The Weekly Town Crier (02/07/20)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (02/07/20).
Read “Gang of Four’s Andy Gill Dead at 64” at Pitchfork.
Read “Ivan Král, Patti Smith Group Member, Dead at 71” at Pitchfork.
Read “Kirk Douglas, Hollywood Icon and Spartacus Star, Dies at 103” at People.
Read “For Those Who Feel Betrayed By Christianity” at Sojourners. "Since the election of President Donald Trump, many Christians are asking: How could so many Christ-followers agree with actions that are so decisively un-Christlike?"
Read “Christians are Supposed to Care About People” at John Pavlovitz. “I never once see a Jesus brandishing a “Don’t Tread On Me” bravado in the face of dire need. I don’t see him lecturing the poor and the afflicted to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” I can’t find him inviting war or celebrating bloodshed or reveling in loss of life for any reason.”
Read “Evangelicalism Is Dead. We Need A New Label For Our Faith” at Sojourners.
Read “State of the Church” at Barna.
Read “Faith formation in my world religions classroom Each year a Hindu priest asks my students to “worship our own, but respect all.” They find the second part easier” at Christian Century.
Read “Christian Nonprofits Reeling from Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid Work in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador was starting to bring change, agencies say” at Christianity Today.
Read “Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe” at New Yorker.”The seventy-six-year-old Franciscan friar Richard Rohr believes that Christianity isn’t the only path to salvation.”
Read “Capitalism Is Incompatible With Christianity” at Sojourners.
Read “Pope Francis Turned a Roman Palace Into a Homeless Shelter” at Global Citizen.
Read “U.S. Showing ‘Many’ Genocide Warning Signs Under Trump, Expert Says: ‘I Am Very, Very Worried” at Newsweek.
Read “Greensboro Sit-In: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know” at Heavy.
Read “Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator Why has history left out this piece of Rosa Parks' story?” at History.com.
Read “US judge in Tucson overturns convictions of 4 border-aid volunteers” at AZ Central.
Read “Investors Buy Old Hotel and Convert It into 139 Mini-Apartments for the Homeless” at Black Business.
Read “Finland's Women-Led Government Has Equalized Family Leave: 7 Months For Each Parent” at NPR.
Read “Watch: News Anchor Shows Americans Real Size of Wealth Gap—Using American Pie” at Common Dreams.
Read “How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk” at New York Times.
Read “E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity What sailors teach us about hope and the resilience of the human spirit” at Brain Pickings. "As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate."
Read “Steve Wozniak: When Apple got ‘big money’ Steve Jobs’ personality ‘changed’” at CNBC.
Read “Report: Where Parents Have More Choice, Schools Appear To Become More Segregated” at WBUR.
Read “J.Lo and A-Rod Just Donated a Year’s Worth of Meals to a Tennessee School” at Global Citizen.
Read “Excess Teacher Responsibilities are Stealing Bonding Time with Students” at Bored Teachers.
Read “It's official: Trump's tax cuts were an economic bust” at Business Insider.
Read “Trump administration ‘rolling back women’s rights by 50 years’ by changing definitions of domestic violence and sexual assault” at The Independent.
Read “Senate rejects witnesses in Trump trial, ensuring acquittal” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Which Republicans Had the Worst Excuses for Ending the Impeachment Trial With No Witnesses?” at Slate.
Read “Voting to acquit this noxious criminal is the point of no return for the Republican Party” at Salon.
Read “Sen. Kyrsten Sinema votes to convict President Trump on impeachment charges” at AZ Central.
Read “Mitt Romney: ‘Dishonesty Is Donald Trump’s Hallmark.”How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty” at Sojourners.
Read “How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty” at The Atlantic.
Read “Trump extends travel ban to 6 countries — but is OK with selling arms to those same places” at NBC News.
Read “Trump's sexual assault allegations: The full list of women who have accused the President” at The Independent.
Read “The Downfall of the Republican Party To see men and women who had a positive vision beaten down and broken by Trump is a poignant thing” at The Atlantic.
Read “'It was a total mess': Caucusing is long over, but Iowa still doesn't have a winner” at USA Today.
Read/listen to “'No Longer A Friend': Ukrainians Are Losing Faith In The U.S.” at NPR.
Read “Trump Administration Loosens Obama-Era Restrictions On Land Mine Use” at NPR.
Read “Pelosi rips up Trump’s State of the Union speech” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Attorney General Barr Issues New Rules For Politically Sensitive Investigations” at NPR.
Read “Rush Limbaugh Says He Has Been Diagnosed With Advanced Lung Cancer” at NPR.
Read “Trump Honors Rush Limbaugh With Presidential Medal Of Freedom” at News and Guts.
Read “Gen X Will Not Go Quietly” at Gen.Medium.
Read “Fully Armed Rally-Goers Enter Kentucky’s Capitol Building With Zero Resistance” at Rolling Stone.
Read: “The Reading Room: Where Politics and Country Music Collide” at No Depression.
Watch “Vampire Weekend Perform at Bernie Sanders Rally” at Pitchfork.
Read “Country music is ‘dead’: Icon Loretta Lynn trashes modern hits” at Lexington Herald Leader.
Watch “The Velvet Underground Played At My High School” at PBS.
Read “Read between the lines with Mike Doughty” and Aarik Danielson at Columbia Daily Tribune.
Read “From White Supremacy To Opioids, Drive-By Truckers Confronts 'The Unraveling' at NPR.
Read “Built To Spill Announce Daniel Johnston Covers Album” at Stereogum.
Read “Remembering Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, & The Big Bopper On ‘The Day The Music Died’ In 1959 (02/03) at Live For Live Music.
Read “Spike Lee To Direct Film Version Of ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Stage Show” at Deadline.
Read “Soundgarden countersue Vicky Cornell over ownership of final Chris Cornell recordings” at Consequence of Sound.
Consider “Television’s Punk Epic “Marquee Moon,” 40 Years Later” at Pitchfork.
Read “ABBA intend to release new music in 2020 The iconic Swedish group's first material in over 30 years” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “In conversation: When Elvis Costello met Tom Waits” at Far Out Magazine.
Read “David Byrne to Appear as Musical Guest on ‘Saturday Night Live’” at Jambands.
Read “Prominent Malian Musician Alleges That TSA Destroyed His Instrument” at NPR. “Delicate and complex, koras can stand more than 4 feet tall. In a statement on Ballaké Sissoko's Facebook, an ethnomusicologist deemed the custom-made style irreplaceable.”
Read “Brian Wilson Opposes Mike Love’s Beach Boys Show at Trophy Hunting Convention Wilson points fans toward a Change.org petition that calls to boycott the Beach Boys until their performance is canceled” at Pitchfork.
Read “Pee-wee Herman's "Dark" Reboot: Paul Reubens Is Ready to Stage a Comeback” at Hollywood Reporter.
Browse “74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep” at Open Culture.
See “Super High-Resolution Photo of the Sun Reveals It Looks Like ... Corn” at Mental Floss.
Read “15,372 Scientists Just Signed a Letter Calling Climate Change Impact ‘Catastrophic’” at Global Citizen.
Read “Record-breaking astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth after 328 days in space” at 12 News.
Read “The Art and Science of Kashmir’s Pink Tea Green tea becomes rosy with the addition of a special ingredient” at Atlas Obscura.
Browse “Haunted by Cybersects A freaky tour of the extant websites of 1990s cults” at Baffler.
Read “Arizona Quietly Sells 16,810 Acres to Freeport-McMoRan for Mining Waste” at Phoenix New Times.