Pop and rockObituaryJerry Moss obituaryAmerican record company executive who co-founded the A&M label with the trumpeter Herb AlpertWhen a 50-1 outsider named Giacomo won the 2005 Kentucky Derby, it was not the first time that the horse’s owner, the American record company executive Jerry Moss, had defied the odds.
Moss, who has died aged 88, began his working life as a teenager paid $75 a week for getting doo-wop records played on New York radio stations. Read More...
FilmObituaryPhyllis Thaxter obituaryHollywood actor known for playing wholesome wives and Ma Kent in SupermanAlthough Phyllis Thaxter, who has died aged 92, had a successful career in films throughout the 1940s and 50s, many will remember her for her last movie role, in Superman (1978). It was the small but key part of Ma Kent, the childless farmer's wife who adopts a foundling baby and names him Clark. Together with her husband (Glenn Ford) – both made intentionally to resemble the couple in Grant Wood's American Gothic painting – they bring up the abnormally physically gifted boy until he's ready to fly off " Read More...
Far rightRecovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the Western Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far-right textsImperium Press, whose blog fosters a worldview it calls ‘folkishness’, has become an intellectual resource for the far right, but its works are widely available through mainstream sources
Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast At least one Australian-based online bookstore is reviewing works from a publisher that describes itself as the “the classics department of the dissident right”, including essay collections edited by an Australian white nationalist. Read More...