in the 1990s. It was eliminated after years of action by government agencies. Among the churches awarded grants by the trust last year were St Botolph’s in Boston, Lincolnshire, a Grade I-listed building and the UK’s largest parish church, which received £40,000 for roof repairs. The Grade II-listed St David’s Old Church in Llanwrtyd, Wales, which has a recorded history spanning more than 1,000 years, received £20,000 from the trust for urgent repairs to stonework and gutters.

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Climate change poses threat to UK's historic churches, trust warns

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On Wednesday night Stephen Colbert discussed the Nato summit in Brussels, the first of Donald Trump’s three stops on his trip to Europe. “It is the first full day of Donald Trump’s trip to Europe,” Colbert began. “He’s in Brussels for the Nato summit, then it’s on to England, then he’s going straight to hell – I’m sorry, Helsinki – to meet with Vladimir Putin. “It’s not like he turned Nato upside down, right?” asked Colbert, who cited a New York Times report noting that Trump “kicked off his meetings on a contentious note”. “Contentious is his only note,” replied the host. “The bumpy ride started at a breakfast with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg,” said Colbert. Trump, who railed against the Nato alliance during his campaign and has criticized allies for not paying enough in defense spending, immediately took aim at Germany for acquiring 35% of its natural gas from Russia. “Germany is totally controlled by Russia,” said Trump, who tweeted on Wednesday that the US is “paying for Europe’s protection”. Colbert continued: “We should have seen all of this coming because right before he left on the trip Trump talked about his three stops. Guess which one he was most excited about?” In a press gaggle held before leaving for Europe, Trump said the UK was “in turmoil” and that his meeting with Putin “may be the easiest of them all”. “I’m not ready to say our president is a Russian agent, but I have an agent and he doesn’t do as much for me as Trump does for Russia,” Colbert quipped. He then aired a clip from Fox News, where the network’s political editor said “you will not stop Donald Trump from realigning US foreign policy to be more favorable toward Russia”, adding that the president will “fly into Brussels like a seagull, defecate all over everything, squawk and fly away”. “Look, if you like the president, if you don’t like the president, it don’t matter,” the host said. “Trump is trying to weaken the EU and weaken Nato and break up the European alliance, which is exactly what Russia wants. This is not a theory. This is what’s happening in public. What we don’t know is why.”

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2018-07-12T12:57:14Z

Stephen Colbert: 'My agent doesn't do as much for me as Trump does for Russia'

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My friend and colleague Deirdre Murphy, who has died aged 42 after suffering from cancer, was the senior curator at Kensington Palace, where she worked for 15 years, and an internationally renowned expert on royal and court fashion. Deirdre curated a number of high-profile exhibitions at Kensington, including the 10th anniversary exhibition for Diana, Princess of Wales in 2007 and, the following year, The Last Debutantes. After a sabbatical at the V&A, she returned to Kensington for the Palace for Everyone project, which opened in 2012. Deirdre was born in Montreal, Canada, to Irish parents, Donogh Murphy, a pathologist, and his wife, Madeleine (nee Byrne), a biochemist and teacher. She was one of three daughters. The family lived in St John’s, Newfoundland, and Ontario, before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Deirdre attended school and studied at Dalhousie University. With a first-class history degree, she started with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a researcher and producer on a street style programme. In 2001, she came to London to do an MA in history of dress at the Courtauld Institute and then launched her curatorial career at the V&A and the Manchester Gallery of Costume before joining Historic Royal Palaces in 2003. By the time of the Palace for Everyone project in 2012, Deirdre’s work was drawing international attention. She gave a TedX talk at the Royal Albert Hall, was elected chair of the Costume Society in 2014, collaborated with the Museum of Fashion in Santiago, Chile, and conducted lecture tours in the US. Deirdre was first diagnosed with breast cancer early in 2016. She responded well to treatment, continuing to work throughout, and returned to her full-time duties by the end of the year. In late 2017 the cancer returned and was this time terminal. Her energy and determination never wavered. She was passionate about fashion, textiles and art and took delight in rummaging for beautiful things in markets and thrift shops. She could speak Italian, Spanish and French. She loved reading and music and was a talented photographer and pianist. She was adventurous, cycling to Kensington Palace daily, sometimes with an early morning swim in the Serpentine, and most recently started to learn tap dancing. Towards the end of her life, Deirdre embarked upon a book about Queen Victoria’s early years, drawing upon her extensive research and dispelling many of the myths about Victoria’s childhood. The book is due to be published by Yale University Press next year, to coincide with a new exhibition at Kensington marking the 200th anniversary of Victoria’s birth at the palace. Deirdre was an inspiration to everyone who knew her. Her colleagues remember her as a force of nature – determined, fierce and strong. They also speak of her shrewdness and vision, wry humour, bravery and style. Historic Royal Palaces is creating a new annual research fellowship in Deirdre’s memory, reflecting her commitment to the development of young future academics. She is survived by her husband, Andy Craig, whom she married in 2007, her two sisters, Sheila and Fionnuala, and her parents.

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2018-07-12T12:27:18Z

Deirdre Murphy obituary

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Stephen Colbert spoke about Trump’s hiring of supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh and the daring Thai cave rescue, using it as a comparison to the separation of parents and children at the US-Mexico border. On the Late Show, the comic joked that he was “still recovering from watching America’s Next Top Justice last night”. Trump’s extravagant reveal of his nominee for the supreme court was drawn out for suspense on Monday night. Colbert joked that he played a drinking game: “I would pour myself a drink every time my glass was empty. I won.” Colbert said that Kavanaugh could also double as a “cover model for Generic Dads Monthly”. He continued: “I’m skeptical because his name is Brett. That sounds less like a supreme court justice and more like a waiter at Ruby Tuesdays.” Kavanaugh once argued that a sitting president shouldn’t be open to criminal investigation given how difficult the job can be. “He thinks the president should be above the law because his job is hard?” he said. “Well in the case, I say that moms of three or more kids should be allowed to murder at will.” Colbert then went on to share some rare good news: that the entire football team trapped in a Thai cave had been rescued. “It reminds us of the importance of permission slips for field trips to flooded caves,” he said. Meanwhile in the US, immigrant children have still been kept in cages, separated from their families. “Are you listening Mr President? Freeing children makes people like you,” he said. Trump was given a deadline to reunite those children who had been taken from their parents yet despite the deadling passing, only 54 out of 102 children had been brought back. “These kids would have a better chance of being reunited with their parents if they went spelunking with a Thai soccer coach,” he joked.

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Stephen Colbert on Thai cave rescue: 'Freeing children makes people like you'

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Barry Humphries’ latest stage show celebrates the music of the Weimar Republic – radical, risque and ultimately banned by the Nazis. The performer, best known for his monstrous creations Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, believes there is no better time to highlight the danger of censorship. Today, Dame Edna’s sly prejudices and Sir Les’s outlandish views (his monologues are peppered with references to spags, slopies, muff-munchers and shirt-lifters) are regarded by many as relics. Some might even regard them as “degenerate”, just as Hitler did the art of the Weimar Republic. As for Humphries, he is scathing about what he calls “the new puritanism”. We meet at his agent’s office in King’s Cross, London. At 84, Humphries is super bright, fearlessly opinionated and more rakish than ever. Baggy check suit, bright green tie, matching pocket square that could double up as a tablecloth, snakeskin shoes and fedora, he looks every inch the boho dandy. The grotesque global superstar Dame Edna Everage and the foul-mouthed priapic dribbler Sir Les Patterson are hilarious spoofs of old-school Australian bigotry. In the flesh, Humphries is unrecognisable from Everage and Patterson. Intellectually, he could not be more different – a bibliophile with 30,000 books at home, most of them read. While Dame Edna and Sir Les are loud and boorish, Humphries is quiet and urbane (“I never swear,” he says). He sounds more like a 1950s upper-class English gent than Sir Les. And yet people continue to ask – with good reason – where do Dame Edna and Sir Les end and Barry Humphries begin? His return to the stage is unusual because he appears as himself, curating an evening of songs sung by the Australian chanteuse Meow Meow. Weimar Cabaret pays homage to the cultural revolution that blossomed between the end of the first world war and the rise of Hitler. It was a short-lived period in which jazz, expressionism and dadaism flourished. Humphries is a huge fan of this period. It shouldn’t surprise us. Dame Edna and Sir Les are caricatures every bit as savage as the paintings of Otto Dix or George Grosz. Humphries says none of his characters give him quite as much pleasure as Australian ambassador Sir Les, best known for his puce cheeks, huge appendage and formidable frothing. “I enjoy playing Les more than any other character because it release my inner vulgarity. It liberates my repressed ribaldry.” In 1999, Sir Les appeared with Kylie Minogue at Nick Cave’s Meltdown, in a duet that concluded with him chasing her round the stage and whipping out his famous (and thankfully fake) “frightener”. Sir Les is an acquired taste. When I first came across him in my teens, I couldn’t believe somebody could be so disgusting on TV and get away with it – he was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. Does he still have sufficient saliva to play the dissolute ambassador? “Well, look, the same question was asked by Prince Charles.” Like Edna, Humphries is an accomplished name-dropper. “He said: ‘Do you have some kind of tube running down your mouth?’ and I said: ‘No, I produce it myself.’ It really is organic. I can expectorate six rows into the stalls.” He looks at me with undisguised pride. “That is an accomplishment, isn’t it? I can almost hit a target half a block away!” Does the royal family like Sir Les? “Prince Charles likes Les a lot,” he whispers lubriciously. Of Dame Edna’s formidable gladdy-chucking feats, he says: “With the gladioli, I can get them into Camilla’s lap if she’s sitting in the front row of the dress circle.” How does he know? “She told me.” British royalty seem to adore Dame Edna as much as Dame Edna adores them. Dame Edna remains Humphries’ most successful creation. She first appeared in the 1950s when he was living in Australia. Edna was a parody of polite, decent, small-minded suburban housewives. “Edna was painfully shy at first. Angonisingly shy.” His eyes twinkle. “Hard to believe!” And how she evolved – the voice became louder, the diamante spectacles more spectacular, the purple rinse more flamboyant and the ego more untamed. The amazing thing about Edna is that she was never regarded as a man in drag, she was simply Edna. In the late 1980s she was given her own chatshow, The Dame Edna Experience, which paved the way for Mrs Merton (who had more than a touch of Edna about her). Edna became a brilliant pricker of pomposity. She was merciless on her guests, memorably telling Jeffrey Archer: “If you can’t laugh at yourself you might be missing the joke of the century.” Ultimately, Edna satirises the nature of celebrity itself – the faux intimacy of stars who actually hold their fans in contempt. She talks of “the little faces” in the audience, “looking up, grotesque with gratitude”. In her song That’s What My Public Means to Me, she sings: “You can keep the company of Roman Polanksi and Bianca, it’s after nobodies like you that I hanker.” After Humphries’ mother died, he admitted Edna was largely based on her. In the past, he has painted a picture of a cold, unhappy, priggish woman who would point out Jews in the street as if they were a lower form of life. Louisa Humphries wanted her Barry to be a somebody, and she was embarrassed when he opted for a career in theatre. She would often say: “We don’t know where he came from.” His mother seemed to take pleasure in him getting bad reviews. “She’d say: ‘Don’t be depressed, Barry. There’s something you have to learn – not everybody likes you!’” Did she mean that she didn’t like him? “I’m not sure. There was a kind of relish. I think she was finally a bit proud of me, but she teetered on the brink of being embarrassed as well. She was very complex.” Nowadays he sees a lot of his mother in himself, “the same mentality – a bit waspish, prepared to see the negative side of people and situations”. Humphries says his childhood was stultifying. His father was a builder who made good, and bought into middle-class life. Despite living in Melbourne, the family were little Englanders. “We were pretending we were in the home counties. We had nice churches, English gardens with nice lawns, crumpets for tea, teapots in the form of thatched cottages, pictures of Winston Churchill on the back of the kitchen door, and we subscribed to the Church of England. As Germaine Greer has brutally expressed it, it was a very boring life. And you either submerged yourself in it or left.” Humphries was one of a group of Australian contemporaries, including Greer, Clive James and Rupert Murdoch, who left – ironically, for the mother country, England. He remains friendly with all of them, and refers to them frequently. “It’s wonderful that Clive’s still alive,” he says of James, who announced he was close to death in 2015. “He’s blind in one eye and tiny now. I wrote this poem: Poor old Clive / Is still alive. / We know he is not dead / Because he keeps telling us / About all the books he’s read.” He giggles. Has he shown it to James? “I should, shouldn’t I?” And he recites it once more to amuse himself. By the time he left Melbourne in 1959, he had enjoyed some success with Edna. His comedy verged on performance art, and often seemed as much for his amusement as that of others. On plane journeys, he would sneak a can of vegetable soup onboard, drink a mouthful, then vomit it into the sick bag. He would then get out a spoon and eat the contents. In England, he struggled. He befriended his hero Peter Cook and created the cartoon character Barry McKenzie for Private Eye (McKenzie was another debauched womaniser), but struggled as a jobbing stage actor. He started to drink heavily. The Private Eye editor, Richard Ingrams, sacked him despite the cartoon’s popularity because he kept missing deadlines. Over 15 years, he almost drank himself to death. He went through women as rapidly as booze. (Humphries has been “very happily” married to his fourth wife, Lizzie Spender, the daughter of the poet Stephen Spender, for 28 years. He has four children – two daughters with his second wife and two sons with his third.) Humphries has described himself as “a dissolute, guilt-ridden, self-pitying boozer”. He reached his nadir in 1973, when he was found beaten unconscious in a gutter. He was admitted to hospital to dry out, and he turned his life around. He has been sober for 45 years. What made him stop? “I got sick and tired of being tired and sick.” The answer might be pat, but it’s also true. Perhaps Sir Les is a warning to himself of what he could have become. Would any part of him want to be Les? “No, I don’t want to be Les Patterson. I do rather admire him, though. He’s very genial. It would be therapeutic if Les was on TV constantly, reminding people there is another attitude to the fairer sex which doesn’t entirely displease them. I’ve noticed that people who laugh at Les’s most offensive, controversial, sexual sallies are old ladies. I have the lights up, and can see the old ladies on the front row. And they love it, as they used to love Max Miller.” Humphries is a clever man. Within one sentence he can segue from the ironic to the heartfelt and back again. On such occasions, his conversation can be hard to unpick. At other times, he talks with a simple, if scabrous, warmth. I mention that the Australian actor Geoffrey Rush said he thought Dame Edna should have a full celebrity breakdown. “He’s a funny man, Geoffrey Rush. He’s a great actor …” Silence. You know something is coming – and this is when I see Edna in Humphries. “He’s having a very hard time in Australia ... ” Is he surprised by the allegations of inappropriate touching? “Well, I feel for him. You know.” Does he think it’s fair? “No, I don’t think it’s fair.” There are“genuine cases”, but as for cases where an actor is accused of touching “some Sheila on stage”, he says, “well, part of the job, isn’t it?” Now I can see the Les in him. Have the rules of behaviour changed? “Look, I’m a solo performer. I don’t get a chance.” He grins. “Les does it for me. He drinks for me, too.” Humphries says he adores women. “I wouldn’t mind if there were no men in the world at all. I really do like women. Women know more. My sister’s school magazine was full of poems and romance, mine was full of sport, and I used to think how lovely to be at the Presbyterian ladies college writing these poems. Women know more about life … they bring it into the world … they are much more honest … they cook. My wife is a wonderful cook, which is why I’m so morbidly obese.” How much does he weigh? “I’m not going to tell you. Or your readers. All I can say is that in the next few weeks, it’s going to go down. When I’m on the stage, my weight disappears.” The older Humphries gets, the more outrageous he becomes. In recent years, his comments have caused controversy. In 2014, he defended the University of Sydney professor Barry Spurr after the academic was suspended for sending allegedly racist emails. Humphries said of them: “How could anyone take such deliberate Touretting seriously?” and concluded: “The answer, I fear, is that there are a lot of Australians these days who are totally bereft of a sense of humour. The new puritanism is alive, well and powerful.” In 2016, he told the Radio Times that Downton Abbey was popular in the US “because there are no black people in it”. It is a comment that can be read in many ways. What did he mean? “It was a throwaway comment – a joke really. And I would not wish to offend [Julian] Fellowes, who has created a wonderful thing. I think Americans like it because it describes a society so unlike American life that it is intriguing to them. It’s fascinating annd attractive … and good manners are a curiosity, aren’t they?” Does it bother him if people say it is a racist comment? “Oh, I don’t really care. If people think it is racist, they’ll be sensitive to everything of that kind. You can’t pussyfoot around them. You just say what you think. I was being provocative.” I ask if he thinks he has become more like Sir Les over the years. “No. Sir Les Patterson has never said anything I’ve agreed with.” Humphries splits his time between Melbourne and London, and regards both as home. “I’m a very conservative, sentimental old person. And I like the Melbourne of my memories.” He says the old-fashioned backwaters of his youth still exist and he enjoys visiting them. How does he feel about Brexit? “I voted in favour of Brexit and I would reverse my vote now if I could.” Why? “Because I have changed my mind. There is a lot to be said for a European solidarity that includes Britain.” He returns to the new puritanism, and the relevance of his Weimar Cabaret, which he first performed two years ago. “There was this burst of wonderful art and invention, and discovery and beauty. It only lasted a few years. And the musical side of it was suppressed almost immediately by the Nazis. A lot of the composers were Jewish. Some of them fled to Hollywood. The Nazis called it Entartete Musik, degenerate music.” Humphries fears political correctness may lead us into a new era of censorship – or self-censorship. Indeed, he believes Edna was an early victim of political correctness. In 2003, her agony column for Vanity Fair was dropped after she was asked: “I am thinking of learning Spanish. Is this a good idea?”, and answered: “Why Spanish, who would you talk to – your maid?” Humphries was dumbfounded. “It’s so much easier to shock people these days. I find it extremely provocative and therefore inspiring to find myself in a society that is so prudish when it thinks it’s being liberal. It’s ridiculous.” That is why, he says, he is determined to bring Sir Les back to Britain for one last hurrah. “I think Les might have adapted to new conditions.” Is he less offensive? He guffaws. “No, he’s more offensive. He’s had to ramp it up.” Does anything frighten Humphries? Yes, he says: death. Now there is no irony or grandstanding. The thing is, he says, after the desperation of the alcohol years, he started to love life. “I picked up the gift of life 45 years ago. And now I look at the obituaries and see how old people are, and I think I’m getting to be that. And I think of all the things I’d like to be doing.” What scares him most? “Dropping dead on stage worries me. It’s happened to people I’ve admired like Tommy Cooper.” Humphries has to leave. He is having lunch with his friend, the chef Rick Stein. As we get up, I ask where he got his dress sense from. “My father. There he was, striding across the joists of suburban villas in their construction and talking to the plumbers, always in a suit and a tie. And he always took his hat off in lifts for ladies. And I still do that. Almost as a tribute to my father. When ladies get in a lift, I take my hat off. Nobody ever does it any more.” As we enter the lift, he tells me how lucky he has been and how much he is looking forward to the future – particularly reviving Sir Les. “I defend to the ultimate my right to give deep and profound offence.” He pauses. “So long as people laugh while they’re being offended.” And do they laugh as much nowadays? “Oh yes, of course they do.” A young woman enters the lift. Humphries discreetly raises his hat. She doesn’t notice that one of the world’s great provocateurs has just paid his respects. Weimar Cabaret is at the Barbican, London, until 29 July, barbican.org.uk

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2018-07-11T13:51:04Z

Barry Humphries: ‘I defend to the ultimate my right to give deep and profound offence’

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A unique panoramic view of a lost London landscape including the medieval sprawl of the old Palace of Westminster, captured before the great fire of 1834 destroyed the parliament buildings, has been acquired by the Museum of London. In 1815 the French artist Pierre Prévost must have spent weeks up in the towers of St Margarets capturing an improbably immaculate and sunlit cityscape in an infamously smoky and dirty city. The watercolour is almost seven metres long and was a study for an even more epic version, now lost, which was 30 metres long and exhibited in Paris in 1817. His only other surviving work on this scale, a view of Constantinople, is now in the Louvre. Curators are considering how to put it on temporary display at the museum’s current cramped space at the Barbican, but it will undoubtedly be a star attraction – just as such panoramas were in Georgian London, as the Imax films of their day – when the museum moves to its new site in the old Smithfield market buildings. The museum raised £200,000 including a grant from the Art Fund charity to buy the painting at a recent Sotheby’s auction. Stephen Deuchar, director of the charity, said its acquisition was a coup for the museum. The museum’s director, Sharon Ament, said there was nothing like it in its collection. “Not only does it highlight London as an important centre of international artistic exchange, it also reveals a fascinating moment in time.” Prévost, who died in 1823, was one of the most accomplished artists working at the height of the craze for panoramas, creating vistas of many major cities. The first purpose-built panorama theatre opened in London in 1792, closely followed by one in Paris, where crowds queued to pay a hefty three shillings to admire the paintings, dramatically lit and stretched around the curved walls of a darkened room. Some were toured in popup panorama theatres, a history that explains why so many known to have existed were destroyed by fire or simply worn out. Prévost made an earlier London view, now also lost, when he visited London after travel between England and France became possible again with the Peace of Amiens in 1802, before Europe was torn apart by the Napoleonic wars. He is thought to have returned when peace was restored after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. His painting shows the city as the Duke of Wellington would have known it, with great parade spaces around Whitehall and Trafalgar Square, and Westminster Abbey dominating the foreground.

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Museum snaps up panorama of lost London landscape

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Monty Python comic John Cleese says he is moving to the Caribbean in November because he is so disappointed with Britain. The 78-year-old told BBC Two’s Newsnight his “particular beef” was with the “lying and triviality” of British newspapers. Cleese also said the standard of debate around Brexit had been awful. He plans to relocate to the “gorgeous” island of Nevis – which has a population of just 11,000 – in the autumn. The long-time Liberal Democrat supporter, who turned down a life peerage in 1999, has been a vocal supporter of electoral and press reform. He expressed his disappointment that both proportional representation and the second phase of the Leveson inquiry into press standards had been “kicked out by rightwing governments”, adding: “I just thought to myself: ‘Right I’ll just give up and try somewhere else.’” Saying his “particular beef” was with newspapers, Cleese showed Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis figures from an EU report that claimed the UK had the lowest level of trust in the printed media. He laughed when she suggested the statistics showed the UK press was robust. “Least trusted does not necessarily mean not true,” Maitlis added. Cleese, who backed leave in the 2016 EU referendum, went on to brand the standard of debate around Brexit “one of the most depressing things about this country”. “There were dreadful lies on the right about all the money that would come into the National Health Service,” he said. On the other hand, remainers such as David Cameron and George Osborne used scare tactics, Cleese claimed. “Very few people have any idea of what’s actually going to happen. Why’s everyone so passionate when they can’t possibly know what the outcome is?” he asked. Cleese said of Nevis: “It’s one of the nicest islands I’ve ever been on. The relationship between the races is absolutely superb. The people there are really kind.”

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2018-07-11T09:11:56Z

'So disappointed': John Cleese to quit UK for Caribbean

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Late-night hosts on Monday discussed Donald Trump’s pick for the supreme court, which was revealed after most shows taped but preceded by the president’s attempts to gin up suspense for his televised announcement. “Donald Trump has announced his pick for the supreme court, one assumes,” began Stephen Colbert. “We taped this show a few hours before the announcement, so no one tell me how Roe v Wade ends.” Trump, of course, selected Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative 53-year-old federal appeals court judge and former aide to president George W Bush, to replace the seat vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy, formerly the swing vote on a bench split evenly between conservative and liberal justices. “On Sunday afternoon, he still had not made his final decision on a supreme court nominee,” Colbert went on. “We’ve all been there. It’s Sunday night, you’ve got a supreme court nomination due, but you’re procrastinating.” “But Trump swears he’s taking the task seriously,” the host added. “Today, he tweeted: ‘I have long heard that the most important decision a US President can make is the selection of a Supreme Court Justice.” “What do you mean you have long heard?” the host asked. “Are you still asking people what your job is?” Colbert continued: “Trump considers it a crucial decision because yesterday, while he was at his country club in Bedminster, the Jersey White House, as no one calls it, he was being advised by Sean Hannity.” Hannity, the host added, “apparently got some bang for his blather,” as some White House aides reportedly complained that Trump’s decision to announce the pick at 9pm was engineered to boost the Fox anchor’s ratings. Colbert concluded: “We’ll have more on this continuing story as … America continues?” Jimmy Kimmel also discussed Trump’s supreme court rollout, during which the president was said to be considering Kavanaugh, Thomas Hardiman, Raymond Kethledge, and Amy Coney Barrett. “Tonight was a bigly night for our celebrity president,” Kimmel began. “Tonight from the White House, the primetime supreme court nominee special, hosted by you-know-who.” “It was on all the major networks,” the host added. “It even interrupted The Bachelorette here at ABC, which is a no-no.” “Trump, as he has been known to do, announced his announcement multiple times on Twitter,” Kimmel said, running down a list of Trump’s anticipatory tweets.” In one post over the weekend, Trump wrote, “Big decision will soon be made on our next Justice of the supreme court!” A day later, Trump tweeted he was “looking forward to announcing my final decision,” adding his selection will be “an exceptional person.” Finally, on Monday, he wrote: “I have long heard that the most important decision a US President can make is the selection of a supreme court justice.” “‘I have long heard’ for Donald Trump means they said it this morning on Fox and Friends,” Kimmel joked. “I don’t know why he has to be so dramatic about this kind of thing. No one needs more suspense. Just give us the name of your nominee so we can move on with our terrifying lives.”

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2018-07-10T13:29:21Z

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump's supreme court rollout: 'No one needs more suspense'

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Being in a boy band might be the time of your life, for a while, but after a few years the whole thing starts to look like a parable for human mortality. Sure, your voice might endure, but your body won’t keep dancing like that, and your fans will only ever span a single generation; like an iPhone or David Davis, obsolescence is built in. So, what if you do want to keep dancing? It’s the conundrum facing Justin Timberlake, 37, whose time in boyband N*Sync was followed by a hugely successful and credible solo career that has faltered a little of late with 2013’s bloated The 20/20 Experience and new album Man of the Woods, lampooned by critics for his anti-metropolitan switch from suits to plaid. The album’s rural concept is spectacularly, faithfully, even pedantically realised on stage. While some stars are content with a little catwalk and cursory acknowledgements of the cheap seats, Timberlake draws together the whole arena via a snaking path dotted with trees, a patch of retractable grass and a fully working, presumably gas-driven campfire at the opposite end. The latter is used for a good ol’ singalong with his backing vocalists – real-world campfires feature earnest Australians doing Jack Johnson, but here we have melismatic takes on Lauryn Hill and Fleetwood Mac. Man of the Woods’ country-soul turns out to be an astute, classy option for any ageing male pop star. The title track, rather corny on record, becomes endearingly light-hearted – you could imagine Candi Staton doing a good cover – and the magnificently robust single Say Something will endure long into any future world tours. Drink Me Away though, a 20/20 track that sketched out Woods’ path, ends up dragging out to at least 10 minutes long, what with Timberlake’s insistence on taking a shot with his band while hollering “It’s coming home!” and name-checking Kane and Maguire in perky American-cockney. Other parts of the set take in Timberlake’s previous generational shift: the funk revue of The 20/20 Experience, essayed by his tight, cacophonous band the Tennessee Kids. This mode is less successful, pummelling the minimalist grooves out of Filthy, LoveStoned and Señorita, though the sheer showboating chops of the two drummers and the lead guitarist are undeniably riveting. Timberlake shows off his own musicianship, playing acoustic guitar, organ and, most compellingly, a sampler, triggering a bright funky collage of his own vocals to introduce My Love. Powered by the set’s strongest hooks, the band’s maximalism suddenly delivers as they segue into Cry Me a River and Mirrors for a dizzyingly uplifting climax. It’s a reminder that one of Timberlake’s best contributions to pop is his brand of power ballad: propulsive and gospel-infused. His other USP, of course, is his dancing. A mix of Michael Jackson, boy-band aerobics and the jookin style of his native Tennessee, his trademark style is one of tight robotic gestures. In his youth he looked possessed by these moves; now there is the less exciting sense that he is now in control, with just a tiny hint of rust. But when he gives himself to jookin, tracing golden ratios with his feet, he’s mesmerising, and there’s a nod to contemporary styles with a burst of rapper BlocBoy JB’s hopping “shoot” moves. Age has perhaps withered Like I Love You a little, Timberlake now unable to give it its malevolent erotic urgency. There are no screaming girls in the audience, only screaming women back in touch with their girlhood. But no matter: Timberlake is finding clever new ways to be a pop star as he begins to contemplate middle age. The plainly euphoric closing number Can’t Stop the Feeling is a case in point: with the tempo slightly relaxed compared with his earlier work, along with his shoulders and hips, it feels perfectly in tune with today’s Timberlake. Pop lifespans be damned – the boy is still determined to dance, dance, dance. On tour.

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2018-07-10T11:39:20Z

Justin Timberlake review – pop's constant dancer grows old gracefully

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Simon Pegg has brought a bit of Hollywood with him. Not just the shades and a shiny smile, but the scorching weather, too. This setting seems apt. Pegg is here to promote his latest outing in the Mission: Impossible franchise, and – because this is the start of his promotional campaign and because he adores the fact he gets to star in Mission: Impossible films alongside Tom Cruise – he is raring to go. “You have caught me at the best possible moment,” he says, shaking my hand and downing a coffee. “This will be the most enthusiastic, positive and interesting I will ever be. You have got the mother lode!” And then he sits down to talk about depression. And alcoholism. And how he spent years trying to hide it, and how he nearly lost everything, and how he is lucky to even be alive. “It was awful, terrible,” he says. “It owned me.” Suddenly, this roof terrace in east London doesn’t seem so sunny. The narrative with Pegg has always been a heartwarming one: young sci-fi geek turns his obsession into a comedy career, writes a brilliant sitcom (Spaced) and a fun comedy zombie film (Shaun of the Dead), before somehow ending up starring in the same kind of space adventure blockbusters he grew up with. His rise is often portrayed like a film script, as if he didn’t so much work his way up to a career as found it tucked inside a Wonka bar. His puppyish enthusiasm and permanent “Am I really here with all these famous people?” expression only added to the narrative. It was a tale into which drink-fuelled oblivion did not fit too neatly. “I would feel like – I’m in a film with Tom Cruise, I’ve got the part of Scotty in Star Trek. This should be making me feel happy,” he says. “But it wasn’t.” It was the start of a long and tortuous journey. Pegg, now 48, says he had been aware that he suffered from depression since he was 18, but until 2005 had always dealt with it by self-medicating. He would feel sad, he would have a drink, he would feel better. Repeat when needed. There was no time to stop and thinkabout it – he had a career to build and countless projects to get through. But after flying to Los Angeles to shoot Mission: Impossible III (2006), things started to unravel. “When I watch that film back, I can see where I was then, which was fairly lost, and unhappy, and an alcoholic,” he says. It was the start of what he calls “the crisis years” – although most of his fans will have been blissfully unaware of it. “Because I hid it,” he says. “I’m an actor, so I acted … all the fucking time.” Did he employ the same skills? “Sometimes I did,” he says, admitting that he even kept his problems hidden from his best friend and frequent co-star, Nick Frost. “One thing [addiction] does is make you clever at not giving anything away. People think junkies and alcoholics are slovenly, unmotivated people. They’re not – they are incredibly organised. They can nip out for a quick shot of whisky and you wouldn’t know they have gone. It’s as if … you are micro-managed by it.” He lets out a burst of manic laughter – Pegg is remarkably chirpy today, despite the subject matter. “But eventually the signs are too obvious. You have taken the dog for one too many walks.” A turning point for Pegg came after his daughter, Matilda, was born – not because it snapped him out of it, but because it didn’t. “It was the most cosmic experience of my life,” he says. “I thought it would fix things and it just didn’t. Because it can’t. Nothing can, other than a dedicated approach, whether that’s therapy or medication, or whatever.” A year after Matilda’s birth, Pegg was at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego, California. He was promoting his movie Paul, but during the trip went awol for four days. On his return to the UK, he says he could not make it home from the airport without stopping off for a couple of pints. That proved to be the metaphorical dog-walk-too-far for his wife. “It was obvious to her,” he says, before adding with a touch of comic emphasis. “And then I woke up in the Priory.” Pegg credits rehab with turning things around: “I got into it. I got into the reasons I was feeling that way. I went into AA for a while, too.” How destructive had it become by this point? “I don’t think I would be here now if I hadn’t had help.” All this talk certainly puts into fresh perspective his 2013 film, The World’s End, in which he plays Gary King, a man so determined to complete a youthful pub crawl with his schoolfriends that he refuses to quit, even when it starts endangering their lives. “I felt like I was kind of telling people with that movie,” he admits with a smile. “Because that’s what addiction is like. It’s like you have grown a second head and all it wants to do is destroy itself, and it puts that ahead of everything else – your marriage, children, your job.” At the time it was going on, Pegg says he had to get court orders to stop stories of his recovery getting out in the media. “They were sinking so low as to phoning up where I was and pretending to be my mother to get the story,” he says. Now that he has recovered, and mellowed significantly, he says he wants to tell that story. “I’m not ashamed of what happened. And I think if anyone finds any relationship to it, then it might motivate them to get well. But I am not proud of it either – I don’t think it’s cool, like I was Mr Rock’n’roll, blackout and all that shit. It wasn’t, it was just terrible.” Funnily enough, the crisis that reached a head with Mission: Impossible III started to resolve itself around the time of the movie’s 2011 follow-up, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Pegg says he went into recovery as shooting started, and if you rewatch the film with eagle eyes you will notice him returning to health as the movie progresses. “We always laugh about it when we watch the movie. Try it! You’ll be like: ‘Fuck, he’s got cheekbones suddenly!’” Pegg loves returning to play Benji Dunn, the sidekick to Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, whose journey from lab nerd to field agent mirrors his own Hollywood journey. “Like me, he’s still impressed by it all, yet at the same time finds it all fairly ridiculous.” For Dunn’s latest outing in the forthcoming Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Pegg clocked up 144 days of shooting, more than he had done before. This was partly because Cruise broke his ankle during a stunt, which caused production to shut down for a while. “Of course, he just got up and ran out of shot on a liquid ankle,” marvels Pegg. “He had his producer head on even as he hit the building, and thought: ‘If I don’t clear this shot, it’s going to cost a lot of money to reshoot it.’” You might say that an injury like this has been on the cards. The Mission: Impossible franchise prides itself on the fact the actors pull off the stunts themselves. Pegg believes this knowledge adds a frisson of tension in the audience. “A couple of times, Tom’s done stunts where you think ‘he might not live through this’,” he says, seemingly deadly serious. “When we left him in New Zealand to shoot a scene where he sent a helicopter into a tailspin, it was like: ‘Well, goodbye, maybe see you in London?’” Pegg has to get involved, too. He has learned to drive a twin-engine speedboat and venture underwater with a rebreather to complete his scenes. “You can’t tell it’s me with all that stuff on,” he says. “I was thinking about this while I was underwater, which was really uncomfortable and difficult, and I realised: ‘I don’t really need to do this, do I?’” Has he come close to getting injured? Only if you count a punch in the face. “The director, Christopher McQuarrie, gave me a note to pause a little longer before taking a punch in a fight scene. Unfortunately, he didn’t give the stuntman the note so he just hit me in normal time.” Did he stay professional and make sure he cleared the shot, like Cruise? “No!” he exclaims. “I just went ‘Owww!’” Pegg’s 12-year working relationship with Cruise has long since blossomed into a proper friendship. You can tell that Pegg, mirroring the pair’s on-screen chemistry, gets a thrill from being around the megastar, even if there is a degree of mystique around him that even those close to him can’t penetrate. “I have never discussed his beliefs with him, for example,” Pegg says. “Everyone always asks: ‘Did he try and convert you? Is it all Scientology?’ But I’ve never seen that. I have glimpsed it a little bit – people from the church have been on set now and again, but he doesn’t proselytise about it.” He smiles: “Obviously part of me wants to go: ‘What the fuck is that all about?’” Pegg believes Cruise is misunderstood. “People are quick to want to denigrate him, but there is a complexity to him. He is way more than just a mad alien. The weird thing about that couch-jumping thing [in 2005, Cruise demonstrated his love for Katie Holmes by leaping on Oprah Winfrey’s sofa] is that it came about when YouTube first appeared and so people leapt on it. He was just being a bit of a knob, that was all. But people want more dirt and horror than that.” Before I met Pegg, I was warned that he wasn’t the easiest to interview. That he could be prickly – difficult, even. Maybe I have caught him on a good day, but there is no sign of this. Not only is he open about his drink problems, he also merrily riffs on all kinds of topics, from #MeToo (“It’s time for men to take a backseat and just listen”) to his trip to the White House a few years back (“I watched Michelle do this incredibly eloquent speech, all off the cuff, and just thought ‘I can’t imagine the Trumps ever being in this place’”). He once wrote a Marxist analysis of Star Wars and can’t help peppering our chat with his pet theories on, say, the representation of masculinity in action films, or home cinema’s detrimental effect on community. Yet despite this, he maintains that his depiction as an uber-nerd is off the mark. “Star Wars had a huge influence on me, but it was never the be all and end all,” he says, a little defensively. “I get characterised as this sort of nerd and I can be nerdy ... but it doesn’t define who I am.” This sounds a bit rich for someone who wrote an autobiography called Nerd Do Well. “I played up to it and I fostered that in some respects,” he accepts. “But there is a side to me that likes films that have nothing to do with spaceships, too.” Besides, he says, science fiction was more substantial during his youth, containing serious adult themes beyond the sparkly effects. Nowadays, a lot of what gets called nerd culture is just “children’s entertainment. The adult population is going to see films about superheroes and spaceships – myself included – and there’s a strange kind of infantilisation that’s going on. These are the preserve of our childhood, but now we don’t have to grow up until we are 30, or even 40.” Is that dangerous? “Yeah! It makes us all out of touch with reality. It seems amazing to me that there’s probably more discussion online about the next superhero movie than there is about immigration. Maybe now the state of the world is getting harder to ignore and people are starting to wake up to it a bit. Or maybe people will just feel even more powerless and think: ‘I can’t do anything, I might as well just watch this film and get away from the awfulness of it all.’ But the awfulness is festering more and more as we sit in the darkness watching these bright colours.” Pegg’s future work suggests a desire to explore other areas without abandoning his roots entirely. He is set to appear in Lost Transmissions, an indie film written and directed by Katharine O’Brien about a music producer with schizophrenia. “In terms of wrestling with your own psyche, I had some knowledge,” says Pegg. He is keen to stress that depression and schizophrenia are different conditions. He is also gearing up to work with Frost again on the TV comedy Truth Seekers, which is about a team of paranormal investigators, although Pegg says he will only be producing with Frost, rather than starring alongside him. Beyond work, though, Pegg just seems happy. He no longer drinks, he has got a peaceful life in Hertfordshire with his wife and dogs, and he is able to enjoy fatherhood as the cosmic experience he always knew it was. He beams with pride while telling me he has invited the YouTube star Stampylongnose to the Mission: Impossible – Fallout premiere so Matilda can meet him (“That’s who she worships … she doesn’t give a shit about Tom Cruise”). Despite the turmoil, or perhaps because of it, he seems at ease with himself today. “Doing the school run, picking up dog shit, all that stuff is what’s important to me and I need to keep doing it,” he says, with another manic laugh. “I had to deal with a disgusting one this morning,” he adds, grimacing at the memory. “It was like Armageddon. But as I crouched on the floor with a wet wipe in my hand, I did stop and think to myself – this is the life.” • Mission: Impossible – Fallout is in cinemas on 25 July in Imax, 3D and 2D.

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2018-07-09T05:00:23Z

Simon Pegg: ‘I was lost, unhappy and an alcoholic’

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The first time Tucker Gumber attended a music festival, he was both enchanted and a touch horrified. It was winter 2011 at Colorado’s Snowball, and with flurries falling lightly against the Rocky Mountain sunset, Big Gigantic playing onstage and a crowd of fans playing tag in the field, Gumber knew festival culture, in all its heady whimsy, was for him. At the same time, he was confounded by the lack of direction provided to the tens of thousands of attendees. “They were basically telling 50,000 people like: ‘Show up. You’ll be fine. Here are some drugs. What could go wrong?’” Gumber says. Gumber, 34, has since dedicated his life to music festivals, having christened himself “The Festival Guy” and hit more than 135 festivals in the last seven years. If you’re a festivalgoer in the US, it’s not unusual to see Gumber from across the field at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Electric Daisy Carnival, SXSW, Okeechobee, Burning Man and many more, typically wearing his signature top hat and surrounded by a gaggle of friends. As of June 2018, Gumber has logged more than 460 festival days of dancing, camping, listening, eating and generally having the time of his life at shows across the country. And in the process, he’s grown quite savvy. Gumber is now focused on helping fellow attendees optimize their own festival experiences and elevating “festival-ing” to a legitimate hobby. With his recently released The FestivalGoer’s Guide, he has literally written the book on the subject. “I realized it was my purpose,” Gumber says. “I quit my job and learned how to be a pro who makes festivals better and creates tools for festival-goers.” While his lifestyle may be non-traditional – Gumber doesn’t have a house and spends most of the year on the road going to shows – as The Festival Guy he’s continuing his family’s legacy of turning hobbies into jobs. His grandfather was an avid golfer and his dad worked for the division of wildlife in Colorado, where Gumber grew up passionate about live music and the outdoors. “My dad’s entire job was to enforce the correct way to be an outdoorsman,” Gumber says. “I was taught from a young age that there’s a right way to do things.” Which is why what Gumber was seeing at festivals – litter, shoddy campsites, rude attendees, sleep deprivation, lost cars, keys, tents and friends – was so disconcerting. He Googled “guide to festival-going” and found there wasn’t a comprehensive manual on par with those written for more traditional hobbyists like golfers, fishermen, hunters, snowboarders and hikers. There was no one he could pay to give him a lesson. So, he sought out festival veterans, the people with the comfortable chairs, organized campsites and good shoes, and soaked up all their knowledge. He then led by example, finding efficient ways to instill order, and thus greater levels of enjoyment, into the often disorganized and sometimes sloppy festival culture. His goal is to establish festival-going as a legitimate hobby. He’s even trademarked the word “FestivalGoer”. His first taste of success came at Coachella 2011, when he brought a portable phone charger he’d bought online. These chargers weren’t common at the time, and fellow attendees were impressed that Gumber’s phone didn’t die all weekend. “It was just game on from there,” he says. “It was like: ‘There’s a right way to do this and I’m going to learn it.’” For a time Gumber made money by renting the house he had bought in Los Angeles – where he moved after college – when he was 24. (“I was really good at sales,” he says of the purchase.) He eventually sold the house and invested the money into FestEvo, an app he developed that helps fans discover new music, connect with friends and gather festival tips. Everything Gumber owns now fits into a suitcase and carry-on bag. His only major expenses are his cellphone and the cash required to keep the FestEvo servers running, and he typically gets into festivals for free with media or artist passes. At shows he subsists largely on 99-cent tuna packets and protein shakes and says he’s still navigating how to make his lifestyle financially viable. Certainly Gumber’s greatest asset – and most employable skill – is the knowledge he’s accumulated in his hundreds of days of festival-going. Just as a fishing guide can lead you to the best spot on the river or a snowboarding instructor can show you how to carve, Gumber knows what you should wear, how to pack your car and how to avoid post-fest depression. All this information is in The FestivalGoers Guide, his comprehensive book that should be required reading for any car full of 18-year-olds driving off to their first event. “I’ve been able to cover every angle of festivals because I’ve been bitch slapped from every angle,” Gumber says. “In my first year of festivals, there wasn’t one that I didn’t have a moment where I didn’t kind of feel like crying because my phone was dead or I’d lost my friends or I couldn’t find my tent.” The crying days are long gone. Gumber is now the guy with the lights, the protein shakes and the earplugs. But his interests extend beyond pragmatic supplies. For him, festival-going is also about the attitude one brings to the event, an aspect he’s dubbed “the circle of vibes”. He feels that in the last seven years, as festival culture has exploded in the US, events and the people who attend them have gotten more sophisticated. (His first book, The Festival Goer’s Bible, a guide for event organizers, was published in 2015.) With more than 800 festivals happening each year in the US, it seems “festival-ing” is gaining legitimacy. Sweet, funny and blessed with a huge and seemingly permanent smile, Gumber’s love for festival culture – and the music, community, nature and travel within it – is obvious. While others might feel a level of burnout after seven years on the road, he remains enthusiastic and dedicated. A few years ago he left Coachella on a Saturday morning at dawn, flew to Oregon to be a groomsman at a friend’s wedding and flew back to the festival the next morning. He even had the wedding DJ play music by all the artists he was missing. Like his father before him, Gumber is a hardcore conservationist. (“I was a four-year-old and picking up trash on hikes with my dad, so it hurt my heart to see the litter at festivals.”) He posts a selfie of his clean campsite after every show, organizes two-minute festival clean-ups on Facebook and travels with his own reusable utensils to cut down on waste. He nearly got into a fight this year at Coachella after approaching a man who had tossed a tomato on the ground. In his book, Gumber also takes a hard stance against sneaking into shows and scalping. “If you’re selling tickets above face value, that’s enough for me to know I don’t need you in my life.” Last weekend, Gumber shared his expertise with hundreds of attendees at Michigan’s Electric Forest. He’ll give the talk again this weekend at the second iteration of the fest, having become the sage veteran with the comfortable shoes he sought out in his early days. He says the best part of the festival was running into people who had benefited from his advice. One guy ran up and gave him a hug, saying he was able to get some sleep by following Gumber’s recommendation of removing the rain fly from his tent to create airflow. Telling this story with the same enthusiasm one might use to recap a great day of fishing or particularly epic day on the slopes, it’s clear this hobbyist turned FestivalGoer has found his calling.

