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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – More than 470 acres of the Bosque is about to go under a major clean up, to help prevent any future fires from burning it to the ground. It’s been a rough year for fires across the state and that includes the bosque.
The city of Albuquerque is working to prevent another blaze in its beloved bosque with a new fire mitigation project. “This particular treatment will focus on removing a lot of the invasive species here, as well as trying to thin out some of the understory under large canopy trees,” said the superintendent of the city’s open space department, Colleen McRoberts.
The department is working to get funding to clear fire hazards in the busiest part of the bosque between Central and Bridge. McRoberts says that most of the fires in the bosque are manmade.
“I think maybe people being careless, or, you know, setting up illegal camps, there’s no camping allowed in the Bosque,” she says.
Invasive species and dead plants aren’t helping either. The city is asking for $900,000 to complete the project. The city says that it’s going to take more than bulldozers and heavy machinery. They are planning on hiring youth groups like the Ancestral Lands Conservation corps and the rocky mountain youth corps to help in more ways than one.
“This is also a good economic boost in our community because we are employing youth crews, who will get great hands-on experience and training. They’ll work closely even with our Albuquerque Fire Department and other experts and felling trees,” says McRoberts.
The project is still expecting funding approval from the city council as well as FEMA. The city says they could start as soon as the end of the month. The project is expected to be completed by the spring of next year. | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/city-of-albuquerque-working-to-prevent-fires-in-bosques-busiest-corridor/ | 2022-10-07T05:02:16 | en | 0.965258 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – From far away, a backyard fence near Carlisle Place and Hermosa Drive, looks like any other in the neighborhood. But if you look closer, you’ll see it’s anything but. The southeast Albuquerque fence completely covers the sidewalk, or where the sidewalk should be, and apparently has for decades.
“If I were impaired walking, I’d have to step down into the street. Sometimes the streets have ice and snow in them, so that is not safe for pedestrians,” a nearby neighbor said.
Behind the fence, there is a cement wall and behind that wall lives an elderly couple. When KRQE reported on this bizarre fenceline last year, the city said the couple didn’t have the means to make the changes. The city then said they would fix it and the project would be completed a few months later.
“They [the homeowners] have agreed to work with the city. Municipal Development has agreed to rebuild the sidewalk and actually restore it there because there is no sidewalk there right now,” said Rick De Reyes with the City of Albuquerque’s Planning and Zoning Department in October 2021.
But a year later, nothing changed. Some in the neighborhood have taken to 311 asking the city for years to push the fence back.
“I think it’s a very fair request because who else has their yard, as it were, extended to the curb,” a neighbor said.
But not everyone in the neighborhood is bothered by the so-called “sidewalk wall.” In fact, some support it. Many said the home and trees were here long before the sidewalk was built.
“Doesn’t really bother me, it’s just been like that, so I figured [it’s] been there since they owned the house,” a neighbor said.
KRQE reached out to the city to see why the fence is still up. In a statement, they said because of the complexity of the problem, the city is still working to find a solution. | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/southeast-albuquerque-fenceline-still-standing-after-years-of-criticism/ | 2022-10-07T05:02:22 | en | 0.983159 |
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Scattered rain will continue through the weekend across New Mexico as temperatures stay cool. Mornings should feature a window where Mass Ascensions can happen through the end of Fiesta.
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The active weather pattern we’ve been under continues to finish out the week. Northern New Mexico remained slightly drier as northerly upper-level winds returned, but the southerly flow is drawing up moisture into areas along and south of I-40. This is where most of the rain fell today. Rain will taper off overnight, but some showers will linger in southern and eastern New Mexico. Valley fog will be possible overnight in northern New Mexico. Tomorrow morning also looks good for a successful Mass Ascension, but conditions can vary greatly on the Balloon Fiesta field.
More showers will develop across the southern half of New Mexico Friday afternoon. A few more storms will also develop in the northern half compared to today. Rain and storms will continue again in southern New Mexico Friday night into Saturday morning, and some of that rain will make it into the Albuquerque metro by the time of Mass Ascension Saturday. While winds look light, rain could impact Balloon Fiesta. More rain is expected to develop across the state Saturday afternoon, some of which could be heavy at times.
Sunday morning looks drier in Albuquerque with light morning winds. Hopefully, perfect conditions for one last Mass Ascension for the year. Another round of scattered storms develop Sunday afternoon. Monday will once again be another active day across the state, but drier and warmer weather will slowly arrive through the middle of next week. | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/rainy-cool-weather-continues/ | 2022-10-07T05:02:28 | en | 0.9361 |
Dwight Howard has transitioned into life as a veteran NBA big man nicely. Howard, who is currently an unrestricted free agent, has spent time with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers over the last three seasons, a stretch which has seen him play a ton off the bench and includes him getting his only championship back in 2020.
This is not, however, what Howard wants out of his career right now. Despite the fact that he is going to turn 37 in December, Howard spoke to Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on their “All The Smoke” podcast and expressed his belief that he’d thrive if given a larger role at this stage in his career. But because he has not been offered that, Howard mentioned that he is considering retiring.
“I wanna play, but at the same, there’s like no teams that wanna really allow me to play,” Howard said at the 7:36 mark of the above video. “That’s how I’ve been feeling from the last situation with the Lakers. I felt like I did enough to help them win a championship to really deserve a spot on the team and a chance to start and get big minutes, and it didn’t happen.
“So, after that, I was like, ‘Man, I don’t wanna have to bust my ass for another whole summer, train three-a-days, go on a crazy diet, do all this sh*t, and then get back to a team and sit on the bench when I can really help somebody win and still play,’” Howard continued. “I ain’t lost a beat, it’s just I sit on the bench, so people don’t see that, teams don’t see that. And it’s been like, ‘Damn, do I wanna just call it quits and do some other stuff or go back at it and show people I still got it?’”
Over the last three years, Howard has appeared in 198 games, but he’s started only 35 and played 17.5 minutes a night. As for what could come next if he calls it a career, Howard has expressed an interest in joining WWE. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/dwight-howard-aint-lost-a-beat-sit-on-bench-video/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:09 | en | 0.980536 |
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Henderson, Nevada is the site of one of the most unique prospect matchups in recent basketball history this week. On Tuesday, Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson squared off as the G League Ignite played host to Metropolitans 92, and after the Ignite came out on top, the two sides are going to run it back on Thursday afternoon.
It’s a rare matchup between the presumed top-2 prospects in an upcoming draft, made even more rare by the fact that it’s happening outside of college basketball. Like many of us, LeBron James tuned into the first game, and following the Los Angeles Lakers’ preseason tilt against the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night, gave his thoughts on the “generational” French big man.
“What do I think of him? I think probably the same as everybody else thinks,” James said. “Everybody, we’re labeling this unicorn thing, everybody’s been a unicorn over the last few years. He’s more like an alien. No one has ever seen anyone as tall as he is, but as fluid and as graceful as he is on the floor at 7’4, or 7’5, or 7’3, whatever the case may be. His ability to put the ball on the floor, shoot step-back jumpers out of the post, step-back threes, catch-and-shoot threes, block shots, he’s for sure a generational talent and hopefully he continues to stay healthy, that’s what’s most important.”
James went on to say that both Wembanyama and Henderson are “big-time” players, then lamented about how fortunate he was to have gone through life as an all-time prospect in a “small town” that kept him “locked in” before the era of social media.
The second game between Wembanyama and Henderson will take place on Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN2. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/lebron-james-calls-victor-wembanyama-generational-talent-video/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:15 | en | 0.966702 |
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LeBron James is a man of many talents. He’s one of the (if not the) greatest basketball players of all-time. He was an immensely talented football prospect in high school. However, we have found the sport that he does not excel in … yet.
I say yet because I’m here to help fix LeBron James’ golf swing, which we got a glimpse of in a video that hit the internet of him taking some cuts at TopGolf in Las Vegas.
LeBron can’t golf I guess. We found a flaw 😂 😂 @thesportsontap pic.twitter.com/lEzhs2SM7Y
— Hoops ON Tap (@SONTHoops) October 6, 2022
Look, it’s not great, but we’re going to break out the Konica Minolta SwingVision camera and get to work. I believe we can get LeBron’s swing right if he’s willing to step into the lab with me. I wish we had a better video here that showed contact, but we can address some things even with this grainy cell phone footage.
First, let’s start with the backswing, where’s two things that concern me most and they’re going to be connected to the thing that stands out, which is how short his backswing is.
The first is the left arm, which we want much straighter on the way back to create the length needed to get that swing speed up. As you see, there’s a considerable bend at the top, which makes it much harder to consistently get back down to the ball and is also keeping him from creating the speed we want. Thinking about keeping that arm straighter is gonna naturally give him more width (and get that right arm from being so stuck inside) and get him higher hands which will clear him to get a more full turn.
Compounding the issue is the lack of hip turn here. Look at that right hip, it barely opens up. I know James has to have the flexibility for this part, it’s just about letting the hips turn. He wants to think about that hip opening up and feel like it’s turning behind him, which will, again, allow him to turn back through and create that speed.
Once we get that squared away, we can talk about the downswing and impact. It’s hard to critique a lot here when the backswing is causing most of the problems, but let’s hit some positives. For one, there’s not too much head movement and his eyes stay on the ball at impact, which is good, and there is an effort to rotate the hips and transfer body weight through impact — but again, we need more backswing rotation to make that really work.
There are some things to work on, though. For one, as an athlete he knows everything starts with the feet, and that back foot slippage is not what we want. We want to rotate and pivot off that foot more and slide it less — Scottie Scheffler is the exception, not the rule here for golf footwork.
Also, if you notice that lead elbow is really bent and pulling through at impact, which I’m guessing leads LeBron’s miss to mostly be to the right. We’ll get to the followthrough in a moment, but that front side is bailing out at impact and pulling the club through from outside to in, which is going to put cut spin on the ball. We want that to be more of a driving action down and through the ball, holding that shoulder in there a bit longer and attacking down, rather than pulling it through and around the body.
You can really see how that looks on the followthrough as we want these hands much higher, making an arcing swing down to the ball and then up and out with extension. Instead, you can see how LeBron comes much more flat and around himself, which is why that left elbow is so tight to the body instead of being out and up.
In short, LeBron’s swing, like many golf beginners, has some flaws but I find it hard to believe he couldn’t figure it out with some more time spent on the range with the right teacher. (LeBron, if you are reading this: That means me, call me, I got you.) | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/lebron-james-golf-swing-video-fix/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:21 | en | 0.97376 |
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The G League Ignite and Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 met on Tuesday evening inside Henderson, Nevada’s Dollar Loan Center, where two of the best NBA Draft prospects in recent memory squared off: Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson.
Neither 18-year-old disappointed. Wembanyama tallied 37 points (11-for-20 shooting), five blocks, four rebounds, and one steal, while netting seven of his 11 triples. Drilling pull-ups, spot-ups, and jumpers on the move, he showcased his immense shooting intrigue while altering numerous shots inside the paint.
His counterpart, Henderson, led Ignite to a 122-115 victory behind 28 points (11-for-21 shooting), nine dimes, five rebounds, two steals, and only two turnovers. The 6’2 dynamo is a superb point guard prospect, rivaled by few, if any, since the turn of the century. His Tuesday night performance illuminated seemingly all of his wide-ranging offensive allure. He canned jumpers, diced up Metropolitans’ pick-and-roll defense, thrived with and without the ball, and converted finishes around limbs as sprawling as an Inflatable Tube Man.
Henderson’s ball-screen expertise is incredibly advanced, especially for an 18-year-old. Time and time again, he engaged Wembanyama and forced the big fella to make a decision. That is how pick-and-roll initiators succeed: coaxing the defense into compromised decision-making rather than vice versa. Chris Paul, for instance, has long been a master of this; it’s why he’s remained an All-Star in the twilight of his career.
Henderson’s pacing and omnipresent threat as a scorer and facilitator routinely cornered defenders into a bind. Augmenting these traits is his brilliant processing speed. As soon as a window opened, he delivered punctual pocket pass after punctual pocket pass to rollers. Whenever the drop defender — usually Wembanyama — shifted their weight toward him, he effortlessly and accurately set the table for his partner.
On one play, Wembanyama granted him too much room around the screen, so he exploded downhill and drew a foul. Headlined by a pair of empathic rejections, Wembanyama enjoyed his moments against Henderson. Generally, though, the guard won their battles, largely on the basis of ball-screen craft that belies his birth year.
The majority of Henderson’s pick-and-roll playmaking featured above occurred in the second half because Metropolitan altered its coverage against him. In the first half, he dazzled with a pair of pull-up jumpers and they elected to increasingly prioritize getting the ball out of his hands after that.
Not only is his 0-60 explosion otherworldly, his deceleration as a means of space creation is, too. Defenders are in constant worry of his driving potential that any brief moment of acceleration has them teetering. He exploited that fear into open buckets off-the-bounce. His transition from horizontal to vertical explosion is instantaneous, which renders the space creation even more pronounced.
The stepback 3 over Wembanyama is outrageous for an array of reasons. He is 6’2. Wembanyama is 7’4 with an 8-foot wingspan. Henderson still cleanly fires over the top. More than that, though, how he maintains balance and force with his base this wide and deep to promptly elevate is special, special athleticism.
That right-foot jab sends Wembanyama retreating on his heels toward the paint, so Henderson simultaneously launches away from him. Everything — the footwork, the balance, the elevation, the release — has to be pristine. There is no margin for error, given their size discrepancy, and he aces it. Whew.
For as jaw-dropping as the pull-up triple was, Henderson might’ve outdone himself on his slew of finishes with Wembanyama in the vicinity. This dude looked like a dominant guard finisher and driver. Struggles around the former can often bury or hamstring smaller guards in the NBA. Merging skill and athletic tools, Henderson doesn’t appear as though that will be the case for him.
Similar to how he preps room for those pull-ups with elongated strides, he swallows up space downhill like a 6’7 wing, not a 6’2 guard. Note where he picks up his dribble and where he ends this drive.
Typical ground coverage for a 6-foot-2 18-year-old pic.twitter.com/L7w9d0UlMT
— Jackson Frank (@jackfrank_jjf) October 5, 2022
It wasn’t like he had tons of real estate to rev up, either. He caught the ball at the left wing, pounded a pair of dribbles, and gathered to score inside. His ground coverage, acceleration, and comfort in small spaces are remarkable.
Due to his pliability, he can vary the direction of his steps and maintain speed. When he flips from horizontal to vertical movement, there is no buffer period; he just beams toward the hoop. His understanding of how to optimally shield himself from rim protectors without venturing into impossible angles is uncanny. Wembanyama was stumped a few times as a result.
Ignite wasn’t just the Scoot Henderson Show on Tuesday in the sense that they spammed ball-screens and isolations for him. He displayed impressive duality, adept functioning on and off the ball. Whether it was flowing through handoffs, teleporting off the catch, or cutting against ball denials, he resembles a rather malleable offensive engine.
Many of the skills and athletic traits highlighted previously carry relevance here. His processing speed as a passer ensures he’ll expose a titled defense. His explosiveness has defenders reacting to movement one direction, while he’s already bolted another on cuts; the second play below really emphasizes this component. The manner in which he shrewdly diagnosed and dissected Metropolitans’ defense across varying roles and coverage was the stuff of savants.
Henderson provided virtually everything necessary Tuesday offensively. He jammed out as a scorer and passer. When the defense amended its scheme, he wasn’t rattled. He flourished on and off the ball. He splashed home jumpers and torpedoed to the rim for layups.
Often, these sequences arrived with Wembanyama around. The gangly, sweet-shooting, shot-block center may be the one whose services teams will vie for at unprecedented levels this season. But Henderson is also delightfully good and conveyed that sentiment for the entirety of Tuesday’s 48-minute contest. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/scoot-henderson-g-league-ignite-victor-wembanyama-video-breakdown/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:28 | en | 0.962015 |
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The second matchup between the presumed top-2 picks in the 2023 NBA Draft will not be as enthralling of a showdown as their first. Victor Wembanyama of Metropolitans 92 and Scoot Henderson of the G League Ignite team went head-to-head on Thursday afternoon in Nevada, but during the first quarter of action, Henderson went down with an injury that led to him getting ruled out for the remainder of the game.
Henderson got switched onto Wembanyama after the big man came off of the screen and the pair bumped knees with one another. While Wembanyama hit the deck, Henderson was visibly uncomfortable after the incident which led to him drawing a foul.
Scoot Henderson left the game and will not return following this collision with Victor Wembanyama. pic.twitter.com/xc4xRO8HGx
— ESPN (@espn) October 6, 2022
Henderson left the game right after this happened, and while he was able to return to the bench to watch the rest of the festivities, the Ignite eventually determined that he would not be able to return to the game after hurting his knee.
Ugh… Scoot Henderson has been ruled out for the rest of today’s game after banging his knee early in the first quarter.
— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) October 6, 2022
During their first matchup on Tuesday night, Henderson, a 6’2 guard from Georgia, showed why he is viewed as one of the most promising backcourt prospects in recent memory. While Wembanyama is believed to be the clear-cut frontrunner to go No. 1 overall in 2023, Henderson went for 28 points on 11-for-21 shooting with nine assists, five rebounds, two steals, and two turnovers in a win.
UPDATE: The good news is that Henderson’s injury isn’t considered significant, as the official word after the game was that he suffered a bone bruise and was going to be day-to-day.
Scoot Henderson's injury is officially a bone bruise and will be day-to-day, team says.
— Krysten Peek (@krystenpeek) October 6, 2022
It’s a shame we didn’t get to see another duel, but Henderson put plenty of great stuff on tape in the first game and it’s all about the longview for him, so playing this one cautiously was the right move. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/scoot-henderson-leaves-game-victor-wembanyama-knee-injury/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:34 | en | 0.969756 |
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The Golden State Warriors had far more attention for an early October practice on Thursday than is typical as it was a day removed from a practice fight that saw Draymond Green hit Jordan Poole, leading to “internal discipline” for Green that included him being held out of practice on Thursday.
Green apologized to the team and Bob Myers addressed the situation at a Thursday presser, confirming the report and noting that the team was prepared to move on and keep Green’s punishment internal. For the most part, the Warriors seemed ready to just move on, but one thing that came out in the aftermath of the altercation seemed to irk some key members of the Warriors.
Chris Haynes reported that Poole’s attitude had changed as he was getting ready to sign a lucrative extension and that had frustrated Green and others leading to the altercation, but that got quickly shot down by Steve Kerr and Stephen Curry, via ESPN’s Kendra Andrews.
“There was a report that Jordan had an attitude in camp, and that could not be further from the truth,” Kerr said. “He’s been fantastic.”
Curry added: “[Poole] has been great, and there was nothing that warranted the situation yesterday. I want to make that clear.”
Curry also said it was “unfair to JP” that had been floated as a reasoning for Green hitting him, and it’s clear Curry thought Draymond crossed the line — and that the attempt by someone to save face for Green with that report was off base.
Steph Curry said Jordan Poole has been great. "There was nothing that warranted the situation yesterday."
He said he hates that questions about Poole's attitude surfaced in the aftermath of the altercation. "It's not fair to JP."
— Madeline Kenney (@madkenney) October 6, 2022
It’s not often that these kinds of reports get rebuffed that quickly and publicly by a team, but the Warriors want to make it clear that Poole’s attitude wasn’t and isn’t an issue as they get set for the season. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/steph-curry-reacts-jordan-poole-draymond-green-fight-attitude-report/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:40 | en | 0.989161 |
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The list of the greatest NBA prospects of all-time isn’t especially long. LeBron James is on it, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is on it, Luka Doncic is on it, etc. For months, folks who follow the draft have said French center Victor Wembanyama is on it, too, but for many fans, there haven’t been a ton of opportunities to watch him play high-profile games.
That changed this week when Metropolitans 92 went to Nevada to play the G League Ignite team. Wembanyama’s first game was a blast, as he went for 37 points, five blocks, and four rebounds in his battle against the other presumed top-2 pick in 2023, Scoot Henderson. Unfortunately, Henderson had to leave the second game early due to a knee injury, but while he sat on the sidelines, Wembanyama put on a show.
Unlike the last game, which saw the Ignite come out on top, the French side picked up a 112-106 win. This was thanks to Wembanyama absolutely dominating on both ends of the floor, going for 36 points on 11-for-24 shooting and 11 rebounds, four blocks, four assists, and a steal in 37 minutes of work. Now, I am going to post a bunch of his highlights, cool? Cool. Here ya go:
Wemby stepping through traffic!
Scoot and Wemby are running it back on ESPN 2 and the NBA App
📲 https://t.co/WIy2EVoxSt pic.twitter.com/wDg2Pr09QA
— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
Victor Wembanyama drains a smooth fadeaway
*Peep the release point*
Live Now on ESPN 2 and the NBA App
📲 https://t.co/WIy2EVo02V pic.twitter.com/TUmesHGsDL— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
Wemby cleared for takeoff!
📲 https://t.co/WIy2EVo02V pic.twitter.com/SrG1agr6Gi
— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
Showtime Wemby!
The block and the 💥 pic.twitter.com/7WaGbUIYuq
— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
This shot is incredible! He's 7 foot +
Wemby is up to 19 PTS on ESPN 2 and the NBA App
📲 https://t.co/WIy2EVo02V pic.twitter.com/a6spmHsj8L— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
Wemby from BEYOND
Watch Wemby Live Now on the NBA App
📲 https://t.co/WIy2EVo02V pic.twitter.com/uohjmmcMcd— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
📸 POSTER TIME
Victor Wembanyama ripping it down! pic.twitter.com/4gmNTQbxN6
— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
Here are several other things, all of which made me gasp.
what do you do with this. pic.twitter.com/4vDpHxzhNq
— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) October 6, 2022
alright man. pic.twitter.com/zn8mmw4zPS
— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) October 6, 2022
look. pic.twitter.com/xtiSA3tTrJ
— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) October 6, 2022
He is a 7’4 18-year-old doing this stuff. Wanna see him standing next to Rudy Gobert? Of course you do!
