The Weekly Town Crier (12/13/19)

All the week’s News that’s fit to cry about (12/13/19).

Question for the three of you who browse this list each week: when compiling the list each week, I use headers to (very broadly) categorize the different sections. Would you prefer that I left those in so that you can jump to different sections, or do you like just scrolling?

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.

Browse all my favorite music of 2019.

Read “Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney dies at age 85: at PBS.

Read “Rapper Juice WRLD Dead at 21” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Roxette’s Marie Fredriksson Dead at 61” at Pitchfork.

Read “The White Evangelical Persecution Complex” at Red Letter Christians.

Read “Want to Get Into the Christmas Spirit? Face the Darkness How I fell in love with the season of Advent” by Tish Harrison Warren at New York Times.

Read “GREAT JOB INTERNET Finally, a Christian alternative to the wicked heresy of the "Cha Cha Slide" at AV Club.

Read “Biblical Literalism among American Protestants Pastors, denominational leaders, and curious Christians need to be reassured—American Christianity is not becoming more liberal” at Christianity Today.

Read as Fathom wonders “Where was Jesus before Advent? If Jesus is eternal, can we find him in the Old Testament?”

Read “Behind the Rise of Evangelical Women “Influencers” at Religion and Politics.

Read “Misusing Romans 13 To Embrace Theocracy” at Sojourners.

Read “The Sort-Of Socialist Church Is Taking A Radical Approach To Christianity Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism” at Buzzfeed News.

Read “Pastor Who Sermonized That Jews Are Going to Hell Was Trump’s Pick to Speak at White House Hanukkah Reception” at The Root.

Read “Is the “final judgment” really final? What the Bible doesn't say about hell” at Christian Century.

Read “Arizona will continue to resettle refugees, Gov. Doug Ducey tells Trump administration” at AZ Central.

Read “Merkel Tours Auschwitz With 'Sense Of Shame' And Warns Of Resurgent Anti-Semitism” at NPR.

Read “Papa John’s Founder Blames His Use of the N-Word on Kanye and Colonel Sanders” at The Root.

Read “India Prepares to Block Naturalization for Muslims A bill establishing a religious test for immigration to India is expected to pass Parliament, a major step for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist agenda.” at New York Times.

Read “How Do We Know When Research Participants Truly Give Consent? Following news about research that used data collected from Uighurs, scientific publishers want to create new consent guidelines. But it’s complicated” at Slate.

Read “A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department” at The Atlantic.

Read “New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments” at NPR.

Read “Nikki Haley gets the history of the Confederate flag very wrong” at Washington Post.

Read “CRACK VS. HEROIN An unfair system arrested millions of blacks, urged compassion for whites” at App.

Read “Principal Who Allegedly Banned Black History Month Accuses Black Teachers of Reverse Racism. Teachers Accuse Her of Original Recipe Racism” at The Root.

Read “This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees” at New York Times. ““We’re in Arizona. I don’t have to tell you about what the demographics are in Arizona. They don’t see people like you a lot.”

Read “Kansas City Chooses Free Public Transit” at The Appeal.

Read “Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: 'Whose side are you on?' at CNN.

Read “Why You Need to Schedule Some Alone Time” at Rewire.

Read “Hiking Wheelchair Opens Up Outdoor Lifestyle To People With Serious Disabilities” at NPR.

Read “This town is giving families $500 a month. The results are remarkable: Recipients have used the money to apply for better jobs, spend more time with their children, or save for better housing” at The Guardian.

Read “Father Books 6 Flights To Stay With His Flight Attendant Daughter On Christmas” at Bored Panda.

Read “Socialism is as American as apple pie. Yes, really” at The Guardian.

Read “Former Top Mexican Security Official Arrested On Cocaine Trafficking Charges” at NPR.

Read “MLB to Stop Testing Minor League Players for Weed” at Now This.

Read “Merriam-Webster Singles Out Nonbinary 'They' For Word Of The Year Honors” at NPR.

Read “Goodell says league has 'moved on' from Kaepernick special workout at Reuters. ““This was about creating an opportunity. We created that opportunity. It was a unique opportunity, a credible opportunity, and he chose not to take it. I understand that ... We've moved on.”

Read “Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019” at Time.

• Read “Brazil's President Calls Greta Thunberg a 'Brat'“ at Time.

• Read “Trump mocks 16-year-old Greta Thunberg a day after she is named Time’s Person of the Year” at Washington Post.

Hear “Controversial Versions of “The Star Spangled Banner” by Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, José Feliciano & John Philip Sousa” at Open Culture.

Read “FCC votes to set up a 3-digit suicide hotline number like 911” at 12 News.

Read “We Teach Children, Not Curriculum” at The Educator’s Room.

Read “Lawsuit Claims SAT And ACT Are Illegal In California Admissions” at NPR.

Read “Betsy DeVos Overruled Education Dept. Findings On Defrauded Student Borrowers” at NPR.

• Read “Congresswoman Tells Betsy DeVos, You Are ‘Out to Destroy Public Education’ at Rolling Stone. “I’ve had some honest disagreements with my friends in the Republican Party on how to move education forward but I have never, not one time, believed they were out to destroy public education until I met you.”

Read “Judiciary Committee releases report outlining constitutional grounds for impeachment The report aims to define what the framers of the Constitution meant by an impeachable offense” at 12 News.

• Read as the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board declares ‘We’ve seen enough. Trump should be impeached.”

• Read “Legal Scholars Conclude President Trump Engaged In Impeachable Conduct” at News and Guts.

• Read “We need to stop reacting to Trump—and start responding. There’s a big difference” at America Magazine.

• Read “AP Fact Check: Trump and the people he forgets he knew” at PBS News Hour.

• Read “The Trump campaign has over $1 million in outstanding bills from American cities” at Washington Post.

• Read “Articles Of Impeachment Against President Trump” at NPR.

• Read “Trump pays $2 million in damages ordered by judge over misuse of charity funds, according to NY attorney general” at Washington Post.

• Read “The Case For Impeachment Is Overwhelming” at American Conservative. “The president doesn’t have a credible line of defense left. That is why his apologists in Congress and elsewhere have been reduced to making increasingly absurd and desperate claims."

Read “Judge says South Carolina GOP allowed to cancel its 2020 primary” at PBS News Hour.

Read “Medicare chief asked taxpayers to cover stolen jewelry” at Politico.

Read “Millions in military aid at center of impeachment hasn’t reached Ukraine” at Los Angeles Times.

Read “Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse history: Many observers fear that a 30-foot wall along the Arizona border with Mexico will harm wildlife, lower the water table and destroy archaeological treasures” at PBS News Hour.Buzzfeed.

• Read “US Border Officials Are Issuing Fake Court Notices To Keep Out Immigrants Who Have Won Asylum” at Buzzfeed News.

• Read “Under Trump, immigrants face increasingly long and complicated road to citizenship” at PRI.

• Read “$400M Arizona border wall contract under review for potential impropriety” at KTAR.

• Read “Doctors Say They Were Arrested Trying to Give Flu Vaccines to Detained Migrants” at Now This.

Read “U.S. Backs Out of U.N. Meeting on Human Rights Situation in North Korea” at Time.

Read “At 34, Finland's Sanna Marin Set To Become World's Youngest Sitting Prime Minister” at NPR.

Read “Explosive investigative report says U.S. government misled public on war in Afghanistan” at PBS News Hour.

Read “Trusting the News Media in the Trump Era Partisan dynamics overshadow other factors in Americans’ evaluations of the news media” at Journalism.org.

Read “A new U.N. report argues many of the street protests popping up around the globe are driven by a growing sense that societies are rigged to favor the powerful — and trap the masses in low-wage, dead-end lives” at NPR.

• Read “Bolton Tweets Criticism of Trump Admin. Blocking UN Meeting on North Korea” at News and Guts.

Read “Russian Foreign Minister Invited To White House; Claims No Election Interference In 2016” at News and Guts.

Read “Homeowner Leaves Snacks For Amazon Delivery Guy And His Reaction Is Too Pure” at Bored Panda.

Read “Low-income communities are being decimated by fines.”

Read “Solange Is Very First Recipient of Lena Horne Award, Donating $100,000 Prize to Houston Charity” at The Root.

Read “Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?” at ProPublica.

Read “The Mistake I Made With My Grieving Friend The author of We Need to Talk reveals how she learned to help — and not help — a friend with loss” at Huffington Post.

Read “A North Dakota county was poised to be first to bar refugees under Trump’s executive order. Residents said no” at Washington Post.

The “Best Of” Lists continue to roll in:

• Browse Rolling Stone’s picks for “The 50 Best Songs of 2019.”

  • Browse Rolling Stone’s picks for “40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2019.”

• Browse “2019 Year End Lists: John Darnielle, the Mountain Goats” at Merge Records.

• Browse Pitchork’s picks for “The 100 Best Songs of 2019.”

  • Browse Pitchfork’s picks for “The 50 Best Albums of 2019.”

• Browse PopMatters’ picks for “The 70 Best Albums of 2019.”

  • Browse PopMatters’ picks for “The Best Jazz of 2019.”

• Browse Paste’s picks for “The 50 Best Songs of 2019.”

• Browse NPR’s picks for “The Best Songs of 2019 So Far.”

  • Browse NPR’s picks for “Best Music Of 2019.”

• Browse “Steven Hyden’s Favorite Albums of 2019” at Uproxx.

• Browse Vice’s picks for “The 100 Best Albums of 2019.”

• Browse “RSTB Best of 2019” at Raven Sings The Blues.

• Browse my list of 2019 Favorite music

  • Listen to Volume 01 of my 2019 Year-End Playlist

  • Listen to Volume 02 of my 2019 Year-End Playlist

  • Listen to Volume 03 of my 2019 Year-End Playlist

  • Listen to Volume 04 of my 2019 Year-End Playlist

Read as Time names Lizzo “Entertainer of the Year.”

Take “A Deep Dive Into Tom Waits’ Best Rare and Unreleased Material” with Tyler Wilcox at Pitchfork.

Read “Warren Ellis on the transformative power of music” at Sydney Morning Herald.

Read “Spotlight: Garcia Peoples” at Relix.

Read “How five friends from Phoenix came to rule the world as Alice Cooper” at AZ Central.

Read “Hall and Oates announce 2020 tour dates Including shows with Squeeze” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “A Conversation With Jeff Lynne Of ELO” at NPR.

Read “ASCAP launches health and wellness program for musicians A report earlier this year revealed that 73% of musicians suffer from mental illness” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “A Show About Spotify Is Coming to Netflix The scripted series will tell the story of Spotify’s creation” at Pitchfork.

Read “Dinosaur Jr. are in the studio making a new album” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Chris Cornell’s Widow Sues Soundgarden Over Unreleased Recordings” at Rolling Stone.

Revisit at 1980 Relix interview with Robert Hunter about some of the band’s most memorable songs.

Read “Nils Lofgren: Back on the Horse” at Premier Guitar.

Read “The story of Ghanaian highlife legend Ebo Taylor’s “lost tapes” in his own words” at Vinyl Factory.

Read “How Ryley Walker Survived Addiction, Mental Illness, And Self-Destruction In 2019” at Uproxx.

Read “The Raincoats / 40th Anniversary :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview” at Aquarium Drunkard.

Read “In Memoriam: Bands We Lost In 2019” at Stereogum.

Read “‘Let It Bleed’: Why the Stones’ Nastiest Masterpiece Feels Right on Time” at Rolling Stone. “Their 1969 classic remains the band’s darkest LP, and that’s why it sounds perfect right now.”

Read “David Bowie immersive live experience to be held at National Space Centre planetarium” at NME.

Read “Talking Heads Create Official Instagram Account Stoking Rumors Surrounding “Remain in Light” 40th Anniversary” at Post-Punk.

• Read “This is not your beautiful Talking Heads reunion, David Byrne confirms” at AV Club.

Read “40 Reasons We Still Love The Clash’s London Calling The band's masterpiece remains a glowing torch in a world of fear, injustice, and oppression” at Consequence of Sound.

TV and Movies get Year-End Lists too:

• Browse Consequence of Sound’s picks for the “Top 25 Films of 2019.”

• Browse “The 20 worst films of 2019” at AV Club.

• Browse Think Christian’s picks for “The Best TV of 2019.”

Read “Redbox no longer lets you rent video games” at CNet.

“Watch a teaser for Hulu's Hillary Clinton docuseries” at AV Club.

Read “Prince’s Purple Rain Added to National Film Registry The Library of Congress has also archived She’s Gotta Have It, Clerks, The Last Waltz, and more” at Pitchfork.

Read “New Matrix film gets 2021 release, will open on same weekend as John Wick 4” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “The TV Club, 2019 Entry 4: TV isn’t dead, but it’s not getting livelier.” at Slate.

Read “Elon Musk wins defamation lawsuit over tweets against caver in Thailand rescue” at 12 News.

Read “Miss Universe 2019 Is Young, Gifted And An Outspoken Believer In 'Black Girl Magic'“ at NPR.

Read “Bill Cosby Loses Appeal of Sex Assault Conviction” at Variety.

Read the Chili’s menu interpreted by Cormac McCarthy at McSweeny’s.

