The Weekly Town Crier (11/01/19)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (11/01/19 Edition).
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Read “John Witherspoon Dies: ‘Friday’ & ‘Wayans Bros.’ Star Was 77” at Deadline.
Read “Longest Serving Black Congressman John Conyers Jr. Passes Away at 90” at The Root.
Read “Little Feat Guitarist Paul Barrere Dead at 71” at Rolling Stone.
Read Religion News Service’s opinion piece: “Christianity as we know it is dying. Let’s welcome the new life ahead.”
Read Christianity Today’s piece: “The Apostles Never ‘Shared’ the Gospel, and Neither Should We Why it’s time to retire our favorite evangelistic phrase.”
Read RNS’ report: “Jury convicts 7 Catholic pacifists of breaking into nuclear submarine base.”
Read “Biden denied communion at SC parish” at Catholic News Agency.
Read “Leadership Has Replaced Discipleship And how the internet is transforming the Church” at Medium.
Read Christianity Today’s piece: “The Latest Multisite Campus: Prison.”
Read “The Church Needs a Masterclass in How to Apologize for Sexual Assault” at Christ and Pop Culture.
Read Slate’s piece “Jerry Falwell Jr. Says Kanye Called Him Out of the Blue and They “Struck Up a Little Friendship”.
Read “Demon of Disunity” at First Things.
Read “White Christian Nationalism, Not Secularism, Is Destroying America” at Sojourners.
Read “Evangelism Isn’t About Results The Parable of the Sower frees us from our desire for resolution” at Christianity Today.
Read “Kanye says God rewarded him with $68 million tax refund for becoming born-again Christian” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Pastors, friendship, and the limits of boundaries What use are boundaries when you’re sitting with a friend who is about to die?” at Christian Century.
Read “What did the Jesuits have to do with the invention of the horror film?” at American Magazine.
Read/Listen to: “With Plans To Pay Slavery Reparations, Two Seminaries Prompt A Broader Debate.”
Read “A Nazi Flag Was Hanging in a California Corrections Office, Which Totally Makes Sense” at The Root.
Read “High school athlete disqualified at cross-country meet for wearing hijab” at Yahoo.
Read The Root’s report: “Study Finds a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients Over Sicker Black Ones.”
Read “Southern Baptist church: Racial prejudice a factor in rejection of black pastor” at Religion News Service.
Read “When NY Ended Money Bail, a Prosecutor Trained DAs to Keep People in Jail” at The Root.
Read “These are the new symbols of hate: “In Sept 2019, the Anti-Defamation League released an updated list of hate-related symbols, hand signs and numbers. Among them was a familiar, seemingly innocent gesture: the "OK" sign” at CNN.
Read “An Interview With the Mayor Who Banned Trick-or-Treating for Anyone Over 12” at Slate.
Read/watch CBS’ piece: “An alternative to police: Mental health team responds to emergencies in Oregon.”
Read CNBC’s report: “It’s not just experiences—spending on objects makes us happy, too.”
Read Barna’s piece: “82% of Young Adults Say Society Is in a Leadership Crisis.”
Read “How a Texas Custody Case Became a Terrifying Right-Wing Talking Point” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Why the most successful students have no passion for school” at Aeon.
Read “Lyft offering free rides to job interviews and first 3 weeks of employment” at WFLA.
Read “Ted Danson's the latest celebrity to get arrested at Jane Fonda's weekly climate change protest” at AV Club.
Read/Listen to “Smartphone Dependency Study Links Anxiety, Depression And Loneliness” at KJZZ.
Read as The Millions considers “The Cockroach Decade: The 1970's have become an unkillable source of inspiration for writers and filmmakers, the scummy well that refuses to run dry. What is the secret of its durable appeal?"
Read “At long last, an oral history of Chuck E. Cheese's nightmare robots” at AV Club.
Read Boing Boing’s report: “Disney theme parks have a serious problem with cremain-scattering.”
Watch “The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film” from 1974 at Open Culture.
Read “Hyundai plans to launch a free robot taxi service in California” at The Verge.