Oh my god pic.twitter.com/hwc3zfjpEo
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) October 6, 2022
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Victor Wembanyama arrived in the United States this week to play his first basketball games under NBA rules as his Metropolitans 92 squad faced off in a pair of preseason games with the G League Ignite in Las Vegas. The presumptive No. 1 pick in this year’s draft carried lofty expectations coming in but still left everyone who watched him awestruck with his ludicrous abilities, as evidenced by back-to-back 30-plus point games where he put his full skillset on display.
On Thursday, Wembanyama’s squad topped the Ignite after fellow top prospect Scoot Henderson left in the first quarter with a bone bruise after banging knees with Victor. Wembanyama put up 36 points, 11 rebounds, and four blocks as he did a bit of everything, dominating inside and out and leaving everyone with the same question: How is anyone supposed to stop this guy?
Victor Wembanyama followed up his 37-point game on Tuesday with an equally impressive 36-point double-double in a win!
🔥 @vicw_32: 36 PTS | 11 REB | 4 AST | 4 BLK pic.twitter.com/M5dy1WpUPT
— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
It’s not just fans and scouts that are baffled with what you’re supposed to do with Wemby, but current all-world NBA players can’t help but heap praise on his unique abilities. Stephen Curry called him a “2K create-a-player…with cheat codes” while LeBron James said he was a “generational” talent who does things he’s never seen on a court.
After Thursday’s win, Wembanyama was asked about James’ comments and said it was an honor, but also showed why his mentality is also appealing to scouts, as he noted he’s gotta keep a level head because he “didn’t do anything yet” in the NBA and has to keep earning it to achieve his goals.
Victor Wembanyama on LeBron's kind words towards him. pic.twitter.com/eqV8vyV9fS
— NBA (@NBA) October 6, 2022
That speaks volumes about Wembanyama’s maturity, as it’d be very easy for him to get gassed up by all the praise he’s receiving. Instead, he knows it only matters if he backs it up and knows that’s something that can only come with time and continuing to put in the work to get better.
That combination of skill, size, and mentality is a pretty terrifying proposition, and is why we’re set for an all-time tank-off this season in the NBA as teams look to Win Nada For Wembanyama. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/victor-wembanyama-reacts-lebron-compliment-didnt-do-anything-yet-video/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:50 | en | 0.976315 |
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Victor Wembanyama made quite the impression in Las Vegas this week, as the presumptive No. 1 overall pick surpassed even the loftiest expectations for what he’d show in two showcase games against Scoot Henderson (who also impressed) an the G League Ignite.
Wembanyama put up some preposterous numbers, including a 36-point, 11-rebound effort in a win on Thursday afternoon, and simply did things that no one should be able to do at his size — which is somewhere between 7’3 and 7’5 depending on who you ask. He launched threes from Dame range, threw down vicious putback dunks on opponents, and just generally makes the game of basketball look upsettingly easy.
While Wemby drew the majority of the attention, one of his Metropolitans 92 teammates also became a viral sensation simply because of his name: Steeve Ho You Fat. The “Ho You Fat” jersey became an immediate meme on Twitter, and Shareef O’Neal got the coveted jersey swap with Steeve after Thursday’s game.
Even Wembanyama had to note that he has a “crazy name” when he got asked about his teammate by Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, who couldn’t help but talk about Steeve when the French wunderkind joined them for the Lakers preseason game in Vegas on Thursday night.
$t3ve H0 f@t pic.twitter.com/HjX0Nbcjss
— CyrusTheVirus (@CyrusTheVirusP) October 7, 2022
As Wemby notes, Ho You Fat is enjoying his viral stardom and embracing it all, even though as JVG notes later (not in this clip), it looks like an XFL jersey — which, as an aside, I’d love to see Van Gundy try to explain the original XFL to Wembanyama who was not even born at the time. For those looking for more on Ho You Fat and his name, you should read this excellent feature from Yahoo’s Jake Fischer, who talked with him about the origins of the name and why he loves the attention he’s getting because he gets to spread his family name far and wide. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/victor-wembanyama-steeve-ho-you-fat-van-gundy-jackson-video-crazy-name/ | 2022-10-07T05:03:56 | en | 0.977633 |
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After 518 days, Zion Williamson played basketball for the New Orleans Pelicans again on Tuesday night, enticing in a preseason opening win against the Chicago Bulls. On the surface level, it was awesome simply to see Williamson back on the court, healthy and in shape.
We’ve seen the pictures and read the quotes since media day, but to see his explosiveness again in a live game scenario is an instantaneous reminder of his mesmerizing and powerful talents. His second jump remains immaculate.
Zion's second jump will never cease to amaze me pic.twitter.com/vZLlchES4X
— Mark Schindler (@MG_Schindler) October 5, 2022
The short area quickness and ground coverage he possesses were on full display throughout the game. As phenomenal as he was during 2020-21 season, there were moments in which his lateral quickness and his ability to play in space were pretty dicey. He seemed to have less of that pop on rotations that made him such an intriguing otherworldly prospect; his defensive potential coming out of Duke wasn’t the main selling point, but it’s seemingly been lost in the ether that he wasn’t supposed to be a poor defender coming into the league.
Tuesday night showed some of the most consistent, engaged, and positive defense we’ve seen from Williamson in his NBA career. While noting that we need to be careful with preseason takeaways, I’d argue these hold more merit considering how long it’s been since Williamson last played. It’s still important to take preseason minutes with a grain of salt, but the actual play was greatly encouraging.
He was zoning up on the back-end, splitting the difference between the corner and the slot; a vital part of New Orleans’ defense considering how much they rely on backline rotations to help the helper against ball screen actions. He didn’t get backcut, had a few nice recovery plays including a steal knifing into a passing lane, and his communication and overall awareness and engagement stood out. He’s not on track for All-Defense, but the player we saw looked like a positive scheme defender capable of making some chaos plays few in basketball can. That’s a gigantic improvement compared to who Williamson has been in the NBA.
This play was a decent representation of his on-ball defense.
He’s a little late in tracking Patrick Williams, but this is probably a blow by in 2021 rather than working to get back in front, riding out the drive, funneling to the rim protection, and ultimately contesting a shot. It’s bend but don’t break defense. It can be better and needs to be better in time, but Zion Williamson’s defensive backbone wasn’t built in a day.
One thing that is worth monitoring throughout the season is how the team handles screening actions with Williamson. After struggling to generate good offense early in the first half, Chicago started to throw in some back screens and pin-ins on Williamson, who keeps Caruso in front coming off the curl. Caruso pulls for a jumper, which is fine enough process, but there’s room to be active and aggressive in handling this screen.
On the second play, Williamson roams low and then calls out a switch when Caruso feigns a screen for Williams before executing a 45 cut. This puts Jose Alvarado on Williams, who flows into a pick and roll. CJ McCollum’s nail stunt stops the action. This works in the setting — Alvarado is a heady defender in spite of his small stature — and the scheme works. It’ll be interesting to see how opposing offenses look to prod some of those switches given that some mismatches can redefine how the court can be utilized by an offense given personnel.
On the final play, there’s two straight screens with Williamson switching. The ball stays in front and Caruso misses wide with a floater. Again, I like the process. There’s room for better positioning and some more aggression from Williamson in attacking screens, squeezing some of the space, and using his arms actively, but this is quality stuff that we’ve seen the Pelicans utilize last season.
I’m interested to see how the staff continues to toy with their ball screen coverages. They have a ton of length and activity on the wings that can let you get away with more aggression and funneling. Do they maybe look to throw in blitzes and situational pressure if Williamson can add some more defensive balance?
While there are plenty of questions on the defensive side of the ball, Williamson offensive utilization has me giddy. I just need to gush about how talented Zion Williamson is real quick: Even without the ball, he’s so good at being assertive and finding ways to impact the offense. He’s phenomenal on the glass and with duck-ins or quick cuts to rim run. He sets impromptu screens to free up the corner or slot. He attacks guards with seals and post-ups.
Williamson really challenges what “spacing” is and how it can be over-idealized with 5-out play. While he is not a steady shooter, his constant activity contributes to good offensive flow and continuity. That’s his impact without even touching the ball.
And then, there’s what he is capable of doing when he touches the ball.
His dynamism as a handler, roller, scorer, and playmaker all in one is not something even close to common in basketball at any level. It’s easy to forget just how dynamic he is when you haven’t seen him play live in so long. Watching him slot back in reminds me of how much he makes the guys around him make sense. While Brandon Ingram and McCollum can dent a defense and create advantages, Williamson creates them at a rate neither can replicate. The margins for error are a little bit larger when your focal point can draw three players in the paint.
This is a defensive breakdown to be certain, but it happens because Williamson pushes off a miss, catches the defense on their heels, and there are 3.5 defenders glued to him with their eyes. Should Naji Marshall shoot the three? Probably, but he attacks that gap incredibly quickly, the defense is still reacting, and he hits Jonas Valanciunas with the dump off for an easy basket. It’s Marshall’s assist, but Williamson’s gravity reverberates through the box score.
Set wise, Willie Green is letting the chopper sing! They opened with Williamson in the corner quite a few times and coming off of staggered screens into his own ball screen. He missed his first drive to the rim, but drew a few fouls after getting skinny as the game went on. Even when stifled, he’s so explosive that it’s hard to not foul him. Force a miss, and he has a pretty great chance to get it for a put back himself or kick it back out thanks to that aforementioned second jump ability.
He got opportunities as a hand-off operator, as a post-hub, and generated great looks in transition simply by running the floor without the ball. He was used a ton rolling or cutting to the rim as initial actions in sets to grab defensive attention. It felt like every action he could’ve been involved in, there was some sort of look thrown his way to test it out. It was a smattering of what may come in a dynamic offense that should power this team.
All that came in less than 16 minutes of play. We’re en route for an exciting NBA season, and Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans are a budding reason for that excitement. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/zion-williamson-pelicans-video-breakdown-preseason-debut/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:02 | en | 0.96827 |
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One of the most continuously fun rhythm games out there is Beat Saber. Available on VR, Beat Saber is where players take virtual sabers and slash at blocks in rhythm with the song that is playing. It’s fun, addictive, and can even get in a good workout if you play it long enough. It also has a steadily increasing list of music for players to add to their libraries including Billie Eilish and Fall Out Boy.
The next to join that roster is going to be pop music icon Lizzo. The Grammy and Emmy winning artist has a music pack coming to Beat Saber that will feature some of her most iconic music. Favorites like “About Damn Time,” “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready),” and “Juice” will be among the roster of nine songs. Each song can be purchased separately for $1.99 or players can buy the entire pack for $11.99. The full list of songs will be:
- “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)”
- “About Damn Time”
- “Cuz I Love You”
- “Everybody’s Gay”
- “Good As Hell”
- “Juice”
- “Tempo” Feat. Missy Elliot
- “Truth Hurts”
- “Worship”
It’s always cool to see artists continue to collaborate with video games like this and it’s even better when we can jam out to our favorite music in the process.
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The NBA 2K League is expanding. The esports league where players compete in NBA 2K has seen its number of teams rise over the years, and has even had some international additions with the Shanghai-based Gen G. Tigers and the Mexico City-based DUX Infinitos. Now, the league will continue its overseas expansion with the announcement of NBL OZ Gaming out of Melbourne, Australia.
NBL OZ Gaming showcases the relationship that the NBA 2K League and Australia’s National Basketball League. Both leagues are hoping to gain with audiences by including a growing and vibrant basketball fanbase in Australia. It is the latest bit of news in what has become an exciting week for the NBL, as one of its teams knock off the NBA’s Phoenix Suns in a preseason game.
“We have been intrigued by the esports sector now for some time, largely because there is a significant crossover between gaming fans and basketball fans – more so than any other sport,” NBL Commissioner Jeremy Loeliger said via an official press release. “We always want to partner with the best, and one of the best professional esports leagues in the world is operated by our long-standing friends and partners at the NBA. The global popularity of NBA 2K and the NBA 2K League continue to grow every year, and neither is showing any signs of slowing down. Our hopes and expectations are that NBL Oz Gaming will introduce the NBL to a legion of new fans around the world. But first, we have to turn our attention to building a strong and competitive roster and showing once again that the NBL can take on the best in the world. This time, it just happens to be a slightly different game!”
An expansion draft will be held in November where NBL OZ Gaming will fill out its roster. | https://uproxx.com/edge/nba-2k-league-expansion-team-australia-nbl-oz-gaming/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:10 | en | 0.963038 |
Google is regularly tweaking its doodle for holidays and other special occasions, but they also will sometimes create a fun easter egg for certain movies, shows, or games.
On Thursday, if you Googled Splatoon it would lead to the usual search engine results you’d expect, but off to the side is a splatch of ink. If you click on that then you can start painting the screen the same way players in the do paint turf. You can then spend the rest of your time on the page painting your screen until you want to stop. It’s extremely addictive.
This isn’t the first time Google has done a video game themed Easter Egg. For the Summer Olympics, they made the Google doodle into a playable JRPG where players could compete in multiple Olympic minigames. Hopefully, we see more fun stuff like this in the future with other games, as there are plenty of opportunities to create unique little things like this all over the gaming space.
As for Splatoon, it’s awesome to see one of Nintendo’s newer IPs only increase in popularity as time goes on. Splatoon 3, which was released just last month, is one of the best multiplayer games of the year and well worth trying if you own a Nintendo Switch. | https://uproxx.com/edge/splatoon-google-splat-easter-egg/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:16 | en | 0.950883 |
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It’s not enough that a baby was recently named “Korn,” but the Bakersfield metal band is even getting covered by rapper Danny Brown these days. Brown covered Korn’s staple, “Freak On A Leash” on stage last year, which now also happens to be the name of singer Jonathan Davis’ new pet products company. That’s right, Davis announced the company’s launch in an Instagram post, saying that Freak On A Leash’s, “Premium products are created for all, paying homage to the horror and rock music we love.”
So where can a Korn enthusiast purchase these Freak On A Leash products, you might be asking? Well, it doesn’t officially launch until October 28th and there’s a countdown on the website. But if you’re planning on attending the Aftershock Music Festival in Sacramento this weekend, Davis and Freak On A Leash have partnered with the fest and Take Me Home Dog Rescue for an early merch drop. Davis indicated on Instagram, “The first 100 fans attending the festival to purchase Freak On A Leash merch will receive a wristband to meet me in person.” How’s that for marketing??
Davis added, “This first collection, designed exclusively by me, contains all custom products made with high-quality gunmetal hardware, leather, nylon, and plushies that will set your pet apart from the pack.” Sounds like Freak On A Leash will easily be the most “heavy metal” pet brand of them all. In the meantime, it looks like the Korn singer could be using his new pup, Dante, as a model for the line:
Korn is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group. | https://uproxx.com/indie/korn-jonathan-davis-pets-freak-on-a-leash/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:22 | en | 0.944188 |
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Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 book Meet Me In The Bathroom was an oral history of the indie-rock golden era in the 2000s when The Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were taking all of New York’s attention, along with acts like LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and more. It was an intense deep dive into that time; it took six years for her to put together, and she conducted over 200 interviews full of lots of gossip.
Meet Me In The Bathroom was turned into a documentary and it’s finally coming to theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 4 and nationwide on November 8. The first trailer is finally out and is the perfect preview into the film.
In our January interview with the directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, Lovelace said about finding interesting footage, “It’s not like now, making a film about now in 20 years will be a nightmare because everyone films on the thing, and takes thousands of photographs. But we were kind of confident that there would be enough of a document of that time because we were doing something similar in the UK filming smaller bands. No one as famous as these bands, but people were doing that.”
Watch the trailer for Meet Me In The Bathroom above. | https://uproxx.com/indie/meet-me-in-the-bathroom-documentary-trailer/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:28 | en | 0.982349 |
Pavement is in the midst of their reunion tour. It’s the first time in over a decade that the band formed in Stockton, CA has been on stage and long-time fans have been understandably over the moon. Coupled with the band’s 1999 song “Spit On A Stranger” somehow finding new life by going viral on TikTok, Pavement is experiencing nothing short of a renaissance (oh, there’s also a Pavement Museum now in NYC!)
Next week, they’re set to play two shows in Austin, including one that will be taped for the famed Austin City Limits Live TV Show on PBS. Both shows are sold out and Pavement’s ACL Live episode won’t air until 2023, but the indie rock gods are smiling upon you, my friend, because you’ll be able to livestream the band’s performance on Monday, October 10th, beginning at 8 pm central time. This is a welcome advancement that will even be free of charge on the ACL YouTube channel; something not typically offered with ACL’s tapings.
The performances on Pavement’s tour have been nothing short of career-spanning and each stop has featured Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, Scott Kannberg, and co. putting down completely different setlists from city to city. Last night in Philadelphia even saw Kurt Vile join Pavement on vocals for “Zurich Is Stained.” You can watch that performance below.
Pavement’s ACL Live set will be livestreamed on Monday, October 10th at 8 pm CST here. | https://uproxx.com/indie/pavement-austin-city-limits-livestreamed/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:30 | en | 0.942435 |
Phoenix is getting ready to release their new album, Alpha Zulu. They unveiled the single “Tonight” and brought it to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert with a digital Ezra Koenig. Last night, they took another single, the album title track, to Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The performance is vivacious and invigorating; the vocals are clean and animated against a transfixing bassline. It sounds identical to the recording. The track is more atmospheric than “Tonight” — “Alpha Zulu” is exuberant but has a sense of mystery within the sputtering beats. It only heightens the anticipation for the rest of the long-awaited LP, which is finally arriving just next month.
“Alpha Zulu” was their first new song in two years, since 2020’s “Identical” (which itself was also at the time the band’s first new song in two years). A press release noted that the song title and lyric come from “a phrase Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars heard a pilot repeating over the radio during a turbulent flight in a storm. The urgency of the phrase stayed with him, and the band’s new song was born.”
Watch their vivacious performance of “Alpha Zulu” above.
Alpha Zulu is out 11/4 via Loyaute/Glassnote Records. Pre-order it here. | https://uproxx.com/indie/phoenix-alpha-zulu-jimmy-kimmel-live/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:36 | en | 0.968676 |
Ariana Grande and Christina Aguilera have a ton of fans; Between them, they have seven No. 1 albums, eleven No. 1 singles, 35 Grammy nominations (with seven wins), and millions of albums sold. Music lovers might be surprised to hear, though, that among their fans is a 53-year-old man named Shawn Crahan. Crahan is also known as Clown, and he co-founded Slipknot, the long-running metal band that doesn’t have much to do with pop music, back in 1995, and is the group’s only remaining original member.
In a recent interview with The Independent, the drummer was asked about what music he’s listening to and he responded, “That’s always a loaded question. My hardcore fans are gonna hate me for what I say. Well, not hate me, but they’re gonna be upset: I’m listening to a lot of Ariana Grande, some Christina Aguilera. I have a real love of pop.”
While Slipknot doesn’t really have any ties to the world of pop music, they frequently achieve pop-like levels of success. Their past three albums topped the US charts, while the ones before those managed peaks at Nos. 2, 3, and 51. They also frequently top the US rock charts with songs like “Wait And Bleed,” “Spit It Out,” and “Duality.” Furthermore, they picked up a Grammy in 2006, when “Before I Forget” won Best Metal Performance.
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Many musicians reacted to the overturning of Roe V. Wade by speaking up on social media and sharing resources for safe abortions. Yesterday, a ton of acts came together to announce the Good Music To Ensure Safe Abortion Access To All compilation, which will fundraise for organizations facilitating abortion access starting on Friday, Oct. 7, on Bandcamp. It will only be available for 24 hours.
Wet Leg was one of the bands to participate. The “Chaise Longue” performers contributed “Loving You (Demo),” an unreleased version of the song of the same title from their debut that came out this year. It’s more lo-fi, but at the same time more visceral and full of feeling — it’s a great slice of raw indie rock.
Other musicians on the roster of the compilation include Amanda Shires x Jason Isbell, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, Cat Power, Daniel Rossen, David Byrne x Devo, Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes, Gia Margaret, Grouplove, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Mac DeMarco, Maya Hawke, Overcoats, Pearl Jam, PUP, The Regrettes, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, Soccer Mommy, Tegan and Sara, Thao x Tune-Yards, Ty Segall, and more. The cover artwork was made by the one and only Kim Gordon.
Listen to “Loving You (Demo)” above. Find the compilation here. | https://uproxx.com/indie/wet-leg-loving-you-demo-abortion-access-compilation/ | 2022-10-07T05:04:48 | en | 0.907313 |
The last time John Waters directed a movie was 2004’s underrated A Dirty Shame, which was just about as mainstream as he could possibly manage in the director’s chair. In the meantime, he was able to shepherd Hairspray from its Tony-winning musical incarnation into a filmic remake. He was also able to deliver a dozen memorable cameos, including a delightful turn helping Midge find a gay bar on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He’s written non-fiction books and done spoken word poetry and had several careers inside his career.
Now, he’s returning to his original love. According to Deadline, Waters will direct an adaptation of his debut novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance, for Village Roadshow Pictures.
“Liarmouth is the craziest thing I’ve written in a while so maybe it’s fitting that my novel was shocking enough to jumpstart the engine of my film career,” the 76-year-old filmmaker said in a statement. “Thrilled to be back in the movie business, hopefully to spread demented joy to adventuresome moviegoers around the world.”
Yes, please. Spread that demented joy.
The novel features a grandmother, mother, and daughter (Adora, Marsha, and Poppy) who are all trying to kill each other. Adora does illegal plastic surgery for pets in Manhattan, Marsha is a klepto, Poppy operates a trampoline park outside Baltimore, and all of it sounds so thoroughly John Waters-ish that it will be difficult to wait until his triumphant, disgusting return hits theaters. Let’s hope he doesn’t end up in jail for obscenity before he gets the chance.
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Kanye West might get his wish soon. The mercurial rapper-designer has been straining against his partnerships with Adidas and Gap for the better part of a year (longer, if you include the last time he raised a stink about his supposed treatment at the two companies). Today, a little under a month since he sent a letter to Gap demanding the formal end of his licensing deal, Adidas announced that his sportswear deal with the German company is also “under review.” In a press release, Adidas said:
“Adidas has always been about creativity, innovation, and supporting athletes and artists to achieve their vision. The Adidas Yeezy partnership is one of the most successful collaborations in our industry’s history. We are proud of our team that has worked tirelessly throughout our collaboration with [Kanye West] and the iconic products that were born from it. We also recognize that all successful partnerships are rooted in mutual respect and shared values. After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review. We will continue to co-manage the current product during this period.”
