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Vagina tunnels and sneaker closets: the escapist appeal of celebrity house tours
In new column Internet wormhole, Guardian Australia writers take you to their favourite corner of the web. First up: an inviting – and voyeuristic – YouTube series
Read more » | Desktop version »Middle Eastern stand-ups: ‘People assume we only do terrorist jokes’
Tired of racism on the comedy scene, Jenan Younis started her own night Weapons of Mass Hilarity – where gags about body hair and Farsi abound
Read more » | Desktop version »Notting Hill carnival launches fund for bands and artists hit by cancelled event
Financial hardship due to Covid pandemic put some performers’ futures in peril, say organisers
Read more » | Desktop version »Why is the photo of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez on a yacht so compelling?
It is as though, for one brief moment, nothing bad that has happened since 2002 matters
Read more » | Desktop version »Splendour XR: virtual music festival was an eerie, empty reminder of what we’ve lost
Splendour in the Grass’s virtual edition promised a ‘world-first online experience’ where ‘music, art and culture reigns supreme’. It did not deliver
Read more » | Desktop version »Rachel: John Early and Kate Berlant star in 11 tense minutes of millennial nightmare
Directed by Andrew DeYoung, the short film about a farewell party gone wrong is part cringe comedy, part psychological thriller – based on a true story
Read more » | Desktop version »Australia’s arts sector shredded by latest Covid shutdown and won’t survive without government help, report warns
Australia Institute report warns arts industry bracing for ‘big casualties’ and it’s time for a ‘total public-led reboot’ of funding
Read more » | Desktop version »Jackie Mason obituary
One of the great American comedians known for his strong Brooklyn accent, quick-fire gags – and feuds
Read more » | Desktop version »Dennis Severs’ House recreates his eccentric tours based on found tapes
Hundreds of cassettes found in cupboards at late showman’s London house, which reopens this week
Read more » | Desktop version »On my radar: Vince Staples’s cultural highlights
The LA rapper and actor on the growing pains of Pen15, one-to-watch Reggie Helms Jr and escaping from it all along the Pacific Coast Highway
Read more » | Desktop version »Idris Elba: ‘I used work to exorcise my demons’
The actor was working as a bouncer when he got a small part in a new show called The Wire. Two decades on, he’s a blockbuster fixture. The Suicide Squad star talks about fighting for his big break, losing his dad, and why acting helped him out of a ‘dark, weird junction’
Read more » | Desktop version »Stephen Colbert: ‘The pandemic has exacerbated our pre-existing condition of extremely rich people’
Late-night hosts discuss vaccine misinformation, billionaires in space, growing concern over the climate crisis and super-yachts
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