The Weekly Town Crier (05/08/20
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (05/08/20).
Read “R.I.P. Sam Lloyd, Scrubs Actor Dies at 56” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “R.I.P. Irrfan Khan, Legendary Indian Actor Dies At 53” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dead at 73” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Was (Not Was) Singer Sweet Pea Atkinson Dead At 74” at Stereogum.
Read “Barney Ales, Indispensable Motown Executive, Is Dead at 85” at New York Times.
Read “New report finds nonreligious people face stigma and discrimination” at Religion News Service.
Read “How dying churches abuse pastors Gene Fowler examines why traumatized congregations so often attack their leaders.” at Christian Century.
Read “Sudan Makes FGM a Crime in 'New Era' for Women's Rights The crime will be punishable by up to three years in jail” at Global Citizen.
Read “Don’t Look Away: Why Ahmaud Arbery’s Tragedy Must Be Addressed Head On” at Christianity Today.
Read “Ahmaud Arbery Should Be Alive Convicting his killers is the start. But the family of this modern lynching victim can’t have “justice” in a country with laws that protect white people who kill black people” at Rolling Stone.
Read “An Indianapolis Police Officer Fatally Shot A Black Man Who Reportedly Livestreamed The Encounter On Facebook” at Buzzfeed News.
Read “Why People Cling To Conspiracy Theories Like ‘Plandemic’” at Forbes.
Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:
Read/watch “Protesters Swarm Michigan Capitol Amid Showdown Over Governor's Emergency Powers” at NPR.
Read “Two Arizona County Sheriffs Are Refusing to Enforce Coronavirus Emergency Orders” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “White House Denies Congressional Request For Dr. Anthony Fauci's Testimony” at NPR.
Read “Phoenix airport sees almost 50% drop in number of travelers due to coronavirus” at AZ Central.
Read “With Trump's Coronavirus Response, U.S. Forfeits Global Leadership Role” at NPR.
Read “Trump’s Favorability Among White Christians Falls In Double Digits, Particularly In Counties Hit Hardest By Coronavirus, Poll Says” at Newsweek.
Read “The US just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according to WHO” at CNBC.
Read “Pope Francis joins Muslim leaders in calling for world day of prayer to end the coronavirus” at American Magazine.
Read “A new clinical study is investigating whether prayer might make a difference in the outcomes of COVID-19 patients who require intensive care. “We all believe in science, and we also believe in faith,” says the principal investigator” at NPR.
Read the opinion piece “Donald Trump's four-step plan to reopen the US economy – and why it will be lethal” by Robert Reich at The Guardian.
Read “Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the Same Pandemic” at Heterodox: The Blog.
Read the opinion piece: “We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic The pandemic has brought the latest battle in the long American war over communal well-being” at The Atlantic.
Read “WHO says it has seen zero evidence to support White House claim that COVID-19 came from Wuhan lab” at Salon.
Read “A Mexican 'Lucha Libre' Wrestler Is Sewing Masks To Fight Coronavirus” at NPR.
Read “Coronavirus Lingers in Air of Crowded Spaces, New Study Finds” at Bloomberg.
Read “Black Bodies Are Devalued And Overlooked In Georgia” at Sojourners.
Read “Franklin Graham calls for coronavirus quarantine defiance: Only God ‘knows the number of our days’” at Raw Story.
Read “Ohio lawmaker refuses to wear mask because he says it dishonors God” at NBC News.
Read “Why Pandemics Are the Perfect Environment for Conspiracy Theories to Flourish” at Snopes.
Read “Pastors Claim Bill Gates Will Use COVID Vaccines to Impose the Mark of the Beast” at Friendly Atheist.
Read/Watch “Arizona state health department tells modeling team to stop work” at ABC 15.
Read “Without Federal Aid, More than 1,000 U.S. Music Venues Are in Danger of Closing” at Rolling Stone.
Read “40 People Were Arrested on Social Distancing Violations. 35 Were Black” at New York Times.
Read “Joe Walsh Reflects on Kent State Shootings: ‘We Are as Divided Now as We Were Then’ “The solution then, as it is now, is to be able to peacefully assemble and understand each other and accept our differences,” says artist who was a present at the massacre” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Devo’s Jerry Casale Looks Back at Kent State 50 Years Later: ‘Time Stood Still’ “I saw somebody in charge yelling at these two lines of National Guardsmen and then he made a hand gesture,” says Casale. “That is when they started shooting” at Rolling Stone.
Read “DeVos finalizes regulations that give more rights to those accused of sexual assault on college campuses” at CNN.
Read “Betsy DeVos unveils new Title IX rules: Are they aimed at "silencing survivors"?” at Salon.
Read “Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces ban on assault-style weapons” at MSN.
Read “Joe Biden denies he sexually assaulted a former Senate aide, calls on National Archives to release complaint if one exists” at Washington Post.
Read “Obama team fully vetted Biden in 2008 and found no hint of former aide’s allegation” at News and Guts.
Read “How Mitch McConnell Became Trump's Enabler In Chief” at New Yorker.
Read “Retired Republican Senator Jeff Flake will vote for Biden over Trump and says GOP needs 'a sound defeat' in 2020 election” at Yahoo.
Read “DOJ dropping case against former Trump adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying about Russia contact” at AZ Central.
Read “Trump’s Narcissistic Punishment Of Withholding Michigan Aid” at Forbes.
Read “Amanda Palmer announces separation from Neil Gaiman on Patreon” at AV Club.
Read “Quincy Jones Won't Be Awarded $6.9 Million in Royalties on Behalf of Michael Jackson Estate” at Okay Player.
Watch “Rodney Mullen and the First Kickflip Ever” at The Berrics.
Watch “Olympic Channel Investigates Norway’s Ban On Skateboarding In The ‘80's” at The Berrics.
Read “watch hours and hours of early ’80s MTV, complete with commercials Read More: watch hours and hours of early ’80s MTV, complete with commercials” at Brooklyn Vegan.
Read/Listen to “The Triumphant Return of Fiona Apple, Pop Music Renegade” at New York Times.
Read “What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple? It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I? On the isolation of disconnection” at Long Reads.
Read “An interview with the incomparable Jim O'Rourke” at Tone Glow.
Read “Channeling the cosmic imperfections of Sun Ra’s record sleeves” at Vinyl Factory.
Read “Win Butler Reveals Secret Influences Behind Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’ Frontman says additional James Murphy collaborations could be in band’s future: “We have more work to do” at Rolling Stone.
Browse “Pitchfork Staffers Recommend 16 Great Indie Record Stores You Can Support Online”.
Read “Marilyn Manson Wants to Team Up with Brandi Carlile for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” Duet The Antichrist Superstar "cried so hard" during Carlile's Joni Mitchell tribute” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Bob Dylan announces new album ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’, shares single ‘False Prophet’” at NME.
Read “Nicolas Cage will play Joe Exotic the Tiger King in his first TV role, report says” at CNet.
Read “Five Bottles of Whiskey We’re Revisiting During Quarantine” at Paste.