The Weekly Town Crier (02/28/20)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (02/28/20).
Read “Monkees Singer and Bassist Peter Tork Dead at 77” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Katherine Johnson, one of NASA's 'Hidden Figures,' dies at 101” at 12 News.
Read “Mazzy Star’s David Roback Dead at 61 The producer and instrumentalist also co-founded the bands Rain Parade and Opal” at Pitchfork.
Read “Clive Cussler, million-selling adventure writer, dies at 88 Clive Cussler was an adventure writer and real-life thrill-seeker” at 12 News.
Read “This Political Moment: A Way Forward in a Divided Age. Conflict is opportunity, my friend says optimistically.”
Read “SEC Charges Son of John MacArthur & Grace to You Board Member with Fraud” at Julie Roys.
Read “Internal report finds that L’Arche founder Jean Vanier engaged in decades of sexual misconduct” at America Magazine.
Read “Why Christ wouldn't aspire to ‘Christic Manhood’” at Religion News Service.
Read “Misogyny in Baptist Higher Education” at Baptist Voices.
Read “I Really Want to Skip Church” at Mockingbird. "As much as I’d love to tell people: 'Church should be your excuse for missing everything else,' I’m acutely aware of two things: (1) Church might be the reason you are missing love, grace, and mercy in your life; and (2) Church might be a lot more work than you can handle at the moment."
Read “Must Pro-Life Mean Pro-Trump? We have placed too much faith in the political calculus and not enough faith in God’s power” at Christianity Today.
Read “The “Music from Saharan WhatsApp” Series is an Experiment in Immediacy” at Bandcamp and browse my own posts about “Music from Saharan WhatsApp.”
Read “Conservative columnist and political commentator David Brooks awarded Calvin University’s Kuyper Prize” at MLive.
Read “Pope Francis: Give Up Trolling For Lent” at Sojourners.
Read “25 Black Theologians Who Have Grown Our Faith Scholars and authors reflect on the significance of African American leaders in the church” at Christianity Today.
Read “Dialoguing Across Difference: Abortion & Big Tent Theology” at Red Letter Christians.
Read “How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump To Further His Immigration Obsession. Donald Trump’s senior adviser has been the true driving force behind this Administration’s racist agenda. How far will he go?”
Read “Women and Girls Contribute Trillions of Dollars in Unpaid Labor Every Year The world’s 22 richest men have more wealth than all of the women in Africa” at Global Citizen.
Read “Howard Thurman’s contemplative nonviolence The pastor and mentor to Martin Luther King formed a vision of resistance around prayer, not politics” at Christian Century.
Read “White Supremacist Group Arrested for Murder Plot, Found to Have More Targets in Mind Than Previously Known” at The Root.
Read “Survivors of Japanese Internment Speak Out Against Immigrant Detention” at Our Prism.
Read “Harvey Weinstein Taken to Hospital for Chest Pains Hours after being found guilty of rape” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “America's Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Bars” at NPR.
Read “Religion may be good for your health! People of faith are less likely to fall or feel ill compared to non-believers, official stats reveal” at Daily Mail.
Read “New Zealand Has Lifted 18,400 Children out of Poverty: Report” at Global Citizen.
Read “9th Circuit Denies Request To Vacate Arpaio Guilty Verdict” at KJZZ.
Read “The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced” at History.
Read “Colonialism’s Cages: When Indigenous People Were Placed In Human Zoos” at All That’s Interesting.
Read “What is döstädning, or Swedish Death Cleaning, and why is it causing such a decluttering buzz?” at Yahoo News.
Read “It’s Time to Let the Five Stages of Grief Die The five stages of grief are ingrained in our cultural consciousness as the natural progression of emotions one experiences after the death of a loved one. However, it turns out that this model is not science-based, does not well describe most people's experiences, and was never even meant to apply to the bereaved” at McGill.
Read “Supreme Court Pipeline Fight Could Disrupt How The Appalachian Trail Is Run” at NPR.
Read “The Forest Service says the Appalachian Trail isn’t “land” in a pipeline fight at SCOTUS” at Quartz.
Read “Inspired by Little Free Libraries, a free pantry helps feed hungry neighbors in St. Paul” at Star Tribune.
Read “How To Give Advice: Less Fixing, More Listening” at NPR.
Read “Steve Jobs' signature is the star of retro Apple gear collection at auction An original 1983 Apple Macintosh is going for $25,000” at CNet.
Read “Korn’s Brian “Head” Welch Opens Wellness Spas Inspired by the Rigors of Touring” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Italy Just Became the First Country to Require Schools to Teach Climate Change” at Global Citizen.
Browse “The Worst Things Michael Bloomberg Has Said About Women” at The Cut.
Read “Nevada Democratic Party asks caucus volunteers to sign confidentiality agreements” at CNN.
Read “Buttigieg Warns Against Sanders As The Democratic Nominee” at NPR.
Read “Admiral William McRaven: We Should Be Frightened, Deeply Afraid” at News and Guts. “When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security — then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.”
Read “Pompeo appeared to coordinate with Giuliani on Ukraine, new documents show” at Yahoo News.
Read “With An Election On The Horizon, Older Adults Get Help Spotting Fake News” at NPR.
Read “The Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters” at Ms. Magazine.
Read “'It's About Time': House Approves Historic Bill Making Lynching A Federal Crime” at NPR.
