Brisbane family man’s hidden past, Jonathan Liew on Sam Kerr, and how Farnesy became the Voice
and I take turns scouring the length and breadth of the Guardian’s worldwide reporting … and sometimes end up right back where we started.
This week’s selection has a distinctly local flavour – by way of a legendary New York rapper, England’s most famous stadium, and Scotland’s questionable addition to the world of musical instruments. Read on, and if you have any thoughts on this week’s selection don’t be afraid toUS teenage killer William Leslie Arnold lived out his days in Brisbane as John Vincent Damon.Although it’s shocking to know that his life began with a terrible crime, his legacy is so much more than that.
The Chicago man quoted above didn’t know his father as William Leslie Arnold but John Damon, who had told him he was an orphan. “Well, he was an orphan,” says Matthew Westover, a deputy marshal in Nebraska. “But he killed his parents, that’s why he was an orphan.” Arnold murdered his parents as a teenager in 1958, escaped a Nebraska prison in 1967 – and was never heard from again. Until Westover started picking through the caseArnold – a dedicated musician and model inmate who would have qualified for early release – and his accomplice made their escape through the window of the prison music room.GZA flexes his brain muscles against a heat winner at a Melbourne speed chess tournament.
Like Kerr, Liew waited and waited for the contest’s pivotal moment – then he struck. Eight seconds of matchplay,“Kerr is 29 years old, and has been around this sport long enough to know that the vast majority of the moments that make up her day do not matter. So she waits, priming and preparing herself for the handful of seconds that will define her.”
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