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The Festival Guy: how one man turned festival-ing into a lifestyle

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Amid the fanfare surrounding the release of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s surprise joint album and their video for APES**T, one group were paying particularly close attention: the professional gif creators employed by companies such as GIPHY, Tenor and Imgur. Because, as Beyoncé’s “Beychella” performance proved, you can never have too many gifs of a sassy, confident Beyoncé, right? The online popularity of images of black people – particularly women and femme gay men – is a fact of internet life and, in recent months, an increasingly controversial one. Racist caricature and impersonation are widely accepted tools of white supremacy, but it’s when minstrelsy’s 19th-century traditional tools of boot polish and a wig are replaced with 21st-century equivalents that the confusion begins. Are gifs being used to disseminate racist stereotypes in cyberspace? Was the “black marching band dances to Fleetwood Mac” meme an example of “digital blackface”, as suggested in a recent high-traffic Twitter thread? Is there something problematic about white people using brown-skinned emojis? And what about the Black Lives Matter Facebook fundraising page that was revealed to be run by two unaffiliated white men in Australia? Was this the latest iteration of digital blackface in action? Or just a run-of-the-mill money-making scam? Actually, black women have been calling out certain online behaviours as digital-age blackface for some time now. Shafiqah Hudson, a Philadelphia-based writer and academic, first noticed the phenomenon back in the mid-00s in a comment thread on an article about police brutality. Her attention was caught by “some anonymous user claiming to be a black woman in NYC posting some extremely anti-black sentiments and fighting with some of the other posters, for days”. Eventually, this anonymous user accidentally posted from his actual account, alerting the rest of the thread to his real identity – a “white guy in flyover country” (between the east and west coast of the US), says Hudson. When Twitter arrived on the scene, accounts impersonating black women also quickly adapted to the new platform. “I joined in 2009 and I saw them all the time. They were racist and gross, but they weren’t harmful beyond being obnoxious. They didn’t fool anyone who wasn’t already awash in their own misogynoir.” Unfortunately, misogynoir – the specific misogyny directed towards black women – flowed freely online during this period, at least judging by the popularity of one Wanda LaQuanda. Between 2007 and 2012, her Twitter account @bigoletitties built up a 30,000-strong following (and accompanying merchandise line) by combining a profile picture of a thickset black women in lingerie with all-caps tweets, in which Wanda boasted about her sexual prowess in a crude approximation of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). In 2013, a truth that was already obvious to anyone who’d ever met a real-life black women was “sensationally” revealed: Wanda LaQuanda was actually Alex Munkacsy, a bearded, 32-year-old white man working in the tech industry. Before apparently disappearing from the internet altogether, Munkacsy gave an interview promoting his e-book, Wanda Exposed, to Kernel, the online magazine founded by a pre-Breitbart Milo Yiannopoulos. The article never uses the word blackface, nor does it question Munkacsy on his use of racist and sexist stereotypes, but it does offer some useful insight into the methods and motivations behind instances of digital blackface. Munkacsy admitted getting started by stealing a real woman’s picture from an “erotic services” listing on Craigslist and claimed that the hoax was his act of tribute. “When I created Wanda,” he said, “I was living in north-east Washington DC, AKA ‘Chocolate City’. I was surrounded by black culture at the time. I loved it and I miss it … There is such a thing as black culture. It exists. And it’s great because it’s honest and loud and proud and it’s got character and funkiness and weirdness and backbone.” It’s significant that digital blackface’s first boom period, around the turn of the decade, coincided with the Obamas moving into the White House. “They’ll deny it now,” says Hudson, “but seeing accomplished, attractive, stylish, and intelligent Michelle Obama on the global stage shook a lot of folks who didn’t consider themselves racist to their cores. There was this desperate scramble to squeeze her into some semi-relevant stereotype of a black woman.” That’s where the memes came in, disseminating old racist stereotypes with a contemporary pop-cultural twist. There’s the “hilarious” Auto-Tuned neighbour meme, which plays into the stereotype of black people as natural-born, always-on performers and/or “welfare queens” (the fact that many of these clips – Charles Ramsey in Cleveland, Ohio, or Antoine “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife” Dodson – originated as local news interviews with witnesses to horrifying incidents, seems to get lost somewhere in the process of meme-ification). Or there’s the still-popular Viola Davis handbag gif, which riffs on various iterations of “Angry Black Woman”, and the meme featuring actor Kayode Ewumi pointing to his head, often used to illustrate some example of cheerful stupidity, like an update on the slavery-era “happy Sambo”. Yet since memes, almost by definition, take images from their original context and place them in another funnier or more immediate one, it’s no surprise that these subtleties of meaning can often pass us by. It also seems fair to assume that most people who’ve used the phrase “Yasss kween!” online since 2015 are not fully conversant with 1980s ball culture; they just saw it online somewhere – maybe from a Drag Race gif or a clip from Broad City – enjoyed it and decided to drop it in their next WhatsApp group chat. Similarly, the contextless nature of most internet communication is both the digital minstrel’s real crime and his most sympathetic line of defence. Blackness has long had a certain cachet for non-black people, yet the anonymity of the internet makes slipping in and out of alternative identities all the more of a temptation. “It’s superfun to ‘play black’ when you know that you can instantly step back into being non-black, avoiding the stigma, danger and burdens of reduced social capital that real black people often endure,” says Hudson. “So while it may not be the stated intention of the folks who participate in digital blackface, it is anti-black racism that makes it possible for them.” Relying on Real Housewives of Atlanta gifs for your online expression can seem like the frivolous, fun end of the spectrum, especially when compared with those “alt-right” trolls using digital blackface as a tool to sow dissent and derail democracy – and indeed it often is. The point, however, is that all these instances of digital blackface exist within the same cultural context: a racist one. “Everything we do online plays into, and often plays up, pre-existent notions of race, gender, class, sexuality,” says Lauren Michele Jackson, the Chicago-based cultural critic whose 2017 Teen Vogue article first brought the notion of digital blackface into the mainstream. And, yes, that would include deliberately using the wrong colour emoji. There certainly isn’t much hope of Twitter or Facebook assuming any responsibility for the spread of digital blackface. Their attempts at confronting even overt racial harassment on their platforms have been laughable at best, yet leading gif database GIPHY says it, at least, is already taking the phenomenon seriously. “We’re very conscious of the type of content that’s on our site, and how we’re putting it out into the world,” a spokesperson told me. They also describe “ensuring that users aren’t just seeing one aspect of a person or identity” as a “company goal”. The average internet user, on the other hand, seems far more prone to react defensively to any discussion of digital blackface. Typical responses include scornful scepticism regarding the very concept, accusing those who raise the issue of trivialising “real” racism, and railing against the injustice of “meme segregation” – this, despite the fact that Jackson and others have repeatedly said they’re proposing nothing of the sort. Of all the responses, though, there is one that Jackson finds particularly bemusing: “White people who have now sworn off gifs for ever more and [are] telling me all about it, when I never asked for that. It seems like people with that response are more interested in brownie points for being a Good White Person than doing the more rigorous ongoing work of checking their behaviour online.” *Beychella “Think about it” gif*

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Why are memes of black people reacting so popular online?

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You may not think you know Dulle Griet but you probably do – she’s the breastplated peasant striding across a war-torn land towards the mouth of hell in one of the most famous paintings by the 16th-century Flemish master Bruegel the Elder. Bertolt Brecht saw her as his own Mother Courage – “the Fury defending her pathetic household goods with the sword. The world at the end of its tether.” Jim Broadbent’s version of her is rather different. “She’s a plain woman whose tragedy is to look like me,” says the actor, whose dignified recent screen roles, such as the curmudgeonly camera seller in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending or the tragic Gloucester in Richard Eyre’s King Lear, can lead one to overlook an important biographical detail: he cut his acting teeth in the 1980s as one half of a grandiosely named comedy duo, the National Theatre of Brent, hamming it up as Marie Antoinette or the Virgin Mary in uproarious re-enactments of the Bible and the French revolution. Broadbent, as his friends have told him, is a “notoriously picky” actor, with the result that, while he seems to be a constant presence on stage and screen, he quite often has time on his hands. His original idea was to make a film of Dull Margaret, with himself in the title role. He wrote the screenplay and showed it around, but when the money failed to materialise and he began to feel the zeitgeist moving against female impersonation, he decided to put her in a graphic novel instead. And who better to approach for the illustrations than the Welsh cartoonist Dix, whose Roll up! Roll Up! comic strip for the Guardian had enlivened his day for two years in the early 00s with the antics of a ghoulish circus troupe. “I just felt we shared a sense of humour,” Broadbent says. The Dull Margaret who stars in their new book may be Griet’s darkest incarnation yet. She’s a potato-faced wraith adrift in coastal marshlands who emerges naked from the sea and is not above chopping the hand off a hanged man to enrich a putrid love potion, which she smears on her face in an attempt to witch away her loneliness. Leaping from the end of a jetty on a broomstick, she plops ignominiously into the sea, only to re-emerge two pages later in what looks like a gastroenterologist’s bad trip – a writhing tangle of orange dragon coils looming out of a palette of sombre greys and browns. And so her misfortunes continue, not least because of her own bad behaviour and her inability to choose between money and love. Is she mad? Or monstrous? No, no, no, protests Broadbent, gallantly. “I love her. I have total sympathy for her and enjoy her struggle. In a heightened way, she’s looking for what we all want: comfort, a reasonable standard of living and love. She gets robbed and abused and humiliated, and that sets her on a journey to take back control.” It turns out that this is only the fourth time author and illustrator have met. They collaborated via early-morning emails, because Dix, who lives in Hay-on-Wye and has a day job at a computer software company, does his art work between 11pm and 4am. Dix picks up the story, confessing that it took a while for him to “find” Margaret – “one was too fat, one was too neurotic and one was too vulnerable”. This was partly because he thought Broadbent was after someone who looked like one of his Roll Up! Roll Up! circus grotesques (the horizontal comic strip format rules out long, skinny people). It didn’t help, he adds, that that at first Margaret had no nose. “She was beginning to look a bit aquatic, so we thought later on we’d give her a nose – which was a nice thing to do.” Broadbent’s blue eyes widen at this revelation. “I wasn’t aware of your nose, no-nose journey,” he fires back, though he agrees it was important that she had no fat on her – “she has no carbs in her diet”. Given that Margaret is a mythical figure who rides a broomstick and stirs severed hands into potions, this sudden swerve into dietary literalism might seem surprising – but it underlines how deeply rooted the story is in the marshy coast of Lincolnshire, where Broadbent and his artist wife, Anastasia Lewis, have a cottage. It’s also deeply indebted to Bosch’s hellscapes, Goya’s witches, Daumier’s pictures of travelling acrobats and Rembrandt’s glowering Low Country landscapes – not to mention Dix’s own oddball aesthetic. “Lack of pupils in eyes is something I’m quite fond of,” he says. “It makes people more expressive.” And creepy? “I don’t think it’s creepy at all – and I think that’s something we share.” The pair’s shared sensibility is never more apparent than a six-frame sequence in which Margaret happens upon a bloated white animal corpse, which I mistakenly describe as a sheep. It’s a dog, Dix corrects. Well actually, says Broadbent, it was originally a pig. But they’re both delighted for it to be pointed out because it was the last page they composed. Its single speech bubble – “Cor, what a pong” – is a tribute to the Dandy and Beano comics that Broadbent loved as a child, and which helped to form his sense of comedy. It’s all quite clownish, he says happily, striding out into the streets of Soho, where (despite being unexpectedly long and lean) he is immediately recognised by a giggling trader as Horace Slughorn, the “well-upholstered” potions master who turns himself into an armchair in the Harry Potter films. As another of his creative soulmates, the theatrical hell-raiser Ken Campbell, once put it: “It’s only true if it makes you laugh.” Dull Margaret is published by Fantagraphics Books.

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2018-07-06T14:33:57Z

'Her tragedy is to look like me': Jim Broadbent's graphic novel

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Five of the best ... films Whitney (15) (Kevin Macdonald, 2018, UK/US) 117 mins The second doc this year about the star, which, unlike Can I Be Me, has the support of Houston’s family. That doesn’t make it any less sensational, however, with a suggestion that she was abused as a child by her cousin Dee Dee Warwick. Houston’s relationship with friend/lover Robyn Crawford is key to understanding her troubled later years. Mary Shelley (12A) (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2017, UK/Lux/US) 121 mins An impressively mounted biopic of the teenage Frankenstein author, retooled for the #MeToo era with its emphasis on emotional rights and assertion of authorship. Elle Fanning is a little constrained as the lead, but Haifaa al-Mansour, the Saudi director of Wadjda, goes full throttle to bring out an intense melancholy in the character. The Deer Hunter (18) (Michael Cimino, 1978, US) 178 mins A restored print of the study of US involvement in Vietnam – as epic in its way as Apocalypse Now, which it preceded. Robert De Niro was at the top of his game, while Meryl Streep, John Cazale and Christopher Walken turned in stellar supporting roles. Based on the effects of this distant conflict on small-town, melting-pot America, its unreflecting portrayal of the Vietnamese as sadistic torturers is a major blind spot. Leave No Trace (PG) (Debra Granik, 2018, US) 109 mins Debra Granik made her name – and a star of Jennifer Lawrence – with the tough crime story Winter’s Bone; here she returns with another powerful, tender study of American outsiderdom. A military veteran (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter (Thomasin McKenzie) are found living off the grid in a huge Oregon national park; their subsequent struggles are rendered with a matter-of-fact sensitivity. Sicario 2: Soldado (15) (Stefano Sollima, 2018, Ita/US) 122 mins Suburra director Stefano Sollima follows in Denis Villeneuve’s footsteps for this sequel to the narco-terror hit, and does a fine job. Black ops guys Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin are sent to stop the cartels smuggling Isis into the US. About as politically relevant as it’s possible for a Hollywood thriller to be. AP Five of the best ... rock & pop gigs Lovebox Booted out of its usual home of east London’s Victoria Park, the summer festival lineup’s hedonistic younger sibling heads west and takes with it a typically eclectic lineup that covers the new (Flohio, Mura Masa), the old (Big Boi, NERD) and the really quite exciting (SZA, Childish Gambino). Expect copious amounts of glitter and a hip-hop karaoke stage. Gunnersbury Park, W3, Friday 13 to 14 July Justin Timberlake While the stench of a misguided authenticity grab still hangs heavy over recent rootin’ tootin’ album Man of the Woods, you can’t deny Timberlake knows his way around a big pop show. We’ve checked and Mirrors, Cry Me a River and SexyBack all make an appearance on the setlist, so co-ordinate loo breaks accordingly. The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Saturday 7; The O2, SE10, Monday 9 & Wednesday 11 July Latitude festival This year’s annual excuse to Instagram a picture of some pink sheep features a mixed bag of a lineup: on the plus side, one of the headliners is Solange. On the down side, the other two are the Killers and Alt-J. Elsewhere, Laura Marling’s new side project Lump rub shoulders with Wolf Alice, Nao and a live episode of QI. Henham Park, nr Blythburgh, Thursday 12 to 15 July Paul Simon Having first threatened to retire in the 90s, the man who gave us Vampire Weekend has claimed he’s definitely laying his guitar to rest after this jaunt, entitled The Homeward Bound tour. Culminating with a show in London’s Hyde Park on 15 July, these arena shows mark your final chance to bellow You Can Call Me Al at the man himself. Manchester, Tuesday 10; Glasgow, Wednesday 11; Dublin, Friday 13 July MC Curtis Stigers & The Ronnie Scott’s Big Band American singer Curtis Stigers (pictured) redefines the crooner’s craft – he’s rugged, ironic and emotionally honest, almost as jazz-savvy as the great Kurt Elling in his inventiveness and hip timing. On this UK tour, Stigers and the Ronnie Scott’s Big Band pay classy tribute to Frank Sinatra. Robin Park Sports Centre, Wigan, Thursday 12; Town Hall, Birmingham, Friday 13; touring to 15 July JF Four of the best ... classical concerts Alzira There are better-known works coming later (Idomeneo, The Daughter of the Regiment) but it’s the most rarely heard of Verdi’s early operas that kicks off the Buxton festival. Alzira has had few stage revivals since its 1845 premiere; this one is directed by Elijah Moshinsky, conducted by Stephen Barlow and stars Kate Ladner. Buxton Opera House, Saturday 7, Tuesday 10 & Friday 13; to 20 July Hansel & Gretel Among the scattering of new works in the Cheltenham festival, Simon Armitage’s retelling of the Grimms’ fairytale promises to be one of the most fascinating. His words are interwoven with music by Matthew Kaner, played by the Goldfield Ensemble, while shadowplay and puppets by Clive Hicks-Jenkins provide the visual framework. Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, Saturday 7 July Ensemble Variances The Paris new-music group founded by composer Thierry Pécou make a rare London appearance. The UK premiere of Pécou’s own Méditation Sur La Fin De L’Espèce, with its processed whale calls, concludes a programme of Mâche, Debussy, Szymanowski and Takemitsu. Wigmore Hall, W1, Wednesday 11 July First Night of the Proms The centenary of the end of the first world war echoes through this summer’s BBC Proms. The opening night features the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Sakari Oramo, with the first performance of Anna Meredith’s Five Telegrams, based on messages sent by young soldiers in 1918, and uses digital images projected on to the Albert Hall itself. Royal Albert Hall, SW7, Friday 13 July AC Five of the best ... exhibitions Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil The nightmare vision of Goya looks shockingly modern. His images of war and madness have a contemporary unease. What’s less well known is that he was influenced by the earlier satires of William Hogarth. Both artists depicted asylums and both show the dark side of an age of reason. The Whitworth, Manchester, Saturday 7 July to August 2019 Rembrandt: Britain’s Discovery of the Master The humanity and depth of Rembrandt have been recognised in Britain since his own century, when he was collected by Charles I. This investigation of our relationship with an all-time great shows how his paintings came to Britain and how they have inspired artists such as Frank Auerbach and Glenn Brown. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Saturday 7 July to 14 October Memory Palace Art has always been a way to prolong memory, from decorated ancestral skulls in ancient Jericho to suffragette statues. In contemporary art the process of memory matters as much as what is recalled. Anselm Kiefer’s great ashen history paintings and Tracey Emin’s probings of her personal past (pictured) are among the backward-looking artworks in this group show, which also includes Theaster Gates and Doris Salcedo. White Cube Bermondsey, SE1, & Mason’s Yard, SW1, Wednesday 11 July to 15 September Collier Schorr Art or fashion? Schorr’s photographs inhabit a world of their own somewhere between the glamour industry and conceptual art. They are not so much celebrations of beautiful people as studies of desire and fantasy. Photography by its nature records the outside appearances of people. Schorr somehow inverts that. She photographs the inner life. Definitely art, then. Modern Art, Helmet Row, EC1, to 1 September Matisse Prints We think of Matisse as an artist of colour, glorying in sensual hues, from his early fauve outbursts of sunburnt expressionism to his late cutouts. Yet one of the best ways to see his brilliance is in black and white. His graphic art is a sublime act of mental freedom. This exhibition of rare prints by the quintessential modern master is a chance to sample the simplicity of genius. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, SW1, to 15 September JJ Five of the best ... theatre shows King Lear From Chichester Festival Theatre comes what is set to be Ian McKellen’s final major Shakespearean role. Having previously played Edgar and Kent, as well as Lear (for the RSC in 2007), McKellen once again tackles the challenging title role in Jonathan Munby’s intimate production, in which Sinéad Cusack co-stars as Kent. The Duke of York’s, WC2, Wednesday 11 July to 3 November End of the Pier Les Dennis stars in Danny Robins’s new play as a former comedian and household name, now reduced to a lonely life and the occasional panto. That is, until a new national favourite standup (The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison) comes knocking on his door asking for help to save his career, so dragging him back unwillingly into the limelight. Park Theatre, N4, Wednesday 11 July to 11 August The Band Despite being put together by Gary Barlow through the BBC talent contest Let It Shine, which sought five limber, clean-cut young things to play the members of a boyband, this isn’t the story of Take That (the show Boy Band was closer to that). This jukebox musical, written by Tim Firth, uses their many hits in a tale of five girl fans in their youth and reminiscing 25 years later. Echoes of Mamma Mia! perhaps? Not a bad template to follow. King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Saturday 7; The Edinburgh Playhouse, Tuesday 10 to 14 July; touring to 16 March Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre It is described as Europe’s first ever pop-up Shakespearean theatre, being a temporary structure not unlike Shakespeare’s Globe in London, set in a Shakespearean village populated by jesters and minstrels with an Elizabethan garden. The venue will host four productions over 10 weeks and the repertoire comprises four popular plays – Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet and Richard III – the latter two of which are directed by Lindsay Posner. York, to 2 September Machinal It was 25 years ago that the National Theatre staged Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 expressionist drama with a vast piece of set machinery that threatened to crush its star, Fiona Shaw. Natalie Abrahami uses rather subtler methods to evoke the slow suffocation of American secretary Helen (Emily Berrington) by a male-dominated society, the drudgery of work and a soulless marriage. Almeida Theatre, N1, to 21 July MC Three of the best ... dance shows L-E-V: Love Chapter 2 Sadler’s Wells associate artist Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar continue to explore the dark, obsessional hinterland of passion in their latest work. A follow-up to OCD Love, Eyal and Behar’s driven, fractured choreography for their Israeli dance company is a meditation on loneliness, yearning and missed connections. Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Friday 13 & 14 July Kevin and Karen Dance One of the most cherished couples from the Strictly Come Dancing stable, Karen and Kevin Clifton compile a playlist of their favourite music (Roxanne, Respect, Jailhouse Rock etc) to fuel a brazenly dazzling programme of Latin dance. Bath, Saturday 7; Cardiff, Sunday 8; Leicester, Friday 13; touring to 29 July Monumental Canadian choreographer Dana Gingras revives her aptly titled spectacle Monumental – a blast of high-powered dance performed to music by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and featuring state-of-the-art video projections and text from conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. Barbican Hall, EC2, Friday 13 & 14 July JM Composite: Manuel Harlan; Richard Haughton; Mathew Parri Thomas; Allstar/Columbia Pictures

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The house in a Suffolk market town where the artist Thomas Gainsborough was born and learned his trade has been awarded a £4.5m lottery grant to become a national centre for the display and study of his work. The new centre in Sudbury will also link Gainsborough to the work of his contemporary John Constable, who was a great admirer of the older artist and equally inspired by the landscape of their native county. “The announcement is such a boost for the arts nationally, for a market town, a county and for helping to open the doors to this wonderful place for everyone,” said Mark Bills, director of the museum. The news will be announced by the Heritage Lottery Fund on Friday, and shared with guests at a party at the museum, where the garden contains a mulberry tree believed to have been already a century old when Gainsborough and his brothers and sisters played on it. The designer and artist Nicole Farhi has created a sculpture of Gainsborough for the museum, which is being cast in bronze through a donation from another admirer, the US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Farhi, a fashion designer before she became an artist, said creating an image of Gainsborough was a challenge because there was only one self-portrait. “I thought well, I’ll give it a try. It will be nice to make something for pleasure, with no commission and no deadline,” she said. “But it has turned out well. He made me smile. It was like having a friend in the studio – his portraits are big serious paintings, but there is always something witty in them.” Farhi’s husband, the playwright David Hare, is delivering a speech at the party in place of culture secretary Matt Hancock, whose presence is required at the government’s make-or-break Brexit weekend at Chequers. Hare said of the move to create the centre: “This is the perfect national lottery grant: it has become quite fashionable to sneer at the lottery, to claim that it’s getting the gambling-addicted poor to pay for middle-class pleasures, but this is actually going to be a museum for the whole town and for everybody. Jolly good luck to them.” Gainsborough was a wool manufacturer’s son, born in the handsome house just off the market square.. The museum’s next door neighbour is Vanners Silk Weavers, which has produced fabric since 1740 and supplied royal weddings and international designers. His father’s fortunes were on the up when he bought the house in 1722 and added the smart Georgian facade, masking the original 16th-century building. But he went bankrupt in 1735 when Thomas, the fifth of nine children, was only six. The house was bought by a nephew who allowed the family to remain there. Gainsborough lived there from 1727 until 1740 when he went to London to study art, but he returned after his father’s death. The Grade I-listed building became an antiques shop and a tea room before being turned into a museum in 1961, containing treasures including the recent loan of an archive of Constable material from one of his descendants. The grant will add a new cafe overlooking the garden and a gallery giving the first proper display space for the permanent collection and loan exhibitions. There will also be a high windowed space giving panoramic views across the town’s rooftops to a landscape still recognisable from both Gainsborough’s and Constable’s paintings.

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2018-07-06T06:00:18Z

Thomas Gainsborough museum secures £4.5m lottery award

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‘I love England in a heatwave,” says a character in Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. “It’s a different country. All the rules change.” And he’s not just referring to the sudden hike in the price of a 99 Flake. In works of art, the weather is a reliable indicator for internal turbulence, with the heatwave an especially pliable metaphor. It is called into service to signify everything from overwhelming passions to oppressive tensions, a ripening or a boiling-over. Not for nothing is an entire genre, the coming-of-age story, predicated on the idea that things were never the same again after that summer. The pinnacle is LP Hartley’s The Go-Between, the overarching influence on Atonement, in which the relentlessly beating sun is a transformative force: “In the heat, the commonest objects changed their nature. Walls, trees, the very ground one trod on, instead of being cool were warm to the touch: and the sense of touch is the most transfiguring of all the senses … In the heat the senses, the mind, the heart, the body, all told a different tale. One felt another person, one was another person.” It’s hard to stay cool in a heatwave, especially if you’re British and unaccustomed to its severity. Just ask Alice, whose adventures in Wonderland are precipitated by weather which makes her feel “very sleepy and stupid” and causes her to wonder “whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies.” Jean Rhys in her Jane Eyre prequel Wide Sargasso Sea describes “the time of day when though it is hot and blue and there are no clouds, the sky can have a very black look,” while McEwan has used heat to apply additional pressure to his characters, much as a sadistic schoolboy might pursue ants with a magnifying glass. The orphaned brood of The Cement Garden lose their innocence as the world rots in the sunshine (“Outside there was a cloud of flies round the overflowing dustbins … A packet of butter had melted into a pool … it was the hottest day since 1900”) while the doomed romance of Atonement unravels against a savage summer of “vast heat that rose above the house and park, and lay across the Home Counties like smoke, suffocating the farms and towns”. It encourages — or so the parents are inclined to believe — “loose morals amongst young people”. Wherever sunshine and British people mix, the result is likely to be fraught; think of EM Forster dispatching his creations to Italy and to India, or of the film-maker Joanna Hogg sending the upper-class holidaymakers of her 2006 debut, Unrelated, off to Tuscany to be perfectly miserable. Here the heat and beauty serve as an effective counterpoint to whatever woes the characters are experiencing. Anna (Kathryn Worth) is tormented by a failing relationship, her yearning for a child and the callous flirtations of a man two decades her junior (played by a young, icicle-eyed Tom Hiddleston). The delicious scenery seems only to exacerbate her problems. There’s a similar dynamic at play in Chris Power’s recent short-story collection Mothers, where a series of far-flung idylls only point up the characters’ inner discomfort: Cadaqués becomes the backdrop for a cataclysmic decision, Rhodes the site of childhood trauma, Mexico City the burial ground for an irresolvable desire. Whatever the problem, the heat seems to both reflect and inflame it. Nowhere is this truer than in some of America’s sweatiest cinema. Would The Texas Chainsaw Massacre have been less scary or oppressive if it had been relocated, say, to Anchorage? The director Tobe Hooper littered the set with animal bones and carcasses, and somehow the stench that caused cast and crew members to throw up in the stifling heat seems to waft off the screen toward our nostrils. Perspiration drips off every face in Sidney Lumet’s scorching Dog Day Afternoon, with Al Pacino and John Cazale as touchingly ill-prepared criminals who choose the hottest day of the year to hold up a New York City bank. Lumet knew what he was doing putting the screws on by turning up the heat — he’d done the same thing in Twelve Angry Men, where it was only the suits and ties that distinguished the jury room from a sauna. Michael Douglas is just one angry man stalking Los Angeles in Falling Down, where it’s hard not to feel that a light shower might cure at least some of his ills; then again, it never rains in southern California. Even if it did, would it help? “You’d think the rain would’ve cooled things down,” says Thelma Ritter in Hitchcock’s Rear Window, another thriller set in a heatwave. “All it did was make the heat wet.” In Do the Right Thing, as with In the Heat of the Night before it, the heatwave becomes a manifestation of the racial tensions at the heart of America. Brooklyn’s fire hydrants are up for grabs, while DJ Mr Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L Jackson) gives a comical running commentary on the escalating temperatures: “If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you’ll end up with a permanent plastic helmet on your head forevah!” But the heat is no easier to quell than the conflicts stoked by a racist police force and a pigheaded Italian-American restaurateur. The only balm is experienced by the viewer, grateful to be watching from the cold comfort of an air-conditioned cinema. Spike Lee, the director of Do the Right Thing, returned to New York and heatwaves in Summer of Sam, which mingled the real-life hunt in 1977 for the serial killer known as Son of Sam, with the emergence of punk in America. The real summer of punk had taken place a year earlier in Britain, during the country’s own record-breaking heatwave (highs of more than 28C for 22 days, making it the hottest summer for three centuries), with Denis Howell, given ministerial responsibility for coping with drought, advising people to “take a bath with a friend” to conserve water. That same 1976 summer permeates Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Instructions for a Heatwave. Simmering family problems are manifested in the heat that “inhabits the house like a guest who has outstayed his welcome: it lies along corridors, it circles around curtains, it lolls heavily on sofas and chairs.” One thing the hot weather can do in art is to eliminate social divisions. It’s an equaliser: if everyone’s in their bathing suits, as they are in Eric Rohmer’s Pauline at the Beach, then the normal social hierarchies dissolve. In François Ozon’s Swimming Pool, there can even be a kind of equality between a prissy British writer (Charlotte Rampling) and a promiscuous gadabout (Ludivine Sagnier). Though stripping off isn’t much help to Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) in The Talented Mr Ripley. “You’re so white,” says Dickie (Jude Law), Tom’s coveted social superior. “Grey, actually.” Summer heat can plunge the reader or viewer in an instant into an airless fug. Take the opening line of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar: “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.” But the air of melancholy hanging over the season is impossible to dispel because we know what lies around the corner. In two novels by Alan Hollinghurst, summer represents the last gasp of gay abandon before the decimating sweep of Aids: first in his 1988 debut The Swimming Pool Library, which takes place in “the last summer of its kind there was ever to be” and then in The Line of Beauty, the 2004 Booker prize winner, which picks up the thread in that same summer, 1983, and follows it into a more darkly troubled era. Even without the spectre of mortality, summer in art embodies a fleeting wistfulness, a carefree and uncontainable bliss. The Myth of the American Sleepover, the gorgeous 2012 debut film from David Robert Mitchell (who later made the chilling It Follows) is especially good on those seemingly endless juvenile summers when we clumsily forge our future selves like fumbling amateur blacksmiths. But if you want the mood of that movie distilled into seven minutes, it’s right there in David’s Last Summer, the final track (fittingly) from Pulp’s 1994 album His ’N’ Hers. Ash may have devoted a chunk of their career to turning lost summers into frenzied, bittersweet indie-pop (Bring Back the Summer, Buzzkill, Orpheus, Oh Yeah) while the Fall offered a pungent reality check on British People in Hot Weather (“Beached whale in Wapping / His armpit hairs are sprouting”). But it is Jarvis Cocker, picking his way through a daisy-chain of summery vignettes (“When we reached the stream I put a bottle of cider into the water to chill / Both of us knowing that we’d drink it long before it had the chance”), who captures most vividly the pull and the pain of summer, wending his way toward the lengthening shadows that signal autumn’s approach: And as we walked home we could hear the leaves curling and turning Brown on the trees, And the birds deciding where to go for winter. And the whole sound, The whole sound of summer packing its bags and preparing to leave town.

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2018-07-04T12:36:56Z

From Do the Right Thing to Swimming Pool: culture's hottest heatwaves

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Michael Rosen (Letter from a curious parent, 26 June) attributes the “It’s deja vu all over again” quote to a football commentator. It is generally attributed to the baseball catcher Yogi Berra. Among his many other memorable quotes is: “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” Christopher Haslett Tadworth, Surrey • “Where do others hide their jewellery and other valuables when they go on holiday?” we are asked (You’re the expert, 30 June). The mind boggles. Are you assuming burglars don’t read the Guardian? Surely it is advisable to keep your secret hiding places – well – secret. Doreen Fryer Birmingham • A meerkat in the fresco at the Duomo of San Gimignano in Tuscany (Letters, 30 June)? They were lucky. Monty Python’s Michaelangelo’s Last Supper had a kangaroo and 28 disciples. The pope wanted it with no such marsupial and “with 12 disciples and one Christ”. Michaelangelo: “One?!?!” Brian Smith Berlin, Germany • The “gangsters” who stole our Morris Minor (Letters, passim) in the 1980s dumped it on a double yellow line outside a London police station. It took the Met three days to find it. Simon Higman Kingston upon Thames • In the double-page interview on Saturday, the centrefold paper crease down Hillary Clinton’s face gave me a really crooked Hillary. Mark Lewinski Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire • Thursday’s dark blue masthead was terrific – dignified and distinctive. Please, can we adopt it full-time? Stephen Friar Painswick, Gloucestershire Danielle Rowley MP says “the average cost of a period in the UK over a year is £500” (Sorry, I’m late, I’ve been on my period, MP informs Commons, 29 June). It’s a long time since I had a period, but my local chemist sells a box of 20 Tampax for £2.29 Joyce Rosser London • Join the debate – email [email protected] • Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters

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No deja vu in Monty Python’s Last Supper | Letters

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“Cook and his men were the astronauts of the time,” declares Alan Eavis, a volunteer at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby. “They ventured where very few sailors had gone before. The majority of them weren’t special people – they were just ordinary guys who did extraordinary things. During this 250th anniversary festival, young people will realise that we are all capable of that.” Eavis is not the only one to be excited about the three-day seafaring extravaganza that the Yorkshire town is about to put on in honour of Captain James Cook. In August 1768, the lowly son of a farmer set out in a ship built in Whitby on one of the most remarkable voyages ever made. When he returned three years later, he brought back the first charts of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, having discovered numerous previously unknown Pacific islands, as well as more than 50,000 specimens of plants, animals and human artefacts. Now, 250 years on from Cook’s landmark voyage on the HM Bark Endeavour, Whitby is to celebrate his life and achievements in a festival expected to attract 20,000 visitors. “Cook was born in a mud hut, the lowest of the low,” says Eavis. “He knew little about sailing when he moved to the town aged 16, but nine years later he joined the royal navy. This boy came from nothing and here he was sailing the world. That is absolutely remarkable and there is no reason why young people today can’t do the same – that is why events like this are so important.” Whitby lays claim to being one of the world’s greatest maritime centres and the connection to its seafaring past is instantly recognisable: a replica of the Endeavour – renovated for the celebrations by local entrepreneur Andrew Fiddler – dominates the skyline, and a statue of Cook sits prominently on a headland looking over the North Sea and the town. Past the sweet and rock shops, down a cobbled street lies the Captain Cook museum. Taken in by John Walker, a Quaker master mariner, the young Cook spent nine years in this cottage learning mathematics, pilotage and the navigational skills that would enable him to become one of the world’s greatest explorers. Eavis leads a tour of the house, showing off a boomerang and cannibal fork. Finishing off in the attic room where Cook would have slept, he says: “It is very important to Whitby because this is where he learned his naval skills. He knew little about sailing when he moved to the town. But within nine years he was in command of his own ship. ” He adds: “Without Whitby he would not have become the man that he did.” Eavis’s views are shared by the festival’s music director, Richard Grainger. Sitting in the evening sunshine in Sanders Yard, a bustling music venue, Grainger says he too is hoping to inspire youngsters with a musical odyssey of shanties, haka – the Maori war cry – and a folk opera about the Endeavour voyage called Eye of the Wind. “Cook was the humble man who mastered the seas, a romantic, inspirational figure,” he says. “He was the common man who broke through class barriers. This is a story all our young people should know – a story we hope will make them believe they can also do anything.” The Cook250 celebrations will begin on Friday 6 July with 450 children waving flags to welcome in Atyla, one of two tallships secured especially for the festival. On board the ship will be seven local children. The vessel will be accompanied by HMS Pickle, a replica of the messenger ship that brought back news of Admiral Lord Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar. The ships will be berthed in Whitby’s Dock End over the weekend alongside the replica of the Endeavour. There will be talks, food trails and fireworks. And the Scarborough-based environmental arts organisation Invisible Dust will give a nod to the scientific and artistic achievements of Cook’s 1768 voyage with an Encounters exhibition which will look at the role of the botanists and artists who recorded new cultures and species. Charles Forgan of the Captain Cook museum says: “In his day, Whitby was a place of adventure and promise, and a magnet for ambitious young men with hopes and dreams. This is exactly the kind of place that encouraged young men to look beyond the horizon, to push the boundaries of knowledge and science. “It’s only as you discover the places that would have inspired Cook, where he grew up and trained, that you feel a connection to the real man and can start to understand what drove him.” The Cook250 festival in Whitby runs from 6-8 July

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Whitby flies the flag for its seafaring hero James Cook