Read “This Library Bar In Indiana Is Every Book Nerd’s Paradise” at Bookish Buzz.

“Check Out these Miniature Book Houses” at Bookish Buzz.

Browse “40 Of The Worst Newspaper Headlines To Make You Facepalm At The Stupidity” at Bored Panda.

Browse “Christianity Today's 2020 Book Awards” at Christianity Today.

Read as Bookish Buzz wonders “Seriously Though, How Did the Most Beautiful Library in America Get Demolished?”

Read “A Q&A with Justin McRoberts” by Aarik Danielsen at Fathom Magazine.

Read “A Gardener Found a Stolen Gustav Klimt Painting Tucked Behind a Secret Panel—in the Very Building It Was Stolen From” at Artnet.

Read “Revive Dying Coral Reefs, Study Finds” at Forbes.

Read “Plants 'Scream' in the Face of Stress: A new study suggests that plants that are stressed by drought or physical damage may emit ultrasonic squeals” at Live Science.

Read “Scientists discover how gene mutation causes autism and intellectual disability” at 12 News.

Read “Earth's magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm” at Phys Org.

Read “ACA Insurers In The Supreme Court: Why Consumers Should Pay Attention” at NPR.

Read as Boing Boing wonders “Where are all the time travelers?”

Read “Weak potato harvest could cause French fry shortage across U.S., report says” at WSBT.

Read “St. Nicholas: The story behind Santa Claus” at CNN.

Read “The Story Behind Vintage "Shiny Brite" Christmas Ornaments” at Crackerjack 23.

Read “Someone Is Putting Tiny Cowboy Hats On Pigeons Around Las Vegas” at Unilad.

Read “The Time a Nazi Mad Scientist Built a Real Movie Villain Island Lair in Argentina” at Mysterious Universe.

Read “20-foot ‘Indescribably beautiful’ leg lamp inflatable appears at ‘A Christmas Story’ house” at Local 10.

Read “Man whose farts 'can kill mosquitoes six metres away hired to create new repellent'“ at The Mirror.

Read “Arizona man registers swarm of bees as emotional support animals” at New York Post.

Read “EPA Data: Phoenix Has Highest Levels in U.S. of Carcinogenic Gas Ethylene Oxide” at Phoenix New Times.

Read “Laws allowing U.S government to force Native American children into boarding schools still in force” at AZ Family.

Read “Versace to open store at Scottsdale Fashion Square mall in 2020” at ABC 15.

Read “Beer Price Could Double By End Of Month If Tax Break Expires” at KJZZ. “The Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act could expire at the end of the month. Over the past two years, the act lowered federal excise taxes for breweries, wineries and distilleries. This allowed producers to use money they saved in taxes on their operations.”

Read “Ducey-Appointed Nursing Board Member Said 'Minorities' Are 'Trying to Change Us'“ at Phoenix New Times.

The Weekly Town Crier (12/06/19)

All the week’s News that’s fit to cry about (12/06/19).

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. Irving Burgie, Songwriter Who Helped Bring Calypso To America, Dies At 95 (NPR)

Read “Thankful for the Bad: Upside Down Gratitude This Thanksgiving Upside down gratitude is the ability to give thanks even for the parts of our lives which lead us to sadness and struggle and suffer” at Christianity Today.

Read “Will Worship for Likes To build their celeb-approved megachurch, Churchome, pastors Judah and Chelsea Smith preach community, love, acceptance, and inclusion. Is their Instagrammable message truly reframing Christianity or simply helping their church rake in millions?” at Marie Claire.

Read “What Pastors Can Learn From a Converted Musician: He’s a tremendously famous musician. Some people even use the word genius to describe him. His music moves people, as it has for a long time. He changed the industry. By all accounts, he’s a legend in popular music. But then something happened. It’s make sense if you thought I was talking about Kanye West. No, I’m talking about Bob Dylan.”

Read “The Christian Roots of the Fair Trade Movement” at Christianity Today.

Read “False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump: White evangelics have their presidential strongman in Donald Trump.” at Rolling Stone.

Read “This Advent, Listen to those who feel unwelcome in the church” at Sojourners.

Read “The Crisis of American Christianity, Viewed From Great Britain The theologian N. T. Wright is unfazed by the faith’s politicization in the U.S.” at The Atlantic.

Read “Jesus’ risen, mutilated body In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic” at Christian Century.

Read “American Jesus, Stay Away from Me: The Jesus of the Bible looks nothing like American Jesus.” at Red Letter Christians.”

Read “The New Math of Church Mergers An option once seen as a failed strategy is now giving many congregations a new lease on life” at Christianity Today.

Read “Why we need religion Stephen Asma, an agnostic, argues powerfully that religion is natural and beneficial. Is it such a leap to believe that it is grounded in truth?” at Prospect Magazine.

Read “Florida Bill Protects Black Hairstyles in School, Workplace” at My Spectrum 13 (Orlando).

Read/watch “Michael Eric Dyson: 'black voters are sick and tired of being taken for granted'“ at MSNBC.

Read “The Night Doesn’t Stop the Stars” On the 50th anniversary of the killing of Fred Hampton, poet Haki R. Madhubuti pays tribute to the leader of Chicago’s Black Panthers with a new work” at Chicago Magazine.

Read “George Zimmerman Sues Trayvon Martin’s Family, Others for $100 Million The new suit is helmed by conservative lawyer Larry Klayman, based on allegations in new book and film by conspiracy theorist Joel Gilbert” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Sick and Alone Most of America’s county jails escape lawsuits seeking reforms for inmates with serious mental illness. Now Arizona’s Cochise County has joined hundreds of other small counties innovating ways to keep people with serious mental illness out of their jails. But it comes too late for Adrian Perez, who has spent the past 13 years cycling in and out of jail, and solitary confinement, which only makes him sicker.: Our jails and prisons have become our new asylums because there is nowhere else for the mentally ill to go” at Arizona Center For Investigative Reporting.”

Read “Rev. William Barber on the Political Power of Poor People: ‘We Have to Change Our Whole Narrative’” at New York Magazine.

Read/Watch “Young boy invites entire kindergarten class to his adoption hearing” at 12 News.

Read “North Korea warns Japan's Abe may soon see 'real ballistic missile' Pyongyang lashes out at Japanese leader stepping up rhetoric against close US ally in the region as nuclear talks stall” at Al Jazeera.

Read The Guardian’s opinion piece: “America is not the land of the free but one of monopolies so predatory they imperil the nation.”

Read “Not So OK, Boomers They‘re attacking the seat of millennial pleasure — the body. It’s high time we contemplated the possibility Boomers want to kill us all” at Medium.

Read “Defiant Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook policy to allow false ads Zuckerberg says ‘people should be able to judge for themselves the character of politicians’ and compares alternative to censorship” at The Guardian.

Read “Researchers Find A Remarkable Ripple Effect When You Give Cash To Poor Families: A new major study finds that for every dollar in cash aid given to Kenyan families living in poverty, the total economic activity in the area increased by $2.60.” at NPR.

Read “TikTok accused of secretly gathering user data and sending it to China A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges the app "includes Chinese surveillance software” at CNet.

Read “His Company Makes Speakers. Now He's Speaking Out, Opposing Tariffs: Since last fall, this 70-year-old speaker company in Minnesota has had to pay tariffs on some components imported from China. "A surprising number of people I talk to … think that somehow China is paying the tariffs," the company's president says. It's a claim that President Trump has repeatedly made.” at NPR.

Read “Half of all homeless people may have had traumatic brain injury” at The Guardian.

Read “This is the World’s First Beer Taproom That Also Houses Foster Dogs Rescued From Kill Shelters” at Good News Network.

Read “Hedy Lamarr: The Incredible Mind Behind Secure WiFi, GPS And Bluetooth” at Forbes.

Read/watch “What newly released emails reveal about OxyContin, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family” at PBS News Hour.

Read “The False Promise of Morning Routines Why everyone’s mornings seem more productive than yours” at The Atlantic.

Read “Google faces $50 million lawsuit from Genius for stealing lyrics They've been accused of "misappropriating content".” at NME.

Read “You may be required to get your picture taken when leaving, entering US” at 12 News.

Read “Millennials weren’t the only ones gutted by the recession. Gen X has never recovered. By Austin Channing Brown Dec 4, 2019, 8:00am EST Share this story” by Austin Channing Brown at Vox.

Watch/Read “You Won't Live Comfortably In the U.S. Working 40hrs a Week” at 12 News.

Read “Schools teach refugee, migrant kids skills to succeed in US: This year's students at Valencia Newcomer School feature kids from 21 countries and speak 15 languages” at KTAR.

Read as PBS wonders “What If We Let Kids Get Bored? Give kids space to get bored — you will be amazed by the creative ways they fill their time.”

Read “A Silent Epidemic: Our public schools are struggling to handle millions of students with mental health problems. Here’s why” from 2016 at NPR.

Browse “6 Books for Kids about the Civil Rights Movement” at the New York Public Library website.

Read “Majority Of Republicans Say Trump Is A Better President Than Lincoln” at Politics USA.

• Read “Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary Trump often boasts of donating his White House pay, but taxpayers are shelling out much larger sums for his hobby” at Huff Post.

• Read “Trump to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups” at KTAR.

• Read “Trump campaign will deny press credentials to Bloomberg News Trump’s campaign manager accuses agency of ‘declaring their bias openly’ after choice to not cover Democratic candidates critically" at The Guardian.

• Read “Trump, Who Slashed Taxes by $1.5 Trillion, Is Pushing Cuts to Food Stamps Self-declared man of the people proposes to take food from poor people” at Rolling Stone.

• Read “Trump loses appeal to block Deutsche Bank, Capital One from handing his financial records to Congress” at CNBC.

• Read “Trump Is Waging War on America’s Diplomats: And the impeachment inquiry is only making things worse. With new figures and fresh horror stories, Julia Ioffe reports on how the president is politicizing our embassies, alienating our allies, and decimating the ranks of the foreign service.” at GQ.

• Read “the House Intelligence Committee’s Impeachment Report” at Rolling Stone.

• Read “Rep. Adam Schiff: 'The Uncontested Facts Show This President Solicited A Bribe'“ at NPR.

• Read “Report reveals frequent contact between Giuliani, Nunes and the White House” at PBS News Hour.

• Read “Trump Hands $400 Million Border Wall Contract to Republican Donor Who Touted Construction Firm on Fox News” at Second Nexus.

Read “US seeks high court permission to resume federal executions” at KTAR.

Read “Trump nominee who is anti-IVF and surrogacy was deemed unqualified. She just got confirmed” at Washington Post and then just remind yourself that the Trump administration is appointing judges to lifetime appointments who have previous been deemed “unqualified.”

Read “William Barr says "communities" that protest cops could lose "the police protection they need" at Washington Post.

Read “We should hang’ Ilhan Omar, GOP House candidate says while seeking donations” at Washington Post.

Read “Romney Saw “No Evidence” of Ukraine Meddling in 2016 U.S. Election” at News and Guts.

Read/watch “Student loan forgiveness emerges as key 2020 issue” at MSNBC.

Read “Kamala Harris Has Dropped Out of the Presidential Race” at Rolling Stone.

• Read/Watch “Why Kamala Harris’ campaign failed to gain traction” at PBS News Hour.

• Read “Kamala Harris’s Criminal Justice Record Killed Her Presidential Run: Harris’s record as a prosecutor was representative of a politics of the past. The nation has moved on” at The Appeal.

• Read “Kamala Harris Mattered, and Still Does She made the boldest and (ultimately) most quixotic argument of any candidate, and her failure is a sign of these Trumpian times” at Rolling Stone.

Read “It’s Not Just A ‘Fictional Narrative,’ It’s Russian Propaganda: Republicans are not following Fiona Hill's warnings to ignore the Russian propaganda about Ukraine, in fact they're doubling down. Contributor Steven J. Harper puts in all in context and perspective.” at News and Guts.

Read “Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All: “The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview. And she has quite a lot to say.” at Daily Beast.

Read “Fox News host Tucker Carlson: Putin does not hate America like liberals do” at The Guardian.

Read “Inside the ‘extraordinary’ campaign to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court” at PBS News Hour.

Read “A New Online Archive Lets You Listen to 40 Years Worth of Terry Gross’ Fresh Air Interviews: Stream 22,000 Segment Online” at Open Culture.

Read “Mahna Mahna at 50: fascinating facts about the unforgettable Muppets song” at CBC.

Browse “Best of 2019” Lists:

• Browse Stereogum’s picks for “The 50 Best Albums Of 2019.”

• Browse Consequence of Sound’s picks for “Top 50 Albums of 2019.”

• Browse Gorilla Vs. Bear’s Albums of 2019.

• Browse Paste’s picks.

• Browse Rolling Stone’s picks for “The 50 Best Albums of 2019.”

Read “Samana Give Listeners a Map to Locate an Obelisk Hidden in Wales” at Bandcamp.

Read “Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Lana Del Rey: Pop Stars (and Their Fans) Clap Back: This year has seen a spike in pop stars using social media to push back against music critics. Their fans fell in line, swarming the offending writers with hate” at New York Times.

