U2 in Barcelona, Michael Jackson, Manny Ramirez, $134 billion, Moby, Quincy Jones, Daniel Lanois, Washington Post, Mike Slaughter, U.S. Rugby, Mark Sanford, Chuck Colson, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Steven Waldman, Colleen Carroll Campbell, La Shawn Barber, The Amish, Warren Cole Smith, Janice Shaw Crouse, Rob Thomas, Susan Isaacs, Thomas Jefferson, Aéropostale, Madonna, Molly Jensen, Mary-Louise Parker, Ken Myers, The Stoning Of Soraya M., Claire Robinson, Michael Mann, Portuguese BBQ, Kansas City BBQ / 07.02.09
- U2 at Nou Camp Stadium, Barcelona (Times)
- U2 in Barcelona: Bono’s touching dedication to Jackson (Telegraph)
- Michael Jackson’s posthumous sales surge: Singer currently holds eight of top 10 slots on iTunes singles chart. (MTV)
- L.A. stands by its Manny: Fan love-fest awaits for suspended Ramirez, who returns to the Dodgers outfield Friday (USA Today)
- Suitcase with $134 billion puts dollar on edge (Bloomberg)
- Do the right thing: Moby, 40, is a committed Christian, who doesn’t do drugs. So how can he claim to be a rock star? (Times)
- Oxfam calls on G8 to increase aid to poor farmers (Reuters)
- Specialty-food makers searching for sweet deals: Culinary show now allows start-up firms (USA Today)
- Quincy Jones on how Jackson did it: “Off the Wall” and “Thriller” solidified Michael Jackson’s status as the “King of Pop.” Jim Fusilli talks to Quincy Jones, the producer behind these two recordings. (Wall Street Journal)
- Daniel Lanois dissects U2’s new album (National Post)
- Washington Post sells access, $25,000+ For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors. (Politico)
- ‘Smooth’ leaning move really was patented: Shoe ’system’ let Michael Jackson do it live without wires (USA Today)
- Mexican fireworks pack too much pow (USA Today)
- Q&A: Trusting Bible’s advice on finances. Bill Fentum talks with Mike Slaughter, author of Upside Living in a Downside Economy (UM Portal)
- Earning their stripes: A bit ragtag yet resolute, U.S. national rugby team meets the world head-on (USA Today)
- God and Mark Sanford: Perspectives from Chuck Colson, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Steven Waldman, Colleen Carroll Campbell, and La Shawn Barber (NY Times)
- Downturn puts Amish in bind: Many in Ind. laid off from factory jobs (USA Today)
- The death of Vibe and the future of magazines: A roundtable with Alan Light and Raymond Roker (Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop)
- New ‘American Patriot’s Bible’ sees USA’s ‘godly roots’ (USA Today)
- Picking a fight with fellow Evangelicals: Janice Shaw Crouse reviews Warren Cole Smith’s “Lover’s Quarrel with the Evangelical Church.” (Townhall)
- The fall of the workplace jerk: At least there’s one good thing to say about the recession by Joe Queenan (Wall Street Journal)
- For Rob Thomas, age comes gracefully: It shows in his new album, ‘Cradlesong’ (USA Today)
- The Rotisserie Chicken Gospel: Katelyn Beaty talks to author Susan Isaacs on comedy, church hopping, and having a ‘middle-class white girl’s Dark Night of the Soul.’ (Christianity Today)
- Dissolution of bioethics council is a loss for America by Colleen Carroll Campbell (St. Louis Dispatch)
- Q&A: Dragging God into ‘couples counseling’. Robin Russell interviews humorist Susan Isaac, author of Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir (UM Portal)
- Thomas Jefferson, musician. When Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the nation lost a great statesmen but also a cultural leader. Here’s a look at this Founding Father’s fascination with music. (Wall Street Journal)
- Opinionated Prejean, Ireland shatter myth: Attractive, articulate not incompatible (Washington Times)
- 1959 saw jazz take giant steps in pop culture: This year, labels, artists, writers will retrace them (USA Today)
- How to reach teens in a recession? Ask Aéropostale (Time)
- The battle of the hemlines: Teens stick up for short skirts (Daily News)
- Madonna tops Bruce, AC/DC as Forbes’ top-earning act (Rolling Stone)
- Review of Molly Jensen’s Maybe Tomorrow (Phantom Tollbooth)
- The new résumé: Dumb and dumber. Job seekers play down their credentials to avoid looking overqualified (Wall Street Journal)
- Q&A: Mary-Louise Parker. The Weeds star talks about her role in a new music video — and shares her favorite artists. (Spin)
- A family’s valor, a nation’s freedom: Why would a 61-year-old civilian surgeon volunteer for Iraq? By Karl Rove (Wall Street Journal)
- The well-informed generalist: Why we should listen to Ken Myers by Walter Henegar (By Faith)
- ‘Honor thy father’ for grownups: Or, how not to be a deadbeat son or daughter by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway (Christianity Today)
- Voiceless women: The Stoning Of Soraya M. exposes a dark side of Islam by Camerin Courtney (Christianity Today)
- Five things that make you go MMMMM: Say hello to Claire Robinson, the host of Food Network’s new “5 Ingredient Fix.” (Wall Street Journal)
- The perfect burger and all its parts (NY Times)
- ‘Public Enemies’: Michael Mann’s mobster waxworks (NPR)
- Turf war at the hot dog cart (NY Times)
- Michael: The last celebrity. Don’t look now, but the unlikeliest people are being restocked as celebrity inventory: politicians by Daniel Henninger (Wall Street Journal)