That phrase “mutual respect” appears to be a pretty pointed reference to Kanye’s earlier slew of Instagram posts in which he accused Adidas of stealing his designs, bullied a mid-level exec tasked with being his liaison to the company, and taunted the company’s former CEO when he decided to step down. In response, Kanye posted a screenshot of a headline about the story with the caption, “FUUUUUUCK ADIDAS I AM ADIDAS ADIDAS RAPED AND STOLE MY DESIGNS.”
We’ll see how the situation plays out, but at this point, any decision either company’s leadership makes regarding whether to move forward with Kanye seems like it’ll be a win for them. Either they stick it out and make money, or kick him to the curb and lose one hell of a headache. | https://uproxx.com/music/adidas-says-its-partnership-with-kanye-west-is-under-review/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:01 | en | 0.980906 |
For decades now, having your song or album certified Gold, Platinum, or even Diamond by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association Of America) has been one of music’s biggest honors. To be certified Gold, a release must rack up 500,000 units (a value combining sales and streaming figures). The threshold for Platinum certification is a million units, while it takes 10 million to reach Diamond status.
The organization has been around for 70 years now, and in all that time, not a ton of songs have reached Diamond certification. Even fewer artists have multiple Diamond songs to their name. That exclusive club has only 14 members as of October 6, 2022, but who is the biggest artist of all time when it comes to Diamond songs? Let’s work our way from the bottom of the list to the top.
The artists with “only” two Diamond songs to their name are:
- Cardi B — “I Like It” Feat. J Balvin and Bad Bunny (10-times Platinum) and “Bodak Yellow” (10-times Platinum)
- Justin Bieber — “Baby” Feat. Ludacris (12-times Platinum) and “Sorry” (10-times Platinum)
- Lady Gaga — “Bad Romance” (11-times Platinum) and “Poker Face” (10-times Platinum)
- Michael Jackson — “Billie Jean” (10-times Platinum) and “Thrilled” (10-times Platinum)
- Post Malone — “Congratulations” Feat. Quavo (11-times Platinum) and “Rockstar” Feat. 21 Savage (10-times Platinum)
- The Chainsmokers — “Closer” Feat. Halsey (14-times Platinum) and “Don’t Let Me Down” Feat. Daya (10-times Platinum)
- Twenty One Pilots — “Stressed Out” (10-times Platinum) and “Heathens” (10-times Platinum)
Even fewer artists have three Diamond songs:
- Ed Sheeran — “Thinking Out Loud” (12-times Platinum), “Shape Of You” (10-times Platinum), and “Perfect” (10-times Platinum)
- Eminem — “Love The Way You Lie” Feat. Rihanna (13-times Platinum), “Lose Yourself” (13-times Platinum), and “Not Afraid” (11-times Platinum)
- Katy Perry — “Firework” (12-times Platinum), “Dark Horse” (11-times Platinum), and “Roar” (10-times Platinum)
- Maroon 5 — “Sugar” (11-times Platinum), “Moves Like Jagger” (10-times Platinum), and “Girls Like You” Feat. Cardi B (10-times Platinum)
- The Weeknd — “The Hills” (11-times Platinum), “Starboy” (11-times Platinum), and “Blinding Lights” (10-times Platinum)
Above all of those big names, though, are the top two artists. Second on the all-time list with four Diamond singles is Imagine Dragons: “Radioactive” (14-times Platinum), “Demons” (10-times Platinum), “Thunder” (10-times Platinum), and “Believer” (10-times Platinum).
The top artist of all time is… Bruno Mars, who has five Diamond songs. His latest Diamond certification came just a few days ago, when “Locked Out Of Heaven” reached the milestone on October 1. His other Diamond hits are “Just The Way You Are” (13-times Platinum), “When I Was Your Man” (11-times Platinum), “That’s What I Like” (10-times Platinum), and “Grenade” (10-times Platinum). Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” which features Mars, is 11-times Platinum, so if you want to count that towards Mars’ total, he has six Diamond songs.
These ranks aren’t set in stone, though: Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga both have songs currently sitting on the edge of Diamond status at 9-times Platinum, for example. So, who knows how this list will change in the coming years.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group. | https://uproxx.com/music/artists-with-most-diamond-singles-riaa/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:07 | en | 0.904965 |
(CNN) -- Video game purists expecting a faithful adaptation of the original Nintendo game might be somewhat surprised by first teaser for the new "Super Mario Bros. Movie," which debuted on Thursday.
The clip's dark and bombastic opening features King Koopa, voiced by Jack Black, as he lands in a fiery, rocky ship on an icy nightscape belonging to the penguins, who first appeared in the 1996 version of the game, "Super Mario 64."
It's only when King Koopa reaches the floating golden invincibility star with little black eyes that the teaser makes its most direct reference to the original 1985 game that started the franchise, one of the most successful in all of gaming.
The next scene in the clip is a much more direct homage, showing the titular mustachioed plumber, here voiced by Chris Pratt, as he lands out of a green pipe into the lush and sunny Mushroom Kingdom that connoisseurs will remember from Level 1 in the first game from 1985. This is also when the game's memorable music is finally heard, albeit briefly.
The CGI-animated film, from Nintendo and Illumination, features several other big name stars, including Charlie Day as Mario's brother Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad and Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.
The last time the iconic video game was translated into a feature-length studio film was almost 30 years ago, with the ill-begotten 1993 release of the live-action "Super Mario Bros.," starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo.
The new movie is due to hit theaters on April 7, 2023. | https://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/super-mario-bros-movie-teaser-trailer-shows-first-look-at-chris-pratt-as-mario-1.6100048 | 2022-10-07T05:05:10 | en | 0.955736 |
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (KFOR) — Oklahoma City police have identified a man accused of a reported sexual assault at a metro Halloween store in late September. He was identified after a Facebook post by the Oklahoma City Police Department was shared over 2,000 times.
He’s accused of the crime that reportedly occurred inside a Halloween store in the Oklahoma City Outlets mall. According to a police report, the man was wearing a long-haired black wig, a pearl necklace, a red corset, and black pantyhose when the incident happened.
KFOR went to the business to get details but were pointed to their regional manager.
“I will tell you that we are investigating it ourselves. I know the police are, as well,” the regional manager told KFOR over the phone. “We’re trying to cooperate as much as we can.”
Other than that, the business declined to comment.
In a Facebook post, a family member of the victim claimed the man lured their disabled family member to a back corner of the store and sexually assaulted her.
Several details of the incident are unclear at this time. It should be emphasized that these are currently only allegations. No one has been arrested. | https://www.news10.com/news/national/man-accused-of-sexual-assault-in-ok-halloween-store/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:10 | en | 0.98136 |
Bobby Shmurda is getting his career back on track. After being released from prison in February of 2021 after six years, the rapper has not only released his first EP, Bodboy, since being a free man, he’s also about to go on tour with Rowdy Rebel this year. The now fully independent artist just gave a revealing interview to XXL, where he was candid about not being on the Epic Records roster anymore and also saying that he “probably would have killed somebody” had he not be in prison.
When asked about whether he thought his prison stint held him back, Shmurda stated that it actually did exactly the opposite.
“I feel like sh*t has set me forward,” he said. “If I didn’t go to jail, I probably would have killed somebody or did some crazy sh*t and been locked up for life. I was a bugout before. I had some situations that I thank God never came up that guns was pulled. All types of situations outside of clubs and shit. Before I was Bobby Shmurda. And lucky that I had certain people with me to restrain me to do whatever that I could have lost my life at certain points. That whole situation, it shows growth.”
He was very reflective in his response and elaborated further in how he’s focused on making business moves now. Some of his supposed ventures include trying to build a security company, a clinic, apps, a clothing brand and then added, “I got a weed business jumping off with the EP.”
You can read the whole interview at XXL here. | https://uproxx.com/music/bobby-shmurda-would-have-killed-somebody-if-not-in-prison/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:13 | en | 0.995402 |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan launched a new round of naval drills with South Korean warships on Friday, a day after North Korea fired more ballistic missiles and flew warplanes in an escalation of its weapons tests.
The Reagan and its battle group returned to the waters near the Korean Peninsula after North Korea earlier this week launched a nuclear-capable missile over Japan in response to the carrier group's earlier training with South Korean navy ships. North Korea views U.S.-South Korean military exercises as a practice to invade the country.
The latest two-day drills, which also involve U.S. and South Korean destroyers and other ships, were taking place in international waters off the peninsula's east coast. The drills are aimed at bolstering the allies' defense capabilities and will involve training to escort the Reagan southeast of South Korea's southern island of Jeju, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
“We will continue to strengthen our firm operational capabilities and readiness to respond to any provocations by North Korea,” the statement said.
North Korea may react to the new drills with more missile tests. The North's Foreign Ministry said Thursday the carrier group's redeployment poses “a serious threat to the stability of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in its vicinity.”
North Korea's record pace of weapons testing this year is intended to expand its arsenal so that it can credibly threaten the U.S. mainland and regional allies with nuclear arms, then engage in negotiations with the U.S. from a stronger position as a recognized nuclear state. Its two ballistic missile launches on Thursday were the North's sixth round of weapons firings in less than two weeks.
The intermediate-range North Korean missile tested Tuesday was like a Hwasong-12 missile which is capable of reaching the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, observers say. Other missiles launched recently are short-range weapons that target South Korea.
North Korea is ready to conduct its first nuclear test in five years and is preparing to test a new liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile and a submarine-launched ballistic missile, Heo Tae-keun, South Korea's deputy minister of national defense policy, told lawmakers earlier this week.
On Friday, Heo had trilateral video calls with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts to discuss North Korea's recent missile tests. They stressed the security cooperation among the three countries would be bolstered if the North continues its provocations, the South Korean Defense Ministry said in a statement.
On Thursday, naval destroyers of the three countries conducted one-day joint drills off the Korean Peninsula's east coast to hone their abilities to search, track and intercept North Korean ballistic missiles. Last week, they held anti-submarines exercises involving the Reagan in the area.
North Korea also flew 12 warplanes dozens of kilometers from the inter-Korean border, prompting the South to scramble 30 military aircraft in response. There were no clashes.
The eight North Korean fighter jets and four bombers were believed to have conducted air-to-surface firing drills, South Korea's military said. Yonhap news agency reported it was likely North Korea's biggest warplane mobilization for such an exercise near the border. | https://www.cp24.com/world/u-s-carrier-south-korea-warships-start-new-drills-amid-tensions-1.6100045 | 2022-10-07T05:05:16 | en | 0.961809 |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The number of children swallowing batteries rose significantly during the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Increased hospital visits appear to mirror the increase in devices in our homes using button or disc batteries.
And the batteries babies may be ingesting are more dangerous than ever.
As with many other toddlers, everything 19 month-old Remi touches goes right in the mouth. In July, mom Megan Hulleman and dad RJ Hulleman of Alton, Iowa, could not have imagined the next chapter of their lives when Remi found the remote control for the ceiling fan.
“She dropped the fan remote, and the two batteries had popped out. I [said], ‘Remi bring them here,’ so she brought them over, and I had put the two batteries up here on our couch,” said Megan.
Before she knew it, Remi had swallowed both of the button batteries. They rushed her to the hospital by ambulance: Remi’s esophagus was starting to swell because the batteries were already corroded and stuck to one another.
“They had to push them back down into the stomach because they could not pull them out, and in doing that, the acid burned her throat,” said RJ.
Pediatric Surgeon Adam Gorra was called in. He says he knew they had to act quickly because acid isn’t the only danger these batteries pose.
“…The electrical charge can cause kind of an electrical burn in the esophagus,” said Dr. Gorra. “This electrical burn extends through the wall of the esophagus over time and within about four hours, you can have permanent damage.”
Dr. Gorra was eventually able to move the batteries into Remi’s stomach where he could surgically remove them.
“It was a total of seven and a half hours she was in surgery,” said RJ. “It was the scariest time I’ve ever had.”
Megan says despite how terrifying the situation was, she’d originally figured they’d be in-and-out of the hospital that day.
But it would be eight days before Megan and RJ would get to hold Remi again. She spent weeks in the hospital.
Megan says as a parent, there’s a certain amount of guilt that goes with seeing your child go through something like this. She wants other parents to understand how dangerous button batteries can be for kids.
“It was a freak accident, and I’m thankful we have our daughter, and she is doing amazing, but it is still really hard as a parent to wonder if we could have done something different,” said Megan. “I kind of replay: ‘Maybe we should have put it up higher. Maybe I shouldn’t have picked her up.’ But I can’t go back. But I can try to prevent it from happening again or prevent another family from going through what we had to go through.”
Remmy’s prognosis is good. She’s undergoing procedures to stretch her esophagus so she can eat normal food.
Dr. Gorra says it’s much safer if the battery makes it all the way to the stomach. A single battery can usually be passed through the body without surgery. | https://www.news10.com/news/national/toddler-hospitalized-for-8-days-after-swallowing-button-batteries/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:17 | en | 0.97904 |
Jamila Woods is back and with new music.
The Chicago singer/poet made waves with her 2019 album Legacy! Legacy!. Later she released the standout 2020 single “SULA (Paperback)” and its follow-up, “SULA (Hardcover).” Woods was relatively quiet after doing a guest spot on Peter CottonTale’s 2021 collab “WYD (You Got Me)” and “Someone (Remix)” with Gabriel Garzón-Montano But now, she’s back, and with a new single called “Boundaries.”
The track was recorded at Complex Studios in LA and produced by BLVK. Woods says the feather-light, silky track will trek through an array of things like the private and shared space in a new relationship and all the risks that come with love.
“‘Boundaries’ is a song about the negotiation between private and shared space in a new relationship, the risk involved in letting someone get close enough to see your rough edges,” Woods said in a recent statement. “I think a lot about the Prentice Hemphill quote, ‘Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.’ The song is about learning the difference between erecting boundaries out of fear versus out of love.”
She has not announced an upcoming album or EP, but this should hopefully keep fans satisfied for a while.
Listen to “Boundaries” above. | https://uproxx.com/music/jamila-woods-boundaries/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:19 | en | 0.967284 |
JOHNSTOWN, N.Y. (NEWS10) — 25 years ago, a retired Gloversville, N.Y., art teacher, Mary Cleland, sculpted a vision for a place people in Fulton County could go to to enjoy winter activities. Now that dream is quickly becoming a reality.
“Children having a place to go, number one, after school, with their skates slung over their shoulder, and setting up teams…to play hockey….or just to go in there, and race; those are the two things that you think of when you think of a hockey rink,” said Cleland.
That’s the image Cleland had in mind when she created the idea for a winter recreational facility near Caroga Lake in 1997. 25 years later, Tim Rizzo, a town councilman in Johnstown, N.Y., has revived that vision, and is in the beginning stages of bringing the Upstate Ice Plex to life.
But he gives a lot of the credit to Cleland for laying the foundation of the project.
“Her paperwork and her history…was by far the biggest support towards this entire design build,” said Rizzo. “She had a lot of paperwork there, and everything, but it lacked a report. So I started writing a report, and comparing to other rink facilities. When you read the history, and the support, I went back and double checked it to see if it was still there, and they were like, “Yes. We’re on this.”
The Ice Plex will include two hockey rinks, a fitness center, a curling rink, and more. It’s a facility residents believe is long overdue.
“Not having an ice arena…between…Utica to Schenectady; we are missing this type of…activity in sports,” said Julie Glover, the Upstate Ice Plex media and events officer, who is also a resident of Fulton County. “It’s going to be such a benefit to our area.”
Development of the Ice Plex is still in the very early stages, but Rizzo is encouraged by the traction the project has gained thus far.
“The cards are starting to line up,” said Rizzo “The things are starting to come together. But the most important thing right now is to drive our donation drive; get the donations up. If things can move faster with the government funds, we believe that we could be probably completed by 2025.”
Knowing the good the Ice Plex will do for her community, the progress the project has made is one of the great joys of Cleland’s life.
“I think it’s absolutely wonderful, and it could bring tears to my eyes, except my heart…wouldn’t take it,” said Cleland. “I absolutely love children. And I want them to experience some of the wonderful things that I did as a child.”
Donations can be made by visiting the link below. | https://www.news10.com/sports/local-sports/progress-being-made-on-upstate-ice-plex/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:23 | en | 0.978397 |
Tuesday night’s (October 4) 2022 BET Hip-Hop Awards were about giving flowers to some of the culture’s biggest acts. David Banner, Wu-Tang Clan, Havoc of Mobb Deep, Lil Kim, Dead Prez, Remy Ma, Fat Joe, Three Six Mafia, Lil Flip, Project Pat, and M.O.P. were among the artist honoring their label, Loud Records. Fat Joe also doubled as the event’s host for the night.
During the 11-minute performance, the artists provided a medley of classics like, “Lean Back,” “C.R.E.A.M,” “Stay Fly,” and more. Among the legendary performers were DJ Paul and Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia (however, 8Ball & MJG were notably absent).
However, there was a portion that audiences seemed to miss. While the duo was performing their classic song, “Slob On My Knob,” BET cut the feed, according to a tweet from Juicy J.
“I rapped slob on the knob at the hip hop awards, the crowd went crazy, they cut that performance out on tv,” he wrote with smile emojis. “I don’t blame them it’s a filthy song.”
I rapped slob on the knob at the hiphop awards the crowd went crazy they cut that performance out on tv I dont blame them it’s a filthy song 🤣🤣🤣🤣
— juicy j (@therealjuicyj) October 5, 2022
Fans responded to the message with cheeky thoughts of their own, and it sounds like they wanted to see the uncut performance.
“We need the BET uncut version of the awards, lol,” one person wrote. “Kids gotta learn about slobs and knobs someday. Why not from the expert?” another person tweeted.
Check out the performances from last night’s show below. | https://uproxx.com/music/juicy-j-not-upset-bet-cut-performance/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:25 | en | 0.966567 |
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A battle between two of Class AA’s finest took place in Saratoga Springs Thursday night, the Saratoga Springs Blue Streaks hosted the Blue Bison of Shaker.
Both teams came into the match up ranked in the top 20 in the state, but only one could come out with the win. For the majority of the game both defense’s held strong, but when the second half came around Saratoga found an opening.
Theo Paladini scored with less than ten minutes left to go in regulation giving the Blue streaks their first lead of the game. Shaker tried to get on the board late, but the Blue Streaks defense put the clamps on the Blue Bison and came away with the 1-0 win. | https://www.news10.com/sports/local-sports/saratoga-blanks-shaker-1-0-to-stay-undefeated/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:29 | en | 0.958531 |
California rapper Kalan.FrFr is in his winning season. Last year he secured a deal with Roc Nation, a big feat in itself, but his success doesn’t stop there. His project TwoFr 2 and his more recent album 222 have seen major success amassing millions of streams. Oh, and we can’t forget a set at Made In America and his “TwoFr Tour,” bolstered by appearances from fellow Cali rapper Blxst, 1Take Jay, Mario, Rubi Rose, and 808 Mafia.
The rapper who once admitted “I smoked weed with Jay-Z,” pulled up to the bathroom set to perform his “Light Breeze.” The track from Kalan.FrFr’s most recent album is cinematic, painting a picture of West coast living with the opening lyrics “Ayy, light breeze (Light breeze) / Sunroof back, yeah, A/C (Woah, woah).” Kalan himself performs in massive sunglasses and a Marni tee, further signaling a lifestyle of the rich and famous.
Watch Kalan.FrFr perform “Light Breeze” for UPROXX Sessions above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too. | https://uproxx.com/music/kalan-breeze-uproxx-sessions/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:31 | en | 0.954748 |
CLIFTON PARK, NY (NEWS10) — Shenendehowa football is having Deja vu, but they’re hoping for a different ending. Last year, the Plainsmen beat Shaker in the Class AA semifinal, but lost to CBA in the Super Bowl. Last week, they beat Shaker, and guess who’s up next? CBA in our 1st & 10 Game of the Week.
Shenendehowa, CBA, and Saratoga Springs are the only Class AA teams without a league loss, so this game is big for seeding. Shen is riding high after a huge overtime win over Shaker, but they know another challenge looms large Friday night. The Plainsmen have hit the reset button. “It was an exhilarating win for our program especially winning it in overtime,” said head coach Brian Clawson. “I think that having that 24 hours to enjoy the win before we come in on Sunday and start watching the film and preparing for CBA, that’s where it’s at.”
The players haven’t forgotten last year’s Super Bowl loss. “Well just like Shaker, CBA is always a great team,” said senior running back and defensive back Henry Picard. “Last year they beat us in the championship, so of course there’s a little more motivation this year but just like last week it’s going to be a close game. It’s going to be intense. I’m excited, it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
We’ll have highlights and reaction from our Game of the Week and more from around Section 2 Friday night on 1st & 10 at 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM. | https://www.news10.com/sports/local-sports/shen-refocuses-to-cba-after-big-shaker-win/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:35 | en | 0.947241 |
Following a series of disasters during Paris Fashion Week, Kanye West stopped by Fox News studios for an interview with Tucker Carlson. On tonight’s (October 6) episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Ye addressed several of the bits of headline-making behaviors from the past week. Also during his interview, he doubled down on his anti-abortion stance, while wearing a necklace containing an image of a fetus in a sonogram.
“You designed that?” asked Carlson.
“Yes,” Ye responded.
“What does that mean?” asked Carlson.
“It just represents life. I’m pro-life,” Ye said.
“What kind of response do you get? And amen, I agree,” said Carlson.
“I don’t care about people’s responses,” Ye said. “I care about the fact that there’s more Black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point. 50% of Black death in America is abortion. So, I really don’t care about people’s responses. I perform for an audience of one, and that’s God.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he addressed the incident with Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, attacking body-positive movements in the process.
“The media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal when it’s actually unhealthy,” Ye said. “Let’s get aside the fact of whether it’s fashion in Vogue, which it’s not. If someone thinks it’s attractive, to each his own. It’s actually clinically unhealthy, and for people to promote that, it’s demonic.”