Read “Khruangbin and Leon Bridges Team Up for New Texas Sun EP” at Pitchfork.

Read “Massive Attack commission research into touring’s impact on climate The research aims to create a "roadmap to decarbonisation" at Consequence of Sound.

Read “U2 Are Getting Their Own SiriusXM Channel “Generally when I open my mouth, people prefer if I’m singing,” Bono said. “But on U2X RADIO, maybe they’ll forgive me the odd interruption” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Frozen Fingers :: An American Primitive Holiday Meditation” at Aquarium Drunkard.

Read as NPR wonders “Is It OK To Bootleg Concerts?”

Read “Justin Vernon Tells Aaron Rodgers What “Holocene” Is About” at Stereogum.

Read “Kid Rock is shutting down his Detroit restaurant amid protest over his recent Oprah rant. "I may be guilty of being a loud mouth jerk at times, but trying to label me racist is a joke" at Consequence of Sound.

Read as “Lana Del Rey Interviews Grimes” at Pitchfork.

Read “Garcia Peoples’ One Step Behind Is Clear-Eyed and Ambitious Chris Forsyth on how the Brooklyn band successfully does “whatever the f&*k they want” on their new album” at TalkHouse.

Read “Chet Baker’s Tale of Woe” at Downbeat.

Read “Alice Cooper on Returning to His Detroit Roots Legendary rocker details his new covers album, Breadcrumbs” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “A Look Inside Japan’s Listening Bars For Audiophiles” at Vinyl of the Day.

Read “Jimmy Eat World share playlist of music they listened to on tour in the ’90s Read More: Jimmy Eat World share playlist of music they listened to on tour in the ’90s” at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read “10 Lessons Learned From Attending Concerts Sober For A Month” at Live For Live Music.

Read “A New Tool From Spotify Walks the Line Between Advertising and Pay-For-Play” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, Adrian Belew to Tour “40 Years of ‘Remain in Light'” with Turkuaz” at Jambands.com.

Read “The Go-Betweens' Perfect Pop Cracked Open Stream rarities and live tracks from volume two of 'G Stands For Go-Betweens'“ at NPR.

Read “Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: "I used to study classical and jazz... then I was suddenly sleeping on floors and playing punk-rock" at Guitar World.

Read “DC Comics Comes Under Fire for Deleting Batman Poster That Sparked Chinese Backlash: DC Comics came under fire for pulling a Batman poster after Chinese commenters said it appeared to support pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong” at Variety.

Browse “Top 100 TV Shows of the 2010s” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Questlove to Direct New Movie Black Woodstock A documentary about 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured performances from Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, and more” at Pitchfork.

Read “Oprah Producing Documentary About Sexual Assault in the Music Industry” at Exclaim.

Read “Johnny Depp producing musical starring Michael Jackson’s glove In which the King of Pop's iconic sequin glove "is actually an alien from outer space [and] feeds on virgin boy blood" at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Brazil President Blames Leonardo DiCaprio for Funding Amazon Wildfires Without evidence, Jair Bolsonaro says actor is “giving money to torch the Amazon” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Willie Nelson quits smoking marijuana due to breathing issues "I have abused my lungs quite a bit in the past" at Consequence of Sound.

Read “The Travel Diaries of Allen Ginsberg in South America” at LitHub.

Read “'We Wanted Our Patrons Back' — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity” at NPR.

Read “Reading Toni Morrison in Advent A seasonal practice: cultivate the patient gaze to describe life as we find it” at Christian Century.

Read “Cry, Heart, But Never Break: A Remarkable Illustrated Meditation on Loss and Life “Who would enjoy the sun if it never rained? Who would yearn for the day if there were no night?” at Brain Pickings.

Read “How did renowned novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wind up in Iowa City? Two years in Iowa were turning point in novelist's career at The Gazette.

Read/Listen to “What Bestseller Lists Really Tell Us About A Book's Popularity: The appearance of Donald Trump Jr.'s TRIGGERED on the bestseller lists prompted us to dig into how those lists work -- and how they can be manipulated.” at NPR.

See “Winged Insects Made From Old Computer Circuit Boards And Electronics” at Bored Panda.

Read “Researchers Have Found That Visiting Art Museums Can Offer Significant Relief for People Living With Dementia” at Artnet.

See “Photographer Spends Eternity Waiting For Museum Visitors To Match Artworks And The Result Is Worth The Wait” at Bored Panda.

Read “Were the Mexican Muralists America’s Greatest Street Artists? A New Whitney Show Will Examine Their Too-Long-Ignored Legacy” at Artnet.

Read “Just A Reminder That Gorillas Hum ‘Little Food Songs’ To Themselves While They Eat” at Live For Live Music.

Read “Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows” at National Geographic.

Read “Scientists Resume Efforts To Create Deadly Flu Virus, With US Government's Blessing” at Forbes.

Read “Scientists Discover Psychedelic DMT Creates Waking Dream State In Brain: ‘It’s Like Dreaming But With Your Eyes Open’ at Newsweek.

Read “Hoag's Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)” at Live Science.

Read “China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'“ at The Guardian.

Read “Probe Gets Close To The Sun — Finds Rogue Plasma Waves And Flipping Magnetic Fields” at NPR.

Read “New drug curbs delusions in dementia patients, study finds If approved, it could not only help people with Parkinson's but also Alzheimer's” at 12 News.

Read “Ballast Point sold to tiny suburban Chicago brewery Kings and Convicts in beer industry stunner” at Chicago Tribune.

Read “The World’s Most Valuable Whisky Collection Is Worth Nearly $17 Million A Vietnamese man's 20-year obsession with Scotch yields a world record” at Inside Hook.

See “Vale Street England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “Bill would require Arizona students to say the Pledge of Allegiance: The bill would strike an existing law that allows time for "those students who wish" to recite the pledge and instead require a parent to excuse the student” at AZ Central, and remember kids, forced patriotism is fascism.

Read “Arizona 19-year-old suing Juul for getting him addicted to nicotine” at 12 News.

Read “Whistleblower says contractors failing to fix locks at Phoenix-area prison” at KTAR.

Read “Why the devil is the Scottsdale City Council fighting Satanists?” at AZ Central.

Read “20 Years of Modified Arts: How the Gallery Changed Roosevelt Row” at Phoenix New Times.

The Weekly Town Crier (11/22/19)

All the week’s News that’s fit to cry about (11/22/19).

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.

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 the Washington Post’s opinion piece: “Jesus isn’t interested in America’s two-party division: Sadly, many want Jesus to be the personal chaplain to a Republican emperor, or else, Jesus is invoked to sanction a Jacobin purge on anyone suspected of not progressive enough. Jesus is re-created in either the image of Caesar or Che Guevara.”

Read “Scripture and Neuroscience Agree: It Helps to Lament in Community Through song, liturgy, and communion, the body of Christ inhabits the suffering experienced by its weakest members” at Christianity Today.

Read “Christianity is declining at a rapid pace, but Americans still hold positive views about religion’s role in society” at Washington Post.

Read “What Research Tells Us About the ‘Seal’ of Believer’s Baptism A new study suggests that the rite doesn’t bind young Christians to a certain level of faith commitment, but to a faith community” at Christianity Today.

Read “Kanye West calls himself 'the greatest artist that God has ever created' at Joel Osteen service” at AZ Central.

Read “Why Black Protestants and Evangelicals Still Preach Politics” at Christianity Today.

Read “The Real Battle (Between Atheism and Christianity) Is Always Emotional” at Mockingbird: “Disproofs of God’s existence are about as effective in creating atheists as proofs are in creating believers. Such arguments are shadow boxing. The real battle is always emotional."

Read “Chick-fil-A Says It Will Stop Donating to Anti-LGBTQ Organizations” at Advocate.

Read/Listen to “'Who Is An Evangelical?' Looks At History Of Evangelical Christians And The GOP” at NPR.

• Read “U.S. Adults See Evangelicals Through a Political Lens” at Barna.

Read/watch “How these Oregon teachers are fighting back against white nationalism” at PBS News Hour.

Read “Paige Patterson feared backslide after election of first black SBC president” at Religion News Service.

Read “Scott Warren, Who Provided Humanitarian Aid To Immigrants, Found Not Guilty On Harboring Charges” at Sojourners.

Read the opinion piece: “Kanye West is spreading the gospel of white evangelicals: Like other black conservatives, the rapper and designer downplays racism while promoting bootstrap virtue-signaling” at The Guardian.

Read “Michael Bloomberg apologises for 'stop-and-frisk' policy” at BBC.

Read the opinion piece: “Enough Thanksgiving Myths. Schools Should Teach Indigenous History” at TruthOut.

Read “Trump’s new refugee limits are senseless and destructive” at Christian Century.

• Read “U.S. has world's highest rate of children in detention: U.N. study” at Reuters.

• Read “U.N. Expert Faults U.S. For 'Inhuman Treatment' And High Incarceration Of Children” at NPR.

Read “Bound By Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of black kids charged as adults” at Reveal.

Read “Why 1,200 people who never took a life are condemned to die in Pa. prisons” at Inquirer.

Read/Listen to “Jeffrey Epstein's Prison Guards Are Indicted On Federal Charges” at NPR.

Read “U.S. income inequality at highest level in 50 years, economic gap growing in heartland” at NBC News.

Read “Israeli PM Netanyahu indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust” at NBC News.

Read “After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople” at PBS.

Read “Our legislators’ silence is a failure of moral courage” at Christian Century.

Read/Watch “70% of Americans say Trump’s actions tied to Ukraine were wrong” at ABC.

Read “The White House Just Released A Log Of Trump's First Call with Zelenskiy: The log differs from what the White House originally said about the call in a brief readout” at NPR.

• Read “Trump attacks impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch on Twitter” at PBS News Hour.

• Read “Democrats invite Trump to testify in impeachment inquiry” at PBS News Hour

• Read Sarah Kendzior’s opinion piece: “Why the Trump impeachment hearings need to go beyond Ukraine” at Globe and Mail.

• Read “Trump ‘Will Strongly Consider’ Testifying in Impeachment Probe, as New Poll Shows 70% Disapprove of His Ukraine Actions As the president defends his actions, however, the American people seem unconvinced” at Rolling Stone.

• Read “House Looking Into Whether Trump Lied to Mueller During Russia Investigation” at News and Guts.

• Read “Trump’s Retribution Against the Washington Post Owner Is His Gravest Abuse of Power” at New York magazine.

• Read “Chief justice orders delay in House fight for Trump financial records” at PBS News Hour.

• Read “I Followed the Directions of the President’: Read Gordon Sondland’s Explosive Impeachment Testimony” at Rolling Stone.

  • Read/Watch “Sondland says Pence knew about concerns over the hold on military aid to Ukraine” at PBS News Hour.

• Read “Trump Brags About Opening Apple Plant In Texas That’s Been Producing Computers Since 2013” at News and Guts.

Read “Roger Stone, Political Operative And Trump Aide, Guilty In False Statements Trial” at NPR.

• Browse “Everyone Charged in the 2016 Election Investigations” at New York Times.

• Read “Prosecutors in Giuliani investigation interested in talking to Ukrainian energy company” at CNN.

Read “Over 75 Members Of Congress To Stephen Miller: Resign From White House Now” at Huff Post.

• Read/Listen to “Stephen Miller And White Supremacy: the book mentioned in Stephen Miller's leaked emails. What is it? And why is it important to white power movements?” at NPR.

• Read “Stephen Miller planted anti-Rubio stories in Breitbart during 2016 campaign, leaked emails show” at NBC News.

Read “Trump Retreats From Flavor Ban for E-Cigarettes Advisers say the president pulled back from proposed restrictions intended to curb teenage vaping after he was warned of the political fallout among voters” at New York Times.

Read “Bill Barr's fascist manifesto: Is this man the real threat to American democracy?” at Salon.

Read “No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans are throwing up their hands and tuning it all out” at New York Times.

Read “In Major Shift, U.S. Declares West Bank Settlements Do Not Violate International Law” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Trump advisory board member: Women should strive to be “handmaidens,” stay out of the workplace Trump surrogate Clarence Mason Weaver on women: “We don’t care how smart you are. We don’t care how strong you are” at Media Matters.

Read “What ending DACA could cost the U.S. economy” at PBS News Hour.

Read “Social Security Does Not Add To The Federal Deficit” at Forbes.

Read ‘You’re Done:’ Conservative Radio Host Fired Mid-Show for Criticizing Trump “I call things as I see them,” Craig Silverman wrote” at Rolling Stone, and remember, friends, that forced patriotism is fascism.

Read “Nikki Haley Used System for Unclassified Material to Send ‘Confidential’ Information” and wonder . . . but her e-mails . . . with the rest of us at The Daily Beast.

Read “Democrats in Congress reauthorize Patriot Act, again” at Boing Boing.

Read “Whatever Happened To Reality Winner? Reality Winner’s mom, Billie J. Winner-Davis, speaks out about her daughter and the effort to #FreeRealityWinner” at Rantt Media.

Read “Democrat Edwards wins reelection in conservative Louisiana” at PBS News Hour.