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Bri Lee Eggshell Skull Allen and Unwin Your book in your own words: I tried to write a page-turner of a courtroom drama (the kind Australians love) in order to trick people into reading what is essentially 100,000 words of feminist jurisprudence. I really put myself on the page with Eggshell Skull. I didn’t know (still don’t) if I’m a “good” writer, but I knew it was honest – sometimes alarmingly so. I figured there was no point writing about yourself unless you were going to do it properly, you know? The books goes through my growing up with my dad being a cop, then how I graduated from law school and spent a year working as a judge’s associate in the Queensland district court. At the end of an extremely difficult and triggering year listening to trials and sentences for sex offenders, I decided to go to the police and make an official complaint against a man who committed a sex offence against me when I was a child. That’s when the really rough stuff started. It’s a book about trying to fight for, and believe in, justice. What you were reading when you wrote it: Every single non-fiction in first-person books published in Australia. All true crime I could find. All memoirs by women. To pick one though, I’d say Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner. It’s my favourite of all her books. It was so sharp, like her writing was a blade she’d been sharpening for a lifetime. The next Australian book you’ll read: I am telling everyone I know about Trace by Rachael Brown. People might have listened to or heard of her podcast (same name), but the book itself is meritorious in its own right; Brown has a spare style yet simultaneously an excellent turn of phrase. It’s just a damn good read. Kate Rossmanith Small Wrongs Hardie Grant Your book in your own words: Small Wrongs is a meditation on remorse in the criminal justice system and remorse in our everyday lives. I thought I understood human nature, but after my daughter was born, I spent hours awake, reflecting on my own upbringing. I became fascinated by the concept of remorse, and was drawn to the criminal courts, observing case after case. I put a fundamental question to judges, lawyers, victims and offenders: how can you ever know if a person is truly sorry? Small Wrongs interweaves stories from the courts with stories of my relationships with my father, my husband and my daughter, showing how remorse works on us in sharp and opaque ways. It probes our expectations of one another and of people caught up in the justice system. What is it to demand an apology from someone? What is it to admit to wrongdoing? What you were reading when you wrote it: I researched and wrote Small Wrongs over eight years. Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk was useful in thinking about hybrid memoir. I also loved Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead trilogy. She writes with power and delicacy about people’s relationships and interior lives, about ideas and experiences of regret, resentment, and forgiveness. The next Australian book you’ll read: I am reading The Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad, his novel about a Lebanese-Australian teenager, Bani Adam. It is set in Punchbowl Boys’ high school in Sydney’s western suburbs in 2001. I love the energy of Ahmad’s writing, his prose, his ability to animate the complexity of the young men’s world. Phillipa McGuinness The Year Everything Changed Penguin Your book in your words: Quite a few years ago I found myself thinking about the publishing phenomenon that is the book devoted to a particular year. Books like 1776, 1915 or 1968. Trying to think of a year within memory that wasn’t all about war, I settled on 2001, though of course it was the year a war began that has not ended. It was also the year we lost our second child, the worst experience of my life. I realised I wanted to tell my own story within the story of a year, one that included a day, 9/11, that everyone remembered. Not only where we were, but how we felt. 2001 gave us the war on terror, the Pacific Solution and the unexpected third term of John Howard. One.Tel, HIH and Ansett collapsed, as did Enron, but in Australia we managed to avoid a recession. It’s not all bad news: from thousands of possibilities, we might even celebrate a year that gave us Wikipedia, Moulin Rouge and the Strokes. More essayistic than chronological, I wanted to remember what it was like to be there and make sense of the impact of so many of the events, big and small, that unfolded that year. What you were reading when you wrote it: A lot. In my introduction I mention three books that were guiding lights: David Marr and Marian Wilkinson’s Dark Victory; Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower and Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side. At night, as I returned from 2001 with a desperate need to calm my mind, I reached most often for a book published in 1974, Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Meditative and poetic, it carried me far away from the horrors of 9/11 and Tampa. The next Australian book you’ll read: Virginia Lloyd’s Girls at the Piano. It promises a mix of the personal and the historical, not to mention the performative, that will be right up my alley. Belinda Castles Bluebottle Allen and Unwin Your book in your own words: Bluebottle tells the story of a family cracking apart on a steamy Boxing Day in a Sydney beach shack, and the enduring effects of that day on the children. The father is mercurial and charismatic, a nightmare of unpredictability, and the children absorb his whims according to their current position of favour. It’s a novel about how the individual children in a family experience the dramas of their childhoods, how the same events can have very different meanings in their adult lives. The setting is important to the story too: Bilgola and Avalon are so wild, lush and elemental for city suburbs. Coastal weather is also a feature. I’d always wanted to write a story around the breaking of a southerly, to shape a novel around that weather pattern. I love the sense of build-up, chaos and aftermath. What you were reading when you wrote it: The Burgess Boys and other fiction by Elizabeth Strout. It was thrilling to discover Strout. Her subtle, gripping stories confirmed my sense that what we mean to one another, and how we carry our pasts, are central to who we are and how we understand our lives. The next Australian book you’ll read: Jessie Cole’s memoir, Staying. I listened to Jessie talking about her difficult but beautifully vivid memories of growing up as I was travelling to work one morning and ended up walking along a city street in tears. Nino Bucci The Stoccos Penguin Your book in your own words: It tells the story of Gino and Mark Stocco, the crooks who became notorious for shooting at police and then gallivanting across Kelly Country. But that manhunt was the end of their strange lives as criminals, not the start. This is about the man they murdered, the people they sought vengeance against in deeply troubling ways, and the police who tracked them down. In telling those stories it explores contemporary Australia and life on the road. It delves into the identity of migrants, farmers and law enforcement. But overwhelmingly it is about a father and his son and the madness that built in them and then consumed them. Was it the isolation? The slights of the people who moved them on? The breakdown of a marriage? It is not something that can be completely explained, but this book leads you down the roads the Stoccos travelled, and back out again. What you were reading when you wrote it: There were three: The Tall Man, Chloe Hooper; Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry; People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry. They encouraged me to shape the sense of place, and embrace the organic narrative arc that underpins most true crime. The next Australian book you’ll read: The Bush, Don Watson. Writing The Stoccos has made me increasingly ponderous about the vastness of Australia, and what it means that so many of us now live in cities. Lisa Portolan Happy As Echo Your book in your own words: Have you ever considered how your notion of happiness has been constructed? Happiness isn’t just an ephemeral, transient emotion that fills us with glee – for most of us, it’s a series of milestones, possessions, a modern-day notion of success and the perfectible self. We can’t be slothful, broke, uniformed and happy – or so we think. Happy As examines how communication, advertising, dominant social norms and digital media have constructed our perception of happiness, and how this personification of the emotion could be leading us astray. It’s possible that our insatiable quest for happiness is actually making us miserable and if we refocused on personal authenticity and accepted the fallibility of self, we might reach a longer lasting sense of contentment. Happy As is an off-beat, slightly ironic look at the human condition, our fixation with happiness, ego and the desire for the perfect self. What you were reading when you wrote it: Distraction, Damon Young. It examines our compulsion as human beings to ensure life means something, or that we’re at least “happy” – we can’t simply live the next 75 years or so being distracted. It reinforced my thinking around meaning as a happiness requirement, and of digital person-holes. The next Australian book you’ll read: The Friendship Cure, Kate Leaver. Kate’s a brilliant Australian journalist. Her look at friendship as a central component to our increasingly isolated and lonely lives really interests me from a social perspective; why are we so disconnected when we’re so connected? Tracy Ryan We Are Not Most People Transit Lounge Your book in your own words: It’s the story of two misfits, Kurt and Terry, well-meaning but lonely, who fall in love despite all odds. Those odds include a 30-year age gap, and coming from opposite sides of the world. Kurt is a Swiss who migrates to Australia in the 1960s with his first wife, and Terry a young woman born in Australia that same decade. Though so different, they were both brought up in the Catholic Church and have fallen away from it. This gives them common ground. In his earlier life, Kurt was a trainee priest despite his better judgement; in Australia he’s a teacher, against his will – he’d rather plant trees. Terry, briefly a postulant nun, can’t find any place to belong. It seems they belong together, yet the past keeps getting in the way. It’s a novel about love, difference, migration, and trying to make a home that isn’t just a roof over your head. What you were reading when you wrote it: Bizarrely, a dark, disturbing German “Krimi” or crime novel, Tina Schlegel’s Schreie im Nebel (“screams in the fog”), which has a vegan detective! We were living in southern Germany at the time, and that brought back memories of Switzerland, not far away. Schlegel’s plot and characters have nothing to do with my book – it’s just a language connection. The next Australian book you’ll read: I’m looking forward to Anita Heiss’s edited collection, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, excited about the range of insights its many contributors will offer. I loved Tony Birch’s Common People and he’s one of the writers in this volume too. Kate Wild Waiting for Elijah Scribe Your book in your own words: Waiting for Elijah examines the fatal police shooting of 24-year-old Elijah Holcombe in Armidale, NSW in 2009. Elijah was mentally ill when he was shot by Senior Constable Andrew Rich in a small back street of a large country town. Rich told police that he had no choice but some eye witnesses disagreed, and Rich’s actions became the subject of a legal argument that lasted years. Although the Holcombes believed that Elijah had posed no threat to anyone, Rich had acted on society’s behalf, they said. Every one of us bore responsibility for the outcome. As first responders in situations where mentally ill people find themselves in crisis, police bear the brunt and often the blame for the final outcome of these complex situations. Waiting for Elijah is about compassion and fear, about the systems we use to try to fix things, and the strength that resides in owning our human frailties. What you were reading when you wrote it: Joe Cinque’s Consolation, Helen Garner. Helen faced and solved so many of the issues I struggled with in giving narrative drive to a legal story that sprawled over a six year period. Cries Unheard, Gitta Sereny, and Adrienne Rich’s poetry collection, The Fact of a Doorframe, were also important emotional touchstones while I wrote Elijah’s story. The next Australian book you’ll read: Tracker, Alexis Wright. I access and understand history best through biography, and Tracker’s life captures the modern history of black Australia in the Northern Territory. Told by a writer as unique and wise as Alexis, I think it will be special. Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus The Book Ninja Simon and Schuster Your book in your own words: The Book Ninja stars Frankie Rose, a 29-year-old woman who is desperate for love, but can’t quite seem to find it. So she turns to the one true love in life: books. She decides to plant all her favourites on the train, with a love note written on the seventh last page, in the hopes of finding the man of her dreams. She blogs about her dating adventures, sharing tales of the quirky, crazy and romantic characters she meets. The Book Ninja is a love letter to soulmates, friendship, the magical city of Melbourne, but most of all, it’s a tribute and declaration of love to our favourite books. We were inspired to write this by our initiative Books on the Rail, where we drop books on public transport for people to find, read and return. What you were reading when you wrote it: We’re so lucky to be sent hundreds of books by publishers all over Australia, as part of our Books on the Rail movement. In other words, we were reading a lot! Some of our favourite inspirations at the time of writing were Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project and Brooke Davis’ Lost and Found. The next Australian book you’ll read: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee. We’re both big Bookstagrammers, and Bri’s book is all over Instagram at the moment - with rave reviews. This book is about violence, sexual assault and the legal system - and considering the current climate, we feel it necessary for us, and everyone else, to read it. Now.

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Revenge, justice and compassion: what you should read in July

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When hundreds of thousands of Americans descend on the nation’s biggest cities on Saturday to protest against the separation of migrant families at the southern border, A-list celebrities will be resisting alongside them. Donald Trump’s presidency has already galvanized enormous opposition in Hollywood, as entertainers came out in droves on the president’s second day in office to join the Women’s March last year, where between 3 and 5 million people took part in the largest single-day protest in US history. Hollywood has, in return, drawn the ire of the president, who frequently refers to celebrities, most recently Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro, as “liberals” and “elites”. And while Saturday’s protests, dubbed the Families Belong Together march, is not expected to turn out quite as many participants as the Women’s March, politically active celebrities like Julianne Moore, America Ferrera, Padma Lakshmi, Natalie Portman and Chelsea Handler are expected to demonstrate in opposition to the “zero-tolerance” policy implemented by the president at the US-Mexico border. Last week, amid widespread and bipartisan backlash to the separation of migrant children from their mothers, a result of the Trump administration’s decision to prosecute all undocumented immigrants crossing the border, Trump signed an executive order ending the policy. But his solution seeks to indefinitely detain families together, and the administration has thus far not been specific about plans to reunite the 2,300 children who have already been separated from their parents. “Are we really such monsters?” asked Jessica Chastain on Twitter, while Cher, a frequent critic of the president’s, expressed concern for “terrified” children “alone in a strange country where they don’t know the language”. The director Ava DuVernay, whose documentary 13th focuses on mass incarceration, called the administration’s policies “especially chaotic and destructive” while attending a separate protest at the Freedom Plaza in Washington DC. America Ferrera, the actor and activist who campaigned for Hillary Clinton, implored those “pissed off that Trump has made it official US policy to separate children from parents at our border” to visit the website Families Belong Together, which organized Saturday’s day of action demanding “an end to family separation and detention”. The actor Susan Sarandon, meanwhile, was among the 575 women arrested in Washington DC on Thursday after staging a sit-in at the Hart Senate office building. “Arrested. Stay strong. Keep fighting,” Sarandon tweeted shortly after being released. Saturday’s protests are a direct response to the administration’s immigration policies. Just last weekend, Trump suggested immigrants crossing the border illegally should be sent back to their home countries without due process, a claim he repeated when, at a rally in South Carolina, Trump rebuked the idea that more judges are needed at the southern border. “What other country has judges?” he asked, doubling down on a policy largely believed to be the product of hardliners such as the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and White House adviser Stephen Miller. But while the separation of migrant families has mobilized many in Hollywood, Saturday’s protests are shaping up to be a repudiation of more than just the administration’s immigration policies. Its approach to gun violence and reproductive rights has also come under scrutiny, especially in the wake of Thursday’s shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis and the announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy is stepping down from the supreme court. His vacated seat allows Trump to appoint a second conservative justice to the bench, which has many worried about the future of abortion rights in the US. “We must fight fire with fire,” wrote Debra Messing on Instagram. “Civil Rights as we know them will be chipped away.” Olivia Wilde, who attended the gun violence-focused March for Our Lives rally in Los Angeles in March, addressed the future of Roe v Wade on Twitter: “It is not a question of abortions or no abortions,” she said. “It is only a question of whether women will die having them.” Others, like the comic Kathy Griffin, expressed hope that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would remain on the bench long enough to safeguard women’s rights to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Griffin, who last year was widely condemned for posing with a mask of Donald Trump’s “severed” head, has found herself a frequent target of the right in the Trump era. The response to the photo op, condemned by the president and his family members, exemplifies the contentious relationship between the president and the entertainment industry. Earlier this week, that relationship was further inflamed when the Republican National Committee released a new campaign advertisement called The Left in 2018: Unhinged. The video, made up of various clips of celebrities lashing out at President Trump, features Griffin, Samantha Bee, Madonna, Johnny Depp and Michelle Wolf, the comic whose jokes about the press secretary, Sarah Sanders, landed her in hot water. Where members of the entertainment industry have been especially vocal, and sometimes profane, in their criticism of the president, Trump has fought fire with fire on Twitter, calling De Niro a “very low IQ individual”, Wolf a “filthy comedian” and Alec Baldwin “unwatchable”. The president, however, will probably be watching on Saturday as thousands turn out for a protest that was initially focused on immigration and has grown to encompass a number of causes, including gun violence and women’s rights. Organized by the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the ACLU, the Women’s March and MoveOn, the Families Belong Together march will take place in nearly 700 cities worldwide, with the main event taking place in the nation’s capital.

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2018-06-29T20:59:30Z

Families Belong Together: Hollywood stars to protest Trump policies

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I have two pieces of wonderful news for you. The first is that Julia Roberts has just joined Instagram. The second is that, if her first two posts are any indication, Julia Roberts possesses an innate flair for expressing herself through clothing. Take her first post. In it, she sits smiling on the floor, reinforcing the basic sentiment of the image by having “LOVE” splashed across her sweater. The second image is trickier, as evidenced by the “You can’t make everyone happy. You are not an avocado” slogan on her T-shirt. What does it mean? Is it a veiled message to someone? Does she literally have to remind herself that she is not an avocado? We may never fully know. But we should probably get used to it. After all, history has taught us that a celebrity’s first Instagram post is usually the perfect distillation of their entire personality. Don’t believe me? I’ve brought evidence. Madonna Madonna joined Instagram on the day of the 2012 election, where she dressed her entire crew in Barack Obama T-shirts and posed righteously for the camera. She’s still political to this day, although less directly; now she’s more likely to demonstrate her leanings with inspirational quotes about kindness, or possibly selfies taken with filters that make her look like a rabbit. Just after the 2018 election, Madonna posted a picture of herself sympathising with two sad clowns. A week later, a selfie with James Corden. What does it all mean? Will Smith Will Smith is a man who enters fully into any and all promotional activity offered to him. Plus, he loves The Ellen Show. Want proof? On joining Instagram last December, Smith posted a photo of him gurning on the set of Ellen to promote Bright, a film that even he must have known stank. But there he is, selling it for all the world. Guess what his next post was? That’s right, another photo of him gurning on the set of Ellen. And the next one. The one after that was him gurning on the set of Ellen in a funny hat. After that? A three-photo set of him gurning on the set of Ellen, which was followed by a photo of him goofing about with Ellen DeGeneres. There’s a theme here, but I don’t see it. Beyoncé Beyoncé beat Madonna to Instagram by a matter of days, but joined with the same basic message. Wearing a Texans For Obama T-shirt and pulling a face halfway between “I am serious about this” and “I think I can smell a fart”, Beyoncé’s post is still so popular that people keep commenting on it every single day. And no wonder, because it set the scene for her whole approach to Instagram: lots of photos of Beyoncé wearing clothes. Dwayne Johnson As a man with a perfectly defined sense of self, Dwayne Johnson’s opening Instagram salvo is typically flawless. It’s a photo of him looking bulky (because strong) at a junket (because promotion) for a not very good film (because PROMOTION) while laughing (because relatable) and holding a WWE belt (because never forget your core fanbase). This picture should be carved on to his gravestone. Tom Cruise Tom Cruise only joined Instagram this year, but he already knows exactly what he wants from it. Pictures from his upcoming films. Posters of his upcoming films. Videos of him promoting his upcoming films. Pictures of him receiving awards for his films. Most of his posts are watermarked with the name of the production he’s promoting. There is not a trace, not a single iota of anything even tangentially personal. Quick guess: Cruise doesn’t know what Instagram is, and has never used it. Robert Downey Jr On the other hand, Robert Downey Jr definitely uses his Instagram. Although his feed is studded with the heavy promotion of the famous, there are also much more personal moments too. Here he is, for example, sitting with his best friends the Avengers. In fact, the Avengers feature so heavily in Downey’s posts that you worry what he’ll do when Iron Man leaves the franchise. Brace yourself for something heartbreaking. Jennifer Lopez Look at Julia Roberts’ first post again. See how simple it is? See how it personalises her? Jennifer Lopez has no time for that. Her Instagram debut was this: a graphic telling people what her Instagram handle was. It’s an ugly image, too. It looks like the sort of thing that gets flyposted outside crap nightclubs. She’s better at it now, though. Her most recent Instagram story involved her 10-year-old daughter going to a meeting to get her first book published. OK, fine, she hasn’t got better at it at all.

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What can we learn from the first Instagram posts of A-list stars?

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Late-night hosts on Thursday discussed the supreme court seat soon to be vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy and ongoing tensions between congressional Republicans and the Department of Justice over the Robert Mueller investigation. Stephen Colbert “We’re going on vacation next week so we won’t be able to talk about what’s going on with the country,” began Stephen Colbert. “Hopefully, when we get back, there still will be one.” Robert Mueller, the host continued, could release his report on the Donald Trump campaign’s engagement with Russian nationals at any time. “And it’s got the president spooked,” he said. “So today he sent his congressional goon squad to attack the justice department,” Colbert said, noting that the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, who is in charge of the special counsel investigation, fielded tense questions from Republican lawmakers. In one exchange, Congressman Jim Jordan accused Rosenstein of threatening to subpoena the phone calls of members of the House intelligence committee. “There’s no way to subpoena phone calls,” Rosenstein replied. “This was after they’d already unleashed South Carolina Republican and backwoods Anderson Cooper Trey Gowdy to demand an end to the investigation,” said Colbert, showing footage of Gowdy demanding the DoJ “finish it the hell up”. “Congressman Gowdy, I completely agree,” said the host. “Please give us what you’ve got on Trump quick. We’ve got maybe two weeks before Trump appoints supreme court justice My Pillow guy. “Obviously, with the looming shadow of the Mueller investigation, Trump has to completely distance himself from anything Russian,” Colbert said. “So today the White House announced he’ll be meeting with Vladimir Putin on July 16. “It makes sense,” the host quipped. “It is time for Trump’s annual employee review.” Seth Meyers Meanwhile, NBC’s Seth Meyers discussed Kennedy’s retirement from the supreme court, a decision that gives Trump the power to reshape the bench for decades to come. “So, Donald the ‘Little Rocket Man’ Trump will now have the chance to nominate a second supreme court justice who will shape the future of everything from gay rights to voting rights to Roe v Wade,” Meyers explained. “Trump, of course, is elated he gets to pick a second supreme court justice because it helps cement his legacy. “Now, if you remember, Republicans stole a supreme court seat from President Obama by staging an unprecedented blockade of Obama’s choice to fill the seat, Merrick Garland,” explained Meyers. “They claimed back then that the American people should get to weigh in during the presidential election which was, at the time, nine months away.” Meyers went on to show video clips of senators Ted Cruz, Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell, among others, saying “the people” ought to decide in that year’s presidential election whether or not Obama should appoint a justice. “There you go, McConnell said: ‘Let the people decide,’” Meyers said. “So now that we’re four months away from an election I’m sure McConnell, a man of his word, will follow the rule he made up and hold off the vote until after the election. “I’m just kidding,” Meyers said. “McConnell is totally full of shit.” The host then showed the Senate majority leader calling for Trump’s nominee to “be considered fairly”. “Considered fairly? You refused to even meet with Merrick Garland,” Meyers shot back. “Here’s the lesson: the GOP isn’t operating on arguments or principles. They don’t care about being called hypocrites or liars. Hypocrisy isn’t their weakness. It’s their platform.”

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2018-06-29T14:37:51Z

Colbert on Trump-Putin summit: 'It's time for his annual employee review'

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Five of the best ... films Leave No Trace (PG) (Debra Granik, 2018, US) 109 mins A tender study of outsiders on America’s rural fringes. A traumatised military veteran (Ben Foster), self-exiled from society along with his devoted teenage daughter (Thomasin McKenzie), is evicted from their national park homestead. Their struggles to get along – with each other and the rest of the world – are rendered with a matter-of-fact sensitivity. The Endless (15) (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, 2017, US) 111 mins Low in budget but rich in ideas, this sci-fi is one to file alongside Another Earth or Shane Carruth’s Upstream Colour, with its mysteries, odd characters and subtly digitally warped reality. The directors play brothers drawn back to a cult they fled years earlier. Like them, we want to stick around and find the answers. Arcadia (12A) (Paul Wright, 2017, UK) 78 mins The distinctive notes of the British countryside are captured in this stirring essay film, compiled from archive clips and obscure movies, and backed by a varied score from Portishead’s Adrian Utley and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory. Into our history of rural tradition and harmony it injects anarchy, revelry and horrors ancient and modern, from witchcraft to mad cow disease. Hereditary (15) (Ari Aster, 2018, US) 127 mins A family curse plays out in awful ways in this domestic horror, which bears comparison with Rosemary’s Baby or The Shining with its building claustrophobic dread, but delivers fresh new shocks of its own. Toni Collette (pictured) leads a fine cast as a matriarch in meltdown, beset by the strains of her dead mother, her troublesome children and some increasingly bonkers, supernatural phenomena. Sicario 2: Soldado (15) (Stefano Sollima, 2018, Ita/US) 122 mins Uncanny timing for a sequel expanding on the United States’ dirty war on the southern border, and its human and moral costs. Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro are the manliest of men to send into a messy situation involving Mexican drug cartels working with Islamist terrorists, with innocent migrants and government meddling muddying the waters. SR Five of the best ... rock & pop gigs Little Mix While work continues on their fifth album in six years, the hardest-grafting band in pop head out on a tour of the UK’s premier cricket grounds, air-show venues and second-tier rugby clubs. Expect a blitzkrieg of top-drawer bangers, PG-rated school-disco fun and a dollop of self-empowerment. The 1st Central County Ground, Hove, Friday 6; touring to 29 July Wiz Khalifa Since scoring a huge global hit with the Charlie Puth-assisted weepie See You Again – the video to which is currently at 3.6bn views (!) – rapper Wiz Khalifa has been focusing on his fitness, apparently going to the gym five days a week and learning mixed martial arts. Lovely. He’s pulling the focus back to the music, however, with this one-off London gig ahead of a new album. Roundhouse, NW1, Sunday 1 July Wireless festival This year’s Wireless lineup hit the headlines in January for all the wrong reasons: the lineup originally featured just a handful of female artists across its three days of showcasing the best in R&B, hip-hop and grime. While the event has since added an all-female stage in the wake of backlash about its bill, it’s still a sorry state of affairs. But expect Mabel (above), Raye, Ms Banks et al to more than hold their own among the likes of Post Malone, Stormzy and professional buffoon DJ Khaled. Finsbury Park, N4, Friday 6 to 8 July Queen + Adam Lambert What started out as a one-off awards show collaboration has morphed into a seven-year stint fronting one of rock’s most enduring behemoths for subtlety-free American Idol alumnus Adam Lambert. With the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody on the horizon, and likely another hits compilation of some kind, there will be plenty of opportunities to admire Brian May’s nest-like hairdo. Wembley Arena, Sunday 1; The O2, SE10, Monday 2 & Wednesday 4; Glasgow Green, Friday 6 July MC Pharoah Sanders The raw and impassioned saxophone sound of former John Coltrane partner Pharoah Sanders can still be a spine-chillingly uncompromising experience, but Sanders’s parallel affection for seductive grooves will make him a popular draw at Love Supreme’s diverse jazz, funk and soul weekend, featuring Elvis Costello (Sat), Mavis Staples and Earth, Wind & Fire (both Sun) and many more. Love Supreme jazz festival, Lewes, Saturday 30 June JF Four of the best ... classical concerts Pelléas et Mélisande Stefan Herheim is widely recognised as one of today’s leading opera directors, but so far we’ve seen relatively little of his work in Britain. That’s about to change. His version of La Cenerentola is coming to the Edinburgh international festival in August, and his outstanding production of The Queen of Spades arrives at Covent Garden next January. The new Glyndebourne staging of Debussy’s masterpiece is his, too, with John Chest and Christina Gansch in the title roles, Christopher Purves as Golaud and Robin Ticciati conducting. Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, Saturday 30 June & Wednesday 4 July; to 9 August Till Dawning Pianist Ryan Wigglesworth’s settings of poems by George Herbert are the novelty in this neatly devised recital with soprano Sophie Bevan. The new songs, written for Bevan, are balanced by Poèmes Pour Mi, the ecstatic cycle Messiaen composed in 1937 for his first wife, while songs about childhood precede each of them: Mussorgsky’s The Nursery; and Stravinsky’s Three Little Songs, subtitled Recollections of My Childhood. Wigmore Hall, W1, Saturday 30 June In the Locked Room & The Lighthouse Since its premiere in 1980, The Lighthouse has become the most regularly staged of all Peter Maxwell Davies’s operas. This production, directed by Stephen Unwin, pairs the story of the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the Outer Hebrides in 1900 with Huw Watkins’s equally taut 2012 one-acter, featuring a libretto by David Harsent that is loosely based upon a short story by Thomas Hardy. Royal College of Music: Britten Theatre, SW7, Monday 2 & Tuesday 3 July AC Five of the best ... exhibitions Michael Jackson: On the Wall There is absolutely nothing desperate about the NPG, whose recent moves in a more serious artistic direction have seen visitor numbers fall, putting on an exhibition about the King of Pop. Nothing. In fact, Jackson really was portrayed by a lot of artists from Andy Warhol to Isaac Julien. This could be a fascinating panorama of modern fame. National Portrait Gallery, WC2, to 21 October Frieze Sculpture This free display of outdoor sculpture, which lasts until autumn’s Frieze Art Fair, encompasses an eclectic variety of artists. The geometrical abstract vision of Conrad Shawcross combines with Barry Flanagan’s bronze hare perched on an anvil and a penguin by conceptual artist John Baldessari. Surely something for everyone. Regent’s Park, NW1, Wednesday 4 July to 7 October Dorothea Lange The Great Depression that started when the US stock market crashed in 1929 caused suffering around the world, yet it is Lange’s photographs of rural poverty in the US that define it visually. Along with Walker Evans, she shot portraits that are unforgettable in their straightforward sympathy. Her 1936 picture Migrant Mother, in which two hungry children cry on their mother’s shoulders, has an urgent resonance in today’s climate. Barbican Art Gallery, EC2, to 2 September 250th Summer Exhibition Don’t miss Grayson Perry’s imaginative reinvention of this show, which has been going since the 18th century. To mark the Royal Academy’s 250th anniversary, he has led a radical rethink of its annual all-comers event. Outsiders and insiders jostle for space on luridly coloured walls. Where Paula Rego meets Banksy, it all adds up to a crazy and inspired new perspective on art and its purpose today. Royal Academy of Arts, W1, to 19 August Bomberg East End-born Jewish painter David Bomberg was one of Britain’s most daring early-20th-century artists. Influenced by futurism and cubism, he created highly original paintings that turned everyday Whitechapel scenes into abstract vortexes of energy. There’s a strong comparison with James Joyce’s Ulysses. Later in life, he became an expressive painter of landscapes, still with a raw edge. Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, NW8, to 16 September JJ Five of the best ... theatre shows Queens of the Coal Age After starring in Beckett’s Happy Days, Maxine Peake stays on at the Manchester venue for her own play, telling the remarkable story of four women who occupied a Lancashire mine in 1993 to protest against pit closures, stuffing their bras with nicotine patches and wet wipes to survive 80 metres underground. Bryony Shanahan directs. Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, to 21 July Imperium A West End transfer for the RSC’s impressive distillation (two parts, seven hours) by Mike Poulton of Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy. Tracing the rise and fall of the orator, politician and passionate Roman, it offers parallels with power struggles of today and a fine performance by Richard McCabe as a flawed man of vision. Think The West Wing in togas. Gielgud Theatre, W1, to 8 September Pressure A play about the weather for us obsessed Brits, but here the consequences are rather more crucial, affecting the future of Europe and the free world. It’s the eve of D-day, June 1944, and the invasion depends on two warring meteorologists: British group captain James Stagg predicts severe storms, while his Yank opposite number says the weather will be lovely. The excellent David Haig stars as Stagg, and also wrote this absorbing fact-based play. Ambassadors Theatre, WC2, to 1 September Sasha Regan’s All Male Iolanthe A welcome revival for a charming, clever adaptation of a lesser-known Gilbert & Sullivan work first seen in 2010. The thing about Regan’s all-male G&S productions is that they are not just camp frolics but pieces full of wit, pathos and satire. Iolanthe sees G&S lampooning peerages and the House Of Lords, here tellingly related by a group of fairies and some schoolboys who find costumes in a dressing-up box. Cambridge Arts Theatre, Tuesday to 7; touring to 28 July An Octoroon A sell-out hit at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre, now the National hosts this thought-provoking, unsettling mash-up of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 anti-slavery melodrama and a modern unravelling of it by hot young US writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. With characters in whiteface, blackface, even redface makeup, it tackles the legacy of slavery, racial identity and the illusion of theatre itself. National Theatre: Dorfman, SE1, to 18 July MC Three of the best ... dance shows Hofesh Shechter Company: Grand Finale A welcome return for Shechter’s daringly apocalyptic work, first staged at this venue last September, in which the choreographer squares up to the precariousness of our world with dance that is not only fractured with violence, dread and defiance but also hums with a beautiful, fragile note of humanity. Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Thursday to 7 July Birmingham Royal Ballet: La Fille Mal Gardée Ballet heaven in Frederick Ashton’s pastoral comedy about a giddy, wayward girl and her romance with a handsome farmhand. Featuring bawdy wit, exquisite classical choreography and a barnyard of dancing fowls. Bristol Hippodrome, Wednesday to 7 July; touring to 10 November Goldberg Variations: Ternary Patterns for Insomnia An entrancing homage to Bach, with 11 musicians from Scottish Ensemble choreographed together with five dancers by Orjan Andersson to create an infectiously theatrical interpretation of the iconic score. Barbican Theatre, EC2, Thursday to 7 July JM

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What to see this week in the UK

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Late-night hosts on Wednesday discussed the announcement that Anthony Kennedy will be retiring from the supreme court and the major upset out of New York in the congressional Democratic primary. Stephen Colbert “If you’re on a low-carb diet you’re in luck, cuz there ain’t no way to sugarcoat this,” Stephen Colbert began. “Today, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he’s retiring from the supreme court.” “I never thought I’d say this,” Colbert continued, “but you’re only 81! “And don’t tell me your mind’s going because I read Bush v Gore and Citizen’s United – you never had one!” the host said. “This is a seismic political event because Kennedy has been the decisive vote in many cases and his retirement gives Trump the opportunity to fundamentally change the course of the supreme court.” The host then explained that Kennedy was often a crucial swing vote on a bench evenly split between liberal and conservative justices. “Think about it,” he said. “The court that just this week crippled unions, upheld Trump’s Muslim ban, and race-based gerrymandering might turn conservative.” On reports that the White House will seek to nominate and confirm Kennedy’s replacement before the November midterms, Colbert said: “Of course before the midterms, just like you want to eat all the weed before the cop walks up to the driver’s side window. “You may recall that the Republicans got their 5-4 majority on the court because Mitch McConnell refused to let the Senate vote on Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland,” he explained. “That upset a lot of people, but Mitch McConnell is willing to take the high road and forget he ever did it.” Colbert then cut to remarks made yesterday by McConnell, who said it was “imperative that the president’s nominee be considered fairly”. “Oh really?” the host replied. “That’s like Typhoid Mary saying, ‘Read the sign, guys. All employees must wash hands.’” Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah weighed in on Tuesday’s primary results. “Yesterday was another big midterm primary day in seven states, with the biggest result happening right here in New York,” he said, referring to the 28-year-old newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat the 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, widely considered the consensus pick to be the next speaker of the House should the Democrats gain control. Showing video of an ecstatic Ocasio-Cortez reacting to her win, Noah continued: “Look at that reaction, it’s exciting. I know it’s been a tough year for everyone so in case you forgot, that face means happy.” “Some people might wonder why does anybody care about a congressional primary race in Queens. First, look at who she beat,” Noah said, joking that Democrats saw the 56-year-old Crowley as a “young leader of the next generation”. “Powerful incumbents like this almost never lose primaries,” Noah said, “but it gets more surprising when you learn more about the person who beat him”. Ocasio-Cortez, the host explained, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who was working as a bartender just months ago. “She ran on a heavily progressive platform that was really popular,” Noah said. “Free healthcare, free college education, a federal jobs guarantee, and she wants to abolish Ice. She’s so left she makes Bernie Sanders look like Mitt Romney.” Seth Meyers The NBC Late Night host also did a rapid-fire look at Wednesday’s news, beginning with the highest court in the land. “Supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy announced he is retiring today,” Meyers said. “You know what that means? said Trump, who was really asking.” Meyers went on: “Justice Kennedy, what are you doing retiring, man? You have a great job where you barely work, you get to wear a robe all day and give your opinions on stuff. That basically is retirement. Stick around, at least until we get a new president.” The host then briefly discussed Ocasio-Cortez’s victory, which has been seen as a harbinger of the Democratic party’s move leftward ahead of November’s midterms. “Twenty-eight-year-old first-time candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat 10-term representative Joe Crowley in last night’s New York Democratic primary,” Meyers said. “And I gotta say, Nancy Pelosi looked very surprised, two years ago. “Mitt Romney won last night’s Utah Republican Senate primary,” he added. “Romney celebrated by going to a victory party and turning the music down.”

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Colbert to Justice Kennedy: 'I never thought I'd say this, but you're only 81!'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/28/stephen-colbert-justice-anthony-kennedy-retires

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/27/british-museum-ivory-figures-sir-victor-sassoon

The British Museum has defended its decision to accept a donation of more than 500 “exquisite” Chinese ivory figures, saying it did not mean it condoned the ivory trade. The museum revealed on Wednesday that it had accepted the gift of 556 ivory items acquired in the early 20th century by Sir Victor Sassoon, a Shanghai-based businessman and hotelier. The intricately carved figures of gods and goddesses, and desk items such as brush-washers and water-droppers, are mostly from the 18th or 19th centuries. Hartwig Fischer, the director of the British Museum, said the figures were “exquisite”. “They are of the greatest significance, they are documents of a vast culture and are therefore of the highest cultural value,” he said. The government is steering through parliament a ban on ivory sales that it says will be the strictest in the world. Exemptions in the legislation will allow museums to acquire historic ivory objects that have a cultural value. Asked whether accepting the Sassoon ivory sent the wrong message, Fischer said the museum “fully and unreservedly” supported banning the ivory trade worldwide. He pointed out that the collection was historic: “They exist... and they do not save any elephant’s life today.” The figures have been in the UK since the 1950s and looked after by a trust, whose members were keen to wind down the operation. Fischer said the museum would never collect modern ivory objects and believed there was a consensus that historic ivory objects needed to be preserved, not destroyed. The British Museum has one of the largest collections of ivory in the world, including the Lewis Chessmen and the Nimrud Ivories, artefacts excavated in the Middle East that are nearly 3,000 years old. Jane Portal, head of the museum’s Asia department, said the gift meant the institution could become “a global centre for the study of ivories”. The museum has not revealed the value of the collection. “They may be priceless or almost worthless in the future … who knows,” Portal said. The gift was announced in the British Museum’s annual review, which revealed it was visited by 5.8 million people in 2017-18, making it the UK’s leading visitor attraction for the 11th year running. The figure was down on the previous year’s 6.2 million visitors, but in line with a similar decline at London’s other big museums. This has been blamed on rail problems, fear of terrorism and the expense of London travel and restaurants. Fischer said the museum was working on “offers that will help bring these figures up again”. He said the museum lent a record 2,200 objects to 81 venues outside the UK last year and currently had eight touring shows, including in Australia, Canada and Hong Kong. Strengthening links and activities in Africa would become a priority, Fischer said, as would improving the museum’s Bloomsbury home. “This fantastic building needs some tender loving care so this year we are developing a project to consider how to improve the building for our visitors and our staff and of course our collections.”

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2018-06-27T16:52:09Z

British Museum given more than 500 'exquisite' ivory figures

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/27/british-museum-ivory-figures-sir-victor-sassoon

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/27/trevor-noah-stephen-colbert-supreme-court-trump-travel-ban

Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed the supreme court’s decision to uphold Donald Trump’s travel ban and the ongoing debate over “civility” in US politics. Trevor Noah Meanwhile, Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah addressed mounting calls for “civility” from Democrats and Republicans. “Sarah Huckabee Sanders: queen of the press room and mother of lies,” he began. “Ever since a Virginia chicken restaurant asked her to leave this weekend, the big debate in America has been: ‘Do government officials have the right to be left alone when they’re off the clock?’” Noah proceeded to show cable news coverage of the debate, in which one pundit said “there are certain lines you shouldn’t cross” while another asked: “Whatever happened to tolerance?” Noah shot back: “Tolerance got grabbed by the pussy, didn’t you hear? Trump called her an animal, locked her up, and threw her kids in a cage, that’s what happened to tolerance. “These people have more amnesia than the characters in a Lifetime movie,” he added. “Let’s not get it twisted: that restaurant owner didn’t ask Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave because of her opinions. She’s a senior official of the Trump administration, not some rando with a blog.” “People in power would like to be insulated from the effects of their actions,” Noah said. “But if you’re in a position where you can influence other people’s lives, you shouldn’t be shocked when you hear from the people whose lives you affect.” The host then said that “calls for civility always tend to come from people in a position of privilege,” remarking on the suggestion by pundits that protesters today model themselves after Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. “Don’t ever forget, in their time, people were not exactly happy with how they protested,” Noah said. “The British called Gandhi an agitator. Governments around the world called Nelson Mandela a terrorist. What you forget is, back when Martin was marching, people were complaining about him the same way people are complaining about protesters right now.” Stephen Colbert “You remember the guy in Washington who tried the whole Muslim ban that they said, ‘Not a Muslim ban, a travel ban’,” Stephen Colbert began. “Well today, the supreme court fell for it, upholding Trump’s ban by a 5-4 vote. “This was actually Trump’s third travel ban after the previous version explicitly banned people from Muslim-majority countries,” the host explained. “Now, I seem to remember Trump saying one or two bad things about Muslims during the campaign, but in his decision Chief Justice Roberts set aside Trump’s anti-Muslim statements while finding the ban itself falls within the president’s authority. “In fact, the ruling says the statements made during a campaign may not be legally determinative,” Colbert said. “Does that mean he’s not making America great?” Colbert then laid into Trump for his tweet celebrating the decision, in which he wrote, “Supreme Court upholds travel ban. Wow!” “After the decision, Trump got together with members of Congress to celebrate and promised to continue his harsh immigration policies,” said Colbert, who showed a clip of Trump decrying America’s immigration laws, adding, “That’s why I was put here.” “Put here?” Colbert replied. “I think you mean Putin here.” Seth Meyers NBC’s Seth Meyers focused on Trump’s rally in South Carolina yesterday, where he discussed his administration’s policies toward undocumented immigrants. He said: “Trump continues to use racist, dehumanizing language to talk about immigrants, and now he’s calling for stripping them of their constitutionally protected due process rights and deporting them without being able to make their case in front of a judge.” Meyers was referring to a tweet the president sent on Sunday in which he said “we cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country” and suggested they be deported “with no Judges or Court Cases”. At his rally, Trump responded to a call for 5,000 extra judges on the border. “What other country has judges? Where are you going to find 5,000 people to be judges? They don’t even know the number even though they’re in charge.” “No dude, you’re in charge,” Meyers said. “What other country has judges? Most other countries. In the Netherlands they even have judges at a special court in The Hague and, who knows, maybe you’ll get to meet them one day.” Trump, Meyers explained, “hasn’t always felt so cavalier about the due process protections provided by the constitution.” He read a tweet the president sent while his own staffers were under investigation by Robert Mueller. “People’s lives are being shattered and destroyed by mere allegation,” he wrote. “Is there no such thing any longer as due process?”

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2018-06-27T14:16:13Z

Trevor Noah: 'Calls for civility come from people in a position of privilege'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/27/trevor-noah-stephen-colbert-supreme-court-trump-travel-ban

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/27/dark-mofo-hobart-what-happens-when-you-spend-12-days-at-a-festival

What happens when you spend 12 days at a festival? Something horrible surely – if not to your body then certainly to your brain. It’s not just all the music and the lights and how your body trembles and thrums with a phantom bass running through it – even hours after the gigs. It’s navigating all the people pushing past you who are off their heads, all the 15-year-olds and all the 50-year-olds who are wild-eyed, wrecked, munted, lurching around looking for somewhere to charge their phone. It’s all the portaloos, all the queues for drinks. All the drinks. All the queues. Then there are the afterparties when the music proper finishes. They are designed to disorientate. In a laneway. In an old cinema. On a car park roof. On floors two to six of an abandoned government building. At an Italian restaurant where they are serving pasta Genovese at 2am and people are dancing on tables. The stamp on your arm reads BRUTAL. You dance in your overcoat on the freezing dancefloor. You lose your credit card but you don’t really care. Your phone is on 4% and it’s raining and you’ve lost your friends. You text them: “Where u? I’m on the metal platform near the cross.” Big, sprawling festivals – like Glastonbury and Burning Man ... and we can add Hobart’s Dark Mofo to the list – appear chaotic and things are left to chance. But they are carefully designed and curated to bend our minds. So it was for the last two weeks in Tasmania’s capital. Take for example last Friday, when one friend is trying to explain a performance he saw last weekend that really grossed him out (“There was a woman on stage and she had a tin of dog food and she was putting the dog food in her vagina then taking it out and throwing it at the audience, then putting it back in her vagina and spraying it in the front row”). In another context he might have been explaining a particularly pervy dream, or a porno but we knew it was real. Or almost real. Or real to him. The next day, I run into one of the party’s organisers and ask about the act. “She wasn’t spraying the dog food out of her vagina,” she clarified. “She sprayed it out her arse.” Dark Mofo’s afterparties are called Night Mass and are the hottest ticket of the festival. They are where the really crazy stuff happens. One year my friend Marcus got kidnapped, blindfolded, driven around Hobart in the back of a van and taken to an abandoned gym where he was photographed tied to a chair. He showed me the picture on his phone. He looked unsettlingly vulnerable tied up under the strobe lights. Another year, a fake hens night picked up random revellers off the street and took them out to a suburban field where the Glenorchy women’s football team performed some sort of weird dance on the oval and were then tackled by the fake hens who had taken off their clothes in homage to sporting arena streakers. That is what you hear about the early years. But it’s different this year. Popular. This year there was a lot of queuing in the rain, and hearing the next day about some unmissable DJ that was playing in the Bang Bang Bar and your friends would have taken you “but your phone was dead dude”. The parties are where the real Fomo happens. * Flying in from Melbourne to Hobart and the first thing I felt was the weather: 7C but the app tells me it feels like 1C or 0C. Locked out of my Airbnb (the owners had hidden the key too well), stashing my luggage in bushes and creeping around someone’s suburban garden in the 5pm pitch darkness felt like a chaotic arrival and therefore a portent for the 12 days ahead. The first act was Tanya Tagaq at the Odeon, doing an Inuit throat singing thing in a performance where the song was unbroken and lasted for one hour and 15 minutes. It was entirely improvised and there was a choir behind her who made orgasmic, primitive and vaguely warlike sounds that reminded me of the boys in Lord of the Flies. Except this choir was much older and, I later found out, wasn’t even a choir. After that I went to see 73-year-old Mike Parr being buried under the road. A group of us watched from the old Mercury building, drinking red wine out of plastic cups, as the road was cut and a slab of bitumen lifted and Parr took a ladder down (the top of his head disappearing like a letter being dropped into a postbox) and was then sealed in. For all the good times of the festival, this was the cloud that drifted across the bright moon. You’d be having fun – at the winter feast, drinking a hot toddy – and you’d suddenly remember: Mike Parr is still buried under the road. The next night at the official opening drinks three or four people had repeated the same horrific rumour – one that you couldn’t help visualising in your mind. Mike Parr was going to kill himself in the box under the road. It was all part of his performance; “his final performance” they intoned with emphasis on the word final. “He wouldn’t,” we said, aghast. And he didn’t. But there was the spectre. In this jaded age, looking for a genuine shock, this was performance art brought to its extreme conclusion. The drinks where I heard the Parr rumours were at Dark Park, a place I never saw during the day, but in the seemingly constant dark had the vibe of a satanic hunting lodge. There, amid low, long couches and bearskin rugs and drums of fire, you had to be about two inches away from anyone before you could recognise their faces. Outside, fires in the shape of a large cross burned. * Week one turns into week two. Midweek, there weren’t the big parties but there were gigs and art to see. Tim Minchin played to a packed house on Monday and his songs about Los Angeles were melancholy and seemed to be from a sunny, sad place – very far away from here. On Wednesday Laura Jean, ice blond like Laura Palmer, played at the Avalon, a beautiful theatre from the 1930s, long closed but resurrected for the festival. It was both so new and so old that it wasn’t on Google maps and Uber drivers did confused laps in the rain. From the Airbnb, I moved to a hotel in town where no one ever went to breakfast, and at the bar at night women in business attire were neatly sick in the pot plants. In the morning, eastern European heavy metal bands who hadn’t been to bed yet would sit in the lobby in black leather trousers drinking the last quarter of their tequila, complaining about jet lag. I became nocturnal and started skipping breakfast too. Week two and I was beginning to feel I’d crossed a border into an entirely different country. In this country it is dark all the time, and everywhere there are crosses and the city smells like fire. Every night you go out and before each band the same playlist is on a loop – Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus & Mary Chain, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Toto’s Africa and the lush orchestral arrangements of the Cure’s Disintegration album. * On the shortest day of the year, we go to Mona, and in the late afternoon at the darkened tennis courts a woman in a fluffy white costume (like the bunny in Donnie Darko) beckons a small group of us down a path, past an empty rowboat along the water’s edge. We come to a small courtyard and look up. A heavy metal band plays down into our void – and on the other side the blade of light, Spectra – the giant 15km beam. This could be a dream, I think. When I do go to sleep my dreams are horrible, full of violence, blood and death. I wake up with a ringing in the ears and the stamps up my arm. BRUTAL. Later I run into the festival director, Leigh Carmichael, and tell him about the dreams. The uneven surfaces, the lack of street light, the red crosses, the loud music and the lasers and lights at the gigs, the sonic bass, the darkness, all overload the mind, he says. The festival has an effect on the subconscious which feeds into dreams. In the botanical gardens I go to an abandoned house that is very cold – colder than it is outside (It goes dark/ It goes darker still) – where I strap on some VR glasses and watch a Laurie Anderson-designed world, that is a black mirror to the already Dark city, and in the game I feel both trapped and free, as I fly between dark skyscrapers and the rain hits me on the face. The second weekend rolls around and those of us who have been there for a long time have sunken eyes, dirty clothes that stink of fire and have started sleeping during the day and forgetting about homes, jobs, families and friends back on the mainland. We had been here forever and would never leave. We were entombed here with Mike Parr. Our compadre – the heavy metal bands, Melbourne music reviewers and even the sunny PR people who had flown down from Sydney – were beginning to look waxy and vampiric. We had all gotten used to this perpetual night and dark clothes and the reflection on the black water of the red crosses and the reverberations of the bass that travelled up your spine, and the queues and the rain and the hot whisky and the strange bruises and constant uneasy feeling of low-level illness. By night 11, when just before midnight I entered the Odeon and hundreds of people were wearing sinister-looking bags on their heads and the balloons released from the ceiling were not the soft kind but hurt when they hit you in the face and when through the crowd walked a dozen identical drag queens whose sequinned images was also shown on a large screen on stage, creating a nightmarish double vision and the people that slammed into me when dancing had dead eyes and cold bodies and when someone I was with murmured, maybe with irony “this is Australia’s Burning Man”, I knew I had been too long at the fair. It was time to go home.

