The night sky above River Murray Dark Sky reserve in South Australia. Photograph: Michael WaterhouseThe night sky above River Murray Dark Sky reserve in South Australia. Photograph: Michael WaterhouseAustralia holidaysAustralia has a relative abundance of astro-tourism destinations, and a growing movement to help protect their darkness Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email An Aboriginal dreamtime story tells of the fire magic in the foot of Kambughuda, protecting her younger sisters from the hunter Nyeeruna.

Ready for battle … a still from The Wizard of AI. Photograph: Alan Warburton/Open Data InstituteReady for battle … a still from The Wizard of AI. Photograph: Alan Warburton/Open Data InstituteArt and designIs artificial intelligence going to put artists out of a job? Alan Warburton decided to make a film posing that very question – using AI. The result was disturbingly watchable A toilet bubbles over with sticky yellow goo. Bedazzled executives are treated to a speech by a cartoon ghost.

Tom Hunt’s pheasant Normandy with apples. Photograph: The GuardianTom Hunt’s pheasant Normandy with apples. Photograph: The GuardianWaste notFoodAs apples start to lose their lustre, use up the last of the season’s crop to finish this classic French game casserole A sweet-yet-sharp apple is the perfect accompaniment to wild game, and has a similar season from autumn to midwinter, when stored apples start to fade and the shooting season ends. An old apple still makes great cooking, though, and in today’s recipe I saute them with thyme and butter, then spoon over creamy braised pheasant.

Art and designMartijn Doolaard has released 83 videos documenting his restoration of an Alpine cabin. They are slow, quiet, uneventful – and hugely successful. He explains his secret On 5 October 2021, Martijn Doolaard came home. Not to a flat in Amsterdam, where the Dutch graphic designer turned videographer and travel writer had lived before embarking on the epic road trips that made him internet famous, but to two Alpine stone cabins in the Italian Piedmont region.

Sali Hughes on beautyMakeup‘Clean girl’ minimalism has erased the rule on matchy-matchy varnish – now nail polish is all about milky nudes and glossy tones When was the last time your tips’n’toes matched? For me it must have been when I was about 10 and working with whatever polish I had manage to pilfer from my mother. For all of recent beauty history, to be matchy-matchy with finger and toenail lacquer was to commit a fashion faux pas – the beauty equivalent of double denim.