The Weekly Town Crier (03/19/21)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (03/19/21).
We’ll Miss You:
Read “Died: Larry Walker, NIV Translator Who Loved Bible Details” at Christianity Today.
Read “Henry Goldrich, Gear Guru to Rock Stars, Is Dead at 88” at New York Times.
Read “Boxing Legend Marvin Hagler Dies At Age 66” at Huff Post.
Religion and Stuff:
Read “RZIM will end apologetics ministry” at Christianity Today. “Ravi Zacharias International Ministries will become a grant-making organization, CEO Sarah Davis tells employees.”
Read “Faith leaders push back against proposed ‘Souls to the Polls’ voting restrictions” at Religion News Service.
Read “My Mom Believes In QAnon. I’ve Been Trying To Get Her Out” at Buzzfeed.
Read ‘Cruelty Is Apostasy” by David French. “Reflections on Beth Moore’s departure from the Southern Baptist Convention.”
Read “Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Leaves Liberty University Think Tank” at New York Times. “Liberty University opted not to renew Charlie Kirk's contract at the Falkirk Center. The unconventional think tank, which is now missing both halves of its portmanteau (Falwell + Kirk), will be renamed the Standing for Freedom Center.”
Read “A Kentucky Church’s Secret to Handling Abuse Allegations: Humility” at Christianity Today.
Read “Atlanta suspect blamed women for ‘tempting’ him. Purity culture does the same” at Religion News Service. “Christian communities must reexamine attitudes that blame women for men’s sexual problems.”
Read “LifeWay Research: U.S. Protestant Pastors See Gender Change as Immoral” at Christianity Today. “As gender fluidity grows more accepted in wider culture, most Protestant pastors remain traditional.”
Legal/Justice and Social Justice and Race or Gender or Sexism-Related Stuff:
Read “George Floyd Family Reaches $27 Million Settlement With City of Minneapolis” at Wall Street Journal.
Read “What It’s Like Inside the Now ‘Cop-Free’ Zone Where George Floyd Was Killed” at Vice.
Read “Breonna Taylor’s Killing Forced Black High School Girls To Grapple With Uncertainty” at WFPL.
Read “Restoring Pell Grants—And Possibilities—for Prisoners” at The Atlantic. “Classes inside prison give people a sense of community, a sense of purpose, a sense of identity, and a sense of hope.”
Read ‘Racists attack Asian American chef who criticized Texas over mask mandate” at The Hill.
Read “Asian American community on edge after deadly shooting in Atlanta” at The World.
Read “Elderly Asian woman fights off attacker in San Francisco” at The Hill.
Read “Georgia massage parlor shootings leave 8 dead; man captured” at Associated Press.
Read “Massage Parlor Massacres Suspect Said He Loved Guns & God” at Daily Beast.
Read “Is Critical Race Theory Racist?” by Brad Mason.
Read “Immigration Is Not a “Crisis”” at Slate. “What would our laws look like if we stopped treating migration as a problem to be solved?”
Read “Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong” at National Geographic.
Read “Man Wanted by Police Arrested Near Residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, Gun and Ammo Found in Car” at NBC Washington.
Read “Dem Rep. Plays Some Of The Racist Voicemails She Was Hit With For Condemning Anti-Asian Hate” at Comic Sands.
Read “Judge Rules Some Ghislaine Maxwell Details Are Too ‘Sensational and Impure’ to Be Revealed to the Public” at Law and Crime.
Read “Armie Hammer under investigation by LAPD sex crime detectives” at Los Angeles Times.
Read “Teen Vogue’s New Top Editor Out After Backlash Over Old Racist Tweets” at Daily Beast.
This week in traitorous, white-supremacist Confederate monuments (and/or Columbus monuments // and/or other “American monuments” // and/or weird Confederacy stuff):
Read “Two Men Have Been Charged With Assaulting The Officer Who Died After The Capitol Riot” at Buzzfeed News.
Read “George W. Bush on US Capitol insurrection: 'I'm still disturbed when I think about it'“ at CNN.
This Week With The Police:
Read “Essential California: LAPD’s handling of summer protests sharply criticized in report” at Los Angeles Times.
Read “Retired Gila County sergeant wins PTSD workers’ compensation claim” at KTAR.
Read “Kentucky Senate votes to criminalize insulting police in way that could cause ‘violent response’” at Washington Post.
Education and The Learnings // School Re-Openings
Read “How Google's New Career Certificates Could Disrupt the College Degree” at Inc.
Read “DeSantis: Civics curriculum proposal will 'expressly exclude' critical race theory” at The Hill.
Read “Education Dept. Begins Rolling Back Trump-Era Policies On Defrauded Students” at NPR.
Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:
Read “How anti-vax rhetoric sneaks past Instagram’s content moderation system” at Salon.
Read “Passenger on flight from Seattle to Denver accused of refusing mask, urinating in cabin” at Oregon Live.
Miscellany Cultural Items (and some Technology):
Read “Seth Rogen’s new cannabis site temporarily shut down due to high demand” at NME.
Read “Michigan State announces basketball team will now be called 'MSU Spartans Presented by Rocket Mortgage' at Yahoo.
Read “Why the GameStop story is far from over” at BBC.
Read “Don’t Trust Civilization”: ‘Soldier of Fortune’ Magazine and the Masculine Myth” at We Are The Mutants.
