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Eliza Campbell had spent her entire life as a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She was born in Utah, a state in which the majority of residents belong to the church, and attended Brigham Young University, a private institution owned and operated by the church.
"It's part of your whole professional network, your whole emotional community," she said. "Basically, it touches every facet of your life."
Then, two years ago, after nearly three decades, Campbell left the church.
She is one of a growing number of Americans who were raised Christian but are disaffiliating from the religion.
America's Christian majority is facing steep declines
Christianity remains the majority religion in the United States, as it has been since the country's founding, but it's on the decline.
A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.
The study found that Christians accounted for about 90% of the population 50 years ago, but as of 2020 that figure had slumped to about 64%.
"If recent trends in switching [changing one's religious affiliation] hold, we projected that Christians could make up between 35% and 46% of the U.S. population in 2070," said Stephanie Kramer, the senior researcher who led the study.
The study modeled four scenarios for how religious affiliation could change, and in every case it found a sharp drop in Christianity.
"Some scholars say that it's just an inevitable consequence of development for societies to secularize. Once there are strong secular institutions, once people's basic needs are met, there's less need for religion," Kramer said.
"Other people point out that affiliation really started to drop in the '90s. And it may not be a coincidence that this coincides with the rise of the religious right and more associations between Christianity and conservative political ideology."
For Campbell, conflict between the teachings of her faith and her own personal identity and values were at the core of her decision to leave.
"For me, especially, when I started to come out as queer, it became impossible for me to reconcile this church that was basically admitting that they wanted kids like me dead or suicidal," she said. "I decided I had to choose myself and choose my well-being."
"Religiously unaffiliated" could become the majority
Alongside Christian numbers in the U.S. trending down, the Pew study also found that the percentage of people who identify as "religiously unaffiliated" is rising and could one day become a majority.
"That's where the majority of the movement is going," Kramer said. "We don't see a lot of people leaving Christianity for a non-Christian religion."
Importantly, Kramer said, "religiously unaffiliated" is not synonymous with atheist, as the term also includes those who identify as "agnostic," "spiritual" or "nothing in particular."
In the four scenarios that Pew modeled, Americans who were religiously unaffiliated were projected to approach or overtake Christians in number by 2070. At the same time, the percentage of those following other religions was expected to double.
"I don't think it's surprising. I think it's a product of modern comforts. I think when life is good, when it's better, you know, religion is just not as important."
Tauha was not raised Christian. He spent most of his life as a devout Muslim but decided four years ago to leave his religion, and he now identifies as atheist.
Like Campbell, Tauha's process of turning away from his faith was not just a matter of changing his beliefs; it involved disconnecting with the religious community he had been involved with for his entire life.
"The process of leaving the faith, for me, was kind of torturous," he said. "[But] I look back on my experience and leaving the faith as something generally productive and positive. In fact, I'd say it remains the formative experience in my life [and] gave me a new sense of direction. So I look back on it fondly."
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Bexar County Sheriff deputies are currently investigating a situation in a Northeast Side subdivision, located off of Knollcreek Dr. and Classen Rd.
According to the BCSO, heavy law enforcement presence in the area will cause traffic delays in the area.
There are limited details at this time. Sheriff Salazar is expected to release a statement soon.
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COLLEGE STATION — In a blow to No. 24 Texas A&M’s lineup on Saturday night against No. 13 Miami, touted receivers Evan Stewart and Chris Marshall and defensive backs Denver Harris and Smoke Bouie have been suspended at least half the game for violations of team rules, according to 247Sports.com.
Stewart, Marshall and Harris all were five-star prospects in A&M’s top-rated class of 2022, while Bouie was a four-star signee. A&M did not have any early comment on the reported suspensions, which might be half or the entire game, according to 247Sports. Fan website TexAgs.com reported the suspensions were for “curfew violations.”
The fleet-footed Stewart in particular was expected to be counted on for new A&M starting quarterback Max Johnson, who is taking over in Week 3 for an ineffective Haynes King.
The Aggies (1-1) under fifth-year coach Jimbo Fisher are coming off a 17-14 home loss to Appalachian State a week prior, and they dropped 18 spots in the Associated Press poll as a result. The Hurricanes under first-year coach Mario Cristobal are 2-0 following lopsided home victories over Bethune-Cookman and Southern Mississippi.
WACO — Baylor quarterback Blake Shapen faked a handoff and took off untouched for a 35-yard touchdown run just before halftime, when Texas State thought it had a fourth-down stop, and the...
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On the road.
Inside a roaring, new Mile High.
Against Russell Wilson, with Denver’s new franchise quarterback fighting in front of the Broncos faithful to avoid an unthinkable 0-2 start in the AFC West.
If Davis Mills wants to be the Texans’ starting QB in 2023 and beyond, this is where his proving ground begins.
You must beat the best to be the best, right? We hear that tired-but-true phrase over and over throughout the sports year, as the NBA and MLB give way to college football and the all-powerful NFL.
Winning on Sunday afternoon at Empower Field will only move Mills and Co. to 1-0-1, thanks to that weird season-opening tie against Indianapolis last weekend that still feels icky.
But being undefeated entering Week 3 would mean something for these Texans, who entered the 2022 campaign as serious underdogs and could be tagged with that lopsided trait for all 17 games. Outplaying and beating Wilson — on the road, with the Broncos already facing serious question marks — would be huge for Mills, giving No. 10 a different look and changing the initial trajectory of the Texans’ season.
Chicago is beatable in Week 3.
The Chargers should be heavily favored in Week 4, but Justin Herbert could barely walk at the end of “Thursday Night Football” and Patrick Mahomes was rewarded with the nationally streamed victory.
Jacksonville awaits in Week 5. If the Texans can’t beat the Jaguars this year, then Houston’s NFL team is in serious trouble and the 2023 draft will be closer than it appears on paper.
But, first, Denver.
Nathaniel Hackett is trying to convince everyone in orange and the rest of Football America that he really does know what he’s doing on the sideline and that absurd 64-yard field goal attempt was just a random fluke.
Wilson is trying to shake off losing at Seattle (sigh) and to Geno Smith (gasp!) on national TV, after the Seahawks’ new (but old) QB outplayed the franchise arm that the Broncos gave up so much to get.
You can’t afford to start 0-2 and lose a home opener when you’re promised $245 million and play in an overloaded division that contains Derek Carr, Mahomes and Herbert at the most important position in pro sports.
Throw in the fact that Mahomes’ Chiefs are already 2-0, and Mills’ second Sunday only became more difficult Thursday night.
