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Boardwalk Empire episode by episodeBoardwalk EmpireBoardwalk Empire: season one, episode sevenRevenge and the struggle to bury the past are recurring themes for the main characters in a slower-paced episode this weekSPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching Boardwalk Empire on Sky Atlantic. Don't read on if you haven't seen the seventh episode – and if you've seen more of the series, please be aware that other readers may not have done so …

ExperienceLife and stylePeople are often quite emotional when we get in touch – most of these items are lost after a house move or a death For me, nothing is more satisfying than discovering hidden gems in secondhand shops and estate sales. After all, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. I can spend hours sifting through boxes of old photography equipment. Two years ago, I came across a collection of loose, dusty photos.

Consumer affairsTraditional plastic rain barrels have often been hidden away but greater focus on conservation drives design changes They are water-saving wonders but plastic water butts have traditionally been eyesores to keep hidden from view. Now, though, with conserving water more important than ever, designers have upped the ante with clever models that double as planters, ornaments and even fountains. The market was ripe for a makeover because “one of the barriers to having a water butt is that it’s got to be in your garden, and we want our gardens to look nice, don’t we?

Perth festival 2020Performed entirely in an Indigenous language, the world premiere production follows a global trend of translating – and subverting – classic texts When Kylie Bracknell first proposed performing Macbeth in her native Noongar language, she received backlash – not from white Australians but her own people. “We’ve received quite a lot of ridicule for it from our own community: ‘Why would you want to do a dead white man’s story?

Top 10sScience and nature booksThere is more to whale-based literature than just Moby-Dick, writes the social historian and author of Leviathan, or The WhaleI have been fascinated by whales since I was a boy and saw a performing orca at Windsor Safari Park. But it was only when I saw my first whales in the wild, off Provincetown, Cape Cod, that fascination turned to obsession. While researching for my book, Leviathan or, The Whale, and the BBC documentary, Arena: The Hunt for Moby-Dick, I was amazed to discover how far Herman Melville plundered other texts.

Books interviewFictionInterviewRebecca Watson: ‘This novel was never an act of catharsis’Anthony CumminsThe Goldsmiths prize-shortlisted author of little scratch on being mistaken for the book’s protagonist, conveying the ‘immediate present-tense experience’, and why her next novel is even more ambitious Rebecca Watson’s first novel, little scratch, now published in paperback, is narrated over the course of a single day by an unnamed office junior living in the wake of a sexual assault.

Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewSmoke gets in your eyes at Temper, but it’s the sumptuous rendered meat that will make you weep Temper, 25 Broadwick Street, London W1F 0DF (020 3879 3834). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £100 After dinner at Temper I slept with the smell of dinner in my hair. I stank of wood smoke, rendered animal and testosterone. That’s what restaurants with big, manly smoke pits are like.

Weather trackerTaiwanAnalysisWeather tracker: Typhoon Koinu causes disruption in TaiwanAlice Fowle for MetDeskHeavy rain and strong winds force schools and businesses to shut and leaves thousands without power Typhoon Koinu made landfall in southern Taiwan on Thursday morning, reaching the country as a category 4 typhoon on the Hengchun peninsula as the storm’s eye crossed over Eluanbi for about five minutes. At this stage, the maximum sustained winds were recorded at 135mph, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

Joe Biden This article is more than 2 months oldArab American backing for Biden sinks over ‘rock-solid’ Israel supportThis article is more than 2 months oldPoll from AAI shows increase in discrimination against Arab Americans and increase in support for Donald Trump Arab American support for Joe Biden has fallen in the wake of his response to the latest bout of violence between Israel and Hamas, a new poll from the Arab American Institute (AAI) shows.