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The first misfortune in Huy’s life was being born into his family. His father was an incurable gambler who was quick to an anger that expressed itself in cruel ways to the people he loved, compounded by the fact that he was also luckless. I’ve learned that my uncle was missing his two index fingers, the result of drastic actions he took to avoid fighting in the war.

For actor, writer, director, singer and comedian Jonathan Biggins, the classic musical West Side Story represents a pinnacle of theatrical art.

Lives Outgrown, Beth Gibbons’s first solo album, takes the listener beyond the unearthly alchemy of Portishead, to a clearer appreciation of her lyricism.

Melbourne Theatre Company’s nuanced and intelligent production of Emma Mary Hall’s award-winning World Problems shifts from a real past into an imagined future.

The 2015 docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst famously led to the real estate heir’s conviction for murder. Now season two documents the aftermath.

At 71, alternative rock and riot grrrl pioneer Kim Gordon is still making experimental music and visual art – and still refusing to please.

There was something ahead, dimly visible. A change in the light. She trod carefully on the soft dust, compressing underfoot like sand. A kind of structure jutted out. Shreds of orange against the grey. She thought it was her own life craft at first, that she must have got turned around, but this one had been here much longer, was already half buried. Empty, of course. Too late to look for footprints.