Read as USA Today wonders “Texas gun laws: What happens when ‘good guys’ have guns?”
Read “Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads” at the New York Times.
Read “Day of the Dead: From Aztec goddess worship to modern Mexican celebration” at Religion News Service.
Read “Facebook and the shameful media tradition of enabling Breitbart hate” at Daily Kos.
Read “Aaron Sorkin to Mark Zuckerberg: "Facebook isn't defending speech, it's assaulting truth"“ at AV Club.
See “dazzling pictures of Diwali, the festival of lights” at National Geographic.
Read ESPN’s piece “NCAA clears way for athletes to profit from names, images and likenesses.”
Read Wired’s piece: “Trump's Presidency Has Spawned a New Generation of Witches.”
Read NBC’s report: “California's first surgeon general: Screen every student for childhood trauma.”
Read Boing Boing’s piece: “70% of millennials would vote for a socialist.”
Read “What is democratic socialism, and where is it headed?” at Christian Century.
Read NPR’s report: “U.S. Travel Ban Disrupts The World's Largest Brain Science Meeting.”
Read/Watch 12 News’ report: “5,460 migrant children separated from parents under Trump in new tally Children who were separated early during the administration can be difficult to find because the government had inadequate tracking systems.”
Read NPR’s report: “As President Trump Tweets And Deletes, The Historical Record Takes Shape: President Trump's tweets are considered part of the official presidential record — which federal law says must be preserved. His tendency to tweet and delete is alarming experts, and prompting grassroots archival efforts.”
Read “Twitter Says It Will No Longer Run Political Advertisements, Trolls Facebook” at Rolling Stone.
Read CNBC’s report: “Federal deficit increases 26% to $984 billion for fiscal 2019, highest in 7 years.”
Read “Mitt Romney: a solitary GOP voice battling Trump for the soul of the Republican Party” at USA Today.
Read “In-N-Out Burger donates $25,000 to Republican Party, prompting Democrats to demand boycott” at USA Today.
Read The Guardian’s piece: “Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans.”
Read Washington Post’s piece: “Mike Pence’s inconsistent support for free speech in professional sports: The vice president’s criticism of athletes failing to speak out against a government behaving unethically appears to be quite the pivot from how he has previously responded to those mixing sports and activism.”
Read NBC’s post: “Rudy Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens.”
Read “Trump gets cheers, boos and 'lock him up' chants at World Series in DC” at CNN.
Read “Obama Calls Out Online Call-Out Culture: ‘That’s Not Activism’ “The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws” at Rolling Stone.
Read PBS News Hour’s report: “Trump’s conservative picks will impact courts for decades
Read Rolling Stone’s report: “Trump Has Officially Weaponized the Justice Department to Go After His Rivals.’
Read PBS’s report: “Pentagon told impeachment inquiry witness not to testify.”
Read NPR’s report: “Democrats Say White House Is Interfering As Russia Review Becomes A Criminal Case.”
Read PBS News’ Hours’s report: “Judge: DOJ must hand over Mueller grand jury evidence to House Democrats.”
Read “House Passes Resolution Formalizing Impeachment Inquiry” at NPR.
Read Consequence of Sound’s review of the new Kanye West album ‘Jesus Is King’: “Kanye West Even Bores God with the Passionless Jesus Is King Twenty-seven minutes of cliches, half-finished thoughts, and vaguely religious gesturing.”
Read as the New Yorker weighs in.
Read NPR’s opinion piece: “Forgotten: The Things We Lost In Kanye's Gospel Year.”
Read “Church Of Satan responds to Jesus Is King: "Satan is the best friend Kanye has ever had” at AV Club.
Read “Yeezus Follows Jesus” at First Things.
Read “Kanye West’s JESUS IS KING Is a Divine Failure For the first time in his career, Kanye has released something entirely boring and forgettable” at Paste.
Read “On Jesus Is King, Kanye West Finds God, But Loses His Inspiration” at Time.
Read “Kanye was Christ-haunted long before 'Jesus Is King' at the Catholic Herald.