- Big-time barbecue: A Portuguese town’s spit-roasted claim to fame (Wall Street Journal)
- Spots for Kansas City BBQ (LA Times)
- The tale of two churches by Mark Tooley (American Spectator)The tale of two churches by Mark Tooley (American Spectator)
Welcome Wagon, Michael Jackson, Andrea Crouch, Sandra Crouch, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, James-Michael Smith, Animal House, Starbucks, Captain America, Gucci, St. Paul’s bones, Hippie fashion, Vince Lombari politics, A. J. Jacobs, Alice Cooper, Northern Ireland, Fiat, Historian Barry Strauss, Michael Bay, Peggy Noonan, Switchfoot, Vibe magazine, Riverside Church, Director Michael Mann / 07.01.09
- A song grows in Brooklyn: Inspired by community, biblical truth, and good music, a Brooklyn couple makes music in their living room—as The Welcome Wagon by Alissa Wilkinson (Christianity Today)
- Facing a massive tour, Michael Jackson reached out to gospel superstar Andrae Crouch and his minister/musician sister Sandra weeks before his death (BullyPulpit)
- Michael Jackson’s legacy by James-Michael Smith (Methodist Examiner)
- Master of an empty kingdom: The tragically short life of Michael Jackson. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach reminisces over the death of his estranged friend, Michael Jackson. (BeliefNet)
- Picoult’s appeal is weeping the nation: ‘Sister’s Keeper’ draws a crowd, and tears (Washington Post)
- Depression and Christian faith by James-Michael Smith (Methodist Examiner)
- Rise and fall of Perez Hilton by Andrew Breitbart (Washington Times)
- Economic heresies of the Left by Michael Novak (First Things)
- U.S. soccer loses a championship, but gains a leader (Wall Street Journal)
- Mixed message: Religion and tattoos. While some congregations shun tattoos, other believers see them as a way to share their faith (Courier Press)
- Animal House at 30: College students find new ways to channel their inner Bluto by E.E. Smith (Wall Street Journal)
- Getting fresh: Starbucks to grind and brew coffee more frequently (Newsday)
- Sex Americana: Infidelity is no longer a career-killer for politicians. But weirdness, mendacity and ineptitude just might be. (Wall Street Journal)
- ‘Captain America,’ reborn again (Wall Street Journal)
- Gucci’s new white Tattoo Heart collection benefits Unicef (If It’s Hip, It’s Here)
- Church history 101 by Terry Mattingly (TMatt)
- Fighting injustice through art: Iranian writers and filmmakers use media to address life and death in Iran by Alicia Cohn (hermeneutics)
- Tests ‘seem to confirm’ remains of St. Paul, Pope says. Carbon dating tests on bone fragments found inside sarcophagus find that they date from the first or second century, pontiff says (Globe & Mail)
- Frugal Paris (NY Times)
- Hippie fashion never fades away: But drop the head-to-toe hippie looks (Newsday)
- Vince Lombardi politics by David Brooks (NY Times)
- Recovering from ‘The Year of Living Biblically’: Author A. J. Jacobs talks with CT about becoming a minor celebrity in the Christian world. (Christianity Today)
- Alice Cooper goes with God (MorungExpress)
- Study: Political leanings drive car choice. Ideology correlates to U.S. vs. import (Washington Times)
- Those just starting out find the game changed: Young people brace for a lower standard of living (USA Today)
- Northern Ireland Protestant paramilitary groups to disarm. Holdouts Ulster Defense Assn. and the Ulster Volunteer Force say the time has come for peace and that they have decommissioned or will soon all their weapons. (AP)
- The Bard of Berkeley: A former poet laureate on haiku and the responsibilities of writers by Michael Judge (Wall Street Journal)
- The Fiat offers Italian flair at blue-collar prices (NY Times)
- Gladiator: A conversation with historian Barry Strauss, author of a new book on Spartacus. (Books & Culture)
- ‘Transformers’ director Michael Bay as audience darling (LA Times)
- To-Do list: a sentence, not 10 paragraphs. By trying to do too much, he risks not doing enough by Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)
- Switchfoot frontman competes, sings in contest (North County Times)
- ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ ‘ as pop-cultural touchstone: ‘The Sopranos’ used the 1981 Journey hit as its swan song, but the tune itself lives on in movies, TV and theater as the go-to show closer by Chris Willman (LA Times)
- Tattoos muscle in: Popularity of body art influences reality shows and now home decor (Baltimore Sun)
- His brother’s keeper: A new movie shows life as it is for our soldiers at war by William McGurn (Wall Street Journal)
- In one room, many advantages. The ‘little red schoolhouse’ of legend, whatever its flaws, made more sense than the warehouse-schools of today. (Wall Street Journal)
- Vibe magazine closing (LA Times)
- Paleontology and Creationism meet but don’t mesh (NY Times)
- Moonlighting becomes a way of life for many: Workers find ways to make up lost income (USA Today)
- Riverside Church pastor resigns after 9 months (NY Times)
- A Mann’s world: Public Enemies director Michael Mann often blurs the line between the good guys and the bad in the moral crossfire between cops and robbers by Jeffrey Overstreet (Christianity Today)
- Bro-Am: Switchfoot hits the surf scene (Relevant)
- Blink twice if you like me: Seduction and deceit in firefly flashes (NY Times)
