The Weekly Town Crier (11/29/19)
All the week’s News that’s fit to cry about (11/29/19).
Browse all the Weekly Town Crier posts so far.
Listen to all 52 episodes of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.
Listen to a mix of artists who have performed Habañero Collective house shows.
Browse the Musical Worldview posts.
Stream/download an introductory mix of Sacred Steel music.
R.I.P. Michael J. Pollard (05/30/39 - 11/21/19)
Read “A barbershop births a church of drug users, ex-cons, and homeless folks” at Christian Century.
Read “The Democratic Candidates’ Favorite Bible Verses” at Christianity Tod
Read “Grief Is Messy and Complicated How you support a friend in the midst of it doesn’t have to be” at Slate.
Read “Two Leading Republicans Praise God For Bringing Us Trump” at Rolling Stone”
Read “Wayne Grudem Changes Mind About Divorce in Cases of Abuse Leading complementarian theologian says he no longer believes the Bible offers only two justifiable reasons for ending a marriage” at Christianity Today.
Read “High school outcasts: An increasing number of public school districts across the country are giving the boot to faith-based, pro-life, and politically conservative student groups” at World Magazine.
Read “A Hope for Thanksgiving: Assigning Grace Instead of Malice: I was saddened several years back to read some stuff that John Mayer said in an article for Rolling Stone magazine. He was basically racist and misogynist all in the same breath. It was heartbreaking for me... And then he announced his sobriety from alcohol. And I guess I thought, "there it is” at Mockingbird.
Read “Jim Wallis: White Nationalism Is Not Just Racist, It’s Anti-Christ at Sojourners.
Read “How local governments punish poor people with fines” at Christian Century.
Read “Uganda’s Escalating LGBT Crackdown Feels Eerily Familiar” at World Politics Review.
Read “Black male teachers have positive influence on students of all races’ at The State.
Read “What mercy in the criminal justice system could look like” at Christian Century.
Read “ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan” at Detroit Free Press. “In early 2016, ICE created a fake university, built out a website saying it was authentic, and recruited an accreditation organization to vouch for it. Foreign students signed up, came here, and were arrested by ICE for ... attending a fake university.”
Read “Why are rural white Americans willing to prioritize cultural whiteness above all else?” at Christian Century.
Read “Philosopher Jacques Derrida Interviews Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman: Talk Improvisation, Language & Racism (1997)” at Open Culture.
Read/Listen to “Forgiving Student Debt Would Boost Economy, Economists Say” at NPR.
Read “Kenya Installs The First Solar Power Plant That Transforms Ocean Water Into Drinking Water” at Bored Panda.
Read “Saudade: the untranslatable word for the presence of absence” at Aeon.
Meet “Rachael Li, 9, Youngest Female US Chess Master Ever” at US Chess.
Read “Why Child Care Is So Ridiculously Expensive Three broad reasons obtaining care for kids now costs as much as buying a brand new Hyundai Elantra each year” at The Atlantic.
Read “Most Americans would pay more to avoid using plastic, poll says” at PBS News Hour.
Read “3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home. South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots” at The California Sunday Magazine: In Salinas, CA, you can’t afford to rent an apartment if you make less than $30/hr.
Read “Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corporate Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It.” at New York Times.
Read “The Road That Brought Conservatives and Republicans to This Point” at National Review.
Read/watch “'Not kings!': Judge issues stinging rebuke to Trump's impeachment stonewall” at MSNBC.
Read “Trump was briefed on whistleblower complaint before Ukraine aid was released” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Mike Pompeo Says Ukraine, 2016 Election Interference Should Be Investigated” at NPR.
Read/Watch “Nunes now implicated in Ukraine scandal” at MSNBC.
Read “State Dept. releases docs that show how Giuliani's smear campaign against Yovanovitch reached Pompeo” at MSNBC.
Read “Giuliani Once Again Says He Has “Insurance” if Trump Throws Him “Under the Bus” at Slate.
Read “Diplomats question why U.S. military aid to Lebanon is being withheld” at PBS News Hour.
Read “The War-Crimes President When violence is directed at those Trump’s supporters hate and fear, they see such excesses not as crimes but as virtues” at The Atlantic.
Read “Navy Is Said to Proceed With Disciplinary Plans Against Edward Gallagher Top military officials threatened to resign or be fired if their plans to remove Chief Gallagher from the SEALs were halted by President Trump, administration officials said” at New York Times.
Read “Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer Forced Out Amid Controversy Over SEAL Case” at NPR.
Read “White House directed block of Armenian genocide resolution” at Axios.
Read “Trump Tax Records Reveal New Inconsistencies — This Time for Trump Tower” at Pro Publica.
As Michael Bloomberg enters the presidential race, read Boing Boing’s response: “Peak billionaire: a billionaire tries to purchase a party nomination to outflank anti-billionaires so he can run against another billionaire.”
Read “Sarah Huckabee Sanders: ‘I’ve Been Called’ to be the Next Governor of Arkansas” at The Root.
Read “Sacha Baron Cohen says what we all know: Facebook is profiting from Nazism” at AV Club.
Read “J.K. Rowling and Quentin Tarantino swear by pen and paper, and even science agrees that writing can make you more productive” at Business Insider.
See “The 2019 Beard & Mustache Championship In 30 Pictures” at Bored Panda.
Read “Pope Francis, In Visit To Hiroshima, Says Possession Of Nuclear Weapons Is 'Immoral'“ at NPR.
Read “Imagination is ancient” at Aeon.