Read “Why Millennials Refuse to Let Go of Physical Media The last generation to know life before the internet hasn't fully switched over to streaming” at Inside Hook.
Read “Public Enemy Will Perform at Bernie Sanders’ Los Angeles Rally” at Paste.
Read “And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out Turns 20” at Stereogum.
Read “Robbie Robertson (The Band) Talks with M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) on the Talkhouse Podcast They talk road-dogging with Dylan, scoring for Scorsese, and creating the seminal Music from Big Pink” at Talk House.
Read “Jerry Lee Lewis Returns to Music: ‘I Thought I Would Never Play Again’ After a stroke last year robbed him of use of his right hand, the Rock and Roll legend thought his piano-playing days were over. Now, at 84, he just recorded a new album” at Rolling Stone.
Read “For the Record(s): There's No Shame in Owning a Crosley” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “Rebecca Foon Gets Honest and Raw with the Gorgeous 'Waxing Moon' at PopMatters.
Read “Mavis Staples Reflects on the Stax Years: Watch New Episode of 'Memphis Masters' at Billboard.
Read “Don Letts: ‘Punk was a refuge from racism’” at The Guardian.
Watch ‘Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub’ with Bob Weir, Phish, The Roots and More” at Relix.
Read “Yeasayer Suing Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd Over Black Panther Song A new lawsuit alleges that “Pray For Me” infringes on the band’s 2007 song “Sunrise” at Pitchfork.
Read “The “Music from Saharan WhatsApp” Series is an Experiment in Immediacy” at Bandcamp and browse my own posts about “Music From Saharan WhatsApp.”
Read “Neil Young wants to tour historic venues but is struggling to find many still in operation He thinks that new arenas feel “soulless" at NME.
Read “One of Rock’s Most Doomed Romances Started on the Floor of Portland’s Scuzziest Punk Club No one at Satyricon who saw the two tangled bodies grappling in front of the jukebox could’ve known what they were witnessing” at Williamette Week.
Read “'It sounded like the future': behind Miles Davis's greatest album On the 50th anniversary of Bitches Brew, one of the contributing musicians and the director of a new documentary share their thoughts on the record” at The Guardian.
Read “New Order and Pet Shop Boys Announce Co-Headlining Tour The new wave legends will play 11 shows together this fall” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “City Of Liverpool To Open Memorial Garden In Honor Of George Harrison” at Live For Live Music.
Read “This black female musician you may not know has written songs you probably do’ at Good Morning America.
Read “RZA Shares New EP of Guided Meditation Songs” at Pitchfork.
Read “Revisiting Talk Talk, A Band Worried About Being A 'Laughing Stock'" at NPR.
Read “'She exists out of time': Umm Kulthum, Arab music's eternal star” at The Guardian.
Read “Heavy Rain: The Exodus of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry” at Please Kill Me.
Watch “More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive” at Open Culture.
Read “Sinclair stations are airing a dramatic special fearmongering about socialism, and it’s hosted by former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka” at Media Matters.
Read “The One Where the Friends Reunion Is Officially Happening on HBO Max” at Vulture.
Read “'Just Mercy' Wins Big At NAACP Image Awards” at BET.
Read “Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Killed In Crash Of Homemade Rocket” at NPR.
Read “Greg Kinnear to Make Broadway Debut as Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'" at Hollywood Reporter.
Read “We’re gonna do economic activity—without money!”: Inside the criminal glamour of the San Francisco Diggers with Kent Minault” at Diggers Docs.
Read “Turkish Trash Collectors Built a Library of Discarded Books” at Global Citizen.
See “Thousands of life jackets worn by refugees attached to pillars at Minneapolis Institute of Art” at Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
Read “Surrealism Was a Decidedly Feminine Movement. So Why Have So Many of Its Great Women Artists Been Forgotten?” at Art Net.
Read “Scientists Found a Plastic Grocery Bag in the Ocean's Deepest Trench The bag was spotted in the Mariana Trench at a depth of 36,000 feet” at Global Citizen.
Read “An Iceberg Triple The Size Of San Francisco Breaks Off Antarctica's Most Endangered Glacier” at WBUR.
Read “Survival Of The Friendliest: How Our Close Friendships Help Us Thrive” at NPR.
Read “A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously” at Science Philes.
Read “This 8-Year-Old Mexican Girl Won a Prize for Making a Solar Heater From Recycled Objects” at Global Citizen.
Read “You Cannot Heal Your Way Out of Being Human And you were never meant to” at Human Parts.
Read “A woman took 550 times the usual dose of LSD, with surprisingly positive consequences” at CNN.
Read “The Planet Is Doomed Unless We Stop Eating So Much Meat, UN Warns” at Global Citizen.
Read “Supermarkets in Thailand Are Replacing Plastic Packaging With Banana Leaves” at Global Citizen.
Read “C.S. Lewis’s Greatest Fiction Was Convincing American Kids That They Would Like Turkish Delight What would the perfect fantasy treat look like? Depending on where you’re from, probably not this” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “The Creepy Small Town In Arizona With Insane Paranormal Activity” at Only In Your State.
Read “Arizona Leads The Nation In Auto Glass Insurance Claims” at KJZZ.
Read “The 25 Best Places To Eat & Drink In Phoenix” at The Infatuation.
Read “Students walk out of Centennial High School after former principal resigns” at 12 News.