Welcome to our weekly supplement of weird, the Weekender

If the Weekender was a person, it’d be the kind of person you’d walk past in the street, then taken three steps backwards to get a better look at, then recoil visibly from, then reach into your pocket to take out your phone and take a selfie with. Later on at the pub you’d whip out your phone excitedly to share this uniquely memorable moment with your friends, and find that the photograph had disappeared and all that was left was a shot of you posing awkwardly with a packet of Monster Munch. That’s just the kind of guy the Weekender is. Enjoy our weekly supplement!

– We’re all intrigued by what the people who create our favourite magazines actually read, so we put together the Bookshelf features of the editors of Vice, i-D, Dazed, The Believer and Riposte for your perusal.

– This week’s Things feature is a publishing orgy. Get involved!

– On the podcast we talked about awkward selfie culture, the new exhibition at the Barbican and Ai Weiwei’s new art show in the decommissioned prison Alcatraz. It’s an aural frenzy.

– Following the Design Museum’s presentation of their new website, which was designed by Dutch agency Fabrique, we wonder whether British jobs should be given to British agencies in the Opinion piece.

– The green-fingered founder of online store The Garden Edit, John Tebbs showed us his Bookshelf. It’s lush.

– We got a bit carried away with the launch of London’s annual Art Book fair at the Whitechapel Gallery, so we made a mixtape all about books and picked out our best bits to help you find you way round.

Maisie Skidmore

There are several reasons Rookie magazine is one of the greatest things ever to digital media, but their Secret Style Icon feature is up there. This week they take their “sartorial cues from the Queen of Ska and a saint of butch finery,” namely Pauline Black of fantastic Ska band the Selecter, which not only runs through the background to her own distinct look but also gives us an excuse to rewatch this video. If ever we needed one.

Rob Alderson

I saw Gavin Osborn perform this at The Phoenix Fringe in London a few weeks ago but only stumbled across it online quite recently. Gavin became interested in the amount of money musicians made if their songs were used on the big end-of-season montages for hit TV shows, so he decided to write a piece for that express purpose. The only problem was that with no particular programme in mind, he needed to cover all the bases…

Liv Siddall

I love beer, but mostly I love Holsten Pils. I love how you can buy it in corner shops in London all through the night, how the yellow and green packaging is at first repulsive but then soothing, how it’s never more than £1.30 and how I can drink it when hungover and not even come close to vomiting. Knowing that I was something of a fan of the Pils, my friend Jasper just sent me over this video of a band who have written – well, written is a strong word – a whole song about it! Can you believe it? Anyone who likes beer and/or fun and music, check this out!