Read “Pete Buttigieg and Jim Wallis Discuss Christianity in Politics” at Juicy Ecumenism.

• Watch “Mayor Pete surges ahead in Iowa polling” at MSNBC.

• Read “The Generous Gospel of Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks with ‘Rolling Stone’ about faith, the religious left, and what the Mike Pences of the world get wrong” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Possible pay-to-play scheme for ambassador role in Trump administration uncovered by CBS News Emails obtained by CBS News show Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas was asked by the RNC to donate half a million dollars as his confirmation in the Senate hung in the balance” at CBS.

Read “Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018” at Yahoo Finance.

Read “Two people showed up for ‘Straight Pride’ in Dallas. Yes, two” at Metro Weekly.

Read “Meth. We’re on It’: South Dakota’s Anti-Meth Campaign Raises Eyebrows” at New York Times.

Read "25 Years of Wilco: Tracing the Band’s Live Evolution Through Their Best Bootlegs” at Pitchfork.

Read “The kids of Wu-Tang Clan have formed their own Wu-Tang Clan” at AV Club.

Read “Church builds huge baby Jesus statue — that looks like Phil Collins” at New York Post.

See “Inside the vinyl archives of Berlin’s biggest music library” at Vinyl Factory.

Read “Spotify Announces Its Own Award Show” at Pitchfork.

Read “David Bazan talks about his music and watching Christianity be “co-opted by authoritarianism” at Vox: "For me, it’s heartbreaking over and over again. You just think, “Surely now they can see. Surely now they can see.” What do I do with that? Knowing that certain people that I love deeply, and depended on, are just going to go to their graves being stooges for fascism and authoritarianism? That’s still something I’m trying to make sense of."

Read “Chris Martin Says Coldplay Won’t Tour for Environmental Reasons” at Pitchfork.

Read “Nick Cave announces new autobiography and exhibition, ‘Stranger Than Kindness’ Read More: Nick Cave announces new autobiography and exhibition, ‘Stranger Than Kindness’ at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read “Trump’s Denials Turned into a Ramones Song: “I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO.” at Open Culture.

Read “How Countries Around the World Fund Music—and Why It Matters As President Trump eyes abolishing federal arts funding in the U.S., a survey of tax-supported music from Australia to Iceland reveals a complex, shifting landscape” at Pitchfork.

Read “How Poison frontman Bret Michaels went from glam-metal icon to Humanitarian of the Year” at AZ Central.

Read “Flying teapots and electric Camembert: the story of Gong, prog's trippiest band” at The Guardian.

Read “Noel Gallagher wants to play guitar for The Smiths if they ever reunite” at NME.

Read “Tiddas honoured for their fierce, bold, pioneering music” at The Age and listen to "Inanay" by Tiddas on Episode 05 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.

Browse “Portrait of the Artist: An Oral History of David Berman at UVA” at Virginia.edu.

Read “Janet Weiss talks leaving Sleater-Kinney: “the new record was made sort of without me” Read More: Janet Weiss talks leaving Sleater-Kinney: “the new record was made sort of without me” at Brooklyn Vegan: “"I said, ‘am I just the drummer now?’ They said yes. And I said, ‘can you tell me if I am still a creative equal in the band?’ And they said no. So, I left."

Read “KISS played a show for great white sharks, but no sharks showed up” at Consequence of Sound.

Watch “Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart plays the rhythm of the universe” at PBS.

Read “'One of the Best Yet' Is Another Gang Starr Classic” at PopMatters.

Read “Neil Young Will No Longer Use Facebook Because Of Its “Obvious Commitments” To Republicans” at Stereogum.

Read “Why Your Favorite Alt-Rock Legends Are Remixing Their Old Albums” at Vice.

Read “Wu-Tang Clan are getting their very own amusement park in South Korea” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “How Wes Anderson Perfected the Music-Nerd Soundtrack (from 2018)” at Pitchfork.

Read “That Time Michael Bolton Wrote a Song With Bob Dylan” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Lunachicks are back, announce first show in over a decade Read More: Lunachicks are back, announce first show in over a decade” at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read/Listen to “Pete Townshend On Creativity, 'The Age Of Anxiety' And The Who's New Record” at NPR.

Read “Bonnie "Prince" Billy on Recording Others' Songs, Mourning David Berman and Long-Awaited 'I Made a Place' at Exclaim.

Read as Grimes tells NME “I think live music is going to be obsolete soon”.

Read “Bon Iver Share First Official Music Video Since 2012” at Pitchfork.

Read “‘Blurryface’ by Twenty One Pilots is the biggest-selling rock album of the decade” at NME.

Read “A new Gorillaz documentary is coming to theaters for one night only” at AV Club.

Read “The Timetravellin' Bob Dylan: On 'Bringing It All Back Home'“ at PopMatters.

Read “Taylor Swift Is Fighting With Her Former Record Label Again” at Spin.

Read “'Tis Already The Season To Argue About 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'“ at NPR.

Read “The Beatles: Abbey Road Changed Music History Forever” at Den Of Geek.

Browse “A Brief Guide to Metal In China” at Bandcamp.

Read “Kanye Announces Nebuchadnezzar Opera” at Pitchfork.

• Read “Kanye West put the wrong emperor on his Nebuchadnezzar opera invite It features Persian emperor Darius the Great, not the Babylonian king” at Consequence of Sound.

• Read “Kanye West teases Jesus Is King Part II with Dr. Dre” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Joe Henry's Next Second Chance” at NPR: “I'm not going to hide with this," Joe Henry said. "We're called to bear witness." Almost a year to the day since a grim diagnosis, Henry has released 'The Gospel According to Water,' an album as emotionally nuanced as he's ever made.”

Read “Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison Set 2020 Stadium Tour” at Rolling Stone.

See “AIR Studio Ruins: George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “How Do We Live With Music Made by Problematic Artists?” at Pitchfork.

Read “Nicolas Cage in talks to play Nicolas Cage in movie about Nicolas Cage” at CNet.

Read “How an Internet Obsession Resurrected a Creepy, Long-Lost Sesame Street Cartoon” at Slate.

Read “John Mulaney made a kids variety special with David Byrne & more for Netflix Read More: John Mulaney made a kids variety special with David Byrne & more for Netflix” at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read “The Bob's Burgers Movie Has Been Pulled from Disney's Release Schedule” at Paste.

Read “‘Sesame Street’ Is Highlighting a Forgotten Skill: Failing” at Forge.

Read “Beautiful Day' Director On Mister Rogers' 'Radical Notion': Telling Kids The Truth” at NPR.

Read “How The ‘Dora the Explorer’ Effect Helped Usher in a New Wave of Inclusive Animation” at Variety.

Read “Justice Department to change how studios distribute films by revoking decades-old rules Wiping out the Paramount consent decrees could completely alter the theater industry” at Consequence of Sound: “Under the new rules, a Netflix Multiplex, or a new Amazon subscription tier that includes two screenings a month in an actual cinema could come to fruition.”

Read “Todd Phillips to write and direct Joker sequel, wants to do more DC Comics origins movies” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood” at Guardian.

Read “Jay-Z says Colin Kaepernick turned his ‘legitimate workout’ into publicity stunt” at NY Daily News.

Read “'Our friendship was intimate on all levels': Robyn Crawford on her love for Whitney Houston” at The Guardian.

Read “Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry” at Brain Pickings.

Read “Pizza Hut’s ‘Little Free Libraries’ Look Exactly Like Mini Pizza Huts” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance to Consumerism, the Key to Mirth Under Hardship, and the Measure of a Rich Life” at Brain Pickings.

Read “Proust on Why We Read “The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing” at Brain Pickings.

Read “Traveler Restaurant This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “The Guerrilla Girls Are Targeting MoMA Trustees Tied to Jeffrey Epstein With an Ad on a Phone Booth Outside the Museum” at Art.net.

Read “120,000 Ribbons Hover Where The Berlin Wall Once Stood To Mark The 30-Year Anniversary Of Its Fall” at Bored Panda.

Read “Police Foiled a Brazen Thief Who Tried Sneak Out of a London Museum With Two Rembrandts in Tow” at Art.net.

Read “Comic Sans Turns 25: Graphic Designer Vincent Connare Explains Why He Created the Most Hated Font in the World” at Open Culture.

Read “Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire works from women next year: ‘You have to do something radical’" at Baltimore Sun.

Read “A Three-Story Mural Keith Haring Created for a Catholic Youth Center Sold for $3.9 Million—to the Chagrin of the Artist’s Foundation” at Art.net.

Read “Download 576 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art” at Open Culture.

Read “Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos: An Illustrated Celebration of How the Pioneering Artist’s Love of Animals Shaped Her Character” at Brain Pickings.

Read “Amid Criticism and Controversy, the Guggenheim Museum Hires Its First Full-Time Black Curator” at The Root.

Read “Donald Trump’s Crazy Handwriting Is Now A Free Font Called Tiny Hand” at Fast Company.

Read/Watch “Why overuse of antibiotics is a massive, ‘staggering’ problem in health care” at PBS News Hour.

Read “It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist” at Aeon.

Read “An Oceanographer’s Amazing Algorithm That Removes Blue-Green Visual Distortion From Underwater Photos” at Laughing Squid.

Read “Scientists develop slippery toilet coating to stop poo sticking Spray-on surface could prevent bacteria building up and reduce household water use” at The Guardian.

Read “NASA Makes Their Entire Media Library Publicly Accessible and Copyright Free” at DIY Photography.

See “Excellent animation explains how an escalator works” at Boing Boing.

Read “60% of world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970” at CBC.

See the “Paste Eater's Grave” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “Serial Killer Goblins May Be On the Loose in Zimbabwe” at Mysterious Universe.

See “Museum of Miniature Books” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “Bainbridge Township police: Man said he fired gun because he thought Bigfoot was trying to enter his home” at Cleveland 19.

Read “Arizona is the only state with an English-only education law. It's time to repeal it” at AZ Central.

Read “Arizona Man to Plead Guilty to Illegally Making Ammunition Bought by Las Vegas Shooter” at Time.

Read “Lyft announces plan to end service at Phoenix airport due to proposed fee” at KTAR.

Read “Amazon opens first physical bookstore in Arizona at Scottsdale Quarter” at AZ Central.

Read “Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to make stops in Valley this weekend” at KTAR.

Read “‘We need to act fast’: Statewide forum focuses on climate solutions for Arizona” at AZ Central.

Read “Tent city's closure saving Maricopa County millions” at AZ Family.

Read/Watch “Flyer for white supremacy group found in downtown Phoenix” at 12 News.

Read “Protesters want Valley Metro to stop police sweeps for light rail fares” at KTAR.

Read “Arizona Lawmaker Wants Armed Vets in Schools, Slams Funding For Counselors” at Phoenix New Times: “Arizona State Representative Jay Lawrence told New Times that "a couple Green Berets" at a school could deter a "bad actor" or possibly serve more mundane school functions, like breaking up fights.”

Read “Country’s 1st car-free neighborhood coming to Tempe in 2020” at KTAR.

The Weekly Town Crier (11/15/19)

All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (11/08/19 Edition).

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.

R.I.P. Robert Freeman, Beatles photographer dies at 82

Read “Kanye West’s ‘Jesus Is King’ Sparks Biblical Searches” at Facts & Trends.

Read “What Freud Can Teach Us About Trump And His Christian Supporters” at Sojourners.

Read/Watch “Still teaching at 95, Jimmy Carter draws devotees to church His message is unfailingly about Jesus, not Jimmy Carter” at 12 News.

Read “PC(USA) Stated Clerk responds to questions on Trump’s membership: Donald Trump was baptized in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). However, there is no factual evidence that Mr. Trump currently holds membership in any local congregation. Therefore, the discipline process that would be necessary to remove him from membership is not applicable” at PCUSA.org.

Read “Paula White and the Mainstreaming of American Pentecostalism” at Red Letter Christians.

Read “Respect for pastors is at an all-time low. What would help? Nobody wants to be irrelevant. Yet how much can pastors really do to reverse the increasing lack of interest in organized religion and religious practice that shapes attitudes toward clergy?" at Christian Century.

Read “Why Jesus Followers Should Be Prison Abolitionists” at Red Letter Christians.

Read “Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage To break free, we need an honest conversation about reparations and forgiveness on a mass scale” at The Nation.

Read “I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw” at ACLU.

Read “#EatingASandwichWhileBlack: Commuters Hold Protest After Cop Detains Black Man for 'Illegally Eating' at BART Station” at The Root.

Read “Trump ended DACA. This woman is suing to keep the program alive” at PRI.

Read “Second Trial Against Activist Who Helped Migrants To Begin” at KJZZ.

Read “The cursing president: Donald Trump is the first president to make C-SPAN unsuitable viewing for children” at The Week.

Read “Researchers Reveal Kids Who Get More Hugs Have More Developed Brains” at Healthy Food House.

Read “You Can Get A Master's In Medical Cannabis In Maryland” at NPR.

Read “Can I Get A Witness? The righteously, radical Campbellite core of Nashville by David Dark at Southern Foodways.

Read “The Alarming Message of Mattel’s “Gender-Neutral” Dolls” at Slate.