Here’s the thing, though. If the third-rounder out of Stanford is going to become the one for the Texans, he must win these games. He also can't be the arm that holds the Texans back.
Consistently winning on the road separates the average from the really good in the NFL.
Beating the other QB is the weekly test, especially in January, and Mills’ second year in red and blue could be defined by how he compares to the other guy with the ball.
Justin Fields.
Trevor Lawrence.
Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa and Dak Prescott.
Mahomes and Herbert.
Deshaun Watson.
Is Mills just a game manager?
A third-round steal who will allow second-year general manager Nick Caserio to eventually spend big money elsewhere, since the Texans have a franchise bargain at QB on a rookie deal?
A temporary, bridge starter who’ll soon give way to a first-round rookie?
Beat the Broncos in Denver, trade scoring drives and touchdowns and leads with Wilson, and our local conversation will change.
For three quarters in Week 1, Mills was the better QB. Then Indianapolis’ adjustments kicked in, the Texans’ offense disappeared and Mills couldn’t get it done when the Texans just needed a little more.
That’s on offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton. A weak running game that must use rookie Dameon Pierce more. A still-iffy offensive line that will be without starting center Justin Britt this Sunday. Nico Collins. And an exhausted Texans defense that was so tired (because it couldn’t stop Jonathan Taylor) at the end of overtime that Smith didn’t trust putting his defense back on the field inside NRG Stadium.
But, in the end, veteran Matt Ryan was more dangerous than Mills, and the Texans had to stick with a gross tie to prevent a painful defeat.
“For all the things (Mills) did wrong, already the process has started right away. And that’s what we’ll do,” Smith said. “As coaches, you get into the first game and you see what we’re able to do, what we did well, what we didn’t do so well — all of those things come into play. That’s why we talk so much about Week 1 to Week 2. We kind of know where we are right now. There were a lot of good things that Davis did.”
For everything that we write, state, discuss, overanalyze and theorize, the end result in the NFL is often simple: The better QB wins on Sunday. And Monday. And Thursday.
Wilson is a no-doubt franchise QB facing a must-win in Week 2. Denver can’t afford to be embarrassed by the rebuilding Texans. Wilson’s going to lose to Geno Smith and Mills in back-to-back weeks? Sound the national alarm.
The good and great ones win on the road. The QBs who last discover thrilling victories within all the screaming, overcoming the chaos and finding inner peace with a calm W that once seemed impossible.
Mills can hold his own against the Jaguars. He could beat Daniel Jones and the Giants at New York. Carson Wentz and a strong Washington defense inside NRG, maybe.
But this is Wilson’s game. His new stadium. His moment. His Sunday.
If Mills is going to last with the Texans, he must find a way to beat the franchise QBs that he is supposed to lose to. Or at least keep the Texans on the same playing field.
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WACO — Baylor quarterback Blake Shapen faked a handoff and took off untouched for a 35-yard touchdown run just before halftime, when Texas State thought it had a fourth-down stop, and the 17th-ranked Bears went on to a 42-7 victory Saturday.
True freshman Richard Reese ran 19 times for 156 yards and three touchdowns for the Bears (2-1), who avoided becoming another Top 25 team to lose at home to a Sun Belt Conference team this season.
Shapen completed 15 of 26 passes for 184 yards with a 28-yard TD to Gavin Holmes.
As defenders tackled Reese in the backfield on fourth-and-1, Shapen raced past a blitzing safety to cap a nine-play, 96-yard drive for a 21-7 lead.
That came immediately after Texas State (1-2) had pulled within one score with 1:59 left in the half and the Bears were backed up to their own 4 after Craig Williams muffed the ensuing kickoff.
Baylor (2-1) jumped in front when Reese went straight up the middle for a 14-yard TD on the game’s opening drive. He added scores of 52 and 5 yards in the fourth quarter, giving him five rushing TDs in the Bears’ two home games.
Williams, a fifth-year junior nicknamed “Sqwirl” who was limited by injuries the past four seasons, had a 30-yard TD run.
Layne Hatcher threw for 186 yards with a 12-yard TD to Ashtyn Hawkins for Texas State, which lost 29-20 at home to then-unranked Baylor in last season’s opener. The punctuating play before halftime Saturday pretty much ended any possibility that the Bobcats could follow last weekend’s Sun Belt upsets — Appalachian State at Texas A&M, and Marshall over Notre Dame.
Williams’ touchdown run in the second quarter came on the first snap after Shapen returned to the field after having to sit out a play because his helmet came off when he was tackled in the open field.
There was initially a targeting penalty on that tackle, but that was taken away after replay review, and backup quarterback Kyron Drones came on to throw a 10-yard pass.
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Saturday Evening Weather At Your Fingertips
East Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - Here is a look at the weather where you live: Good evening, East Texas! Hopefully you were able to enjoy this beautiful but warm Saturday in some way or another. Scattered showers and isolated thundershowers that were able to develop earlier this afternoon will only be able to persist into the early evening hours before falling apart as we lose the sun’s daytime heating. Quiet but warm and muggy conditions overnight and early tomorrow morning as temperatures drop into the lower 70s to start out your Sunday. Expect plenty of sunshine and mostly dry conditions as higher pressure tightens its grip over East Texas, leading to warmer than average temperatures. Highs on average will range from the lower to middle 90s for Sunday but will steadily climb into middle 90s for all during the entirety of next week. Rain will not be likely in any form over the next several days, so you might need to water the lawn if you want to keep the grass green during all this heat. Fall officially begins next Thursday at 8:04 PM, although it will certainly not feel like it, so don’t unpack the flannels just yet.
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Hampton University still hasn’t settled on a starting quarterback, and the running game is inconsistent.
Who cares? The defense has been terrific, the Pirates are making big plays in the passing game and they are unbeaten through three games after beating rival Norfolk State 17-7 in a dogfight that lived up to its moniker Saturday as the Battle of the Bay.
The Pirates finished their non-conference slate 3-0 and move into the first game of their first season in the tough Colonial Athletic Association, next Saturday at FCS No. 9 Delaware, riding a wave of momentum.
“It means a lot to go into CAA play 3-0,” said linebacker Qwahsin Townsel, a transfer from CAA school Villanova who played a starring role again with eight tackles, a shared sack and two tackles for loss. “It gives us that confidence we need, that extra push coming from the Big South to the CAA we know is a bigger and better conference.
“We have that confidence we can play with anybody. We’ve been dominating and we just want to keep on keeping on.”
