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Slayyyter live review – raucous show announces a new princess of sleaze-pop
The Guardian’s review of Slayyyter’s Los Angeles show at the Shrine describes a raucous, sold-out performance that marks the cult pop star’s breakthrough into the mainstream. After struggling financially on her 2023 tour, the singer, born Catherine Slater, released Beat Up Chanel$ in 2025 and delivered a career-defining Coachella set, propelling her alongside other late-breaking…
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Frankie Thompson: Horrible Things review – a show to make you shudder with laughter
This is a review of Frankie Thompson’s fringe show “Horrible Things” at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, praising it as a wildly inventive mix of clowning and performance art. The reviewer highlights Thompson’s use of lip-synced audio clips and audience-involving stunts to satirise male figures and behaviour, giving the show a high rating for its comic invention…
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BBCSSO/Canellakis review – electrifying trio of women unleash the horror in Strauss’s Elektra
Karina Canellakis conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, drawing praise for the huge orchestra’s playing and, above all, for an outstanding cast of singers. Elektra’s vast instrumental forces, including heckelphones, basset horns and Wagner tubas, make staged productions impractical for all…
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Girl, 19, reveals her heartbreaking bucket list after deciding to stop treatment for terminal cancer
Alexa Gourneau, a 19-year-old from the US, has decided to stop treatment for leukaemia after a decade of chemotherapy, blood transfusions and hospital stays, choosing instead to spend her remaining time living as normally as possible. She was diagnosed with the disease aged nine, and her family says the constant medical intervention had left her…
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Notorious Colorado police department ignored 911 calls about man destroying community garden and bee hives… but quickly raced to scene to help HIM after he collapsed
Residents in Aurora, Colorado, say police failed to respond promptly to multiple 911 calls reporting a man rampaging through their neighbourhood, destroying a community garden and beehives, and only arrived after he collapsed and needed medical attention. Worku Woldemariam, 42, is accused of causing a string of destructive incidents over several days, including vandalising a…
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Guns, axes, explosives: violent museum heists are on the rise, says Europol
Europol has warned that robberies at European museums are becoming increasingly violent, with thieves using guns, sledgehammers, axes and even explosives rather than relying on the stealthier methods traditionally associated with cultural goods theft. The EU police agency said this shift towards forceful tactics could signal the involvement of new criminal networks, sometimes recruited on…
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First Brit dies while fighting for Russia in Ukraine: ‘Normal lad from Yorkshire’ is ‘killed by drone’
Bradley Townsend, a 33-year-old fisherman from Barnsley, has become the first known British national to die while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, killed by a drone strike in the eastern Donetsk region. He travelled to Russia in April 2026 with no prior military experience, saying he wanted to “repay the favour” to Donbas miners who…