Read/Watch: “Mural of activist Greta Thunberg going up in San Francisco” at 12 News.

Read “Experts Worry Active Shooter Drills In Schools Could Be Traumatic For Students” at NPR.

Read “Indigenous people blocked Ecuador oil auction in growing fight to save Amazon” at Salon.

Read “Criminals may be banned from being near guns in New Zealand” at 12 News.

Read “Federal Court Rules That Border Officers Can’t Arbitrarily Search Our Electronic Devices” at ACLU.

Read “Demon Screens: For the last twelve years, social media, handheld devices, and video games have swept into teens’ lives like a tidal wave” at First Things.

Read/Listen to “Who Will Decide On The Dalai Lama's Successor — His Supporters Or Beijing?” at NPR.

Read “Nike designed a pair of comfortable sneakers just for medical workers, and all of the profits will go to a children's hospital” at Insider.

Read/Listen to “Detroit Public School Students Allege They Were Deprived Access To Literacy In Lawsuit: Many days were spent in freezing or mold-infested classrooms watching movies, sometimes without a teacher even in the room, plaintiffs allege. Textbooks were outdated. Lunch food was expired” at WBUR’s Here and Now.

Read: “Supreme Court Wrestles With Consequences for Piracy by State Governments” at The Hollywood Reporter.

Read “What We Learned From Reading Thousands Of Pages Of Impeachment Inquiry Transcripts” at NPR.

• Read “Lawyer for Ukraine whistleblower sends White House cease and desist letter to stop Trump’s attacks” at CNN.

• Read “Trump says he might attend Russia Victory Day events in May” at Reuters.

  Read “Impeaching Trump Is Imperative to Preserving Our Democracy: Trump’s first abuse of trust is the one our founders feared most: inviting a foreign power to interfere with our democracy,” at Time.

• Read “The Whistleblower Complaint Has Largely Been Corroborated. Here's How” at NPR.

• Read “What you learned about the impeachment hearing depended on what channel you watched” at Washington Post.

• Read “Trump Asks Supreme Court to Bar Release of His Tax Returns” at New York Times (just as one with nothing to hide does).

Read the New York Times opinion piece: “Multibillion-dollar fortunes are often called excessive and decadent. But here’s something they’re rarely called but ought to be: anti-democratic. These fortunes will destroy our democracy,"

Read “University of Florida student president faces impeachment after paying $50,000 for Don Jr. visit Michael Murphy is accused of using $50,000 of mandatory student fees "to further enrich" Trump and his girlfriend” at Salon.

Read “Trump adviser Stephen Miller injected white nationalist agenda into Breitbart, investigation reveals” at The Guardian.

• Read “Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails” at Southern Poverty Law Center.

Read “Supreme Court Allows Sandy Hook Families' Case Against Remington Arms To Proceed” at NPR.

Read “Elijah Cummings' Widow Announces She's Running For His U.S. House Seat” at NPR.

Read “U.S. budget deficit surges to $134.5 billion in October” at PBS News Hour.

Read “Trump Official Punished Public Servant Over Her Iranian Heritage” at NPR.

Read “Tindersticks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.”

Read “Fox & Friends is throwing its support behind Kanye West’s presidential candidacy "When our current president announced that he was running, a lot of people laughed too" at Consequence of Sound.

• Read “Kanye West WIll Appear At Joel Osteen’s Sunday Service . . . Choir In Tow” at TMZ.

Read “Neil Young Says U.S. Citizenship Application Delayed By Marijuana Use” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Neil Young Wants You to Hear His Unreleased Music Before You Die “It’s a race against time,” Young writes of his ambitious plan to release a huge cache of unreleased albums to his fans in 2020” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Why David Byrne Became a U.S. Citizen After Six Decades” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Jeff Tweedy: Learning to Love the Music You Hate'“ at That Eric Alper.

Read “Dolly Parton: A Seeker and a Poor Sinful Creature” at Christianity Today.

Read “A Subversive History: An Interview with Music Historian Ted Gioia” at Image Journal.

Read “Spike Lee to direct hip-hop version of Romeo and Juliet” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now” at Open Culture.

Read “The Spotify Blacklist Continues ⁠— Artist Faces Retaliation After Magazine Exclusive” at Digital Music News.

Read “Moby is an animal rights advocate, and he now has giant arm tattoos to prove it” at Consequence of Sound.

Hear “Iggy Pop, Frank Black Cover Jazz Great Mose Allison for New Tribute Album” at Rolling Stone.

Read “The Lijadu Sisters: the Nigerian twins who fought the elite with funk” at The Guardian and listen to “Orere Elejigbo” by Lijadu Sisters on Episode 17 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.

Read “Meat Puppets & Mudhoney announce 2020 co-headlining tour Read More: Meat Puppets & Mudhoney announce 2020 co-headlining tour” at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read “The Monkees Announce 2020 Tour Dates, New Live Album” at Rolling Stone.

Browse “Ryley Walker :: A Roundup” at Aquarium Drunkard.

Read “Rod Stewart Spent More Than Twenty Years Building a Model Train Railroad” at Flood.

Browse Crack Magazine’s picks for the top 100 albums of the decade.

Read “Andy Partridge Looks Back at XTC” at Culture Sonar.

Browse “The Story of Outlaw Country in 33 Songs” at Pitchfork.

Read “Grateful Dead Announce Soundtrack Featuring Rare Live Recordings To Accompany Forthcoming Graphic Novel’ at Live For Live Music.

Read “Black Crowes Reunite, Plot 2020 ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ Tour” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Silence, presence, and challenging conventions – thoughts on John Cage’s 4’33”' at Crosseyed Pianist.

Read “Trump Opens New Portal to Hell By Promoting #MAGACHALLENGE Rap Contest on Twitter” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Country Music Veteran Trent Reznor Nabs His First CMA Award” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Michael Jackson’s Estate Acquires Sly and the Family Stone’s Catalogue” at Vulture.

Read “When Christ Came for Kanye” at Think Christian.

• Read “Kanye’s ‘Jesus Is King’ is Superficially Gospel” at Sojourners.

Watch “a new film celebrating 30 years of record shop and label Mr Bongo” at Vinyl Factory.

Read “Robert Johnson Biopic Reportedly In The Works From Oscar-Winning ‘Spider-Man’ Director” at Live For Live Music.

Read “Hall & Oates announce 2020 tour, dates w/ Squeeze & KT Tunstall Read More: Hall & Oates announce 2020 tour, dates w/ Squeeze & KT Tunstall” at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read “Bob Weir & Wolf Bros Announce Early-2020 Tour Dates” at JamBase.

Read “'Sesame Street' celebrates 50 years on the air” at 12 News.

Read “Kevin Feige: Disney buying Marvel was the 'greatest thing that ever happened to us' "If Disney hadn't bought us, you wouldn't have seen the movies we've made since then” at CNet.

Read ‘Michael Jackson’s Simpsons episode kept off of Disney+” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Zoinks, Scooby-Doo gets a new origin story in this trailer for Scoob!” at AV Club.

Read “NBC renews Brooklyn Nine-Nine for season 8” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Werner Herzog on Why He Didn’t Need to See ‘Star Wars’ Films for ‘The Mandalorian’ Role” at Variety.

Read “Disney+ warns viewers about past racism, but not as well as Warner Bros. 53 Disney’s 1941 Dumbo is a prime example” at The Verge.

Read “Keanu Reeves plays a Sage named Sage in first trailer for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Noel Fielding is writing a new Netflix series about a magical record player” at NME.

Read “The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream” at Brain Pickings.

Read “Graphic Adaptation Of 'Heart Of Darkness' Takes On Canonical Racism, Artfully” at NPR.

Read “Woman Turned 110-Year-Old Dead Tree Into A Free Little Library For The Neighborhood And It Looks Magical” at Bookish Buzz.

Read “A Group of Middle Eastern Artists Was Denied Entry to the US to Attend the Opening of Their Own MoMA PS1 Show” at Artnet.

Read “Artists are turning the U.S.-Mexico border fence into the world’s longest peace-themed mural” at Inhabit.

Read “A New Museum Dedicated to Picasso and Giacometti Is Launching in Beijing Next Year” at Artnet.

Read: “Wine Kills Germs That Cause Sore Throats and Dental Plaque, Says Awesome Study” at Maxim.

Read “A Tiny Species That Looks Part-Deer, Part-Mouse Was Missing for Nearly 30 Years. Scientists Just Found It” at Live Science.

Read “This nightmare fish with a human face is reminding people of Dreamcast's Seaman” at AV Club.

Read “I Thought Being a Health Care Reporter Would Make Cancer Easier. I Was Wrong. Nothing can prepare you for the immense number of complicated, sometimes life-or-death decisions the disease forces you to make about your own treatment” at Politico.

Read “Speech-Language Pathologist Teaches Her Dog to Communicate Through a Custom Button Talking Board” at Laughing Squid.

Read: “Two Guys In Mexico Just Created Vegan Leather From Cactus” at VegNews.

• Read “Wu Tang Clan Is Making Vegan Wallets Made Of Bananas” at Truth Theory.

Read “Overactive Brain Has Been Linked to a Shorter Life Want to live longer? Quiet your mind” at Medium.

Read “Bob Dylan's Heaven's Door 'Bootleg Series' Is a Rare 26-Year-old Whisky Finished in Japanese Oak Barrels: The 111.5 proof whisky comes in a bottle adorned with a Dylan painting and inside a collectible leather journal” at Maxim.

Read: “EPA Data: Phoenix Has Highest Levels in U.S. of Carcinogenic Gas Ethylene Oxide” at Phoenix New Times.

Read “Arizona school districts suing e-cigarette maker Juul” at KTAR.

Read “Andy Warpigs on Building a Local Music Community” at Phoenix New Times.

Read “Federal judge says Arizona prisons too broadly censor publications inmates can see” at Tucson.com.

Read “How the Disney/Fox Merger Is Affecting Local Independent Movie Theaters” at Phoenix New Times.

The Weekly Town Crier (11/01/19)

All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (11/01/19 Edition).

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.

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.

The Weekly Town Crier (10/25/19)

All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (10/25/19 Edition).

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.

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.”

The Weekly Town Crier (10/04/19)

All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about 10/04/19 Edition.

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.

Read/Watch CBS DFW’s report: “Dallas Jury Finds Former DPD Officer Amber Guyger Guilty Of Murdering Botham Jean.”

• Read NPR’s report: “Brandt Jean's Act Of Grace Toward His Brother's Killer Sparks A Debate Over Forgiving.”

• Read “The Perverse Spectacle of Black Forgiveness” at Jezebel.

• Read “What the Amber Guyger Case Reveals About White America” by Andre Henry at Medium.

• Read “Botham Jean’s Brother’s Offer of Forgiveness Went Viral. His Mother’s Calls for Justice Should Too” at Christianity Today.

Browse Colossal’s piece: “Gross Domestic Product: Banksy Opens a Dystopian Homewares Store.”

See “The Paintings of Miles Davis” at Open Culture.

Seeking to answer the age of question of whether you can “jump the shark” underwater, AZ Central reports: “Playing for the sharks: Kiss announces exclusive – but affordable – underwater concert.”

Read BBC’s report: “Single malt Scotch whisky targeted by United States tariffs.”

Read “Tommy Stinson on the Replacements' New Box Set and Outdrinking Metallica” at Rolling Stone.

Read about the new Senate report that found: “The NRA acted as a "foreign asset" for Russia in the period leading up to the 2016 election — providing more political access than previously known,” at NPR.

• Read New York Times’ report: “N.R.A.’s LaPierre Asks Trump to ‘Stop the Games‘ Over Gun Legislation in Discussion About Its Support.”

Hear “Snoop Dogg Cover Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand” at Post-Punk.

Read “They’re Using Us as Props for the Show” Former employees at Relevant, a hip evangelical culture magazine, have sparked a sprawling conversation about race and Christian office politics.” at Slate.

Read “Sure, we'd listen to a podcast about America through the legacy of Dolly Parton” at AV Club.

Read “Creed’s Human Clay Turns 20” which begins with the classic line: “Among other things, Creed’s second album holds the distinction as the only piece of recorded music I’ve been punched in the face over.”

Read “Kim Gordon on her first solo album, anxiety, and finding inspiration in Cardi B” at Entertainment Weekly.

Read about Robert Smith’s time with Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Read Christianity Today’s report: “Two Nigerian Evangelicals Executed in Boko Haram Video.”

Read “Chicago’s Hidden Indie Rock Archive Over three decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. Today, the future of his roughly 10,000 live recordings is unclear” at WBEZ.

Read as Christianity Today considers a recent Pew study: “Evangelicals Trust Faith Leaders, Police More Than the General Public Pew Research found the only leaders that evangelicals are more skeptical of are journalists.”

Read about a laundry detergent that claims to smell like “Whiskey” and “Bonfire.”

Read Atlas Obscura’s piece: “Centralia Ghost Town Church A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.”

Read “Black Crowes Drummer Steve Gorman’s New Book: 7 Wildest Tales About the Band ‘Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes’ paints a picture of a group in constant turmoil” at Rolling Stone.