The Pirates weren’t dominating offensively, but they did keep on keeping on, as the determined Spartans made them do for 60 minutes. Because HU’s running backs could muster only 28 yards on 16 carries, they needed the steady play of Townsel and linebacker corps mates Mason King (11 tackles, 2 1/2 for loss) and DeAndre Faulk (seven tackles) and defensive back Ali Shockley (five tackles).
And they needed big-play receivers Jadakis Bonds and Romon Copeland to help out inexperienced alternating quarterbacks Malcolm Mays and Chris Zellous. They did, as Bonds had a 23-yard touchdown reception from starter Mays and Oscar Smith High graduate Copeland turned a pass from Zellous into a game-changing 75-yard touchdown.
Bonds’ touchdown came two plays after the Pirates set a tone by forcing a Norfolk State punt by giving little on three rushing plays to start the game. Mays moved the six-play, 54-yard drive to the Spartans’ 24 with completions of 15 yards to Bonds and 16 yards to Copeland. Mays froze an NSU safety with a play-fake and found Bonds wide-open over the middle for the touchdown that gave the Pirates a 7-0 lead with 10:46 left in the first quarter.
But although the Spartans entered the game seemingly reeling from defeats by a combined 118-10 to FBS schools Marshall and James Madison, they disabused the Pirates of that notion by retaliating with a 10-play, 90-yard touchdown drive.
The Spartans, who, a faked punt run aside, ran for only 49 yards on 32 carries, showed rare movement on the ground in the drive as All-MEAC running back JJ Davis netted gains of 7, 11 and 15 yards. NSU quarterback Otto Kuhns, an Eastern Illinois transfer, moved the Spartans inside the Pirates’ 10 with completions of 11, 14 and 8 yards.
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NSU completed its first sustained drive of the season with Kuhns’ 9-yard touchdown pass to Da’Quan Felton — who beat Hampton corner Adam Aikins after being denied by him the play before — to tie the score at 7 with 2:31 to play in the first quarter.
Zellous replaced Mays at quarterback late in the first half, the series after Mays threw his fifth interception of the season. Pirates coach Robert Prunty said the change was by design, because Zellous had a good week of practice after playing well against Tuskegee, and the redshirt sophomore came through.
He ignited the anemic rushing attack with 63 yards on 12 carries, and connected with Copeland on a post for the 75-yard touchdown to give the Pirates a 14-7 lead on the second play of the second half.
“That was real big because the team needed something on offense,” Copeland said.
The rest of the Pirates’ big plays came on defense. The biggest was Pirates defensive back Michael Crawford’s interception of a Kuhn pass at the Hampton 8 shortly after Copeland’s touchdown.
Sparked by Evan King’s 52-yard run on a faked punt, plus an 11-yard penalty on the play, the Spartans had a first down at the Hampton 10 before Crawford’s interception ended the threat. Defenses dominated thereafter until a late Hampton drive resulted in Axel Perez’s game-clinching 24-yard field goal.
“They fly around,” NSU running back Davis said of Hampton’s defenders. “They’re not the biggest guys as far as their ‘backers and their DBs, but they play that soft coverage and soft defense [and] they all fly to the ball, so they definitely tackle as a team.”
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CHARLOTTESVILLE — The mission couldn’t have been clearer for Old Dominion as Saturday afternoon turned to evening: Get to the end zone and get a stop.
It turned out one without the other was nothing short of useless.
Brennan Armstrong passed for 284 yards and Branden Farrell kicked a 26-yard game-winning field goal as time expired in Virginia’s kooky 16-14 win over the Monarchs at Scott Stadium.
In the wildest of endings, the announced crowd of 40,556 fell to a hush when ODU quarterback Hayden Wolff led a frenetic 11-play, 80-yard drive to give the Monarchs (1-2) a 14-13 lead — their first of the game — on an 18-yard strike to tight end Zack Kuntz with 1:01 to go.
But Armstrong, set up by a nice return on the ensuing kickoff, marched 56 yards in six breakneck plays to put Farrell, improbably, in position to win it.
“This one hurts,” said Wolff, who passed for 235 yards and two touchdowns. “We fought till the end on offense and defense. The defense kept us in the game, the whole game. We wouldn’t have had the opportunities we had if it wasn’t for them.”
The Cavaliers (2-1) piled up 513 total yards to ODU’s 324, but the visitors’ defense rarely broke.
Teams that hold opponents to 16 points usually expect to win.
“Ultimately, we didn’t score enough points on offense,” Monarchs coach Ricky Rahne said. “And then at the end of the game on defense, their veteran quarterback made some plays and got them in a position to score.
“We’ve got to be able to finish drives. That’s the bottom line. And we’ve got be able to string together consistent first downs.”
Ali Jennings caught seven passes for 97 yards and a touchdown for ODU, which lost despite recovering three U.Va. fumbles.
Keytaon Thompson caught nine passes for 118 yards for U.Va., which converted 7 of 16 on third down.
Monarchs safety R’Tarriun Johnson, who finished with eight tackles, echoed his quarterback.
“For me, it definitely hurts being on defense because we played spectacular defense all game,” Johnson said. “That last drive, it just really hurt because our offense gave us a chance to win, and for us not to get that stop and bring it home, it really hurts.”
Farrell kicked a 30-yard field goal to extend U.Va’s tenuous lead to 13-7 with 8½ minutes left in the game. The Cavaliers converted a key fourth-and-1 to extend the drive inside ODU’s 25.
Trailing 10-0, the Monarchs recovered an Armstrong fumble with less than a minute to go in the first half. Wolff’s 29-yard touchdown pass to Jennings pulled ODU to within 10-7 with 19 seconds to go.
The drive was nearly derailed by a personal foul two plays earlier, but Wolff found his top target near the left pylon.
The Cavaliers squandered a golden opportunity when, late in the second quarter, they fumbled the ball away inside the ODU 5.
U.Va. went ahead 10-0 on Farrell’s 26-yard field goal with 10:23 to go in the first half.
The Cavaliers took a 7-0 lead on a 1-yard touchdown plunge by Mike Hollins with 3:13 left in the first quarter. The seven-play drive began when U.Va. stopped the Monarchs on fourth-and-2 at the Cavaliers’ 23.
U.Va. converted three third downs on its opening possession, but had to punt from near midfield when a third-down pass was dropped.
Ultimately, though, the offense did just enough.
“Our guys played hard,” said Cavaliers defensive coordinator John Rudzinski. “And shoot, kudos to the offense. They bailed us out.”
For stretches, ODU wasn’t doing itself any favors.
A fourth-and-1 near midfield to open the second quarter turned into a fourth-and 6 and a punt when a Monarchs player moved before the snap.