Read Stereogum’s “Premature Evaluation: Kanye West Jesus Is King.”
Read “Evangelicals Are Extremely Excited About Kanye’s Jesus Is King” at Slate.
Read “Kanye West Reaches for Greatness But Falls Short on ‘Jesus Is King’ at Rolling Stone.
Read Pitchfork’s review: “Christianity is the unwavering focus of Kanye’s gospel album, a richly produced but largely flawed record about one man’s love of the Lord (and himself).”
Read “All the Wrong People Love Jesus Is King” at The Root.
Read as Shane Claiborne wonders “Is Jesus king of Kanye’s bank account?” at Religion News Service.
Read “Gospel Music Doesn’t Need Kanye’s Remixing” at The Root.
Read “Why Trump — not Jesus — is at the heart of white Christian love for Kanye” by Andre Henry at Religions News Service.
Read CNN’s report: “Kirk Franklin’s Dove Awards speech was edited to cut remarks on police brutality in America. It wasn't the first time.
Read Christian Post’s piece “Lecrae, Natalie Grant, gospel stars join Kirk Franklin in boycott of TBN, Dove Awards.”
Read/Watch “Bruce Springsteen: Trump ‘Doesn’t Have a Grasp’ on What It Means to Be American “The stewardship of the nation has been thrown away to somebody who don’t have a clue what that means,” singer tells CBS This Morning” at Rolling Stone.
Read about two of my favorite 2019 albums: “75 Dollar Bill and Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society yield plenty from the leanest of materials” by Peter Margasak.
Watch the trailer for “Thumbs Up for Mother Universe; The Lonnie Holley Story” at Vimeo.
Read “A duel with Van Morrison: 'Is this a psychiatric examination? It sounds like one'" at The Guardian.
Read as Jason Woodbury reviews the new Van Morrison album for Pitchfork.
Read an interview with Garcia Peoples at Echoes and Dust.
Read/Listen as NPR wonders “Can Dolly Parton Heal America?”
Read “The Entire Archive of Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music Has Been Digitized and Put Online” at Open Culture.
Read “Tommy Boy says Amazon is selling counterfeit vinyl copies of their albums Read More: Tommy Boy says Amazon is selling counterfeit vinyl copies of their albums” at Brooklyn Vegan.
Read “John Fogerty Uses His Canceled Woodstock 50 Payment to Buy a Home for a Veteran” at Variety.
Watch “Kim Gordon interviewed: “The end of capitalism is coming” at NME.
Read “Miles Davis Albums To Be Collected In Box Set” at Quietus.
Read “The New Linda Ronstadt Documentary Proves Just How Underrated She Is” at Pitchfork.
Read “Rolling Thunder Revue: Bob Dylan Bandmate David Mansfield Reminisces On The Notorious Tour” at Live For Live Music.
Read “Small but perfectly formed: a love letter to the EP, the unsung hero format of the music world” at NME.
Read “How Bill Graham Became A Legend Of The San Francisco Music Scene” at Live For Live Music.
Read New York Times’ report: “A Musical Revolt Succeeds: WNYC, in a Reversal, Keeps ‘New Sounds’".
Read Spin’s report: “Twisted Sister Would Really Like Fox & Friends to Stop Using Their Music.”
Read “Trent Reznor On The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: “I’ve Changed My Opinion” at Stereogum.
Read Exclaim’s report: “Morrissey Signed Other People's Albums to Sell as Merch.”
Read “Kill your darlings”: An interview with Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World” at Tone Deaf.
Read “Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Tops Discogs' List of the Top 200 Albums of the 2010s” at Billboard.
Read “How Bob Dylan’s ‘Make You Feel My Love’ Became a Modern Standard” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Ringo Starr on finding out about John Lennon’s death: “I didn’t know what to do” at NME.
Read PItchfork’s piece: “Rainbo Records Vinyl Pressing Plant Closing After 80 Years The historic California company is shutting down following their landlord’s decision to no longer house manufacturers.”
