MusicReviewSidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
Blending old hits with languid tracks from their latest album, the talented Mr Turner seems to be on autopilot – but who cares when the songs are so good?
It’s a cloudy night in Melbourne, but of course the sunglasses stay on. There are few frontmen touring today who lean into the theatrics of rockstardom as effortlessly as Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys. At least these days, it seems like he’s enjoying it.
Film industryChris Rock: 'If Jennifer Lawrence were black, she’d really have something to complain about'Comic and actor highlights yet greater discrepancies for women of colour in Hollywood pay debate
Chris Rock, the stand-up comic and film-maker, has cautioned that the gender pay debate in Hollywood risks overlooking the injustice of black actors being paid less than their white counterparts.
Speaking as part of a profile of the Saturday Night Live actor Leslie Jones in the New Yorker, Rock appeared to take exception to the territory staked out by Jennifer Lawrence, saying that if she wasn’t white, she would have more cause for complaint.
Ask PhilippaRelationshipsDon’t take your feelings too seriously, observe them instead. This will help you to make sense of them
The question Please take this seriously as I really need some genuine advice. I have a crush on someone who I feel completely consumed by whenever I see or even think about them. We’re both married and we only talk face to face, never online. I have to admit that he has never given me any reason to think he likes me in that way.
Music This article is more than 6 years oldKevin Garcia, Grandaddy bassist and co-founder, dies aged 41This article is more than 6 years oldMusician’s sudden death comes only weeks after acclaim for the band’s first album in over a decade
Kevin Garcia, bassist and co-founder of Grandaddy, has died following a stroke, aged 41.
Breaking this newson Facebook, the band explained they we were all able to “say goodbye to him” and he was “surrounded by his closest friends and family in Modesto”, California, before his death on 2 May.
TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewCovering a century in 90 minutes means this is more of a supersonic, low-level skim through the past than an in-depth exploration
Never mind Ewan McGregor, wait until you meet his brother. Colin – who is also handsome with a nice accent – is a pilot. He saw active service in Iraq and now trains the next generation of instructors. Colin doesn’t just pretend, he actually does.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s belongings to be auctioned – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email More than 300 objects relating to emperor are being sold by French auction house Osenat, marking the 200th anniversary of his death
Main image: A portrait of Napoleon wearing the uniform of a horse hunter of the Imperial Guard. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters Wed 5 May 2021 02.
TV tonightTelevision & radioThe team behind Leaving Neverland explore the controversial influencer’s rise to online fame. Plus: the nation’s favourite pottery competition returns. Here’s what to watch this evening
I Am Andrew TateSunday, 9pm, Channel 4There is an argument that Andrew Tate – the toxic “king of masculinity” who has become one of the most Googled people in the world – shouldn’t be given a second more airtime. Misogynistic narcissists lap up any such attention as ammunition.
Wayne McGregor’s UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The acclaimed choreographer’s new production reimagines Jim Henson’s epic adventure film – take a look inside
All photographs by Tristram Kenton
Main image: Dancers in UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Mon 15 May 2023 03.37 EDT Last modified on Fri 19 May 2023 07.
The ObserverFictionReviewBody horror and fear of the doppelganger invade the US suburbs in Alexandra Kleeman’s brilliant debutOn the first page of Alexandra Kleeman’s novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, the narrator – a young woman known only as “A” – recalls a newspaper article she read about a Russian man who, when he began coughing up blood and a subsequent x-ray showed a mass “with a spreading shape, rag-edged” in his chest, everyone assumed had cancer.
Japan This article is more than 10 years oldFukushima boss hailed as hero diesThis article is more than 10 years oldMasao Yoshida defied management of power company Tepco by cooling nuclear reactors with seawater to staunch meltdownMasao Yoshida – whose actions as manager of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant during its triple meltdown averted an even greater disaster – has died.
Yoshida, 58, took early retirement from the plant's operator, Tepco, in late 2011 after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.