The Weekly Town Crier (10/25/19)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (10/25/19 Edition).
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Listen to all 52 episodes of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.
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Read/hear “Generational Split Among Evangelicals Threatens Support For Trump” at NPR.
Read Religion News Service’s report: “Accusing SBC of ‘caving,’ John MacArthur says of Beth Moore: ‘Go home’.
Read Christianity Today’s piece: “Israel Supreme Court Ruling Backs Aramean Christian Rights A decision allowing busing to Hebrew schools calls out the significance of preserving this minority tradition’s unique identity..”
Read American Magazine’s piece: “The Plowshares activists are on trial for anti-nuclear protest. Theologians say the Gospel’s on their side.”
Read “Dinner Church, anyone?” by Mike Frost.
Read Christianity Today’s piece: “Female Evangelical Leaders Have a Hidden Predecessor to Thank Kathryn Kuhlman’s story offers a case study of the indisputable achievements of strong evangelical women and the equally indisputable roadblocks they often face.”
Read The Root’s report: “Real Life-Savers: Chicago-Area Churches Band Together to Wipe Out More Than $5 Million in Medical Debt for Thousands of Families.”
Read Christianity Today’s piece: “The Cautionary Tale of Jerry Falwell Jr. It’s time to remember the qualifications of biblical leadership.”
Read as Christian Century wonders “Do politics belong in church? 11 pastors and theologians weigh in.”
Consider with The Nation: “Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?”
Read Aeon’s piece: “Mammon: Far from representing rationality and logic, capitalism is modernity’s most beguiling and dangerous form of enchantment.”
Read Vox’ report: “Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that.”
Ever wonder “How to Get Online Illegally in Cuba” Slate has your answer: Across the country, people have turned to a Philadelphia-based company to access the internet.”
Read Slate’s piece: “Trauma in Plain Sight Among homeless people, PTSD is widespread and widely overlooked.”
Read CNet’s report: “Facebook commits $1B to address housing issues The social media giant says it wants to help California.”
Read PBS News Hour’s report: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg to receive $1 million Berggruen Prize: The award honors Ginsburg for her pioneering legal work for gender equality and her support for the rule of law.”
Read The Verge’s piece: “Patreon’s CEO is launching a $50,000 annual grant for creators.”
Read/hear “He Traded Single Life To Be Foster 'Pop' To More Than 50 Kids” at NPR.
Read CBS’s piece: “Michael Jordan Opens Health Care Clinic for Underinsured.”
Read The Root’s report: “Shaquille O’Neal Donates New Home to Family of 12-Year-Old Boy Paralyzed in Shooting.”
Read Vice’s report: “Cops Need a Warrant to Access Your Car's Data, Court Rules.”
Read Because Of Them We Can’s report: “U.S. Postal Service Honors Gwen Ifill With Forever Stamp.”
Read Rolling Stone’s piece: “Teen Suicide Is on the Rise and No One Knows Why.”
See “the Most Popular Liquors in Every State” at Food and Wine.
Read Global Citizen’s report: “John Oliver buys $15 million of medical debt for $60,000 and forgives it all, because he could.”
Read Washington Post’s report: “Pressed on transgender comments, HUD’s Carson says political correctness is ‘going to destroy our nation’.
Read Christianity Today’s report: “Paula White-Cain’s Evangelical Support Squad Isn’t as Surprising as It Seems The movement has a long history of partnerships that transcend doctrinal divides.”
Read Rolling Stone’s report: “Proud Boys Sentenced to 4 Years In Prison for Attacking Protesters.”
Read PBS News Hour’s report: “U.S. moves to require DNA samples from asylum-seekers.”
Read USA Today’s report: “Undocumented workers gets busted, but employers often don't. What we learned from 6 ICE raids.”
Read “Racial Inequality and Inequity: An Ongoing Lament” at the Allender Center.
Read The New York Post’s report: “The Ku Klux Klan is slowly rising again.”
Read “A Case for the Ongoing Black Exodus from White Evangelicalism” by Andre Henry at Medium.
Read The Independent’s report: “Elijah Cummings 'signed subpoenas from his hospital bed' for Trump impeachment before his death.”
Read The Guardian’s piece: “Impeachment: how does it work and what happens next?”
Read Business Insider’s report “The CEO of Dick's, which banned AR-15 style rifles last year, says he wishes Sen. Mitch McConnell would have the 'guts' to address gun reform.”
Read NPR’s report: “Anonymous Author of Explosive Trump Administration Insider Op-Ed To Publish Book.”
Read NPR’s piece: “Republicans Disrupt House Impeachment Inquiry, Delaying Testimony From Pentagon Aide.”
