TheatreFrom unreadable scripts to ‘cripping up’, a career in theatre with a visual impairment can be a challenge. Chloë Clarke and Douglas Walker share their successes and hopes for the future What is it like to navigate not only a stage but the entire theatre industry as a blind person? From the practicalities of performing to harmful preconceptions about the roles visually impaired actors can play – and how blindness itself is portrayed – there is a lot to deal with.

SoulObituaryChuck Jackson obituarySoul singer known for his powerful delivery of Burt Bacharach’s sombre Any Day Now Chuck Jackson was a matinee idol among his generation of soul singers in the early 1960s, displaying the looks and the bearing to match the elegance of his singing. He shared with such contemporaries as Ben E King, Jerry Butler and Lou Johnson an understated masculinity that would be lost in the subsequent decade, with the arrival of grunting sex machines and smooth “love men”.

FoodThey're fried in fat and smothered in salt, but still we eat a heart-stopping 6bn packets of them a year. So why do we have an unhealthy obsession with potato crisps? Food blog: what's your favourite crisp? In an unremarkable suburb of Leicester called Beaumont Leys is a big factory – or actually two, side by side. But let's not split hairs already. The point is that it's big; a winding 10-minute march from reception round to the delivery bays.

Fania All-Stars in 1973. Photograph: Salsero73Fania All-Stars in 1973. Photograph: Salsero7320 iconic festival setsPop and rockIn a tiny club, 2,000 peacocking punters witnessed a historic gathering of talent for this mini-festival, showcasing a music craze on the brink of a breakthrough Read the rest of our 20 iconic festival sets series It’s the evening of 26 August 1971, and on the cramped stage of the Cheetah – a glitzy discotheque on Broadway and 53rd in Manhattan decorated in aluminium, black velvet and thousands of multicoloured lightbulbs – gather some of the finest Latin musicians of their era.

Women's rights and gender equalityGlobal developmentFemale genital mutilation has long been commonplace among Colombia’s Emberá people, yet secrecy and speculation has shrouded the tradition. Now the country is belatedly awakening to the possible extent of a hidden problem By the standards of the Emberá, Colombia’s second largest indigenous group after the Wayuu, Karina is a fairly modern-minded woman. Having spent much of her childhood in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, she navigates big cities easily.