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Norfolk Police Commissioner faces backlash over planned theatre tour
Colin Sutton, the Reform UK Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, faced cross-party criticism after it emerged he plans to combine his £79,000-a-year role with a gruelling 127-date theatre tour throughout 2027. Politicians from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties, including shadow policing minister Matt Vickers, local MPs and council leaders, accused him of treating…
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Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds
The Southbank Centre in London is hosting Playing With Fire, a virtual reality installation that lets audiences experience pianist Yuja Wang performing as if in two places at once. Reviewed as part of the Guardian’s arts coverage, the piece pairs nine musical works with nine immersive digital dreamworlds, likening the effect to “Disney’s Fantasia on…
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Meta may have leaked the first look at its slim ‘Project Phoenix’ headset
Images apparently leaked from a Meta firmware package have given an early glimpse of “Project Phoenix”, a slim headset that appears to sit between bulky mixed-reality headsets and lightweight smart glasses. The find, first reported by UploadVR, comes shortly before Meta Connect begins on 23 September and suggests the company is positioning the device to…
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
The Israeli film-makers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham have made NAZA, a documentary compiling testimony from 24 anonymised Israeli military and intelligence insiders who helped build and operate an AI-driven system for targeting homes in Gaza. Produced by the Guardian and competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, the film matters because…
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AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle
A former AT&T retail worker in Portland, Oregon, has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for using his access to the company’s systems to carry out SIM-swap attacks on behalf of a wider criminal network. Kenneth Carter, 44, reassigned customers’ phone numbers to devices controlled by co-conspirators, allowing them to intercept SMS-based two-factor…
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High school sweethearts and their two sons are killed in an instant when ‘tired’ pickup driver crashed into them, police say
Two high school sweethearts and their two young sons were killed in Arizona after a pickup truck driver allegedly fell asleep at the wheel and collided head-on with their car. Giovanni Huerta and Kiah Begaye, both 26, along with their sons Dakota, four, and Malakai, two, died instantly in the crash, which has devastated their…
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Liz Larner review – crystal comets crash to Earth yet fail to make much impact
Liz Larner’s first UK institutional exhibition, at Camden Art Centre in London, features new ceramic and plastic sculptures alongside a handful of older pieces, but the pairing struggles to cohere. The show centres on around half a dozen glittering ceramic sculptures modelled on Nasa scans of real asteroids, intended as symbols of corporate greed, ecological…
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My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse Unveil Neil Young Covers for Tribute Albums: Stream
My Morning Jacket and Modest Mouse have released new cover versions of Neil Young songs, previewing the next instalments of the charity tribute series Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young. My Morning Jacket recorded “Like a Hurricane” live in New Orleans with Preservation Hall Jazz Band, while Modest Mouse teamed up with Califone…
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Michelle Dockery leads Helen of Troy reimagining in civil war England
Ava Pickett’s new play “Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy” reimagines Greek myth in a modern English setting, following Helen of Troy as she returns to a Towie-style family living room amid the aftermath of a civil war sparked by her leaving her husband for a “foreigner”. Starring Michelle Dockery, the production draws unsettling parallels with…
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‘Their souls are in that steel’: 9/11 beam makes emotional stop in Indianapolis before return to NYC
A 21-foot steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center’s South Tower made a stop in Indianapolis last month as part of a nationwide “Steel Across America” tour marking the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Organised by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the tour is designed to let Americans, particularly younger generations with no…