Check out the full interview here (if you must). | https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-abortion-ultrasound-necklace/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:37 | en | 0.961596 |
ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — In the high school girl’s soccer ranks Ravena took a trip to Schenectady to take on the 15th ranked Mohonasen Warriors.
The Warriors came out guns blazing in the first half scoring four goals. The first one came off the foot of Kaitlyn Pelts that gave the Warriors a 1-0 lead. A few moments later Olivia Andriola kicks a rainbow shot to extend their lead to 2-0. Pelts found another scoring opportunity and made the Ravena defense pay scoring her second goal of the game to make it 3-0 Mohonasen.
The Warriors offense was relentless the rest of the way scoring six more goals to seal the win 9-0 win over Ravena. | https://www.news10.com/sports/no-15-mohonasen-shuts-out-ravena-9-0/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:41 | en | 0.953626 |
Kanye West may be in the midst of a string of petty feuds, but he recently showed that he can set aside those conflicts for the sake of the greater good. Last year, he buried the hatchet with Drake at their Free Larry Hoover concert in LA, putting an end to about a half-decade of beef between the two. Now, it appears they’ve graduated to Instagram friends again, with Kanye noticing that Drake liked one of his recent posts about the backlash to his “White Lives Matter” shirts and subsequent “bullying” of the Vogue editor who spoke out against them.
Apparently, he was so overjoyed by this seemingly basic but positive reaction, he decided to let the world know about it in yet another post, while making a semi-extravagant gesture to thank his friend-turned-rival-turned-friend-again. “EVERYONE KNOWS ME AND DRAKE HAVE HAD A RIVALRY IN THE PAST,” he declared. “IT REALLY WARMED MY HEART TO SEE DRAKE LIKE ONE OF MY POST. WE STILL NEED THE DONDA TEAM TO PLAY NOCTA. ALL DRAKE MUSIC WILL BE PLAYED AT DONDA GAMES MOVING FORWARD.”
It’s Kanye, so he’ll probably forget or change his mind by the time the basketball season gets rolling, but it is kind of endearing to see him get so excited about a something as small as a “like” on Instagram. Too bad it can’t undo all the other icky behavior he’s been engaging in. | https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-all-drake-music-donda-games/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:43 | en | 0.952436 |
ALBANY, NY (NEWS10) – The premiere Capital Region men’s basketball series featuring Siena College and the University at Albany resumes on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at MVP Arena in downtown Albany, New York.
Siena and UAlbany are set to rekindle their men’s basketball series for the first time in five years. The schools announced a three-year agreement to renew the series back in January, beginning with a neutral site matchup at MVP Arena this season. UAlbany will host the Albany Cup at SEFCU Arena in 2023, with the rivalry returning to MVP Arena for a true Siena home game in 2024. MVP Health Care has been named as this year’s presenting sponsor for the game.
“We are proud to support the Albany Cup game, a longstanding tradition between Siena and UAlbany,” said MVP Health Care’s President and CEO, Chris Del Vecchio. “These top-tier basketball teams are just one representation of the strength and vitality of our region. This is sure to be an exciting event and we hope to see you at the MVP Arena for the Albany Cup!”
Tickets to the 2022 Albany Cup presented by MVP Health Care starting at just $15 go on-sale to the general public beginning Friday, Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. This year’s installment of the Albany Cup features a neutral venue, with one half of MVP Arena being designated for Siena fans and the other half for UAlbany fans. Siena fan sections are located in Sections 105-120 and 207-229, and UAlbany fan sections are designated for Sections 101-105, 120-130, 201-207, and 229-244.
UAlbany fans can secure tickets to the 2022 Albany Cup presented by MVP Health Care by clicking the corresponding link. For more information, and any questions, fans can contact the UAlbany Great Danes Athletic Ticket Office by phone at 518-442-DANE (3263) or by e-mail at GreatDaneTickets@albany.edu.
Siena fans can secure tickets to the 2022 Albany Cup presented by MVP Health Care by clicking the corresponding link, and are also encouraged to contact the Siena Fan Relations Management Center by phone at (518) 487-2202 to secure the best possible deals. Group tickets, which are priced at only $12 each for groups of 10 or more, can also be obtained by reaching out to the Fan Relations team by phone or by e-mail at sienatickets2@siena.edu.
Siena and UAlbany met for 17 consecutive seasons in the Albany Cup from 2001-17, following the Great Danes’ elevation to the Division I level. The Saints hold a 10-7 advantage in the Albany Cup, with UAlbany capturing the most recent meeting 74-69 on Dec. 9, 2017. Of the 17 meetings, 11 have been decided by single-digits, including three in overtime. Overall, Siena and UAlbany have met 54 previous times, with the Saints holding a 30-24 advantage. Siena captured the first-ever meeting between the programs by a score of 52-45 on Jan. 5, 1940 in Albany.
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Updated: | https://www.news10.com/sports/saints-and-danes/siena-and-ualbany-set-to-battle-november-12th/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:47 | en | 0.934251 |
Kanye West has been making news with his Instagram posts lately, but it turns out there’s more to them than initially meets the eye: Ye has been hiding secret messages in some of his posts. As of this post, West has 17 posts viewable on his account and of those, two have hidden messages in them.
One of the posts is about Brionna Taylor’s mother and her relationship with Black Lives Matter. It reads, “BREONNA TAYLOR’S MOM SAID IT FIRST: ‘I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud.’” When edited, though, there’s a secret message on top of the image. The first line is cut off and hard to read, but the hidden text ends, “MALCOLM X ASSASSIN. THAT’S A GREAT LEGACY.”
The post with a hidden message is Ye’s latest, which reads, “YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE IN GOD BUT GOD BELIEVES IN YOU.” As for the secret text, it says, “KHLOE SAID IM TRYNA DEFLECT,” with additional lines that are hard to read. The message is in reference to a recent comment from Khloe Kardashian.
Another post of note is a screenshot shared on October 4, of what seems to be a text West received from fashion designer Mowalola Ogunlesi. In it, Ogunlesi writes, “I also don’t think u should insult that writer. U could actually hv real conversation about the tee.” When edited, it is revealed that West apparently responded to the text, although it doesn’t seem possible to read West’s two-part message, as only the shape of the text bubbles is visible through editing.
Find the original posts, along with versions of them that were edited so the hidden messages are more easily seen, below. | https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-secret-messages-instagram-posts/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:49 | en | 0.96604 |
Following a series of scandals this week, including wearing a “White Lives Latter” shirt at his Yeezy Season 9 fashion show, and attacking Vogue fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson on Instagram, Kanye West appears to be doing some damage control — or at least, his version of that. Tonight, Ye will appear on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, Tucker Carlson Tonight for an interview.
Tonight @kanyewest pic.twitter.com/PvZjbm1cwO
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 6, 2022
According to TMZ, the two Carlson and Ye sat down for “a lengthy chat, which mostly focused on the recent attention Kanye’s generated through wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt at his Yeezy fashion show.”
In a clip shared to Kanye West’s Instagram page, Carlson and Ye are seen touring the latter’s Yeezy office.
A Yeezy employee offers Carlson some of the beverages Yeezy is working on, including one called Donda, activated charcoal black sesame milk.
“I’m pretty open-minded about what I put in my mouth,” says Carlson before sampling the drink, which he then says is “delicious.”
Elsewhere in the clip, Carlson is seen trying on a prototype of some 3D-printed shoes, as another employee explains that the company is trying to build a factory where several 3D-printed shoes can be manufactured.
Check out the clip above (if you must).
Ye’s interview will air tonight at 8 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. CST. | https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-tucker-carlson-yeezy-office/ | 2022-10-07T05:05:55 | en | 0.949381 |
Kid Cudi’s musical oohs and ahs have made him a star but today, he’s doing a different kind of moaning and groaning thanks to the Wings of Death from Hot Ones. To his credit, he does okay for the first half of the episode — but then again, they all do. Of course, Cudi stopped by Hot Ones to talk about his new animated special/album Entergalactic, but by the time he hit a sauce called Cosmic Disco, he was losing track of the questions and absolutely housing a strawberry shake in an attempt to cool his mouth off.
Before all that happened, though, he gave some pretty insightful answers to host Sean Evans’ probing questions. During the third wing, sauced with Piko Riko, Evans asked, “What’s the best audition tip or note that you’ve ever gotten from Timothée Chalamet?” It’s a great question that shows off the depth and subtle layers of the Hot Ones team’s research; Chalamet appears in Entergalactic as Jimmy, Cudi’s character Jabari’s best friend and conspiracy buff. Chalamet and Cudi also made headlines in 2018 when they first forged their friendship after Tim gushed about staying up until the wee hours listening to Cudi’s first Man On The Moon album (both were also present at the infamous birthday dinner with Kanye West and Pete Davidson shortly after Davidson took the piss out of Kanye on SNL, sparking the rivalry that erupted into full-blown chaos earlier this year).
Cudi’s reply, however, really shows how much respect he and Tim have for each other. “I think I asked him about crying on camera once,” Cudi jokes. “I’ve given him audition tapes that I’ve done before and I’m just like, ‘Yo man, shoot me straight.’ He’s always like, ‘It’s good, it’s good,’ but I don’t know — he could be lying to me. But he’s always very supportive and I know Timmy’s a fan of me for music, but I think he’s a fan of me as an actor as well.”
Unfortunately for Cudi, that was one of his last truly coherent answers before the Wings did their thing. He has an especially funny reaction to wing number eight — IYKYK. Check out the full episode above. | https://uproxx.com/music/kid-cudi-hot-ones-timothee-chalamet-advice/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:02 | en | 0.975814 |
This year’s BET Hip-Hop Awards were certainly eventful. We saw the long-awaited reunion of Clipse, BET paid tribute to one of the underrated greatest labels in hip-hop history, and GloRilla completed her jaw-dropping 2022 with a Breakthrough Artist award. However, the show wasn’t without its controversy. While Latto’s win for Song Of The Year didn’t come as a surprise for most people — after all, “Big Energy” and its Mariah Carey-featuring remix were pretty much ubiquitous throughout the summer — one viewer couldn’t accept the result and let the world know how he felt about it.
Kodak Black, who was also up for Song Of The Year for his 2021 single “Super Gremlin,” gave a frankly gross response to Latto’s win, calling her a “hating ass mutt” and attributing the win to her gender rather than the fact that it was an absolute, unequivocal fan favorite. “The Woman Empowerment Shit Kool,” he wrote. “Don’t Take Nun From Nobody But You Still Gotta Work For It ! Don’t Jus Simply Give It To Somebody Kuz They A Woman !!!!! If That’s The Case Y’all Shoulda Gave Song Of The Year To Glorilla Not That Hating Ass Mutt.”
The Woman Empowerment Shit Kool ! Don’t Take Nun From Nobody But You Still Gotta Work For It ! Don’t Jus Simply Give It To Somebody Kuz They A Woman !!!!! If That’s The Case Y’all Shoulda Gave Song Of The Year To Glorilla Not That Hating Ass Mutt 🐶
— Kodak Black (@KodakBlack1k) October 6, 2022
He continued to name other examples of songs that should have won in his mind, trying to deflect accusations of sour grapes. “Not Drake!” he wondered. “Not Future! Hell Nawl!!!! @Connieorlando Needs To B Fired!!! Dat Stupid Ass Song Ain’t Move Nobody! Forget About Me At This Point! AT LEAST [GloRilla’s viral hit] “F*ck N**** Free” [aka “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)”] Was A Anthem! Tf You Think ‘SONG OF THE YEAR’ Mean???? Everyone Needa Boycott @Connieorlando & @BET! Y’all Lame Af & Y’all Not Really For The People Fr! BET WATERED DOWN!!!”
Not Drake ! Not Future ! But Lache ???? Hell Nawl !!!! @Connieorlando Needs To B Fired !!! Dat Stupid Ass Song Ain’t Move Nobody ! Forget About Me At This Point ! AT LEAST “Fuck Nigga Free” Was A Anthem ! Tf You Think
“SONG OF THE YEAR” Mean ????— Kodak Black (@KodakBlack1k) October 6, 2022
Everyone Needa Boycott @Connieorlando & @BET ! Y’all Lame Af & Y’all Not Really For The People Fr ! BET WATERED DOWN !!!
— Kodak Black (@KodakBlack1k) October 6, 2022
Of course, it’s hard to ignore the fact that when Latto accused one of her male collaborators of holding up a sample after she refused to entertain his flirtation, Kodak was fans’ prime suspect. And while he denied it was him at the time, he seems to be forgetting that she never accused him by name. Awards shows can never please everyone — all of the artists and songs that get nominated for awards usually deserve them or they wouldn’t be nominated in the first place — but it’s a shame to see Kodak still hasn’t learned to comport himself with any amount of class. | https://uproxx.com/music/kodak-black-dissed-latto-losing-song-of-the-year/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:08 | en | 0.888735 |
Oh, you thought festival season was over? Think again. LA3C Festival is coming to Los Angeles on December 10th and 11th, with a lineup of previously announced headliners in Megan Thee Stallion and Snoop Dogg, which now also features Colombian singer Maluma, K-pop group Seventeen, Free Nationals, Mustard, and more. The music festival is going down at LA’s State Historic Park, the same venue that hosted Primavera Sound LA last month.
LA3C represents the first ever “culture & creativity” festival put on by Penske Media, which owns publications like Rolling Stone and Variety. Now with their fully-announced slate of headliners, the festival is touting its diverse lineup as a reflection of Los Angeles being the, “Capital of creativity and culture.”
“Our goals were to create a lineup that celebrates the range of musical genres Los Angeles offers including pop, hip-hop, R&B, K-pop, Regional Mexican Music, EDM and more, and for attendees to discover new artists while enjoying names they know and love,” LA3c CEO Juan Mora said in a statement.
Other acts on the main stage lineup include Gerardo Ortiz, Fonseca, Marc Seguí, Shawn Wasabi, Monogem, Shea Diamond, and Chicocurlyhead.
The festival is promising an all-encompassing cultural event with a core focus on food and art, as well as music. LA3C will be announcing more of its lineup later this month, including celebrity chefs, restaurants, and “surprises.”
Tickets for LA3C Festival are on sale now at LA3C.com.
Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group. | https://uproxx.com/music/la3c-festival-megan-thee-stallion-snoop-maluma-seventeen/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:14 | en | 0.963452 |
Lizzo had a great time playing a crystal flute that was owned by President James Madison: “B*tch, I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s! We just made history tonight,” she said at her show. The event was so pleasant that the star received another invitation.
Per Madison’s Montpelier and TMZ, the “About Damn Time” singer was invited to Madison’s 2,650-acre Virginia estate called Montpelier to play for a private tour. Hopefully Lizzo makes the trip out, and maybe some videos will capture the special moment.
Lizzo, you've played #JamesMadison's flute, now come visit his house! 🙏@lizzo #Lizzo #Flute @librarycongress #Yitty @Yitty https://t.co/AA4IDQE18g
— Madison's Montpelier (@JMMontpelier) September 28, 2022
Conservatives will likely be mad to hear this, considering they were already mad about her playing of the crystal flute. The frequently-upset Ben Shapiro tweeted: “This Lizzo-flute controversy is a perfect example of what I have termed Face Tattoo Phenomenon™: the phenomenon whereby someone does something deliberately controversial in an attempt to draw attention, and then acts offended when you notice.” He added: “If all we had seen was the clip of Lizzo playing the flute in the halls of the Library of Congress while wearing a semi-modest outfit, everyone would have shrugged. But that’s not the clip everyone championed as groundbreaking: it was the clip where she bragged about twerking.”
Wait ’til he hears about this! | https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-james-madison-estate-invitation/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:20 | en | 0.976736 |
Earlier this week, Diddy sent the latest jab in the long-running, passive-aggressive friendship/feud between himself and Mase, calling the “Feel So Good” rapper a “fake pastor” and claiming that Mase still owes him $3 million. Appearing on The Breakfast Club, Diddy appeared to take issue with all the artists who’ve accused him of withholding royalties over the years — especially Mase, who has been one of the most vocal former Bad Boy artists regarding his money issues. “Anybody that thinks I owe them something, show me the receipt and you’ll get paid within 24 hours,” he said.
It didn’t take long for Mase to address the comments. After seeing the interview, he posted a video on Instagram (from TikTok) snickering about the outburst and attributing it to Mase recently denying Diddy the opportunity to join him onstage during his 3 Headed Monster Tour with Cam’ron and Jadakiss. “Yo, you see how people act when you don’t let them come on stage and give they fake apology, so they can promote they little wack song,” he said.
Later, he followed up with another audio post addressing Diddy’s comments more specifically and getting personal, citing Diddy’s mom Janice Combs and saying “everything is in your mother name.” “How dare this n**** talk about receipts,” he sneered. “Let’s start with your mother, n****. your mother got the receipts. Everything is in your mother name.” He also pointed out how many of the artists who’d be mostly likely to back him up in this argument aren’t around anymore to do so. “Biggie ain’t here so Big can’t give you no receipts, he dead,” Mase said. “Craig Mack can’t give you no receipts, he dead. Black Rob can’t give you receipts, he dead. And everybody else, you made sign paperwork so they can’t talk about what I’m talking about. I’m the only one with the guts to not sign it, ‘cuz I ain’t need the money. All money ain’t good money, remember that.”
We’ll see what Diddy comes back with, but it seems like they might well be building up to that onstage reconciliation. Time will tell. | https://uproxx.com/music/mase-responds-diddy-fake-pastor-3million-debt/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:26 | en | 0.956135 |
Mobile, Alabama isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of hip-hop activity. In fact, only a handful of rappers from Alabama have gained a degree of mainstream success — mostly within the last four or five years. However, there wouldn’t be a Chika, Flo Milli, NoCap, or Yung Bleu without Rich Boy, who rose to prominence in 2006 behind the success of his hit single “Throw Some D’s.” And while he hasn’t quite reached those heights again, he continued to release music through 2015, with his independently released album, Featuring.
Today, his name’s back in the news, but unfortunately, it’s probably not for the reason he might have hoped. According to Mobile’s NBC News affiliate, Mobile Police have arrested Rich Boy, whose real name is Marece Benjamin Richards, and charged him with domestic violence, harassment, and domestic violence assault after an apparent fight with his parents. There isn’t much else to the report besides the charges, but AL.com reports that there is a video circulating on social media purporting to depict a shirtless Rich Boy involved in an altercation. AL.com also speculates that the cause of the confrontation could be a dispute over the collection of a 2008 legal judgment in which a pre-fame incident led to Rich Boy and his brother being ordered to pay $25,000 in compensatory damages and $312,500 in punitive damages to an accountant they allegedly shot at in 2005.
Rich Boy’s royalties had apparently been garnished since then, but less than $30,000 has been paid out despite the interest on the judgement growing more than $500,000. Considering the heyday of “Throw Some D’s” is over 15 years in the rearview, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the song hasn’t generated much revenue in the meantime. | https://uproxx.com/music/rich-boy-arrested-assault-domestic-violence/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:32 | en | 0.972668 |
In this week’s episode of Fresh Pair, Compton rap veteran The Games sits down with Just Blaze and Katty Customs to discuss his 20-year career, his favorite LA rap albums, and why he just can’t seem to follow through on all those retirement plans. He also challenges Eminem to a rap battle, if you’re into that sort of thing, although if Eminem hasn’t responded to “The Black Slim Shady” yet, he probably won’t.
The Game first burst onto the scene in 2003 as a member of 50 Cent’s G-Unit clique with a string of successful mixtapes and the breakout single “Westside Story.” Needless to say, his longevity and prolific output make sifting through his catalog to find his best songs ever a task and a half. To make things simpler — or create an unnecessary challenge — we’ll only pull from his ten studio albums and singles on which he’s credited as the primary artist. It’s still pretty daunting to break this down, especially considering the writer’s personal history with the Compton rapper, but I’ll do my best. Here are The Game’s best songs, ranked.
10. “Ricky”
An album cut from Game’s fourth official release, 2011’s The R.E.D. Album, “Ricky” is blessed with an epic-sounding beat by DJ Khalil, along with a prominent sample from the seminal ’90s coming-of-age classic Boyz N The Hood. It’s pretty hard not to feel the emotional weight of the moment from the film permeating the song — which might be a cheat, but by this point in his career, The Game was wise enough to work smarter, not harder.
9. “Let Us Live”
This overlooked gem from 2008’s LAX deserves mention for the smooth way The Game sticks to Scott Storch’s smoldering instrumental. The Game has often been praised and derided for his chameleonic flow, but let’s be real: If there’s any rapper to do an impression of, it’s Nas, and The Game absolutely pulls it off. It was a little spooky to put this on back in the day and hear him so closely approximate Nas’ gruff rasp that we had to check the liner notes to make sure it wasn’t Nas. Chrisette Michele’s hook seals the deal.
8. “Compton” Feat. Will.I.Am
Admittedly, this might be my undying love for J. Dilla and De La Soul seeping out, but anytime I hear that sample of Ahmad Jamal’s “Swahililand,” I tune all the way in, regardless of its source. Add in the shout-out to my hometown and you all are lucky I didn’t just plop this underappreciated bop from 2006’s The Doctor’s Advocate at No. 1 and call it a day. Fortunately, I have a little thing called “journalistic integrity.”
7. “Dreams”
Game’s debut album, The Documentary, was hailed as a triumph when it dropped in 2004 and since then, its legend has only grown. Since this is how these things usually tend to go, it’s often compared to 50 Cent’s debut Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ due to the two rappers’ long, fraught history. While there’s some debate already about which has aged better in the nearly 20 years since both shifted the balance of hip-hop in the early aughts, “Dreams” is my exhibit A for Game’s edge there. 50 may have laid claim to many of The Documentary‘s standout tracks, but this one, produced by Kanye West at the height of his powers, is all Game.
6. “Jesus Piece” Feat. Kanye West and Common
The title track from The Game’s second-best album — yeah, I said it — was a total surprise for longtime fans. The celebrated gangsta rapper linking up with the rap biz’s very standard for conscious rap, Common, was a left-field move that paid off big. And say what you want about Kanye’s weird right-wing turn over the past couple of years, but he and Game still have the chemistry of oil and fire.