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A U.Va. punt from its own end zone was recovered by the Cavaliers at ODU’s 49 after it bounced off a Monarchs player.
Moments later, what would’ve been an incomplete Armstrong pass on third-and-long became a first down when ODU was flagged for roughing, which led to Farrell’s 26-yarder.
But there were bright spots. A week after being held to 15 rushing yards in a 39-21 loss at East Carolina, the Monarchs rushed for 89.
When the stadium was at its loudest and the pressure reached its apex late in the game, Wolff and his stable of offensive weapons showed that they could rise to the occasion.
“He stayed with it in terms of just being confident in his ability, being confident in his guys’ ability,” Rahne said of Wolff. “He gave our guys chances to make plays. And we made them on that final drive. We’ve got to make more of them before that.”
Arkansas State visits the Monarchs on Saturday for the Sun Belt opener.
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‘A rewarding escape’: $1.5M Hill Country Village mansion is on the market Timothy Fanning ,
San Antonio Express-News Feb. 4, 2022
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
San Antonio Board of Realtors
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
On ExpressNews.com: Home construction surged in San Antonio in 2021 but rising costs, shortages pushed up prices
In 5,500-square-feet, there are four bedrooms and three-and-half bathrooms. There are also 30-foot ceilings in the main living area, hardwood floors, a professional grade kitchen and a steam unit in the shower.
In the backyard is a heated pool, a hot tub and a gazebo.
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
San Antonio Board of Realtors
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
San Antonio Board of Realtors
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
San Antonio Board of Realtors
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
San Antonio Board of Realtors
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
San Antonio Board of Realtors
A $1.5 million Hill Country Village mansion billed as “peacefully situated” and a “rewarding escape” has hit the market.
San Antonio Board of Realtors
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The city's Animal Care Services is close to reaching its maximum capacity and needs foster volunteers.
Lisa Norwood, a spokeswoman for ACS, said the recent cold temperatures and early litter season has led to a population increase at the shelter. The animals most in need of foster care are medium- and large-sized dogs.
On Expressnews.com: Wild horses, burros are up for adoption in Seguin this weekend
Norwood said fostering cats is also helpful during this time, but she noted that there are between 75 to 80 larger dogs who are waiting for a foster family.
Temporary care for foster pets can range from a few days to a few months depending on the animal's needs. ACS provides foster volunteers with pet food, pet care items and other support throughout the process.
For more information, visit the ACS website.
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A Texas man pleaded not guilty in federal court Friday to accusations that he tried to rally fellow “patriots” in Georgia to kill three state government officials there after the 2020 election.
Chad Christopher Stark, 54, who appeared via video Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Russell Vineyard in Atlanta, pleaded not guilty to one charge of communicating interstate threats.
Prosecutors said that on Jan. 5, 2021, the Leander man posted a message on Craigslist titled “Georgia Patriots it’s time to kill the Chinese agent — $10,000” that urged people to “take back our state from these lawless treasonous traitors,” according to a federal indictment.
The post urged Georgia residents to “militia up” and shoot politicians and federal and local judges.
“It’s time to invoke our Second Amendment right it’s time to put a bullet in the treasonous Chinese (official A) … it’s our duty as American patriots to put an end to the lives of these traitors and take back our country by force, ” the message said.
Stark is the first person arrested by the FBI’s Election Threats Task Force, which was formed last summer after an outburst of violent rhetoric against election administrators around the country.
While the federal indictment did not identify the three people that Stark targeted, media reports said that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp were among them.
Former President Donald Trump had called Raffensperger an enemy of the people after losing the 2020 election. Trump made repeated unproven claims after the loss, saying that widespread fraud cost him the election.
Stark said that it was their “duty as American Patriots” to “spill blood” to put an end to the three individuals and “take back our country by force,” prosecutors said.
The indictment against Stark said that he also threatened law enforcement officers and their families, whom he viewed as oathbreakers for enforcing mask mandates.
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San Antonio may no longer be under a winter weather advisory, but the cold air will stick around.
The National Weather Service says the South Central Texas region is still in for a hard freeze the next two nights. Temperatures overnight into Saturday will drop to 21 degrees in San Antonio. The early morning temperatures on Sunday will dip to 27.
Hill Country lows will be in the teens early Saturday.
On ExpressNews.com: Hundreds stranded on I-10 near Kerrville after overnight crash
After today, the region will experience a slow warming trend, the weather service said in a tweet. The high in San Antonio will be 47 and 55 on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, under mostly clear and sunny skies. No rain is expected.
Any standing water or moisture has the potential to refreeze overnight as temps dip into the 20s, the weather service warned.
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Point guard Dejounte Murray has posted All-Star worthy numbers, but he plays for one of the worst teams in the Western Conference.
His teammates and coach believe that’s the main reason he wasn’t among the seven West reserves named Thursday night for the elite exhibition.
Derrick White, Murray’s backcourt mate, even went so far as hold himself accountable for the snub.
The Spurs entered Friday’s game against Houston 12th in the conference with a 19-34 record.
“I kind of take it on us more than him,” White said after the Spurs’ 112-95 loss to Miami on Thursday. “Because of our record, it’s tough to put him in there. Obviously, (with) his numbers and talent, he’s an All-Star. So I feel bad personally. He’s going to keep working. He’s going to get there.”
The West’s head coaches chose the reserves spots, which went to Phoenix’s Devin Booker and Chris Paul, Dallas’ Luka Doncic, Utah’s Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, Golden State’s Draymond Green and Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns.
The starters from the West, announced last week, are Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins, Memphis’ Ja Morant, the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James and Denver’s Nikola Jokic.
The coaches bypassed Murray despite his career best averages of 19.6 points, 8.5 rebounds, 9.1 assists and an NBA-best 2.0 steals. He also has posted a franchise-record 10 triple-doubles this season, trailing only Jokic’s 13 for the league lead.
Murray was set to return Friday against Houston after missing the Miami game with an injured wrist.
“I think he’s had an All-Star year,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “The record takes some of the shine away from him. He’s done it at both ends of the court. The rebounding, defense, scoring — he’s been doing everything for us. I’m disappointed he didn’t make it, for him, but he’ll figure it out. He’ll keep working.”
Murray was bidding to become the Spurs’ first All-Star representative since LaMarcus Aldridge in 2019. But there’s still a chance he could get in should commissioner Adam Silver tab him as an injury replacement.
In announcing Thursday night that he will skip the game because of a back injury, Green lobbied Silver to chose Murray as his replacement for the Feb. 22 game in Cleveland. James also is dealing with an injury that could keep him home.