Read “Grace Slick Licenses Song To Chick-fil-A, Gives Proceeds To LGBTQ Rights Organization” at Live For Live Music.
Listen to “CHAI Talks with Stef Smith (Varsity) for the Talkhouse Podcast Grab your headphones for Talkhouse’s first ever bilingual conversation” at Talk House and listen to CHAI on Episode 44 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.
Read “This Twin Peaks explainer is good—it’s also 4 1/2 hours long” at AV Club.
Browse “Ten Essential Music BiographiesTen Essential Music Biographies” at The Millions.
Read Boing Boing’s report: “The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned.”
Read WUWM’s piece “Laundromat Libraries Aim To Boost Literacy In Milwaukee.”
Read Wired’s piece: “Stan Lee’s ‘A Trick of Light’ Explores the Dark Side of the Internet.”
Read “We Should All Be Reading Ancient Poetry Right Now” at The Millions.
Read “These Rare Classic Children’s Books Can Now Be Read Online for Free” at Bookish Buzz.
Read “Bowie’s Bookshelf: A New Essay Collection on The 100 Books That Changed David Bowie’s Life” at Open Culture.
See “The Paintings of Miles Davis: Discover Visual Art Inspired by Kandinsky, Basquiat, Picasso, and Joni Mitchell” at Open Culture.
Read “The Beauty of Degraded Art: Why We Like Scratchy Vinyl, Grainy Film, Wobbly VHS & Other Analog-Media Imperfection” at Open Culture.
Read “Egon Schiele on What It Means to Be an Artist and Why Visionaries Always Come from the Minority” at Brain Pickings.
Read “Cats Might Not Act Like It, But They Know Their Names As Well As Dogs, Study Says” at NPR.
Read Live Science’s piece: “Your Brain 'Shields' Itself from the Existential Threat of Death.”
Read “Secret Air Force Space Plane Lands After More Than 2 Years In Orbit” at NPR.
Read “How science has shifted our sense of identity” at Nature.
Read “State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men” at Yahoo.
Read as NPR considers “Crows: Are They Scary Or Just Scary-Smart?”
Read “Where Did the Carter White House's Solar Panels Go? One of the 32 solar-thermal panels that captured energy on the roof of the White House more than 30 years ago landed this week at a science museum in China” at Scientific American.
Read/Listen to “How Deep Sleep May Help The Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins” at NPR.
Consider “Point/counterpoint: What’s the best shape of fried pickles?” at The Takeout.
Read “An American Cheese Won the World Cheese Awards for the First Time Ever” at Food and Wine.
Read “Irish Whiskey Is So Popular That It Gets Its Own Festival in New York City” at The Manual.
Read “The Dark Side of the ‘Angel’s Share’ Kentucky’s bourbon industry is covering its neighbors in black fungus” at Atlas Obscura.
Read Craft Beer.com’s piece: “Smithsonian Set to Showcase Brewing History.”
Read Atlas Obscura’s piece “Scottish Singles Used to Spend Halloween Picking Kale The leafy green once foretold the future.”
Read “The First Prank Calls Were Surprisingly Morbid” at Atlas Obscura.
Read about the Swiss town where they age cheese for their own funerals at Atlas Obscura.
Read KTAR’s report: “Mesa man recieves prison sentence for trying to smuggle guns into Mexico.”
Read “Down and Out: Four Venues From the Phoenix Punk Heyday” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “St. Luke’s Phoenix hospital to close next month due to drop in patients” at KTAR.
Read KJZZ’s report “Apple Co-Founder's Woz U Gives Up Postsecondary License In Arizona.”
Read “Wren House Brewing to open offsite barrel & lager facility this spring” at Mouth By Southwest.
Read “Goldwater Brewing’s new northeast Mesa taproom construction ‘on schedule’ at Mouth By Southwest.
Read KTAR’s report: “Mayor Gallego pushing for Phoenix to host Democratic presidential debate.”
Read “Phoenix School Investigating Officer's Use of Pepper Spray, Handcuffs on Students” at Phoenix New Times.