Sometimes I think the only reason
City Weekly runs nonlocal submissions like the April 8 letter America Unchurched is so the staff can warm their hands over the flame war they imagine will erupt on Facebook, but I ll bite.
Thomas Knapp spends the first half of his letter pointing out that church attendance is declining. Then comes this: As a libertarian, I m inclined to see the hoary hand of the state behind all bad things, and I can make a case for that here. See the trick there? With this sentence the writer simply takes it as a given that the decline in church attendance is in fact a bad thing. Yet, he offers no evidence or perspective to justify such a conclusion.
Taylor Tomlinson @ Wiseguys
For decades, women have struggled to be taken seriously in the world of stand-up comedy. It can be even harder when you re a young woman, and harder still when you have the pixie-ish looks of Taylor Tomlinson. Yet despite becoming a headliner around the country when she was barely 25 and a top ten finalist on the ninth and final season of
Last Comic Standing when she had only just become old enough to drink legally Tomlinson has become a distinctive voice in the stand-up world.
That voice is at the forefront of her 2020 Neflix comedy special
Quarter-Life Crisis, in which the California native takes the subject of her youth head-on. People get upset when I complain about being young, she says. I had a woman come up to me after a show, furious: You should really appreciate this time in your life, because some day you re going to have a family like me, and you re really going to miss it. I m like, Where are your kids buried? I m just trying to get