Exodus: Blood In, Blood Out review feral energy and refined catchiness
MetalReview(Nuclear Blast)The last two Exodus albums took the Bay Area thrash legends into firmly progressive and contemporary territory, with a bewildering number of riffs piled up like bones on a funeral pyre. While those records confirmed the band’s ability to move with the times, it’s hard to deny that Blood In, Blood Out’s wholesale return to the vicious thrash simplicity that Exodus helped to define 30 years ago is a joyous and welcome development.
He was treated like a holy figure: why Captain Beefheart quit music for the easel
PaintingHe was a musical maverick whose Trout Mask Replica still sticks out on best-of lists, but when he gave up rock to paint, his art was dismissed as doodles. Now his remarkable work is getting its due
Located on a street off London’s Park Lane the Michael Werner Gallery is the epitome of moneyed art world chic: situated in a Georgian townhouse, so discreet a passerby would never know it was there.
Pierre Cardin's Bubble Palace near Cannes in pictures | Money
Pierre Cardin's Bubble Palace near Cannes – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Straight lines were anathema to architect Antti Lovag, and you will not find a single one in this complex of domes overlooking the Med being sold by the fashion designer
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Main image: For sale: Pierre Cardin’s Palais Bulles on the French Riviera at Théoule-sur-Mer near Cannes.
The real life Forrest Gump: why did Rob Pope run across the US five times?
The ObserverFitnessForrest Gump’s wisdom has inspired many of us, but Rob Pope took that a step further, dressing as his hero for the run of his life. But why? And what did he learn?
On 15 September 2016, Rob Pope, a chipper veterinarian from Liverpool, sat down in the chair of Fluke’s Barbers in Mobile, Alabama, and readied himself for a haircut. “So what would you like?” the barber asked him.
The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag review gruesome Swedish thriller
Crime fictionReviewA debut vividly depicts acts of cruelty in lawless 18th-century Stockholm – but are its shocks gratuitous?As aficionados of modern Nordic noir in print and on television we have grown familiar with the endless night of northern winters, stark landscapes that conceal unspeakable acts of cruelty, flawed and damaged protagonists compelled to battle their own demons as they pursue the perpetrators. In The Wolf and the Watchman, his first novel and a bestseller in his native Sweden, Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist.
In the Summertime: how Mungo Jerry made a sweltering classic
How we madePop and rock‘I still had my old job when it went to No 1. There were women chasing me across the factory floor’
Ray Dorset, singer, songwriterI still had a day job at a laboratory when the melody for In the Summertime entered my head. The lyric took 10 minutes to write. When I was young, my family always went to Hayling Island, in Hampshire, for holidays; great affairs with about 20 of us.
My family in Gaza ask me can you postpone nightfall, for that is when the bombing arrives | Sa
OpinionGaza This article is more than 2 years oldMy family in Gaza ask me ‘can you postpone nightfall’, for that is when the bombing arrivesThis article is more than 2 years oldSamiha OlwanAs the days pass, it gets harder to stay in touch. My friends send photos to me in Australia of their children sleeping under tables, covering their ears and eyes against death
I haven’t seen my younger brother, Abdallah, in person for more than four years.
Sweeney Todd review a solid, haunting take on Sondheims demon barber
Antoinette Halloran and Ben Mingay in Sweeney Todd, which runs at Sydney Opera House until 27 August. Photograph: Daniel BoudAntoinette Halloran and Ben Mingay in Sweeney Todd, which runs at Sydney Opera House until 27 August. Photograph: Daniel BoudMusicalsReviewDrama theatre, Sydney Opera House
This dark and theatrical production doesn’t carve out new territory but its commanding cast deliver a crowd pleaser
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Revenge is a doomed undertaking in Sweeney Todd.
The big picture: Yves Kleins dive into immortality
Le Saut dans le vide, October 1960 by Yves Klein. Succession Yves Klein c/o ADAGP, ParisLe Saut dans le vide, October 1960 by Yves Klein. Succession Yves Klein c/o ADAGP, ParisThe big picturePhotographySo how did the French artist pull off this giant leap? He swore his accomplices to secrecy, and the mystery remained for 50 years…
The story goes that the artist Yves Klein practised his famous jump from a second-floor window onto the pavement of a Paris suburb a few times before it was photographed.
The kids of Jesus Camp, 10 years later: 'Was it child abuse? Yes and no'
Levi O’Brien was 12 years old when he was featured in Jesus Camp. Camp activities included protesting abortion outside the supreme court. Photograph: Courtesy of Loki FilmsLevi O’Brien was 12 years old when he was featured in Jesus Camp. Camp activities included protesting abortion outside the supreme court. Photograph: Courtesy of Loki FilmsDocumentary filmsThe controversial 2006 documentary about an evangelical church camp outraged secular audiences, but its subjects have mixed memories Ten-year-old Andrew Sommerkamp, with his shy demeanor and floppy blond hair, mounts the stage of the Kids On Fire church camp, and nervously tells the crowd that he’s struggling with his belief in God.