5. “The City” Feat. Kendrick Lamar
Back to The R.E.D. Album, there’s no way to exclude this heat rock, as it was one of the early guest appearances that Kendrick Lamar’s ascent to the stratosphere of rap. Dropping just after K. Dot made 2011’s XXL Freshman cover and released the mixtape Section.80 , this was many non Angelenos’ first exposure to the emerging talent. For those of us in the city, we’d just seen him crowned “New King Of The West Coast” by Game, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg (RIP the Key Club). This was the moment he received the baton, and he hasn’t stopped running since.
4. “Ali Bomaye” Feat. 2 Chainz and Rick Ross
Every album needs a gym song, the one that’ll make you feel like you can run through a brick wall when it comes on your playlist. This is that song on Jesus Piece. It’s aptly titled, named for the cheer the locals in Kinshasa, Zaire gave Muhammad Ali for his legendary 1974 fight against George Foreman, the Rumble In The Jungle. We all know who won.
3. “How We Do” Feat. 50 Cent
Sorry, I have no surprises for you down here. I think we all know what The Game’s best three songs are — and it’s likely no coincidence they all feature 50 Cent (seriously, can these two just both grow up and make a joint album, already? It’s No. 1 with a bullet and the only Throne-style project the rap world truly needs at this point). “How We Do” is probably the catchiest of the trio, but doesn’t have the raw soulfulness or gritty menace of the other two.
2. “Westside Story” Feat. 50 Cent
The Game’s debut single, “Westside Story” was produced by Dr. Dre and Scott Storch and reintroduced the world to the idea that LA gangsta rap could move units. While the style never truly went away, it maybe had gotten a little stuck in the weeds of synthesizer-heavy G-Funk in the years since Tupac’s murder. “Westside Story” was a corrective, realigning the genre with its early belligerence. This was music you played to scare your mom, a reminder that amid all the Southern California sunshine, circumstances could get dark in a hurry. Carry yourself accordingly.
1. “Hate It Or Love It” Feat. 50 Cent
There really isn’t another option for No. 1 on this list. Far and away, this 2005 hit is The Game’s best song. Even if you don’t come from the hood or personally relate to every situation that gets described here, the song pulls on your heartstrings. It’s nostalgic, it’s a little sad, it’s a little hopeful. I sh*t you not, every time I have ever heard this played in public, every single person from little kids to grandparents, seems to know the words. Even more impressively, The Game lived up to all the promises he makes on the chorus. Despite threatening to quit again and again, he really isn’t going anywhere — and rap is all the better for it. | https://uproxx.com/music/the-game-best-songs-ranked/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:39 | en | 0.956383 |
Compton rapper The Game is known for making some eyebrow-raising comments but in the latest episode of Fresh Pair, he says something that might very well flip rap fans’ wigs entirely. While discussing his debut album The Documentary, Game insisted, “Dr. Dre didn’t do any beats” on it. When Just Blaze pushes back, Game elaborates that while Dr. Dre “oversaw” the making of the album “because he’s a mastermind when it comes to that,” he doubles down on his insistence that Dre didn’t make the beats.
He then goes a step further, declaring, “I’ve never had a Dre beat in my career.” While there are those who’d dispute this assertion, Game clarifies, “I’ve never had a song with Dre on it and Dre been in my video. Snoop has a ton. Em has a ton. I don’t have none.”
Although Game’s assertion seems to be contradicted by the credits in his discography, his point seems to hinge on Dre’s well-known penchant for employing co-producers on many of the songs he’s credited for producing — which could offer a broad range of possibilities for his actual contributions to those songs. This isn’t the first time Game has downplayed Dre’s involvement in his career, either. During his appearance on Drink Champs earlier this year, he maintained that Kanye West did more for him than Dre did, despite his naming albums after the superproducer and frequently shouting him out in hs lyrics. And while is comments may remain as confusing to fans today as they were then, now we have a bit more context for why he feels that way.
Watch the full episode of Uproxx’s new show Fresh Pair above. | https://uproxx.com/music/the-game-never-had-a-dr-dre-beat-in-career/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:45 | en | 0.984986 |
The Weeknd started off this year as strong as humanly possible with the massive release of Dawn FM, which he explained was only the beginning of his world domination because it’s part of a trilogy. But before that LP even arrived, the singer announced his appearance in the upcoming HBO series The Idol.
The show is about a female pop singer who falls in love with an LA club owner who also leads a secret cult. A trailer was shared in July of this year and another in August, and now another trailer has been unveiled. Along with Abel Tesfaye, it also stars Lily-Rose Depp, Troye Sivan, Rachel Sennott, and more notable names. Somehow, this new trailer is even steamier than the previous ones, featuring lots of near-nudity as well as snippets of bondage.
2023 ❤️🔥 THE IDOL @HBO pic.twitter.com/tKlNuNzhVH
— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) October 6, 2022
Back in April, HBO announced that the series would undergo an overhaul due to the decision to head in a “new creative direction.” In a statement, HBO wrote, “The production will be adjusting its cast and crew accordingly to best serve this new approach to the series.” The cast also includes Jennie Kim, Debby Ryan, Steve Zissis, Hari Nef, Juliebeth Gonzalez, Melanie Liburd, Tunde Adebimpe, Elizabeth Berkley, Nico Hiraga, and more.
Watch the new trailer for The Idol above. | https://uproxx.com/music/the-weeknd-the-idol-trailer-arriving-2023/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:51 | en | 0.972334 |
This week on People’s Party with Talib Kweli, we have the first return solo guest ever on the show — the one and only Yasin Bey. The friendship between Kweli and Yasiin Bey is so crucial to their journey as artists and Black Star is truly a household name with hip-hop purists who can appreciate boom-bap beats and lyrics of authentic MCs. Nevertheless, there will always be a few nay sayers who attempt to undermine the legacy of Black Star.
Rap critic Anthony Fantano appears to have gone out of his way to critique the music and methods of Black Star’s release of No Fear of Time, availible on Luminary. Yasiin Bey let the world know how he feels about these kinds of critics. “Everybody is in love with their opinion these days. They have made a cottage industry out of having an opinion. Sometimes, I don’t even want to respond…I’ve had harsher things said about me by more qualified parties. We are a unique group; hip-hop is very unique. Nothing sounds like this sonically. It is a very unique arts movement. People who critique it from pop entertainment standards are missing some important nuances about what this is, and what it really means.”
For more real wisdom from one of the best hip-hop heads of his generation, peep Yasiin Bey on People’s Party with Talib Kweli below. | https://uproxx.com/peoplesparty/people-s-party-yasiin-bey-anthony-fantano-black-star/ | 2022-10-07T05:06:57 | en | 0.955012 |
In a September Instagram post, Britney Spears wrote about the lingering trauma from her conservatorship and how it is has been trying to get over it. She noted, “For me just a genuine apology would help give me closure.” Well, she got an apology from her mother Lynne Spears, who commented, “I am soooo sorry for your pain! I have been sorry for years! I love you so much and miss you! Please unblock me so I can speak to you in person! Britney, deep down you know how much I love and miss you! I apologize for anything and everything that’s hurt you!”
It turns out Britney isn’t buying that apology, which she has made explicitly clear.
In a new post shared last night (October 5), Britney wrote, “For 13 years, I had to meet doctors weekly to bring up my past which made it worse !!! As for my whole family including my brother, sister, cousins, aunts, uncles, and well damn the whole audience… were either stoned or drunk of their asses !!! I was the mother f*cking Saint who was scared to move or I knew my dad would put me somewhere if I didn’t cooperate … even in America, the land of the free !!!! Years go by and he still puts me in a psych ward !!!! Not one mother f*cking person stood up for me !!! Mom take your apology and go f*ck yourself !!! And to all the doctors for f*cking with my mind … I pray you all burn in hell !!! Kiss my mother f*cking ass !!!!”
Find Britney’s post below. | https://uproxx.com/pop/britney-spears-reject-mom-apology/ | 2022-10-07T05:07:03 | en | 0.972165 |
On October 4, Britney Spears shared an Instagram post teasing her new short haircut, writing, “I cut all my hair off … I don’t want to show it yet !!!” In the video, Spears wears a hat while striking poses on the beach, but it appears her hair now falls on or above her shoulders. For context, in recent posts (like this one from early September), Spears’ hair extends to around halfway down her torso.
It appears Spears’ new do wasn’t well-received, as Spears noted in a follow-up post.
Yesterday (October 5), Spears addressed the reaction to her hair, writing, “I was inspired by Khloe Kardashian’s hair so I’m working on deep conditioning it today !!! They say nothing is impossible !!! Well I do nothing every day … I know. That was lame … either way I was shocked to see how many comments there were under my post l did yesterday. I looked and good god people are absolutely hateful !!! It saddens me to realize a person who watches something on Instagram that doesn’t even know me takes the time to even comment and say such hateful words !!! What a sad life !!! Yes I’m sensitive so it hurt my feelings.”
As for the comments, some implore Spears to put on sunscreen while others discuss her mental health, and overall, many of them don’t have a positive tone.
Find both aforementioned posts below. | https://uproxx.com/pop/britney-spears-short-haircut-comments/ | 2022-10-07T05:07:09 | en | 0.965841 |
If you’ve logged onto TikTok — or heck, even Instagram at this point — in the past couple of months, you have probably encountered a song called “Billie Eilish” by now. If not, you definitely will now.
If you’re of a certain age, this song probably infuriates you, because, for the most part, its beat is almost a direct lift of NORE‘s 2002 God’s Favorite single “Nothin’,” which is still the Queens native’s biggest solo hit. It starts with the Neptunes-produced instrumental, but very quickly, a completely different voice replaces NORE’s: that of emerging Philadelphia star Armani White, who comes in with his now-inescapable hook.
“Bitch, I’m stylish
Glock tucked, big t-shirt — Billie Eilish”
It’s sort of a clever pull, drawing from the cultural ubiquity of the “Happier Than Ever” singer and combining it with the blog-era penchant for naming hip-hop songs after white pop stars (see: Lil B’s “I’m Miley Cyrus” and Migos’ “Hannah Montana”), along with a dose of millennial nostalgia. The punchline injects street-bred menace into Billie’s understandable preference for baggy clothes, while the beat invokes the tall tee era when such a uniform would have been less of a fashion statement and more of a necessity (it was a strange time).
But what, exactly, does Billie Eilish herself make of all this? Well, while she hasn’t exactly vocally co-signed the song, she has been known to share some of the clips using it from TikTok on her own social media.
Also, as Armani revealed in a recent interview with HipHopNMore, Billie sharing the song might well have been the catalyst that helped get the song cleared so he could start generating some revenue with the track. While trying to clear the sample and the usage of Billie’s name as the title, he says, once she shared it, “They released the claim right after that.”
Since then, Armani signed with Def Jam, got NORE’s co-sign in a performance of the song for the BET Hip-Hop Awards, and has begun planning the follow-up to his single’s success. | https://uproxx.com/pop/does-billie-eilish-know-armani-white-song/ | 2022-10-07T05:07:15 | en | 0.952479 |
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Australia to amend telecoms regulations following Optus breach
Amendments to Australia’s telecoms regulations are in the works to temporarily allow sharing of individuals’ identifier information between telcos and financial institutions
The Australian government is planning to amend its telecommunications regulations in the light of the recent data breach that compromised the personal data of some 10 million customers at Optus, the country’s number two telco.
The data included passport, driver licence and Medicare numbers, opening the door for identity fraud.
The proposed changes will permit temporary sharing of government identifier information involved in data breaches between telcos and financial institutions, so the latter can scrutinise possibly fraudulent transactions and to take special care when accounts are opened using breached identity document numbers. Names, addresses and other personal information will not be shared, emphasised federal treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Banks will only be allowed to use the information for this specific purpose. They will be required to review the need to keep it every 12 months, and then destroy the information when it is no longer required, federal communications minister Michelle Rowland said. That will presumably be when the relevant documents have either expired or been replaced.
Information will only be shared with financial institutions regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority. The institutions will also be required to show that they can receive and hold the data securely.
Other changes to the regulations will enable telcos to provide government agencies such as Services Australia with information to help prevent fraud.
The changes will only apply for 12 months, said Rowland, after which they will be reviewed. Changing the regulations can be done by the government, without bringing the matter to parliament.
The federal government is also believed to be considering changes to laws regarding the types of data that companies are required to keep, how long they must keep it, and whether they are required to delete it at the end of that period.
For example, telcos are currently required to keep certain information about their customers for two years after an account is closed, but they may choose to retain it beyond that time.
The previous government initiated a review of the Privacy Act at the end of 2019. The review is at the stage of considering responses to its October 2021 discussion paper along with feedback from a series of discussions with stakeholders.
There have been calls to limit the data that can be retained by companies, and for how long.
Organisations that have already implemented strong data retention regimes would be well-placed to cope with such changes at a technical level, but they would likely need to alter their business practices.
Those with a piecemeal approach to the issue would be more challenged, so there could be an increase in demand for systems that automate the retention and subsequent destruction of records.
The recent growth in the use of immutable storage to defend against ransomware might complicate compliance with such changes. The whole point of immutable storage is that the resulting copies cannot be changed. Fortunately, systems such as Amazon S3 Object Lock have been designed to allow different retention periods for different objects.
In related news, a Sydney teenager has been arrested for an alleged scam using data released by the person or group responsible for the Optus data breach.
According to the Australian Federal Police, he demanded A$2,000 from each of 93 people but was believed to be working through the publicly revealed list of 10,200 Optus customers. He was believed to have been identified via the bank account mentioned in blackmail SMSes.
Read more about cyber security in Australia
- Australian CISOs are under pressure and feel the least prepared globally to deal with the consequences of a cyber attack, study finds
- Australia is playing to its strengthsin niche areas such as governance and deep tech to punch above its weight in the cyber security industry.
- Australian state agency Transport for New South Wales is the latest victim of the supply chain attack against Accellion’s legacy file transfer system.
- Supply chain security risks can wreak havoc for Australian firmsif measures are not taken to deter cyber attackers from exploiting a supplier’s security gaps to target another firm. | https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252525831/Australia-to-amend-telecoms-regulations-following-Optus-breach | 2022-10-07T05:07:20 | en | 0.952962 |
Just weeks after dropping his latest EP, Sad Songs In A Hotel Room, Joshua Bassett has surprise-released a new ballad. On “Would You Love Me Now,” Bassett longs to reconnect with an ex of his over a forlorn piano-and-guitar-driven track.
“If I showed up at your doorstep, would you turn me away? / Or would you care to see a stranger hose eyes are still the same? / Take me or leave me, I’m goin’ home / But I’d rather be going your way,” Bassett sings on the song’s chorus.
Though Bassett’s EP isn’t even a month old, he admits that he couldn’t stop writing once the sessions for the EP were complete.
“At the end of the summer, inspiration struck me like lightning,” said Bassett in a statement. “I found myself up at ungodly hours barely keeping up with the songs. The new music felt urgent to put out into the world. This first track – ‘Would You Love Me Now?’ – touches on how even after heartbreak and distance, there are certain people you will always find yourself asking, “What if we tried it again?” From long lost love, broken promises, reconciliation, and new beginnings – you can count on one thing: it’s complicated.”
Check out “Would You Love Me” above.
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OneRepublic leader Ryan Tedder is one of the most successful songwriters ever; He was one of 2021’s highest-paid musicians thanks to a massive sale of his catalog rights. He has quite the catalog, too, as he has co-written songs like Beyoncé’s “Halo,” Adele’s “Rumour Has It,” and Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love.” Beyond that, he’s also worked with Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X, Jonas Brothers, Blackpink, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Machine Gun Kelly, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, and the list continues.
Of course, there’s also OneRepublic hits like “Apologize,” “Counting Stars,” and “Good Life.” Their latest single, “I Ain’t Worried,” is also a big success: It’s No. 7 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart and the band’s first top-10 song since 2013’s “Counting Stars.”
Through it all, though, Tedder says there’s one collaborative session that’s the most personally notable: Working with Paul McCartney (he co-wrote McCartney’s 2018 Egypt Station single “Fuh You“).
OneRepublic was on The Late Late Show yesterday (October 5) to perform “I Ain’t Worried,” and while there, Tedder had a brief chat with James Corden. The host asked if there was a recording session from his career that was the most “fun,” “memorable,” or “meaningful,” and Tedder answered:
“I’ve had some crazy moments with icons that I’ve worshipped my [whole] life, like U2, Peter Gabriel… they were incredible. The one that stands out the most, though, is Paul McCartney. I spent a week with him in the UK at his studio, with all the instruments from every Beatles album. He has all of them, he has all of them.
So if you say to Paul, ‘You know what I really loved? ‘Eleanor Rigby.” And he’ll go, ‘Oh, do you know what? The story about that…’ and he goes in, he tells me, ‘These are the original chords, it wasn’t ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ it was a different name.’ ‘Let It Be,’ he tells me how he wrote that. I went into ‘Hey Jude,’ he tells me how he wrote that. It was amazing.”
Check out the interview above and OneRepublic’s performance below.
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Andrade’s offscreen feud with Sammy Guevara escalated quickly over the span of a week, conducting an interview where he called out the latter and resulting in an apparent altercation backstage at AEW Dynamite Wednesday night.
More details have emerged on the altercation, with Andrade apparently working to get out of his contract with AEW, as detailed by the Wrestling Observer.
According to Dave Meltzer, roughly three people within AEW want to leave, Andrade is one of them, and “if a guy doesn’t want to be here, they become a cancer in the locker room.” The report details how Guevara and Andrade were both spoken with on Tuesday and told not to fight. Andrade was reportedly then told, “you’re not going to get fired if you fight, but you will be sent home.”
As far as the fight goes, Guevara “for sure” didn’t throw punches and stories differ on whether or not he was physical at all, according to Meltzer. Andrade, on the other hand, did, which is why he was sent home and Guevara went on to earn a pinfall in the main event with Chris Jericho against Bryan Danielson and Daniel Garcia.
Andrade’s move comes at a time when Triple H is bringing back a slew of ex-WWE star to fill out the roster in the wake of Vince McMahon’s departure. With years left on his deal, we’ll see whether Tony Khan cuts ties with the former WWE star or sticks to his decision to not allow any disgruntled stars out of their contracts. | https://uproxx.com/sports/andrade-aew-altercation-details-wwe-sammy-guevara/ | 2022-10-07T05:07:34 | en | 0.974413 |
To learn that an American president is talking so frankly about the possibility of nuclear “Armageddon,” as Joe Biden did Thursday, is bone chilling.
It’s also a commentary on the grave uncertainty over how Russian President Vladimir Putin, a self-styled strongman, might react to the increasing possibility of defeat in Ukraine in a war to which he has nailed his political survival.
Biden’s remarks, at a fundraising event in New York, could open him to criticism by political opponents that he is speaking in an inartful way about nuclear war – and at a political fundraiser of all places. But they are paradoxically also a little reassuring because they reveal a president who is deeply conscious of the risks of escalation with the volatile Kremlin leader.
And whether they were meant for public consumption or not, his comments will have the effect of signaling to Putin that any use of nuclear arms – even a smaller battlefield device – could create a cascade of consequences that could lead to global disaster. In other words, Biden may be reasserting a measure of deterrence after Putin warned that he was not bluffing over his threat to possibly use a nuclear bomb.
But Biden’s comments also show that, in one way at least, Putin’s nuclear threats have worked: They have left his adversaries unsure how he might behave.
Biden told Democratic donors that the world had arrived at a dangerous moment.
“(For the) first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat of the use (of a) nuclear weapon if, in fact, things continue down the path they are going,” Biden said.
“We’ve got a guy I know fairly well,” Biden said of Putin.
“He’s not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming.”
US officials are concerned that Putin might consider the use of a smaller tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine in a desperate attempt to turn the course of the war. The White House says it has warned the Kremlin that such a decision would be “catastrophic” for Russia but has not said publicly exactly how they would respond – though there is speculation NATO might get involved and directly target Russian forces, a scenario that could lead to a dangerous escalation with Moscow.
US officials have also said, however, that they have detected no sign that Russia is moving or readying any of its tactical nuclear weapons, which can be small enough to target soldier formations or big enough to destroy a city.
Biden’s burden
Biden’s comments on Thursday underscore the burden that he now shoulders since the first president since the end of the Cold War more than 30 years ago who faces the frightening reality that nuclear war with Moscow is possible. At least once, during the decades-long standoff between the US and the Soviet Union, Armageddon could have been triggered accidentally, historical accounts show. But the only time that Washington and Moscow stood on the brink of a deliberate nuclear exchange was in the tense 13-day standoff almost exactly 60 years ago in October 1962 over Russian plans to station nuclear missiles in Cuba. Eventually, after intense messaging between Washington and Moscow, Russia leader Nikita Khrushchev backed down.
Presidents are often less guarded during political fundraising events, which are usually not on camera even though a press pool is allowed in for some remarks. So it’s possible that the President’s comments – his most stark on the nuclear question since the war in Ukraine started – might not have happened in a more conventional setting like a news conference. And the White House has frequently walked back unscripted presidential remarks on foreign policy, especially on how the US would respond if China invaded Taiwan.
But Biden’s musings do appear to offer a window into his thinking as he games out how this crisis ends. He seems to have been wrestling over the very same questions about escalation and avoiding a moment of no return that President John Kennedy faced in 1962 in his game of nuclear poker.
“I’m trying to figure out what is Putin’s off ramp,” Biden said. “Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself in a position that he does not not only lose face but significant power within Russia?” Biden said.
The President may have been thinking of Kennedy’s commencement address at American University in Washington in 1963 in which he reflected on the lessons of the Cuban missile crisis and the risks posed by weapons that could end the world.
“Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war,” Kennedy said.
“To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy – or of a collective death-wish for the world.”
Biden has been scrupulous in trying to avoid a direct confrontation with Russia over Ukraine even though Putin has styled the conflict as a showdown with the West. But the great strategic danger now is that Russian defeats are leading Putin into exactly that corner that Kennedy warned against, where the Russian President may face a choice between humiliation or the use of a nuclear weapon.