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Vagina visions and no breakfast: what happens when you spend 12 days at a festival

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Late-night hosts on Monday addressed Donald Trump’s call to deprive undocumented immigrants of due process rights and why Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia. Seth Meyers NBC’s Seth Meyers covered remarks made by the president at a rally in Nevada. “Trump has been getting out on the road to support GOP candidates around the country,” he began. “On Saturday, he was in Las Vegas to support Nevada senator Dean Heller. And Trump did what he did what he does for all Republican candidates he’s trying to help. He talked about everything except the candidate.” In video footage from the event, Trump talked up his “chemistry” with Kim Jong-un, called Japanese people “great warriors” and said that other countries treat the US like a “piggy bank”. “Because Trump’s one political skill is his inability to feel shame, he proudly brags about things that most other human beings would be too embarrassed to say out loud,” Meyers said. “For example, Trump came up with a new nickname for the Democrat running against Heller, Congresswoman Jacky Rosen, and acted like the nickname was a stroke of genius.” At the event, the president teased the audience, showing a reluctance to reveal his nickname before declaring Heller’s opponent “Wacky Jacky”. “You might not be qualified to be president,” Meyers joked, “but you’re totally qualified to work for the New York Post.” Stephen Colbert “I get up every day and I live in hope that that’ll be the day that I’ll be surprised by the news,” began Stephen Colbert. “But mostly I’m just shocked by how unsurprising everything is. “The latest wholly predictable comes form the humanitarian crisis on our southern border,” the host said. “First of all, there’s still no announcement of what they’re going to do to put these stolen kids back together with their parents. And no indication that they could successfully do so.” Additionally, Colbert explained, a backlog of asylum requests means migrant families may be imprisoned for longer than expected. “The obvious answer is hire more judges to deal with the backlog, but Trump has a different answer,” Colbert said, showing a tweet in which the president wrote: “When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came from. “Here’s the thing,” Colbert said. “If you deny anyone due process, you deny everyone due process. “The supreme court,” he added, “has repeatedly held that the due process requirements of the fifth and 14th amendments apply to all persons, including those in the US unlawfully.” According to the New York Times, Trump’s reasoning for not supporting an increase in immigration judges is his worry that “many of them could be corrupt”. “This is another thing we should be surprised by,” Colbert said before launching into an impression of Trump. “They might be corrupt or, even worse, they might not be. And then I’m screwed.” Trevor Noah Meanwhile, Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah shared his thoughts on the press secretary, Sarah Sanders, being asked to leave a restaurant over the weekend. “The immigration debate continues to dominate the news,” he said. “Families separated, children in cages, and now, people are going hungry.” The host was referred to Sanders, who was asked to leave the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, by its owner Stephanie Wilkinson, who didn’t want to serve a representative of what she called an “inhumane and unethical administration”. “I know that you guys are cheering, but I’m sorry, I think that was the wrong thing to do,” Noah said. “I think what the restaurant should’ve done is treated her the same way she treats the press. They should’ve just brought her an empty plate and then when she goes, ‘Uh, where’s my food?’ you go, ‘Oh, it’s right there.’ “I don’t think this was so bad for Sarah Huckabee Sanders,” he added. “Of course, she sees the incident a little differently.” In a tweet sent afterwards, Sanders said Wilkinson’s “actions say far more about her than me”, adding: “I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.” “Come on, Sarah,” Noah replied. “You can’t lie about your job when your job is on camera. “Sanders’ farm-to-table-to-sidewalk meal was just the latest incident in a string of Trump folks getting confronted in public,” he continued, referencing confrontations between protesters and the homeland security secretary, Kirtsjen Nielsen, as well as a Politico report detailing the difficulty Trump staffers supposedly have dating in Washington DC. Noah said: “That is so sad. White House staff can’t get anyone to swipe right on them? Or, I guess in their case, far right?”

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2018-06-26T15:09:48Z

Seth Meyers: 'Trump’s one political skill is his inability to feel shame'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/26/late-night-roundup-seth-meyers-trump-political-skill

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/26/british-museum-lgbtq-exhibition-to-tour-england

The British Museum has gathered a collection of objects with LGBTQ connections, including the world’s oldest known depiction of a couple having sex – an 11,000-year-old carved calcite pebble – to be sent on a national tour. The pebble, called the Ain Sakhri, possibly depicts gay sex, as the figures portrayed in it are ambiguous. Other items which may go on tour include a bust of Antinous – a lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian – and a silver cup buried near Jerusalem in the 1st century AD showing men having sex. The museum has created an audio tour of the objects in London and will send a number of them out on a four-venue tour of England from September. Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale, who narrated the audio tour, said people would be surprised by the number of objects in the Museum with LGBTQ connections. “Many might even have seen some of them on display without knowing how they relate to queer history,” Beale said. “I’m thrilled that, thanks to this new audio tour, these stories will now take pride of place. Same-sex desire has existed in all societies and it is really important that the British Museum is highlighting this.” The Ain Sakhri shows a couple making love. Because the figures are ambiguous the museum does not assume they are of different sexes. The figurine, which was found in a cave in the Judean desert, was made by hunter-gatherers known as Natufians who were among the first people to domesticate sheep and goats. Whoever carved it has ensured that its shape is phallic but the genders are not clear. Other objects going on the tour, which begins in Oxford and goes on to Nottingham, Bolton and Norwich, include an ancient Greek vase depicting Sappho; etchings of gay sex by David Hockney, inspired by the poems of C P Cavafy; and a deck of cards depicting drag queens, produced in Japan in 1997. The touring show is an expanded version of the museum’s Desire, love, identity: Exploring LGBTQ histories display, which was staged last year. The audio tour will offer further insight into the 1AD silver drinking cup, known as the Warren Cup after the 19th-century gay Bostonian collector Ned Warren. He saw the cup as the “holy grail” of gay history because it showed the existence and acceptance of homosexuality long ago. The cup will be part of on-site tours at the British Museum in 2019 – the 50th anniversary of John Wolfenden becoming its director. Wolfenden chaired the committee whose landmark 1957 report recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality. People interested in volunteering for the on-site tours are being encouraged to contact the museum.

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2018-06-25T23:01:16Z

British Museum LGBTQ exhibition to tour England

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/26/british-museum-lgbtq-exhibition-to-tour-england

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Victoria Pile, creator We’d done three and a half series of Smack the Pony and wanted to create a different beast, one with the freedom of a sketch show but with a proper structure. Fluidity was key. Green Wing was originally called Doors, the notion being that you’d flow in with the characters and flow on through another set of doors with them. The setting was important. We tried spaceships, cruise ships, a hotel. A hospital felt too obvious at first, but it also had that range of locations – canteen, car parks, tons of corridors, which are always helpful for long tracking shots. Next we needed characters. The writing team would say “Who do you know who’s funny?” and “What was your first boyfriend like?” From that, we created a whole world of people. We actually made them – using batteries sellotaped to little blocks of wood that we’d move round the table. I still have them in a tin. One critical thing we inherited from Smack the Pony was the desire to have a strong female lead. Before we gave Tamsin Greig’s character the name Caroline Todd, we called her STP – the Smack the Pony person. We wanted her to be a powerful professional, but with all the warts and insecurities of a normal woman. When Tamsin took that on, it was heaven on earth. We gathered together a brilliant cast, especially Julian Rhind-Tutt as Dr Mac. He’s essentially a goodie but funny and sexy. We dyed his hair to make him more sexy, more like a lion. And Michelle Gomez, our staff liaison officer, had a wildness that was so appealing. During a casting session, she was reading quite normally, then she got out a tin and, in a Scottish accent, said: “De ye want a suckee sweetie?” And I just knew. We filmed in two separate hospitals, in Harrow and Basingstoke. We were given a corridor and were allowed to film when it wasn’t busy. Inevitably, we’d run over into busy periods and then it was hell on earth. People would come streaming through and we’d be trying not to trip them up. We shot scenes in the recovery area, too, surrounded by patients coming round from their operations. Peter Fincham was head of Talkback at the time. After we handed in the pilot, I remember cycling home with his words ringing in my ears: “You cannot end the episode with your romantic lead poking a poo down the toilet with a ski pole.” And I was thinking: “I’ll never work in telly again.” It did strike me that we had gone a bit mental. I think the first episode took people by surprise. They felt sick. But they got into it. Tamsin Greig, actor I didn’t really know what was going on during the pilot. They’d say: “We want you to walk down that corridor.” And I thought: “Is this going to be a really boring show? It’s just people walking down corridors.” When I finally saw the pilot, I couldn’t believe what they had created. It was jaw-dropping, a kind of wonderful dance between all the characters. You had to watch what you said in the rehearsal room because it would find its way into the script. I remember Stephen Mangan, who played Dr Guy Secretan, told a story about some girl at a party saying to him: “You really remind me of someone.” He went through his normal list – Elliott Gould, Pete Sampras, Paul Michael Glaser – and she said: “No, it’s the donkey from Shrek!” And into the script it went. It’s very difficult to make brilliant things. If there’s a lack of them now, it’s because there’s an unwillingness to invest, to find the time and space for creativity to happen – as well as a fear of upsetting people. Everybody I know says: “I’ve got an idea for a comedy script.” And I go: “Have you? OK, you write that and let’s see how far you get.” Interestingly, we ended up on the picket line with some junior doctors. We stood with them. What use it did I don’t know, but at least it said: “We’re not just here to take the piss.” In the background of Green Wing was the idea that the NHS belongs to all of us. We have a responsibility to make sure it doesn’t die on its knees.

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How we made Green Wing

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The Horniman Museum’s new director is surrounded by more than 3,000 objects collected over a century ago to show the English how fascinating, different and frankly weird the rest of the world was, but the object he loves most was made in the past year. The “eco-warrior’s helmet”, covered in spikes of sea shells, was created by the New Zealand artist Chris Charteris as an emblem of the resourcefulness of the Kiribati nation, whose archipelago homes are imminently threatened by climate change and rising sea levels. “That is just such a cool thing. I really want to try it on,” says Nick Merriman. The new displays, which have transformed the largest gallery of the Victorian museum, located in Forest Hill, south London, also turn an anthropologist’s eye on western Europe and the English. They include a large collection of healing charms assembled by the intriguing Alfred William Rowlett, who worked variously as a farmhand, dustman, antiques dealer and traditional healer. The local community and many contemporary artists have been invited in to help. After five years’ work that cost almost £5m – part-funded by the Heritage Lottery – the core of the museum reopens as the World Gallery on 29 June. As well as famous treasures such as the Benin bronzes – with a label explaining how they were wrenched from royal buildings in modern-day Nigeria in a punitive raid by the British in 1897 – the displays now include a donated teddy bear that reminds a local woman of her grandmother, an iPhone acquired from an African hunter-gatherer tribe still living as their ancestors did millennia ago but connected by mobile phones, and Tuareg men’s face veils with added Ray-Ban sunglasses for protection from desert sun and blown sand. Although many objects are on display, some for the first time, more than 80,000 remain in the stores and the collection is still growing, with curators researching and collecting in the field. Pieces created by artists inspired by the collections include huge kites suspended from the ceiling by Ahmadzia Bakhtyari, a kitemaker from Afghanistan now living in London, and a spectacular flowing gown of feathers and woven grass by the Nigerian designer Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman that evoke a goddess of the Ijaw people. The museum, which is located in Forest Hill, has other internationally important collections, including its musical instruments, but the anthropology collection is the core and took up more than half the original building. When its founder, the Victorian tea trader Frederick John Horniman, began collecting on an epic scale, he said he planned to “bring the world to Forest Hill”. He made his collection available in his own home, which was open free to visitors two afternoons a week and bank holidays, and the family eventually had to move out to make room. When it began to swamp even the large handsome rooms of the building, known as Surrey House, a purpose-built museum was opened in 1901, set in magnificent gardens that he also gave to the public. Horniman continued to guide visitors himself. According to a contemporary report: “If Mr Horniman is in the Museum he will gently and genially impart information, and extensive as the collection is he knows it as a child knows its mother’s face.” Merriman, who took over as director only two months ago, cannot yet claim such familiarity with the collection, and is still discovering new treasures in the displays and stores every day. When Horniman built his museum, Forest Hill was a genteel suburb with large Victorian villas set on the hills above the smoke and grime of the city. When Merriman first visited more than 20 years ago, while working at the Museum of London, the handsome houses had been split up into cheap rented flats. Merriman envied the diversity of the museum’s visitors. “Visitor numbers have soared since then, but gentrification has really arrived big-time in Forest Hill and the result has been more people but much less diverse,” he said. “We really want to bring those missing groups back, to the museum and the gardens – our target is a million visitors to the museum every year, and many more outside events in the gardens. We know that almost everyone who comes to the gardens goes on to visit the museum, but we also know there are still many people who have no idea that there is a national museum of international importance here in south London.” Merriman says the aim of the new gallery, displaying objects from every inhabited region of the world, is to break down any feeling of “us and them”. “We have set out to show not what divides but what unites us: we are all born, we live, we eat, we rear children, we die,” he says. “We have more in common than some people realise.” * The free World Gallery opens at the Horniman Museum, London, on 29 June. • The headline was amended on 26 June 2018 to better reflect the contents of the article.

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World of wonder: the new exhibits at London's eccentric Horniman Museum

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/25/horniman-museum-new-exhibits-world-of-weird-forest-hill

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Roseanne Barr has given an emotional interview, saying she feels remorse for the racist tweet that prompted ABC to cancel the revival of her show Roseanne. Barr recorded a podcast interview with her longtime friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. On Sunday, he published an edited transcript and recording of the conversation, in which Barr says she “never would have wittingly called any black person a monkey.” She has since blamed the tweet, aimed at former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, on the sleeping drug Ambien and deleted it. ABC swiftly announced the cancellation of the top-rated show, and has recently announced a spin-off, with working title The Connors, which will star most of the cast, although not Barr. Barr spoke through tears for much of the interview with Boteach, her first since the cancellation of the Roseanne reboot. The pair spoke about theology and Barr’s study of the Torah, and Boteach invited her “to set the record straight”. “How do you, someone who looks at Martin Luther King as an idol and loves the Torah ... how did you write something that people feel is in complete contravention of that values system?” he asked. “I didn’t mean what they think I meant. And that’s what’s so painful. But I have to face that it hurt people,” Barr said. “When you hurt people even unwillingly there’s no excuse. I don’t want to run off and blather on with excuses. But I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean. It was my own ignorance, and there’s no excuse for that ignorance.” She said the time was particularly difficult as she has “loved ones who are African American”. “I have black children in my family. I can’t, I can’t let ‘em say these things about that, after 30 years of my putting my family and my health and my livelihood at risk to stand up for people. I’m a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff,” she said, through tears. “But I’m not stupid, for God’s sake. I never would have wittingly called any black person, they are a monkey. I just wouldn’t do that. I didn’t do that. And people think that I did that and it just kills me ... I’m just so sorry that I was so unclear and stupid.” Barr also lamented that some people didn’t accept her explanation, saying the sleeping drug “impaired” her ahead of the tweet. “I don’t excuse it. It’s an explanation,” she said. “I said to God I am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because I know I’ve done wrong. I’m going to accept what the consequences are – and I do, and I have,” Barr said. “But they don’t ever stop. They don’t accept my apology, or explanation. And I’ve made myself a hate magnet. And as a Jew, it’s just horrible. It’s horrible.” Barr has previously drawn criticism for her support of Donald Trump’s candidacy; in March, he called Barr to congratulate her for the show’s ratings. On Thursday ABC announced it will air a 10-episode Conner family sitcom this fall without Barr in it. In a statement issued by the show’s producer, Barr said she agreed to the settlement to save the jobs of 200 cast and crew members. When ABC swiftly axed Roseanne last month, ABC Entertainment president, Channing Dungey, said the tweet was “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.” Though Roseanne prompted outrage for jokes about minority characters, and an episode some called Islamophobic, it was watched by an enormous television audience. The first episode in March was seen by more than 25 million people. “I’ve lost everything,” Barr said on the podcast. “And I regretted it before I lost everything.” Associated Press contributed to this report

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2018-06-25T06:30:25Z

Roseanne Barr apologises in teary interview: 'I made myself a hate magnet'

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Australia’s literary community has paid tribute to award-winning spoken word artist and activist Candy Royalle, who has died aged 37 after suffering from ovarian cancer. Announcing her death on Facebook on Sunday, her family wrote she died on Saturday afternoon, “after years of struggling with her illness”. “For those of you lucky enough to know Candy or see her perform, you would know that her strength, power, conviction and all-encompassing love was beyond anything that can be described, so we will not try now,” the post said. The Lebanese-Palestinian Australian queer storyteller, who was a tireless advocate for improving the visibility of female artists of colour, was a mainstay of Sydney’s performance poetry scene for over a decade. Malaysian Australian slam poet and author Omar Musa, Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr and journalist Julia Baird were among those who paid tribute to Royalle on Twitter. “What a powerhouse of love, what a force of nature,” Musa said. “She lived love, emanated love.” Born Cindy Malouf, Royalle was introduced to Sydney’s small but thriving spoken word scene at age 18, at the “wonderfully shambolic” Bardfly event run by Tug Dumbly and Benito Di Fonzo at the Friend in Hand hotel in Glebe. “I watched, spellbound, as people took to the stage to perform their poems - some were godawful, others incredible,” Royalle recalled in 2016. “People bared themselves on that stage, telling tales of love and sex and sharing political rants. The audience weren’t the silent, polite type – they were drunk and raucous, jeering, clapping and whooping in equal amounts. “I sat in that smokey dive wide-eyed, heart thumping and knew I’d found my home.” Over the ensuing decades, Royalle became a backbone of the local poetry community, also performing her soulful, politically charged work at the Woodford folk festival, the Sydney writers’ festival, the Adelaide fringe festival and the Tasmanian poetry festival. She was a versatile and provocative performer who collaborated with hip-hop artists, film-makers and musicians, and sat on the advisory council for Australian Poetry. Royalle toured UK, Europe and the US, where the festival chair of the Austin international poetry festival said she had “changed the face of poetry in Austin forever”. In April 2018, Royalle received Australia’s Red Room poetry fellowship, a prize consisting of $10,000 worth of commissions, a residency and paid employment that was meant to start on 18 June. In awarding her the prize, the judging panel said: “Candy’s strong belief that poetry can provide a platform for silenced voices so that everyone can tell their stories in ways that are both cathartic and creatively valid, won us over.” Royalle’s final performance on 5 June was with her band, the Freed Radicals, at the Red Rattler pub in Marrickville, at the monthly poetry night, Word in Hand, that she had hosted since February 2017. Her close friend, photographer Nicola Bailey, described Royalle’s final show as “mind-blowing”. “She delivered her performance with the same fierce and uplifting power than she did all of her shows. There was a standing ovation and the crowd roared her name over and over again at the end; some people cried,” Bailey said. “In a message to a mutual friend [Royalle] said, ‘I was carried by the audience – I’m so lucky to be loved and trusted by my supporters ... This performance felt different – real in a way I haven’t ever experienced before. It felt right and like I have finally arrived at where I needed to be.’” Royalle, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014, wrote in Overland in February that “if it weren’t for my community of family, friends and queers, I would be dead”. In 2016 she wrote of the barriers she faced in Australia as an artist who was “a queer woman of colour”. “Platforms for women and women of colour were almost nonexistent when I was starting out and the idea of diversity seemed like a distant illusion. Even now, events run by and for women of colour are an exception rather than the rule,” Royalle wrote. “As my profile has grown over the years and I’ve become a full-time artist, I can’t count the number of times I’ve been the only woman at an event, or the only person of colour, or the only queer person.” Former Queensland poetry festival co-director David Stavanger told Guardian Australia he first met Royalle at the 2005 Nimbin performance poetry world cup “when we were both emerging voices finding our ways”. “She was a leading light in Australian spoken word but also a true servant of the form, giving as much to the community as the community gave her in return,” he said. “She also evolved across time into a distinctive poet in her own right. I loved her fierce light. Candy’s death leaves a huge hole in the heart of the art form she loved.” Award-winning poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, said she first met Royalle in Alice Springs “and over the years we shared many words together in an attempt to soften the world”. “Go well my friend, travel to the place of your dreams,” Eckermann said. Writer and singer Maeve Marsden said Royalle was “a fierce, strong, outspoken, proud queer woman of colour, an artist and advocate”. Michelle Cahill, the managing editor of Mascara Literary Review, a platform for migrant, Asian Australian and Aboriginal writers, said Royalle was “an incredible performer and activist”. Hip-hop artist L-Fresh the Lion, who has collaborated with Royalle, said “her strength, passion and courage were so contagious”. The Stella prize lauded her as “a fierce storyteller” who “enriched the literary community”. The Tasmanian poetry festival, which hosted Royalle in 2012, said she was “awe-inspiring” and the Perth poetry festival said “Australian poetry and the world has lost a truly unique and inspiring voice”. And the Bankstown Poetry Slam described her as “a giant in our world – someone who spoke with so much eloquence, passion and conviction that she inspired thousands”.

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2018-06-25T04:17:39Z

'A fierce bright light': poet and activist Candy Royalle dies, aged 37

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Born in London in 1989, Reni Eddo-Lodge studied English at the University of Central Lancashire and went on to work as a journalist. In 2017, she published her bestselling book, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. Since March this year she launched the podcast About Race With Reni Eddo-Lodge. She speaks at Port Eliot festival, St Germans, Cornwall, on 28 July. 1. TV Brooklyn Nine-Nine Because my work can feel quite serious and a lot of people respond to it with emotions that run high, I like my off-duty stuff to be quite light. And this is just a really silly cop show that’s quite self-aware and attempts to rebuff some stereotypes about police officers. I’ve been binge-watching it. There was a bit of online debate about whether it was sanitising police in the midst of Black Lives Matter. I can see all sides of that conversation, but sometimes you don’t want to overthink things – sometimes you just want to watch something silly at the end of a difficult day. 2. Food Dough Society, London E8 I’m obsessed with this little doughnut cafe in Hackney that does completely vegan doughnuts. I’m vegetarian myself – I haven’t eaten meat for about five years – but Dough Society is doing some of the best doughnuts in London full stop, whether they’re vegan or not. They’re pretty expensive, but it’s such a treat; they’re so delicious. They’ve got one that has a creme brulee filling and a glazed hard top. I think that’s my favourite. And they do these cinnamon rolls the size of a doorstop – I have to eat them in three or four sittings. 3. Documentary This Is the Life (dir Ava DuVernay, 2008) I saw this at the BFI in London recently, where they’re doing screenings of Ava DuVernay’s earlier work. It’s about a rap crew that grew out of an organic food cafe in California: all these rappers rapping alongside a bar that had alfalfa sprouts and chickpeas and stuff. There were all these rules, like nobody was allowed to swear, and there was this matriarch in charge of the venue. It turns out towards the end that Ava DuVernay was a part of the crew as well. It was fascinating. 4. Podcast Stance I’m really enjoying this culture and current affairs podcast. Two women present it [Heta Fell and Chrystal Genesis] in a sort of transatlantic way: one is based in San Francisco and the other in London, but they don’t make it exclusively western-centric. It comes across that they have very progressive social values, but the way it’s executed isn’t contrived or didactic. I feel like it’s really adding to my cultural landscape and I’m finding out about so many interesting artists, musicians, theatre makers and authors from all around the world. It deserves a wider listenership. 5. Exhibition James Cook: The Voyages at the British Library, London I’m really keen to go to this exhibition on Captain James Cook, who in heavy air quotes “discovered” Australia and New Zealand. He was a Yorkshireman, but it seems that we don’t claim our colonisers or even see their actions as something that was happening on behalf of Britain at the time. And I’ve read reviews of this exhibition that say it doesn’t shy away from the controversy, which I think is a euphemism for saying it speaks openly and honestly about some of the atrocities that happened at that time in the name of British colonialism. 6. Music Outkast: Aquemini I’ve been listening to a lot of Outkast recently, especially their third album, Aquemini. SpottieOttieDopaliscious is definitely their best song. I was too young when the album initially came out in 1998, but I started to explore Outkast’s back catalogue when I was in my late teens. I think they model a sort of alternative blackness for people everywhere. Now is the time of year for enjoying Outkast: it’s just good music to listen to in a green space, ideally with something delicious cooking on the barbecue.

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2018-06-24T09:00:23Z

On my radar: Reni Eddo-Lodge’s cultural highlights

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/24/radar-reni-eddo-lodge-cultural-highlights-talking-white-people-race-brooklyn-nine-doughnuts

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2018-06-24T07:00:22Z

Simone Lia on life on the road

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2018/jun/24/simone-lia-on-life-on-the-road

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The preacher on the milk crate outside a Hobart bank is talking about David Walsh’s inverted crosses, and saying the end is nigh. The preacher is easy to ignore, even if the crosses aren’t. They are everywhere: lining the waterfront, in laneways, in shopfronts, even at the gym. In a citywide initiative to “paint the town red”, the glowing red lights of the Dark Mofo festival have crept up the hills and into the suburbs. They’re in the windows of houses and they light up a towering crane in the city centre. It gets dark at 5pm and, when that happens, the streets are bathed in an eerie red glow. It can feel like you’re trapped in a confessional booth (or perhaps in Madonna’s Like a Prayer video). From the hills you can see the massive light beams of the work Spectra. Anyone who comes down to Dark Park or the Winter Feast returns home smelling of wood fire that has a chemical taint. You carry the festival with you – in the smell on your clothes and hair, even when you’re not there. You can’t escape Dark Mofo, even if you would want to. Apart from Edinburgh’s, few festivals transform an entire city the way Dark Mofo changes Hobart. The transformation from a town where no one came to play (particularly not in winter) to the hottest festival ticket in Australia is not without its growing pains. The growth has been so massive, and has happened so quickly, that, according to the lord mayor, Ron Christie, some locals feel both left behind and not consulted. There is also the fear that the character of the city is transforming to something unfamiliar and strange. This year, the conversation and unease about the rapid pace of change is being transmuted through concern about the upside-down crosses. This past week 17,000 people signed a petition that went to Hobart city council, protesting against the use of the cross as a design motif. While the petition originated in Brisbane, and was no doubt signed by many people not in Hobart, Christie is taking their concerns seriously. On Friday he threatened to take away council funding (to the tune of $150,000 a year) from Dark Mofo, to which the festival’s creative director, Leigh Carmichael, replied: “It’s deeply concerning when community leaders attempt to censor art with cheap threats to cut funds. We can assure our Dark Mofo audiences that we will not accept any festival funding if there are artistic limitations attached.” Walsh said: “If we acquiesce to curatorial influence and become tame, the festival will die in three years, so the money will be irrelevant.” Many others on the council and in Hobart’s business community are furious at Christie’s comments. The festival is a cash cow that brings in $50m a year and causes a huge rush on hotel rooms and restaurant bookings at a time when the Tasmanian capital usually hibernates. Michael Bailey, the head of the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told the ABC on Friday: “I think the lord mayor is very much out of step and out of touch with the community, and I suspect that there will be a significant backlash … “It wasn’t that long ago Tasmania was known as being the backend of Australia, essentially inhabited by inbred people. Now we are the flavour of not just the country but the world.” But Christie told Guardian Australia that this year the festival had overstepped the mark. “For the first three years [of Dark Mofo] the theme was to activate winter and it was family-friendly. Now people are contacting me saying, ‘Which way is it going?’ “I react because I get complaints from the community. There are 116 nationalities in this city and, if it was another form of religion he [Walsh] was depicting, we’d get a lot of more complaints.” Part of the mayor’s concern is the festival’s rapid growth. “Our creative arts strategy is to promote cultural excellence in the city and you have to control it. This event is moving at a very rapid pace and that’s what Mr Walsh wants. He wants a reaction and he does it well.” Carmichael told Guardian Australia the festival’s growth is organic. “The attitude I’ve taken with Dark Mofo is to run with it while it’s hot – and it keeps growing each year. Most years at the end of each festival, I’ve said, ‘We don’t have to get bigger, it’s just about right,’ but we just continue to grow.” This is “partly because David allows us to grow in terms of funding it. Artists didn’t used to come to Tasmania – now we get more opportunities to book artists like Laurie Anderson. We don’t have many restrictions that large organisations have. They have boards, sponsors and governments to appease – we are agile.” Yet the council is still important to the festival, from a planning and permit perspective. Burying the performance artist Mike Parr under the road, for example, wouldn’t have happened without council approval. And it is hard to imagine any other council in Australia agreeing to such a move. With Dark Mofo now in its sixth year, the mayor acknowledges the positives: “Seven years ago I sat down on the waterfront and talked to the seagulls. Now down there at night, there’s people everywhere. It generates $50m into the economy. “But we have to ask, have they pushed this boundary? And we have to ask, what is their agenda?’” Christie is particularly concerned by Carmichael’s plan for next year. “Leigh came out yesterday [in the Hobart Mercury] to say we want to turn it into a dark city next year and he also has plans to build a sky tower in the city. He’s talking to a developer. That won’t happen. Dream on, Leigh.” (To which Carmichael responded via the Guardian: “We’re all allowed to dream, Ron.”) As for changes to the city’s identity, that is much harder shift to pin down. Matt Fishburn, the managing director of consultancy group The20, has been running a project with the state government to “find Tasmania’s story”. “We’ve been interviewing a random sample of Tasmanians [one-on-one for about an hour] across the state to unearth it,” he said. Mona and Dark Mofo have played a part in some Tasmanians having more confidence to take creative risks and be more entrepreneurial, Fishburn said. “There’s a ‘have a go’ attitude but things have changed and are continuing to change in Tasmania and there’s tension in that,” he said. “I see Dark Mofo as an example of that tension. The festival is ultimately so different from what people have experienced in Hobart and Tasmania.” It’s this singularity that is perhaps the secret to Dark Mofo’s success. This article was amended on 2 July, 2018, to clarify that the preacher was taking issue with the artistic merit of David Walsh’s inverted crosses rather than ascribing any satanic symbolism.

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Dark Mofo v Hobart's mayor: 'We're all allowed to dream, Ron'

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Late-night hosts took aim at Melania Trump’s controversial jacket worn as she visited detention centers on the US-Mexico border. Stephen Colbert On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert started by criticizing Donald Trump’s “pro-baby snatching agenda” as he spoke of family separation. He continued: “To try and humanize these child detention centers, the administration sent their most high-profile detainee: Melania Trump.” In a televised conversation, she spoke about what can help in such a situation. Colbert observed: “I know how you can help and unfortunately it involves speaking to your husband but desperate times call for desperate measures.” During her visit, Melania received criticism for her choice of jacket, which read ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ on the back. “That’s what they settled on? What was her first choice? A jacket that said Womp Womp?” Colbert said. He continued: “She’s forgotten the most important fashion advice. Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take off that jacket. “I’m going to guess this is one message that she didn’t steal from Michelle Obama.” Trevor Noah On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah also made reference to Melania’s much-criticized choice of jacket. “It looks like when Melania was in the hospital, she had her last fuck removed,” he said. He continued: “Although it is kind of sweet that she made a jacket out of her and Donald’s wedding vows.” Seth Meyers On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the comic started by bringing up Trump’s Minnesota rally. “President Trump held a campaign rally last night in Minnesota and long story short: we’re now in a trade war with Minnesota,” he said. He then moved on to Melania’s visit to the border. “I can’t imagine what terrible things you’ve been through, said one of the kids to Melania,” he said. As with his late-night peers, he then made a jab at her jacket. “A lot of people are giving her a hard time about it but I think it’s nice that she had a jacket made to display her wedding vows,” he said. Melania’s spokesperson claimed that there was no hidden message in the jacket. “Hidden? It was literally spelled out,” he said. “That’s like saying if you play an Aerosmith song forwards, it contains hidden messages about love in an elevator.” Jimmy Fallon Finally on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon talked about Melania’s arrival at the border. “She brought her passport and everything she owns,” he said. He continued: “I read that Melania pressured Donald to stop his family separation policy. She promised that if he did she’d hold his hand for a full three seconds.” Fallon also went on to talk about Melania’s controversial jacket. “Meanwhile President Trump was going through his closet like ‘Where the hell’s my coat?’” he said.

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Colbert on Melania's jacket: 'One message she didn't steal from Michelle Obama'

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Five of the best ... films Arcadia (12A) (Paul Wright, 2017, UK) 78 mins Ah, the English countryside! Flowers, fields, fairies, morris dancers, fox hunts, pagan rituals, burning cows, naked revelry, environmental destruction, riots, horror … This fascinating essay film collages archive and movie footage into a grand hymn to rural Britain, mixing the traditional “green and pleasant” with darker, earthier tones. Hereditary (15) (Ari Aster, 2018, US) 127 mins This brilliantly crafted domestic horror really gets under your skin, with its building atmosphere of dread, trauma and grief – plus the occasional horrific shock. Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne lead a family who seem to have never known happiness. Bad luck? Something in the bloodline? It all comes to a head in a memorably bonkers climax. The Ciambra (15) (Jonas Carpignano, 2017, Ita/Bra/Ger/Fra/Swe/US) 118 mins This fine realist drama feels almost like a documentary, portraying a poor, harmonious, semi-criminal Romani community in southern Italy with extraordinary intimacy and authenticity. A story gradually emerges: teenage son Pio (Pio Amato) must take on responsibility for his family when his male elders are all jailed. This accelerated coming of age presents him with some tough choices. The Happy Prince (15) (Rupert Everett, 2018, Ger/Bel/UK/Ita) 105 mins Rupert Everett ditches his trademark dashingness to portray Oscar Wilde in his latter years: bloated, destitute, ravaged by prison and the general trashing of his reputation. There are still flashes of wit and humour as the timeline flashes from his Parisian deathbed back to happier memories, and if Everett doesn’t entirely distinguish himself as a director, he at least gives the performance of his career. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A) (JA Bayona, 2018, US/Spa) 128 mins As crowd-pleasing blockbusters go, this ticks all the boxes. And even if there’s a sense of familiarity, it offers new tricks. Like on the island of Nubar, where a volcano threatens the dinosaurs’ re-extinction. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are thus recruited for a rescue mission whose funders are not primarily concerned with conservation. SR Five of the best ... rock & pop gigs Quincy Jones & Friends A motley crew of guest vocalists including Paul Weller, Jess Glynne and Mick Hucknall join Quincy Jones and a symphony orchestra for a night of music and – if Jones’s recent interviews are anything to go by – revealing onstage chat. The setlist will include gold-plated classics Billie Jean, Rock With You and Fly Me to the Moon, and that’s just for starters. Mark Ronson’s involved too, obvs. The O2, SE10, Wednesday 27 June Anitta Fluent in three languages – Portuguese, Spanish and English – Brazilian superstar Anitta has ticked every box in her bid for global domination. Collaborations with J Balvin, Diplo and, er, Iggy Azalea have helped spread the word, while a recent studio session saw her working with Pharrell. This one-off London show might seem low key in a few years’ time. Royal Albert Hall, SW7, Thursday 28 June Shamir Since the release of his 2015 breakthrough album Ratchet, Las Vegas troubadour Shamir has knocked out three more (plus an EP), finding himself in a creative sweet spot after ditching that debut’s postmodern disco in favour of a mix of lo-fi indie and 60s girl-group harmonies. If you’re not fully up to date on his discography, don’t panic, there’s still time. Broadcast, Glasgow, Monday 25; The Camden Assembly, NW1, Wednesday 27 June Tink Once anointed as the second coming of Aaliyah by producer Timbaland, Chicago singer and rapper Tink has since struggled to extricate herself from her former mentor’s label, Mosley Music Group, which seemed reluctant to release her debut, Think Tink. Finally free, and in support of recent EP Pain & Pleasure, she performs this one-off show hoping to remind people that the early buzz hasn’t worn off. O2 Academy Islington, N1, Tuesday 26 June MC Yazz Ahmed Bahrain-raised trumpeter-composer Ahmed brings her sharp sidekicks the Hafla Band to Manchester, as well as Sunday’s Glasgow jazz fest finale. An inventive blender of electro-acoustic jazz and Arabic music, she’ll showcase tracks from 2017’s atmospheric La Saboteuse, recorded alongside the likes of Mobo winner Shabaka Hutchings. Band on the Wall, Manchester, Saturday 23; St Luke’s, Glasgow, Sunday 24 June JF Four of the best ... classical concerts Pelléas et Mélisande The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will be performing Pelléas et Mélisande in concert, completing their tribute to Debussy on the centenary of his death. Music director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts, in one of her last appearances before taking maternity leave; Jacques Imbrailo is Pelléas and Katja Stuber Mélisande. Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Saturday 23 June The Turn of the Screw While its Coliseum home is occupied by Opera North’s Kiss Me Kate, English National Opera moves into Regent’s Park for a new production of what is perhaps Benjamin Britten’s most perfectly calculated opera. It’s directed by Timothy Sheader and conducted by Toby Purser; Rhian Lois and Anita Watson share the role of the Governess. The Open Air Theatre, NW1, to 30 June Powder Her Face Having first been staged by Northern Ireland Opera last year, Antony McDonald’s much-praised production of Thomas Adès’s first stage work comes to England in the newly opened theatre at Nevill Holt. The cast is led by Mary Plazas, who has made the central role of the Duchess her own in recent years. Nevill Holt, nr Medbourne, Thursday 28 & 30 June The Class of 1938 Accompanied by Huw Watkins, mezzo Lucy Schaufer ingeniously crams a whole host of 80th-birthday tributes into her late-night recital. All the songs here were written by composers born in North America in 1938, including world premieres by John Corigliano, Hedy West, Gordon Lightfoot and Peter Yarrow. Wigmore Hall, W1, Friday 29 June AC Five of the best ... exhibitions Pablo Bronstein This artist with a passion for architectural history is as likely to choreograph a dance as build a folly. Here, he designs a fantastic alternative vision of London, mapping neoclassical buildings on to ideal piazzas free from clutter. These utopian images are displayed above the Roman mithraeum in a meeting of past, present and future. Bloomberg SPACE, London Mithraeum, EC4, to 12 January Alison Wilding Unexpected, subtle complexities of colour, texture and shape give life to Wilding’s abstract art. This survey of one of Britain’s best contemporary sculptors features truly poetic meetings of materials: natural and industrial, ancient and new. Her imagination is introspective and playful, yet serious. A proper artist. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Saturday 23 June to 16 September A Slice Through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings Drawing’s not dead. In fact, the oldest art is flourishing in an age of omnipresent cameras. More than 30,000 years ago, people were sketching on cave walls with charcoal. In the 21st century, a wide variety of artists are drawing in all kinds of media. Karl Haendel, Ian Kiaer, Kathy Prendergast and Lucy Skaer are among the artists here who prove the pencil’s enduring power. Modern Art Oxford, to 9 September The Future Starts Here Anxious about technology? Frightened the future will be a dustbowl planet stalked by killer robots? Cheer yourself up with 100 projects that imagine more optimistic possibilities; real designs for a new world that’s coming fast. Participants include radical art collective Superflex and architecture firm Foster + Partners, unveiling visions from DNA portraiture to a carbon-neutral city. Victoria & Albert Museum, SW7, to 4 November Alex Prager The unhealthily strong colours of Alex Prager’s staged photographs cry out that something is wrong. People show off perfect bodies on a crowded beach. They pose so ostentatiously, it is all a bright shining lie. Her unsettling snapshots of modern America give more than a nod to such greats as William Eggleston and Garry Winogrand. These dark fictions glow with corrupt glamour. The Photographers’ Gallery, W1, to 14 October JJ Five of the best ... theatre shows Dusty As Son of a Preacher Man tours, with a fictional plot based around Dusty Springfield songs, comes this new account of the 60s chanteuse’s life based on an authorised biography. It’s penned by Beautiful Thing author Jonathan Harvey, and Katherine Kingsley is tasked with performing those wondrous songs. Maria Friedman directs. Theatre Royal Bath, Saturday 23 June to 7 July; touring to 28 July The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie It is hard to dispel from your mind Maggie Smith in the 1969 film of Muriel Spark’s novel. However, Lia Williams makes the part her own with a soft growl of a voice, slinky frocks and a wedge of ginger curls, suggesting a more deluded and predatory teacher, while making the most of Spark’s one-liners in this new David Harrower adaptation. Donmar Warehouse, WC2, to 28 July Translations The late Irish playwright Brian Friel had no shortage of successful plays (Dancing at Lughnasa, Philadelphia, Here I Come!) but this has the added stamp of approval of being an A-level text. Set in a Donegal schoolroom in 1833, this modern classic about language and colonisation follows British officers as they anglicise Irish place names. There’s a love story across the divide, too. National Theatre: Olivier, SE1, to 11 August Jerusalem It is no surprise that one of Jez Butterworth’s most successful plays has rarely been revived since it premiered in 2009. The colossus of Mark Rylance’s performance (Tony and Olivier awards) looms so large over the central role of Johnny “Rooster” Byron – a grizzled, larger-than-life, debauched Pied Piper of a man – that it’s a brave chap who tackles it. Jasper Britton is the man here in this rollicking piece about the state of Middle England. West Berkshire Playhouse: The Watermill, Newbury, to 21 July The Moderate Soprano Last week to catch David Hare’s surprising play about the birth of an English artistic institution, Glyndebourne. The Sussex opera house had unusual beginnings, established by the eccentric John Christie and his soprano wife Audrey Mildmay, along with three refugees from Nazi Germany. Hare finds comic possibilities in the situation and celebrates the power of love and art. Fine performances from Nancy Carroll and Roger Allam, too. The Duke of York’s, WC2, to 30 June MC Three of the best ... dance shows Origami A highlight of Birmingham’s international dance festival and Greenwich + Docklands international festival is this free, outdoor performance from Satchie Noro and Silvain Ohl. The fragile grace of the human body is pitted against the steely mass of a giant mechanical sculpture in a moving, poetic mesh of dance and urban architecture. Birmingham, Saturday 23 & Sunday 24; London, Thursday 28 to 30 June Nederlands Dans Theater The technically finessed dancers of NDT return with a satisfyingly mixed bill, including Sol León and Paul Lightfoot’s Shoot the Moon (pictured), set to a score by Philip Glass, and The Statement, a study in personal and political power from Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young. Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 June Greenwich + Docklands international festival Dance pops up in an inventive variety of open spaces throughout this excellent festival, with French hip-hop crew Compagnie Dyptik headlining the opening weekend with a piece performed around a large, chain-link fence. Various venues, London, to 7 July JM

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2018-06-22T08:00:23Z

What to see this week in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/22/what-to-see-this-week-in-the-uk

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Late-night hosts on Wednesday addressed the backlash to Donald Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border, which led to the president signing an executive order saying families will instead be detained together. Samantha Bee “If, like most people, you’ve been feeling a little uncomfortable with our new pre-K presence, good news, the president fixed it with the next worse thing,” began Samantha Bee, who showed footage of Trump signing the executive order while falsely claiming family separations have been taking place for 60 years. “Actually buddy, it’s been a month, but I agree that it feels like 60 years,” the host said. “Anyway, no more baby internment camps. Just regular internment camps. That’s what we call a win in 2018.” “I am happy that at least these kids are theoretically going to stay with their parents, but Mommy and Me jails are not a solution, they’re not new and they’re not legal,” Bee explained, referencing the 1997 Flores consent decree which states governments must keep migrant children in the “least restrictive conditions” possible. “The leading bills in the Senate and the House also consider indefinite family detention to be a solution, and some Democrats have gone on record saying they’re willing to vote for it,” Bee noted. “Any solution to this problem has to start from the premise that children should not go to jail. I know, I know, I’m such a radical leftist.” The host then summarized the myriad and contradictory justifications the administration put forth to defend their policy, ranging from the false claim it was passed by the Democrats to the notion “it is biblical to enforce the law”. “Oh, it’s so clear now!” Bee joked. “Democrats made the law, which was in the Bible, which is fair because these children are tricking the government into separating them from their parents, and also they are simultaneously separated and not separated, just like Donald and Melania.” Stephen Colbert CBS’ Stephen Colbert also discussed Trump’s about-face, beginning: “Our long national nightmare is ... different. “After weeks of tearing families apart at the border and then falsely insisting that only Congress could solve the problem, this afternoon the president looked deep into his heart and realized it was not there,” the host continued. “However you slice it, Donald Trump has changed his mind and decided to keep families together,” Colbert added, showing footage of Trump saying “we’re gonna have a lot of happy people” due to his executive order. “Happy people?” the host replied. “Wait, are you signing your resignation? “Trump made it a big signing ceremony to make it look like he did something good instead of admitting he was just ending the very thing he started,” Colbert added. “This executive order is not what he wants you to think it is. Sure, he’s reuniting families … in prison. He’s detaining parents and children together.” Colbert then mimicked the president: “Look, if I have to go to prison with my kids, so do you.” Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah weighed in as well. “The Trump administration policy of separating families at the border,” he said. “It has rightfully outraged pretty much every decent human being and Ted Cruz.” Referring to the executive order, Noah said: “On it’s face, it seems like president Trump has decided to back down which, to be honest, isn’t totally surprising. Every day, the family separation stories have gotten worse and worse.” It began, the host explained, with reports about children and parents being separated at the border, then images of the cages in which they’re kept, followed by coverage of the “tender age” shelters in which babies were being kept. “Yesterday people found out that the federal government was snatching children as young as eight months from their parents,” the host noted. He then mentioned secretary of homeland security and “Cinderella’s step-sister”, Kirstjen Nielsen, who became the face of the policy and was shouted out of a Mexican restaurant by those protesting family separation. “This is the one time someone actually wanted a mariachi band to come to their table,” Noah said, adding that “it’s not a good look to torment Latino kids and then go and get your taco Tuesday on”. “Right now, no one really knows how Trump’s executive order will actually work,” he said. “It has loopholes that could allow separations to continue, it says nothing about the kids who have already been taken, and the whole thing might not even be legal.”

