TV reviewTelevisionReviewThe Tavistock centre’s gender identity service has been embroiled in court cases and criticism. This balanced look at its closure talks to those it helped – and those it failed “How did you go bankrupt?” a character is asked in Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises. “Two ways,” he replies. “Gradually, then suddenly.” So it is with medical scandals, too. Disquiet builds and eventually, suddenly – often when someone goes to the press – a reckoning falls.

ShortcutsBurlesqueThe cabaret show at this notorious London club is known as the wildest in townIt has only been open for a fortnight, but The Box cabaret club in London's Soho has established a reputation for being the most raucous show in town. "Do all the drugs you want. Do all the cocaine you can. Answer every fetish," is how, according to a London paper, master of ceremonies Raven O welcomes revellers shortly before the 1am showtime.

Las Vegas city guideLas Vegas holidaysReviewThe music and clubbing scene in Vegas attracts the world's very biggest names to its dive bars, outrageous clubs and chillaxin' venues, say Chuckmonster and Spencer Patterson As featured in our Las Vegas city guide The Joint at the Hard Rock HotelWe'll admit it, we weren't too thrilled when Las Vegas's most iconic rock room announced it would double in size. After all, this was the place where the Stones stripped down, where Neil Young ditched Greendale, where Metallica and the Chili Peppers rang in the New Year, where Jack White's guitar spontaneously burst into flames.

Figure skating This article is more than 1 month oldAmerican teenager Lindsay Thorngren roars to surprise lead at NHK TrophyThis article is more than 1 month oldNew Jersey teenager is surprise leader after short programKagiyama upstages Uno to take first in men’s short programLindsay Thorngren of the United States was the surprise leader after the women’s short program at the NHK Trophy in Osaka. Thorngren’s performance to Windmills of Your Mind included a triple lutz, triple toe-loop combination, a double axel and a triple flip for 68.

Angela CarterThe otherworldly figure conjured after her death in 1992 doesn’t do Angela Carter justice. Her biographer Edmund Gordon attempts a more accurate portrayal of a complex, sensual and highly intellectual woman When Angela Carter died – aged just 51, on 16 February 1992 – her reputation changed from cultish to canonical. Her obituaries in the British press received more space than any others that year except Francis Bacon, Willy Brandt and Marlene Dietrich.