“The kid lives in the gym, so hopefully he will get rewarded one of these days soon,” Green said of Murray during TNT’s broadcast of the All-Star reserve selections. “He may have a chance to get rewarded by commissioner Silver, and I hope that comes to fruition, because he deserves it.”
Popovich shakes off
Primo’s tough night
Spurs rookie Josh Primo learned the hard way that Popovich never discourages struggling shooters from continuing to let ’em fly — provided, of course, they have good looks at the basket.
On Thursday, Primo experienced his worst shooting night since joining the Spurs as the 12th overall pick of the 2021 NBA draft. In 27 minutes against the Heat, he missed 12 of 13 shots from the floor, including all six of his 3-point attempts, en route to four points.
Primo came into the game averaging 4.6 points and shooting 38 percent from beyond the arc on 2.2 attempts per game in 23 appearances with the Spurs.
“If he had stopped shooting, I would have been on him,” Popovich said. “He’s got to keep shooting. It doesn’t matter if any of them drop — unless they’re bad shots. He didn’t take any bad shots.”
White, who finished with a team-high 22 points on 7-of-11 shooting, including 4 of 7 from beyond the arc, had some sage advice for the 19-year-old from Toronto.
“That’s the NBA,” White said. “He’s young, but he’s mature. He’s just going to learn from it. Try not to get your head down, that would be my biggest advice.”
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Besides Murray, the Spurs welcomed back two other injured starters Friday, center Jakob Poeltl and forward Doug McDermott.
Poelt missed the Miami game while in the concussion protocol. McDermott sat out the contest with a sprained right ankle.
Forward/center Zach Collins also was set to make his Spurs debut Friday after being listed as available for the first time since the Spurs signed him last summer. Collins last played in an NBA game on Aug. 13, 2020, in the Orlando bubble as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers.
Collins, 24, spent the first four months of the season rehabbing from surgery on his left ankle in June 2021. It was his third surgery on the ankle in 10 months.
Reserve forward Keita Bates-Diop also returned Friday after missing Thursday’s game (return to competition reconditioning).
Cold front reaction
surprises Jones
Backup point guard Tre Jones was caught off guard when he learned the Spurs had changed the start time of Thursday’s game from 7:30 to 6 p.m. because of “impending inclement weather.”
“It was weird,” said Jones, who hails from the Minneapolis area. “I guess it’s cold here. It’s just normal for me, with where I’m from. When I saw how people were acting, I knew it was a little different.”
Asked if they cancel school in Minnesota when the temperature drops below freezing, Jones said, “No. This is a normal fall day.”
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For a month and a half, Thad Young had been superglued to the end of the Spurs’ bench, collecting dust and DNPs.
When the Spurs found themselves down a pair of concussed big men for Thursday’s game against Miami, coach Gregg Popovich tabbed Young for his first start of the season.
Nobody was surprised when Young shook off the mothballs to give 24 solid minutes in a 112-95 loss to the Heat.
“I didn’t expect anything different,” guard Derrick White said. “He knows how to play. He’s been in this league forever.”
For most of Young’s 15th NBA season, he has been something of a forgotten man.
Acquired from Chicago over the summer as part of the DeMar DeRozan sign-and-trade deal, Young’s minutes have been victim to the Spurs’ ongoing youth movement.
He has appeared in 24 games, most of them before Christmas.
Before Thursday’s start, which came with centers Jakob Poeltl and Jock Landale in concussion protocols, Young had not logged a minute in 22 of the Spurs’ previous 25 games.
It is no stretch to say the 33-year-old Young’s primary influence on the Spurs’ season has come behind closed doors.
“He’s definitely someone I’ve been able to lean on a lot,” said Tre Jones, the Spurs’ 22-year-old backup point guard. “He’s been in this league for 15 years and been really successful. Just being able to sit on the sideline and pick his brain every single game, I’ve learned so many things from him.”
There are veterans in Young’s position who would have chosen to burn down the Spurs’ locker room instead of leading it.
“I think that just speaks to the person he is and the teammate he is,” Jones said. “He wants everybody in here to be successful.”
The Spurs should do better by Young, ever the good soldier. The good news is the team wants to.
Since Young arrived last summer as the oldest player on the Spurs’ roster, general manager Brian Wright has been working to move him for future assets more suitable for a rebuilding team.
With the NBA trade deadline approaching next week, that endeavor is officially on the clock.
Between now and next Thursday, the Spurs hope to find a contending team that could use Young’s trademark blend of veteran savvy, backdoor passes and hard-nosed defense.
If the Spurs could net a second-round pick for Young, league observers say, it would be considered an acceptable haul.
Should Young find himself playing elsewhere by this time next week, he will consider it something of a liberation.
Young was not made available to the media after Thursday’s loss to the Heat. In an interview last week with NBC Sports in Chicago, Young acknowledged looking forward to the impending trade deadline.
“None of (the speculation) matters until it actually happens,” Young said. “To me, it’s about my preparation and staying ready. And wherever I go, just do the best I can and hopefully I get an opportunity to showcase what I can do.”
Young made the most of the chance afforded in his spot start against the Heat.
He scored seven points, grabbed eight rebounds — including five on the offensive glass — with three assists and a pair of steals.
In short, it was a box score line that would look nice coming off the bench for a playoff contender this spring.
As is his custom, Young did the little, heady things against Miami.
He got one of his baskets on a difficult tap-back in the first quarter. He earned one of his assists with a nifty backdoor pass to Jones in the fourth.
“He understands the game,” Popovich said. “He’s a good teacher and helps all our young guys. He stays in shape and works, stays after practice when he doesn’t play. He’s ready to go.”
This isn’t the first time Young has been asked to mentor a youthful roster.
Last season in Chicago, Young played confidant to greenhorns like Wendell Carter, Lauri Markkanen and Coby White.
Unlike this season, Young also contributed to the Bulls on the floor, appearing in 68 games and starting 23. He morphed into a point-forward type of player, averaging 12.1 points and a career-best 4.3 assists.
It almost feels unfair that the Bulls are poised to break a four-season playoff drought with Young languishing on the bench in San Antonio.
“He gave up a lot of himself and took the time to help other guys,” Chicago coach Billy Donovan said. “I couldn’t be more appreciative of what Thad did for our team.”
Popovich, too, has come to value what Young has brought to the Spurs in his short time here.
“He’s one of the consummate pros,” Popovich said. “If he wants to coach someday, he’ll definitely be a coach.”
For now, Young is uninterested in that line of work. He wants to be a player.
In the days to come, perhaps the Spurs can find Young a place where he can play again.