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2018-06-21T14:09:35Z

Sam Bee calls Trump's executive order 'not a solution, not new, and not legal'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/21/samantha-bee-trump-executive-order-not-a-solution-not-new-and-not-legal

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/20/chirlane-mccray-she-built-nyc-female-monuments

An advisory panel has been launched in New York to commission public artworks and monuments in celebration of female change-makers. New York City’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, and the city’s department of cultural affairs (DCLA) have announced She Built NYC, an initiative that will field nominations from the public in order to decide which woman, or women, will be commemorated. McCray, alongside the deputy mayor Alicia Glen and cultural affairs commissioner, Tom Finkelpearl, said that the department of cultural affairs has committed to spend up to $10m over the next four years for the commissions. This fall, once the open online submission process ends on 1 August, the panel will convene with “individuals representing a broad range of expertise and backgrounds” to develop a shortlist of contenders. Among those included on the advisory board are Janice Monger, CEO of the Staten Island Museum, Simi Linton, co-director of the Disability/Arts/NYC Task Force, and Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairman of education. In remarks made in front of the Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain, one of two commemorative monuments to women in Bryant Park, McCray recalled moving into Gracie Mansion and noticing that the walls “were adorned with images of men”. Invoking various figures who contributed to the city’s legacy, such as Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Audre Lorde, Shirley Chisholm, Dorothy West and the Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, McCray called She Built NYC “the first step on a long path to equity”. “Any walking tour of the five boroughs raises a big question,” she added. “Where are all the women?” The initiative, part of broad efforts to ensure New York’s public landmarks better reflect the city’s diverse population and cultural history, comes just months after the mayor, Bill de Blasio, formed the mayoral advisory commission on city art, monuments and markers which, in a report released at the beginning of 2018, said that the city’s landmarks often “celebrate some histories and erase others”. New York City, the commission continued, “should proactively invest in the addition of new public works, public dialogues and educational initiatives around historical moments and figures”. Ultimately, the committee decided against the removal of a monument to Christopher Columbus while opting to relocate a statue of J Marion Sims, a 19th-century physician who conducted painful gynecological experiments on enslaved black women. At the launch of She Built NYC, McCray and Glen noted that the lion’s share of the city’s memorials are dedicated to men. In Central Park, Glen said, there are “22 monuments to men and one to Alice in Wonderland, not even a real woman”. The three female justices currently on the US supreme court, however, hail from Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan. “Despite these unbelievable trailblazers,” Glen said, “90% of our monuments are male.” The decision to kickstart the development of new and more inclusive commemorative artworks follows last year’s national debate over Confederate monuments, opposition to which was galvanized after the violent white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia. Last summer, New Orleans’s mayor, Mitch Landrieu, and Baltimore’s mayor, Catherine Pugh, stealthily removed their city’s Confederate monuments, including statues honoring the Confederate general Robert E Lee. “This is an opportunity to look at our history and say: ‘Are we missing something?’” said Pugh at the time. McCray’s remarks echoed those of Pugh, positioning She Built NYC as a corrective to the city’s longstanding erasure of women and their achievements. “Finding monuments to honor women should not be a scavenger hunt,” she said. “We cannot tell the story of New York City without recognizing the invaluable contribution of women of all ethnicities and those outside the gender binary.” Until 1 August, names for consideration can be submitted at the website Women.NYC, while the subject and site of the monument will be revealed in January 2019. Once the honoree is decided, the DCLA and the city’s Percent for Art program will commission an artist to create the statue.

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2018-06-20T16:52:09Z

'Where are all the women?': New York City to commission new public artworks

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/20/chirlane-mccray-she-built-nyc-female-monuments

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Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed the continued backlash to the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separation children from their families at the southern border. Stephen Colbert “Once again, the big story is Trump’s policy of taking immigrant children from their parents at the border,” began Stephen Colbert. “Now, there are two ways to look at this story. Either you can be horrified, or you can work for Donald Trump.” Colbert was referring to Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, who filled in for Sarah Sanders to defend the policy at the daily briefing. “Sarah, you think you don’t want to talk about child separation policy? Try doing it on a comedy show,” said the host. He continued: “Your administration owns locking up children, but if kids in cages is too much for you to defend, there is one option: you could resign. This is the White House, not an abandoned Walmart. You’re allowed to leave.” “Anyway, the press conference was no picnic for Kirstjen Nielsen,” said Colbert, “because, according to Politico, last month Nielsen had concerns about the monitoring of unaccompanied children but changed her tune after senior administration officials pushed her to get on message over the weekend. “There are some people who have no reservations about publicly defending Trump’s monstrous policy, for instance, the monster-in-chief,” Colbert said, showing Trump, at an event for the National Federation of Independent Businessmen, claiming that “those who apply for asylum legally at port of entry are not prosecuted”. The president went on to accuse the “fake news media” of “helping smugglers and traffickers like nobody would believe”. “You’re right,” said Colbert. “I don’t believe you.” Trevor Noah Meanwhile, Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah discussed the bipartisan condemnation of Trump’s policy and the president’s persistent backers on Fox News. “Over the past few days, outrage has been growing over the Trump administration’s new policy of taking kids from their parents at the border,” he began. “With a lot of Trump’s other unpopular policies, Republican lawmakers have kept quiet and done nothing. This time may be different.” The host then showed video footage of Republican senators denouncing the policy. Senator Lindsey Graham said Trump “can stop this if he’d like” while Jeff Flake called the president’s claim that the policy was the Democrats’ fault “not true”. “Lawmakers in both parties are against Trump separating kids from their parents,” Noah added. “More surprising, even Trump is against Trump separating kids from their parents.” In a clip from Trump’s NFIB speech, he said “I don’t want children taken away from parents.” “The president can’t just change this policy. Well, he can, but not without the approval of his most trusted advisers,” Noah said, showing photos of Fox News anchors. “And the problem is, the members of Trump’s TV cabinet team seem to be fine with everything that’s happening.” Noah proceeded to air news segments from the network, in which anchor Laura Ingraham called the children’s detention facilities “essentially summer camps”. Noah replied: “Yo, what kind of freaky-ass summer camps did she go to? Was her family just dropping her off every June at state prison?” In another clip, Tucker Carlson accused the left of caring “more about foreigners than their own people”, adding that many opposed to the policy don’t have children themselves. “This angry McNugget seriously just said you can’t care about kids unless you have kids,” Noah said. “That is the dumbest logic I have ever heard. “I’m just glad he’s a TV pundit and not a doctor,” the host joked. “Dr Carlson, what should I do about my cancer? Well, I don’t have cancer, so I don’t give a shit.”

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2018-06-20T14:27:57Z

Colbert on family separation: 'either you're horrified, or you work for Trump'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/20/stephen-colbert-trevor-noah-trump-family-separation

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/20/random-psychopaths-and-monotony-of-life-what-mike-parr-learned-underground

It’s Sunday night and Uber driver Sarafino, a South Sudanese man who has only been in Australia for a month, is stressing out. He’s spent his shift driving over 73-year-old performance artist Mike Parr, who is buried in bitumen in Macquarie Street, one of Hobart’s busiest roads. “I tried to take other roads but sometimes I would have to drive over him,” he says. “I went over slowly, but it’s very stressful. I didn’t want to hurt him.” Sarafino seems genuinely distressed: “Why is he under there?” Art, dude. Art. Parr’s work has always courted controversy, for better or worse. He has chopped off his prosthetic arm with an axe, burned the flesh of his leg and vomited up ink. His latest work for Dark Mofo, Underneath the Bitumen the Artist, was no exception, burying himself in a steel box under the road for 72 hours with only oxygen and water to sustain him. At a press conference on Tuesday, after he had been removed, Parr explained the piece as “void, a null”. “My work is resolutely abstract but very hard to possess. People can only move it through argument and discussion ... there’s a possible infinity of responses. The work itself refuses to respond. It’s the null of the image.” For a work that was invisible to the eye, people in the city were highly aware of it, and some changed their behaviour accordingly. A Hobart local, Paul, told me that he, too, had been sensitive about driving over the piece of road where Parr had been interred. To drive over him was a sort of violence, and one that many didn’t want to inflict. Yet for every driver that winced when turning into Macquarie Street, there were a few sadists. In the early hours of Sunday morning, when the traffic was light, drunk groups ran on to Parr’s bit of road and jumped up and down on it, shouting things at him. “Even then, I thought this is better than most art criticism,” Parr said. Did he retaliate? “I couldn’t jump up and down on the bottom of the box because they couldn’t hear me,” Parr said. Parr had a screen with him in the box, and freaked out when semis would drive over: “Everything was rattling,” he said. In the box, he paced up and down, drew self-portraits, read and thought. “I thought very hard – I was reading The Fatal Shore [a history of convict transportation and colonisation in Australia]. The British have never been called to account for their monstrosity in the antipodes. Transportation was slavery. Terrible pain has been wrought on collective descendants.” The work was billed as one designed to “memorialise the victims of 20th century totalitarian violence”, including the Indigenous Australians who lost their lives and land. Dark Mofo’s creative director, Leigh Carmichael, believes it is “Tasmania’s first monument referencing both the black war and the convict system” but the Tasmanian Indigenous community was divided. (“I wouldn’t have known it had anything to do with the black war,” Heather Sculthorpe, the chief executive of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, told the ABC.) Parr did not seek permission for the work from the land’s traditional owners. “Perhaps permission should have been sought from the Aboriginal community, but I had no intention of asking anyone’s permission,” he said on Tuesday. “Permission for me is always a problematic issue. “When I ask the Australia Council for a grant, they are also giving you permission, they are vetting you. So I couldn’t ask for permission because it would have exposed the work prematurely and ... it would define the work to a single interpretation.” While he was down there, Parr was struck by the banality of much of modern life. “I could see the traffic [through the screen]. It’s such an impoverished scene in its extreme monotony. It’s the opposite of how the media represents our reality now,” he said. “On Sunday the rain pouring down, [there were] all these sort of random psychopaths [who jumped on the box] … This is how people will look at them in the future, the featureless, purposelessness of their existence, staring fixedly at the road.” Yet it wasn’t all bad up there on the surface. Over the 72 hours that Parr was under the road, he missed lots of good stuff at Dark Mofo. He missed St Vincent’s polarising set: some thought she was the second coming, others were bored. And there was Marlon Williams – a hot, young crooner with a voice like Roy Orbison, playing at the Odeon. And Einstürzende Neubauten: Lament on Sunday evening, industrial rock trying to make sense of the first world war. He missed Jagwar Ma, a modern incarnation of the Happy Mondays who played to drunk Hobart teens, their eyes like saucers, slam-dancing into each other. And he missed Betty Grumble at Night Mass in the Grand Pooh Bar, giving out imprints on paper of her vulva. Yet as I moved through the days and long, long nights (the red glow of inverted crosses lighting up streets and buildings) of the first weekend, my thoughts did return frequently to Parr – to wonder how he was faring under the road and to marvel at the work and the audacity of an artist and a festival to dig up a busy four-lane road and bury a 73-year-old man down there. • Guardian Australia travelled to Dark Mofo as a guest of Mona

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2018-06-20T02:33:22Z

Random psychopaths and monotony of life: what Mike Parr learned underground

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/20/random-psychopaths-and-monotony-of-life-what-mike-parr-learned-underground

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/19/the-guardian-amelia-gentleman-paul-foot-award-windrush-generation-reporting

Amelia Gentleman of the Guardian has won the prestigious Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism for her reporting on the Windrush scandal. The judges commended Gentleman’s determination in pursuing the issue, which led to the resignation of home secretary Amber Rudd and the government loosening its ‘hostile environment’ for migrants. “The judges were impressed by the tenacity of Amelia Gentleman’s work, her determination to tell the stories of the victims of the government’s hostile environment policy, and the enormous impact her work had, proving that good reporting really can make a difference,” said Padraig Reidy, the chair of the judges. Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye, which runs the awards, said: “Congratulations to Amelia Gentleman for a campaign that was revelatory, important and amazingly effective. This was the Windrush scandal – where a cabinet minister was thrown overboard and the ship of state nearly sank.” The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner said: “Amelia Gentleman’s determined and empathetic reporting exposed a national scandal, and gave a voice to the Windrush generation. Amelia has shown brilliantly that independent, investigative journalism can hold power to account and change the world. I’m really delighted for her.” The young journalist award went to Emma Yeomans and Ben van der Merwe of the London Student for their Toby Young and UCL’s secret eugenics conference investigation. Gentleman’s work focused on immigration troubles wrongly forced upon Commonwealth-born British citizens. Other nominees included the Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr, whose work on the Cambridge Analytica files was praised, the Times’ Sean O’Neill, whose name was put forward for his reporting on the Oxfam sex abuse scandal, and Madison Marriage of the Financial Times for her work on a charity fundraiser where female hostesses were “put on show”. The Sunday Post’s Gordon Blackstock was nominated for his investigation into the burials of hundreds of orphans in a mass grave, as was BuzzFeed’s investigations team for its “From Russia with blood” reporting.

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2018-06-19T21:32:09Z

Guardian's Amelia Gentleman wins prize for Windrush reporting

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/19/the-guardian-amelia-gentleman-paul-foot-award-windrush-generation-reporting

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Those attending the press preview of the New York Historical Society’s latest exhibition expected a tour of David Copperfield’s personal collection of magic paraphernalia, widely regarded to be the biggest and most comprehensive such archive in the world. What we didn’t expect, however, was a tour guided by Copperfield himself, who emerged from behind a lectern in the museum’s vestibule, in the sleek all-black ensemble he often wears onstage, to unveil Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection. Both an ode to the rich history of magic in New York City, and an itemized primer on the conjurors and illusionists who preceded Copperfield, the show came about after the museum’s assistant curator of exhibitions, Cristian Petru Panaite, emailed the magician last fall asking for a tour of his collection. Known as the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, it’s housed in a windowless Vegas warehouse and contains over 200,000 trinkets and artefacts that amount, more or less, to a multi-century history of magic, from Harry Keller to Chung Ling Soo. “The New York Historical Society has been interested for quite some time in exploring magic as entertainment and as art,” said Panaite, who in 1991 watched Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear on television in his native Romania, where such spectacles were censored until after the fall of communism. “I wrote David, having read about the collection, and I actually remember waking my wife up after getting a text back from him. So it’s very special and surreal for me to be able to curate this exhibition.” To watch Copperfield explore the exhibit, staged just a mile north of the Times Square magic shops he perused obsessively as a teenager, is a bit like watching an episode of Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. One moment Copperfield’s an unabashed fanboy, presumably no different than the 12-year-old who regularly took the train from New Jersey to the Tannen’s Magic Shop. And the next he’s a walking encyclopedia, lecturing us about Harry Houdini’s infamous metamorphosis trunk and breaking down heated rivalries among early 20th century magicians. “Houdini didn’t like many magicians because they were all ripping him off,” he said. “I know the feeling.” Copperfield, who began performing professionally at age 12 as “Davino the Boy Magician”, was inspired by Houdini’s daredevilry, which had an emotional component that transcended mere showmanship. “It wasn’t just a trick or a challenge, they were rooting for him. And that’s why we remember Houdini to this day,” he says. “I saw this and said, ‘Gosh, this is kind of cool.’ My personal passion was telling stories based in Broadway or MGM musicals, so we invented this next piece you’re about to see...” The 61-year-old proceeds to “Death Saw”, the massive, and massively anxiety-inducing, moving contraption he used to chop himself in two in a 1988 special on CBS. “People thought this was going to be an escape because, when someone would get strapped to a table or train tracks, everyone was conditioned to expect them to get out before the train hits,” he said as footage of the original stunt played. “The audience was really upset. A few years later they knew what was coming, but the first time they really freaked out.” Though Copperfield emerged from the death saw unscathed, other illusionists haven’t been as lucky. In the section of the exhibition dedicated to the “Masters of Magic”, various ephemera from 19th century conjurors like Alexander Herrman and Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin are displayed in perspex cases. Among them is the musket with which Williams Ellsworth Robinson, who performed as an Asian man named Chung Ling Soo, fatally attempted the “bullet catch” trick at the Wood Green Empire in London in 1918. “16 people have died doing this,” said Copperfield. “But the most famous one was Chung Ling Soo.” In another corridor is a recreation of Tannen’s, the magic shop Copperfield describes as the center of his boyhood existence. It was there he saw entertainers like Dick Cavett, Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles – “everybody on the Ed Sullivan show,” as he puts it. “It was like being in heaven,” Copperfield said. “It’s important to remember, because there’s fewer and fewer magic shops today, but the brick-and-mortar magic shop was a place you just couldn’t believe. You’d save your money and buy the magic piece and when you’d go home you thought you were the hero.” Although Summer of Magic is nothing if not nostalgic, the items as assembled illustrate how the craft constantly points toward the future. George Méliès, the illusionist-turned-film-maker, shot A Trip to the Moon almost 70 years before Neil Armstrong stepped foot on it. And a turban on display, which once belonged the vaudeville magician Alexander the Man Who Knows, was equipped with radios before people knew what they were. “This is important because magic has given us technology we wouldn’t normally have,” said Copperfield. “The magic I’m doing, eventually the secret will be revealed and it will become common. Kids see something, a trip to the moon, and go, ‘Maybe it is possible.’ I think that’s a great legacy to have, and that’s why I do what I do.” Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection is on view at the New-York Historical Society until 16 September

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Summer of magic: David Copperfield exhibits his collection of wonders

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Before the mighty empires of Egypt, Greece and Rome came Assyria and a leader who, a new exhibition at the British Museum will argue, is the “greatest king you’ve never heard of”. The museum has announced details of the first major exhibition devoted to Ashurbanipal, a ruthless, bookish seventh-century BC despot who ruled a vast empire from his capital, Nineveh, in ancient Iraq. “He is not forgotten for us, we know him very well, but for the general public no one has heard of Ashurbanipal,” said the exhibition’s curator, Gareth Brereton. “Very few people have heard of the Assyrian empire, Egypt gets all the press and everyone has heard of Greece and Rome but there is this whopping great place called Assyria that’s not taught in schools. People today don’t know it.” Brereton said the Assyrian empire was the world’s first true empire and served as a template for others that followed. The exhibition will tell the story of the empire through the lens of Ashurbanipal who, with some justification, claimed to be “king of the world, king of Assyria”. Brereton said the empire generally had a negative press as a place of luxury, extravagance and debauchery until discoveries were made in the 19th century by the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard, revealing what a truly “magnificent, innovative and interesting empire” it was. Ashurbanipal was a complex often misrepresented figure. He could be seen as a “psychopathic bookworm”, said Brereton. “He was a complicated character, quite unlike any Assyrian king who came before him. He was a mighty king who controlled a terrifying war machine, but he never led his troops into battle.” Ashurbanipal preferred to stay at home in his library and was a renowned scholar who was always depicted with a stylus poking out of his belt. The British Museum show will include examples of Assyrian treasures not normally on public display, such as stunning reliefs from Ashurbanipal’s palace that have been kept in a basement gallery decommissioned 20 years ago. The museum also has about 30,000 clay tablets and fragments of tablets, which it will use to recreate Ashurbanipal’s great library, the oldest surviving royal library in the world. There will be loans of exhibits – some travelling to the UK for the first time – from museums including the Louvre in Paris, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin and the Vatican. About 200 objects will be in the show, including painted glazed bricks, enormous stone sculptures, rare wall paintings, gold and ivory furniture fittings and extravagant metalwork. Brereton said the exhibition would also shine a light on the family dramas Ashurbanipal went through, including his intense rivalry with his elder brother, overlooked as emperor and not happy to be given Babylon to rule instead. He said new discoveries were being made all the time about a king who should be more widely known, but the cause of his death was still a mystery. What is known is that within two decades of Ashurbanipal’s death the Assyrian empire fell apart and was “literally wiped out”, with the Babylonians setting fire to Nineveh. The exhibition is supported by the Iraqi government, and the museum said many of the objects in the show came from archaeological sites in Iraq such as Nineveh and Nimrud, which more recently have been targeted and destroyed by Islamic State. The final section of the show will highlight the challenges faced in protecting Iraqi cultural heritage and will showcase the work of the Iraq emergency heritage management training scheme. • I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria is at the British Museum from 8 November to 24 February.

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British Museum shines light on Assyrian 'king of the world'

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Thandie Newton has said she had to “have a big swallow of resentment” when she found out how much more her male co-stars earned on shows such as HBO’s Westworld. The actor, who also appeared in Solo: A Star Wars Story, said recent campaigns around gender equality in the TV and film industries were starting to make a difference. “As a result of the #TimesUp campaign, HBO for the first time has made women and men in lead role positions [equally paid],” she said. “I’m one of the actresses that benefited.” She said she was shocked by the pay rise received as a result. “When I first discovered how much they were offering it made me realise, ‘Oh my God, men have been paid so much more.’ I had to have a big swallow of resentment. I gave it half an hour and then felt grateful. Every year I go into a new production or a new season of Westworld and I don’t think to ask for more, I just feel so grateful to be working. But we need to expect more for ourselves.” This year it was revealed the producers of Netflix’s The Crown paid more money to the actor Matt Smith for his supporting role as the Duke of Edinburgh than to his co-star Claire Foy, who played the Queen. The subsequent outcry led many companies to change their policies. Speaking to an audience at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Newton urged women to stand up and demand equal pay. “We need pressure, we need to disrupt, it’s part of change and growth,” she said. The actor, whose mother is from Zimbabwe, said she often felt like an outsider while growing up as a mixed-race child in Cornwall and said she was using her influence to make the film industry a more welcoming place. “It’s so important that I walk on to a set and see others like me,” she said. “If I walk on to a set and don’t see representation of a world that I live in, then I will make a change and I will talk to producers and say: ‘No, no, no.’ It’s not just about the people you see in front of the camera. I use my authority to do that. It’s a positive and the results are astounding.” Newton was speaking alongside the British Vogue editor, Edward Enninful, who said he was committed to making his magazine more diverse, following accusations the publication had been run by a “posh cabal” under his predecessor Alexandra Shulman. “Previously to work at a place like Vogue you have to have a certain kind of background,” he said, adding the magazine had gone from “strength to strength” since broadening its hiring process to target candidates from “inner cities”.

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2018-06-19T14:28:46Z

Thandie Newton had 'swallow of resentment' over male co-stars' pay

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Late-night hosts on Monday discussed the Trump administration’s crackdown on prosecuting undocumented migrants, which has led to more than 2,000 children being separated from their parents at the border and held in federal detention facilities. Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah weighed in. “Immigration,” he began. “From the start of Trump’s time in office his administration has been working hard to shut that shit down. “It’s a scary time to be an immigrant in America,” he added, showing news segments addressing the separation of children from their parents at the border and condemnations of the policy from Laura Bush and Pope Francis. “Damn, if even the Catholic church is judging you for how you treat children, you done fucked up,” Noah said. “We’ve all heard the stories about traumatized children, the federal government deporting parents but keeping their kids, we’ve even seen images of how homeland security is holding some of these children in cages. There’s no way you can defend this, unless you work at Fox & Friends.” In a clip from the morning show, host Steve Doocy disputed the characterization of the holding facilities as “cages”, saying they’re “great, big warehouse facility where they built walls out of chain-linked fences”. “We’re not idiots,” he said. “A cage is a cage. “That’s not really the point,” Noah continued. “The point is the federal government is effectively stealing kids away from their parents. If some guy in an unmarked van took your kids from the park, the last thing you’d be worried about as a parent is how nice the van was.” Stephen Colbert “The big story continues to be the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents,” began Stephen Colbert. “And faced with almost universal condemnation from both sides of the political aisle, from religious leaders, from the UN human rights council, Donald Trump finally took full responsibility for the policy and promised a swift end to this humanitarian disaster. “I’m just kidding,” the host said. “He blamed the Democrats.” Trump, in tweets sent over the weekend and comments made to reporters, has falsely claimed that by separating children from their parents the administration is following a law passed by Democrats. “There’s two things wrong with this,” Colbert said. “If it was a law, the Republicans are in control of everything – they can fix it. Second of all, it’s not a law. This is a policy. It’s just another scoop from your chum bucket of cruelty.” In a speech made on Monday while announcing his “space force” Trump said: “The United States will not be a migrant camp” or a “refugee holding facility”. “No, it’ll be the all-baby reboot of the Shawshank Redemption,” the host shot back. “Not everyone in the administration blames the policy on the Democrats. Some say the policy doesn’t even exist.” Colbert was referring to the secretary of homeland security, Kirstjen Nielsen, who said on Monday that “we have to do our job” and “will not apologize” while also tweeting that no such law mandating the separation of families exists. “Then why are you locking up kids in an abandoned Walmart?” the host asked. Seth Meyers Finally, Seth Meyers called out the administration for its insistence the policy isn’t their own. “If this policy strikes you as monstrous and inhumane and cruel, then you’re a decent person,” he said. “In other words, you are not attorney general Jeff Sessions.” Meyers proceeded to show Sessions invoking the Bible to justify the policy of forcible separation, citing Romans 13. “Obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes,” Sessions said. “White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked how the White House could possibly defend that comment and she immediately doubled down in a tense exchange with a reporter,” Meyers said, showing footage of Sanders declaring: “It is very biblical to enforce the law.” Meyers replied: “It’s also very biblical to stone people to death, to sleep with 600 concubines, to have conversations with flaming bushes and to believe that a 500-year-old man built a giant boat and put giraffes on it. “To be clear, this is not a law,” the host clarified, citing comments by the senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, who is seen as one of the architects of the administration’s immigration policy. “It’s a policy announced by choice by the Trump administration. Trump is trying to gaslight the country into thinking it’s actually the Democrats’ fault that this policy exists.”

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Trevor Noah: 'The federal government is stealing kids from their parents'

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https://content.guardianapis.com/culture/2018/jun/19/xxxtentacion-hyperfast-life-of-trauma-inflicted-endured

XXXTentacion lived a life of hyperfast, nihilistic violence where nothing could ever be put on pause. In the past year alone, he had a number one Billboard album, was banned from Spotify, dropped by his record label and charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant victim and witness tampering. His ex-girlfriend detailed the most horrendous abuse in court documents and press interviews. He will be remembered mostly for the unusually cruel violence he committed on vulnerable people, particularly his ex-girlfriend, crimes for which he never expressed remorse. His music, a combination of hip-hop and emo that was depressive, and at times devastating, reflected a life lived with disregard for humanity, both other people’s and his own. On Monday afternoon, he was shot and killed in Miami, during an armed robbery. He was 20 years old. His life had many of the trappings of gangsta rappers who were shot at a young age in the 1990s: drugs, violence and persistent trouble with the law. But XXXTentacion, real name Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was not exactly a hard man. He was insecure and drug-addled, still living through his own traumatic childhood while he viciously abused others. His victims were not from rival gangs: they were women and strangers. His music rarely tried to demonstrate bravado or material gains, it mostly traced round mental illness, suicide, extreme misogyny and a prevailing feeling of numbness. Onfroy was born in Florida in 1998. His mother was financially unable, and at times just uninterested, in raising him, and he spent much of his childhood moving from home to home. The bond he had with her, he has repeatedly claimed, was incredibly strong. When she was in the picture he said she would shower him with gifts and affection. When she was away, a darkness and depression ate away at him, one that would define his short life. Onfroy was constantly in trouble for violent behaviour, and was at one point expelled from school for beating up another student. By the time he was 17, he had already been charged with possession of a firearm, armed robbery, resisting arrest and Xanax possession. He had done two spells in juvenile detention and during the second one, violently beat a cellmate who he believed to be gay. According to an interview he gave in the Miami New Times, when his mother asked him what had happened he said: “This nigga did some gay shit, so I had to crack his head open.” After he left juvenile prison, he began making music, mostly underground mixtapes with minor mainstream appeal. But in 2016 Onfroy’s profile started to rise thanks to the online success of his song Look At Me!, a track with violent lyrics that set the tone for that part of his career. Onfroy was part of a new wave of artists, sometimes referred to as “soundcloud rap”, whose music embodied a disconnect with societal norms, and embraced internet culture and heavy Xanax use. The role of Xanax, an addictive and potent pharmaceutical used to treat anxiety, was important – it helped to soothe internal pain, and created a floating disconnection from reality. The other shining light of Soundcloud Rap, Lil Peep, who Onfroy mostly loathed, died in November of a Xanax overdose. At the same time as his career was beginning to flourish, Onfroy entered into a relationship with a woman who he violently abused. According to court documents he variously stomped on her head, held her head, strangled, kicked and punched her. He would also make repeated threats of suicide, often coming close to killing himself in front of her. Later, the woman became pregnant and Onfroy continued to brutally beat her and briefly kidnapped her. Onfroy was arrested for these crimes, as well as other charges and placed initially under house arrest and then in prison. While in prison Onfroy became troublingly famous. A$AP Rocky tweeted that he couldn’t wait for his release and some accused Drake of copying one of his verses. When Onfroy returned to house arrest while awaiting trial, he began recording. He worked with Diplo, among other big names and eventually released two albums, the second of which “?” went to number one. It is a powerful record, performed in large parts on acoustic guitar, by a man desperately grasping to get something out of a life which he rightly senses might already be coming to an end. He was lauded by giants of the genre including Kendrick Lamar. After his death Kayne West tweeted: “Never told you how much you inspired me when you were here thank you for existing.” Some lump Onfroy in with the #MeToo movement, and his music is discussed in thinkpieces about whether you can ever separate the art from the artist. But the truth is that Onfroy’s crimes are so unspeakably violent, his hatred for women so unchecked, that they form their own category. Unlike other artists, whose violence against women became known once they were already stars, it was Onfroy’s incarceration for domestic violence that helped create his celebrity. In his final months, Onfroy was charged with witness tampering, and was accused of pressuring his ex-girlfriend to drop the charges against him. He made some attempts to rehabilitate his image, at one point claiming to donate $100,000 to a domestic violence charity – although it’s disputed whether he actually did. But the seriousness of the crimes he was accused of never seemed to register with him, and he would often return to violent language in the same breath as trying to clear his name.The day after the Charleston shooting, when Dylan Roof murdered nine African Americans while they were attending church, Onfroy tweeted support for the shooter, calling him LIL DYLAN ROOF and adorning his name in heart emojis. He later deleted the tweet. Onfroy idolised Kurt Cobain, saying he was “the only person who inspires me”. Cobain is often said to be part of the “27 club” a group of people who lived hard and fast, only for their demons to catch up with them at a young age. For Onfroy 27 would have been old age, his life contained so much trauma, inflicted and endured, that he barely made it out his teens.

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2018-06-19T07:55:28Z

XXXTentacion: a hyperfast life of trauma, endured and inflicted

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Of all the performances designed to shock or confront at this year’s Dark Mofo, so far it’s a mid-20th century British opera, The Rape of Lucretia, that has been the most unsettling to watch – despite the effort made by this production to recraft it for the modern age. The story begins with men away at war who have heard rumours of their wives sleeping around. One man, Tarquinius, resolves to rape the only wife who has been faithful – Lucretia – to prove that every woman is a whore deep down. Lucretia, once raped, feels such shame and self-loathing she kills herself with a knife. The end. First staged in Glyndebourne in 1946, the two-act opera has long been Benjamin Britten’s “problem piece” and is rarely performed. But in 2018 in Australia, less than a week after yet another young women, Eurydice Dixon, was raped and murdered, it raises a whole other question: in the age of MeToo, how do you tackle a work such as this? Should you even try? Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon Directed by Kip Williams, this particular production, which premiered last year at Carriageworks, comes from Sydney Chamber Opera and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and the performers and artistic directors are all aged in their 20s and 30s. They found one way around the gender problems of the text by reversing the roles of men and women in many scenes, including the rape scene. Women perform the roles of the male soldiers, lip-syncing the words as they are sung by the male performers who shadow them; and men play Lucretia and her friends. But despite excellent staging and magnificent performances (it’s so far been well reviewed) there were some walkouts and debates in the foyer. And after a week of heavy reporting in the media about violence against women, I felt unsettled. Did I really want to end the week watching two hours of a woman being raped in her home, and her subsequent shame and suicide? Melanie Tait, a Hobart local and occasional Guardian contributor, only stayed for half the performance on Saturday night. “I have no interest in exploring a piece of art where men tell me what rape is,” she said. “It’s written by a man and a directed by a man, and I had no desire to sit and watch the rest of it when I knew where the story would end up – with a rape. I would ask, ‘Why was it shown? What was the point?’” To her, the production’s gender-flip wasn’t enough to justify its programming. “I question why the artistic decision was made. What did the gender bending add to the piece? I couldn’t figure it out. I was very aware the entire time of the woman being raped – and every other woman [character] was trashed in it. All those old views of women … it was gross.” The work was last performed in the country by a major Australian opera company in 1971, at the Sydney Opera House. So why bring it back? Jack Symonds, the artistic director of the Sydney Chamber Opera, told Guardian Australia, “That’s what every opera company has to ask. When you choose something like this, you have to weigh up the musical and dramatic worth of a problematic piece before you even interpret it. “What Britten offers in this piece is the opportunity to look at the way we have historically constructed gender roles in marriage and society, and what happens when they are broken.” The production couldn’t mess with the libretto for copyright reasons, but by switching the men’s and women’s roles, they could comment on the text without overtly disrupting it. “If you play it straight, there will be a large segment of the audience who will absorb lines like ‘all women are whores by nature’ – and this was an issue with the work,” says Symonds. Symonds did receive some criticism from audience members, he says, but they weren’t complaints about its content; rather, that the performance was not faithful enough to the original. “The reaction in Sydney [last year] was very split down gender and age lines, and theatre and opera lines,” said Symonds. “Most people from theatre world really loved it, while traditional opera audiences really wanted a group of men running around in Roman costumes. “I got a lot of complaint emails from people who saw Benjamin Britten come to Australia [in 1970] – they are the generation who are the guardians of his legacy. And [they thought] this [production] was heresy.” The issue about whether and how we should continue to stage or display art whose content is offensive in a modern context is not a new one. Recently, it was raised in February when John William Waterhouse’s painting Hylas and the Nymphs was removed from the walls of the Manchester Art Gallery. Clare Gannaway, the gallery’s curator of contemporary art, said the title of the work was problematic, as it was the male gaze depicting passive women and femmes fatales: “For me personally, there is a sense of embarrassment that we haven’t dealt with it sooner. Our attention has been elsewhere ... we’ve collectively forgotten to look at this space and think about it properly,” she said. Likewise, with the Rape of Lucretia, Symonds acknowledges that the opera is a “fraught piece” which comes with an in-built trigger warning in the form of its title. But, he says, making work that is confronting to both feminists and traditionalists is the point of art. “If we just go to the theatre to reinforce anything we know, then why do it? There are going to be things that are triggering. [The MeToo movement] is a time that theatre should make sense of through the prism of art.” • Dark Mofo continues in Hobart until 24 June. Guardian Australia’s flights to Hobart were supplied by Mona

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Does gender-flipping The Rape of Lucretia fix it for the #MeToo age? | Brigid Delaney

