Does Saturday mean The Quiz and Dicey Topics? Here’s where to join in live

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PLAY / Question time

What’s amended than doing The Quiz successful furniture connected a Saturday morning? Doing it with hundreds of chap Quiz devotees astatine the Sydney Writers’ Festival, of course. This year, Good Weekend has teamed up with the festival to instrumentality the instauration that is The Quiz unrecorded (Carriageworks Bay 24 connected May 25, swf.org.au; free). Quizmaster Brian Yatman has penned a special, literary-themed quiz for the occasion, to beryllium hosted by GW exertion Katrina Strickland and journalist, writer and screenwriter Benjamin Law. Speaking of Law, aboriginal that time he’ll big a unrecorded variation of different GW staple, his Dicey Topics column, with writer and writer David Marr.

WATCH / Apes of wrath

Noa (left, Owen Teague) and Nova (Freya Allen) successful the 10th Planet of the Apes film.

The 10th movie successful the saga that began successful 1968 with Charlton Heston wailing astatine humanity’s stupidity is acceptable a fewer generations aft the events of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). The long-dead Caesar, patriarch of the royal ape family, is present but a dimly remembered and dubiously interpreted legend. The caller person of the apes is the tyrant Proximus, who has recovered a cache of deadly weapons and wants the captured human, Nova (Freya Allan), to assistance him entree it. The world-building successful Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is immense and the ocular effects, by New Zealand institution Weta FX, are superb. In Noa (Owen Teague), we person a young chimp with the imaginable to go the adjacent Caesar. There’s an echo of The Jungle Book’s King Louie, oregon Greek mythology’s Prometheus, successful Proximus’s tendency for man’s large occurrence but, overall, Wes Ball (creator of the Maze Runner franchise) does a large occupation of mounting up the bid for the adjacent signifier of its evolution. In cinemas now. Karl Quinn

LISTEN / Between women

A radical of women bonding implicit the aforesaid ex revealed deeper suspicions – arsenic 1 explains successful a existent transgression podcast.

When Bob Bierenbaum moved to Las Vegas successful the ’90s, helium seemed a drawback – a palmy doc who flew his ain level and spoke 5 languages. But years later, erstwhile immoderate of his ex-girlfriends get unneurotic to sermon their experiences, a acheronian representation of the antheral they each dated dilatory emerges, and the women statesman to fishy that helium murdered his ex-wife, Gail Katz. One of them, Carole Fisher, hosts The Girlfriends, a true-crime podcast that not lone tells the communicative of however this radical helped portion unneurotic the information that resulted successful a conviction, but besides humanises and memorialises Katz, portion celebrating the sisterhood that avenged her. Barry Divola

GROOVE / Track star

London-based league instrumentalist Fabiana Palladino takes the spotlight with her debut solo album.

It’s not often that league musicians, those skilled but mostly anonymous players called successful to execute connected albums and unrecorded shows for large stars, extremity up successful the spotlight. But Fabiana Palladino isn’t conscionable immoderate league player. The London-based artist, who’s been successful backing bands for Lorde, Jessie Ware and Sampha, hails from a household of them, astir notably her father, Pino, who’s played bass connected immoderate of the astir influential records of the past 4 decades, and member Rocco, present touring with drummer-turned-frontman of the infinitesimal Yussef Dayes. With specified musicality successful her blood, it’s unsurprising that Palladino, whose debut, self-titled medium was much than a decennary successful the making, should get afloat formed. Infused with the tone of ’80s R&B and superlative ’90s production, it recalls everything from Eurythmics to Janet Jackson. Lead azygous Stay With Me Through The Night feels similar an instant classic; the different 9 songs seldom miss. A stunning modern medium with a vintage attack to songwriting? More, please. Jonathan Seidler

READ / When Maggie met Harry

Maggie Nelson’s latest is simply a career-spanning postulation of essays astir creation and artists.

US writer Maggie Nelson is astir apt champion known for her 2015 memoir, The Argonauts, a hybrid survey of sexuality, identity, creation and authorities told successful abbreviated paragraphs. In Like Love (Fern Press; $45), a bid of essays, conversations, reviews and tributes ordered chronologically implicit 2 decades, we observe galore of Nelson’s lifelong interests astatine work. As with each collections, immoderate pieces are much effectual than others. I peculiarly enjoyed the conversations with friends and creatives, including feminist show creator Carolee Schneemann, instrumentalist Björk and writer Eileen Myles, arsenic good arsenic her instrumentality connected Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s The Weather successful Proust. I don’t ever afloat recognize Nelson’s work, but I tin consciousness my caput pushing up against its limits, which is surely 1 of the champion things astir speechmaking category-defying books similar hers. Melanie Kembrey

WEAR / Va-va vroom!

Gear up successful Ena Pelly’s rev-head-inspired aesthetic.

Forget the nightie and dressing gowns this Mother’s Day and spell for gifts with a small much torque. The power of F1 connected manner has been abundant successful caller seasons and this graphic print, a collaboration betwixt Melbourne-based marque Ena Pelly and influencer Elle Ferguson, plays connected the rev-head aesthetic already being embraced by the likes of Chanel. This long-sleeved item ($220) tin beryllium worn arsenic an oversized tee oregon dress: you take the gear. Melissa Singer

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