Jimmy Kimmel on hurricane conspiracy theories: ‘What a stupid time to be alive’

Late-night hosts talk Maga weather conspiracy theories in the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton and Bob Woodward’s new book on the Donald Trump White House.On Thursday evening, after Hurricane Milton made landfall and knocked out power for over 3 million Floridians, Jimmy Kimmel recapped “the lies that Trump and his crack team of wingnuts have been spreading” about recent natural disasters.The far-right representative Marjorie Taylor Greene “has been pushing this bonkers idea that Democrats can somehow control the weather”, Kimmel explained. Greene and others are targeting Republican voting districts. “Not only are people believing this, meteorologists are getting death threats and angry phone calls from viewers who think they are covering it up,” Kimmel marveled

Music project captures ‘sound of carbon’ by recording in Durham coalmine

“It was odd, but really fun,” said Adam Cooper about his time spent helping to record the sound of an empty coalmine. “To put it in one word, I’d say it sounds cavernous. But it also has its own complexities and depth to it.”Cooper and his colleagues spent time down an old drift mine to capture the “sound of carbon” for a new musical commission that will premiere this weekend.The piece includes the reverb of the mine as well as music played by colliery pit bands and interviews with former miners and their families

Jimmy Kimmel on JD Vance: ‘A hollow shell of a human being’

Late-night hosts talk about JD Vance’s hypocrisy and Bob Woodward’s report that Donald Trump sent scarce Covid tests to Vladimir Putin in May 2020.Jimmy Kimmel tore into Donald Trump’s “close and inappropriate relationship with sugar-Vladdy Putin” on Wednesday evening, after the journalist Bob Woodward reported that Trump sent the Russian leader coveted Covid tests in the height of the pandemic.According to Woodward’s new book, War, Trump has also spoken to Putin seven times since he left office, and once instructed one of his top aides to leave the room so he could have a private call with him. “Which means either they were talking about something Trump didn’t want anybody to know about, or Donald Trump named his penis Vladimir Putin,” Kimmel laughed.On the campaign trail, Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, tried to downplay Trump’s chummy relationship with Putin

Use your local museums or lose them | Letters

I read John Harris’s article on the demise of local museums – notably The People’s Story Museum in Edinburgh – with a smile (British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues, 6 October). The smile was of fond recollection from someone who worked as an Edinburgh council museum attendant around 1996-97, including many hours at The People’s Story. Sadly, in all my time there, I rarely saw a great upswell of interest from the very working class of the city in the exhibits that celebrate their own history.It wasn’t like that at every museum or venue I worked at over that year. The Museum of Childhood further up the Royal Mile? Mobbed (old toys tend to be a big draw)

In fair Shoreditch where we lay our scene … the shape of Shakespeare’s stage | Letter

Your interesting piece on the Curtain playhouse in Shoreditch, London (How the excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre has changed stage history, 7 October), says: “It was on this stage that Romeo and Juliet and Henry V are believed to have first been performed.” Henry V dates from 1599 and is more likely to have been the opening play of the 1599 Globe theatre: the “wooden O” of its prologue would not sit well with the apparently rectangular stage of the newly uncovered Curtain. On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet (1596-97) was almost certainly a Curtain play: in The Scourge of Villainy (1598) Shakespeare’s contemporary John Marston refers to the acting of “pure Juliet and Romeo” and “Curtain plaudities”.As for visitors to a future Shakespeare Museum at the Curtain “able to stand – perhaps even to act – on the very same spot”, it is worth adding that they have been able to do so at the Rose playhouse in Southwark for many years. The Rose sits a few yards north-west of Shakespeare’s 1599 Globe theatre, on the other side of Southwark Bridge, with the Elizabethan Globe’s foundations clearly displayed

Colbert on Musk jumping on stage at Trump rally: ‘One weird little hop for a douchebag’

Late-night hosts talked Kamala Harris’s efforts to reach new voters via media interviews, Donald Trump’s calls with Vladimir Putin and the embattled New York City mayor, Eric Adams.The Late Show was supposed to be off this week, but Stephen Colbert returned on Tuesday night to interview Kamala Harris, her first appearance as the Democratic presidential nominee. The vice-president has been on a media blitz recently, appearing on 60 Minutes, Howard Stern and The View in recent days, “as well as Inkmaster, the Mandalorian and explaining the child tax credit on Bluey”, Colbert joked.The appearances are part of an effort to connect with younger voters, Black and Latino audiences, and older Americans. “I think I know which demographic we represent,” said Colbert, repeating it again louder for those who are hard of hearing