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Pop and rockReviewLeeds Beckett University With his raw lyrics about mental health, shame and alcoholism, Kahan taps into the zeitgeist – yet his rousing tunes make this a reaffirming live show The microphones on stage facing out towards the audience make sense the moment Noah Kahan opens his mouth. The crowd start singing with him and know every single word: “You build a boat, you build a life / You lose your friends, you lose your wife / You settle in to routine / Where are you?

Soccer This article is more than 23 years oldReferee Reed reprimandedThis article is more than 23 years oldPremier League puts the official on probation over his clenched-fist guesture at AnfieldMike Reed will spend the remainder of his days as a Premiership referee on probation after being severely reprimanded by the Premier League for making a celebratory gesture after Liverpool scored against Leeds United last Saturday. In a move designed to remind Premiership referees that they must remain detached during the course of matches under their control, the Birmingham official was warned that he would face further action if there was any repeat of such behaviour and he was also censured for commenting on the incident.

A still from the gothic Netflix show Wednesday Photograph: Courtesy of NetflixA still from the gothic Netflix show Wednesday Photograph: Courtesy of NetflixRomania holidaysTourism here was once all about Dracula, but the Netflix show is drawing young visitors keen to see where the gothy teen unleashed mystery, mayhem and murder ‘Wow, it’s … it’s Nevermore Academy!” There are delighted gasps from younger members of my tour group as we enter the TV set courtyard at Bucharest Film Studio, known as Buftea, after the small town it’s in, just outside the Romanian capital.

SEMANTIC ENIGMASWhat is the name for the plastic tip on the end of shoelaces? RLJS, Anaheim, USA An aglet. Hugo van Kemenade, York Aglet. Karl Tiedemann, New York They're called aglets, but why we need a name for them I have no idea. Surely, the creative energies responsible would have been better off coming up with a name for the inside of the elbow, or for the middle three toes.

Music blogPop and rockWhy this British Asian doesn't listen to Morrissey any moreHis latest gaffe is probably one too many - there comes a time when you can't listen to music made by someone whose views you find repugnantMorrissey's Bengali in Platforms had a lyric I just tuned out: 'Life is hard enough when you belong here ...' Morrissey has given an interview to the NME stirring up the whiff of racism that dogged him through the 90s.

Drama filmsInterview‘An Oscar changes where the comma goes in your cheque’: Jeremy Pope on playing a gay marineRyan GilbeyThe Pose star, who stars in the military drama The Inspection, discusses Black masculinity, quitting a studio film over his sexuality – and his bodybuilding pastor father No one – other than Kaa the snake from The Jungle Book – has eyes like Jeremy Pope. Watch the 30-year-old actor in The Inspection, in which he plays a young gay marine, or in the glittery TV series Hollywood or Pose, both co-created by Ryan Murphy (who recently called Pope “the future”), and it’s hard to deny the hypnotic power of his peepers.

Television & radioObituaryAndrew Nickolds obituaryComedy writer who worked on Maureen Lipman’s Agony, The Lenny Henry Show, Ed Reardon’s Week and Dave Podmore Andrew Nickolds, who has died aged 73, was one of the most gifted and prolific, if largely unsung, TV and radio comedy writers of his generation. And he sustained a career in that precarious world for nearly half a century. He had his first big success in 1980, in collaboration with Stan Hey, when they scripted the second and third series of the popular sitcom Agony, starring Maureen Lipman as an agony aunt who could not solve her own problems.

Best podcasts of the weekPodcastsIn this week’s newsletter: The master storyteller investigates Carol Howe’s extraordinary life in The Debutante. Plus: five of the best real-life mystery podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Picks of the weekThe Debutante Audible, all episodes out now Jon Ronson hosts another addictive series, this time investigating Carol Howe – the glamorous former debutante who joined the neo-Nazi movement responsible for the Oklahoma bombings and became a government informant.

The ObserverArtReviewModern Art OxfordAndré Cadere was the stick man, the artist known for carrying a stick. He took one wherever he went. This stick – or sticks, for there seem to have been a hundred or more during the course of his painfully short life – was not just a length of wood but a collection of smaller wooden cylinders painted in bright colours and threaded on a rod. The colours varied, and so did the sizes and permutations.