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“CSI: Vegas” is losing two franchise stalwarts when it returns for Season 2, but may be pulling back another “CSI” vet. TheWrap has learned that Marg Helgenberger is early talks to reprise her role as Catherine Willows.
TV Line was first to report on Helgenberger’s potential return, which a source told TheWrap is in the early stages.
CBS declined to comment.
Helgenberger most recently starred on the first two seasons of CBS legal drama “All Rise,” which is moving over to OWN for its third season. Helgenberger will not be part of the main cast, as she was committed to another pilot when the show was canceled by CBS.
Helgenberger starred in the first 12 seasons of the original “CSI,” and returned for a guest spot during the 14th season.
“CSI: Vegas,” a revival of the original “CSI” series, was renewed for a second season without William Petersen, whose deal to reprise his role as Gil Grissom was only for one season. Shortly after, Fox said she would not return as Sara Sidle.
“Hey all you #CSI fans! After much deliberating, I have decided not to ‘Sidle up’ for CSI Vegas. For me CSI has always been a love story. The story that people can find love in the darkest of places and times,” Fox wrote on Twitter last month. “And the story that love, even in the darkest of places and times, can expand and grow roots and endure. I personally just can’t split Sara and Grissom up again. So goes Grissom…..So goes Sara. Wherever they go, they belong together.”
Along with Fox and Petersen, original “CSI” castmembers Wallace Langham also returned alongside newcomers Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria, Mel Rodriguez and Mandeep Dhillon. Petersen remains as an executive producer. Rodriguez is also leaving the show.
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Dutch reporter Sjoerd den Daas was stopped by Chinese security while reporting on the Winter Olympics live on air Friday. While reporting for public broadcaster NOS, he stood outside the National Stadium and was interrupted by a guard.
The guard pulled den Daas by the arm as he tried to finish his hit, ultimately telling viewers, “We are now being pulled out of here.”
He then apologetically stated, “We’ll have to come back to you later.”
After that, a second guard appeared, seeming to address the camera operator, as well.
“Our correspondent @sjoerddendaas was pulled away from the camera by security guards at 12:00 pm live in the NOS Journaal. Unfortunately, this is increasingly becoming a daily reality for journalists in China. He is fine and was able to finish his story a few minutes later,” said a tweet from the network’s official Twitter account.
Concerns about China’s handling of media are impacting organizations around the world.
As TheWrap reported, the growing backlash against China, especially since the country last hosted an Olympics in Summer 2008, put NBC in a dicey position of trying to celebrate the games while not ignoring the shortcomings of the host country. Even lawmakers have gotten involved. Last month, Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to NBCU CEO Jeff Shell and Olympics chief Gary Zenkel expressing concerns about how much influence the Chinese Communist Party would have on NBC’s coverage.
At the same time, athletes and journalists who are traveling to the Chinese capital are wary of being spied on by the government, so much so that many are resorting to bringing burner phones and laptops to avoid surveillance.
Execs at NBC, whose parent company Comcast spent $7.75 billion to carry the Olympics through 2032, promised they won’t ignore the very serious issues surrounding China. During a media event last month, Molly Solomon, executive producer and president of NBC Olympics Production, acknowledged “there’s some difficult issues regarding the host nation” but said the competition will “remain the centerpiece of our coverage.”
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It’s a bright spot in the music industry that artists are beginning consider the climate impact that their tour schedules have and are taking steps to help. Buses and airplanes burn A LOT of fuel and it’s flat out no bueno for the planet and our receding ozone layer. Coldplay famously chose to to tour their album Everyday Life in 2019 citing environmental concerns. Like Coldplay, Ed Sheeran is also looking for ways to make touring sustainable for the environment and plans on taking an electric camper fan on his next tour. Now Big Thief, one of the biggest (and quite frankly, best) bands on the indie circuit, are doing their part.
The band announced on Twitter that they will be contributing 1% of their gross touring income from this year and last year as well to EarthPercent. The charity was founded by ambient music demigod Brian Eno and as the band explains, gives funds “to organizations fighting the climate emergency in the most impactful ways.” This is a timely decision as Big Thief is set to go out on tour later this month in support of their new album out next week, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You.
Hello. We are now contributing 1% of our gross touring income to @earthpercentorg, including income from last year’s US tour. We are grateful to be part of this group which will grant $ to organizations fighting the climate emergency in the most impactful ways. pic.twitter.com/ebiAHNmMa3
— Big Thief (@bigthiefmusic) February 3, 2022
The band went on to say that “The hope is that something like this could spread to our peers, especially those making money and maybe even become a standard for artists and those around the music industry (labels, DSPs, publishers, managers, booking agents, etc).” Which is really the best net result of their effort, as well as what Coldplay and Sheeran have been championing: Lead by example and hope that others take note. Bravo Big Thief.
For more information on EarthPercent, visit their website at earthpercent.org.
Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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Disney+ has given a 10-episode order to a new live-action TV series based on the best-selling R.L. Stine books, “Goosebumps,” TheWrap confirmed on Friday. The streamer is already home to another Stine series, “Just Beyond,” which debuted in October.
The series follows five teenagers as they work together to stop the supernatural forces they accidentally loosed on their town – and learn their parents’ teenage secrets along the way.
Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman serve as writers and executive producers on the show, with Stoller executive producing via Stoller Global Solutions. Letterman, who directed the 2015 movie “Goosebumps” starring Jack Black, will also direct the first episode.
Neal H. Moritz, who produced the 2015 and 2018 feature films, returns as executive producer on the new series.
No cast has been announced yet.
A previous “Goosebumps” TV series ran between 1996 and 1998 on Fox Kids and Canda’s YTV. Each episode was based on a different book in the series..
Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, and Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Entertainment are also executive producing. Sony Pictures Television Studios will produce. Original Film and Stoller Global Solutions are currently under TV overall deals with Sony.
“Goosebumps” is one of the best-selling book series of all time. More than 400 million English-language copies of the books are now in print, plus international editions in 32 languages, and there are now more than 200 “Goosebumps” books in total.
Variety first reported the news.
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The world of whisk(e)y is expanding at breakneck speed. There’s a seemingly endless stream of new releases and news daily, especially when you consider all the regions around the world experiencing their own unique whiskey booms right now. It’s a lot to get your head around and whiskey podcasts can be a good way to get into the scene and make sense of it all.
I tend to listen to a lot of whiskey podcasts throughout the week. I want to be up to date on what’s going on in the world of whiskey, get tips for my own collection/investments, and learn about bottles that I might want to actually drink. While there’s no single source for all the whiskey news from every region/style, there are plenty of great whiskey-focused podcasts out there that really dive deep into their local regions (meaning that if you want to be on top of whiskey worldwide, you’ll need a few sources).