No off ramps
The situation is complicated by the fact that there is no prospect of a diplomatic process to end the war. Ukraine is in no mood to talk after suffering an unprovoked invasion that has caused human carnage, especially as it now appears to have Russian troops on the run. Putin cannot afford any outcome to the war that looks like anything other than total victory even though his control over the Russian media might allow him to spin a loss into a win.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed the lack of diplomatic off ramps during a visit to Peru on Thursday.
“The fact is that President Putin and Russia have shown absolutely no interest in any kind of meaningful diplomacy. And unless and until they do, it’s very hard to pursue it,” Blinken said.
“We’ve said all along, President (Volodymyr) Zelensky has said all along, that this will ultimately be resolved through diplomacy. And if and when Russia shows that it has any seriousness of purpose, about engaging in such diplomacy, we’ll be ready, we’ll be there. But every sign in this moment, unfortunately, points in the opposite direction.”
The longer the war goes on, and the greater the success of Ukraine’s forces, the more concern there will be about Putin reaching for his nuclear arsenal to try to change the equation. While some strategists think that he is either bluffing or that there are no real strategic advantages to breaking the nuclear taboo – an act that would leave Russia even more ostracized in the world – there is real concern in Western governments about Putin’s state of mind. All of his previous tactical assumptions and decisions in Ukraine have backfired and don’t show the kind of strategic caution and clear thinking that is critical when the question becomes whether or not to use nuclear weapons.
With that in mind, Biden appeared to be making an argument, which Putin will now be sure to hear about, that the idea that the use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine could be contained and not lead to a wider conflagration is wrong.
The entire strategic logic between maintaining nuclear weapons for self-defense is that they are too terrible to be used, and any nation that did would be writing their own death warrant.
The President has now sent a clear signal to the Russian leader that crossing the nuclear threshold in any way could cause an escalation that would lead to a disastrous full-on nuclear war.
“I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon,” Biden said at the fundraiser.
His comments underscore the most important mission of his presidency – shepherding the world through the most dangerous nuclear brinkmanship in 60 years. | https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-armageddon-analysis/index.html | 2022-10-07T05:07:37 | en | 0.971973 |
Thursday Night Football has been in the news a great deal in 2022, starting with a headline-grabbing matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers to kick off Amazon’s foray into full broadcast coverage of the NFL. Viewership numbers are strong and, in the early going, the matchups were solid. In Week 5, however, professional football observers were treated to quite a spectacle, to the point where home fans in Denver were seemingly so annoyed that they vacated the premises at Mile High just before overtime began.
After Russell Wilson threw an interception with a chance to close out the game, the Indianapolis Colts marched the field, kicked a field goal, and forced overtime with a hilarious 9-9 score. As the transition from regulation to the extra frame was happening, Amazon’s cameras caught a slew of Broncos fans heading to the exits, and Kirk Herbstreit expressed his dismay on the air.
incredible pic.twitter.com/opMhoJp6j0
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 7, 2022
Herbstreit likely speaks for many people here in that it is bizarre to see fans leaving before overtime, no matter the context. While it is a night game, it was only about 9:30 p.m. local time in Denver when the exodus started, and you can hear the bewilderment of Herbstreit. His partner in the booth, the legendary Al Michaels, was also sharing quips throughout the night to make fun of the product on the field, and the tone was honestly appropriate.
While the game did have real stakes and was competitive on the scoreboard, there was plenty of evidence that the game was not going well on the whole. For example, both teams threw two interceptions and averaged fewer than six yards per pass attempt in regulation. The Broncos and Colts combined for 15 penalties in the first 60 minutes, with a combined 6-of-29 mark on third down. In short, it was an aesthetically hideous game that only a true sicko would enjoy, and at least some fans in Denver just couldn’t take it anymore.
That proved to probably be a wise move as they beat some traffic while also not having to watch the final twist of the knife, as the Broncos chose to go for it on 4th and 1 from the 5 while trailing by three and, instead of running the ball, they threw the ball for an incompletion to lose.
And the @Colts walk away with the W in OT. #INDvsDEN on Prime Video
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(CNN) — Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's sculpture "Yellow Pumpkin" was reinstalled on October 4th on Naoshima island after it was swept into the sea and badly damaged during a typhoon last summer. Local residents, students and officials gathered to celebrate the art island's trademark sculpture as it was placed back on the pier on Naoshima Island, which is in the Seto Inland Sea. It had been there since 1994.
"Since (the pumpkin) was a symbol of Naoshima, it is great to see the same artwork installed again at the same spot. We are happy to share the joy with residents in Naoshima," said Kaori Stenlund, a spokeswoman from Benesse Holdings, the company that manages the sculpture and the rest of the island's art offerings, told CNN Travel.
The sculpture, which is two meters tall, 2.5 meters wide and made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic, was swept away into the sea and broken into three pieces in August 2021.
According to Stenlund, Kusama's production team opted to create a brand new yellow pumpkin sculpture -- while staying true to the original -- after evaluating the extent of the damage.
The artist's production team started working on a new pumpkin earlier this spring and made the sculpture's outer shell 10% thicker than the original so it could withstand strong waves and wind in the future. In addition, a hook was embedded into its stem so it could be easily dragged to safety if another typhoon hits.
"We hope to exhibit the pumpkin as a symbol of the connection between Naoshima and the world," Stenland added, saying that message underpinned the 1994 "Out of Bounds" exhibition, which saw the sculpture first installed on the island.
On the Japanese island of Naoshima, contemporary sculptures dot the landscape, while abandoned houses are turned into works of art.
Naoshima is a quiet with 3,200 residents, located in the Setouchi Sea, north of Shikoku. With three modern and contemporary art museums, it is known as an "art island," The yellow pumpkin, which contrasts with the blue sea, has long been a popular site for Instagram photos.
The main way to access the island is a 20-minute ferry ride from Okayama city, which is 50 minutes away by bullet train from Osaka.
The pumpkin's timing couldn't be better. Japan opens its borders to leisure tourists on October 11, and the Setouchi Art festival runs until November 2022.
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In the nearly 40 years since the Air Jordan 1s inception, the sneaker has solidified itself as the most iconic shoe of all time. Say the word “sneaker,” and most people are going to conjure up images of their favorite AJ1. For good reason, too — the sneaker single-handedly created sneaker culture as we know it when it first dropped to the public on April 1st, 1985. Aside from being emblematic of basketball’s most iconic player, the Jordan I also set the stage for the full lineage of Jordans, which as of 2022 consists of 36 individual sneakers.
With 36 different designs in its lineage, the fact that the Jordan I still tops the list of many people’s favorite sneaker silhouette is a testament to its design. We have the late Peter Moore to thank for that, who not only designed the Jordan 1 and 2 but also gave us the branding associated with the Air Jordan family, from the original wing logo on the 1 to the Jumpman which debuted on the 3.
The Air Jordan 3 might’ve been designed by Tinker Hatfield but it took design elements originally sketched out by Moore, and it’s probably second to the Jordan 1 for that very reason, as it combined design elements from two sneaker legends — creating something greater than the sum of its parts. But even still, we never would’ve gotten there without the 1!
In celebration of the sneaker world’s greatest design, we’re running through the Air Jordan Is 30 best colorways, from 1985 to 2022. And if you want to see a fully custom Jordan 1, check out The Game reacting to his new kicks on Uproxx’s Fresh Pair, below.
Air Jordan 1 Royal Blue, 1985
The very first colorway released to the public, the Air Jordan 1 Royal Blue was Michael Jordan’s personal favorite. Despite not being his team colors, Jordan wore this blue and black colorway in an early ad campaign shot by famed sports photographer Chuck Kuhn.
The image of Jordan wearing Royal Blues in a matching sweatsuit on a remote Oregon airstrip at sunset is as iconic a visual as the very sneaker it’s advertising.
Air Jordan 1 Black Toe, 1985
One of the debut AJ-1 colorways, the Black Toe remains one of the sneaker’s most iconic and beloved designs. Though hardly worn by Jordan himself on the court, it was the Black Toe that MJ was rocking during the photoshoot that would inspire the now iconic Jumpman logo. For that reason alone, it’ll always be one of the greatest Jordan colorways ever.
The Black Toe has since been re-released in 2013 and again in 2016, which means we’re due for a refresh any day now.
Air Jordan 1 BRED/Banned, 1985
The BRED or Banned colorway of the Air Jordan 1 is the only sneaker that could be classified as “badass.” This Chicago Bulls-inspired colorway was famously banned for violating NBA league dress regulations (or rather, that’s how Nike tells it — more accurately, it was the “Air Ship” that was banned), resulting in a $5,000 fine per game every time Jordan rocked a pair.
He did it anyway and Nike gladly foot the bill (…or so the story goes).
Air Jordan 1 UNC/Carolina Blue, 1985
Not quite as rare as some of the other first-year colorways, the UNC remains one of the prettiest pairs of Air Jordan 1s. Made in tribute to the college colors of Jordan’s alma mater, The University of North Carolina, the UNC pulls together shades of Carolina Blue and white across an all-leather upper.
The look of a cloud is a perfect fit for someone nicknamed “His Airness.”
Air Jordan 1 Shadow, 1985
It’s easy to forget given the insane popularity of the BRED and Royal Blue colorways that the AJ-1’s debut sneaker also produced a fifth classic colorway, the moody black and grey Shadow. While it doesn’t get the same amount of ink spilled over it as those other classics, it’s still, 35 years later, the cleanest the Air Jordan has ever looked.
Air Jordan 1 High Chicago, 1986
To correct the (self-created?) controversy surrounding the BRED, Nike released this league-approved red, white, and black colorway which quickly became emblematic of the AJ-1 itself. If sneakerheads picture the Air Jordan 1 when they heard the word “sneakers,” then this is the colorway they see it in.
The Chicago, or Varsity Red (as it’s now known), has been re-released several times, and it’s the colorway Virgil Abloh based his updated take on the AJ-1 on from his now-classic “The Ten” collection.
Air Jordan 1 Retro Japan Pack, 2001
Nike Japan has a track record of producing some of the brand’s greatest colorways, and that trend started with this four sneaker release. The full Japan pack consisted of Metallic Silver/Neutral Grey, White/Midnight Navy, Black Metallic Silver, and White Metallic silver colorways, with some pairs featuring reflective 3M detailing.
Each sneaker from the collection was released in a limited edition suitcase, which was a puzzling move, but hey, who wouldn’t want to keep one of these pairs in a hard shell under lock and key?
Air Jordan 1 Patent Leather, 2003/2013/2020
It’s rare that a mid-rise Jordan 1 colorway ever edges into legendary status, but this patent leather iteration of the AJ-1 is impossible to ignore. We mean literally, how can you not see this sneaker when it reflects any light source directly into your eyes?
These feel a little dated by 2020’s standards, but this black and gold colorway remains popular to this day, with a recent re-release in high-top form. The newest iteration is a huge improvement over the original, but we have to shout out the design that started the patent leather look, so we’re showcasing the mid-rise.
Air Jordan 1 XQ, 2007/2013
Sometimes sneaker brands will do things that seem to go against reason. Surely, Nike loves to make money, why then has there only been one refresh of the China-exclusive XQ colorway? This pair remains one of the most unique in the AJ-1s history, thanks to its star-speckled embossed leather paneling, and unique line detailing.
The sneaker serves as a reminder that Nike is at its best when the brand is playing loose with its design template.
Levi’s x Nike Air Jordan 1 23/501 Denim Retro, 2008
As part of their first brand collaboration, Levi’s and Nike offered up new takes on their two most iconic products, the Air Jordan 1 and Levi’s 501 jean. Sure, nobody remembers what that pair of pants looked like, but the image of the corresponding sneaker will be burned into every Air Jordan 1 fan’s memory for as long as people keep making lists of the best Air Jordan 1s.
Sporting a denim and leather upper, the 23/501s featured red paneling and a denim iteration of Nike’s famous elephant print.
Air Jordan 1 HARE, 2009
Sneakerheads rarely go crazy for cartoon sneaker tie-ins but the HARE Jordan 1 — inspired by the Air Jordan 7 colorway of the same name — has managed to carve out space amongst even the most fashion-obsessed of hype beasts. That’s probably because this neutral grey on pristine white colorway with red accents manages to look so dope.
On paper swapping out the iconic Jumpman logo for Bugs Bunny sounds like a stupid idea but in practice? Fresh as hell. The HARE colorway has been used on several Air Jordans to date, and it always looks fly.
Air Jordan 1 High Strap A Tribe Called Quest, 2009
We debated not even including this pair on this list as only 25 pairs were initially released, but this A Tribe Called Quest-celebrating design — which uses Tribe’s “Midnight Marauders” as inspiration — is just too unique to ignore.
First, there is that black-on-red-on-green colorway that is so representative of Tribe, and then there is that strap, a definite anomaly in the Jordan 1 lineage and one we’d like to see a lot more of going forward.
Fragment Design x Air Jordan 1, 2014
Famed streetwear designer Hiroshi Fujiwara had a simple recipe for this Fragment Design Jordan 1: take two of the shoe’s greatest colorways, the Black Toe and Royal, and mash them together, giving us the Fragment Design Air Jordan 1.
It could be argued that Fujiwara’s design even improves upon those original colorways. In fact, we’ll say that right here, right now.
Just Don X Air Jordan 1 High Strap BHM, 2013
Released in celebration of Black History Month to benefit the Big Brothers & Big Sisters of America charity, this black and orange pair designed by legendary Chicago streetwear designer Don C features a high-top strap and a premium snakeskin-inspired leather upper.
It doesn’t look too much like an AJ-1, but it definitely looks fresh.
Air Jordan 1 High Legends of Summer Pack, 2014
Here is the thing about the Legends of Summer — I happen to think they’re some of the ugliest Jordan 1s ever. Why are they are on this list then? Because all three pairs, the red, the black, and the red and white sell for, easily, above $5K on the aftermarket.
While I don’t think an expensive shoe necessarily makes for a great shoe, to deny the popularity of this pack — which dropped to a limited few in commemoration of Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z’s Legends of Summer tour — would be to ignore a part of Jordan 1 sneaker history.
Air Jordan 1 Shattered Backboard, 2015
2015’s starfish orange on black and sail colorway, known simply as the “Shattered Backboard” is a modern classic. The Shattered Backboard gets its name and colors from an exhibition game in Italy during Jordan’s rookie year. Wearing an orange, black, and white uniform, Jordan dunked so hard he shattered the backboard, creating history in the process.
30 years later, it would lead to one of the AJ-1’s greatest colorways.
Air Jordan 1 Letterman
Released 30 years after his first appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, this pair of AJ-1s combined Light Crimson and Midnight Navy to create a colorway inspired by the jumpsuit Jordan wore on his first-ever late-night tv appearance.
It’s a weird moment to commemorate, but hey, we’re not complaining. We’ll take 10 pairs.
Air Jordan 1 Igloo, 2017
If the aforementioned Jordan 1 UNC is the sneaker’s prettiest colorway, the Igloo is a close second. Released as an Art Basel exclusive, this mint, black, and white colorway sought to capture the look and feel of Miami’s South Beach waterfront.
Did it succeed? Who cares, it made for a dope-as-hell sneaker.
Off-White x Air Jordan 1 The Ten, 2017
With this ranking, this will now be the third time we’ve written about this Chicago-inspired colorway from Virgil Abloh’s “The Ten” collection. What more can we say about this shoe that we haven’t already? If we had to choose a single sneaker to be representative of Abloh’s entire 10-shoe debut Nike collection, it would be this one.
This design could go on the cover of an entire book about Abloh’s contribution to footwear, and nobody would bat an eye. It’s iconic.
Union x Air Jordan 1 Black Toe/Storm Blue, 2018
Los Angeles-based retailer Union has made a handful of Air Jordans and each one of them is a certifiable classic. For their first collaboration, Union took on the AJ-1 and dropped two iterations consisting of the colors of four classic colorways, stitched together with deconstruction-inspired zig-zag stitching and sitting atop pre-yellowed soles.
SoleFly x Jordan 1 High Art Basel, 2018
Another Art Basel Miami exclusive — this time in collaboration with SoleFly — this high top Jordan 1 dropped in a leather and shiny patent leather version, both featuring a University of Miami-inspired color combo of orange, white and green.
Air Jordan 1 High Origin Story Spider-Man, 2018
It shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that we’re saying this but, Miles Morales is the coolest Spider-Man ever. Peter Parker never rocked a pair of Nikes, and this Chicago-inspired colorway worn by Morales in animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse remains the coolest pair of sneakers a superhero has ever rocked.
A Spider-inspired smash of blue and reflective details set this apart from this familiar AJ-1 color palette.
Air Jordan 1 Pine Green Retro High, 2018
An expansion of Jordan Brand’s Black Toe line, the Pine Green features a black on sail colorway with a Pine Green toe box. It’s a simple-but-striking colorway that acts as a reminder that the Air Jordan 1s debut colorways still play a major part in influencing future designs.
Travis Scott Jordan 1 High Cactus Jack, 2019
Travis Scott has produced a lot of solid designs out of his Cactus Jack label but has yet to surpass the perfection that is the Cactus Jack Jordan 1. Featuring a backward swoosh with coffee-colored suede paneling over a white sail upper, the Cactus Jack, alongside the Union LA and “The Ten” AJ-1, will go down as the colorways that kept this iconic silhouette relevant to a new generation of sneakerheads.
Off-White Jordan 1 High White, 2020
We don’t know if Virgil Abloh will ever design an Air Jordan 1 that reaches the same popularity as his Chicago-inspired colorway from “The Ten,” but this all-white iteration is pretty damn close.
Released in March of this year, this iteration of the AJ-1 sold out nearly instantly and still reaches prices as high as $2K on the aftermarket. The design is simple, consisting of deconstructed white leather paneling, mesh, and blue and orange threading that adds a striking yet minimal splash of color. Truly Abloh and the AJ-1 at their best.
A Ma Maniére x Air Jordan 1, 2021
Atlanta-based label, A Ma Maniére has made a name for itself by consistently delivering some of the more premium-looking Jordans, and the brand’s take on the Jordan 1 stands as one of their best yet. Featuring a textured suede upper in off-white with a Burgundy snakeskin collar and swoosh, you could call A Ma Maniére’s Jordan 1 your favorite colorway of all time and no one would bat an eye. It’s that good.
Air Jordan 1 High Pollen, 2001
Dubbed the “Pollen” for its bumble bee-inspired colorway, this sneaker looks like a classic that’s always been with us, which makes its 2021 release date surprising. The sneaker features a premium tumbled leather upper in black with pollen overlays and authentic 1980s-style detailing.
Air Jordan 1 High ’85 College Navy (Georgetown), 2022
We’re always here for Jordan colorways that subtly point to MJ’s on-court career, and the College Navy, also known unofficially as the “Georgetown,” is one of the cleverest colorways to do so. Made to commemorate a specific match from Jordan’s college career, the College Navy makes reference to Jordan’s title-winning moment against the Georgetown Hoyas (go Bulldogs!) by dipping the shoe in the Washington DC’s school colors.
That’s a cold move on Nike’s part but we doubt anyone from Georgetown would complain considering this pair looks undeniably dope.
Air Jordan 1 High OG Stage Haze, 2022
A subtle shuffling of the coveted Shadow colorway, the Stage Haze combines white leather with cracked black leather paneling and bleached coral paneling with suede detailing and vintage Nike branding.
It’s not a star-driven shoe or a crazy collab — just a thoughtful reimagining of a classic. That’s very cool.
Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Reverse Mocha Low, 2022
As you can tell from this list, it’s a rare thing when a low-top Jordan captures the imagination of sneakerheads but with Travis Scott’s name attached and a truly great colorway, this low-top is just too fresh to ignore.
The Reverse Mocha is the first Travis Scott branded sneaker that is self-referential, with this sneaker being very similar to the high-top AJ-1 Mocha, released in 2019. You might’ve noticed that release is absent from this list, and it’s because this one is better. The Reverse Mocha features a giant oversized backward swoosh\ and scarlet embroidered accents and sits atop an off-white rubber midsole. | https://uproxx.com/style/best-air-jordan-1s-of-all-time/ | 2022-10-07T05:07:46 | en | 0.937486 |
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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best footwear to hit the internet. This is a rare week where Adidas and Nike are operating on near-equal footing. Generally in SNX, Nike dominates — with, at a minimum, five to six sneakers in our roundup. But this week they’ve only snagged four, with Adidas coming in strong with three. That doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it very much feels like the Adidas version of Andre 3000’s iconic Source Awards speech. The three stripes got something to say!
Bringing the list to a nice even eight is New Balance with their latest collaboration, a very dope iteration of the 990v3 made with Amsterdam streetwear staple Patta. Let’s dive into this week’s eight best sneaker drops and where to buy them!
Women’s Air Jordan 3 Black Gold
This week’s Black Gold Air Jordan 3 exudes royal vibes. It combines classic Jordan 3 colors like black, cement grey, and fire red with shimmering metallic gold accents, coming across as a some sort of special commemorative Jordan. Is it the sneaker’s anniversary? Is it tied to a special collaboration? Nope, it’s just a regular Thursday over at Nike where they continue to churn out super fresh colorways in exclusive women’s sizing week to week.
Our favorite detail is the sail midsole. We always love a sail midsole!
The Women’s Air Jordan 3 Black Gold is set to drop on October 6th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT.
Converse x A-COLD-WALL Collection
It’s not easy to redesign a classic like the Chuck 70. That sneaker looks great as is, preferably in the classic black and white colorway, but a few labels have been able to tackle the sneaker and turn it into something that looks new. Virgil Abloh’s Off-White was one of those brands, the other is Samuel Ross’ A-COLD-WALL.
Featuring reflective detailing and a smokey translucent midsole, the A-COLD-WALL collection drops in two colorways — faded black and off-white — complete with alphanumeric branding and a futuristic aesthetic.