Read Pitchfork’s review of the new Hiss Golden Messenger album “Terms of Surrender.”

Read “J Mascis on the Nineties, Nirvana, and Dinosaur Jr.’s Forgotten Masterpiece” at Rolling Stone.

• See and hear Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascis demonstrate the Converse that’s also a wah wah pedal.

I’m not a “Wine Geek,” but I like Sake, so browse “A Wine Geek's Guide to Sake, for Beginners” at Paste.

Read IGN’s report: “Spider-Man Is Officially Back in the MCU Following Sony, Disney Announcement.”

Read this 2017 report and wonder why people weren’t as upset by this as by people confessing to plants: “'Make America Great Again' Sung to Trump by Church Choir, Copyrighted for Church Services.”

Read as Rolling Stone wonders: “Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About ‘Joker’ Is the Joker backlash mere moral panic, or does the movie actually sympathize with incel culture?”

Read New York Times’ report that the White House ambassador to Ukraine has resigned.

Read about the “Man (who) drank 7 beers before turning himself in, but there was no warrant for his arrest.”

Read Out’s report: “Arizona Governor Says Christians Shouldn't Have to Serve Gays.”

Browse a “Latino and Hispanic Theologian Book List” at Starke College and Seminary.

Read AV Club’s report: “Trump tweeted out a Nickelback meme and Nickelback got Twitter to take it down so thanks, Nickelback.”

Read Washington Post’s report: “POTUS told Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the election because the US did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed officials to limit access to the remarks.”

• Read Slate’s piece: “Trump Implies Whistleblowers Should Be Executed, Which May Conflict With Rules Protecting Whistleblowers.”

• Read AZ Central’s report: “Jeff Flake: 'At least 35' GOP senators would vote to remove Trump if vote was private.”

• Read New York Times’ opinion piece: “The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write His complaint offers lessons on how to make a point.”

• Read USA Today’s piece: “Poll: Only 4 in 10 Republicans think Trump mentioned Biden on Ukraine call even though he acknowledged doing so.”

• Read Religion News Service’s report: “Franklin Graham on impeachment: ‘Our country could begin to unravel’.

• Read Slate’s report: “Robert Jeffress Goes All In on “Civil War” The evangelical pastor and Trump loyalist has had quite a week.”

While we’re on the topic of impeachable offenses, read News and Guts’ report: “Stunning NYT Report Alleges Donald Trump Wanted To Find Ways To Injure Migrants.”

• See Jack Jenkins’ Tweet: “:: stares at phone for several minutes :: . . . “The President once considered shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down at the southern border, the New York Times reports.”

• Read the New York Times’ report which includes details such as “electrified, flesh-piercing wire on the wall, alligators & snakes in a pit.”

  • Read Aaron Niequist’s Tweet: “The loudest voices defending a serial liar caught in his web of lies are Christians. Just let that sink in. Those who claim the name of the Way, Truth, and Life are actively defending the embodiment of corruption, lies, and greed. Jesus weeps” and weep with Jesus.

Read The Verge’s report: “Elizabeth Warren says Facebook has ‘repeatedly fumbled’ its responsibility to democracy.”

• Listen as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg explains “Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks a President Elizabeth Warren would 'suck' at CNN.

Read Vice’s piece: “'Freaks and Geeks' Understood That Popular Kids Aren't Cool At All: Twenty years ago, 'Freaks and Geeks' steered clear of the jock-cheerleader cliches to tease out high school's most relatable anxieties.”

Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Mexico listens to more music than any country worldwide: “Mexicans listen to 25.6 hours of music a week, eight hours more than the global average.”

Read KXAN’s report: “‘True love will find you in the end’ billboard appears along I-35 honoring late Daniel Johnston.”

Read Washington Post’s opinion piece: “The ‘Billy Graham Rule’ serves only to impede careers, not affairs.”

Read Christianity Today’s piece: “Is Racial Justice Becoming a Priority for Evangelical Voters? LifeWay Research measures political support for the issue for the first time,” which finds that “85 percent of US evangelicals say they “will only support a candidate who demonstrates personal integrity,” which causes great confusion because it may just mean that “85 percent of US evangelicals lie when taking surveys.”

Consider “The case against sermon-centric Sundays” by Skye Jethani at Premier Christianity.

Read as Eric Metaxas describes what Republicans are currently doing while ascribing it to Democrats: “Cultural elites in America have slowly persuaded themselves...that they are right on a number of issues. & if it means going around the electoral process, if it means going around the usual procedure that they’re going to do what they must” at Religion News Service.

Read: “Why the liberal West is a Christian creation Christianity is dismissed as a fairy tale but its assumptions underpin the modern secular world.” at New Statesman.’

Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Metallica postpone tour as James Hetfield enters rehab "Our brother James has been struggling with addiction on and off for many years"

Read Time’s report: “CDC Says for First Time That THC Could Be Behind Vaping Deaths and Illnesses.”

Read as Paste wonders: “Is Bob’s Burgers a Low-Key Adaptation of Stanley Tucci’s Movie Big Night?”

Watch “John Turturro licks a fresh bowling ball in the all-Italian trailer for his movie about The Jesus” at AV Club.

See “Miles Davis' Illustrations Drive A Classic Recording In New Video For 'Moon Dreams'“ at NPR.

Read “Finding a faith that is stronger than death — or my family’s rejection: My problem wasn’t with religion. It was with bad religion” by Heidi Hall at Religion News Service.

Read Christianity Today’s report: “Evangelical Advocates Feel the Sting of More Trump Refugee Cuts It’s the third consecutive year that the administration has reduced resettlement totals to record lows. Under the Trump administration, the US refugee resettlement program has fallen to a quarter of previous size, and fewer persecuted Christians and other religious minorities are making it to safety in the US.”

The marketing says: “Never lose your drink in the dark again with this light up insulated drink wrap.” We say it’s a glow-in-the-dark Koozie.

See “The Strange and Stranger Things at the 2019 International UFO Congress” at Phoenix New Times.

Read as Psychology Today wonders: “Do You See Your Partner’s Sacrifices? We may only accurately detect a partner’s sacrifice about half the time.”

Read “Consistent Doodles: 40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language” at Open Culture.

Read Wall Street Journal’s essay: “Religion for Adults Means Embracing Complexity If you think you’ve outgrown your childhood faith, you might just need to discover the real depth of its teachings.”

Read Tim Keller’s Op-Ed piece at The New York Times from 2018: “How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t The historical Christian positions on social issues don’t match up with contemporary political alignments.”

Read Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson’s 5-day Bible reading plan to accompany their new book May It Be So (which I profiled here).

Watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s TED Talk: “How craving attention makes you less creative.”

Read The Atlantic’s piece: “What a New Theory of Attention Says About Consciousness Filtering out distractions might be more important for the brain than highlighting important information.”

Read Vulture’s report: “Netflix Orders Stranger Things 4, Teasing a World Beyond Hawkins.”

Read “Cormac McCarthy on how to write a scientific (or any kind of) paper” at Boing Boing.

Read Brooklyn Vegan’s report: “Victory Records acquired by Concord.”

Read “Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls” at Brain Pickings.

Read “The Black Woman Who Biked Across the US Alone During the 1930s Jim Crow Era Despite pervasive racism and the weight of the Great Depression, Bessie Stringfield found freedom on the open road” at Vice.

Read Pew Research Center’s findings: “Independents often are portrayed as political free agents with the potential to alleviate the nation’s rigid partisan divisions. But the reality is that most independents are not all that “independent” politically.”

Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Kanye West says he’s done making secular music, new album features no cursing The born-again Christian will only be releasing gospel music going forward.”

Read “The myth of the golden age of reading Even before the digital age, book-lovers were always prone to distraction” at Prospect Magazine.

Read Exclaim’s report: “Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's Former Seattle Home Is Up for Sale.”

Read The Spectator’s piece: “In praise of cultural elitism We have become so tolerant of each other’s taste that taste no longer matters.”

Read as Neuroscience News wonders: “Why do older people hate new music?”

Read about and participate in University of California’s research finding: “When it comes to politics, you’re not as rational as you think.”

Read Mic’s opinion piece: “Greta Thunberg's U.N. speech prompted ugly insults — proving her critics can't fault her actual message.”

I'm glad to see them getting the press, but it's weird to me that Pitchfork considers 75 Dollar Bill to be an "overlooked" album this year. Where have they been looking? Browse Pitchfork’s list of “overlooked” 2019 albums and, while you’re at it, peep my first post so far about 75 Dollar Bill to sample some of the music.

Read “HALL IN THE FAMILY: A Conversation With Incoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Chairman John Sykes” at Hits Daily Double.

Read Christianity Today’s piece: “Pastors Don’t Do It For The Money, But Having Enough to Retire Would Be Nice.”

Read Phoenix New Times’s profile of The Rhythm Room. One of the best and long-standing Phoenix venues for live music. Remember seeing Mumford and Sons there? No, because it was sold out and packed and I was there and you weren’t!

Read about the Forth Worth public libraries doing away with late fines.

Read AZ Central’s report: “Original Alice Cooper group reunion to headline Christmas Pudding with Joe Bonamassa.”

Read The Wrap’s piece: “Fox News Host Todd Starnes Out After Suggesting Democrats Worship Pagan God Moloch.”

Read “Album Of The Week: Wilco Ode To Joy” at Stereogum.

R.I.P. “Kim Shattuck of The Muffs, rest in peace Read More: Kim Shattuck of The Muffs.”

Browse “A Snapshot of the Values, Views & Faith of Hispanic Americans” at Barna.

Read “A Wreng Among The Pornographers” by Charles Bissell of The Wrens. “As you probably know, my friend & favorite musician person, Will of Okkervil River, has been doing a subscription series of live albums spanning the Okkervil career so far (also available individually) and that he’s just released Vol. 6, A Wren Among the Pornographers. You may not know that that wren is me - I was the Okkervil guitar-for-hire spring/summer of ’08, and chiefly for that tour, opening up for the the New Pornographers.”

Read “Her Side of the Story: Debbie Harry Talks About Her Life in Blondie in Her New Book” at Phoenix New Times.

Read “Michael Stipe to release debut solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’ this weekend” at Slicing Up Eyeballs.

Listen to “The Friends Theme but it's Clapping Music by Steve Reich” at Youtube.

See Aldi’s “Cheese Advent Calendar.”

Read “City on mute When you stare at your phone or use Uber to navigate your neighbourhood, you flatten the rich texture of urban life” at Aeon.

Read/Listen to “Reasons To Be Cheerful: A Conversation With David Byrne” at NPR.

Stream Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ new 11-track double LP, “Ghosteen” consisting of Cave's "fever dreams"

Read Artsy’s report: “Arts Sector Contributed $763.6 Billion to U.S. Economy—More Than Agriculture or Transportation, New Data Shows.”

Browse “5 Strategies to Demystify the Learning Process for Struggling Students” at KQED.

Read as Exclaim wonders “Is David Lynch Working on More 'Twin Peaks'?”

The Weekly Town Crier (09/06/19)

All the News that’s fit to cry about. 09/06/19 edition.

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 or download a mix that I’ve been listening to in the car during Summer 2019.

Read “Study Shows Increasing Political Divide Between Younger and Older White Evangelicals” at Sojourners.

Watch a tour of a “paranormal bookstore at the Jersey Shore.”

Read PopMatters piece: “Bananarama Turn Up the 'Stereo' for Their First Album in 10 Years.”

Hear “5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone" at Open Culture.

Read “An Oral History Of The Fender Telecaster” at Guitar.com.

Read Relevant’s report: “Earlier this week, Justin Bieber led worship at a Churchome service in Beverly Hills.”

Read Rolling Stone’s report that “Ariana Grande Sues Forever 21 for $10 Million.”

Read Live For Live Music’s report that “Miles Davis’ Customized ‘Moon And Stars’ Trumpet To Be Sold At Auction.”

Read “Hang on the Box: The Illustrated Story of China’s Female Punk Pioneers” at radiichina.com.

Read CNN’s report: “Walmart ends all handgun ammunition sales and asks customers not to carry guns into stores.”

• Read CNBC’s report: “Kroger joins Walmart in asking shoppers not to openly carry guns in stores.”

• Read Walgreens’ statement: “We are joining other retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement officials.”

• Read NBC News’ report: “Walgreens, CVS and Wegmans join Walmart and Kroger in asking customers to no longer openly carry guns in their stores.”

Read PopSugar’s profile: “Skateboarding Legend Peggy Oki on the Olympics and 40 Years of Smashing Gender Expectations.”

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Read Washington Posts’s piece: “It’s a brave new world. Why is our protest music stuck in the past?”

See a newly discovered “Shimmery blue tarantula.”

Read Atlas Obscura’s piece: “The World’s First Piranha Ramen Is No Joke.”

Read about “The Spectacular Failure of the World's Only Hard Rock Theme Park” at Vice.

Read Newsweek’s report that a “Teenager Went Blind After Only Eating Fries, Chips, White Bread, Sausages and Ham Since Elementary School.”

Consider “Bob Dylan’s Overlooked Christian Music” at Sojourners.

Read as Washington Post profiles The Hold Steady.

