Early Addition: Fiona Apple's New Album "Fetch The Bolt Cutters" Is A Masterpiece

by Ben Yakas

Published April 17, 2020

A photo of a tree in Prospect Lefferts Gardens — Prospect Lefferts Gardens
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I know I usually put music recommendations at the end of these posts, but Fiona Apple's new album Fetch The Bolt Cutters, her first in almost eight years, is a real masterpiece, and you should put some time aside today to listen to it. Also check out this great interview with her about the making of it.
The White House wants to start reopening the country in the comings weeks—but that's gonna be really difficult if we don't have more widespread testing available.
Vox makes a very important point about people who say the government is overreacting to the virus: "With the coronavirus, the right action looks like an overreaction as it’s happening."
Bill Gates has become a target of right-wing conspiracy theories and false attacks because of his disagreements with Trump on the virus: "In posts on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, he is being falsely portrayed as the creator of COVID-19, as a profiteer from a virus vaccine, and as part of a dastardly plot to use the illness to cull or surveil the global population."
Here's why the White House's coronavirus task force keeps downplaying the virus’s spread in less-populated states.
The New Yorker interviewed the one-and-only Patti LuPone.
Have any of your exes crawled out of the woodwork during quarantine?
Here's a really easy piece of advice: don't listen to anything Dr. Phil says.
Sanitation Deputy Chief James McGovern gave out drinks to health care workers after they finished their shift at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
Michael Cohen is among the inmates at a minimum-security camp in upstate New York who were told they would serve their sentences at home because of coronavirus.
Other new music to listen to today: Big Thief released a collection of unreleased demos to support their tour crew; DaBaby released his third album in the last year, Blame It On Baby; and Bob Dylan released another stunning single, "I Contain Multitudes."
And finally, if you have more than one dog, you may want to reconsider the size of your doggy door: