The Weekly Town Crier (11/08/19)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (11/08/19 Edition).
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Read “Televangelist Paula White, Trump's spiritual adviser, joins White House staff” at The Hill.
Read “Paula White: Christians will 'stand accountable before God' if they vote against Trump” at Christian Century.
Read “James MacDonald ‘biblically disqualified’ for ministry, says Harvest Bible” at Religion News Service.
Read “In bondage to guns Life in America has been changed by gun culture” at Christian Century.
Read “This Church Model Thrives in Post-Christian Contexts Missional communities seek to broaden our understanding of what it means to be a local church” at Christianity Today.
Read “John Crist Cancels 2019 Tour Dates After Reports of Sexting, Harassment, Manipulation” at Charisma News.
Read “Armenian Orthodox Leader: ‘We May Forgive One Day, But We Will Never Forget” at Christianity Today.
Read “Language Barriors: A Study in Christianese” at The AXPX.
Read '“I can think of no good thing that has happened to evangelicalism as a result of its alliance to the Republican party. All I can think of are negative things” by Scot McKnight at The Way of Improvement.
Read “Prosecutors Want Migrant Helper Banned From Speaking About Trump at Trial” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “New Jersey Seminary to Pay $27 Million in Reparations for Ties to Slavery” at The Atlanta Voice.
Read World Relief’s press release: “World Relief Laments Zero Refugee Admissions in October 2019 Leading refugee resettlement organization urges administration to resume refugee admissions as soon as possible.”
Read “Oklahoma Set to Release 462 Inmates Monday in Largest-Ever Single-Day U.S. Mass Commutation” at Time.
Read “Judge Rules Florida Cannot Bar Voters With Felony Convictions Who Are Unable to Pay Costs” at EJI.
Read “Judge won’t block Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era election system” at PBS.
Read “Inmates Saved Homes in the Kincade Fire. They’ll Face an Uphill Battle Getting Firefighting Jobs After Release” at KQED.
Read “We have the tools and technology to work less and live better: The British economist, John Maynard Keynes, predicted that by 2030 society would have advanced so far that we would only need to work 15 hours a week. And he was right. In more economically developed countries, we now have the technology and tools for everyone to work less and live prosperous lives, So why are 30-40 hour weeks still standard in the workplace?” at Aeon.
Read “Google Buys Fitbit For $2.1 Billion, Pledges To Protect Health Data” at NPR.
Read “Google bought Fitbit. What does that mean for your data privacy?” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Microsoft Japan Says 4-Day Workweek Boosted Workers' Productivity By 40%” at NPR.
Read “Why is Facebook rebranding? PR experts have some theories Is the (now all-caps) FACEBOOK trying to distract from negative news, or avoid being dismantled by regulators?” at Salon.
Read “All modern humans originated in northern Botswana, study says” at CNN.
Read “Reports: US launches review of China-owned video app TikTok TikTok says it cannot comment on ongoing regulatory processes but earning the trust of U.S. users and regulators is its highest priority” at 12 News.
Read “Australian Anti-Vaxx Mom Allegedly Gave Out Lollipops Infected With Chickenpox” at Daily Caller.
Read “The Hoarding of the American Dream In a new book, a Brookings scholar argues that the upper-middle class has enriched itself and harmed economic mobility” at The Atlantic.
Read “Chinese Government Assigning Han Men to Live and Sleep with Uighur Women Whose Husbands Have Been Detained: Report” at National Review.
Consider “Are new accreditation rules for online education streamlined or ripe for abuse?” at News Hour.
Read “LeBron James is adding safe housing to the school he founded in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, so students have a stable place to live while they get their education” at CNN.
Read “Millennials earn 20% less than baby boomers did—despite being better educated” at CNBC.
Read Politico’s piece: “Why the Impeachment Fight Is Even Scarier Than You Think: Political scientists have a term for what the United States is witnessing right now. It’s called 'regime cleavage,' a division within the population marked by conflict about the foundations of the governing system itself.”
Read “No credible defense of Trump’s Ukraine conduct, says GOP strategist” at PBS News Hour.
Read “America once led anti-corruption fight. Now self-dealing Trump is kleptocrats' role model” at USA Today.
Read “A president who thinks he can do whatever he wants Trump’s position is not that the facts will vindicate him. It’s that they don’t matter” at Christian Century.
Read “E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for allegedly defaming her over rape accusations” at Raw Story.
Read/Watch “Trump vows ‘no more’ federal aid to California as devastating wildfires continue to burn” at The Guardian.