Stream a new Iggy Pop song at Spin.

Listen as “Animal Collective covered the Silver Jews' "Ballad of Reverend War Character."

Read NPR’s piece: “The Voice That Shattered Glass How Ella Fitzgerald's cassette campaign fueled a late-career renaissance.”

Learn “How peacock spiders use optical illusions to woo females” at National Geographic.

Read: “John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son” at Brain Pickings.

Read CNN’s report: “Judge rules White House must give Playboy columnist Brian Karem his press pass back.”

Read about the Banksy artwork stolen in Paris.

See Relevant’s report: “The Thomas Kinkade/Godzilla Mashup You Knew Was Coming Is Finally Here.”

Read AV Club’s piece: “The Art Bell Vault is unlocked, and it's filled with aliens, time travelers, and Bigfoots.”

Read about Atlas Obscura’s piece: “Found in a Record Store: Kurt Cobain’s Royalty Check.”

Read Fatherly’s report that “Netflix Is Ditching the Binge, Will Start Releasing Episodes Weekly.”

Read about the Nashville school banning Harry Potter books, claiming that the books present the "risk conjuring evil spirits".

Free on September 18 and in Phoenix? Celebrate National Bourbon Month w/ Free Whiskey Tasting at the Little Woody.

Browse the piece: “Guinea Pig Halloween Costumes Exist, and Yup, That Is Definitely a Pineapple Suit” at

Read Music Radar’s interview with Peter Hook: Peter Hook: “I’ve never liked to be hidden, and I don’t like to be patronised. I don’t buy into the idea that the bass player is the quiet one”

“Hear Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s New Song ‘Milky Way’ at Rolling Stone.PopSugar.

Read/Listen to NPR’s report: “Charlottesville Victims Use Post-Slavery KKK Law To Go After Hate Groups.”

Read as Gen.Medium suggests: “Public Libraries Aren’t Going Extinct — They’re Evolving.”

Read about the TN man suing “Popeyes for running out of chicken sandwiches.”

Watch/Read: “Expert predicts 25% of colleges will "fail" in the next 20 years” at CBS News.

Read/Listen to NPR’s report “Houses Of Worship Find New Life After Congregations Downsize.”

R.I.P. Valerie Harper.

Browse as Book Riot profiles “11 Nonfiction Science Comics For Adults.”

Read National Post’s report: “Secret John Coltrane album was 'hidden in plain sight' as soundtrack for 1964 French-Canadian film.”

Join Rolling Stone in wondering: What is a VSCO Girl?

Read KQED’s report: “San Francisco Officials Designate NRA a Domestic Terrorist Organization.”

Browse Rolling Stone’s list of “15 Legendary Unreleased Albums.”

My friend’s son Andy Whiten says: “I updated my site with some recent photo work, film, & more! I’d love to take on additional photo projects when time allows, so if you have any photography needs, you can view my work and contact me here!” Visit andywhiten.com.

Watch a new video from The Messthetics; “Touch Earth Touch Sky”, at Stereogum.

Read as Aquarium Drunkard interviews Tinariwen.

Read as the New York Times profiles Stephen King.

The Weekly Town Crier (08/30/19)

All the week’s news that’ fit to cry about.

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.

Watch as “Meat Loaf discusses the music in 'Bat Out of Hell The Musical'.

Read as Relevant magazine wonders: “Why did Jerry Falwell Jr. reportedly steer the sale of $1.2 million in Liberty property to his young personal trainer for no money down, a low interest rate and then have the school lease part of it back from him?”

Read Slate’s piece: “Governing by Owning the Libs When a president’s entire motivation is to antagonize the people who didn’t vote for him.”

Read and wonder: “Bake Off fans in love with Noel Fielding’s Dinosaur Jr. jumper - can you buy it?”

Read Relevant’s piece: “Whoa, Benny Hinn Is Rejecting the Prosperity Gospel: ‘I’m Correcting My Theology’".

Read/Listen to “Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For September Reviewed By JR Moores” at Quietus.

Read Pitchfork’s report: “R.E.M. Announce Monster Reissue With Unreleased Music The six-disc 25th anniversary edition comes with unheard demos and a live performance.”

Browse as the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival announces its 2019 lineup.

Read Raw Story’s report: “Infowars’ Sandy Hook appeal goes down in flames as judge orders Alex Jones to ‘pay all costs’.

Read Open Culture’s piece: “Why Should You Read Haruki Murakami? An Animated Video on His “Epic Literary Puzzle” Kafka on the Shore Makes the Case.”

Read Stereogum’s report: “Ohio Man Sues After Legless Juggalo Crashes Into Him With A Golf Cart At Insane Clown Posse Gathering: He was operating the golf cart peddles with a baseball bat.”

Read Travel and Leisure’s piece: “These Key West Hotels Offer Waterproof Books You Can Read in the Pool.”

Read Phoenix New Times’ report: “Former Revolver Records Building Will Become Evolve Arts Space in Roosevelt Row.”

Read NPR’s piece: “After Months In A Dish, Lab-Grown Minibrains Start Making 'Brain Waves'.

Help Janet Weiss Get Back On Her Feet at GoFundMe.

So, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters wanted to start a petition to get Oasis to reunite so Noel Gallagher says he wants to start a petition to get Foo Fighters to break up. Read about it at NME.

See “Inside Jazz Great Dave Brubeck's Groovy Connecticut Home” at Town and Country.

Read as Wisconsin Public Radio wonders: “What Ever Happened To The Pop Song Fade-Out? The History Behind Bringing A Song To Silence.”

Read as The Hollywood Reporter reports that Audible is being sued by U.S. Publishers over the question of whether or not transcripts of audio books are . . . books.

Read Slate’s report “Netflix Confirms Rumors: Breaking Bad Movie Will Be Released in October.”

Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Leslie Jones, Alec Baldwin exit SNL.”

I didn't know who Bret Stephens was until this week. Now he will always be the Bedbug Guy. See what tattling can do to you, kids?!

Read Stereogum’s report that Xylouris White (featured on Episode 03 of the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow) have announced their new album The Sisypheans and shared a new video.

Read Rolling Stone’s report: “Sting Condemns Brazil’s Handling of Amazon Fires: ‘We Will All Suffer the Consequences’Sting Condemns Brazil’s Handling of Amazon Fires: ‘We Will All Suffer the Consequences’

Read the Washington Posts’s report: “Mormon leaders explicitly ban guns from houses of worship.”

Read Jambands.com’s report: “Phil Lesh Cancels Festival Appearances to Undergo Back Surgery.”

Browse “The Most Disgusting Canned Foods” at Ranker.

Head to Facebook and RSVP for John Doe’s book signing at Zia Records Chandler.

Consider “Back in the Habit: Creedal Faith and “Sister Act” at Mockingbird.

Read about the “Teen who registered people to vote as they waited in line at Popeyes.”

Visit Live For Live Music to “Celebrate Oteil Burbridge’s 55th Birthday With His Dead & Co Lead Vocal Debuts.”

Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “Eva Longoria to direct Flamin’ Hot Cheetos movie Flamin' Hot will tell the story of the man behind the popular snack.”

Read “Kim Gordon interview: on art, life after Sonic Youth and her debut solo album, No Home Record” at The Times.

Read “More UFOs Than Ever Before” at The Paris Review.

Watch The Muppets perform “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Read about the garbage man who “saved 25,000 books and turned them into a library. The pictures are amazing.”

Read AV Club’s piece “How can you not check out a movie called The VelociPastor?”

Read PopSugar’s report: “Disney's New Pixar Movie, Soul, Will Feature Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, and a Whole Lotta Jazz.”

Listen to the Christianity Today podcast episode: “Grief Is Inevitable. It Doesn't Have to Be Inevitably Lonely.”

Read Pitchfork’s report: “Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Scoring New Pixar Movie Soul.”

Read the Washington Post’s piece: “Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh, a county coroner is forced to confirm.”

Read Nippon’s profile: ““Sazae-san” and “Chibi Maruko-chan”: Two of Japan’s Most Beloved Anime.”

Read: “Get Involved, Internet: Help They Might Be Giants raise money for separated families and asylum-seeking minors” at AV Club.”

Browse “The Story of Outlaw Country in 33 Songs” at Pitchfork.

Read Rolling Stone’s report: “'It Was One Problem After Another': How Woodstock 50 Fell Apart.”

Browse Pitchfork’s picks for “The 25 Best Music Videos of the 1970s.”

Read Consequence of Sound’s report “Peter Murphy has “made a full recovery” after suffering heart attack.”

Browse Barack Obama’s 2019 Summer Playlist.

Read AV Club’s report: “Black Panther II is coming in 2022.”

Browse the Englewood Review of Books’ list of “Fall 2019 Most Anticipated Books for Christian Readers!”

Read Christianity Today’s piece: “How Prison Ministry Inspired an All-Female Audio Bible.”

Read Bandcamp’s piece “The Indonesian Underground: From Its Political Roots to the Present Day.”

Read Rolling Stone’s piece: “The Young and the Sexless There’s a new sexual revolution going on: young men and women getting off on not getting it on. Meet the Christian soldiers who are fighting the fire down below.”

Read Pro Publica’s piece: “How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon.”

Watch the live-action Lady and the Tramp trailer at Rolling Stone.

Watch Bob Weir sit in with Old Crow Medicine Show and Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians.

Read The Guardian’s piece: “'My father said I should be looking after the cows': the first female Tuareg guitarist: Fatou Seidi Ghali once had to practise on her brother’s guitar in secret. She and her band, Les Filles de Illighadad, are now taking the world by storm.” Listen to Les Filles de Illighadad on Episode 46 of the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.

Read Vinyl Factory’s report: “Tricky announces his autobiography, Hell Is Round The Corner.”

Read The Atlantic’s report: “The Proud Boys’ Real Target They are endangering both American citizens and American ideals at large.”

Read as New York Times considers “How Feist’s ‘1234’ Turned Into a ‘Sesame Street’ Blockbuster.”

Read America: A Jesuit Review’s piece: “We need to stop reacting to Trump—and start responding. There’s a big difference.”

Read: “Jerry Garcia on Saving the World’s Rainforests: 30 years ago, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead spoke to High Times about preserving the rainforests.”

Read about the “Foucault Pendulum at the Franklin Institute” at Atlas Obscura.

Read as the Phoenix New Times reports “The Full Lineup for the 2019 Apache Lake Music Festival.”

R.I.P. “David Koch, conservative donor and philanthropist.”

R.I.P. Neal Casal.

R.I.P. Pedro Bell (??/??/?? - 08/27/19)

R.I.P. Donnie Fritts (11/08/42 - 08/27/19)

Wonder “What Does an Ancient Pot Sound Like?” at Pitchfork.

Read “Meet The Edelweiss Pirates: The Little-Known Teenaged Resistance Fighters Of Nazi Germany” at All That’s Interesting.

Read Gallup’s piece “Sermon Content Is What Appeals Most to Churchgoers.”

Stream a new track from Mike Patton and Jean-Claude Vannier at Consequence of Sound ahead of their collaborative album

Watch Derek Trucks sit in with the Trey Anastasio Band at Live For Live Music.

Read Relevant’s report: “People Are Getting Sued Over the Billy Graham Rule Now: A sheriff's deputy says he was fired for refusing to work alone with a woman. Now he's suing for religious discrimination.”

Read Consequence of Sound’s “Social Distortion announce 40th anniversary show with Joan Jett, The Distillers, The Kills, and more.”

Stream a new track from Trey Anastasio and watch Trey Anastasio sit in with Khruangbin at LOCKN’.

Read about “That Time Keith Richards Found Muddy Waters Painting the Ceiling at Chess Studios.”

Read Stereogum’s report “Death Row Records Is Now Owned By Hasbro.”

Read Exclaim’s report “Colin Stetson Is Scoring a Nicolas Cage Film.”

Read Rolling Stone’s report: “Eddie Money Reveals Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer Diagnosis.”

Read Pitchfork’s report “Why the Eminem Vs. Spotify Case May Be Headed to the Supreme Court.”

Read Rolling Stone’s report “David Byrne Launches Online Magazine ‘Reasons to Be Cheerful’

Read Consequence of Sound’s piece “Emma Stone is punk rock Cruella de Vil in first image from upcoming prequel.”

Read: “How Competitive Walking Captivated Georgian Britain In 1815, thousands of people came to watch George Wilson, the “Blackheath Pedestrian,” walk 1,000 miles” at Atlas Obscura.

Read Relevant’s piece “Rev. William Barber Calls on Democrats to Host a Presidential Debate on Poverty.”

The Weekly Town Crier (08/16/19)

Welcome to the Weekly Town Crier. Here’s a collection of some of the links I found particularly interesting this week. What’s been on your mind?

Browse the “Complete Archive of Folk Music For All Countries.”

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.

Read/Watch about the “Man wearing TV on head caught on camera leaving old TVs on Virginia front porches.”

Watch Paul Simon & Bob Weir duet on "The Boxer" at JamBase.

Read “Kurt Vonnegut on Reading, Boredom, Belonging, and Our Human Responsibility” at Brain Pickings.

Because I know you were wondering: “Q&AZ: How Many State Parks Does Arizona Have?”