Below, I’m listing 18 whiskey podcasts that I really dig. Most of these are in my regular rotation. But let’s face it, we all only have so much time in the day — so I’ve ranked these podcasts according to how much I listen to them. Each one has its own vibe and might be a little more your jam more than others. So go through the list, see what stands out to you, and dive in.
Also Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Bourbon Posts Of The Last Six Months
18. The Capital City Bourbon Show
The Podcast:
The Capital City Bourbon Show is more than just another “bourbon” podcast. Host Luke Grabowski covers all things whiskey-related from, yes, bourbon to cocktails to booze in general. The show is interview-based (with some huge names in the industry) but always feels like you’re sitting down at a kitchen table to taste some whiskey and chat with friends.
Where To Start:
‘Episode 1-17 – Bernie Lubbers (Heaven Hill Distillery)‘ is where to start. In fact, any episode with Heaven Hill’s Bernie Lubbers is going to be a great and educational listen.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
17. Film & Whiskey
The Podcast:
Lifelong friends Brad and Bob host a great mash-up podcast. Each week, they drop a new episode of Film & Whiskey wherein they review a classic movie alongside a bottle of whiskey. The whiskeys range from bourbons to scotches and everything in between and the films are always stone-cold classics. The thrust of the show really is the easy-going nature of the two hosts cutting it up about movies they love (or not) and the whiskeys that pair nicely with them (or not).
Where To Start:
‘Chef / Rebel 100‘ is an easy entry point for the show. It’s a fun listen in that the movie they’re reviewing/watching is a quick and easy watch that leaves a lot of space to talk about food, flavors, and whiskey.
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16. Bourbon Showdown Podcast
The Podcast:
Comedian Jesse Jones hosts this deep dive podcast with a lot of humor and respect for whiskey (it’s a refreshing mix). Each episode of Bourbon Showdown Podcast finds Jones interviewing a big-name whiskey distiller, producer, or aficionado. It’s always a breezy and fun chat that’s never boring and deeply rewarding to listen to.
Where To Start:
‘Ryan Perry – Heaven’s Door Whiskey‘ is where I’d jump in. It’s a great example of Jones’ style and offers a cool behind-the-scenes look at Bob Dylan’s famed whiskey brand (which we love and really isn’t a boring cash grab!).
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
15. Bourbon With Friends
The Podcast:
Hosts AJ, Paul, and Connor lead easy-going discussions about all things bourbon straight from Kentucky (and beyond). While Bourbon With Friends does center on bourbon and that world (with great interviews), recently they started stretching into great travel-related episodes from Ireland and Scotland.
It’s a well-rounded show that’s growing, is what I’m getting at.
Where To Start:
‘Woodinville Whiskey Co.‘ is a classic episode. Ariel Jahn of Woodinville drops in to talk all about Washington’s premiere distillery and how they’re shaking things up out there.
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14. Dram Fine
The Podcast:
Hosts Pamela Dobbin and Chelsey Belec created Dram Fine as a bridge of sorts between the world of whisky and whisky newbies. The show is very accessible, in that you don’t need any previous knowledge about whisky to enjoy the show — plus you won’t be inundated with an overwhelming amount of insider information. The show really is an easy listen for anyone looking to get into whisky more deeply or anyone looking for a fresh perspective with great interview guests, whisky reviews, and takes on the industry.
Where To Start:
‘How I learned to stop worrying and love independent bottlers‘ finds Dobbin and Belec interviewing Douglas Laing Global ambassador Stuart Baxter about what independent bottlers actually do when sourcing and creating whisky. It’s damn near essential listening, especially if you’re a little shaky on what non-distiller producers get up to.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
13. Embellish Podcast
The Podcast:
John Hughes hosts the Embellish Podcast which, refreshingly, doesn’t have a whiskey-related name. Hughes generally hosts each episode solo with guests dropping in now and then. The thrust is a chat about the state of the industry, bottle reviews, and even whiskey travelogues.
Where To Start:
‘Travel Log: North Carolina Whisk(e)y‘ focuses on Hughes’ trip to Fainting Goat Distillery in North Carolina. The episode is actually pretty outside the box for the general feel of the series but a good listen for Hughes’ style and a good place to get unique information about a less-talked-about section of American whiskey making.
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12. Whiskey Chats
The Podcast:
Whiskey Chats is hosted by Laurie O’Dwyer and has a pretty tight focus on all things Irish whiskey. O’Dwyer’s podcast ranges from in-depth and fun interviews with the people making Irish whiskey to the bar owners who are serving that tipple to his own musing on bottles, the industry, and whiskey in general.
Where To Start:
‘My Chat with John O’Donovan from Irish Malts‘ is a great place to start. It’s a good introduction to both the podcast and what’s happening in Irish whiskey at the moment via the retail side of the business.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
11. Cask Chasers Podcast
The Podcast:
Cask Chasers is one of the most comprehensive whisk(e)y podcasts there is. Co-hosts Katie, Bobby, and Aaron are the crew, and their pod dives into pretty much every aspect of the world of whisk(e)y from all over the world through interviews with the people making, selling, and drinking the stuff all around the world. It’s always a blast to listen to and you’ll always come away from each episode having learned so much.
Where To Start:
‘Cask Chasers Faves!‘ is where you want to jump in. It’s a fun listen as each co-host talks about their number one pour, amongst other things.
Where To Listen: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
10. Single Malt Matters
The Podcast:
Host Matt Drew has a clear focus with Single Malt Matters — American single malt whisk(e)y. Drew’s focus on all things American single malt makes for a very educational podcast listen. Drew pulls in some of the biggest names in the industry who are pushing American single malt in new directions while leaning into the style’s heritage.
Where To Start:
‘Can identical barrels maturing right next to each other really taste THAT different? Episode 33‘ is the perfect spot to start. The episode finds Drew diving deep with Adam Polonski and Nora Ganley-Roper of Lost Lantern and Stephen Paul of Whiskey Del Bac about how two identical barrels can give completely different results. It’s a fascinating and fun listen all around.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
9. Inside Whisky
The Podcast:
Co-hosted by Manuel Hund, Miriam Kasus, and Martin Kasus (prepare yourself for German accents!), this is one of the best podcasts for Scotch whisky out there, full stop. Each episode is a deep dive into a different distillery around Scotland with an interview with an expert from that distillery. All of that adds up to this being one of the best pods for Scotch whisky knowledge while also feeling transportation from time to time, scratching that travel itch for Scotland.