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Andrew Scott, 41, was born and raised in Dublin. Recently seen in the BBC adaptation of King Lear, he is best known for playing Moriarty in Sherlock, and for starring in Robert Icke’s production of Hamlet, which transferred from the Almeida to the West End last year. In 2008, Simon Stephens wrote Sea Wall – a monologue about grief – for Scott; it is being revived as part of the Old Vic’s bicentenary celebrations. How is it performing Sea Wall alone on stage? This one I love. I did it at Edinburgh, and you could actually see the audience. There isn’t any separation, and the house lights are usually half-up. The play gets to some big questions pretty quickly – such as, do you need God when terrible things happen? The idea of goodness, morality and kindness, and that you can possess those qualities without an organised faith… I think a lot of people of my generation feel that. People want to be kind and good, and have a sense of community, all that the church used to bring. You were brought up as a Catholic. Does it still hold anything for you? No, it doesn’t. I hid away from it before, but now I feel like I actively reject my upbringing. Not in an angry way – I don’t feel angry any more. A lot of family and friends do still believe, and you’ve got to exist with that. But over the past five years I’ve been really interested in the idea of spirituality and mindfulness – just being here. I do find it troubling, being on a train and looking round and everyone is on their phones. We can be addicted to not being here, to always being somewhere else. Having all this information is so new; you realise, God, I actually can’t sit still. Just to be there and not to be looking for a little high all the time… That will define our age. Does theatre give us a way to come together? It is nourishing. And some of the things phones bring us do nourish us – you can read a book, it’s not all pouting on Instagram. [Theatre] gives you community. But I really don’t want to be someone who just says “Get off your phone”, because of course there’s community in Snapchat or whatever – [young people] are getting something from it that we used to get drinking beer down by some lake. How was playing Hamlet? It was extraordinary. I’m still absorbing it. After I finished, two weeks later I did King Lear: I had a Shakes-year, boom-boom. But it’s the stamina. Sometimes I thought I can’t do it – three hours and 50 minutes, twice on a Wednesday and Saturday. And it’s not light material; you have to go to a dark place. What was your way into that part? I really wanted it to be engaging for people who’d never seen it before. Rob Icke and I wanted it to be a play that would ignite our 14-year-old selves. And the big thing was to try to speak the language in as conversational a way as possible. To attack the play for what it is rather than what you think it is – because it’s so famous. I do think it is the greatest play ever written. It might be the greatest play ever written – but do we do it too often? There are a lot on! You have to have a really sound idea – you can’t just barge in. There has to be a real reason behind it. I felt very proud of our production: 28,000 young people came to it. Something like half of the audience in the West End had never been to the theatre before. And that’s an achievement. A first bad experience of Shakespeare can kill it for you, whereas a good one can set you up for life… I always think of it like rap music – there’s the rhythm of the thing, and even if you don’t get every word, it’s electrifying. I just hate the idea of Shakespeare being put in a glass box, like something that’s dead. You played Hamlet hot on the heels of Sherlock co-star Benedict Cumberbatch. Was there rivalry? There was no rivalry. It has to be your own thing, you have to bring who you are to it – so it shouldn’t be similar. Hamlet may be the best part – but what’s the worst part you’ve ever had? I played a Christmas bauble at the Royal Court. It was at this international festival, which are cool things – but I couldn’t do anything playing a Christmas bauble. I didn’t even get a costume, I just had to mime! Did you like Shakespeare at school? I loved Shakespeare as a kid. We used to have these drama competitions in Dublin, in deserted atmosphere-less school halls, with nervous mums and some priest slowly pulling a curtain open: “Competitor number three, an extract from Romeo and Juliet.” I got to play, when I was 14, Richard III, Shylock, King John… How big an impact did Sherlock have on your career? Well, I’d worked a lot before it, but it definitely opened doors for all of us. I’m grateful to have been in it. You almost studied art. Is it still an interest? Yes, it’s still a big passion of mine. I’ve been getting into linoprinting recently. It feels like magic to me. Which artists’ work do you enjoy? I live near Tate Modern and sometimes, when it’s late opening, I go in when I’ve had a hard day, and just walk around. As much for the particular quiet as the art. David Hockney is my all-time favourite artist. Did you go home to Ireland for the abortion referendum recently? Unfortunately I couldn’t, because I was working. And I was really scared. But oh my God, what a day. Another great day – because we had the marriage referendum a couple of years ago which was just so thrilling. It was a great day not just for women, but for humanity. Go on Ireland. Sea Wall runs at the Old Vic, London SE1, 18–30 June

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2018-06-17T08:00:09Z

Andrew Scott: ‘I hate Shakespeare being put in a glass box, like a dead thing’

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2018-06-17T07:00:09Z

Simone Lia on Father's Day

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Festivals have moved on from music, mud and a murky pint of cider. This year they are just as likely to involve qoya dancing, racing hovercraft, learning medieval swordplay or dancing in a lava tunnel. Promoters are turning to activities to lure people to their festivals, as audiences demand new experiences and great food and show less interest in musicians, DJs or even whether there is a stage. Boutique festivals such as Camp Wildfire are putting the stress on adventure sports and “wellness” activities with DJs such as Norman Jay and Horse Meat Disco providing a garnish rather than the weekend’s main focus. At some festivals alcohol is out, while others such as Wilderness are offering hip-hop yoga, qoya dancing – an Inca-inspired yoga-type dance – and ommersion, a mixture of Mongolian chanting, gong baths and aromatherapy. If that sounds like Center Parcs for millennials, there are more extreme activities available. Elrow put DJs into hot air balloons for its latest extravaganza in Barcelona, while the Secret Solstice festival in Iceland is staging an acoustic gig inside Raufarhólshellir, the country’s fourth largest lava tunnel. “A small group capped at 50 are brought down into the tunnels and given a tour, then afterwards they listen to an intimate acoustic performance by each artist,” the festival’s Isabel Thomson said. “Secret Solstice are the first to put a party on there. The festival experience now is all about leaving reality. You go to workshops, go and sightsee and do something more positive for you.” Paul Reed, the chief executive of the Association of Independent Festivals, said only 6.5% of festivalgoers now chose an event because of the headline act, whereas 51% were swayed by the “general atmosphere and overall vibe”. He added: “Festivals are increasingly a bundle of experiences, of which music is a component, but customers are looking at food and drink, and the art offerings across the site. Look at something like Boomtown Fair which has grown a huge amount – now they sell 60,000 tickets. There are a lot of immersive environments on site: 110 microvenues, theatrical experiences and performances – things beyond the music.” With 975 festivals listed this year – more than double the number a decade ago – the choice has made promoters think harder, Reed said. “I don’t think it’s the death of the traditional music festival, but it is all about finding your niche,” he added. “You have to offer people more now. To just be putting some bands on in a field is not enough any more. A lot of people grew up going to large festivals and standing in a field watching a band and drinking a pint of cider. I still enjoy doing that but the younger audiences enjoy boutique events.” Pioneers of activity-based festivals include Swordpunk, now in its eighth year, where people learn how to crack whips, throw knives and axes and fight with swords and polearms. Medieval weapon training is catching on elsewhere too, according to Katie McPhee, the head of marketing for Eventbrite, which sells tickets for hundreds of festivals. She said the change was driven by millennials’ desire for experiences rather than material goods. “Activities is massive and it really taps into this trend of people who want to go to events that involve things other than drinking,” she said. “We’re seeing so many more conceptual events coming out, like a yoga festival or medieval weapons training. Going to a festival to interact and carry out activities on a different plane than just watching bands and getting drunk is an enormous trend. “We’re seeing so many festivals around specific themes. Wellness is a really massive one. Many events are coming through around mindfulness, there’s an increasing amount of teetotal events.” Green Man is offering mindfulness sketching, Bestival goers can combine a spin class with music on a “spin rave”, and Festival No 6 is doing a guided trail run through woodland. “There really is a distinct vibe that many people are wanting to go to festivals now to carry out an activity and not just in the pursuit of hedonism,” McPhee said. “Promoters are really having to keep that and put on parties and events that pursue that trend and allow them to indulge in a different side of enjoyment.” Immersive theatre of the sort created by the Secret Cinema is also filtering into festivals, with a new twist provided by Revive at Studio 5 which is reconstructing the Rolling Stones’ Havana Moon concert while showing the film.. “The idea is bringing concrts back to life,” Tom Clark, the director, said. “We were talking about concerts we wish we went to and Havana Moon is one of them.” Actors in the crowd take the audience back to Cuba in 2016, Clark said. “We’ve got the smells, market stalls with mint coffee, people in the markets, clumsy production crew, band lookalikes escorted through the crowd, paparazzi walking through the crowd asking for tip-offs, mega fans, people dressed head to toe in Rolling Stones gear, Keith Richards coming out on the balcony during a solo. We want to make it even better than being at the real thing.”

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2018-06-17T05:00:09Z

The festival makeover: swords, gong baths and gigs in a volcano

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/17/festivals-makeover-swords-gong-baths-volcanoes

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The night before I meet Marc Maron, I go to his standup show in London. These days Maron is best known for his hugely popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, which he started in 2009, and on which he has interviewed everyone from Barack Obama to Keith Richards and Chris Rock. He conducts most of the interviews from his garage in LA, and they are almost always revealing and always entertaining. In 2010, Robin Williams talked about his depression and addictions, four years before he killed himself. Obama talked about the racism and African American stereotypes that shaped his sense of self. WTF now gets 7m downloads a month. But in the 90s, when I first discovered him, Maron was not known for his empathetic dialogues; rather, he was seen as an aggressive monologuer. Back then, he was a struggling standup, with a style that was often described as angry and arrogant – or, as his friend Louis CK once put it, “a huge amount of insecurity and craziness”. He was known as a comedian’s comedian, which is a nice way of saying the industry liked him, but audiences didn’t. The man I see on stage in London is unrecognisable from those days. Once he struggled to sell tickets in comedy clubs; tonight he has sold out the 2,500-seat Royal Festival Hall, and his audience – mostly male thirty- and fortysomethings – cheer at his surrealist fantasies about Mike Pence, as well as more gentle stuff about how people used to find things out before the internet. For a man who has always claimed he doesn’t know what happiness is, Maron looks suspiciously like he might be enjoying himself. Some of this could be down to mellowing with age – he is, as he repeatedly mentions during his set, in his mid-50s – but it’s almost certainly more down to the validation of success. After decades of resentfully watching his contemporaries, including CK, Sarah Silverman and Jon Stewart, soar to huge heights, Maron’s time has come; he is the overnight success 30 years in the making, the hot new thing at 54. He is currently appearing in Glow, Netflix’s extremely enjoyable feminist-ish drama about a women’s wrestling team, in which he plays the grizzled, cocaine-snorting TV director Sam. It’s his first starring role in a series that he hasn’t written (he played himself in his heavily autobiographical series Maron, which ended after four seasons) and he is absolutely terrific in it; there have been nominations for SAG and Critics’ Choice awards. He can convey both cynicism and regret in a single look, spitting out lines such as “I have a flaw in my conflict style, according to my ex-wife’s cognitive-behavioural therapist” with relish. “Maron? He’s been reliably inconsistent throughout his career, but he’s on a bit of roll now,” he says on stage, imagining how his fans describe him to friends who have never heard of him. Once this schtick would have come across as bitter; now Maron just seems tickled. *** The day after his show I meet him in a hotel room in central London. Maron often says that he tries to establish a “connection” with people on his podcast so, in order to establish a connection of my own, I tell him that we have a common acquaintance in New York. “Oh yeah, I know her real well. I don’t think she likes me that much,” he replies, not looking up from his phone. It seems worryingly as if he might be a guarded interviewee. Instead, it turns out that interviewing Maron is a lot like listening to his podcast: the emotional truths spill out fast. Glow’s executive producers approached him to play Sam, and I ask if he thinks they saw connections between him and the character. “Oh, sure, I certainly have an asshole that lives in me,” he says, looking up. Actually, I meant the substance abuse and frequent references to divorce, I say. Maron often brings up his past relationships and addictions in his work, although he has been sober for a while now, having long given up his cocaine and bourbon habit. “Yeah, yeah. I’m familiar with coke. I’m familiar with anger. I’m familiar with bullying. I’m familiar with selfishness. But at the core of all that I know that I’m a sensitive person, so I knew that would translate,” he says. And it does: his performance as Sam, the irascible man who finds himself in charge of a team of women, is reminiscent of Tom Hanks’s similar role in A League Of Their Own. But Maron brings more darkness to the role, more anger. He bites out the words “my ex-wife” on the show with especial savagery. “Well, you know, my second divorce was probably the most devastating thing I ever went through. I do have some closure around all that stuff, but I can get back into that place. You know, if you get someone talking about a divorce, especially if you’re a man who’s been screwed over by one, the angry passion just comes right back,” he says. Maron has been married twice. The first marriage, in his early 30s, failed because “I was bad news – angry, druggie, drunk”; the second fell apart at least partly because he was needy after his then wife, writer Mishna Wolff, helped him get sober. “But the neediness was gnarled. You can’t ever say, ‘I need your support.’ You say, ‘You don’t love me.’ ‘Yes, I do.’ ‘No, you don’t.’ Then there’s fighting, crying, and then you’re like, ‘OK, you do love me,’” he says, with a rueful smile. His bitter divorce from Wolff was the subject of his 2009 standup tour, Scorching The Earth, in which, among other things, he read out a snarky email he sent her (“It reveals him to be an embittered, petty man you think she was better off without,” one reviewer wrote). They are no longer in touch, because “she can’t stand me”, Maron says. “I think that some of my behaviour was not great. It was emotionally abusive in some ways. But [there was] emotional turbulence between two people in a relationship, and I was an angry person – you’ve got to be allowed to have that. Someone copping to being out of line – I mean that’s only helpful to people, right?” he says. In his work, Maron is brutally honest about his foibles and sees this as mitigation. In one of the most celebrated episodes of WTF, Louis CK confronted Maron for having let his resentment of CK’s success get in the way of their friendship. Maron accepted this and apologised. Culture website Slate cited it as “the best podcast episode of all time”. In November 2017, CK finally admitted to rumours he had long denied that he had masturbated in front of multiple women. Maron talked about it on his podcast, saying he’d asked CK about this in the past and that he’d denied it: “So I believed my friend.” Maron is also friends with the comedian Rebecca Corry, one of CK’s victims, but she hadn’t told him about it. Has he spoken to CK since his confession? “No. I reached out to him, but I think he was out of town. I hope he’s doing OK. I don’t know what his life is like right now,” he says. I ask if it has changed how he sees his friend, and he looks puzzled. “I don’t know. I mean, you realise your friend has transgressed. But does it change how you see him? No.” But he lied to you, and one of the victims is a friend. “Yeah, yeah,” he says, and for the one and only time during our interview he seems uncertain of what to say. “I did not know about the extent [of CK’s harassment]. I mean, he did this horrible thing, he’s got a problem and he is paying the price for it. But what am I gonna do, not talk to him? Is that my place to do that, as somebody who has known him for ever? I don’t think so.” I assume he’s said all he wants to say on the subject, and I start to move the conversation on, but he’s not done. “I mean, outside of the global momentum around this [#MeToo movement], the outing of this stuff and taking people to task for it, these are individuals in my life. Yeah, I know Rebecca, so I’ve seen both sides and I feel bad for everybody,” he says. CK’s downfall was shortly followed by that of Aziz Ansari, who has also appeared on Maron’s podcast; in January, he was accused of aggressive behaviour on a date. This story was less clearcut than CK’s, and while some saw it as an example of how complicated consent can be, others saw it as exploitative of Ansari. “That Aziz thing was a little dubious and I think all of us [in the comedy community] felt that. It was sort of like, ‘We can’t go out with people any more?’ Women should be able to go to work and not be touched or see a dick or be hugged inappropriately or be manipulated sexually. Everyone’s got to figure out how to behave,” he says. Maybe stories like this will help them figure it out, I say. “Maybe. It just seemed off-message,” he says. On his podcast, Maron has been excellent at calling comedians out for unacceptable behaviour. He has confronted people about joke-stealing and taken others to task for homophobia. So I wonder if he regrets any of his own past jokes. In 1999, he appeared on David Letterman and said he knew he was getting older when teenage girls stopped looking at him as a sexual being. “Don’t misunderstand: I’m not saying I want to have sex with teenage girls… I’m lying: of course I want to have sex with teenage girls. Come on, doesn’t everyone? That’s why there’s a law.” In 2014, he was interviewed on US TV and asked about his reputation for dating much younger women. “Yeah, resolving daddy issues since 1989. I’m here to help the young ladies,” he replied. But when a male fan wrote to Maron recently to suggest that maybe he should take that Letterman clip down from his website, he was outraged. “What am I, a personal totalitarian state? I’m going to have to start erasing my history? I don’t think it’s an inappropriate joke. I mean, the idea that men want to have sex with teenage girls – really, are you shocked? It says a lot that somebody – that a man – would reach out and say, ‘It’s not a good look to have that joke up.’ What is happening?” he asks. Maron was born in New Jersey and grew up in New Mexico, the older of two sons of an orthopaedic surgeon and real estate broker. When Maron was a teenager, his father became emotionally fragile – “the crying, the sadness” – and these days has “a mania problem”. His parents divorced when Maron was in his 30s. When I ask about his mother, he folds his arms protectively. “She’s always been strangely self-involved. I don’t feel like either of them were really capable of any kind of love,” he says. Perhaps that’s why you never had kids, I say. “Maybe. I’m an anxious person and the idea of taking on the anxiety of being responsible for another person is just horrendous to me,” he says. When he went to Boston University, he stopped eating for what would be the first of several periods in his life. His mother once told him she didn’t know if she could love him if he was fat. He says she was delighted when she saw he had lost 20lb, even though he was “emaciated”. “That’s the one thing that persists – the food stuff, which my mother gave me. I think it’s my deepest issue, more than the drugs. I don’t deny myself food any more, but I still beat myself up about it. I guess it’s about self-loathing and control,” he says. And trying to make your mother love you? “Oh, definitely, definitely.” He began to rely on cocaine for confidence. I often think of cocaine as the drug for people who don’t have internal scaffolding, I say to him. “Yeah, I think that’s true. It makes you feel built up. I used to sit at home with some whiskey, do a few lines of cocaine, and call my mother. I’d be like, ‘I’m doing gooood!’” he laughs. Didn’t he worry that all that snorting fake coke on Glow would tempt him? “Not really. I’ve had a pretty solid recovery. I just don’t want that any more. Like, coke? At this age? Who the fuck wants that? There’s a lot of practicality that’s found its way into my perception,” he says. *** These days Maron is dating Sarah Cain, a 39-year-old artist, whom he references frequently and fondly. For a man who was so traumatised by his parents, he seems to have no fear of coupledom and monogamy. “Yeah, I keep trying. A therapist once said to me that I’m seeking primal union, which I always liked the idea of.” At times, Maron talks like a man who has spent a lot of time in therapy, and phrases such as “one of my therapists once told me” recur. He doesn’t so much wear his heart on his sleeve as his guts and gristle, too. But hanging out with him is never not interesting; he’s intelligent, candid and happy to talk about absolutely anything. He says he handles his anger “better” these days, but glimpses of it are still visible. He is, he says, “hypersensitive to being diminished or not heard”, and so when his comedy career didn’t take off as quickly as that of his contemporaries, it felt almost unbearable. After his second divorce, when he was in his 40s, he considered killing himself in his garage. “I just knew the life I was destined for was sad, and I didn’t know if I could hack it, being a relatively unknown [comedian], getting whatever venues I could,” he says. Instead, he made the then extremely unusual decision to start a podcast, and in the same garage where he once contemplated suicide, interviewed President Obama a decade later. WTF began with conversations with his comedian friends, and he often spent most of the podcast apologising for having behaved so badly in the past. These days the interviews are a little more practised, although he generally connects better with men than with women. Few would have expected an insecure, resentful, former cokehead to be such an empathetic conversationalist, I tell him. “Well, I had to get that side of me back! I get very connected [to people] when I meet them. It’s probably my lack of emotional boundaries,” he says. One of the very few A-list comedians who hasn’t appeared on the podcast is Jon Stewart. Maron and Stewart’s mutual animosity is well known in the comedy world: what happened between them? “Jon always represented to me why I was failing. I’m a smart Jewish guy, we’re about the same age, and yet… He’s very calculated, you know? He knew where he wanted to go and how to align himself, whereas I always saw agents and managers as the enemies – the suits. I had a lot of ‘fuck you’ in me. I come from that dumb rebel mindset. So when I’d see him [in the 90s and 00s], I’d act like he was personally destroying me,” he says. As Maron floundered throughout the 90s, Stewart started getting TV slots, including a talkshow on MTV, and when he’d come to see Maron perform in comedy clubs, Maron would heckle him from the stage: “Oh, there he is, Jon Stewart from MTV. How does that feel, you sell-out fuck?” Nonetheless, Stewart invited him to appear on his various pre-Daily Show TV programmes, and Maron would turn up and sneer, “Oh, so you’re the big shot, huh? Mr Big Guy?” Eventually, after years of this, Stewart got fed up and, backstage at an event, as Maron started in on him again, he said, “Why do you talk to me like this? I don’t need to take this from you any more,” and walked away. Maron admits now he was “horrible” and “Jon didn’t deserve all that”, but his attempts to reconnect with Stewart have been rebuffed. Does he regret his behaviour? He laughs. “No, I don’t regret it! It was who I was.” It’s a very Maron-esque story: self-deprecating and arrogant, apologetic and unregretful, pathetic and abrasive. And then he remembers another thing one of his therapists once said, about how, ultimately, he’s always seeking to connect with people: “It’s not even an emotional thing, it’s a connection thing. And that’s not just with women, that’s with everybody.” So that’s why he likes doing the interviews? “Yeah, yeah,” he agrees. And then adds, as a caveat, “but when I get to know them – that’s when I become prickly and difficult.” • Glow returns to Netflix on 29 June. Commenting on this piece? If you would like your comment to be considered for inclusion on Weekend magazine’s letters page in print, please email [email protected], including your name and address (not for publication).

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Marc Maron: ‘I’m familiar with coke, anger, bullying, selfishness’

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/16/marc-maron-im-familiar-with-coke-anger-bullying-selfishness

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Late-night hosts discussed the start of the World Cup and the findings of the Department of Justice inspector general’s report about James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Stephen Colbert On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke of how Donald Trump and his inner circle expected the report to show proof of a devious deep state working against him. “There is proof of a huge conspiracy working against getting Trump elected: a shadowy group known as the popular vote,” he said. One of the few minor “revelations” in the report was a text message conversation between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who claimed they would try to stop Trump from becoming president. “Two FBI agents in a conspiracy to stop Donald Trump from becoming president. Then just to cover their tracks, they don’t stop him,” Colbert joked. “That’s how deep this goes.” Ultimately the report showed that Comey wasn’t motivated by nefarious reasons when he decided to reopen the investigation. “Good news: the head of the FBI wasn’t corrupt, just super dumb,” he said. Trevor Noah On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah spoke about the beginning of the World Cup in Russia and the country’s attempts to try and ignore their negative image. One of their tactics included training train conductors to smile. “I feel like the only thing worse than a non-smiling Russian is a smiling Russian,” he said. Noah continued: “On the face of it, Russia is trying to portray a friendly image, but there are some things they can’t cover up.” One of the major concerns during the tournament is the treatment of LGBT fans in a country with an openly bigoted agenda. “It’s been reported that gay men kissing will be reported to the police, and I’m assuming gay women kissing must be reported directly to Vladimir Putin,” Noah joked. “There’s also been a rise in Russian fans singing racist chants which wouldn’t be a problem if y’all just kept the vuvuzelas,” he said. There have also been journalists complaining about being followed by shadowy figures. “Oh and as for freedom of the press, it’s fair to say you probably shouldn’t say anything,” he said. Seth Meyers On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host started by listing the many problematic decisions made by Trump this week. “Every day he acts more and more like an NBA player who’s trying to be traded to a rival team,” he said. In a tweet, Trump again referred to the press as the biggest enemy in America. “You know who’s really breathing a sigh of relief right now? Isis,” he joked. The Republican senator Bob Corker referred to the party as a cult-like situation in a TV interview which had Meyers joking: “Oh come on, it’s not a cult. In a cult you have to abandon all your beliefs and have weird sex with a bunch of people and, OK, maybe it’s a cult.” He moved on to the growing problems facing Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen. “Cohen probably RSVPs to weddings ‘yes unless indicted’,” he joked. In a Vanity Fair article, a source claimed that Cohen is the most likely to blow Trump up. “Donald Trump has already blown up,” he said. “He’s blown up a thousand times but he keeps walking away. He’s President Wile E Coyote.” He also spoke about the findings of the inspector general’s report. “James Comey was using a private email account while investigating Hillary Clinton for using a private email account,” he said. “If you just excuse me for a second I’m going to put my head on the desk and mutter ‘motherfucker’.”

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Stephen Colbert: James Comey 'wasn't corrupt, just super dumb'

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Five of the best ... films Hereditary (15) (Ari Aster, 2018, US) 127 mins Closer to Rosemary’s Baby or The Shining than your standard jump-scare horror, this grim family tale favours a slow release of paranoia and grief, suggesting something nasty in the bloodline. Anchored by a brilliant Toni Collette, it is highly accomplished in terms of artistry and performances but, most importantly, it’s scary as hell. A Ciambra (15) (Jonas Carpignano, 2017, Ita/Bra/Ger/Fra/Swe/US) 118 mins We are embedded with the Romani community of southern Italy for this almost documentary-like drama. It’s a modern landscape of poverty, criminality, tight-knit community and children smoking fags, through which we follow resourceful 14-year-old Pio (Pio Amato), who must step up when his male elders are all jailed. The Happy Prince (15) (Rupert Everett, 2018, Ger/Bel/UK/Ita) 105 mins This is no vanity project. Everett uglifies himself considerably to portray Oscar Wilde in his final years: exiled in Europe and broken by the ravages of prison, public vilification, heartbreak and ill health, casting back to the glory days. Despite his inexperience as a director, Everett as a performer has never been better. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A) (JA Bayona, 2018, US/Spa) 128 mins It is not exactly a giant leap for dinosaur-kind, but this latest instalment brings the requisite megafauna spectacle with visual panache, as well as putting some eco-themed meat on the prehistoric bones. It also brings the Jurassic livestock closer to home, making for a second half that could almost be a haunted-house movie. Dino-lovers Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard come to the rescue. McQueen (15) (Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, 2018, UK) 111 mins One of the few designers whose work resonates beyond fashion, Alexander McQueen would make for a fascinating subject purely on the strength of his era-defining works. His personal story is similarly unique: from East End roots to Paris haute couture to his tragic death in 2010, with a host of colourful personalities along the way. This intimate film stitches things together with skill and intelligence. SR Five of the best ... rock & pop gigs Isle of Wight festival If you ignore the headliners – the Killers (obviously), Kasabian (of course), Liam Gallagher (as you were, etc) – there are some pleasant surprises on the lineup for what used to be known as the summer’s first big festival. Megastar-in-the-making Camila Cabello brings the pop, Van Morrison the chance for a nice sit down and Jessie J a unique blend of music and comedy. Seaclose Park, Newport, Thursday 21 to 24 June Krrum Leeds-based producer, songwriter and full-time beard manicurist Alex Carrie makes slightly sinister dance music that absorbs the harder edges of electronica and pairs them with an unshakeable pop sensibility. These shows are perfectly timed as he has just released his debut album, Honeymoon. Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, N1, Wednesday 20; Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, Friday 22 June Monsta X Despite being slightly in the shade of fellow South Korean seven-piece BTS, who recently scored a US No 1 album, Monsta X aren’t trailing behind when it comes to expertly drilled choreography, throwback boyband melodies and OTT videos (see recent single Jealousy). This one-off London show – made possible by the tenacity of their British fans, or “Monbebes” – is in support of their recent EP, The Connect: Dejavu. Eventim Apollo, W6, Sunday 17 June Anna Calvi Five years after her last album, Twickenham’s own Mercury prize-nominated Anna Calvi will return in late August with Hunter, her self-described “queer and feminist record”, featuring production from Nick Launay (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Cave) alongside banging and crashing of various instruments from members of Portishead and the Bad Seeds. Expect raw emotions and some light moshing. Heaven, WC2, Tuesday 19 June MC Jubilee Composer-improviser Basel Rajoub, a saxophonist who hauntingly fuses the instrument’s western scales with Arabic music’s microtonalities, brings a world-jazz flavour to Jubilee, a multicultural epic featuring dozens of artists from Malian ngoni player Bassekou Kouyaté to Chinese lute virtuoso Wu Man and the US’s prolific Kronos Quartet. Royal Albert Hall, SW7, Wednesday 20 June JF Three of the best ... classical concerts Oliver Knussen Oliver Knussen’s connections with the Aldeburgh festival run deep. This year, he conducts two concerts, first taking charge of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Feldman, Copland and the premiere of Philip Cashian’s Piano Concerto (Sat). He will also curate a typical Knussen programme with the Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble (Mon), which includes more Feldman, Nicolaou and two Harrison Birtwistle premieres: a song cycle, Three Songs from The Holy Forest, and Keyboard Engine, commissioned for Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich. Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Saturday 16; Britten Studio, Saxmundham, Monday 18 June Scordatura Ensemble The Amsterdam-based Scordatura Ensemble perform the wonderfully original microtonal music of American experimentalist Harry Partch, using many of the instruments the composer himself designed. They make a rare British appearance with a programme including perhaps his best-known work, Cloud Chamber Music. It forms part of Rose Petal Jam, Scordatura’s year-long exploration of Partch’s early works, including commissions of pieces inspired by his legacy. Cafe Oto, E8, Monday 18 June Cave Three years ago, English National Opera gave the premiere of composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake’s 9/11 opera, Between Worlds. Their follow-up is a music-theatre piece in collaboration with London Sinfonietta and the Royal Opera House. Cave is a two-hander set in a dystopian future of rising sea levels, in which a grieving man tries to make contact with his lost daughter. Tenor Mark Padmore and contralto Elaine Mitchener are the protagonists. Printworks, SE16, Wednesday 20 to 23 June AC Five of the best ... exhibitions Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up The surrealist imagination of Frida Kahlo expressed itself not just in painting and writing but in the way she lived. She crafted herself as a work of art, then painted the wonder she became. This intimate encounter with the stuff of her self-creation brings together colourful clothes, makeup and even the prosthetic leg she wore. Victoria & Albert Museum, SW7, Saturday 17 June to 4 November Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo’s giant floating sculpture on the Serpentine lake is guaranteed to be the star art of the summer. It is the latest chapter in one of the most spectacular careers in contemporary art. A simultaneous survey at the Serpentine Gallery shows how Christo and his late collaborator and wife Jeanne-Claude enlarged the idea of art. Serpentine Gallery, W2, Tuesday 19 June to 9 September Patrick Heron Abstract art is not quite the British thing. Compared with such American artists as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock or continental Europeans like Mondrian and Malevich, there is a reluctance or inability by homegrown painters to dive into pure poems of colour. Heron had no such inhibitions. His bright and seductive paintings lack the wildness of Pollock or profundity of Rothko but have a gentle decorative beauty. Tate St Ives, to 30 September Astérix in Britain The plucky Gaul who gets his strength from magic potion and repeatedly beats up whole armies of Romans may seem the quintessence of French nationalism, but he has always found a ready audience in Britain. This exhibition charts the translations of Astérix’s adventures and how funny names in French had to be reinvented in English. It also celebrates René Goscinny, the Jewish co-creator of these great historical comics. Jewish Museum, NW1, to 30 September Raqib Shaw The sensual gossamer vision of this pleasurable painter feasts on art history. Shaw is truly erudite in his exploration of great paintings from the past. Lucas Cranach, Jan Gossaert and Victorian fairy painter Joseph Noel Paton all provide inspiration here. Yet Shaw mixes this European heritage with Asian perspectives in glistening, bizarrely mystical celebrations of colour. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, to 28 October JJ Five of the best ... theatre shows Killer Joe A Stetsoned Orlando Bloom is the titular detective with a murderous sideline in Tracy Letts’s gothic, sometimes violent and laconic tale of dishonour among so-called trailer trash, first seen at the Bush Theatre in 1995 and made into a film in 2011. Bloom’s watchable performance has a hint of Clint, and there’s a new use for a KFC drumstick. Trafalgar Studios, SW1, to 18 August Happy Days Maxine Peake clearly loves to immerse herself in a role and here she is, for a time, literally up to her neck in it, as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s iconic 1961 piece. Sarah Frankcom has updated Beckett’s existential near-monologue with a revolving mound of earth, webcams and strewn plastic rubbish suggesting ecological concerns. Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, to 23 June The Jungle First-time playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson set up the Good Chance theatre company in the refugee camp at Calais. This work, first seen at the Young Vic, is an account of the camp from 2015 until it was bulldozed a year later, and many of the torrid individual tales found within. An inspiring story of human resilience and resourcefulness, it also finds the French and UK governments wanting, Theresa May in particular. Playhouse Theatre, WC2, Saturday 16 June to 3 November The Rink John Kander and Fred Ebb are best known for writing Chicago and Cabaret. This later show may lack those mega-hits’ razzmatazz but the cast deliver in spades. It’s a smaller, more personal, story of an estranged mother and daughter, as the latter returns home to stop their roller venue being demolished. Caroline O’Connor as the tough but tender matriarch Anna is especially strong. It’s the last week: get your skates on. Southwark Playhouse, SE1, to 23 June Leave Taking When the Bush programmed Winsome Pinnock’s pioneering 1988 play about a Jamaican family in London, it couldn’t have known that the Windrush scandal would blow up. Now shocking in its topical nature, it follows the daily struggles of different generations to survive and feel at home. One character remarks of paying £50 to secure his UK citizenship “till them change them mind again”. You couldn’t make it up. The Bush Theatre, W12, to 30 June MC Three of the best ... dance shows Ann Van den Broek: Loops of Behaviour It is your last chance to catch the total experience that Flemish choreographer Van den Broek has created especially for the Curve. Inspired by Peter Handke’s play Self-Accusation, it combines live performance, text, sound and video projection to give sensuous form to fugitive emotional states. Barbican Centre: The Curve, EC2, to Sunday 17 June Semperoper Ballett The Dresden-based company makes a rare appearance in the UK with this all-Forsythe triple bill. Aside from the classic In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Forsythe’s wittily deconstructed ballet style is showcased in Neue Suite and the electrifying Enemy in the Figure. Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Thursday 21 to 23 June Candoco Dance Company: Dedicated to … Caroline Bowditch’s new work for the excellent Candoco dancers is a homage to female friendship, choreographing the ways in which women shape and support each other’s lives. There are also dates in August: in Stockton-on-Tees and Salisbury. mac, Birmingham, Saturday 16 June JM

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From afar you might assume that the most significant moment of this year’s Barunga festival was the “historic agreement” signed by the Northern Territory government last Friday, to negotiate a treaty with the NT’s four land councils. This year’s festival is, after all, taglined “Treaty!” and marks the 30th anniversary of the Barunga Statement – a list of Aboriginal rights written on bark and presented to Prime Minister Bob Hawke in 1988. Hawke responded by promising a treaty but as foretold by Yolngu band Yothu Yindi, “promises can disappear/just like writing in the sand”. The re-emergence of treaty talks three decades on is described as “stepping from muddy waters onto a rock” by John Christophersen, the deputy chair of the Northern Land Council. “You’re not going to lose 230 years of colonisation [with a treaty]; you’re going to gain 65,000 years for the basis of this nation,” he tells the festival’s official opening, to murmurs of agreement from the crowd. Opposition leader Bill Shorten speaks too, but many people are elsewhere. Peak heat is partially responsible (the space beneath the shade cloths is full), as is the fact that many have driven from places as distant as Ntaria (Hermannsburg), Numbulwar and Yirrkala not to watch speeches, but to cheer on family members in furiously fought sporting matches, or to perform bunggul (traditional dance). There’s also a sense that “words are easy, words are cheap” (Yothu Yindi again), with many land council members wearing T-shirts all weekend that read “30 years of broken promises”. But even had Friday’s treaty announcement not transpired, the festival still would have overflowed with significance. Held on the country of the Bagala clan of the Jawoyn people, a remote community of 350 which opens itself up to more than 3000 guests, who camp in what’s essentially their bushland back yards, Barunga is aimed squarely at its primary audience of Indigenous Australians. It’s a festival that generates its own news agenda, anchored to an unwavering program of sport, music and culture. This year especially is buoyed by a stream of meaningful moments. On Sunday, legendary Galiwin’ku act Saltwater Band delivers a series of Dr G Yunupingu songs into the starry night with a kind of operatic beauty and tragedy. Dr G was from Galiwin’ku too, a Yolgnu community on Elcho Island, and was once in Saltwater Band. “Dr G played Barunga many times and he gave you the performance of your life,” says his niece, Jennifer, before we stand for a minute’s silence. The silence is broken by Dr G’s voice, soundtracking a dance in his honour by members of the Gumatj clan, including his daughter Jasmine Yunupingu. Unlike the bunggul, which is narrated in English, the meaning of Dr G’s dance is discernible only to those here to whom it matters most. For the rest, bearing witness is enough. Directly after, the MC Laurie May asks a lost kid to come backstage. “Your parents are looking for you,” she says. It’s typical of a festival utterly lacking in stage-managed veneer. The microphone is used to rustle up missing band members, too, and to scold stage invaders. “You kids, don’t jump up here with all these wires!” says exasperated MC and community leader, Suzina McDonald. Later she warns, “I can speak many languages” and when kids keep shimmying up, she unloads in three rapid-fire languages in a row. After a morning gig on the river stage, with people splashing and swimming nearby, the eight women of Maningrida band, Ripple Effect, tell us which languages they speak, some of them up to seven. “And English!” the crowd adds to the tally, visibly impressed. Sydney producer, Papertoy (Bevis Masson-Leach) plays Ripple Effect a remix of their song Nguddja for the first time and looks thrilled when they say it’s deadly. The bass, says singer Patricia Gibson, “sounds like the wind that brings the old people”. Quizzical faces force her to explain further. “Our ancestors’ spirits are still here, they can talk and walk past us.” The listening session was the idea of Michael Hohnen of Skinnyfish Music, the Darwin label that produces the Barunga Festival in partnership with a local committee. “There’s no tokenism to any of the cultural stuff here,” says Hohnen. “Jamie Ahfat, who does the didge workshops, that’s not for show. He does it anyway, he just does it publicly at the festival.” Ahfat is MC-ing the yidaki (didgeridoo) and spear-throwing competitions. “Weavers, you women up the back there with medicine, warning, spears are coming,” he says, as kids start aiming at the target: an Australian coat of arms. “We don’t know what these kids are capable of,” he adds. Everyone laughs. The children of several NT musical legends step into the spotlight at Barunga this year and, in that, you feel both the pain and promise of elders passing on and generations turning full circle. The Elcho Island Youth Band features the sons of Saltwater Band, whose lead singer Manuel Dhurrkay introduces them. “It’s their first time here from Galiwin’ku,” he says. “They’re a bit nervous.” One guitarist looks to be about ten years old and the lead singer, Brando Yunupingu (son of Saltwater Band’s Jonathon Yunupingu) sings with one hand in his pocket. His nonchalance belies a powerful voice, however, and his band’s bush-reggae-ska version of Dr G favourite, Baru, sees a haze of dust rise beneath dancing feet. Tjupi Band, meanwhile, is lead by guitarist Jason Butcher, son of Warumpi Band’s Sammy Butcher. Mid-way through a set that wins Tjupi Band the Best Community Band award, three guest singers come out to perform Warumpi Band classics My Island Home and Blackfella/Whitefella. One singer is Shellie Morris, who I find sitting in the shade of the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association van the next day. She explains that one of the guest singers was Layilayi Burarrwanga, the brother of Warumpi Band’s late lead singer, G. R Burarrwanga. “They called me from Papunya and asked if I wanted to sing My Island Home with [G. R’s] brother, who sounds exactly like him. [G. R] took me under his wing when I started out doing music. I didn’t have any language then, I was adopted ... there were many reasons it was an honour to sing with his brother. “Other years they’ve brought in John Butler or Missy Higgins,” Morris continues. “This year it’s incredibly important because it’s all Indigenous artists headlining, playing the main stage. It’s a blackout. It’s really hard to get gigs in remote communities, you’re so far away. So this is their opportunity to shine, share their songs and be supported by their own people.” Helping to write a setlist by Morris’s side is Dhapanbal Yunupingu, daughter of Yothu Yindi frontman, Dr M Yunupingu. She’s just driven 900 kilometres from Yirrkala where a commemoration plaque for her father was unveiled. That night, full of quiet charisma, she sings a new song, Kakadu, soon to be released on her debut EP. Morris accompanies her with a band she gathered “bush way” (on the fly). The main stage is all Indigenous, yes, but not all Australian - a festival first. When Tiwi Island RnB act B2M toured Taiwan in 2016, they got “very homesick”, band leader Jeffrey ‘Yellow’ Simon tells the crowd. “When we met the Bunun and Amis tribes we felt at home and we knew we had to do something with them.” Standing in proud traditional dress, their faces beatific, the Bunun children’s choir is a delight to behold. Their harmonies with the B2M vocalists are peaceful and sublime and when it’s over too soon you want to hear it again – lying down. “We are Indigenous people of Australia, these are Indigenous people of Taiwan,” says Simon. “Pretty much the same.”

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'It’s a blackout': Barunga festival packed with music and meaning

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Late-night hosts on Wednesday discussed the rumors that Michael Cohen may cooperate with federal prosecutors, the summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton’s rocky book tour. Samantha Bee “This week Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un,” began Samantha Bee. “It was weird but flirtatious enough to warrant a second date. “Trump even made Kim a prom-posal video,” the host joked, in reference to the melodramatic four-minute movie trailer disseminated by the White House to drum up anticipation for the summit. “The meeting did produce a few concrete items, in that they’re the kind of hollow concrete Trump uses in his trashy hotels. “The president has agreed to give up conducting military exercises on the Korean peninsula,” the host explained. “This may sound like a huge concession from Trump but you have to remember what he said in The Art of the Deal: ‘I’m an idiot.’” Bee then noted that the South Korean government was blindsided by Trump’s commitment to halt joint military exercises and provide safety guarantees to North Korea. “He also announced a freeze on any new US sanctions against North Korea,” Bee added, “because Trump isn’t about to screw North Korea like they’re a bunch of savage Canadians.” Bee concluded: “The supreme leader left the summit legitimized as a nuclear power and glowing brighter than enriched uranium. And all Trump got in return was the same pledge of future denuclearization that North Korea has made and broken numerous time over the last 25 years.” Pointing out the distinction between a pledge to denuclearize and “complete, verifiable, irreversible” denuclearization, Bee said: “It’s kind of like the difference between holding on to your virginity and,” as she held up air quotes, “holding on to your virginity.” Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert addressed the possibility that Michael Cohen, the president’s former attorney and fixer, may cooperate with federal investigators as his lawyers prepare to leave the case. “Sources say ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors,” Colbert said. “Yes, Michael Cohen is going to sing like a canary, which is ironic because it’s Trump that actually looks like one. “The first sign that Cohen is about to flip is that his lawyers are not expected to work with him going forward and replacements for the lawyer has not been named,” the host explained, noting that Cohen has been in legal jeopardy since documents were seized from his home and office in a 9 April FBI raid. “This must be a shock to Donald Trump because it comes at a critical time,” Colbert said, citing a Vanity Fair article. “Sources say Mueller is wrapping up his obstruction of justice investigation or, as one of them put it, it’s going to hit the fan pretty soon.” Cohen, Colbert explained, is considered one of the few people who can “blow up” Trump given their decades-long working relationship. “That gives Cohen leverage,” he added, “because the last guy who threatened to blow up Trump got his own summit. “The question is, will Donald Trump pardon Michael Cohen? Maybe, maybe not,” Colbert said, noting that the president blames Cohen for the ongoing Stormy Daniels saga. “Why did Michael make me have sex with that woman?” the host joked, mocking Trump. “And why did he allow me to be alone with her during Shark Week? He knows it gets my juices flowing.” Trevor Noah Finally, Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah, in a segment called “So Much News, So Little Time”, briefly touched on the merger between Time Warner and AT&T, the World Cup, and Bill Clinton’s response to a question about Monica Lewinsky. “A federal judge has approved one of the biggest corporate mergers in American history,” Noah began, referring to AT&T’s $85bn takeover of Time Warner, which was approved by a federal judge on Wednesday. “Finally, Time Warner and AT&T are joining forces,” he added. “This is such great news for consumers because now we can get all of our horrible customer service in one place.” After mentioning this week’s World Cup, and the news that the US, Mexico, and Canada will host the 2026 competition, he went on: “I could spend a lot of time talking about the World Cup but this is America, so I know we’ve got to move on, which I bet is something Bill Clinton wishes the media would do, too.” Clinton, currently promoting his new novel The President is Missing, co-written by James Patterson, was asked about sexual harassment in an interview on NBC. “Norms have really changed in terms of what you can do to somebody against their will,” Clinton said. When asked if he owes Monica Lewinsky an apology, he answered: “No, I never talk to her,” adding that he “did say publicly on more than one occasion that I was sorry”. The former president then said: “Someone should ask you these questions because of the way you formulate the questions.” “What?” Noah replied. “That is one the weirdest moments I’ve ever seen in an interview. He just flipped it and asked the journalist a question. You know who I really feel bad for? President Clinton’s co-author, James Patterson. Think about it: that poor dude just wanted to promote a book but now he has to sit there quietly through every interview and watch the disaster unfold.”