Hear “U2’s Meditative New Song ‘Ahimsa’” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Neil Young’s unreleased album Homegrown will finally see light in 2020” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Is There Anything We Can All Agree On? Yes: Dolly Parton. At 73, the enigmatic country star is captivating a whole new generation and riding high as the subject of a podcast and the inspiration behind a Netflix series” at New York Times.
Read “Circle Jerks Tease 2020 Reunion Tour to Celebrate 40th Anniversary” at Rolling Stone.
Read “They Might Be Giants announce Flood 30th anniversary tour” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Tom Waits Challenged Our Preconceived Notions (Again) With ‘Glitter and Doom Live’ at Something Else Reviews.
Read “Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets says they've recaptured the chaos as reunion tour comes home” at AZ Central.
Read “Somebody paid Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath to break up with their boyfriend via Cameo” at AV Club.
Read “Jimmy Fallon Expresses His Love For Dead & Company On ‘The Tonight Show’ Following First Show At MSG” at Live For Live Music.
Read “Joe Henry Shares a Romantic 'Gospel' In the Wake of Cancer Diagnosis” at Billboard.
Read “Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song” at New York Times.
Read “Billboard Announces New Rules For Merchandise/Album Bundles” at Stereogum. The effort is an attempt to prevent artists from manipulating the charts.
Read “Beck Is Home Twenty-six years into his career, the musician visits the Los Angeles of his youth and says goodbye to the past.” at New Yorker.
Read “Beck Fears He Lost Entire Unreleased Albums In The Universal Warehouse Fire” at Stereogum.
Read “Beck: "I'm Not a Scientologist: After declaring 15 years ago, "Yeah — I'm a Scientologist," the singer takes an abrupt turn away from the organization following a divorce from second-generation Scientologist Marissa Ribisi” at Hollywood Reporter.
Read “Beck distancing himself from Scientology was a “pussy move,” Leah Remini says” at Brooklyn Vegan.
Read/Listen to “Song You Need to Know: Leonard Cohen, ‘Puppets’” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Cornershop Announce First Album in 8 Years, Share New Song: Listen” at Pitchfork.
Read “Arlo Guthrie Looks Back on 50 Years of ‘Alice’s Restaurant” at Rolling Stone.
Read “In U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,' A Restless Search For Meaning” at NPR.
Read “Jeff Tweedy’s Chicago Home Reportedly Struck By Gunfire” at Stereogum.
Read “Morrissey to Release 13th Album “I Am Not A Dog On A Chain” in 2020” at Post-Punk.
Read ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Producer Lands Authorized Michael Jackson Biopic” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Martin Scorsese working on documentary about 1970s New York City music scene” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Martin Scorsese has spent his entire career searching for God” at Vox. For Scorsese, Alissa Wilkinson writes for Vox, "people are imbued with both a human spirit and a spark of the divine; we’re not Jesus, but we’re 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 him, and what he struggled with, we struggle with, too."
Read “Christopher Walken Told Will Ferrell That the "More Cowbell" Sketch Ruined His Life” at Exclaim.
Read “Bill Cosby says he has “no remorse” in first interview from prison "It’s all a set up. That whole jury thing. They were imposters” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “The Uncertain Future of the World’s Largest Secondhand Book Market” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “Charles M. Schulz, Civil Rights, and the Previously Unseen Art of Peanuts” at Brain Pickings.
Browse “40 Children's Books Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Mighty Girls” at A Mighty Girl.
Browse “25 Books by Indigenous Authors You Should Be Reading” at Evangelicals For Social Justice.
Read “Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart Drums to Own Beat in Mind-Blowing Paintings” at Broward/Palm Beach New Times.
Read “A Museum in Wales Had a Botticelli Right Under Their Noses and Didn’t Realize It Until This Helpful TV Art Detective Told Them” at Artnet.
Read “Thieves Stole Up to a Billion Dollars Worth of Jewels From Dresden’s Famed Treasure Museum, Escaping in a Limousine” at Artnet.
Read “FDA Calls Psychedelic Psilocybin a 'Breakthrough Therapy' for Severe Depression” at Live Science.
Read “A Single Dose Of Ketamine Might Help Heavy Drinkers, Study Finds” at NPR.
Read “How Your Negative Emotions Can Literally Make You Sick” at Medium.
Read “The Science of Gratitude (Won’t Make You Grateful)” at Mockingbird.
Read “2020 will be a defining year for America” at The Guardian.
Read “New Belgium Will be Acquired by Kirin-Owned Lion Little World Beverages” at Paste Magazine.
Read “A South African Couple Has Turned Elephant Dung Into Award-Winning Gin” Atlas Obscura.
Read “World's best sushi restaurant dropped from Michelin Guide after refusing to serve public” at The Telegraph.
Read “You Can Get a Full-Course Christmas Dinner in One Can” at Cosmopolitan.
Read/Watch “Bisbee library named best small library in nation” at KVOA.
Browse “Holiday Gifts: 5 Ways to Support Arts and Culture While You Shop” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “GOP proposal would increase in-state tuition at ASU, UA, NAU” at Arizona Mirror.
Read “Homeless Man Arrested for a Felony for Stealing a Burrito” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “Arizona saw children’s obesity drop after WIC required healthier foods” at Cronkite News.
Read “Pat McMahon Is Just Getting Started” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “Glendale police officer suspended for punching man in face during traffic stop” at 12 News.
Read “This Arizona Husband-and-Wife Team Wants to Make a 4,000-Year-Old Product the Hottest Holiday Drink Superstition Meadery founders Jeff and Jen Herbert are betting you'll love mead, an alcoholic beverage that dates back to ancient times” at Inc.