The Baltimore band have built a vast fanbase with their explosive live performances, but an incident at a recent show laid bare the challenges they face as they ascend to superstar status. Can they maintain their hardcore ethos?

On a Wednesday evening in September, about 6,000 people cross footbridges to reach Brown’s Island, a bucolic park in the middle of the James River in Richmond, Virginia. They’re here to see Turnstile, the Baltimore band who came from the hardcore punk underground but whose reach expands far outside that world.

Turnstile take the stage to a shimmering swell of keyboards – the intro from Never Enough, the title track from their new album. It’s a slow song by Turnstile standards, a tender confession of self-doubt that builds into a cathartic singalong. The moment that the song ends, Turnstile jump directly into TLC (Turnstile Love Connection), a frantic fist-pumper from 2021’s Glow On, and the crowd become a mass of flailing limbs. For the next hour-plus, bodies fly in all directions, as strangers scream lyrics into each other’s faces. Every new riff, every change in tempo, brings a fresh wave of sweaty euphoria.

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Watching the film I Swear, at first I was irked by the shouting and swearing from an audience member. But I ended up thanking him

What do vicars do in their spare time? Last week, I went with two friends, both fellow vicars, to see the new film I Swear . I knew from the trailer that it was about a man with Tourette syndrome (TS). What I didn’t know was that it was about a real person: John Davidson who was the subject of a 1989 BBC documentary called John’s Not Mad and who later received an MBE for his efforts to educate people about the condition and support his fellow sufferers.

Before that programme, most people had never heard of TS. Nearly 40 years later, everybody (sort of) knows what it is, but it’s still often treated as a punchline – particularly on the comedy circuit.

Ravi Holy is the vicar of Wye in Kent and a standup comedian

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Stevie Wonder rocked the singer’s 10-year-old world and he’s secretly a huge fan of the Carpenters. But what novelty song did he drunkenly sing in karaoke in Japan?

The first song I fell in love with
I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You by the Beatles are like my villain origin story. I was two years old and have no conscious memory of life before that. I can remember walking around our little apartment in East Orange, New Jersey, singing those songs.

The first album I bought
I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian conservative family. Remember Footloose? It was exactly like that. No dancing, no movies, no records. My aunt bought me Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants and I fell in love with Send One Your Love.

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Daisy May and Charlie Cooper stay in the nation’s spookiest spots. Plus: Vicky McClure’s explosive drama Trigger Point. Here’s what to watch this evening

9.30pm, BBC Two

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Lockhart started out on stage at age eight and appeared in scores of television series and feature films

June Lockhart, the popular actor known for her work in film and television, has passed away at the age of 100.

She died on Thursday night of natural causes, with daughter June Elizabeth and granddaughter Christianna by her side, according to People .

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Conditioned takes a retrospective dive into Bidjara artist Michael Cook’s oeuvre of layered, stylised photographs, prising open the space between Indigenous and European perspectives and experiences

• Conditioned by Michael Cook is out now in Australia ($A65, Perimeter Editions )
• Tarnanthi turns 10: how a small South Australian festival became a super-sized champion of First Nations art

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Icons Week sees routines paying homage to Beyoncé, Cher and Johnny Cash. But whose moves will be truly iconic? And how will hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman handle the first show since announcing their departure?

Another eclectic mix of styles this week. We’ll see two quicksteps, two salsas and only the second Argentine tango of the series. A mere five minutes until the spangly curtain comes up…

Amanda Holden-hosted quiz The Celebrity Inner Circle just wrapping up on BBC1. There always seems to be a Strictly alumna or two among the guests and this week, it’s Charlotte Hawkins (out third in 2017) and Sam Quek (lasted until mid-series last year).

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New book, published just before the ceasefire deal, describes in granular detail the conditions for dismantling apartheid in Israel-Palestine

While languishing in prison during Benito Mussolini’s fascist reign in Italy, Antonio Gramsci wrote in his Prison Notebooks about an “interregnum”, a transition between the old order that was dying and a new order that had yet to be born. That in-between time was, he wrote, “a time of monsters”.

Those words, a “time of monsters”, could be used to describe the period of death and destruction unleashed in the two years since 7 October 2023, in the narrow strip of land comprising the Gaza Strip. If the deal reached between Israel and Hamas that was brokered by Donald Trump continues to hold, it raises questions about what type of future awaits the lands between the river and the sea – an Israeli-government and settler-controlled land mass that both Israelis and Palestinians inhabit, which represents Israel’s apartheid-based one-state reality.

Robert Gottlieb is professor emeritus at Occidental College and the author of more than a dozen books, including, most recently, Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (MIT Press)

From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine is out now ( University of California Press, $26.95 )

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We’ve got a new international trailer for Predator: Badlands , the latest installment in a popular franchise that’s been around since 1987. It’s directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who is very familiar with the franchise, having also directed 2022’s highly acclaimed standalone Predator movie Prey .

In April, Twentieth Century Studios released the first teaser , which involved multiple predators fighting or threatening one another, Elle Fanning looking very strange and cool as an android, and glimpses of new monsters and the alien world the movie focuses on. And the film was featured prominently at San Diego Comic Con this summer. But it hasn’t quite wormed its way into the cultural zeitgeist for fall releases. Perhaps this latest trailer will boost its profile.

This is a standalone film in the franchise, with a particular focus on the culture of the Predator species; in fact, the same conlanger who created the Na’Vi language for James Cameron’s Avatar franchise also created a written and verbal language for the Predators. (We hear a bit of the dialogue in the new trailer.) And this time around, the primary Predator is actually the film’s protagonist rather than an adversary. Per the official premise: “Set in the future on a deadly remote planet, Predator: Badlands follows a young Predator outcast (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) who finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) as he embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.”

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