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Crime Scene: the Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel review not spooky, just desperately sad

The various attempts in this true-crime docuseries to lighten the mood with hints at a haunting are, at best, in very poor taste What is the point of true-crime documentaries? This is the uncomfortable question that those of us who consume them by the bucketload must sooner or later confront. If its just someone elses

Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best | Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal This article is more than 11 years oldGore Vidal quotes: 26 of the bestThis article is more than 11 years oldGore Vidal, the celebrated writer, has died aged 86. He was famous for his acerbic wit. Here are some of his best quotes"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.""It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.""A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

How to cook the perfect asparagus soup

Asparagus season is here for a few short weeks. Is it sacrilege to make soup from the precious spears or the best way to savour them from base to tip? I like root vegetables. Really I do. But lets be honest: those first spindly stalks of British asparagus are a bloody relief after months

Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and Billion-Dollar Deals review banal and b

According to its publishers, John LeFevres Straight to Hell is a shocking insider expos of the banking industry. And if you didnt think that bankers were competitive, money-obsessed, over-entitled and out for themselves, then you will indeed be shocked.

Where they eat water lilies to survive: South Sudans remote islands in pictures | Working in

While travelling across the countrys vast swampland the Sudd doing medical assessments, Chandra Gilmore, International Medical Corps South Sudan famine response team leader, took photographs and notes