Read “Judge orders Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his charitable foundation” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Appeals Court Rules Trump's Accountants Must Turn Over Tax Records” at NPR.
Read “Tuesday's Elections Show Impeachment Might Not Boost GOP As Much As It Hoped” at NPR.
Read “Campaign says Biden is the “only” one who doesn't need to win Iowa as polls find him in fourth place” at Salon
Consider “How Fear Has Become A Political Strategy” with Sojourners.
Read “Fox News feeds viewers "an alternative reality void of the facts and the truth": ex-GOP congressman” at Salon.
Read “How Mike Pence’s Office Meddled in Foreign Aid to Reroute Money to Favored Christian Groups — ProPublica Officials at USAID warned that favoring Christian groups in Iraq could be unconstitutional and inflame religious tensions. When one colleague lost her job, they said she had been “Penced” at ProPublica.
Read “Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party” at Yahoo. In the words of David Dark: “There are so many ways to hate God.”
Read “Smugglers Are Sawing Through Trump’s Border Wall” at Washington Post.
Read “US judge blocks Trump's immigrant health insurance rule” at BBC.
Read “There won't be a Republican Party" if GOP does not diversify, outgoing Rep. Will Hurd says” at Salon.
Read “Jeff Sessions: Ex-attorney general to make Alabama Senate bid” at BBC.
Read “Beto O’Rourke Is Dropping Out of the Presidential Race” at New York Times.
Read as Axios considers “The racial wealth gap among 2020 Democrats: The country's racial wealth gap is underlying what we're seeing in the race for the White House — where a diverse field of Democratic candidates is trailing three white front-runners.”
Read “California fires show it’s private enterprise, not government, that can’t get things right” at Los Angeles Times.
Read Los Angeles Times’ opinion piece: “Gun control may be the big winner in Virginia’s elections.”
Read Jambase’s report: “Rage Against The Machine To Reportedly Reunite In 2020.”
Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Confirmed: Rage Against the Machine will reunite in 2020 The band will headline Coachella and play a trio of shows along the Mexican border.”
Read “Prophets of Rage announce breakup in wake of Rage Against the Machine’s reunion” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Remember When Rage Against the Machine Protested Arizona’s ‘Racist’ Law? In 2010, the band played L.A. for the first time in a decade to raise money to fight Arizona's controversial immigration law” at Spin.
Read “RZA Pitching Rage Against the Machine/Wu Tang Clan Co-Headlining Tour” at Metal Injection.
Read “Kanye West’s ‘Jesus Is King’ Soared To No. 1, But He Can’t Afford Another Album Like It” at Forbes.
Read “Kanye West, Heretic by Nature, Finds God” at New York Times.
Read “David Byrne on Finding Happiness Among Chaos, His ‘American Utopia’ Broadway Residency” at Rolling Stone.
Browse “A Guide to Will Oldham’s Various Personas” at Bandcamp.
Read “Dave Matthews on Boyd Tinsley at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “He should be around, if he’s up for it” at Jambands.com.
Read XL8R’s report: “Jim O’Rourke Locks in Four-CD Box Set, ‘To Magnetize Money and Catch A Roving Eye’.”
See “a Lego Chris Stapleton Slay a Dragon in ‘Second One to Know’ Video” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Selling Your Record Collection To Move On In Life The Focus Of New Documentary Based At Dusty Groove” at Block Club Chicago.
Browse Stereogum’s picks for “The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s.”
Browse Consequence of Sound’s picks for the “Top 100 Albums of the 2010s.”
Browse the (rightly) unranked “Decade / 2010-19” at Aquarium Drunkard.
Read “A Long-Lost Lou Reed Tape With a Surprise: Andy Warhol Lyrics The cassette, discovered at the Andy Warhol Museum, finds the Velvet Underground musician performing snippets from his mentor’s 1975 book” at New York Times.
Read “‘The Wall’ Artist Gerald Scarfe on Selling His Pink Floyd Archive” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Thurston Moore: ‘I was a nerd and a dork at school’" at The Guardian.
Read “A Legendary Collaboration Continues: Neil Young And Crazy Horse Reunite For 'Colorado' at NPR.
Watch/read “Why music has such profound effects on the brain” at PBS News Hour.
Read “How Melvins Invented Sludge: ‘Ugly Spawn of Punk and Metal” at Revolver.
Consider “why traditional Persian music should be known to the world” at The Conversation.
Read “In the Room at Nirvana’s ‘MTV Unplugged in New York’ at Rolling Stone.
Read “Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan announces new solo album” at NME.
Read “How R.E.M.’s ‘Monster’ Signaled The End Of Alternative Rock” at Uproxx.
