Performance artObituaryBrian Catling obituaryPerformance artist and fantasy writer whose gothic imagination found inspiration in the ‘wrongness of actions’For 16 nights, for six hours each night, in October 2005, visitors to Matt’s Gallery in east London found Brian Catling stalking a stage set of dark ecclesiastical wood. The artist’s behaviour was erratic and volatile: he paced up and down at speed; he messed around with an animal’s jawbone; he would urinate from a constructed pulpit, or don a wooden dunce’s cap.

Wales This article is more than 1 month oldFamilies pay tribute to three teenagers killed in south Wales crashThis article is more than 1 month oldCallum Griffiths, 19, Jesse Owen, 18, and Morgan Smith, 18, declared dead at scene while two others suffer life-threatening injuries The families of three teenagers who died after a road traffic collision in a small village in south Wales have paid tribute to the young men.

‘His writerly voice is instantly recognisable’: Grian Chatten. Photograph: Eimear Lynch‘His writerly voice is instantly recognisable’: Grian Chatten. Photograph: Eimear LynchThe ObserverPop and rockReview(Partisan) Chatten dials down the rollicking post-punk of the Dublin band with a solo debut of haunted, Leonard Cohen-esque songs “What’s normal for the spider,” the Addams family’s Morticia once noted, “is chaos for the fly.” Fontaines DC’s frontman Grian Chatten, meanwhile, has described his debut solo album as “a horror movie with a hyperreal colour palette”.

ComedyReviewO2 Arena, London Glimpses of wit float to the surface in this sex-and-excrement bonanza … but are quickly flushed away by tedious misogyny Two trips to the O2 in 10 days: two shows wallowing in faeces. Reader, the life of the comedy reviewer is not all glamour. After Jack Whitehall, now it’s Jim Jefferies. Having made his name in the UK and in his native Australia with misogynistic “bad-boy” standup, Jefferies made his fortune in the US with the sitcom Legit and his own show on Comedy Central.

GenderMob justiceSammy Gravano literally got away with murder when he turned state's evidence in a mafia trial. But the sisters of two of his victims were determined that he would pay for his crimesTwo weeks before he died, Rosanne Massa's brother came to see her at four in the morning. High on cocaine, paranoid that he was being followed, frightened for his life, he called up to her window. She recalls his bug-eyed terror: "