She fought to save her son but paid a terrible price

A mother vanished at sea, her son – rescued after eight days – said it was an accident, but as a popular new Netflix film examines the evidence, it raises questions about another family death...

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In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

Heather Gay and the new face of Mormonism

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