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Amy Adams: ‘David O Russell said to me: “You are so not the princess type”‘ 27 Nov 2012 | 09:44 am
First published online by John Patterson. It’s an absolutely archetypal American face; you can read a multitude into it. Look long enough at Amy Adams’ pre-Raphaelite cascade of orange-red hair, her p...
How to cook the perfect chocolate cake 26 Nov 2012 | 10:43 am
First published online by Felicity Cloake. A few weeks ago, I made an ever-so secret birthday cake for one of my housemates. Chocolate, naturally: the cast iron crowd-pleaser of cakes. Searching for t...
Trapped: the former couples who can’t afford to move on 25 Nov 2012 | 07:43 pm
First published online by Amelia Hill. Middle-income couples, recently identified by the Conservatives as the “struggling middle”, are increasingly unable to afford to separate when their relationship...
John McAfee: ‘I don’t see myself as paranoid’ 25 Nov 2012 | 09:43 am
First published online by Patrick Barkham. The name McAfee is ubiquitous and boring, a piece of antivirus software that pops up on computer screens around the world. The man behind this reassuring pie...
Bugarach: the French village destined to survive the Mayan apocalypse 24 Nov 2012 | 07:43 pm
First published online by Angelique Chrisafis. Up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a tiny village nestled amid breathtaking landscapes and eagles in flight, a man in a woolly hat pushes a wheelbar...
Why 50 homeless men are sleeping in a Tottenham church 24 Nov 2012 | 10:43 am
First published online by Amelia Hill. The Highway of Holiness community church – a few dilapidated rooms in a windswept industrial park in Tottenham, north London – used to be a lifeline for local yo...
David Mitchell and Robert Webb: fear and loathing in Croydon 23 Nov 2012 | 07:42 pm
First published online by Tara Conlan. Sitting forward in an earnest fashion and pushing back his flop of brown hair, David Mitchell is explaining why the production company he has just formed with Ro...
Families struggle to eat healthily amid rising food bills and shrinking budgets 23 Nov 2012 | 09:42 am
First published online by Amelia Hill. Nicola Probert is nervous. She hasn’t let her partner, Tony Hodge, go food shopping for the family on his own since the day he came back with a £3 DVD, a six-pac...
Ralph Fiennes: ‘I get angry easily, but I repress it’ 22 Nov 2012 | 07:42 pm
First published online by Kate Kellaway. Ralph Fiennes could have been a diplomat in a previous life – the low, patrician voice, and the clothes. He is dressed on the morning we meet with an elegance ...
Meet the superhumans 22 Nov 2012 | 09:42 am
First published online by Emma John. Serena Williams: the tennis player whose serve smashes records It’s in the serve. Serena Williams may have won 30 Grand Slam titles, 46 women’s singles titles and ...
