Festivals This article is more than 8 months oldFalls festival cancelled for 2023 as organisers take year off to ‘recalibrate’This article is more than 8 months oldOrganisers say they ‘need a break’ after several challenging years for music festivals across Australia Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Falls festival will not ring in the New Year in 2024 after organisers of the annual national event announced that it will take a year off to “rest, recover and recalibrate”.

Glenn CloseInterviewGlenn Close: ‘You don’t lose your sexuality as you get older’Ryan GilbeyAt 71, and tipped for an Oscar for The Wife, Glenn Close reveals she is having more fun than ever Glenn Close picks up the phone in her Montana home and all hell breaks loose. Between waves of helpless laughter, she tries to explain exactly what is causing the chaos. “Sorry to be – can you hear me? – oh my God –there’s a dog going past the house and – wait there.

Susan Phillips-Rees at home in Mylor in the Adelaide Hills with her partner of 38 years Isla Roberts, who rejects the ‘lesbian’ label. The pair are the subjects of new Australian documentary Isla’s Way. Photograph: Sam OsterSusan Phillips-Rees at home in Mylor in the Adelaide Hills with her partner of 38 years Isla Roberts, who rejects the ‘lesbian’ label. The pair are the subjects of new Australian documentary Isla’s Way. Photograph: Sam OsterAustralian filmAn Australian documentary crew spent a year trailing a wise-cracking carriage-driving octogenarian who refuses to define her sexuality

Lockdown cultureEnglish National Opera (ENO)A performance of Mozart’s choral masterpiece marks English National Opera’s return to the Coliseum. Its artistic director explains why the composer’s last work, written as he drew his final breaths, is his most loving and human Mozart knew what it was to experience life interrupted. He was the youngest of seven children, five of whom died in infancy. Of his own six children, only two survived. Death wasn’t an abstract idea but pursued him from birth until his death in 1791 – the most productive and successful year of his life.

The controversial shoe photo. Photograph: @dolansmalik/TwitterThe controversial shoe photo. Photograph: @dolansmalik/TwitterWomen's shoesShoe colour question could put 2015 dress debate in the shadeDebate kicks off on social media about whether picture shows a turquoise and grey trainer, or a pink and white one It was one of the most fractious debates in modern times – by 2015’s standards, at least. Now a new argument has erupted that has shades of the blue/white dress controversy.