Read “Serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman arrested yet again, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport” at CBS News.
Read “Goldman Sachs Commits $1 Billion to Fund Diverse-Led Businesses” at Forbes. “Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it’s doubling a commitment to investing in companies run by women and people of color to $1 billion.”
Read “No One Has Ever Wanted Anything More Than This City Wants a RoboCop Statue” at Vice.
Read “San Antonio Tussaud’s Pulls Wax Donald Trump Because People Keep Punching It” at Consequence of Sound. “The former president has been moved to a storage closet for his own protection.”
Internationalities:
Read “Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Charged With Bribery, Faces 15 Years In Prison” at Bloomberg.
Read “Kenya's High Court Upholds Crucial Ban on FGM in Much-Needed 'Boost' for Activists” at Global Citizen.
Read “China: 'Furious and sad' about violence against Asian Americans in US” at The Hill.
Read “Sri Lanka Mulls Banning Burqas and Closing 1,000 Madrassas” at Christianity Today.
Read “Japan’s Pot Laws Are Harsh, But Its Pensioners Invest in Growers” at Bloomberg.
Politics And Sucheries:
Read “Sen. Marco Rubio endorses Amazon warehouse union drive in surprise op-ed” at The Verge.
Read “A survey of Republicans shows 5 ‘tribes’ have emerged following Trump’s presidency” at New York Times.'
Read “GOP Rep. Suggests Gun Control Isn't Needed Because Bible Characters Killed Each Other Without Guns” at Comic Sands.
Read “How Mean Tweets—And Bad Predictions—Threaten to Derail Another Biden Nominee” at The Dispatch.
Read “Effort to recall Newsom gathers over 2M signatures, enough for possible ballot measure” at The Hill.
Read “Harry Reid calls for killing the filibuster: ‘60% is not a real democracy’” at MSNBC.
Read “Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy” at Five Thirty Eight.
This Week In Political Corruption:
Read “Cuomo Says He Will Not Resign Despite Calls From Prominent New York Democrats” at NPR.
Read “'Dangerous for democracy': Why these GOP state legislatures want to restrict voting rights” at Go Erie.
Read “McCaskill: 'Treasonous' Giuliani played into Putin's hand” at MSNBC.
Read “Republicans who tried to overturn election vote against medals for Capitol, D.C. police at Salon.
Music-Related News and Such:
Read “The Weeknd 'will no longer submit music to Grammy Awards' after snub” at BBC.
Read “Genre Is Disappearing. What Comes Next?” at New Yorker.
Read “Why Spotify’s Ex-Global Head Of Music Publishing Thinks Streaming Services Should Be Paying Songwriters More Money” at Music Business Worldwide.
Read “R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Mike Mills Look Back at Out of Time at 30” at Spin.
Read “Grammys 2021 Winners: See The Full List Here” at Pitchfork.
Read ‘Taylor Swift Wins Album of the Year at 2021 Grammys for folklore” at Pitchfork.
Read “Billie Eilish Wins Record of the Year at 2021 Grammys, Says Megan Thee Stallion Should Have Won” at Pitchfork.
Browse all the covers the Grateful Dead performed.
Read “Henry Rollins on Some of His Favorite Crate-Digging Experiences” at Discogs.
Read “The Many Lives of Judee Sill” at Rolling Stone. “After an abusive childhood and run-ins with the law, she grew into one of the most captivating singer-songwriters of the Seventies. More than 40 years after her death, could the world finally be ready to appreciate her?”
Read “Garth Brooks Lays Plans For Chris Gaines Album Reissue With Unreleased Songs” at American Songwriter.
Read “Justice Send Cease-and-Desist to Justin Bieber Over New Album” at Pitchfork.
Browse “A Guide to 25 Years of Mogwai” at Bandcamp.
Read “What the Spotify/K-Pop Showdown Underscores About the Future of Streaming” at Ptichfork.
Read “Artists Earned $21 Million on Bandcamp in the Last 30 Days” at Microchip Substack.
Read “Britney Spears Is Reportedly Considering a Tell-All Interview with Oprah Winfrey” at Harper’s Bazaar.
Read “Sunburned Hand of the Man merges woe and joy on Pick a Day to Die” at Chicago Reader.
Read “Sun Kil Moon’s Mark Kozelek Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Seven More Women” at Pitchfork.
Movies/TV/Video Games/Etc.:
Read “'The Talk' extends hiatus; Sharon Osbourne says she's 'been set up' after heated exchange” at USA Today.
Books/Reading/Authors
Read “The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others” at Open Culture.
Read “Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel” at WOKV.
Design/Artsy Things:
Read “Halsey to sell her art for the first time in NFT auction” at NME.
Read “Visit the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled: 800 Artifacts from 33 Museums, All Free Online” at Open Culture.
Science/Animals/Nature/Environment/Etc.:
Read “Scientists created human tear glands in a dish — and then made them cry” at Salon.
Misc. Oddities:
Read “Trying To Explain Aliens To Your Kids” at WPDH.
Read “Mysterious UFO above Phoenix remains a mystery 24 years later” at 12 News.
Read “It started flying towards us’: Mysterious fireball ignites blaze in Peachland” at Global News.
Local:
Read “Mountainside Fitness founder leaves CEO role, considers run for governor” at KTAR.