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2018-06-14T14:43:38Z

Samantha Bee: Kim 'left the summit glowing brighter than enriched uranium'

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20 David Byrne – Uh-Oh (1992) The most Talking-Heads-esque of Byrne’s solo albums, albeit with a Latin-American influence, Uh-Oh vanished unheralded at the height of grunge. It is far better than its commercial failure suggests – Hanging Upside Down should have been a hit – but also serves to make the listener miss Talking Heads, which presumably couldn’t have been further from Byrne’s aim. 19 Talking Heads – True Stories (1986) The soundtrack to Byrne’s directorial debut was made as the band was falling apart and it is tempting to say you can tell. The weakest Talking Heads album, it feels simultaneously laboured and undercooked: the sound is leaden; Puzzlin’ Evidence and Papa Legba amount to padding. And yet it is still sprinkled sparingly with magic, not least the wistful Dream Operator. 18 David Byrne – American Utopia (2018) A collaboration with Brian Eno that also enlisted Sampha and Oneohtrix Point Never, American Utopia attempts to salvage something positive from Trump’s first year in power, a risky undertaking that perhaps inevitably misses as often as it hits. As it lurches from great to grating – on I Dance Like This, this happens in the space of one song – you could never accuse Byrne of resting on his laurels. 17 David Byrne and Fatboy Slim – Here Lies Love (2010) There is no doubt a 90-minute concept album about Imelda Marcos featuring guest appearances from Florence Welch, Sia and Cyndi Lauper is a tough sell, but Here Lies Love is surprisingly great: the songs are sparky – as dance producers go, Fatboy Slim has always been big on pop hooks – the story is legible and Róisín Murphy’s turn on the disco-infused Don’t You Agree? is a delight. 16 David Byrne – Look Into the Eyeball (2001) Not everything on Look Into the Eyeball’s eclectic menu is fantastic, but it is substantially more fun than its predecessor, Feelings, on which Byrne dabbled awkwardly with drum’n’bass and trip-hop: indeed, on its two collaborations with legendary soul producer Thom Bell, it has a genuinely infectious euphoria about it, suggestive of an artist once more finding his groove. 15 David Byrne/Ryuichi Sakamoto/Cong Su – The Last Emperor (1987) The Oscar-winning soundtrack to Bertolucci’s film is divided down the middle: Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score melds romantic strings with Chinese instrumentation, but Byrne’s consists of a variant on what Can would have dubbed ethnological forgeries: his own interpretation of Chinese classical music, played largely on traditional instruments. 14 Talking Heads – Naked (1988) Talking Heads’ last big push returned to the sonic density of Remain in Light, with South America replacing west Africa as a rhythmic source. If it feels like much harder work than the album it is modelled after, perhaps that was the point: its mood is troubled, bleak, even apocalyptic. 13 David Byrne and Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008) Anyone expecting a retread of Byrne and Eno’s earlier collaborations was in for a shock: their reunion yielded pop, country, gospel, breakbeats and Byrne yodelling. The lyrics are haunted by the Iraq war and everything is given a shimmer of weirdness by Eno’s production. The result is low-key but endearing. 12 Talking Heads – Little Creatures (1985) Talking Heads’ 2m-selling commercial peak dialled down the experimentation in favour of streamlined, literate, grownup pop. Something was undoubtedly lost along the way, but the results are charming nonetheless, from the breeziness of And She Was through to the darker, more angsty Give Me Back My Name and the deathless Road to Nowhere. 11 David Byrne – Lead Us Not Into Temptation (2003) An intriguing return to Byrne’s homeland of Scotland, his soundtrack to Young Adam paired him with various members of Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Mogwai, among others: you can hear their influence on the sound, which tends to post-rock, beautifully evocative of the damp, chilly landscapes of the film’s setting. 10 David Byrne – Grown Backwards (2004) Lavishly orchestrated and featuring Rufus Wainwright duetting with Byrne on a Bizet aria and Lazy, his X-Press 2 collaboration, reworked for high-drama strings, Grown Backwards should not work, but it really does: Byrne’s voice sounds fantastic and his knotty, funny meditations on ageing politics and corporate sponsorship hit home. 9 David Byrne – The Catherine Wheel (1981) Byrne’s score for Twyla Tharp’s ballet was so akin to Talking Heads that the band performed two songs from it live: you can hear a similar blend of polyrhythmic funk and twitchy nervousness here as on Remain in Light. The songwriting is ironclad throughout, while the superb Red House dabbles in the same early sampling techniques as My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. 8 Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (1977) There is a sense in which Talking Heads’ debut album is their most influential: its trebly guitars, sparse sound, jerky rhythms and strained vocals made it a key post-punk/indie text. On 77, Talking Heads sound like a band that arrived fully formed, a unique sound and lyrical style all in place. As it turned out, nothing could have been further from the truth. 7 David Byrne – Rei Momo (1989) The late 80s were packed with pop stars dabbling in world music, but Byrne’s first post-Talking-Heads solo album is a cut above and an underrated joy: he clearly has a love and an innate understanding of Latin and South American music. The songs are uniformly strong and fit perfectly with their musical setting. 6 Talking Heads – Speaking in Tongues (1983) With Eno out of the producer’s seat, this album’s simplified sound lost some of its predecessor’s experimental edge. But it makes up for any shortfall with impeccable songwriting: Burning Down the House, Slippery People, the haunting This Must Be the Place. 5 David Byrne and St Vincent – Love This Giant (2012) Byrne’s collaboration with Annie Clark never felt like two artists trying to stitch their styles together: it was a creative union that sparked, spawning something completely coherent and significantly different from their respective back catalogues. Leaning heavily on brass arrangements that range from funky to whimsical to subtle, its dry ruminations on the weirdness of life are genuinely funny. 4 Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) More expansive than Talking Heads’ debut. Eno’s production adds colour and sonic depth and Byrne’s writing moves on, too, as evinced by the astonishing closer, The Big Country: lambent slide guitar, lyrics that view middle America from an aircraft window and conclude: “I wouldn’t live there if you paid me.” 3 Talking Heads – Fear of Music (1979) The opening rhythmic clatter of I Zimbra made clear that Talking Heads had shifted into an entirely different gear. Fear of Music is looser, stranger, funkier and darker – its second side is the most disturbing music they ever made. The sense of a band mapping out their own territory is impossible to miss. 2 David Byrne and Brian Eno – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) A tapestry of found sounds from radio broadcasts over tape loops and funk rhythms, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts did not invent sampling, but no one had foregrounded the idea in the way Byrne and Eno did, ultimately changing the sound of pop in the process. Cutting-edge experimentation tends to date, but this still sounds fantastic 35 years on. 1 Talking Heads – Remain in Light (1980) Apparently made by a band in a state of turmoil – who was arguing with whom and about what depends very much on whose version of events you believe – and a commercial flop on release, Remain in Light is Talking Heads’ vertiginous creative zenith: a thick, broiling stew of sound into which was stirred funk, Afrobeat, early hip-hop and Eno’s ambient experimentation. The end result is futuristic, visionary and required a 10-piece band, including two bass players, to reproduce live. Moreover, it is unique: for an album that has been claimed as an influence by countless artists, Remain in Light still does not really sound like anything else.

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2018-06-14T12:04:24Z

David Byrne – (almost) all of his albums ranked!

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Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed the historic summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah gave credit where it was due for the summit. “Before we start we’ve all got to admit that we were wrong,” he said. “We said the man couldn’t do it. We said his temper would blow up the summit. But yesterday he proved everyone wrong and turned the nuclear summit in Singapore into a huge win for himself. So let’s swallow our pride and give it up for a leader who’s much smarter than we thought: Kim Jong-un, everybody!” Noah, who said, the summit “belonged to Lil’ Kim,”, went on: “People are screaming for a brutal tyrant like he’s the newest member of BTS. Even Kim Jong-un is probably surprised by this reaction. He’s like, ‘I’m used to screaming, but not happy screaming!’” “It turns out Kim’s biggest admirer wasn’t in those crowds outside,” the host said. “Fanboy number one was right there at the summit.” In footage from the photo op staged between the two leaders, Trump can be heard shaking Kim’s hand and saying it is his “great honor” to meet him. “Yes, you heard that right,” Noah said. “President Trump said meeting Kim Jong-un was his great honor. This alone is what North Korea has been pining for for decades: equal standing with the American president, shaking hands, their flags side by side.” He continued: “Donald Trump flew across the world to Singapore and all he got was Kim Jong-un saying, ‘I’ll think about giving up my nukes.’ They could’ve done it over text. And while Kim gave up nothing major, he got the American president to give up a lot more.” Trump, Noah explained, agreed to halt joint military exercises between the US and South Korea, a concession that took South Korean diplomats by surprise. “I’m not saying President Trump shouldn’t have negotiated with Kim Jong-un at all,” Noah said. “But there’s a big gap between being civil with the person and endorsing the Freddy Krueger of human rights.” Stephen Colbert The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert also chimed in on the summit. “Today we all woke up in a different world, because late last night yesterday morning Donald Trump held his long-awaited summit with North Korean dictator and stuffed animal of himself, Kim Jong-un,” said Stephen Colbert. “And from the beginning, Donald Trump signaled he was serious about peace because he didn’t greet Kim with his normal alpha-male hand battle.” In Singapore, Colbert added, the two shared a lunch where “Korean stuffed cucumber” was on the menu. “Well, there’s your headline,” the host joked. “Trump ate a vegetable. “The two leaders got along great. Trump even showed Kim the inside of his Cadillac,” he continued, impersonating the president negotiating with the North Korean dictator. “What’s it gonna take to talk you out of your nukes and into this Cadillac? “Then the moment came that the world was waiting for, the signing of the histor-ish agreement,” he said. “And the reviews are in.” Colbert then cut to news coverage of the agreement signed by Trump and Kim, which was hailed as a victory by the US president and criticized as weak and inconsequential by others. “Here’s the deal,” Colbert said. “Kim got US security guarantees, but in exchange he agreed to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, but that was just reaffirming an earlier agreement he already had with South Korea. “You have to promise more than Kim did when you sign the iTunes user agreement, and I’m not making that up,” the host added, before reading aloud Apple’s terms and conditions. “Apple makes you agree to not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.” Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel also addressed the summit, beginning: “Our president, Donald Trump, met with his favorite little rocket man Kim Jong-un. “A lot of pundits think it was a mistake to meet with an unstable dictator,” Kimmel joked, “but Kim Jong-un said, ‘You know what, I’m going to do it anyway.’ “The closest thing I can compare it to is when Scooby-doo met the Harlem Globetrotters,” the host quipped. “According to the president, it all went very well. Trump said that he and Kim Jong-un, after 38 minutes of meeting, developed what he called a special bond. That’s fast. His dentures take longer to bond.” Kimmel then noted that Trump claimed Kim Jong-un committed to destroy a major missile testing site, but didn’t include it in the signed agreement “because we didn’t have time”. “In fact, the president invited him to the White House, which is crazy when you consider he hasn’t even invited the WNBA champions to the White House and they’ve killed a lot fewer people. “I don’t know what the real backstory is, but I know the whole thing,” Kimmel said. “Trump wanted to make it look like he did something big, whether he did something big or not. He was not leaving this summit without claiming he made a deal. He sets the meeting, he has the sit-down, he hears what he wants to hear. As soon as the meeting is over he runs out, calls a press conference, declares victory, everyone goes home. Kim Jong-un does nothing differently at all.”

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Trevor Noah: Trump endorsed 'the Freddy Krueger of human rights'

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Late-night hosts on Monday discussed last weekend’s G7 summit, where tensions broke out between Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau, as well as Tuesday’s highly anticipated summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un. Stephen Colbert “Folks, it is an historic evening because as we speak President Trump is meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un,” Stephen Colbert began, noting that the situation would have been “unthinkable” just a few years ago. “Tensions are high and the United States is on the precipice of unthinkable international conflict,” Colbert said, “and that’s with Canada. Our relations have not been bad with Canada since they stole the word ‘bacon’. Canadian bacon is just round ham, you monsters. “If you’re one of those nerds out there who values the western alliance that has safeguarded democracy for 70 years, it was a tough weekend for you,” the host continued, noting the ongoing tensions between the US and its trading partners over the protectionist trade tariffs Trump declared shortly before the summit. “That’s like showing up to an AA meeting with Captain Morgan.” The host then showed the viral image of the summit, saying of Trump’s posture, “It’s like a toddler who put a Lego in his mouth.” He continued: “These meetings, every time they end with what’s called a joint communique, an agreement of intention between the nations. Trump agreed to sign it but after he left, Justin Trudeau said this about imposing tariffs on the US.” Canada’s prime minister told reporters retaliatory tariffs are “not something we relish doing”, but added that Canada “will not be pushed around”. In response, Trump called Trudeau “meek” and “dishonest” on Twitter while his director of trade, Peter Navarro, said there is “a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy” with Trump. “Canadian hell,” Colbert quipped, “where Bud Light is on tap, they never play Gordon Lightfoot, and you have to choose between Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling.” Trevor Noah Trevor Noah also covered the G7, “when America and its closest allies come together for two days of meetings on economic issues”. Before the summit, Noah explained, Trump told reporters Russia should be allowed back into what was the G8 after being dismissed for the invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. “I don’t know if Trump colluded with Russia, but if everyone was accusing me of colluding with Russia, I wouldn’t be caught dead mentioning their name,” Noah said. “But, clearly, Trump doesn’t know how to take a clue.” When asked about the annexation of Crimea, Trump blamed the Obama administration and reiterated his desire to have Russia rejoin the G8. “OK, that makes sense,” Noah said. “Russia annexing Crimea wasn’t really a big deal, but we must never forgive Obama for letting them commit the atrocity, which was not a big deal at all. Who even knows what a Crimea is? “For a normal G7, Trump’s Russia obsession would have been more than enough drama, but for President Trump he was just getting started,” the host said. “Trump went into the G7 for a run-of-the-mill check-in with America’s allies and then came out full-on beefing with Canada, the Ned Flanders of countries.” Emmanuel Macron, Noah noted, called Trump “incoherent”, while Angela Merkel called the summit “somewhat depressing”. Noah went on: “The reason Trump went all Pusha-T on Trudeau is because he claims that Trudeau was super nice to him in person but then as soon as Trump left, Trudeau held a press conference saying that Canada still planned to retaliate against the new US tariffs.” The host then showed news segments in which Trump advisers escalated the conflict between the president and Trudeau, with Larry Kudlow accusing Trudeau of stabbing America in the back and Navarro making his “special place in hell” remark. “That is a serious threat and a very specific place in hell,” Noah said. “That sounds VIP as shit.” Seth Meyers Finally, Seth Meyers addressed Trump’s comfort with authoritarian leaders and his contempt for America’s allies. “The Trump administration has now said harsher things about Canada than they’ve ever said about Russia, which actually did attack our political system,” Meyers said. “Compare Trump’s comments about Canada to what he said just last week about Russia.” Of Trump’s desire to bring Russia to the negotiating table, Meyers said: “Russia was kicked out of what used to be called the G8 for illegally invading Ukraine and annexing Crimea. Since then, Russia’s only escalated its hostility towards neighboring nations in the west, and yet Trump said he wants to let them back into the G8. “He’s so proud he remembers it used to be called the G8,” the host joked. Meyers then explained how Trump saved a Chinese state-owned cellphone company that had been sanctioned by Congress after the Chinese government agreed to grant $500m in loans to an Indonesian resort project from which Trump stands to profit. “Trump is much more comfortable with authoritarian leaders because, unlike our democratically elected allies, authoritarians can easily win Trump over by lining his pockets,” Meyers said, adding that “China has also approved 13 new Ivanka Trump trademarks in three months.”

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2018-06-12T13:54:37Z

Colbert on Trump at the G7: 'Like a toddler who put a Lego in his mouth'

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Coventry Cathedral, the Angel of the North, Tate Modern and Sutton Hoo, the site of strange grassy mounds that revealed some of the greatest Anglo-Saxon treasures ever found, have all been named in a new top 10 of heritage sites. Historic England announced the list as part of a campaigning project called Irreplaceable: a History of England in 100 Places. It is broken down into various categories, with the 10 places for art, architecture and sculpture. All 10 have been selected by the BBC’s arts editor, Will Gompertz, from hundreds of nominations submitted by the public. There are two cathedrals on the list: St Paul’s in London and the Basil Spence-designed Coventry Cathedral, which was consecrated in 1962. The latter was a replacement for its 14th-century predecessor, which was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombs in 1940. Gompertz called Coventry Cathedral “a magnificent, optimistic and bold response to the horrors of war”. He said: “To create a modern and ambitious building dedicated to spiritual enrichment from the literal ashes of destruction was – and is – a sublime answer to brutality. It is a building born out of love and hope, made from the rubble of hate and despair.” Sutton Hoo is the oldest place on the list. The burial mounds were first excavated in 1939. They revealed a 27 metre-long wooden ship buried with extraordinary treasures that helped rewrite understanding of the Anglo-Saxons. The excavated objects are on display at the British Museum and the Sutton Hoo site, looked after by the National Trust. “To look at them is to reach back and see our past made real and vital,” said Gompertz. The newest place on the list is Tate Modern in London, which opened in 2000. Gompertz, who was director of Tate Media before joining the BBC, said he knew every inch of the building, the former Bankside power station. “It is a wonderful space to show art and to welcome audiences from across the globe to mingle and learn together,” he said. “It breathed new life into a rundown part of London and introduced the world to a new way of showing and enjoying art.” The other galleries on the list are the Barbara Hepworth museum and sculpture park in St Ives and Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield, praised by Gompertz as “without doubt, one of the finest examples of art in the landscape anywhere in the world”. Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North overlooking the A1 in Gateshead has become a popular national landmark since it was completed in 1998. Gompertz called it a powerful piece of contemporary sculpture that “excites, heralds and provokes”. He said: “It is so far removed from the typical ‘hero on a horse’ statues that are dotted across the country, invisible to all. Gormley’s artwork is as fresh as it is imposing.” Completing the new top 10 are Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, once the country home of William Morris; Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, one of England’s grandest stately homes; and the Minack theatre in Cornwall. All of the 10 places, chosen to stimulate debate, will be explored in depth in episodes of a podcast series created for the project, free on iTunes and Soundcloud.

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2018-06-11T23:01:34Z

New top 10 of heritage sites maps out the history of England

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Gary Barlow has promised not to use confetti cannons after being criticised by environmental campaigners for firing the tiny pieces of plastic during a concert at the Eden Project. The environmental attraction in Cornwall is running a campaign against single-use plastics and has banned the sale of plastic water bottles and similar items in its shops. But the singer-songwriter went off-message during his appearance on 6 June, when the crowd was showered with ticker tape. The apology followed criticism from Cornwall Against Single-Use Plastic, a campaign group, which told Barlow: “I was appalled to see plastic confetti littering the Eden Project after your last gig there. What on earth was a plastic confetti canon doing there? In a place such as the Eden, who are working so hard at getting rid of [single use] plastics.” The Eden Project has not commented. But in an announcement five days before the concert, a spokesperson for the venue said it was taking steps to “drastically reduce single-use plastic across all its operations”. The venue said it would be “withdrawing single-use plastic cups and introducing reusable cups” for the event last week. It has also halted the sale of water in plastic bottles in its cafes, restaurants and shop, increased the number of free water taps in public areas from 10 to 15, and ensured sandwiches and other food items are wrapped in paper. Gordon Seabright, the Eden Project chief executive, said: “Single-use plastic is a great scourge of the modern age, polluting our oceans and causing massive problems for life at sea and on land. We believe with all the steps we have been and are taking, we can help make a difference. “Since the Eden Project began, we have been working with our partners to look at smarter ways to reduce, reuse, recycle and reinvest. For example, 100% of leftover food is composted.” Barlow was the first artist to be announced for the Eden Project’s series of outdoor gigs this summer.

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2018-06-11T18:39:45Z

Gary Barlow to stop using confetti after 'littering' Eden Project

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/11/gary-barlow-cancels-confetti-eden-project-litter-environment-plastic

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“I’ve got to waffle. You don’t mind do you?” said David Walsh near the conclusion of a rambling opening address at the inaugural Dark Mofo ideas festival, Dark and Dangerous Thoughts (DDT). Touching on the crucifixion, Santa Claus, the “French Spiderman” Mamoudou Gassama, Joan of Arc, clairvoyance and why “men are prepared to take a lot more risks than women”, Walsh kicked off the talk-fest with a half-hour long speech that was ostensibly about having “skin in the game” but came across rather like the oratorical equivalent of vanity publishing. They didn’t want him to make a speech, he said. But he did it anyway, concluding the piece by projecting a completely nude photograph of himself on to the huge screen at the rear of the Odeon theatre stage. The incident didn’t dispel suggestions that DDT had essentially been conceived as a rich man’s soapbox. Neither did the fiery panel that followed it, in which multimillionaire Dick Smith locked horns with former ABC journalist Peter Mares on issues of migration. Smith repeatedly insisted that Australia needed a cap on migration, as a means of population control. Capitalism – the system by which he had made his own fortune – was out of control. The panel quickly became heated. “If we don’t address it, this is what will happen,” Smith said, before picking up a red plastic pitchfork that he’d brought along as a prop and brandishing it at the audience. A short time later, he spiralled off into a rant about how humankind originated from Africa, before claiming that the only thing he had in common with Aboriginal people is “sitting in the dirt”. When Mares tried to respond, Smith – or “big Dick”, as Walsh calls him – talked over the top of him, eventually bringing the usually sedate and agreeable Mares to his feet to shout, “I support global population policy and the best way to do it is to give women power!” DDT was announced late last year as a replacement for the Dark Mofo film festival. Although it was programmed by Laura Kroetsch, director at Adelaide writers’ festival for seven years, the talk-fest had a Walshian stamp all over it, from the opening address to the inclusion of panels on killing, one of which involved a former jihadi. It was certainly lively: the debates on stage were some of the fiercest I’ve seen in 15 years of attending writers’ festivals. Partly, this was due to the ideas being discussed but partly it was because the panellists were willing to get angry. During a panel on Indigenous imprisonment, for instance, Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price argued there was no evidence to show that racism was the basis of the disproportionately high number of Indigenous people in jail. “There’s miles of evidence!” countered Vickie Roach, who spent 10 years in prison herself. “Nobody else agrees with you.” Later, when Price argued that violence was an inherent part of Indigenous cultures, Roach literally dropped her mic on the floor in despair. The most sedate and philosophical panels were some of the most hyped: Muhammad Manwar Ali, a former jihadist whose visa was not approved in time for him to take to the stage in person, appeared via videolink in conversation with Peter Greste and later, on a panel titled Sanctioned Killing, alongside former Tamil Tiger Niromi de Soyza and Australian soldier and Victoria Cross recipient Mark Donaldson. The tenor of that conversation was essentially summed up by de Soyza: “People who glorify war are the ones who haven’t fought it.” The festival closed with Walsh, Smith and economist Saul Eslake talking about death and taxes – mostly taxes, but when the conversation turned to death and what might or might not happen afterwards, Walsh came back to his favoured turf. “I don’t believe in anything,” he said, even though he sees “biological value” in belief. With regards to Mona’s influence on the Tasmanian economy: “I’m like a drink-driver who accidentally rescued someone while I was drunk,” adding that he shouldn’t get kudos for something he did while inebriated. Mona and its satellite festivals and events are known for sparking outrage, programming provocative works that create headlines while blithe comments from Walsh mop up the rest of the media coverage. Often this makes for an exciting festival, providing much-needed space for artistic risk-taking that rewards deep engagement. But nowhere does the political tension in an artistic project based on provocation become clearer than at a talk-fest: more distilled and explicit with its ideas than artforms that deal more readily in metaphor, allegory and representation. Take evolutionary psychologist and self-described free-speech advocate Geoffrey Miller, for instance, whose enlightened position has led him to collaborate with people like pick-up artist Tucker Max (a man who for a long time represented, as Laura Bennett recently wrote, “the horny id of a certain species of privileged American male, held up without shame or filter”). He was on the line-up to take part in a discussion on “extreme free speech”, but described students complaining about the content of his lectures as “chilling”. A verbal sparring match ensued. Meanwhile, on the same panel, Black Lives Matter activist Hawk Newsome took Jacinta Price to task for her “bootstrap mentality” regarding Indigenous oppression, arguing that she was “feeding into the oppressor’s narrative”. When he asked her if she believed Indigenous people were oppressed, she said “not in this day and age”. “I have nothing more to say,” Newsome responded. By the end of the panel, they were firmly divided into two camps. Politics – that thing that so many arts institutions, Mona included, attempt to avoid being pinned down on – had become the clear dividing line between both guests and audience members. For me, it brought a couple of things to the fore. The first is that if one person attempts to be conciliatory on politics, while the other goes in swinging, the former comes across not simply as someone weak at debating, but someone with a weakness of argument or political project. The second is that an artistic project based entirely on provocation, with no clear political basis, is susceptible to being pulled along by the strongest current. And at the moment, one of the fastest growing and most dynamic currents is that of the alt-right. That Dark and Dangerous Thoughts held back from embracing the most mainstream elements of the alt-right tendency felt less like a matter of political prudence than a matter of time. It’s not hard to see Jordan Peterson or even a post-fall-from-grace Milo Yiannopoulos on that stage. And as tense and compelling as these high-voltage debates were, it’s telling that some of the loudest cheers from the audience came not for, say, Newsome’s condemnation of police violence against black people, but for Miller when he asserted his right to criticise Islam, or to argue against a progressive understanding of gender. And that’s where the real political problem reveals itself. In her book Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle argues that the “deep philosophical problem of transgression” is its “ideologically flexible, politically fungible, morally neutral nature ... which can characterize misogyny just as easily as it can sexual liberation”. “Just as Nietzsche appealed to the Nazis as a way to formulate a rightwing anti-moralism, it is precisely the transgressive sensibility that is used to excuse and rationalise the utter dehumanisation of women and ethnic minorities in the alt-right online sphere now,” she writes. This is “the full coming to fruition of the transgressive anti-moral style ... its final detachment from any egalitarian philosophy of the left or Christian morality of the right”. I imagine it’s hard to work for someone like David Walsh. A man who simultaneously voraciously collects and blithely dismisses the products of artistic endeavour (artists “create stuff, maybe it’s because they think they’re trying to create new movement, or they want to do an exhibition on the moon, but really all they want to do is get laid”); a man who regularly, repeatedly reduces the best of human thought and endeavour to biology (artists are “pretentious twats that are basically making biological statements”); a man whose effect on the local community reminds one of a kind of benevolent feudalism. Walsh said on Friday he was “less concerned about boundaries than the push to the centre”; perhaps he would be more concerned about the effect of those boundaries being pushed in particular ways if he was not a wealthy white man. What do you do when the ideas you’re engaging with are actually dangerous? How will festivals working in the ideas space respond to that growing tendency in rightwing thought? I don’t know the answer to that but it was hard not to feel like DDT was something of a litmus test for the state of discourse to come. • Guardian Australia was a guest of Dark Mofo

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2018-06-11T18:00:27Z

Dark Mofo's ideas festival brings out the pitchforks as speakers rage against machine | Stephanie Convery

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Rosie Boycott, co-founder There were lots of things rumbling around in 1971. Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch had come out, and there were protests against Miss World – but they didn’t seem to reach the ordinary woman. I had dropped out of university and was working on an underground newspaper called Frendz. It was an “alternative” culture, but for women it was extremely sexist. If you didn’t agree to get laid, you were a “straight”. We – Marsha Rowe and I – wanted to make a feminist magazine that would be widely read. She was going out with the son of journalist Claud Cockburn, and we were all at a Chinese restaurant one evening when Claud picked up a spare rib and said: “Call it Spare Rib.” It was a moment of genius. There were terrific arguments at the launch party. The gay rights people were shouting that we weren’t supporting them, the radical feminists were shouting that we weren’t radical enough. You’re always going to displease someone. We wrote an editorial saying liberation was as important for men as it was for women – we were adamant that feminism was going to be brilliant for both sexes. Inevitably, that fell away. I wish we’d been able to explore it more. We seriously thought we were going to take on Woman and Woman’s Own. We’d do parties to raise money and wouldn’t let people out until they’d given us £20. At one point we were so desperate, we asked an Arab sheikh for money. He was extremely nonplussed. I don’t think anyone had ever asked him for a donation without offering some kind of sexual favour. Certain branches of WH Smith wouldn’t stock some issues. One cover had a woman supposedly in the throes of an orgasm with the line: “The liberated orgasm … Make a New Year resolution to have one.” It went over very badly. The magazine was also a difficult advertising proposition. The first issue had a makeup ad in which a woman was very demurely pulling aside a lace curtain to reveal half her face. After that, we realised, well, actually, we can’t run those kind of ads. I don’t think anyone took us particularly seriously. Private Eye called us “Miss Bums and Miss Tits”. Back then, men didn’t realise how feminism would impinge on their world. They’re much more hostile now. Having a 100% conviction that what we were doing was right made it all fun. We were working round the clock, changing the world, and you wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else. We featured such writers as Margaret Drabble, Fay Weldon and Edna O’Brien, but we also asked readers to send in pieces. That came from working in the underground press: we wanted other people’s experiences. I left in 1974, but Spare Rib kept publishing until 1993. It was there through the crucial years of feminism. It pushed what needed to be put in front of people – and it didn’t give up. In 2013, the journalist Charlotte Raven asked if she could relaunch the magazine, but in the end we said no. It played a part in changing the landscape for women in Britain, but things have their time. You resurrect them at your peril. Marsha Rowe, co-founder I did what was expected of me in the early 1960s in Australia and became a secretary. I’d seen the alternative magazine Oz and thought: “This is fabulous.” So I got a job there and saw how it was put together. At the end of the decade, I moved to London. At a meeting of women who worked in the underground press, we realised that we did all the support work, and then we went home and looked after men there as well. That revelation – actually speaking it – was extraordinary. I suggested Spare Rib at the third of these meetings. I remember Rosie’s expression, those big blue eyes looking all smiley and positive. Six months later, in June 1972, our first edition was on the stands, on sale for 17 and a half pence. We had a feature on romantic novels and a brilliant piece by Patricia Hewitt on women’s pensions. I’d met someone who knew George Best, so we interviewed him for the man’s page, which was partly a satire on the usual women’s page, but also because we wanted to explore what men thought about feminism. We called ourselves an alternative women’s news magazine. I adored magazines and their visual aspect, but we could only afford two colours, to go with black and white. I wanted Spare Rib to have all the traditional elements of a women’s magazine, but with a different spin. Our first fashion spread was a double page on jeans. No one in fashion ever mentioned jeans back then. The women’s liberation movement changed my life, but I discovered my voice through Spare Rib. We did a feature on the first women’s centre in London and the first refuge. At that point, domestic abuse was rarely talked about. It was something women were blamed for. As soon as news spread of what we were trying to do, people wanted to contribute. Those early days in the office were a joy, working with women, sharing ideas, thinking things through. It was so non-competitive. It took about four years for Spare Rib to find its feet. By the time 10 years had gone by, it had become more of a magazine for the women’s movement. I think it lost a certain spark. We’d had a wonderful DIY page and a cooking section – and all these things had disappeared. The design element lost some of the early brilliance, too. It became much more solid. Financially, it was tough going. In later years, they had to rely increasingly on grants, and the readership shrank. But the fact that it lasted 21 years is a tribute to the series of brilliant women who worked there. • Spare Rib features in Print! Tearing It Up at Somerset House, London, until 22 August.

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How we made: Spare Rib magazine

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Brought up in Surrey, Craig Brown has been writing the parodic diary in Private Eye for nearly 30 years. He also writes a humorous column for the Daily Mail and is the chief book critic for the Mail on Sunday. His most recent book, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, is currently shortlisted for the James Tait Black prize for biography and the South Bank Sky Arts award for literature. It is released in paperback on 28 June. 1. Comedy Kieran Hodgson Hodgson is easily the most intelligent young comedian I’ve seen recently, and the funniest too. Unlike so many others, he relishes knowledge, nuance and ambivalence. His last two shows were about 1) Lance Armstrong and 2) Gustav Mahler, so he paints on a broad canvas. I am going to the Edinburgh fringe in August and plan to see his latest, ’75, at the Pleasance Courtyard. It’s about Britain joining the Common Market in the 1970s. Hodgson is a master mimic and promises to bring Edward Heath, Barbara Castle, Harold Wilson and Roy Jenkins back to life before our very eyes. 2. Book The Diary of John Evelyn When I told a friend I was reading John Evelyn’s diaries, she got very excited. It emerged that she thought I’d said Johnny Flynn, who is a rock star. Anyway, John Evelyn was a contemporary and friend of Samuel Pepys. His diaries are perhaps a little dull by comparison, but I enjoy reading diaries so much that even dullness has its charms. Just as you’re thinking you’re going to have to plod through yet another dogged description of the interior of a church in Rome, Evelyn suddenly gets mugged, or witnesses an execution, and it wakes you up with a jolt. 3. Dispute Jimmy Page v Robbie Williams I can’t get enough of this wonderfully un-neighbourly dispute. Williams is forever trying to extend his already vast house in Kensington, while, brooding next door, Page fights him every inch of the way. Sixty years since the birth of rock, this is what it has boiled down to: sex ’n’ drugs ’n’ contested planning applications. The saga has a weird historical context: Page’s house was built by William Burges and lived in by both John Betjeman and Richard Harris, while Williams’s was built by Norman Shaw and lived in by, ahem, Michael Winner. 4. Collecting Trompe l’oeil artworks Over the past few years, I’ve been collecting trompe l’oeils. Virtually every vase, window, bowl, apple and china dog in my house turns out, on closer inspection, to be an illusion. All art aspires to magic and I love the trickery of it. I particularly like trompe l’oeils that resemble old message boards, with crumpled photos, postcards and love letters pinned on to them. They have a curious melancholy, as though their busy owner dashed off a century ago and then for some unexplained reason failed to return, leaving these remains behind him. 5. Sport Swimming We live so close to the sea that its shimmer makes a dappled effect on our bedroom ceiling. Twenty-five years ago, when we first moved, I vowed to swim every month, but over the years I’ve grown steadily more weedy. It’s now June to early November or whenever the first real storm occurs. I particularly like it when it’s rough: after a few minutes of being tossed about, you feel you have lived outside time. This year, I’m also walking the Thames, or at least the Thames Path, for a book I’m writing, and it’s full of pleasant nooks for a calmer kind of swimming. 6. Exhibition Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece at the British Museum This shows how much Rodin was influenced by what the British Museum now tactfully refers to as “the Parthenon sculptures”. But it’s far more than an arid compare-and-contrast. The amazing dynamism of sculptures such as the Burghers of Calais is given an extra dimension by the curator’s deft use of beautiful quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke, who worked for a time as Rodin’s secretary. How lifeless most modern sculpture is by comparison: the new statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square looks like something out of Trumpton.

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2018-06-10T09:00:47Z

On my radar: Craig Brown’s cultural highlights

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2018-06-10T07:00:48Z

Simone Lia on the final exam

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It has been 74 days, 14 minutes and 23 seconds since the world first learned that someone once bit Beyoncé. However, despite the internet’s best efforts to discover the culprit, the mystery of #WhoBitBeyoncé remains stubbornly unsolved. It’s not just Beyoncé’s biter befuddling us all: we’re less than halfway through the year but already 2018 has raised more questions than it has answered. Here are some of the weirdest unsolved mysteries of the year so far. The mystery of the vanishing water bottle We know Trump is terrified of sharks, but is the president petrified of water? An incident at the Weird House this week suggests this might be the case. During a Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) hurricane preparedness meeting on Wednesday, Trump inexplicably took his water bottle off the table and put the offending object on the floor. A split second later an apparently H2O-phobic Mike Pence did the same. While the other people around the table did not bat an eyelid at this behaviour, the internet was immediately intrigued. What was going on? The most generous explanation is that step one of hurricane preparedness is removing all table-standing water bottles to the safety of the floor, and Trump and Pence were simply attentive students. Another theory is that Trump is playing three-dimensional chess with water bottles and this stunt, which went viral, is a genius move designed to distract us from the real issues. Alternatively, one might consider the idea that nothing Trump does makes sense, and Pence is an obsequious pawn who does anything his master does. Why was there a festering sock-sack in the White House? No, I’m not talking about Steve Bannon. On 17 May, Saagar Enjeti, a White House correspondent for the Daily Caller, tweeted a photo of a ziplock bag stuffed full of wet socks that, inexplicably, was lying on the floor of the White House briefing room. Five days later, he tweeted another picture of the socks which, it seems, hadn’t been claimed. I contacted Enjeti this week to find out if there had been further developments and he informed me that the socks seem to have gone. One hopes, to a far better place. Why do human feet keeping washing up in Canada? In May a severed foot inside a hiking shoe washed up on the shores of British Columbia. This was the 14th human foot since 2007 to be discovered on the coastline. Over the years there have been various theories regarding the feet: a serial killer, a mafia calling card, something to do with the new series of Twin Peaks. The mostly likely hypothesis, though, is modern footwear. Most of the feet found are sneakers; their robust but lightweight material protecting a foot from decomposing, while pulling the foot towards shore. But who knows, in the future we may find it was all a grim guerrilla marketing campaign for a new type of Air Max. Where was Melania? The first lady recently spent almost a month out of the public eye, sparking fervent rumours about her whereabouts. However, she reappeared this week, as Trump has vociferously pointed out. On Wednesday the president tweeted that that the media: “Reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the WH (and me) for NY or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!” Later on Wednesday Melania Trump sat next to her husband at the Fema hurricane briefing where she did not appear fazed by the bizarre water bottle maneuverings. “She went through a little rough patch but she’s doing great,” Trump announced at the briefing. Of all the bizarre things to have happened in 2018, Melania going missing is probably the least mysterious. Hearing nonstop news about your husband’s affair with porn stars, coupled with having to undergo kidney surgery, certainly constitutes a “rough patch”. So while Melania’s whereabouts for a month may remain a mystery, her motives from disappearing from the public gaze are not. Who bit Beyoncé? In March, the actor Tiffany Haddish told GQ magazine that she once saw a fellow celebrity bite Beyoncé on the face at a party. The internet immediately dropped everything it was doing and started a crazed search for the mysterious biter. A shortlist of suspects was immediately drawn up and elite task forces created to investigate the issue. Chrissy Teigen told US Weekly that people have “honestly texted me mood boards about this, like actually full CSI, with pictures of actresses connected with red string as to where in the country they were that night.” It was quickly decided that Sanaa Lathan, from Love & Basketball fame, was the culprit. Lathan, however, denied these rumours. The case of #WhoBitBeyonce remains open. Why was Kim Jong-un’s letter to Trump so large? Earlier this month Trump was presented with a letter from North Korea’s Kim Jong-un which came in an extremely large envelope. No one is sure why the envelope was so large, however some believe it was an attempt to make Trump’s hands look small. We’re also not clear what was in the envelope, although White House officials have confirmed that Trump has read its contents. Perhaps we will know more next week: Trump is meeting with Kim in Singapore on 12 June. No doubt he will use the occasion to inform Kim that he too has envelopes in his stationary cupboard, and they are much bigger and more powerful than his. Did the audioclip say Yanni or Laurel? Actually, that wasn’t a mystery at all. It’s obviously Laurel. Why was a car dangling from a Toronto bridge? Last month a burned-out Honda Civic was found dangling from a bridge in Toronto. It was quickly lowered to the ground by the fire department but nobody knows why it was there. A preliminary theory, that it was a prop for a movie shoot, was quickly retracted and the case still isn’t solved. What with dangling cars and severed feet, Canada’s not quite the quiet country it’s often made out to be.

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2018-06-09T09:00:18Z

Where was Melania? Who bit Beyoncé? The biggest mysteries of 2018 – so far

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/09/the-biggest-unsolved-mysteries-of-2018-so-far

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The Mona founder David Walsh has shrugged his shoulders at the controversy stirred up, in entirely predictable fashion, by the erection of enormous, neon red inverted crucifixes on Hobart’s waterfront as part of Mona’s midwinter music and arts festival, Dark Mofo. Walsh responded to the assertion from some members of Hobart’s Christian community that the crucifixes were “highly offensive” by saying: “I’d say about 50 things. But why are they upside down? Firstly, St Peter was crucified upside down. Why? Because he didn’t want to be like Jesus. So maybe all the churches that have up the right way crosses are blasphemers.” His comments echoed the perspective expressed on Friday morning on ABC radio by Dark Mofo’s creative director, Leigh Carmichael, who said provocation was “part of Mona’s DNA” and argued that while “the cross is deeply significant in our historical context ... symbols don’t have an inherent meaning. The meaning comes from what we bring to them.” The controversy was fuelled this week by comments from Mark Brown, the Tasmanian director for the Australian Christian Lobby, who suggested Dark Mofo was inviting in the devil with the crosses: “We’re dealing with spiritual forces here. I don’t think those involved with this event, David Walsh and Leigh Carmichael, would disagree with the spiritual realm being a real thing,” he said. On Friday, the Mercury newspaper published letters to the editor complaining about the crosses. One said it was a “shameful” use of public space, while another, from Reverend Matt Garvin of the Citywide Baptist Church, said that while the inverted cross was “commonly thought to be a Satanic symbol”, churches should “engage with the conversation that David Walsh has created in our city”. “Alternatively,” said Walsh, “It’s reasonable to contend that we are at the other side of the earth than Jerusalem, so if you map them, we’re actually the same way up.” Walsh made the comments at an unscheduled news conference during the media preview for Mona’s new exhibition, Zero, which opens on Saturday night. “For me the fear is not pushing the boundaries, it’s reinhabiting the centre,” he said. “When something becomes successful usually that’s a combination of winning the lottery and being a bit quirky, and the conservatism creeps in.” Last year, Dark Mofo created headlines with Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch’s 150.Action, which made liberal use of fish and bull carcasses, milk and hundreds of litres of animal blood. Expanding on his own artistic outlook, Walsh – whose museum includes such attractions as toilets in which users can watch themselves defecating, and a wall of 150 plaster casts of vulvas – said: “Mostly what I’m looking at is the motives of artists. Most of them are pretentious twats.” “States building art galleries is not the same as individuals building art galleries ... It’s completely different. One is a political gesture and the other is just trying to show you’ve got a big dick.” Later on Friday, Dark Mofo issued a formal statement from Carmichael on the inverted crucifixes, saying: “Dark Mofo has been exploring ancient mythology and religious themes since its inception in 2013. The cross is a powerful and deeply significant historical symbol, that has been used for thousands of years, with many cross-cultural meanings. For many, this symbol evokes an emotional response for reasons that we don’t fully understand. While we respect and understand different interpretations, we cannot be responsible for attitudes that people bring to the festival.” At the opening of the exhibition A Journey to Freedom on Friday night, Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman gestured to the controversy, saying the state government supported the festival, and had “no intention to suppress and indeed censor its courageous creativity”. This year, Dark Mofo examines the theme of incarceration, explored in detail at a number of shows including A Journey To Freedom, in artist Mike Parr’s 72-hour internment in a sealed bunker underneath Macquarie Street, and in the prelude weekend of talks, Dark and Dangerous Thoughts, on this weekend.

