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A moment that changed meBereavement This article is more than 8 years oldA moment that changed me - the death of my sister and the grief that followedThis article is more than 8 years oldEmma DawsonWhen my 32-year-old sister died of cancer the grief hit me like a freight trainIn August, my younger sister Lucy died. She was only 32 years old and the light of our lives. We knew it was coming, not quite as quickly as it did, but she had advanced cancer, so her days were numbered.

A moment that changed meLife and styleMy sister and I started running online life drawing classes during lockdown. When I began to pose for the artists, I found myself liberated I wasn’t meant to be a life model. My sister and I had started running online life drawing classes during the first lockdown, and for one portrait class, when a friend couldn’t model, I thought: I’ll just do it. I was born with a cleft lip and palate and all my life I’ve had to endure people staring at me.

ExperienceLife and styleI realised that Joe and I shared our own gay culture the whole time we were married – we both loved the film Beaches I was raised to be a mother and a housewife; my mother was the same. Growing up in the 80s in a small town, I didn’t know much about gay culture. It was never talked about. I briefly dated a woman in my late teens, but it didn’t work out and I decided: I’ll be straight.

Television & radioObituaryFrancis Matthews obituaryGlamorous star of the BBC's Paul Temple and voice of Captain ScarletTall, slender and with a quietly amused expression, Francis Matthews, who has died aged 86, was ideally suited to play Francis Durbridge's gentleman sleuth Paul Temple, in the popular television adaptations of the 1960s and 70s. But his 60-year career also spanned horror films, comedy and modern classics, and as the voice of Captain Scarlet he reached a new generation of admirers.

MoviesIn the noughties, Vince Vaughn and buddies including Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell could do no wrong, with megahits such as Wedding Crashers and Dodgeball. But the laughs have dried and the audience withered. What went wrong? Vince Vaughn used to be funny. Or, more accurately, a surprisingly wide international audience used to find Vince Vaughn funny. The rambunctious persona premiered in Swingers – pure id in a party-hard alpha-male – then recycled in hit films such as Wedding Crashers and Dodgeball, made him a reliably lucrative booking.

Michael Jordan in action for the Chicago Bulls against the Philadelphia 76ers in 1996. Photograph: Nathaniel S Butler/NBAE via Getty ImagesMichael Jordan in action for the Chicago Bulls against the Philadelphia 76ers in 1996. Photograph: Nathaniel S Butler/NBAE via Getty ImagesMichael JordanSports quiz: how much do you know about Michael Jordan?Where was he born? What’s he worth? Which actor helped him out? ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKugpL%2B1e5FpaWlnnZbGcH2YaKqpp6KpwG691KKxZqCfrHquwcKhZJ2nXa68tnnKp6awZZGXvLbAjKagnKCRmrluts6rm5qm

Straight Outta the horse’s mouth: Ice Cube. Photograph: Rebecca Cabage/Invision/APStraight Outta the horse’s mouth: Ice Cube. Photograph: Rebecca Cabage/Invision/APStraight Outta ComptonInterviewStraight Outta Compton: fact-checking the film … with Ice CubeBen WesthoffDid Dr Dre really DJ in a lavender puffer jacket? What was Fuck tha Police really inspired by? And was an NWA reunion really in the cards? We sit down with Ice Cube to sort the true say from the hearsay

A 12th-century sheela na gig on the outside of the chancel apse of Kilpeck church, Herefordshire. Photograph: Mick Sharp/AlamyA 12th-century sheela na gig on the outside of the chancel apse of Kilpeck church, Herefordshire. Photograph: Mick Sharp/AlamyInternational Women's DaySome say the explicit medieval carvings were fertility symbols; others that the figures were meant to ward off evil. Now a group of Irish feminists are bringing them back – as a reminder of women’s struggles

Don Cheadle This article is more than 10 years oldDon Cheadle tuning up Miles Davis biopic Kill The Trumpet PlayerThis article is more than 10 years oldActor's directing debut will focus on the period immediately following Davis's self-imposed exile from music and will co-star Ewan McGregor and Zoe Saldana Don Cheadle: 'Acting can be a grind' Don Cheadle's Davis biopic will be a 'gangster' film Don Cheadle's Kill The Trumpet Player, the actor's take on the "