Watch “R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe on Trump’s ‘hate speech,’ corporate ownership of the press” at MSNBC.
Read “Morning Glory on the Vine’: See Joni Mitchell’s Rare Paintings and Handwritten Lyrics Legendary singer once gifted the book to close friends in 1971” at Rolling Stone.
Watch “Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh More Discuss ‘American Beauty’ On Album’s 49th Anniversary” at Live For Live Music.
Read “Jerry Garcia Alligator Guitar & Comic Book Collection Among Items Going Up For Auction” at Jam Base.
Read “Two Decades In, Matt Pond PA Has Become Collected Lakes” at Magnet.
Read “DJ Premier Has a Lot to Say About Gang Starr’s First New Album in 16 Years” at Rolling Stone.
Read “How streaming killed underground micro-labels The vital role once held by small record labels has all but vanished, writes Arachnidiscs Recordings founder Jakob Rehlinger” at Now Toronto.
Read “Neil Young Turned Down ‘Millions’ for ‘Harvest’ Tour “Everyone who played on Harvest is dead,” he said. “I don’t want to do that” at Rolling Stone.
Read “The Car Cassette Adapter Was an Unsung Hero at the Dawn of the Digital Age” at Vice.
Read “Sofar, So Bad A global startup aims to exploit the underground music scene” at The Baffler.
Read “Ant-Man 3’ Moving Forward With Director Peyton Reed” at Variety.
Read “Lady Gaga to star in new Gucci murder movie from Ridley Scott The pop star will portray Patrizia Reggiani, who was convicted of arranging the assassination of her husband Maurizio Gucci” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Ozy Media Raises $35 Million to Expand in TV, Podcasts and Live Events” at Variety.
Read “Yes, please: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 2 is coming in April of 2022” at AV Club.
Read “Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain. Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. In superhero movies, nothing is at risk, a director says” at New York Times.
Read “Pixar’s first trailer for Soul is full of jazz music and existential questions: Watch Starring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey, with music provided by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “David Letterman Apologizes for Sexism During His Late-Night Days” at Vulture.
Read Book Riot’s piece: “Philip Roth Left $2 Million To His Hometown Library.”
Browse “Some of the Coolest Bookstores to Visit Around the World” at Bookish Buzz.
Read “America’s First Banned Book Really Ticked Off the Plymouth Puritans The author, known as the “Lord of Misrule,” had the audacity to erect a maypole in Massachusetts” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “9-Year-Old Kid Who Kept Getting In Trouble For Doodling In Class Gets A Job Decorating A Restaurant With His Drawings” at Bored Panda.
Read/Listen to “The Lasting Legacy Of Bob Ross And His Colorful World Of 'Happy Accidents'" at NPR.
Read “Banksy’s Former Dealer Is Releasing a Book of Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Street Artist in Action” at Artnet.
Read “Art Class Instead Of Jail: New Program Lets Young Offenders Take Free Art Classes Rather Than Spend Time in the Criminal System” at Open Culture.
Read “Octopuses Are Building Underwater ‘Cities’" at Discover.
Read/Listen to “How Deep Sleep May Help The Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins” at NPR.
Read “17 Retro Happy Meal Toys Are Returning to McDonald's Next Week McDonald's is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Happy Meal by bringing back some classics for a limited time” at Food and Wine.
Read “Triangle UFOs May Be a Secret Triangular Stealth Drone the Air Force is Hiding” at Mysterious Universe.
Read “Mysterious Green Ghost Crop Circles Appear in the UK” at Mysterious Universe.
Read AZ Central’s report: “Judge Dismisses Joe Arpaio’s lawsuit against CNN, Huffpost, Rolling Stone: Joe Arpaio has lost his battle against three national media outlets after he claimed they had published false information about him.”
Read “Whole Foods with ‘pub-style’ eatery opens today in downtown Tempe” at Mouth by Mouthwest.
Read “You can now stroll this Arizona mall with beer, wine or hard drinks in hand” at AZ Central.
Read “Arizona Prosecutor Commissions Report That Argues Against Leniency For Teens Who Commit Crimes. Report attempts to discredit decades of research on the adolescent mind” at The Appeal.
Read “Arpaio aides ignored order to halt sweeps” at Associated Press.
Read “Is Grand Avenue Changing? Locals ask if the quirky neighborhood will go the way of Roosevelt Row” at Phoenix New Times.
Read KJZZ’s report: “Anti-Semitic Swastika Posters Found On ASU Tempe Campus.”
Meet “Matthew and Kristina Frosch” of Peoria Artisan Brewery at Voyage Phoenix.