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2018-06-09T01:27:10Z

Dark Mofo: Mona founder unperturbed by controversy over inverted crosses

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/09/dark-mofo-mona-founder-unperturbed-by-controversy-over-inverted-crosses

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Late-night hosts discussed the impending Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit as well as the latest controversy surrounding the EPA chief, Scott Pruitt. Stephen Colbert On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert started by discussing Trump’s planned meet with Kim after the president spoke about it during a presser with the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe. Colbert quipped that “the stakes are almost as high as Trump and Kim’s cholesterol”. He also expressed concern about the potential dangers of the pair getting together. “Quick reminder: the fallout from this meeting could be actual fallout,” he said. This week also saw the return of Melania Trump to the spotlight after many speculated over why she had been absent in recent weeks. “She saw her shadow, that means at least six more weeks of marriage,” he said of her comeback. He also joked that “she disappeared after a Stormy”. Stormy Daniels was also the focus of some rambling comments from Rudy Giuliani at an event in Tel Aviv. He claimed that he doesn’t watch porn so wasn’t familiar with her until the Trump scandal. “Me thinks the mayor doth protest too much,” he said. Giuliani continued to speak disparagingly about Daniels, saying that he didn’t respect her because of her profession. “I know Stormy Daniels is an adult film star, but Rudolph Giuliani might be the biggest dick she’s ever seen,” he said. Trevor Noah On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah took aim at Scott Pruitt. “With every new Pruitt revelation, every time you find out you just go: ‘Wait, what?’” Noah said. The latest controversy is focused on news that Pruitt used his position to try to get his wife a franchise to manage at the fried chicken chain Chick-fil-A. “I’ll be honest, this is not the fast-food scandal I saw coming out of the White House,” he said. “If anything, I thought it would be Trump getting in trouble for pardoning the Hamburglar.” Noah continued: “It’s like he’s Thanos and he’s using the infinity gauntlet to cut the line at Disney World.” He also references a recent report that Pruitt had been eating at the White House restaurant so much that he’s been told to limit his visits. “I’ve heard of the government curbing handouts, but not for one guy,” he said. Noah then played footage of all the problems facing Pruitt and joked that the “list of investigations is longer than a CVS receipt”. He added: “If Pruitt does get fired, it won’t be because he’s an EPA chief who’s destroying the environment, it’ll be because he got caught up in some embarrassing scandal, like stuffing his pockets with White House toilet paper.”

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Stephen Colbert on Trump-Kim summit: ‘The fallout from this could be actual fallout’

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Twenty-five years ago, Lea DeLaria became the first openly gay comic to appear on American television when she performed on The Arsenio Hall Show. “It’s the 1990s,” she announced with characteristic gusto. “It’s hip to be queer, and I’m a bi-i-i-i-ig dyke!” At a time when homophobia was rampant, forcing queer comics to traffic in innuendo when discussing their sexualities onstage, DeLaria and other out standups like Kate Clinton and Scott Thompson were radically candid and brazenly political, sometimes at their own expense. On Arsenio, where she was invited back twice more that year, DeLaria, who now plays Carrie “Big Boo” Black on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, uttered the words dyke, fag and queer 47 times in four minutes. “I didn’t just open the closet door,” she recalls to the Guardian. “I fucking blew that door off with a blowtorch.” Just a few years earlier, in the thick of the Aids crisis, Jaffe Cohen of groundbreaking comedy trio Funny Gay Males, who frequently appeared on the Joan Rivers Show, liked to open his sets by outing himself as “half-Jewish and half-gay”, or a “shlomo-sexual”, as the gag went. But when he delivered the line at a comedy club in Queens, the emcee wiped off his microphone, as though gay men were contagious. “It was horrible,” Cohen remembers. “The audience laughed at that.” But today’s generation of queer comics, having stormed through the doors left ajar by DeLaria and company, are no longer the butt of the joke. And standup comedy, for so long the preserve of straight white men, is being refashioned in their image. “My generation is the first that’s able to talk about our lives in a way that’s normative but also accessible,” says Cameron Esposito, a standup whose first special, Rape Jokes, debuts later this month. “Ten years ago when I was starting I was always able to be out, but only because a bunch of folks did it before I got there.” Those “folks”, like DeLaria, Clinton, Scott Thompson and Karen Williams, were performing in hotbeds of queer comedy like Providence and San Francisco as early as the 1980s. Their contemporaries, such as Ellen DeGeneres and Wanda Sykes, stayed closeted for longer, until they’d experienced success in the mainstream. Even then, though, as DeGeneres came out on the cover of Time magazine, queer comics were often coy or euphemistic in their approach to sex, forced to circumnavigate the discomfort of their straight audiences. They’d adopt personas – like Scott Thompson’s character Buddy Cole from the Canadian sketch comedy show Kids in the Hall – under the guise of which they could be more audacious. And lesbian standups like Donna McPhail and Rhona Cameron would ingratiate themselves with audiences first, dropping the “L-word” midway through their sets. At the same time, homophobic jokes were catnip for straight comedians like Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kinison and Eddie Murphy, who in his 1983 standup special Delirious told “faggots” in the audience not to look at his ass onstage. If, today, gay people are less frequently targeted in mainstream comedy, gay sex is still regularly ridiculed, as when Jimmy Kimmel mocked Sean Hannity for being Donald Trump’s “bottom” and Stephen Colbert called the president’s mouth Vladimir Putin’s “cock holster”. Besides being reductive and not terribly funny, the “jokes” prove that lazy, anti-gay material is still low-hanging fruit for plenty of straight comics. Standup, DeLaria believes, “is the last bastion of homophobia and sexism”, a sphere where openly declaring one’s prejudices is received with laughs instead of derision. “There was a desire to market an image that’s attractive to straight people, and what’s attractive to straight people is simplicity,” says Cohen, whose fellow Funny Gay Male Bob Smith became the first gay comic on The Tonight Show in 1994. “You could either be RuPaul, a 6ft 3in drag queen, something people can comprehend. Or you can be Bob Smith, who had no gay affect. But straight society in the 90s wasn’t all that interested in knowing who we really are.” Without much of a precedent for an openly gay, mainstream comic working in the confessional style that mushroomed with the rise of alt-comedy, today’s queer standups represent something of an insurrection against comedy’s overwhelming straightness and its purity complex, too. In clubs and bars, the crucible of live comedy, lineups still regularly feature a handful of straight white comics, plus a token minority. Accordingly, many queer comedians have forged a different path, peppering their standup with song and dance, sketch comedy, character work, trivia and parody in ways that emphasize a certain queer sensibility often muted by standup’s hallowed tropes. “When I started, I was reacting to this Marc Maron podcast moment of comedians talking very seriously about their craft in this confessional, truth-based, poignant and vulnerable way, which was seen as the highest form of the medium,” says John Early, who’s been doing standup for six years and currently stars on the hipster noir sitcom Search Party. “I felt angry because my influences and heroes traffic in more of a queer, campy mode, but the ways to get on stage were through straight shows, even if they were considered alternative by virtue of the fact that they were in bars,” he adds. Ana Fabrega, a New York City-based comic, believes that a broadening notion of what standup can be has allowed gay comics to hone their craft in other ways. “A lot of us LGBTQ performers are not doing traditional standup, so we’re not in those places to begin with,” she said. If the titans of alt-comedy, pioneered in places like the Upright Citizens Brigade, LA’s Largo at the Coronet or New York’s now-defunct Luna Lounge, include Maron, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk and Patton Oswalt, queer comics have assembled their own Mount Everest of standups, a small coterie of comedians who dared to speak to gay audiences when mainstream comedy still pretended such an audience didn’t exist. “When I watched Joan Rivers for the first time,” says Matteo Lane, a Brooklyn-based standup, “I felt like I was being spoken to. Or when Kathy Griffin said: ‘I watch the award shows with my gays,’ I couldn’t believe someone was speaking about us and we weren’t just part of the joke.” “I realized recently that queer comedians never aspired to be Louis [CK],” says Early, who laments the idea that the only “noble” way to make it in comedy is by roughing it in front of hostile crowds in the heartlands. “Our models of success have always been smaller, more boutique comedians. I worship Margaret Cho, her career seems absolutely huge to me. But I don’t know any queer comics who are, like, ‘I’m going to be the gay Dane Cook.’” Slightly older comics like James Adomian, known for his uncanny political impressions, and Sampson McCormick, whose documentary A Tough Act to Follow chronicles his experiences as a black, openly gay standup, witnessed the comedy climate become incrementally more hospitable to queer performers in the last several years. “You can’t go into some audiences talking about dick and ass, so I had to play chess in a lot of ways,” says McCormick. “After Obama said, ‘Get over it, gay people love each other,’ I saw the climate change a little bit, whereas five years ago I had to warm them up.” “The resistance to us is soft and malleable,” adds Adomian. “I’ve had jokes that were pushing boundaries that became less dangerous over time because the opinions of the country shifted.” As a result, the pressure queer comics once felt to pander to straight audiences has, for the most part, dissipated. Early, a skillful practitioner of the kind of scatological comedy that was once verboten, wistfully remembers whispering the word “faggot” in the ears of straight classmates as an early instance of comic affirmation. And when Irene Tu, a lesbian standup in San Francisco, first began performing live seven years ago, she opted for observational humor in the vein of DeGeneres, feeling like there was no blueprint for queer, autobiographical comedy. “I started in Chicago and met Cameron Esposito, who wasn’t famous then,” Tu remembers. “She talked about being gay and I was like, ‘Wait, I have to do this.’ Super observational comedy wasn’t for me. It was like putting a square peg in a round hole.” But at a recent show at the Bell House in Brooklyn, where the lineup featured three queer comics, one gets a sense of the sea change that’s been under way for at least a quarter century. Lane, who begins his set with: “So, I’m gay …”, does an inventive gag about being called a “faggot” recently in Indiana, whipping the microphone across his face to approximate the rising-then-falling invective from a drive-by heckler. The joke calls to mind a tactic of DeLaria’s, who inverts and repurposes much of the slander directed at the LGBTQ community as part of her comic lexicon. “Accessing your rage,” she says, “is a way of accepting that this happens to you.” What kills in front of a live audience, though, can be dicey on television, where, according to the 2017-2018 Glaad report, 6% of characters on broadcast programming identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans. Even decades after DeLaria’s seismic appearance on Arsenio, Bob Smith’s set on Jay Leno, the Puppy episode of Ellen and Terry Sweeney’s year-long stint on Saturday Night Live (Kate McKinnon became just the second openly gay cast member in 2012) queer comedians are often met with trepidation and a hackneyed brand of codespeak when making the leap to the screen. Adomian, who believes television is afflicted with the “residual inertia” of old biases, distinguishes between an “over-culture”, the domain of Netflix specials and television shows, and an “under-culture”, where queer standups are thriving and well-represented. “The difference between the two is a sign that things have changed faster than a lot of powerful people wanted.” Dewayne Perkins, a standup out of Chicago who wrote for Michelle Wolf’s provocative routine at this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner, says he’s been told by studios to both “tone down the gayness” and play it up to the point of caricature. “Compromising myself to fit somebody’s idea of blackness and gayness is anti-everything I am,” he says. “I want to be mainstream, but I want to do it in a way that doesn’t feel gross.” Lane, who describes the homophobia he’s experienced in comedy as “quiet”, believes a double standard persists even as LGBTQ visiblity in pop culture appears to flourish. “A straight guy can do a five-minute late-night set on marriage, yet when I did a late-night set, and I’m not going to say who, they wouldn’t air it after I filmed it because the host of the show said it’s too gay,” says Lane, who was told the show would have him back to “talk about being gay once, and then not bring it up for the rest of the show”. “When I did Seth Meyers and Colbert,” he adds, “they were wonderful to me.” Early, arguably the most successful of this new wave of millennial gay male comics, was met with similar resistance when he and Kate Berlant, a darling of the alt-alt-comedy world, pitched a number of networks on a John Waters-inspired sitcom in which the two played a pair of “inseparable best friends”. At no point, Early explained, did they resort to the straight-girl-and-her-gay-best-friend tropes often parroted on television. But networks, keen on mass-producing what Early calls “woke, arguably didactic comedy”, responded to the show with confusion, as though broad, social behavior sitcoms had no precedent. “When there is queerness on-screen, people need it oversimplified, like woke Mic.com explainer content, or deeply cartoonish and offensive,” Early says. “People kept asking us, ‘What’s the premise?’ We were like, ‘What’s the premise of Seinfeld, bitch? Curb Your Enthusiasm? Louie?’ It literally could not be more simple.” When he was told the show was “too niche” or “rarefied”, Early believed the networks wanted a show that let audiences make fun of women and gay men. “No matter how evolved we think we are, people still need those characters to humiliate themselves or apologize for themselves.” In this changing climate, where streaming behemoths like Netflix have emerged as the chief purveyors of live comedy, the hour-long standup special remains for many comics a career capstone, for the exposure as much as the money. In this sphere, queer comics have made inroads – the wickedly funny Tig Notaro recently released her first Netflix special, and others by Billy Eichner, Aussie standup Hannah Gadsby and DeGeneres are in development. Trans comic Ian Harvie, who for years opened for Margaret Cho and later appeared on Transparent, had his own special in 2016 on the now-shuttered streaming service Seeso. But they still contend with a glass ceiling, one some attribute to discrimination and others, like DeLaria, to oversaturation. “Your kneejerk reaction can’t always be homophobia,” DeLaria says. “I’m a huge, favorite character on their #1 show, which is watched by more people than every other show on Netflix combined, and I can’t get a comedy special on Netflix. They say they’re going to get bigger names. I’m like, ‘What do you mean bigger names?’ They’re like, ‘We’re going to do Seinfeld first.’ How do I argue with that?” “The world of comedy has changed,” she adds. “For all the comics saying they can’t get a special, get in line behind me.” Given that she was the first to break the “late-night barrier”, it’s only fair that DeLaria leads the queue. But the line behind her, filled with a generation of comics who’ve managed to cross-fertilize standup and with a contemporary, queer sensibility, is growing rapidly, and comedy’s evolving apparatus can barely keep pace. It’s a group not content to play the zany, zinger-flicking gay best friend, or the token butch, or the social justice pedagogue, one that’s come of age in a world inching towards equity but hampered by orthodoxy. As Early put it: “Queer audiences are ready for some goddamn nuance.”

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2018-06-08T10:00:08Z

'The world of comedy has changed': how queer comics are making their mark in America

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Five of the best ... films Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A) (JA Bayona, 2018, US) 128 mins You pretty much know what you’re getting with the Jurassic Extended Universe. This maintains the expected standards, but as well as state-of-the-art dino mayhem (prompted by a volcano), and the return of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard (and, briefly, Jeff Goldblum), there are questions of human-animal relations to get your teeth into. McQueen (15) (Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, 2018, UK) 111 mins Every fashion talent gets a documentary, but – with his boundary-pushing artistry and unique story of East End roots, colourful associates and tragic death –Alexander McQueen is more relevant than most. This hits the right balance, with a combination of emotional intelligence, pacy storytelling and breathtaking couture. My Friend Dahmer (15) (Marc Meyers, 2017, US) 107 mins An unnerving but unsensational portrait of the serial killer as a teen reject, based on a graphic novel by his one-time classmate. Ross Lynch acquits himself as the weird kid, who is practically a compendium of danger signs: interest in dead animals, unstable family, repressed sexual urges. The meat of the story comes in Dahmer’s semi-acceptance by his peers, who admire his outsider status – up to a point. Zama (15) (Lucrecia Martel, 2017, Arg/Various) 115 mins An immersive, disorienting journey to the frontiers of “civilisation” and a beautifully composed study of colonial self-deception, this 18th-century odyssey really takes you off the map. The title character (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is a bored, self-important minor official at a South American outpost, whose attempts at romantic and professional progress are frustrated, prompting him to embark on an impulsive manhunt. Solo: A Star Wars Story (12A) (Ron Howard, 2018, US) 135 mins It hasn’t been as big a hit as hoped at the box office, but this is one of the most entertaining Star Wars movies, unburdened by musings on the Force or the Skywalker dynasty. It’s an action-packed space western, full of new landscapes, and carried by a likable cast including Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover. SR Five of the best ... rock & pop gigs Taylor Swift Please welcome to the stage … T-Swizzle’s leotard and amazing array of barbed lyrics! Taking her vengeful, lusty record Reputation on the road after a year of busting rumours about her personal life and voting habits, the hyper-professional star brings Camila Cabello and Charli XCX as supports, plus her usual glitzy finesse. Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Saturday 9; Croke Park, Dublin, Friday 15; touring to 23 June Jamie Isaac NME recently hailed the new breed of male crooners (Matt Maltese, Rex Orange County et al) as “schmaltzcore”, and while Jamie Isaac certainly fits part of that template, “bedsit bossa nova” is probably more apt. The singer, who is a pal and contemporary of King Krule, fuses dulcet Chet Baker vocals with laconic jazzy R&B, and recently released his second album. Village Underground, EC2, Tuesday 12; Rough Trade, Bristol, Thursday 14 June Ghostface Killah If Damon Albarn is the most prolific man in rock, Ghostface Killah is his rap contemporary, only without the songs about baby elephants. Beyond his six albums with the Wu-Tang Clan, he’s put out 12 solo LPs and four collaborative ones, and cameoed in TV shows, films and games. According to Masta Killa, he’s also about to mastermind a new Wu-Tang album. Milton Keynes, Saturday 9; Newcastle upon Tyne, Monday 11; Glasgow, Tuesday 12; Bristol, Wednesday 13; Manchester, Thursday 14; Leeds, Friday 15 June Katy Perry Witness: The Tour arrives in town, sure to feature nose-tapping nods at world leaders, iPhones, robots and the Illuminati. The Californian pop star may have swapped her whipped cream-cannon bras for Miley Cyrus-style rebellion, but beyond the heavy handed political messaging she’s sure to bring a circus of cartoonish buoyancy and confetti-filled frivolousness. The O2, SE10, Thursday 14 & Friday 15; touring to 25 June Phronesis Since 2005, Anglo-Scandinavian trio Phronesis have made knotty jazz complexities and ecstatic rock excitement meld in a multitude of ways. Pianist Ivo Neame, bassist Jasper Høiby and drummer Anton Eger – one of European jazz’s most dynamic bands – will rework five of their albums in this mini-festival for Edition Records’ 10th birthday. PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Soho, W1, Thursday 14 to 17 June JF Four of the best ... classical concerts La Vida Breve Juanjo Mena steps down as chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic this summer. He devotes his last concert in Manchester to music from his native Spain. The main work is a concert performance of De Falla’s La Vida Breve, with Nancy Fabiola Herrera as Salud; before that are two works by Albéniz: The Magic Opal overture and Rapsodia Española. Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Saturday 9 June Surcos Ilan Volkov’s latest guest appearance with the CBSO typically mixes the mainstream with the brand new. There is Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 2 with Alisa Weilerstein as soloist, and Schoenberg’s magnificent orchestration of Brahms’s first piano quartet. The novelty is the UK premiere of Simon Holt’s Surcos. Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Wednesday 13 June Thea Musgrave at 90 Jac van Steen conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to the Edinburgh-born Musgrave. Works by Aaron Copland and Musgrave’s friend Richard Rodney Bennett are interleaved with four of her own scores, including the oboe-and-percussion concerto Two’s Company, with Nicholas Daniel and Evelyn Glennie. City Halls, Glasgow, Friday 15 June Bach at the Barbican John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir provide the spine to a weekend of unalloyed Bach, with three programmes devoted to cantatas from different seasons in the liturgical year. There are also motets from Solomon’s Knot; violin sonatas from Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout; cello suites from Jean-Guihen Queyras; and harpsichordist Jean Rondeau plays the Goldberg Variations. Various venues, EC2, Friday 15 to 17 June AC Six of the best ... exhibitions Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One Modern art was convulsed by the Great War. In Berlin, the dadaists unleashed a savage satirical vision. Their take is compared here with more introspective depictions from Britain and France, including works by Paul Nash and the lesser-known Christopher Wynne Richard Nevinson. Tate Britain, SW1, to 23 September Thomas Cole; Ed Ruscha Hudson River school painter Cole was one of the most interesting US artists of the 19th century, and his Course of Empire cycle is a compelling vision of history’s tragic grandeur. In a parallel exhibition, subversive LA painter and conceptualist Ruscha gives a contemporary take on America’s empire. The National Gallery, WC2, to 7 October Talisman in the Age of Difference Yinka Shonibare explores magic as a form of artistic resistance in this multimedia exhibition. He has curated a rich and wide-ranging survey of African diaspora art from Jacob Lawrence’s paintings to “the Warhol of Marrakesh” Hassan Hajjaj. Perhaps the most truly magical artist here, though, is Betye Saar, whose altar-like installations emit a mysterious, supernatural enchantment. Stephen Friedman Gallery, W1, to 21 July Virginia Woolf Works ranging from the eerily still, ascetic portraits of Gwen John to the gender masquerades of surrealist photographer Claude Cahun are seen here through the lens of Woolf, in an exhibition dedicated to the author’s singular modernist vision. It is not hard to see how Cahun in particular shares the radicalism of her identity-shifting novel Orlando. Woolf’s sister – the Bloomsbury group artist Vanessa Bell – also stars. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Saturday 9 June to 16 September Howard Hodgkin This emotional, sensual, passionate artist of colour and memory left a last legacy of raw and expressive paintings that rage against the dying of the light. Hodgkin was ill and frail in his final years, yet managed to keep painting until just a few weeks before his death last March at the age of 84. This exhibition charts the last decade of his art and is a powerful reminder of his brilliance. Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, Saturday 9 June to 28 July JJ Art Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Grayson Perry – one of the contemporary art world’s most recognisable presences – curates this year’s RA Summer Exhibition. The show’s “biggest, brightest and most colourful” iteration yet, it features creations by the likes of Anish Kapoor and David Hockney and YBAs including Tracey Emin and Michael Landy. Royal Academy of Arts, W1, Tuesday 12 June to 19 August HJD Five of the best ... theatre shows An Octoroon Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s knowing comment on racial representation is a madcap evening of subversion that riffs on Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama about the relationship between a cotton plantation heir and a woman of one-eighth African ancestry. First seen at the Orange Tree in Richmond, Ned Bennett’s production is as fearless as the play. National Theatre: Dorfman, SE1, to 18 July Wind Resistance Karine Polwart’s solo show – made with a large team of mostly female artists – is a thing of beauty. Melding folk song and music with myth and stories hewn from the landscape itself, it is a beguiling portrait of life on Fala Moor, Midlothian, a place of beauty and harshness. Eden Court, Inverness, Saturday 9; Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, Friday 15 to 17 June; touring to 28 July Three Sisters RashDash are on form with this reimagining of Chekhov’s play that asks questions around creation; whether a drama written by a dead, white male more than 100 years ago can speak to women today; and who gets to decide which art should be valued (elderly, white, male critics, mostly). Brilliantly funny yet deadly serious, philosophical yet playful, this multi-layered evening transforms Three Sisters into the musical it should always have been. The Yard, E9, Saturday 9; Tobacco Factory, Bristol, Tuesday 12 to 16 June The Last Ship Sting’s musical, about a Tyneside shipyard on the brink of extinction, sank in 2015 after four months on Broadway. No matter. With a rewritten book and a rousing production from Northern Stage’s Lorne Campbell, the show has been relaunched and it’s a popular charmer that’s full of heart. Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, Saturday 9; Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Tuesday 12 to 16 June; touring to 7 July Romeo and Juliet It is always considerably far longer than the “two hours traffick of our stage”, but Erica Whyman’s fleet-footed staging makes the time fly. This is a Romeo and Juliet for today, made all the more poignant by the number of knife-crime deaths this year. Leads Karen Fishwick and Bally Gill are engaging, while Charlotte Josephine’s Mercutio is alert to what it means to be one of the gang when the gang is predominantly male. Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, to 21 September; touring to 10 January LG Three of the best ... dance shows Rhiannon Faith: Smack That (A Conversation) In her latest work, choreographer and performance artist Faith addresses issues of domestic abuse. Constructed as a party with an all-female cast of guests, its mix of dance, game-playing and confessionals becomes a channel for each performer to express their own real-life experiences. Barbican Centre: The Pit, EC2, Tuesday 12 to 16 June Birmingham Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet & Mixed Bill BRB’s short London season matches Kenneth MacMillan’s seminal production of the Shakespeare-Prokofiev classic with a bill of contemporary ballets that includes Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room and a new work by George Williamson. Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Tuesday 12 to 16 June Ballet Cymru: Cinderella The intrepid Welsh company puts a fresh spin on the fairytale classic, with a newly commissioned score and elements of circus mixed in with the classical dance. Lincoln, Sunday 10; Bury St Edmunds, Monday 11 & Tuesday 12; Newcastle-under-Lyme, Wednesday 13; Tewkesbury, Friday 15 June; touring to 7 July JM

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Samantha Bee on Wednesday night apologized for her remark about Ivanka Trump last week – but said she “hated that this distracted from other issues” and said that if men were offended by her use of the word, “I do not care”. Samantha Bee: ‘I never intended to hurt anyone, except Ted Cruz’ Bee returned to TV screens for the first time since her apology that followed her calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” during a segment on the administration’s immigration policy. She opened the show by saying: “A lot of people were offended and angry that I used an epithet to describe the president’s daughter and adviser last week. It is a word I have used on the show many times, hoping to reclaim it. This time, I used it as an insult. I crossed the line. I regret it. And I do apologize for that.” She continued: “The problem is that many women have heard that word at the worst moments of their lives. A lot of them don’t want that word reclaimed; they want it gone. And I don’t blame them. I want this show to be challenging and I want it to be honest, but I never intended it to hurt anyone, except Ted Cruz.” She went on: “Many men were also offended by my use of the word. I do not care about that.” Bee expressed regret, too, that the uproar over her comments contributed “to the nightmare of news we’re white-knuckling through”. She said: “I hate that this distracted from more important issues. I hate that I did something to contribute to the nightmare of 24-hour news cycles that we’re all white-knuckling through. I should have known that a potty-mouthed insult would be inherently more interesting to them than juvenile immigration policy. I would do anything to help those kids. I hate that this distracted from them, so to them, I am also sorry.” She concluded: “If you are worried about the death of civility, don’t sweat it. I’m a comedian. People who hone their voices in basement bars while yelling back at drunk hecklers are definitely not paragons of civility. I am really sorry I said that word, but civility is just nice words. Maybe we should all worry a little bit more about the niceness of our actions.” Stephen Colbert: ‘OJ, will you accept this rose?’ CBS’s Stephen Colbert discussed Trump’s commutation of the sentence of Alice Johnson, a first-time non-violent drug offender who was jailed for life for cocaine trafficking. Colbert said: “He did the right thing. She didn’t deserve to be in there. But maybe he did the right thing for the wrong reason, because there was no formal legal process or review as there normally is. Trump just commuted her sentence because of a meeting with Kim Kardashian.” Colbert was referring to Kardashian’s visit to the White House last week, where she reportedly lobbied the president to pardon Johnson. “So executive clemency is now just a reality TV show,” the host joked. “OJ, will you accept this rose?” Colbert then noted that Trump has used the pardon extensively so far, for Joe Arpaio, as well as Scooter Libby, Dinesh D’Souza, and the late boxer Jack Johnson. Colbert noted that Trump is reportedly preparing paperwork to pardon up to 30 others. He said: “OK, let’s see who we got here. Iron Mike Tyson, Charlie Sheen, the hot mugshot convict, the Noid, Hannibal Lecter, Fred Flintstone, and Osama bin Laden. Take that, Obama. Now you murdered an innocent man.” Trevor Noah: ‘Facebook figured out how to monetize our arguments’ Finally, Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah covered recent reports about Facebook’s previously undisclosed data-sharing partnerships with various Chinese tech companies. “Facebook, the Myspace of Twitter,” he began. “Are they violating our privacy? Can we trust them with our data? And why do so many people in my news feed have border collies who need kidney transplants?” The host then showed a news segment detailing Facebook’s data-sharing partnership with the Chinese electronic companies including Huawei, the world’s thing largest phone maker and, according to US intelligence, a potential national security threat. Noah went on: “Facebook says that they want to change, but I don’t know how easy it’ll be for the company, considering that the core of its business is to turn your information into profits, which they’re really good at doing.” The company, Noah noted, netted $40bn in advertising revenue in 2017, making up 98% of its total revenue. The host also showed clips of cable news commentators explaining how the company exploits polarization. “That’s right,” Noah said. “The human impulse to get into an argument, never back down, and then die before ever conceding a single point, Facebook figured out how to monetize that.”

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Samantha Bee repeats Ivanka Trump apology but hits back at faux outrage

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Late-night hosts on Tuesday addressed Donald Trump’s cancellation of the White House celebration featuring the Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles after it was reported the majority of players did not plan to attend. Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah discussed the president’s decision to cancel the event. “For the 500th consecutive day of the Trump presidency, there is drama coming out of this administration,” Noah began. “This year, most of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles said that they would not be visiting President Trump. And so the president replied: ‘I broke up with you first.’” Noah went on: “Can we just acknowledge how weird it is that under Trump no one wants to visits the White House anymore. The Golden State Warriors wouldn’t go last year. The Eagles won’t go this year. In fact, the Cleveland Browns released a statement saying the only reason they’ve never won the Super Bowl is because they don’t want to meet Trump. Apparently they’re not losing, they’re #resisting.” “If you were the president and, like, 40 out of 50 players said they weren’t coming to your party, you’d probably be embarrassed,” the host said. “Or you’d come up with a crafty excuse about how those players didn’t stand you up. They stood America up.” Trump, Noah explained, held an event dubbed the “Celebration of America”, where he led hundreds on the South Lawn, including a group of Marines, in a rendition of the anthem and God Bless America. “If you’re thinking, I’ve never heard of an anthem party, yeah, there’s no such thing,” the host joked. “Whenever Trump is losing an argument, he just grabs the anthem and holds it in front of himself,” said Noah, before impersonating the president. “You wouldn’t hurt the anthem, would you?” Noah then showed footage from the event, where Trump appeared not to know the words to the song God Bless America. “You know, you would think if you invited people over for a patriotism party,” Noah said, “you would at least know the words to America’s favorite songs.” Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert began: “If you’re a sports fan, there is a tradition that when you win the Super Bowl you go to the White House. Well, the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles were supposed to be at the White House today but last night the White House press office issued a statement from the president that said the Eagles were disinvited because,” the host quoted, “‘They disagree with their president because he insists that they proudly stand for the national anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.’” “But here’s the thing,” Colbert said. “No Eagles players took a knee or stayed in the locker room during the anthem last season. So Donald Trump is blaming a group of black guys for something they didn’t do. He’ll have to rename the Eagles the Central Park Five.” “But Fox News never lets the truth get in the way of a good story,” the host said, noting that, in a segment about Trump’s decision to disinvite the team, the network showed numerous photos of Philadelphia Eagles players kneeling in prayer while telling viewers the players were kneeling during the anthem. “Eagles tight end Zach Ertz pointed out on Twitter that was actually footage of him praying before games with teammates well before the anthem,” Colbert added. “Faced with the fact that he got this wrong, Trump doubled down on Twitter and attacked the NFL’s new compromise of letting players stay in the locker room before the anthem.” Colbert continued: “So if the Eagles didn’t protest the anthem, then why did Donald Trump cancel this event? Well, I’m guessing maybe, possibly, because the only people planning to attend from the team were two or three players, the owner and the mascot.” “So it’s crazy, but here’s the extra-crazy sauce,” Colbert said. “When Trump disinvited the Eagles, he didn’t cancel the event.” Instead, the host explained, he held a an event to “honor our great country, pay tribute to the heroes who fight to protect it, and loudly and proudly play the national anthem”. “Yeah, forget the Eagles!” the host quipped. “We’re going to celebrate the symbols of our country, like, Eagles!”

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2018-06-06T13:43:00Z

Trevor Noah on Trump's response to the Eagles: 'I broke up with you first'

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A former jihadist who was scheduled to speak at the Tasmanian festival Dark Mofo will instead join the event via video-conference, after the Australian immigration department failed to approve his visa in time. Muhammad Manwar Ali is a British national who fought alongside jihadist groups from the early 1980s to the mid-090s, travelling to Afghanistan, Kashmir and Burma to fight while on holidays from his job as an engineer from a British telecom. Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning He also acted as a recruiter, before rejecting his former comrades and working as an advocate against extremist Islam, founding Muslim education charity Jimas and working as an expert consultant for the UK home office and crown prosecution service. Ali was scheduled to appear in an on-stage interview with renowned journalist Peter Greste in Hobart on Sunday, followed by a panel to discuss “Sanctioned Killing” alongside a former Tamil Tiger and an elite Australian soldier. The panel is sponsored by Guardian Australia and moderated by reporter Ben Doherty. The event is part of the Dark and Dangerous Thoughts symposium, which is part of the lead up to Dark Mofo, a yearly winter festival run by the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art (Mona). Instead, festival organisers say, he will be streamed via satellite link from London. “As a former violent jihadist turned peace activist, Manwar Ali has a unique experience to share,” Laura Kroetsch, director of Dark and Dangerous Thoughts, said. “We will not give up on bringing Manwar to Australia. We have extended an invitation to Muhammad Manwar Ali to appear at next year’s Dark and Dangerous Thoughts. We will now request the Department of Home Affairs to roll his visa application over to next year.” Mona said Ali’s visa application was submitted on 30 April — 38 days ago — and that the process of applying for a short visit entertainment visa usually took 21 days weeks. The department website says that 90% of applications for a short-stay entertainment visa are processed within 21 days but warns that processing times may vary. Ali’s application may have failed under the requirement that all entrants to Australia pass the character test, which includes being a member of an organisation that engaged in criminal conduct. A person would also fail the character test if the immigration minister “reasonably suspects” that they have been involved in a war crime or “a crime that is of serious international concern”. A spokeswoman for the department said they did not comment on individual cases but that each case was assessed on its merits, which may impact processing times. “There are strong provisions under the Act to refuse or cancel a visa where a person is found not to be of good character,” she said. In 2016, immigration minister Peter Dutton told his department to monitor a visa application by a “neo-masculinist” figure who suggested he might tour in Australia. In 2014, the department cancelled the visa of so-called “pick-up artist” Julien Blanc for promoting violence against women. Alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was granted a visa to Australia last year, and was invited to visit parliament, but his tour was met with protests and calls for Dutton to cancel his visa on character grounds. Tasmanian state president of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Fabiano Cangelosi, criticised the department for not approving Ali’s visa under normal timeframes, and said it was part of a growing push by the federal government to tighten immigration policy in a way that infringes upon human rights. “Protecting the basic right to free speech is essential to maintaining the kind of country we all want to live in,” Cangelosi said. “This Government has asserted the importance of traditional freedoms such as freedom of speech. Unfortunately, we are increasingly seeing laws passed that compromise these fundamental rights.”

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Immigration fails to approve visa of former jihadist for Dark Mofo festival

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Late-night hosts on Monday discussed Donald Trump’s claim that he can pardon himself and the resumption of diplomatic talks with North Korea ahead of the planned 12 June summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore. Trevor Noah Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah addressed the president’s announcement that the planned summit between the US and North Korea would be taking place, just weeks after it was formally cancelled. “In general, I’m not a big fan of President Trump,” Noah said. “But the one area where I’m rooting for him is with North Korea. I want him to win that Nobel peace prize, mostly just to see him bite into it because he thinks it’s chocolate.” The host then showed news coverage of the run-up to the summit, which Trump has reportedly coined as a “getting-to-know-you meeting, plus”. Noah replied: “What? A ‘getting-to-know-you meeting, plus’? Plus what? Plus onion rings? Or plus a plan to shut down North Korea’s nuclear program? Maybe he means plus an NDA, because that’s usually how he gets to know someone. “Still,” Noah continued, “the summit is officially back on. Don’t get too excited yet. If anything, I think we should treat this like the Roseanne reboot. Sure, it’s on now. But it’s only one 3am tweet away from getting cancelled again. “For now, we can enjoy how North Korea got back on the president’s good side,” Noah said, showing news coverage of the vice-chairman of North Korea’s ruling party, Kim Yong-chol, delivering a letter to the White House, making him the first North Korean official to visit in 20 years. “Look at how excited he is about his giant envelope. “So, what did that letter say that convinced Trump to resume denuclearization talks with North Korea?” the host wondered. “Well, that’s what reporters outside the White House wanted to know.” When asked about the “flavor” of the letter, Trump told reporters it was a “very nice” and “very interesting” letter. Several minutes later, though, Trump said he purposely hadn’t yet opened the letter. “There are times when I understand why Trump lies because it’s about something important, like this is the biggest tax cut in history, or no collusion, or my wife hasn’t left me,” Noah said. “But going from the letter is interesting and great to I haven’t read it in under 10 minutes: that’s just wasting a lie.” He added: “It’s like getting to ask God one question and going: ‘Wasssuuuuupppp?’” Stephen Colbert “Today is Donald Trump’s 500th day in office,” Stephen Colbert began. “Which means, congratulations, we have made it through the first trimester of his presidency.” “But for some reason, my nausea hasn’t gone away,” Colbert continued. “You know what else isn’t going away? The Mueller investigation, no matter how hard Trump tries.” The host then read aloud a tweet Trump sent on Monday morning: “As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?” “I love riddles,” Colbert joked. “I know this one. It’s because if you bring the grain over the river first, the fox will collude with the Russians to get the chicken.” The host proceeded to share the memo, acquired by the New York Times, sent by Trump’s legal defense team to special counsel Robert Mueller, claiming Trump “could, if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon if he so desired”. “In the memo, Trump’s lawyers also argue that the president shouldn’t have to sit down for an interview with Mueller, because having him testify demeans the office of the president before the world,” Colbert explained. “Adding, now if you’ll excuse us, the president has to go get spanked by a porn star while watching his shark stories.” Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, defended the president’s power to pardon himself in a television interview with Chuck Todd, Colbert noted. Giuliani added, though: “It’s not going to happen, so it’s a hypothetical point.” Colbert continued: “He has a point. There is nothing in the constitution that stops him. After all, it says in article II, section 2: ‘The president shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons’ … which I guess, hypothetically, includes … himself?” Jimmy Kimmel Finally, Jimmy Kimmel briefly remarked on Trump’s 500th day in office. “Today, in case you didn’t know, is a bigly day for our president,” he said. “Today is Donald Trump’s 500th day in office which, I have to say, it feels like only yesterday that it was Trump’s 1,000th day in office.” Kimmel added: “Tonight will mark Trump’s 500th night of getting Cheese Whiz all over the Lincoln bedspread.” “The president congratulated himself on Twitter today,” the host noted, reading his tweet aloud. “This is my 500th. Day in Office and we have accomplished a lot - many believe more than any President in his first 500 days. Massive Tax & Regulation Cuts, Military & Vets, Lower Crime & Illegal Immigration, Stronger Borders, Judgeships, Best Economy & Jobs EVER, and much more …” “Donald JLo Trump has accomplished so much in his interminably short 500 days, so we thought it fitting to celebrate all his many accomplishments tonight,” Kimmel said, before showing a video of Trump’s time on the golf course while in office. “Happy 500, Mr President. I’ll see you on the back nine.”

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2018-06-05T13:54:39Z

Trevor Noah on Trump-Kim summit: ‘We should treat this like the Roseanne reboot’

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/05/trevor-noah-daily-show-trump-kim-summit-roseanne

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Born in London in 1956, Don Letts is a film-maker, musician and DJ who straddled the dub-reggae and punk scenes in the 70s, introducing the latter to the former through his King’s Road shop, Acme Attractions, and influential DJ sets at the Roxy. He directed music videos for the Clash and in 1984 formed Big Audio Dynamite with ex-Clash member Mick Jones. His documentaries include the Grammy award-winning Clash: Westway to the World (2000), and most recently The Story of Skinhead for BBC Four. Letts hosts a weekly Sunday night show, Don Letts’ Culture Clash Radio, on BBC 6 Music. 1. Film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (Dir James Gunn, 2017) I love this film. It’s a superhero movie based on Marvel characters – one of many, obviously – who romp around the universe getting involved in all kinds of shenanigans. The team includes a foul-mouthed raccoon and a tree-like, humanoid creature that can only say the words: “I am Groot.” He died in Vol 1 and it almost had me in tears. But he left a cutting, and in Vol 2 this cutting becomes a teenage Groot. He’s one of my favourite movie characters of all time. I’ve got a plant in my garden, a thing called a gunnera, that I’ve named Groot in his honour. 2. Book Afrofuturism by Ytasha Womack This book examines the cultural aesthetic of Afrofuturism, which a lot of people think of as funky black dudes with afros, shiny suits and shades – the likes of Sun Ra, George Clinton and Janelle Monáe. Afrofuturism really is a mix of African diaspora culture with philosophy, history, science and technology. It has a long literary, cinematic, academic, musical and artistic legacy. Black culture has almost hit a brick wall by playing to the old street thing, whereas Afrofuturism is about looking to the galaxy, not the ghetto. This book fleshes out that idea in a very interesting way. 3. Radio BBC 6 Music What a surprise, I’ve picked a radio station that I’ve got a show on. But it ain’t about that. Before I got the show I was listening to the station every day. To the people who present the programmes, music’s not a hobby, it’s not a job, it’s an integral part of their lives and I think that’s what separates 6 Music from other stations. I love Mary Anne Hobbs’s show, and Gilles Peterson on a Saturday afternoon is essential. Listening to them helps me keep up to date. 4. Restaurant Turtle Bay, Brixton Taste is another one of the senses that I like to please. Turtle Bay is a Caribbean-themed place with outlets across the UK, but the Brixton branch is my favourite because that’s where I grew up. It has fantastic decor, killer music, delicious food and some dangerous cocktails. You’ve got your jerks, your gumbos – a healthy selection of Caribbean flavours – and they’re playing the history and legacy of Jamaican music. It’s a good night out. 5. Record shop Rough Trade West, Notting Hill If music is my religion, then Rough Trade is my church, and the owner of the shop, Nigel, and his crew, they preach a mean sermon. It’s partly because of them that I appear hip on my radio show, because they’re turning me on to new stuff. I owe them big time. It’s a great waterhole for creative people to meet up and exchange ideas. In the digital age, places where like-minded people can congregate and look each other in the eye can’t be a bad thing. 6. Music God’s Favorite Customer, Father John Misty I’m really looking forward to the new Father John Misty album. Pure Comedy was one of my favourite albums of a couple of years ago. I’ve heard a few tracks from the new one, including Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All, and they haven’t disappointed. The guy is a genius, his lyrics are very clever. He’s got a vocal tone that sounds like an early Elton John, and you’ve got to love a guy who takes acid to relax. I’m an absolute fan. 7. Animal Beaver I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before publicly, but I’ve managed to accumulate what is probably the biggest collection of beaver paraphernalia in the UK. What started out as a joke between me and my wife, Grace – who’s American, by the way – has gone on for 30 years, with each of us trying to outdo the other, trying to find the most impressive beaver-related items on our travels. Consequently, my home is overrun with the furry little critters, including a mechanised one that [photographer] Bob Gruen got me from Las Vegas and a branch chewed by beavers that was given to me by Jim Jarmusch. Don Letts fronts this year’s 50th anniversary celebrations of reggae label Trojan Records

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On my radar: Don Letts’s cultural highlights

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