The Converse x A-COLD Wall Collection is set to drop on October 6th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $110. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Adidas Campus 80 South Park Towelie
The Towelie is back! First released last year on 4/20 (obviously) this beloved take on the Campus 80 is getting a re-release this week, just in time for your Towelie Halloween costume. Featuring a terry loop textile upper with leather lining, a rubber outsole and a handy stash pocket in the tongue, the Towelie sports graphic eyes on the tongue (one pair bloodshot red, the other Visine white) with famous Towelie quotes on the inner tongue and drops in a special commemorative Southpark designed box.
It’s dope, very bad pun intended.
The Adidas Campus 80 South Park Towelie is set to drop on October 6th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $100. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.
Adidas Mahomes 1 Black Panther Impact FLX
Adidas is dropping four Black Panther-related sneakers and as cool as they all are, we don’t have room for all four of them so we’re just going to highlight the best two, starting with the Mahomes 1.
Featuring a full texture upper in stealthy core black with gold metallic accents and what Adidas is calling “Tribe Purple” at the outsole, the Mahomes 1 Black Panther sports a football trainer-inspired design and is partly made from recycled content from the Adidas cutting room floor. It sits atop a plush BOOST midsole for ultimate comfort.
The Adidas Mahomes 1 Black Panther Impact FLX is set to drop on October 7th at 12:00 am PST for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.
Adidas Marvel Black Panther Ultra 4D
Although sneaker trends have slightly moved on, the Adidas Ultra 4D is still one of the brand’s best-looking and most comfortable sneakers and this new Black Panther-inspired redesign is the coolest the sneaker has looked in a while.
Featuring a Primeknit upper and that iconic 4D midsole, the Ultra features a grippy rubber outsole fit for all terrains, and weighs just 12.4 ounces (size 9), making it one of the lightest running sneakers on the market.
The Adidas Marvel Black Panther Ultra 4D is set to drop on October 7th at 12:00 am PST for a retail price of $220. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.
New Balance x Patta MADE in USA 990v3
This week New Balance is linking up with beloved Amsterdam streetwear brand Patta for a new take on the 990v3. Patta’s 990v3 features a pigskin suede and mesh upper in soft olive tones with bright green detailing, a speckled ABZORB midsole, reflective detailing and Patta branding at the heel. The design was apparently inspired by trees, which, sure, I guess it’s green. Who cares, it looks dope regardless!
The New Balance x Patta MADE IN USA 990v3 is set to drop on October 7th at 7:00 am PST for a retail price of $219.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.
Nike Air Jordan 3 Archaeo Brown
If you’re internally whining about the fact that the super sleek Black Gold Jordan 3 is only dropping in women’s sizing, stop, because people with larger feet are getting their own Jordan 3 as well. Dubbed the Archaeo Brown, this AJ-3 combines premium leather and textured detailing across a brown, maroon, and yellow colorway that exudes autumnal vibes.
Not autumnal enough? This sneaker also sports a plush fleece collar lining. It might not be as sleek and luxurious as the Black Gold, but the detailing is so on point that it makes up for it.
The Nike Air Jordan 3 Archaeo Brown is set to drop on October 8th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $210. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Nike Dunk Low Argon
The Argon, with its multi-shade blue colorway, looks dope, that’s undeniable. But this isn’t any all-blue Dunk, this colorway is downright legendary. Originally released as a highly sought out Japanese exclusive, the Argon is finally getting a US release!
The argon features a smooth leather upper with a plush collar, and a wraparound swoosh with white accents. It’s probably the best Dunk to drop all year.
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There is nothing more New York City than … handcuffs, studded belts, and spiked skulls. The first teaser for the eleventh (yes) season of FX’s horror anthology American Horror Story (titled American Horror Story: NYC) dropped on Thursday. The teaser is as ambiguous as it is creepy, as vague as it is kinky. It also very much feels like this is a season of television for the goths (everyone deserves representation).
The trailer starts with a shot of New York City itself (hey, that’s the name of the show) then a shot of a DJ at a dark, busy club. Then the teaser gets progressively gets creepier with shots of club goths in black leather, spiked or studded belts, chokers, chains, and such. Intertwined are shots of NYC things, like the dreaded A train, which is a horror show on its own.
The teaser includes the teasing text “the deadliest year” and “a season like no other.” The series premieres on FX on Wednesday, October 19.
Details about the plot are currently unknown, and the same goes for most AHS seasons. The cast of AHS: NYC includes some AHS vets including Billie Lourd, Isaac Cole Powell, Zachary Quinto, Sandra Bernhard, Broadway legend Patti Lupone, Denis O’Hare, Leslie Grossman, Rebecca Dayan, Nico Greetham, and Dot-Marie Jones. AHS newcomers in the cast include Joe Mantello, Russell Tovey, and Charlie Cover. | https://uproxx.com/tv/ahs-nyc-teaser/ | 2022-10-07T05:07:58 | en | 0.950294 |
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Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
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10. (tie) She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney Plus)
Alison Brie didn’t get to portray this “Allison Brie type” role, but hey, we’re getting Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany, who has so much fun relishing this role. She’s smart and silly and she Hulks out like a pro while also being the MCU’s very green attorney for superheroes. Expect a lot of cameos, and Mark Ruffalo is on hand as Bruce Banner. There’s no word on whether we’ll eventually see the Hulk Butt like we received in Thor: Ragnarok. Admit it, that’s on your wishlist, too. Watch it on Disney Plus.
10. Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester (Netflix)
According to Hasan Minhaj, the soul of his howlingly funny and revelatory new Netflix comedy special, The King’s Jester, came from a prompt from his director (and Patriot Act co-creator) Prashanth Venkataramanujam: “I just need you to bleed on the page. Anything that you’re too humiliated or scared to talk about, you should talk about it.” And he did. Packed with self-aware observations about his teen years, fertility struggle, time on Patriot Act, and how the show’s success and his “clout-chasing” collided with his family life, Minhaj showcases a level of vulnerability that many comics promise but never deliver on. It’s bold, visually compelling, and funny as hell. Watch it on Netflix.
10. (tie) Welcome to Wrexham (FX/Hulu)
Welcome to Wrexham is like Ted Lasso, if Ted Lasso was about Deadpool and Mac from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia buying a soccer team. Other than that, it’s identical. The documentary series follows Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney as they purchase and help run the Wrexham A.F.C. football club. Welcome to Wrexham looks sweet and sincere, which is a nice change of pace from getting mad at [your favorite sports team here] blowing it AGAIN. Watch it on FX/Hulu.
9. Reboot (Hulu)
A comedy all-star team of Judy Greer, Keegan Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville, Rachel Bloom, and Paul Reiser come together to gently mock the reboot gold rush and the entertainment industry, providing a Larry Sanders-y kind of inside baseball show that benefits from the presence of Modern Family co-creator Steven Levitan and Party Down mastermind John Enbom. Did we mention Judy Greer? The legend that is Judy Greer grows as she totally steals these early episodes as an actress turned duchess turned actress trying to stave off Hollywood irrelevancy, which is something that could never happen to the real Judy Greer because she is an American treasure. But acting! Watch it on Hulu.
8. The Patient (FX/Hulu)
Steve Carell is back on television once again, this time not so much to make you laugh as to… well, creep you out. He plays a therapist who is held captive by a serial killer who desperately wants help curing his murderous urges. It does not exactly sound like light/fun viewing but it does sound intriguing. And it’s from the creator of The Americans. And he has a pretty righteous beard going on. While we cannot in good faith support kidnapping Steve Carell and holding him hostage in real life, this all could be worth checking out. Watch it on Hulu.
7. Atlanta (FX/Hulu)
Atlanta is back — and back in Atlanta — for one last ride after a season-long jaunt to Europe. It’s kind of remarkable that this show has even existed. In a good way. It’s strange and silly, thoughtful and artistic, and not really like anything else out there. Donald Glover was a star before any of this got underway, but it’s made the rest of the main cast stars, too. That’s kind of cool. Get in there and appreciate this show while we still have it. You could be waiting a long time for anything even remotely similar. Watch it on FX/Hulu.
6. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon Prime)
Jeff Bezos is finally getting his version of Game of Thrones, and this even more enormously expensive franchise looks to be worth the price tag to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s fabled Second Age to the screen. A young Galadriel will be one of the bigger highlights of this series’ exploration of relative peace that’s shattered when evil reemerges. Expect stunning visuals that leap from the Misty Mountains to an island setting to majestic forests. Between this and House of the Dragon, we’re sure getting our fill of epic fantasy shows these days. Watch it on Amazon Prime.
5. Andor (Disney Plus)
George Lucas has frequently insisted that, like Wu-Tang Clan, Star Wars is for the children. But Andor sure looks like it’s geared more towards adults. The Rogue One prequel starring Diego Luna, reprising his role as Cassian Andor, is gritty, mature, and other words you use to describe movies and TV shows that aren’t messing around. And with this being the first Disney-era Star Wars show to be filmed in real-life locations, Andor isn’t messing around. Watch it on Disney Plus.
4. Interview With the Vampire (AMC Plus)
You’ve surely seen the 1990s movie starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst, and now, Anne Rice’s most popular gothic novel gets the small-screen adaptation. Great news: this version is better than the film for several reasons. Jacob Anderson of Game of Thrones gives us a very different Louis while Sam Reid swaggers about as Lestat de Lioncourt, and Claudia’s story gets expanded with Bailey Bass giving us a brazen and tragic performance and a secondary narrative framing device. The leading duo takes their sexual tension out of the closet, too, which adds a lot of layers (and fun) to this update. Watch it on AMC Plus.
3. The Midnight Club (Netflix)
Mike Flanagan might be the king of Halloween-streaming programming, given his success with The Haunting Of Hill House (and its followup), along with the more recent Midnight Mass. This series gears itself toward a younger crowd as it adapts Christopher Pike’s novel about a hospice for terminal teens. They form an organization devoted to telling scary stories at night, and there’s a twist: they all take a pact to send messages from the grave, if they go before the rest. Sadly, there will be no vampirish Hamish Linklater here, but hopefully, the show can do penance for this venial sin. Watch it on Netflix.
2. Abbott Elementary (Hulu)
The first season of Abbott Elementary was a feel-good network sitcom that caught a massive wave of popularity and won a bunch of Emmys in a time when feel-good network sitcoms are kind of not supposed to do that. Credit for this goes to creator and star Quinta Brunson, who realized that an underfunded inner-city public school was exactly the right place to show us people with good hearts working inside a system that can be cold. Kind of like Parks and Recreation but in Philadelphia. The second season is underway and does not appear to be missing a beat. This is basically a miracle, all around. Watch it on Hulu.
1. House of the Dragon (HBO Max)
Game Of Thrones seems like the easiest greenlight in the world. How could a sister project miss even with the mixed reception to the original’s finale? But House Of The Dragon is the second attempt (with one pilot failing to generate a series order) and it starts with one particular question hanging over its head: was it the world or the characters that inhabited it that made the original so widely adored? We’re about to find out as a new creative team tries to walk a line between old and new, creating fresh stories with a ring of familiarity. On their side: dragons, face-smashing combat, and Matt Smith’s good kinda bad energy. Watch it on HBO Max. | https://uproxx.com/tv/best-new-tv-shows-to-stream-october-house-of-the-dragon/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:04 | en | 0.941886 |
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The thing about House of the Dragon is that pretty much every character on the show is awful in their own little way. Or big way, sometimes. There are devious blond uncles and snotty blond children and schemers in green dresses. This was true before the recent decade-zapping chronological leap forward that took place in the middle of the season, but it is especially true now, today, after all of that happened. It’s just a collection of the worst and most petty people you could ever have the misfortune of meeting all trying to ruin each other through subterfuge or bodily harm, kind of like if Succession had more violence. And dragons. Which would make for a pretty fun next season, actually. Take a few minutes today and picture Roman Roy atop a fire-breathing winged beast. A little treat for you.
The end result in all of this, in addition to making it a surprisingly fun and nasty little show, is a lack of characters to actually root for. Yes, sure, it is just a blast to watch Matt Smith smirk his way through various funerals and tension-soaked formal dinners, but it would also be a blast to see his character get walloped with a mallet once or twice. I thought I kind of liked one of many knights with shoulder-length brown hair but then they cooked him in a house fire. The dragons seem cool, I guess, but they have yet to utter a line of dialogue to confirm this, which is both probably an unreasonable ask on my part and something I really hope happens out of nowhere in the season finale.
Which brings me to King Viserys, my sweet miserable sack of loose bones, who is somehow still alive after the time-jump despite most of his skin falling off of his body and most of his family trying to kill him through a combination of stress and scheming. Here’s how he looked before the time jump, at his daughter’s wedding, just before his daughter and brother started making sex eyes at each other on the dance floor and also before his daughter’s secret boyfriend beat her husband’s secret boyfriend to death in front of everyone.
Cool. Great. Fine.
But we’ve been over that much before, a few weeks ago, in another article I wrote about this miserable lump of stringy hair and regrets, one in which I said “I hope he frowns so hard his whole face slides off his skull.” Let’s check in on him now, 10 years later, with his children and child bride grown up and everyth-
God yes. It’s beautiful. And made better by the fact that some actors — the children, mostly — have been replaced by older ones for the grown versions of their characters, and other ones look like they’ve aged six months at most, and then the show just went ahead and made the king look like he’s seen 1000 years of pain. He’s basically an unshaven skeleton now, just clinking and clanking his bones from chair to chair as everyone around him tries to ruin each other.
Here’s another screencap of him.
Here’s a third one, which might be my favorite if only because he looks kind of like if the Ghost of Christmas Past made Ebenezer Scrooge watch his entire family get murdered.
All in all, it is one of the greatest displays of face-acting I have ever seen. We should be talking about it more. It should be one of the only things we talk about. People should be knocking on Paddy Considine’s door every day to see if he is doing okay. Some of these dudes are serious Method actors who get too deep into their roles. I worry he has forgotten how to smile. Or, if he still remembers, if he can even make the muscles in his face do that anymore after a full season of filming. I picture him trying to grin a little and then wincing in pain as the poor atrophied muscles in his cheeks attempt to inch up his face.
And that’s before we even get to the things his character says, out loud, to other people. That makes it even better. All this dope wants is for his miserable family to get along for one stupid day, just once, even if they are just pretending and don’t actually mean it. And yet!
It’s the best. The man rules a kingdom and has dragons at his disposal and just wants to enjoy any of that for 90 uninterrupted seconds but every time two or more members of his family get within earshot of each other he turns into a grandfather at a Thanksgiving table filled with bickering siblings and cousins. To be fair, he did have a right to be a little upset here, seeing as his wife stabbed his daughter after threatening to cut out his grandson’s eye as punishment for his own son getting his eye sliced out after stealing a dragon, which is… kind of a lot, as far as family dynamics go. Also, his daughter and smirking brother got married after conspiring to fake her first husband’s death and ship him off to live in gay paradise with his lover. That’s another thing that happened on this show. The man has not had a quiet day in his entire adult life.
When you start adding it all up, two things become clear really quick:
- Despite, again, the thing where he is a wealthy monarch who controls a fleet of mythical winged beasts, Viserys is somehow the most relatable character on the show if only for his general vibe of “please leave me alone and let me watch my reruns of Frasier in peace”
- It creates a difficult situation for viewers because he is the only character worth rooting for at all but his continued misery is essential to the show’s entire dynamic
Which explains why he says something like this about once every two or three episodes.
It is my suspicion that he will not survive the first season. I’m surprised he has survived this long, given all the rotting flesh and duplicity and fire-related murder and/or suicide we’ve seen so far. He looks like he’s been dead for about six months anyway. Death might be the first time he finds peace in his entire pathetic life, provided his daughter and wife do not attempt to disembowel each other with his sharpened femur bones during his funeral service. (Too soon to rule this out.) But, until that happens, until he exits the world of the living via dragon or poison or his own body essentially rejecting itself on principle, I will continue to delight in all of it. I love him. I don’t think I want him to be happy, ever, at least not longer than 10 or 15 minutes of real-time edited down to about 45 seconds of screen time, but sure do love watching him mope around his castles.
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Anna Delvey/Sorokin became a hot topic earlier this year when she was the subject of the hit Netflix series Inventing Anna. The show chronicled Delvey’s scamming antics from 2016-2017 when she scammed her friends and peers out of over $275,000 (all with a puzzling accent) all for the sake of being “very VIP.”
Delvey was convicted in May 2019 on eight counts of theft of services and grand larceny, and she was later sent to an ICE immigration center after overstaying her visa. She remained there for most of this year, while Inventing Anna was getting Emmy noms. Now, Delvey is one step closer to freedom and is finally getting released.
“We are extremely gratified by the court’s decision today to release Anna Sorokin,” Sorokin’s lawyer said. “The judge rightfully recognized that Anna is not a danger to the community.” Delvey will have to refrain from using social media for the first 24 hours, so we will not be getting a TikTok of her being released from jail (yet).
While she was in jail, Delvey curated her own art show and is gearing up to release her own NFT, because that’s just where the world is at these days. She has appeared on various podcasts and interviews maintaining her innocence.
Inventing Anna became an unexpected hit for Netflix, though was criticized for stretching the truth a little too far. Still, the fake heiress has continued to insist she did not scam anybody and was never in the wrong. She also has a plethora of marriage proposals waiting for her after her release, so maybe it will work out for her in the end. | https://uproxx.com/tv/inventing-anna-delvey-released-from-prison/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:17 | en | 0.986053 |
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Jake Lacy has spent the last decade playing boy-next-door types on screen, most notably in films like Obvious Child and How To Be Single, and shows like The Office, Girls, and High Fidelity. He’s gotten so good at being the “nice guy” that even Emerald Fennel noticed, hoping to use his reputation against a movie-going audience in her Oscar-winning film Promising Young Woman the same way she did with Bo Burnham, Adam Brody, and Chris Lowell. (Scheduling conflicts are to blame for why that didn’t end up happening.)
It took Mike White’s sordid, scandalous soap opera about a group of tourists holding hotel workers hostage to their privileged, out-of-touch whims in HBO’s The White Lotus for Lacy to finally sink his teeth into something a bit leaner … and meaner. As Shane Patton, he’s still trading on his “nice guy” persona, but there’s an elitism and callousness that lurks underneath, one that ensures he’s capable of all kinds of terribleness – even murder.
But measured against Lacy’s latest villainous turn in Peacock’s ripped-from-the-headlines limited true crime series, the polo-peacocking frat bro seems practically angelic.
In A Friend Of The Family, which drops its first four episodes on the streamer on Oct. 6th, Lacy transforms into Robert Berchtold, a pedophile and criminal mastermind who destroyed a close-knit suburban family and became the subject of a Netflix documentary that aired just a few years ago. The show, like the doc, takes audiences step by painful step through Berchtold’s elaborate plan to infiltrate the Broberg clan, building intimate relationships with both Robert Broberg and his wife, Mary-Ann, in order to gain access to their eldest daughter, Jan.
It’s likely the most unforgivable character Lacy will ever play and he seems to relish the challenge, walking the tenuous line between charisma and down-right creepiness to help the real Jan Broberg – a consulting producer on the show – tell her story the way she experienced it. To hear Lacy tell it, it’s not that he enjoyed pretending to be Bob Berchtold (known simply as B on the show), it’s that giving a face to this kind of monster helped him feel like he was contributing something to the true crime genre – and the rabid audience craving more of these kinds of stories, no matter how problematic a response they generate.
UPROXX chatted with Lacy about getting into character, seducing Colin Hanks on screen, and his paranoia when it comes to his own children after filming this show.
Between this show and the character you played on The White Lotus, some fans online are asking, ‘Is Jake Lacy officially in his villain era?’ What would be your answer to that?
[laughs] I was not like, ‘Let’s find the darkest material we can.’ As anyone, I’m always looking for good material. Great writing, complex characters, nuanced storytelling. People have asked if there was a pause before saying yes to this, and there wasn’t really, because as an actor you go, ‘This is great work.’ And as a human, the knowledge that Jan wants to tell her story in this way for a bigger purpose than making content or serving any of our egos, you are like, ‘Oh, I would like to be part of that. I’d to lend the little bit of skill I have in this world to doing something bigger than me for once. Let’s do that.’ So that checked every box.
Had you seen the documentary before signing onto this show and did that project inform this one at all?
I had seen the documentary when it came to Netflix [but] it took me quite a while to piece together when this project came around. Just by the nature of the limited time that the documentary has to tell this very complex, nuanced, years-long tale of grooming and abuse, there are parts that by necessity just aren’t in the doc. And even in our nine-part limited series, there are parts that we have chosen not to highlight that are remarkable, but that sort of complicate elements of the story that narratively, you just need this through line to understand what the experience was and not get bogged down in every detail. But to come to this and then go, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that. Oh, I didn’t know this.’ That there were so many revelations within our telling of this story. It was sort of like discovering it anew in a way.
How do you get into the mindset of a man like Bob Berchtold?
I think the narcissism and lack of empathy were the way in. It’s like somebody who’s done ayahuasca talking to someone who hasn’t, which I’ve not, but being like, ‘You don’t even know. You don’t what this world contains. It’s beyond your scope.’ I think that’s the impression that he had of the rest of the world like, ‘I’m firing on more cylinders than you can conceive of. I have an understanding of this world beyond what you will ever pretend to know.’ And that otherworldly narcissism mixed with a void of empathy leaves a lot of room to go about your business as you see fit and not really care about the fallout.
Berchtold has one person to serve and that’s himself. It’s like, ‘I want what I want and you don’t understand it. Not because I’m wrong, but because 30 percent of your brain works.’ That justification is the way in.
You also have to be charming, though, to convince this family to let him in. How did you strike that balance between creepy and charismatic?
A lot of it was working collaboratively with Nick [Antosca], with the directors, with cinematographers for me to understand, what’s the shot here? There’s a scene where I’m changing a tire for the Brobergs and Bob is sort of standing by the hood and he says, ‘You make it look so easy, B.’ And this is when B is in pursuit of Mary Ann to control to get to Jan. So it’s a calculation on B’s part to be wearing this undershirt and tight blue jeans and to seem like this other thing that nobody else in the Mormon community in Pocatello, Idaho is, to be a little bit alluring. And then in the shot selection, I’m facing her as she walks up and it’s not on me seeing her, but there is a moment where you can see that I’ve given her body a scan for her sake to know, ‘Oh, B just checked me out.’
