(EMI)Like Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift before her, the New Zealand star embraces mellowness on a third album shaded by climate anxiety and a rejection of celebritySometimes, Solar Power – Lorde’s long-awaited third album – feels like the polar opposit…
Patsy Kensit: ‘You don’t have to marry all your boyfriends’
The actor, 53, talks about her charming dad, never reading her reviews in the papers, staying strong and eating nothing but shepherd’s pieWe grew up without money: two rooms and an outside loo. I remember shyly cowering behind the coal shed as Mum trie…
R Kelly sex-trafficking trial: manager used bribe to get Aaliyah fake ID
Demetrius Smith details moves to let singer marry 15-year-oldR Kelly denies charges in New York trialA former tour manager for R Kelly testified on Friday that he paid a $500 bribe to a government worker to get the singer Aaliyah a fake identification …
Gossip Girl: a trashily brilliant reboot that might make you feel ancient
Original viewers of the soapy drama may be horrified to see it has been revived with a new set of privileged teens – but at least it’s still entertainingIf you wanted to launch an overt attack on 30-year-olds, I could think of little better than reboot…
‘I came close to death’: David Harewood on racism and psychosis
Thirty years ago, fresh out of drama school, the Homeland star found himself in the midst of a breakdown, ending up in a locked hospital ward. He recalls the years of racial abuse that had pulled him apartWaking up in a mental institution is a strange …
Jesy Nelson on leaving Little Mix: ‘I felt everybody hated me’
The singer left one of the most successful girl bands of all time after a decade of relentless trolling. Now, as she prepares to go solo, she reveals why she’s ready to return to the spotlight on her own termsJesy Nelson is having her photo taken. For …
Serenity Now
Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s – “On the minus side, SerenityOS’s browser threw an exception—on the plus side, that Crash Reporter is a thing of beauty!” SerenityOS’s homegrown browser will need some more work…
The Song Project review – a mixed bag of theatrical ballads
Royal Court, LondonDutch singer Wende performs songs conceived by playwrights – on topics from bloody battles to online dating – with magnetism and a talent for storytellingIn this glorious experiment with mixed results, five playwrights – EV Crowe, Sa…
‘We’re beating this together’: Jemaine Clement on Covid, crime and his friend Taika Waititi
The co-creator of Wellington Paranormal and Flight of the Conchords is busy with new projects and looking forward to bingeing friends’ workIt’s a blustery Wellington night and we’re on the brink of the second nationwide lockdown of the pandemic. There’…
Twenty photographs of the week
The fall of Kabul, forest fires in California and the earthquake in Haiti – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…