20 iconic festival setsRapThe rapper could have faced hostility at the overheated, febrile festival but capitalised on one of rap’s biggest ever audiences with a show of awesome power Every couple of weeks on Twitter someone posts a video clip of DMX’s performance at Woodstock ’99, usually with a wry caption (“DMX performed for planet earth. Goals”) that references the never-ending crowd, crossing their arms into a sea of Xs.

Guns and liesMonterey Park shootingFor many Asians, therapy is taboo – but a year after LA’s worst mass shooting, some elders in the community are embracing it For the past 50 years, Shally Ung hadn’t spent much time thinking about the carnage she’d seen growing up in her native Cambodia. But those scenes of bombs raining down on Phnom Penh came roaring back on Lunar New Year last year, when a gunman opened fire at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park and killed 11 people.

CanadaNova Scotia man charged with starting province’s largest-ever wildfireDalton Clark Stewart, 22, accused of lighting Canada’s Barrington Lake fire, which burned for one month in 2023 A Nova Scotia man has been charged for allegedly starting the eastern Canadian province’s largest-ever wildfire. The charges against Dalton Clark Stewart, 22, come only days after a Quebec man, inspired by conspiracy theories, pleaded guilty to 14 charges of arson after deliberately lighting forest fires.

TV and radio blogTelevision & radioRewatching Bob Block’s 70s kids’ sitcom for Halloween reveals some surprisingly scary themes at work If your mind ever wanders back to the childrens’ TV show Rentaghost, chances are you’ll think of the gaudy 80s version, with characters like Hazel the McWitch, Nadia Popov and Dobbin the Pantomime Horse. But it didn’t start that way at all. The first series of Bob Block’s comedy for kids aired in 1976 with only three main ghosts.

Pop and rockInterviewSheila E: 'I'm mad that Prince isn't here any more'Emine SanerFollowing childhood abuse, music saved the musician’s life – and led to a creative and romantic partnership with Prince. Now she’s passing on her skills and beating the drum for Biden If you ever want to know how to turn a pair of electric drills into a percussion instrument – along with jars and saucepans – Sheila E can teach you.

TerrawatchLandslidesChanges in atmospheric pressure can set soils in motion hours or even days after heavy rain Can a change in the weather trigger a landslide? Sometimes, yes, according to research. Most landslides are set in motion by an earthquake or torrential rain, but some have no obvious trigger. In 2009, scientists were stunned to discover that the stop-start Slumgullion landslide in the Rocky Mountains – which has been inching down the hillside for 700 years – is triggered by changes in atmospheric pressure.

TV reviewPoetryReviewA dramatised narrative poem might sound a bit dull but this one with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson was wonderfulThere are certain phrases that make the spirits of all but the most truly, thoroughly, devotedly highbrow television viewers (and I am not one of the eight left in the country) quail within them. They are "a dramatisation of a narrative poem", "to mark National Poetry Day" and "starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson"

OpinionBanksy This article is more than 9 years oldBanksy wanted Clacton-on-Sea to confront racism – instead it confronted himThis article is more than 9 years oldJonathan JonesTendring district council has destroyed a painting that eloquently challenged views on immigration – was it too close to home? Council removes Banksy artwork after complaints of racism It must say something about the swirling currents of prejudice, fear and anger in modern Britain that even Banksy cannot predict their next bizarre lurch.

TheatreReviewAmbassadors theatre, London Jade Anouka’s character causes an existential earthquake in Marianne Elliott’s stylised revival of Mike Bartlett’s comedy about sexual identity The world has at last caught up with what Cock’s central character calls the “stew” of sexual identity. First performed in 2009, Mike Bartlett’s comedy might have seemed edgy then but today it echoes and affirms notions around the slipperiness of sexual labelling. Its hitherto gay protagonist, John (Jonathan Bailey), who lives with his long-term partner, M (Taron Egerton), triggers a three-way existential earthquake when he falls for a woman, W (Jade Anouka), and butts up against social expectations to define – or redefine – himself.

Fragile, fantastical designs in cardboard – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Daniel Agdag began working with cardboard after seeing his architect neighbour use it to mock up designs. The Melbourne-based artist and film-maker was struck by its ability to resemble timber or steel. “Cardboard gave me means to realise ideas I had only imagined previously,” he says.