Watch the piece “SPAM is jumping on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. Really.”

Watch “1,000 Musicians Gather To Cover Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name”

Watch Stephen Colbert say that president Trump is a “heretic to reality,” saying: “Our president wants to live in a fantasy world where only the way he perceives the world is the way it is, only things that sort of serve his vision, and he's also trying to convince us that that is the only world that exists. It's extremely solipsistic. But he's also trying to invite us into this madness that he has, and that is heresy against reality."

Read “How Two Sisters Started Miami's First Afro-Cuban, Woman-Owned Cigar Company” at Miami New Times.

Read about the “driver at a quasi-privately run immigration detention facility in Rhode Island drove their pickup truck last night into a crowd of 'Jews Against ICE' protesters, seriously injuring a 64-year-old man, and others.” “Captain Thomas Woodworth has been placed on administrative leave.”

Read as ABC News and Good Morning America finds “36 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.”

Watch Cardi B and Bernie Sanders Talk About the Issues at a Detroit nail salon” at Flood Magazine.

Read Consequence of Sound’s report: “St. Elmo’s Fire series being developed by NBC.”

Read/watch as Republican Steve King tries to defend a total ban on abortions by arguing that rape and incest have helped grow society.

Read Slate’s piece: “The New Hate Pastors Sarah Silverman is “a God-hating whore of Zionism.” We need to “Make America Straight Again.” How a new class of religious zealots is going viral—and already tearing itself apart.”

Read Universal-Sci’s piece: “The Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times As Bright For A Few Hours!”

Read Atlas Obscura’s piece about “Champing,” or “Camping in Abandoned Medieval Churches.”

Read as Christianity Today argues: “Preaching Against Racism Is Not a Distraction from the Gospel.”

Read Sojourners piece: “Politically Homeless: How Republicans — and Democrats — Are Leaving Many Christians Behind.”

Read AV Club’s piece: “Hugh Grant says Paddington 2 is his best movie, so don't tell him otherwise.”

Read AV Club’s piece: “Flea is dropping a dreamy, jazz-inflected memoir later this year.”

Read “Tom Waits: Our 1985 Interview, Tom Waits for No Man” at Spin.

Stream Here Lies Man’s new album ‘No Ground To Walk Upon’ at Brooklyn Vegan.

Watch the “the Trailer for Terrence Malick’s New Religious War Drama ‘A Hidden Life’” at Relevant.

Hear “Wooden Wand – The Thump Sessions” at Raven Sings The Blues.

Read “Voice of the Desert: After Making a Name at Gawker and Wonkette, Ken Layne Created the 'Desert Oracle' to Showcase the Wacky, Weird and Wonderful of the High Desert” at CVIndependent.com.

Read as Jambands.com report: “Garcia Peoples Announce Five-Night Nublu Residency.”

Listen to Jeff Tweedy with Tape Op.

Read the Santa Maria Times’ piece: “Santa Barbara County supervisors agree to use cannabis revenue to close three libraries’ budget gaps.”

Read Post-Punk’s report: “Peter Murphy Suffers Heart Attack During NYC Residency.”

Read the Riverfront Times’ piece: ‘Burglary Suspects Foiled by Meddling Comic Book Store Owner’.

Read the Independent’s 2011 piece: “Douglas Adams said it was the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. He meant it as a joke, but a new book shows how the number 42 has played a significant role in history.”

Pre-Order the latest Garcia Peoples album One Step Behind at Bandcamp.

Read about the Americana Awards giving Elvis Costello a Lifetime Honor at Variety.

Read about the “The pickle sandwich” (pickles instead of bread) at The Take Out.

Read “Mr. Bungle reunite for first concerts in 20 years” at Consequence of Sound.

Browse Treble Zine’s “Top 150 Albums of the ’70s.”

“Relive the moment Andy Warhol went digital with his portrait of Blondie’s Debbie Harry” with Far Out Magazine.

Watch “Watch Jeff Buckley Tear Through ‘Mojo Pin’ in Previously Unreleased Video” at Rolling Stone.

Read as Rolling Stone considers the question we’ve all been wondering: “How Randy Newman ended up on a Chance the Rapper song.”

Read Vinyl Factory’s piece: ‘Krautrock guitarist Dominik von Senger collages archival recordings on Brüsseler Platz.”

Download “oichai daen-isan: molam brake taek” from monrakplengthai.blogspot.com.

Read “Arizona's Troubadour Hans Olson Reflects on 50 Years” at Phoenix New Times.

To celebrate the return of AMC’s Lodge 49 for season 02, read Jason Woodbury’s talk with show “creator Jim Gavin about the “inexhaustible metaphor” of alchemy and secret societies—and the gap between the seen and unseen—last fall for Aquarium Drunkard. No big spoilers, so feel free to read even if you're not caught all the way up.”

Read Vulture’s piece “Lodge 49 Wants to Be the ‘Least Aspirational Show on TV’.

Stream the first episode of Lodge 49 Season Two at the AMC site.

Read AZ Central’s piece: “Misfiled in the Don Bolles files: Filming 1976's 'A Star Is Born' at Sun Devil Stadium,” which reports about “A misplaced document shows how "A Star Is Born" producers got crowd scenes for the movie. They put on a dirt-cheap concert at Sun Devil Stadium.”

Read Relevant’s piece about Hillsong writer Marty Sampson, who says: “I’m genuinely losing my faith, and it doesn’t bother me. Like, what bothers me now is nothing."

• Read as Michael Frost wonders: “What could have helped Marty Sampson's faith?”

• Read Relevant’s piece: “Marty Sampson Has Responded to the Skillet Frontman’s Viral Criticism of His Doubts About Faith,” in which Sampson is cited as saying: “Wow. Where do I begin? What right have you to put words in my mouth? I wouldn’t presume to put words in yours."

ReaRead as Vanity Fair profile Ta-Nehisi Coates about his forthcoming novel, The Water Dancer.

R.I.P. Toni Morrison.

• Read as the New York Times considers 12 of Morrison’s most memorable quotes.

• Read as the New York Times considers “Toni Morrison’s Essays and Criticism".

• Read as The Believer considers “Five Poems by Toni Morrison.”

• Read as Image Journal reflects: “Toni Morrison Wrote the Novel That Will Help America Heal.”

R.I.P. David Berman.

• Read as Jagjaguwar remembers Berman.

• Read one of Berman’s last interviews with City Pages.

• Read as “Drag City Shares Eulogy For David Berman” at Stereogum.

• Read as Thomas Beller remembers Berman for the Los Angeles Times.

• Watch Phosphorescent, Hiss Golden Messenger & more cover Silver Jews songs live in tribute to David Berman at Brooklyn Vegan.

• Read Pitchfork’s piece: “David Berman Changed the Way So Many of Us See the World.”

Stream a new track from Moon Duo at Paste Magazine.

Read David French’s piece “Another Pop-Culture Christian Loses His Faith” for National Review which states in part: “Christians are not prepared for the social consequences of the profound cultural shifts — especially in more secular parts of the nation. They’re afraid to say what they believe, not because they face the kind of persecution that Christians face overseas but because they’re simply not prepared for any meaningful adverse consequences in their careers or with their peers.”

Reserve your place at Arizona’s Changing Hands Bookstore for a Debbie Harry book reading.

Read NPR’s piece: “On The Border With Maybelle Carter And Lydia Mendoza.”

Read as Brian Falduto (“the gay kid from School of Rock,”) shares new, exciting chapters of his life.

Browse Dead & Co.’s Fall tour dates at Jam Base.

Read as Pitchfork reports: “A$AP Rocky Found Guilty of Assault in Sweden.”

Read as Aquarium Drunkard interviews Terry Allen.

Watch “Stereolab perform “Miss Modular” live in Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2019.”

Stream a new song from the Pixies at Spin.

Help Preemptive Love help Refugee kids get an education.

Read as Vice considers “Ten Essential Books That Illustrate Toni Morrison's Literary Legacy.”

Read as Aauarium Drunkard reconsiders Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy as the album turns 30.

Read as The Current Rewind interviews Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker about their 25 years in the band Low.

Read “Duane Allman 1957 Goldtop Les Paul Scores $1.25 Million At Auction” at Jam Base.

Watch the latest trailer for “The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance” which AV Club says “somehow looks even more impressive” than the last. What do you think?

Stream a new Guided By Voices song at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read as The New York Times recommends books to better understand the U.S.-Mexico border.

Read NBC News’ piece: “'Green shirt guy' goes viral over reaction to 'sanctuary city' heckler.”

Read as #GreenShirtGuy considers “How I went viral’ at CNN in which he states: “I was lucky in many ways to be where I was: inches away from hate but miles away from danger. In another locale, or with different bigots, I could have been in serious trouble."

Read Rolling Stone’s report that “Lady Gaga is Funding Classrooms In Cities Affected By Recent Mass Shootings.”

Read about the “Lost David Bowie, Krautrock, and Sly Stone Outtakes Found in Fab Philly Funk Soul Archive” at Dangerous Minds.

Stream a new song from Mudhoney: ““One Bad Actor” from their upcoming EP Morning In America.

Read “Relevant’s” piece "How to Grieve With People Who Are Suffering” and please let me know what you think.

Read as Brooklyn Vegan looks back on The Stooges' debut album, released 50 years ago.

Read What’s Your Grief’s piece: “Grief and Regrief (aka growing up with a grief monster).”

Stream a new track from New Pornographers at Spin.

Read The Telegraph’s piece: “Why diners look like trains – a brief history of the American fast food icon.”

See John Coltrane’s “Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music.”

Read “Jon Foreman on Mass Shootings: ‘This Is a Volcano That We Need to Face’” at “Relevant.”

Stream a new track from Bat For Lashes at Spin.

Stream a playlist of cover songs curated by David Byrne.

Browse Egyptian Street’s post: “Summer Read Suggestions: 11 Literary Works by Egyptian Writers.”

Read Christianity Today’s piece “Jesus, Deliver Us from This Racist Evil Age” which states: “Regardless of political affiliation, Christians must not play political games with racism and white supremacy. We must reject all forms and expressions of racism and white supremacy. We must not employ racist rhetoric about image-bearers who are immigrants and people of color. We must not dehumanize or hate any image-bearer based on the color of their skin (Asian, black, brown, or white).”

Stream a new song from Elbow featuring Jesca Hoop.

Read AV Club’s piece: “A TV adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's memoir A Moveable Feast is in the works.”

Read Relevant’s piece: “Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Forms Social Justice Partnership with the NFL.”

Read Jambands.com’ report that ZZ Top has announced a biographical documentary.

Listen to a new song from the Muffs at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read NPR World Cafe’s piece: “T Bone Burnett On Producing Legends And Singing His Own Tunes.”

Stream the new Sleater-Kinney song ““Can I Go On” at Stereogum.

• Watch “Sleater-Kinney Perform ‘Stripped Down’ Version of New Song ‘Broken’” at Rolling Stone.

• Read as Hanif Abdurraquib considers “What It Means To Listen To Sleater-Kinney Now” for NPR Music.

Hear Eamon Fogarty and Chris Schlarb of Psychic Temple’s free-jazz version of Chris Bell of Big Star's "I Am the Cosmos" at Aquarium Drunkard.

Read about the “Single Dad Has Fostered More Than 50 Young Men In The Last 12 Years” at HuffPost.

Read “Boots In Transit: An Appreciation of the Dead on Cassette” by J Jackson Toth at Aquarium Drunkard.

Read about “President Trump’s top immigration official suggested a footnote to the iconic poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty,” to say: “Give me your tired and your poor — who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” Later, clarifying himself: “Trump official says Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans.”

See Shepard Fairey’s largest mural yet in Vancouver.

Read Rolling Stone’s piece: “Museum of London to Host ‘The Clash: London Calling’ Exhibition.”

Read app.com’s piece: “Jimmy Cliff and 'The Harder They Come': 'It's the story of politics and religion.'

Listen To David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart Perform As ‘David And The Dorks’ at Live For Live Music.

Read AZ Central’s piece: “Toxic groundwater lies beneath Phoenix, and a cleanup has been delayed for years.”

Read the Relix report: “Apparently Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon Dropped Acid Backstage with Dead & Company”.

Read the Brooklyn Vegan report: “Dave Navarro, Billy Idol & more performing Stooges & Bowie albums at benefit show.”

Watch a 1952 Anti-Prejudice PSA at Archive.org.

Read NPR Music’s report: “Los Tigres Del Norte Announce Documentary, Album Of Historic Folsom Prison Concert.”

Read Stuff’s report: “Crowded House reunite to headline Aussie music festival.”

Read AZ Central’s report: “Jimmy Eat World drummer calls out Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins on Twitter after tour.”

Hear Amanda Palmer Read Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire” at Brain PIckings.

New music from Sahel Sounds! “Tuareg guitar gets the electronic treatment, with a reissue of the cassette by legendary Nigerien composer Abdallah Oumbadougou. Produced in Benin in 1995, “Anou Malane” is one of the first studio recordings of Tuareg guitar”.

“Watch the Highwomen and Jimmy Fallon Cover Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’” at Rolling Stone.