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UK newsWallace and Gromit put Wigan on the mapThe Lancashire town of Wigan declared victory yesterday in its battle with neighbours such as Preston to claim the "genuine" home of the cartoon characters Wallace and Gromit. Speculation over a glimpse of a Wigan A-Z streetguide in the movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, has been followed by a council monitoring exercise which has established that 62 West Wallaby Street, home of Wallace and Gromit, is a Wigan address.

The ObserverPop and rockReview(Village Hut) The Vodou priest, singer and activist draws on ancient wisdom and a wide range of musicians on his long-awaited second album Haiti’s Vodou religion has found many musical champions – notably the groups Boukman Eksperyans and Lakou Mizik – but on Pèlerinaj, Erol Josué offers full immersion into Vodou’s mysteries. Following in the footsteps of his Port-au-Prince parents, Josué was initiated as a Vodou priest at the age of 17, subsequently spending several years in Paris and New York before returning to his homeland after the island’s devastating 2010 earthquake, and becoming director of the National Bureau of Ethnology.

TheatreReviewNorth Edinburgh Arts CentreThe premise of Arthur Miller's 1994 play is strong. He sets it in Brooklyn in 1938, when newspaper reports of the treatment of the Jews in pre-war Germany have so traumatised the 40-year-old Sylvia Gellburg that she has lost the use of her legs in a reaction diagnosed as "hysterical paralysis". When Dr Harry Hyman takes a closer look at her case, motivated as much by sex as science, he starts to suspect that her psychosomatic reaction is really to do with a lack of intimacy with her husband, Phillip.

Adrian Searle encountersArtReviewRecurring images of historical horrors – from slave killings to drowning migrants – are cut with nature in Akomfrah’s new video installations in Bristol and London. Past and present dissolve, leaving us stranded, waiting for the future John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea keeps coming at you. Panoramic, oceanic even, this three-screen mix of archive film, BBC Natural History Unit footage and scenes staged by the artist is ravishing and awful, sublime and depressing.

MoviesLicence to offend: BFI season gives James Bond films trigger warningsThe season celebrating the work of British composer John Barry flags films from the 60s and 70s that contain outdated language, images and stereotypes that will cause offence Audiences at a new season of films at the British Film Institute in London have been cautioned the titles – including two James Bond movies – “will cause offence today”. A blanket trigger warning has been placed over all movies being presented at a tribute to the work of British composer John Barry, the man behind the scores for many 007 films.

Rich pickings … Fenella Woolgar, Laurie Kynaston and Amy Booth-Steel in Mates in Chelsea at the Royal Court theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianRich pickings … Fenella Woolgar, Laurie Kynaston and Amy Booth-Steel in Mates in Chelsea at the Royal Court theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianTheatreReviewRoyal Court theatre, London A trust-fund kid losing his family castle to an oligarch provides enough satire for some strong performances, but the concept is overstretched

Smoking Goat’s Thai salads (clockwise from top left): Isaan pork laab, clam som tum and a hot-and-sour salad of artichoke, samphire and asparagus. Photograph: Lizzie Mayson/The Guardian. Food styling: Liberty Fennell. Prop styling: Louie Waller. Food styling assistant: Susanna Unsworth.Smoking Goat’s Thai salads (clockwise from top left): Isaan pork laab, clam som tum and a hot-and-sour salad of artichoke, samphire and asparagus. Photograph: Lizzie Mayson/The Guardian. Food styling: Liberty Fennell. Prop styling: Louie Waller.

CaliforniaWinter storms inundated an industrial agricultural area the size of Lake Tahoe, flooding fields, homes and electricity grids There are portions of California’s Tulare Lake, with its blue water that stretches for miles and birds bobbing around the shoreline, where it can be easy to forget that a few months ago, none of this was here at all. But then an irrigation hose or a fence post or a power line pokes through the surface, reminding passersby and authorities tasked with patrolling the lake what lies under the water.

NebraskaSituation in Mead, Nebraska, where AltEn has been processing seed coated with fungicides and insecticides, is a warning sign, experts say For the residents of Mead, Nebraska, the first sign of something amiss was the stench, the smell of something rotting. People reported eye and throat irritation and nosebleeds. Then colonies of bees started dying, birds and butterflies appeared disoriented and pet dogs grew ill, staggering about with dilated pupils.