All of it’s a calculation from B. And at that point, I don’t know if Colin’s version of Bob is aware, but all of that is packed into four seconds. And that’s so fulfilling creatively to go, ‘How can we do this? How can we show so many facets of this person or personas that he’s creating and shifting between?’
You also get to seduce both Colin Hanks and Anna Paquin on this show, so well done.
[Laughs] Thank you very much.
How did you view his relationship with Bob versus his affair with Mary-Ann?
The [intimate] scene with Colin, they moved up. I think there was a rain issue. Things got switched up and so then on the day it was like, ‘We’re going to shoot this today.’ We’re both like, ‘Oh, okay, here we go. You ready for this?’ He’s the greatest. So a scene that otherwise could go sideways just with the technicalities of how to do this was … it’s like, that’s a guy you want in the trenches of TV and movie making. He’s talented, a pro, at ease, fun. You’re like, ‘Great, let’s make something together.’ The seduction of Ann’s [character] is a little longer con. But it’s layered. I think he’s a sex addict so there’s that. I think he’s a narcissist. He’s getting off, not on the physical interaction as if there’s actually a bond or a vibe between them, as much as the power dynamic that he is privately enjoying.
It’s the easiest way for him to control these people.
It’s the most powerful way to keep people apart, to build this intimacy with another person that they can’t possibly share with anyone else is… Whether it’s with Jan and saying, ‘This is the mission and if you tell anyone you’ll be vaporized,’ or whether it’s Mary Ann and being like, ‘You can’t tell anybody because your family collapses, my family collapses. What will the community think?’ Or it’s Bob, who … 1970s, Mormon, Idaho. That man is not going to talk about having a sexual encounter with another man. He’s putting these people in silos in order to then be able to push and pull on them until he can get clear access to Jan. He just used that technique on the Brobergs and then on other women with daughters in subsequent years after the abuse of the Broberg family stopped.
Has this story made you reevaluate your perceptions when it comes to protecting your own children?
I already had a dose of paranoia surrounding my kids and new people in our world. Prior to this project, I was probably thinking, ‘Am I too paranoid? Is this overkill?’ And then after this being like, ‘No, that’s the exact right amount for me.’ I would love to just trust the world and I don’t and that’s probably how I’m going to live.
The other thing is, the intention for Jan in telling her story in this way is to say to people now, this is still happening. It isn’t a stranger in an alley always. It is, most often regarding the sexual abuse of a child, someone who the family and the victim know and trust. So it’s not comforting, but it is fulfilling to feel like I’m able to hopefully strengthen her argument with this story or to just participate alongside her work and her cause. And for fear of being someone who stands on the sidelines and says, ‘I’m making a difference,’ I know that’s not true, but in terms of being like, ‘What am I [putting out] in the world?’ Even though this character is horrific, the overall purpose of this thing feels like something of integrity.
A Friend Of The Family premieres on Peacock Oct. 6th. | https://uproxx.com/tv/jake-lacy-interview-the-white-lotus-a-friend-of-the-family/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:23 | en | 0.965029 |
A bigger and better Greggs is due to open in Exmouth this month. Although an exact date has not yet been announced, it has been confirmed that the doors will be opening for the first time within the 'coming weeks'.
The new shop is located in Chapel Street between Costa Coffee and Mountain Warehouse, and in very close proximity to Caffè Nero. The site was previously home to Dorothy Perkins and Burton.
The current Greggs store is based around the corner in The Parade. It will close when the new store is up and running.
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A Greggs spokesperson said: "We’re relocating the Greggs on The Parade in Exmouth. The new and improved shop will be located on Chapel Street and will be open in the coming weeks."
Earlier this week, the bakery giant revealed it will be extending its opening hours in a lot more of its branches meaning they will be open later at night. It will have a special evening menu which will be served from 4pm onwards. New pizzas and hot desserts will be on the menu, as well as the usual favourites.
Gregg sales for the 12 months of 2021 hit £1.23 billion – a 51% increase on the £811 million in 2020 when stores were hit by the pandemic. During the year Greggs said it opened 131 new sites, including 50 franchises, and closed 28 – leaving an estate of 2,181. Of those, 1,000 are now available for delivery on Just Eat.
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READ NEXT: | https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/bigger-better-greggs-open-exmouth-7673171 | 2022-10-07T05:08:27 | en | 0.969091 |
Even though Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian unfortunately called it quits at the end of the summer, we still have the footage of their short-lived romance to look back on fondly, reliving those carefree moments of the Pete and Kim Saga. Remember the ice cream? Those were the good old days.
While Davidson has yet to appear on the current season of The Kardashians, either due to editing or Davidson’s hesitation to appear in the show, Kim still loves to gush about her then-BF. Earlier this year, Davidson was in talks to go to space on a Blue Origin flight right while he was feuding with Kanye West, you know, normal celebrity things, which Kardashian discussed in the latest episode of Hulu’s series. Before giving her blessing, Kardashian needed to speak to Jeff Bezos to be sure that it was safe.
Kardashian recalled the Challenger Explosion of 1986, which claimed the lives of seven on board, including one civilian, a schoolteacher. “I remember sitting in my kitchen with my dad, with my sisters, and the teacher was on that rocket ship in the ’80s and it exploded,” Kardashian recalled, which is the main source of hesitation for Davidson’s trip. “I remember watching that and I remember what that felt like and my parents crying. Then you hear all these other spaceships crash and it’s, like, really scary.”
It seems like Bezos was able to convince Kardashian that her boyfriend would be fine during the 11-minute space flight. “After talking to Bezos about it and hearing how safe it is, and all the testing and everything they do, I felt comfortable with him going.” Still, Kardashian said she would not go due to having four kids. But she was fine with her boyfriend going!
Despite the major anticipation, Davidson did not end up going on the space excursion due to “scheduling conflicts.” Perhaps space just isn’t ready for that BDE yet. | https://uproxx.com/tv/jeff-bezoz-pete-davidson-kim-kardshian/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:29 | en | 0.978095 |
At this point, the GOP has been in bed with Herschel Walker for far too long to abandon their support of the wannabe Georgia senator now. Put a gun to his wife’s head? Sure, he’s done it. But brushed it off as something that happened more than 15 years ago, then invoked Jesus. Now, amidst revelations that the fiercely anti-abortion advocate may have paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion — with a check, inside a thoughtful get-well card — Republicans are doubling down on their backing of the former football player, and Jimmy Kimmel, for one, is amused by how Walker’s supporters are trying to spin this story.
On Wednesday night, Kimmel shared how some of the Republican party’s most prominent leaders are finding a way to defend Walker’s continued bad behavior. Donald Trump decided to re-point the finger at Walker’s opponent, Raphael Warnock, saying that he has “heard many horrible things” about the incumbent senator, then played coy describing these “things” as so horrible that “nobody should be talking about them — so we don’t.” (Because if ever there was a man not to blab about something, it’s definitely Trump.)
The stakes of Walker’s campaign are high, Kimmel explained, as “losing a seat in Georgia could cost the Republicans control of the Senate. So now all the bastions of family values are coming to Herschel’s defense.” But it was former congressman and one-time Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s response in particular that really amused Kimmel.
While appearing on Fox News, Gingrich described Walker as “a remarkable person” and “the most important senate candidate in the country, cause he’ll do more to change the Senate just by the sheer presence — by his confidence, by his deep commitment to Christ.” As for those abortion rumors? Listen, nobody’s perfect. And, as Gingrich explained, Walker “had a lot of concussions coming out of football.”
“That’s the first time I’ve ever heard the ‘our candidate has brain damage’ defense,” Kimmel admitted. But he seemed to agree that concussions are a nasty business and, sure, “sometimes they can cause abortions.”
You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 5:30 mark. | https://uproxx.com/tv/jimmy-kimmel-newt-gingrich-herschel-walker-concussions/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:35 | en | 0.960798 |
A development of 70 new affordable homes are to be built in Tiverton. The properties will go up between Braid Park and Tiverton Golf Club.
They will all be built to the super-efficient Passivhaus standard, with solar panels, air source heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points. Plans were approved by Mid Devon District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday.
The site forms part of the Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension for hundreds of new homes, with the affordable homes a requirement under the terms of another development nearby. Mid Devon was subsequently given the area of land along with responsibility for building the houses.
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They will be a mix of apartments, terraced, semi-detached, townhouses and detached units.As the properties will be classed as affordable, most will be capped at 80 per cent of local market rent. Eight are also proposed as ‘social rent’ – no more than 50–60 per cent of local rates.
“Residents will be taken from the district council’s housing needs waiting list,” an officer told the meeting, while she did not believe they would be eligible for right-to-buy
Members of the committee heard how the development will also feature an attenuation pond [which helps manage water run-off], on-site public open space and a children’s play area, as well as walking and cycling routes integrated into a wider network.
Recommending approval, a council report said: “Comprehensive consideration has been given to the overall design, scale and layout of the proposal. The scheme provides well integrated landscape and public open space, providing biodiversity net gain.
“The development can be accommodated without an unacceptable impact on the highway network with necessary infrastructure able to be delivered in a predictable, timely and effective manner.”
Cllr Les Cruwys concluded: “It’s the final bit in that area up there. It completes it all. Hopefully the ones that do live up there can get back to some sort of normal life because they’re having problems still with the [vehicles] rolling past the golf course.
“So yes, let’s get on with it. Get it completed, get the site finished, let the site mature and hopefully we won’t regret what we’ve done up there.”
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Torbay urged to become town where new rules bring jobs and investment | https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-town-set-influx-new-7672554 | 2022-10-07T05:08:37 | en | 0.948422 |
Even though Joe Pera has been busy with gardening and James Bond rehearsals, he still takes the time to give the fans what they want, and for that, he is a real gift. The comedian took to Instagram to weigh in on the highly controversial and popular debate: is the dude from The Bear stronger than Goku? Pera does not think so.
Pera begins the heartfelt video with an apology for not getting it out sooner, due to his excessive amounts of errands like growing tomatoes and not being a murderer. Then he lists his undisputable reasoning as to why Goku, an anime character, is stronger than Carmy, played by Jeremy Allen White.
“The Bear can cook fast in a t-shirt, however, Goku can do multiple levels of Super Saiyan, not to mention Kaio Ken,” Pera earnestly explains. “And he has even recently mastered Ultra Instinct, which is outrageously strong. The Bear cannot even do Super Saiyan. Not even close. Point Goku” This is true, but can Goku make an Italian beef hoagie?
As Pera lists his reasoning, it becomes clear that maybe, just maybe…Goku is actually stronger than the celibate Chicago sandwich maker. “Another way to figure their strength is by the enemies they defeated,” Pera continues. “Bear has dealt with some inner conflict, however, Goku has defeated, well, to name a few: Cell, Frieza, Golden Frieza, Buu, Broly, Jiren, and even gave Lord Beerus a good run for his money,” he added. “Have to go with Goku again, however, I am just a fan, not an expert.”
Even though he is not an expert, he makes some compelling arguments as to why this animated character is better than a fictional chef. He’s always right! It’s time people started listening! Check out the well-researched video above. | https://uproxx.com/tv/joe-pera-the-bear-goku/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:41 | en | 0.980915 |
The construction of Exeter’s landmark new St Sidwell’s Point leisure centre is believed to have been over budget. St Sidwell’s Point, the country’s first leisure centre built to the super energy efficient Passivhaus standard, opened in the spring at an expected cost of £44 million
But Exeter City Council’s finance chief Dave Hodgson revealed there is a “small overspend as we understand,” following a question by Green councillor Diana Moore at an executive meeting on Tuesday. The reported overspend has not yet been revealed.
Mr Hodgson added the matter was currently in the hands of lawyers who are negotiating with contractor Kier. A report is expected to be presented to the council by the end of the financial year next April.
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It would not be the first time in which the cost of the project has risen since it was first proposed. In 2018, councillors agreed to further £12m towards the budget of the combined leisure centre and new bus station project was needed, taking it from £39.92m to £51.8m.
That was the second significant rise in costs for the scheme. In 2017, Exeter city councillors were forced to back an increased budget of £7.67m - £7.05m of which were for St Sidwell’s Point. A variety of factors, including the economic uncertainty following the vote to leave the European Union, meant the cost of the developments had risen from the then original budget of £32.25m.
The cost of major infrastructure projects has soared in recent months due to the increased cost of materials and labour, and further exacerbated by inflation. Neighbouring Mid Devon District Council this week paused plans to complete a new junction on the A361 North Devon Link Road at Tiverton because increased costs make it “unaffordable.”
St Sidwell’s Point features an eight-lane, 25-metre main pool and four-lane, 20-metre learner pool, both with moveable floors, as well as a gym with 100 stations (such as treadmills, rowing machines etc), fitness studios and luxury spa facilities. It comes as a report also reveals the council’s overall leisure and sport department is forecasting an overspend of £300,000 this financial year.
While it said the current financial year “started positively with the opening of St Sidwell’s Point, resulting in the rise of memberships and footfall volume,” it added: “There are still challenges to be faced such a lack of skilled leisure professionals and the current cost of living crisis, which may have a detrimental effect on memberships.
“A three-year strategy will be presented in November, which will review revenue projections, revised establishment costs and a capital improvement plan.”
The report added: “At this stage of the financial year the dynamics involved have created a unique situation where the service could be close to breaking even, through to £500,000 over. So at this stage we would rather suggest prudent forecasting on the side of fortune at £300,000.”
Read next: | https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/st-sidwells-point-costs-risen-7669687 | 2022-10-07T05:08:47 | en | 0.970267 |
Jimmy Kimmel surprised Keanu Reeves with a “blast from the past” during Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. After discussing the John Wick: Chapter 4 actor’s comic book series (and possible movie), BRZRKR, the late-night host played an old interview that an adorably eager (and very Canadian) Reeves gave when he was still a teenager.
“I’m playing a 17-year-old body with a 40-year-old mind, OK?” Reeves said in the footage. “But then I had to play with my conception of 40, which was sort of older, right? You look at a 40-year-old and go, ‘You’re old.’ You know, but he’s not. I mean, Robert Urich, I was watching him, he’s a bouncy guy. And so I was trying to get that in there as well.” After it ended, the current-day Reeves said, “I didn’t know you were gonna do that. Wow, that was a blast from the past.” He then provided some context.
Reeves, who was living in Toronto at the time, was promoting the made-for-TV movie Young Again. He got the gig after auditioning for a “side role, but then they were like, ‘Hey, you could be the guy. One of the guys.’ And I was like, ‘Cool.’” (A natural born storyteller). He continued, “It was a big break for me, because it was, like, a Movie of the Week, it was a great role, and that allowed me to kind of get an agent in Hollywood.”
Without Young Again, there might be no John Wick, or, god forbid, Bill & Ted. Whoa.
You can watch the Kimmel clip above. | https://uproxx.com/tv/keanu-reeves-jimmy-kimmel-old-footage/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:47 | en | 0.983648 |
That ’70s Show was a hit TV show. Black Swan was nominated for a bunch of Oscars, including Best Picture. And Ted and Forgetting Sarah Marshall made well over $100 million at the box office. But in terms of popularity and longevity, voicing Meg on Family Guy is probably the biggest role in Mila Kunis‘ career.
Kunis did one of those retrospective videos with Vanity Fair where she discussed how she got involved with the animated series. “I remember my manager at the time being like, ‘There’s a show called Family Guy.’ The actress [Lacey Chabert] quit because she didn’t find the show to be in line with her ethical beliefs. You wanna audition for it?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, what’s the show?’ It hadn’t aired yet,” she said. Kunis was a nervous teen at the time, and she remembers creator Seth MacFarlane telling her to “slow down.”
She continued:
“I guess I naturally speak really fast. When I record now, I’m really good at knowing to slow down. But when you’re 15, you just wanna get this ball rolling. You’re like, ‘I got places to be, people to see. Let’s go, go, go.’ And so for whatever reason, MacFarlane was down enough to be like, ‘Slow down, slow down.’ Because he easily could have easily hired anybody to do the voice.”
Over 20 years later, Kunis still has the “the greatest job ever” (and a pretty great bank account) thanks to that tip. You can watch the video above. | https://uproxx.com/tv/mila-kunis-family-guy-advice/ | 2022-10-07T05:08:54 | en | 0.975369 |
The Nielsen streaming ratings for the first week of September are out, and they prove that everyone was sweeping the leg. Cobra Kai topped the charts for original series with 1.74 billion minutes viewed. However, it wasn’t the only one to top a billion minutes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix’s Devil in Ohio came in second with 1.38 billion minutes, Prime Video’s The Rings of Power came in third with 1.2 billion minutes, and HBO Max’s House of the Dragon hit the top of the “acquired series” charts with 1.02 billion minutes.
The two obvious things jump out here: first, that we were streaming, like, a ton in early September. Is everyone okay? The answer is no, but are we less okay than the normal level of Not Okay? Just checking in. Call a friend and see how they’re doing tonight, please.
Secondly, plucky little reboot Cobra Kai is king of the heap versus a slew of gargantuan-budgeted epics. Amazon spent a billion dollars on The Rings of Power, and it’s losing out to the delightful nostalgia bomb about kicking people in the face and learning personal responsibility. That’s pretty cool! Also, art isn’t a competition, and both can be excellent shows at the same time.
(via The Hollywood Reporter) | https://uproxx.com/tv/september-streaming-chart-cobra-kai/ | 2022-10-07T05:09:00 | en | 0.946616 |
Ever since early copies of Maggie Haberman’s new Donald Trump tell-all Confidence Man began circulating, we’ve been fed tasty little tidbits about everything from Trump’s favorite part about being president (the fame, obviously) to how the former president once made Eric fast-forward through the dialogue of Bloodsport to get straight to the fight scenes while the two of them were on a private plane with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. But the bombshell to end all bombshells (at least as far as this writer is concerned) was the news that Trump once very loudly berated No. 1 stooge Rudy Giuliani for dropping a fetid No. 2 while aboard Trump’s plane.
To be honest, we were kind of shocked that Seth Meyers didn’t cancel his entire show on Tuesday and just spend an hour talking about that. But he made up for it on Wednesday night, when he channeled his inner Walter Cronkite — black-and-white film and cigarette included — to deliver this vital piece of news. As Meyers explained:
Every so often, a story comes along that makes us throw out everything we were planning on doing that night on this show — a blockbuster story of monumental consequence to the nation. It happened many times during the Trump presidency: the Mueller investigation, two impeachments, an attempted coup. And look, I don’t want to say that our audience expects or needs us to provide this service. But we feel a moral obligation to bring you the biggest stories of the day because for many people, let’s face it — and I don’t say this lightly — we are their Walter Cronkite. People trust us to bring them the stories that matter most. And to do it with poise and moral clarity and gravitas.
It was all just a preamble to what Meyers rightly concluded is one of the most important stories of the year — hell, maybe even this century: “According to a blockbuster tell-all by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, ‘Trump razzed Giuliani about how much his sh*t literally stinks!!’” As Meyers continued:
That’s right, Trump loudly complained about his lawyer’s stinky dumps. According to the book, “While aboard one of the former president’s planes with Giuliani, Trump made it a point to ‘loudly complain’ about ‘the odor after Giuliani had used one of the plane’s bathrooms, so that other aides could hear.’ ‘Rudy! That’s f***ing disgusting!,’ Trump yelled.
This is one of those shocking stories that you also definitely could have predicted. No one thinks Rudy is making good smells. It’s why he’s constantly voted New York Mayor Least Likely to Have His Own Fragrance… So I’m not surprised Rudy makes bad smells, but I am surprised that it’s so bad that TRUMP complained about it. I mean, all Trump consumes are Big Macs and Diet Cokes. He probably has one bowel movement a week that looks like the scene from Jurassic Park.
While no specific time frame is given for Stankgate, Meyers can imagine it being while Trump was in office, and should have been preoccupied with other things. Like North Korea launching a nuclear missile at us or something. But all Trump can think about is the smell that singed his nose hairs, while yelling things like, “Rudy, it’s Air Force One, not Air Force Number Two.”
But Meyers has a sneaking suspicion that Trump jumped right in there with his complaints was “so that he could beat Rudy to the punch. Because Rudy definitely has the vibe of a ‘Don’t go in there!’ kinda guy.”
You can watch the full clip above — and should. Because, as Meyers noted, “This is the most important story we have ever covered on this show. This is our Watergate!” | https://uproxx.com/tv/seth-meyers-donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-poop/ | 2022-10-07T05:09:06 | en | 0.967764 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
01-06-07-09-10-11-15-18-19-21-22-24
(one, six, seven, nine, ten, eleven, fifteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-four) | https://www.lakecountystar.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Night-17492914.php | 2022-10-07T05:09:09 | en | 0.814269 |
Not everybody is in the Halloween spirit this year, especially people who hate fun and Stranger Things! Earlier this week, a Chicago couple went viral for their elaborate Halloween display that depicted Max from Stranger Things floating in the air, just like her viral season four moment.
Unfortunately, the neighbors did not like the floating teen, and the couple was forced to take Max down and leave her stranded in the Upside Down forever (probably). “Officers spoke to the owners of the display who indicated that they would take it down if problems persisted,” a spokesperson for the city said. “No further enforcement action was taken or needed.”
The couple was met with so much support that they decided that their display would stay up. “Yesterday, we were planning our tear down. Today we woke up to a flood of overwhelming support telling us to wait,” Dave and Aubrey Appel of HorrorProps wrote on Instagram. “We are not going to let one crazy neighbor ruin the fun for the amazing families and Stranger Things fans who have visited.”
After meeting with the City Manager, the couple was informed that they didn’t do anything wrong and an official complaint was never filed, leaving them perfectly free for their spooky shenanigans. The Halloween display will only be lit up on weekend nights for now, where fans of Stranger Things are encouraged to stop by and take pictures. Just be aware that Vecna can show up at any moment, so get your Kate Bush cassette tapes ready! | https://uproxx.com/tv/stranger-things-halloween-display/ | 2022-10-07T05:09:12 | en | 0.970291 |
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