Read Huffington Post’s report: “Trump's Lawyer Tells Judges That Trump Could Shoot Someone And Skirt Prosecution: William Consovoy, Trump's attorney, told a federal appeals court panel that the president can't be indicted while still in office.."
Read The Daily Beast’s report: “White House Press Secretary: Those ‘Against’ Trump Deserve to Be Called ‘Human Scum’ “The people who are against him, and who have been against him, and have been working against him since the day they took office are just that.”
Read AV Club’s piece: “Jane Fonda again arrested at climate change protest, this time with Grace & Frankie co-star Sam Waterston.”
Read the opinion piece at New York Times: “Is God Skipping the Democratic Primary? The candidates’ reticence about religion is excessive and unwise.”
Read PRI’s piece: “Your political views can predict how you pronounce certain words.”
Read Huff Post’s report: “Watchdog Accuses Kellyanne Conway Of Violating Hatch Act An Astounding 50 Times The last time the White House aide was nabbed using her job for partisan politics, she responded: “Blah, blah, blah ... Let me know when the jail sentence starts.”
Read Washington Post’s report: “Federal judge holds DeVos in contempt in loan case, slaps Education Department with $100,000 fine.”
Read the ACLU’s piece: “Patients’ Needs, Not Personal Beliefs, Come First in Health Care: The Trump administration is trying to make it legal to turn people away from health care services based on a provider's religious views.”
Read The Hill’s report: “Senate Republicans block two election security bills.”
Watch MSNBC’s report: “Former US Ethics Director says Trump ‘awarded himself a govt contract’ with G7 summit: The President... participated in a contract award to his own business. This is the figurative equivalent of - he reaches into the treasury, grabs a chunk of money, and says ‘Don’t worry, I’m not taking more than I’m spending.’"
Read the Washington Times’ report: “Trump set to sue CNN for bias, seeks 'maximum' damage.”
Read News and Guts’ piece: Trump Refers To Article In Constitutional As “Phony Emoluments Clause”.
Read Education Week’s report: “In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed by Special Ed. Needs in Aftermath of Lead Crisis.”
Read SCBS880’s report: “New Jersey Becomes 1st State To Have Arts In Every School.”
Read AZ Central’s report: “Arizona will open state's first public veterinary school in 2020, after key approval.”
Read Wisconsin Public Radio’s piece: “There's A Mass Teacher Exodus, Not Shortage.”
Read Boing Boing’s report: “NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt.”
Watch/read as PBS News Hour considers “Why music has such profound effects on the brain.”
Read BBC’s piece: “How Hip Hop is saving a dying Columbian language.”
Read Yahoo’s piece: “How late Muffs frontwoman Kim Shattuck made final album while secretly battling ALS: ‘Nothing would stop her from doing what she loved to do’.
Read Jambands.com’s report: “The Flaming Lips Announce First-Ever Live Album, ‘The Soft Bulletin’ Live at Red Rocks.”
Read Exclaim’s report: “Eminem Was Visited by the Secret Service over Anti-Trump Lyrics.”
Read “Slow Change May Pull Us Apart: The Oral History of Simple Minds’ ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ The fascinating and turbulent story behind the 'Breakfast Club' anthem, which turns 30 this month, told by those who lived it” at Spin.
Read as NPR considers “The 2010s: The Rise Of Bandcamp.”
Read Billboard’s piece: “How Tegan and Sara Defeated Scalpers & Embraced Their Fans With 'Rush Seating' Concept.”
Read Pitchfork’s report: “Public Enemy’s Chuck D Awarded 2019 Woody Guthrie Prize The honor is annually awarded to artists who advocate for people without a platform.”
Read Rolling Stone’s report: “Hundreds of Musicians Call for Amazon Boycott Over ICE Contracts.”
Stream a “New Leonard Cohen posthumous track “Happens to the Heart” at Consequence of Sound.
Watch CHAI at NPR’s Tiny Desk. Listen to CHAI on Episode 44 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.
Read Financial Review’s piece: “How Nick Cave’s wife captured hearts and minds with needle and thread.”
Read “This $1100 Machine Lets You Make Your Own Vinyl Records About the same size as a home turntable, the Phonocut analog lathe lets you make your very own 10-inch records” at the Robb Report.
“Get to know Here Lies Man, the rockers who blend Afrobeat with Rock and Roll” at Guitar.com. Listen to “So Far Away” by Here Lies Man. From the 2017 album Here Lies Man on Episode 39 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.
Watch as “Beck Shares Video for “Uneventful Days” Directed By Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes” at Flood.
Read Jambands.com’s report: “Arlo Guthrie Announces Final Thanksgiving Show at Carnegie Hall.”
