Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells’s viral story of her crazily dangerous 2015 trip to Florida in search of pole-dancing money is brought to the screen with seductive comedyIn 2015, a part-time dancer from Detroit called Aziah “Zola” Wells went viral with a cheeky Tw…
A bride waving a flag in bombed-out Beirut: Christine Spengler’s best photograph
‘Shortly after arriving, I was kidnapped by a militia group who said I was a spy. A decade later, I went back to show life and beauty returning to the city’I spent my childhood in Madrid and I went to the Prado every week from the age of seven. I would…
‘The very worst things we could imagine’: a terrifying documentary on US wildfires
In Bring Your Own Brigade, British film-maker Lucy Walker takes us back to the California tragedies of 2018 and a crisis that continues to rage on“In the Christian imagination,” says Lucy Walker’s voiceover, “hell is fire pits, it’s being burned alive….
Cooking With Paris review – Hilton in the kitchen? Prepare to have your mind blown
The Netflix show sees the heiress whip up ‘meals’ of glitter and gold with the likes of Kim Kardashian. But can someone really go through life without knowing what a whisk is?Can anyone be truly baffled by chives, you wonder. Would anyone really not kn…
‘It has our energy, our story’: asakaa, Ghana’s vibrant drill rap scene
From the US and UK, drill has spread to Ghana, where it provides a voice for the excluded. On the streets of Kumasi, the scene’s MCs tell their storyAhead of a music video shoot on a leafy street in Kumasi, Ghana’s second city, Yaw Tog and his friends …
All Hands on Deck review – fresh and funny French holiday romance
A romantic surprise has unexpected consequences in a gentle comedy channelling Éric Rohmer crossed with Carry on CampingHere is a terrifically fresh, funny and gentle film from director and co-writer Guillaume Brac, which takes quite seriously somethin…
Why don’t you get a jab? Offspring drummer ousted after refusing Covid vaccine
Pete Parada says ‘it been decided that I am unsafe to be around, in the studio, and on tour’ after turning down treatment on medical groundsPete Parada, drummer with Californian pop-punks the Offspring, has said he has been ousted from the band over hi…
What’s on Netflix and Amazon this month – August
Our monthly rundown of the best new releases on Netflix, Amazon, iPlayer, All4, Sky/Now and more in the UK Continue reading…
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah review – extraordinarily dynamic
A sensitive and honest collection of interviews explores freedom and sexuality beyond every conceivable stereotypeHere is a book like none you will have read before. It draws on interviews conducted over six years by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah – a Ghanaian …
Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art
When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response“What do you suppose is the effect intended to be of equippi…