Read Okay Player’s report: “A 30-Foot-Tall Outkast Mural Has Been Erected In Atlanta.”
Listen: “Martin Luther King Jr. Explains the Importance of Jazz: Hear the Speech He Gave at the First Berlin Jazz Festival (1964) at Open Culture.
Read “The Pagan Mechanic Rides Again: Neil Young’s Adventures on the Hi-Res Frontier The artist is intent on bringing real quality to streaming audio, whether you want it or not” at Wired.
Read “A Legendary Collaboration Continues: Neil Young And Crazy Horse Reunite For 'Colorado'“ at NPR.
Read Rolling Stone’s report: “‘The Who’s Tommy’ Returning to Broadway in 2021.”
Read “Peter Hook on reclaiming the songs of New Order The musician will play the New Order albums ‘Technique’ and ‘Republic’ on tour” at Metro.
Peek “Behind the Scenes With Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead: Photographer Jay Blakesberg tells the stories behind some of his greatest Grateful Dead images.”
Read Vinyl Factory’s report: “Gang Starr announces first new album in sixteen years" (featuring Guru).
Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller The position pays "40 to 50 thousand a year" according to Snoop.”
Read “Why Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Head Like a Hole’ Is Still the Anti-Anthem for Our Times” at Rolling Stone.
Read “How The Stooges, Hip-Hop & Airbnb Inspired Kim Gordon's First Solo Album” at Billboard.
Read Rolling Stone’s report: “The Cure’s Robert Smith Looks Back: ‘I’ve Never Thought About Legacy’.
Read “Michael Stipe interview: the REM frontman on the 25th anniversary of Monster and his first solo single, Your Capricious Soul” at The Times.
Read “The Mystery of Ric Ocasek: ‘He Tried for Happiness, But Underneath Was a Lot of Pain’” at Rolling Stone.
Watch “Robbie Robertson Discusses Writing The Band’s ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ at Jambase.
Watch “Iggy Pop Recalls Smoking Spider Webs To Get High” at I Heart Radio.
Read “Bob Weir Talks Passion For Fitness, Jerry Garcia’s “F*ck It” Mentality In New ‘Men’s Health’ Interview” at Live For Live Music.
Read PopSugar’s report: “A Live-Action Barney Movie Is in the Works.”
Read AV Club’s report: “Adventure Time is returning with four new hour-long specials on HBO Max.”
Read 12 News’ report: “Report: 'Hocus Pocus 2' is currently in development for Disney+”
Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Bill Murray slept through his own lifetime achievement award press conference When he woke up, however, he confirmed he'll be returning for next year's Ghostbusters sequel.”
Read “‘Western Stars’ Review: Bruce Springsteen and Broken Cowboys This concert film, directed by the singer and Thom Zimny, puts Bruce in a barn with an orchestra to make some magic.” at New York Times.
Read NPR’s report: “White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego An 'Inside Joke' : Peter Navarro, White House director of trade and manufacturing policy, made up one of the people he repeatedly quotes in several of his nonfiction books. He defended the fabrication as a "whimsical device." His publisher isn't amused.”
Read Open Culture’s report: “Joni Mitchell Publishes a Book of Her Rarely Seen Paintings & Poetry.”
Read Christianity Today’s review of Thomas S. Kidd’s ‘Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis’ // “‘Evangelical’ Isn’t Code for White and Republican The movement is richer and more diverse than media portrayals suggest.”
Read “Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story” at Brain Pickings.
Read AV Club’s report: “He knows it's absurd, but Damon Lindelof thinks Alan Moore cursed him for making Watchmen.”
Watch “2 American Women Astronauts Venture Out For First All-Female Spacewalk” at NPR.
Read Live Science’s report: “This 'Doomsday' Plane Was Designed to Survive a Nuclear Attack. A Bird Just Took It Down.”
Read “The Science of “Sleeping on It” Experts say if you want to harness sleep’s problem-solving powers to the fullest, think about your dilemma just before bed” at Medium.
Read Rolling Stone’s report: “Children of Recluse Dutch Family Thought They Were the Only People Left on Earth.”
Meet “The Man Who Eats Glass” with Paris Review.
Read about “Yasuke: The mysterious African samurai” at BBC.
Hear “Bigfoot Howl Recorded Deep in a Canadian Forest'“ at Mysterious Universe.
Read KTAR’s report: “Arizona high school to no longer allow students to carry backpacks.”
Read AZ Central’s piece: “Craft beer bars were a boy's club. So this Phoenix woman started her own brewery.”
Watch 12 News’ report: “New Fry's store brings much-needed grocery store to downtown Phoenix.”
Read KTAR’s report: “Tucson raises minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21.”