Not for nothing, but Inside Whisky also wins major points for the best podcast logo.
Where To Start:
‘Inside Springbank with Nicole Lindsay‘ is that deep dive whisky podcast you’re looking for. The episode finds the hosts chatting with Springbank’s Marketing Manager about what makes the Campbeltown whisky so amazing and, well… Scottish. It’s a great listen about a phenomenal distillery that’ll leave you searching for bottles of Springbank every time you’re at the liquor store.
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8. Whiskey Neat
The Podcast:
Whiskey Neat is on the radio in Houston, but it’s really a podcast at its core. Hosted by Kristopher Hart (whiskey journalist and Managing Director at Houston Whiskey Social), the show is a great interview format podcast. Hart’s status in the industry means he gets to interview some of the biggest and coolest names both in making whiskey and people who love whiskey (especially celebrities). All of that adds up to a must-listen show if you’re even tangentially interested in the whiskey world.
Where To Start:
‘Ep 161 Nicole Austin and the mystery of the Tennessee Bourbon‘ is a great example of Hart’s insider access but also his open-minded look at the world of whiskey (the conversation dives into old coding about Tennessee whiskey not being “bourbon” in order to dispel that misconception).
The interview is also a great look into the work Nicole Austin is doing down in Tullahoma, Tennessee to push American whiskey forward.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
7. Dads Drinking Bourbon
The Podcast:
Dads Drinking Bourbon is pretty much essential listening if you’re into anything American whiskey related. The duo, John and Zeke, is based in Nashville and provides a great insight into the scene there — they know everybody. But it’s much more than just Tennessee whiskey and bourbon chat. There are great tasting notes/reviews, interviews, and insights into the state of the industry.
This is a truly breezy and informative listen, every single time.
Where To Start:
‘Interview: All things Wild Turkey with Joann Street‘ is the perfect jump-in point. Street, one of the youngest members of the Russell clan working today, drops in for a chat. The whole episode is like sitting in on old friends as they catch up and drink some serious bourbon.
Where To Listen: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
6. Bourbon Lens
The Podcast:
Bourbon Lens is hosted by yet another trio, Jake, Michael, and Scott. The hosts have a focus on Kentucky and bourbon but stretch their podcasting legs into all things whiskey from Ireland to Portland single malts to Texas bourbons to everything in between. The hook here is that the crew behind Bourbon Lens has excellent access to distilleries and bottlers all over the country (and especially Kentucky), which gives the listener a true insider’s view of these whiskey experiences.
Where To Start:
‘159: Is Bottled in Bond Important to the Modern Bourbon Drinker?‘ is a great place to start as it focuses on the three hosts talking about bourbon semantics like “bottled in bond” and drinking reviewing cheap bottled in bond bourbons. It’s a great way to get to know the crew.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
5. WhiskyCast
The Podcast:
Famed whisk(e)y writer Mark Gillespie hosts WhiskyCast. Each episode is an insider’s look into the world of whisk(e)y from various regions all over the world. Some of the biggest names in the industry drop in for interviews and chats about their respective corners of that industry, making this pretty much a must-listen pod for any whiskey lover.
Where To Start:
‘Climate Change’s Impact On Scotch Whisky‘ is a great entry point in that the episode really highlights how deep this podcast goes. Gillespie brings in a climate change researcher and distiller to speak about how that issue is going to not only impact the industry but the people who rely upon it for their livelihoods, alongside a broad news review covering everything from Diageo’s new Chinese distillery to EU trade tariffs on American whiskeys ending (for now).
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4. Whisky Talk
The Podcast:
Richard Goslan, the editor of Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s magazine Unfiltered, hosts this deep dive whisky podcast. Due to Goslan’s high standing in the whisky community, he has access to the highest echelons of the scene. That, in turn, makes this an essential podcast for anyone looking to get deep info on Scotch whisky across the board.
Where To Start:
‘Episode 31: Charlie MacLean MBE‘ is where to start. For one, MacLean is a legendary whisky writer, commentator, and personality who’s seen it all. He’s an amazing raconteur and that makes this episode a must, in general. Moreover, MacLean and Goslan have a really meaningful chat about the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, which might make you consider joining the prestigious club.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
3. The Fred Minnick Show
The Podcast:
The Fred Minnick Show is the gold standard of American whiskey knowledge and reviews, especially bourbon. Minnick — a much-lauded whiskey writer, historian, and curator — hosts one of the most popular podcasts on whiskey, full-stop. Minnick’s status in the industry also allows his show to really tap into big-name whiskey lovers to talk about their love of certain bourbons and whiskeys and taste them on the show with Minnick, which is always a good time.
Where To Start:
‘Actor Jeffrey Wright | ‘Story Can Carve Through Misinformation’ | Uncle Nearest‘ is the perfect example of The Fred Minnick Show. In just under an hour, you’ll be lulled into a sense of ease as famed actor Jeffrey Wright talks with Minnick about Nearest Green, bourbon and Tennessee whiskey history, and Wright’s work with Fawn Weaver and Uncle Nearest in creating one of the hottest whiskey brands of the past couple of years.
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2. Whiskey Lore: The Interviews
The Podcast:
Whiskey Lore: The Interviews is hosted by author Drew Hannush (Whiskey Lore’s Travel Guide to Experiencing Kentucky Bourbon: Learn, Plan, Taste, Tour). Hannush’s podcast takes a deep dive into all things whiskey (from all over the world) through interviews with the most interesting people behind the scenes, stills, history, and whiskey we love.
Where To Start:
‘Starward Whisky’s Founder Dave Vitale // Australian Whisky‘ is a great place to start. It’ll give you the perfect example of Hannush’s show and style while also giving you some seriously cool insight into Aussie whiskey from one of the region’s biggest names.
Where To Listen:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox
1. Bourbon Pursuit
The Podcast:
Bourbon Pursuit is one of the most important American whiskey podcasts right now. Kenny Coleman and Ryan Cecil’s brand touches on both a podcast slate of several shows and, now, their own line of great whiskeys. Focusing on the podcasts, Coleman and Cecil record Whiskey Quickies which are 60-second bottle reviews, a weekly show where they welcome a guest (which has an introduction segment from Fred Minnick), another weekly show called “This Week in Bourbon” (which is just Coleman and Cecil going over the industry news from the week), and a semi-regular roundtable discussions with retailers, distillers, reviewers, and the Bourbon Pursuit team.
This is where you go to get everything you need about bourbon (and rye) from people who care deeply about the industry that they’re in.
Where To Start:
‘Episode 335, Introducing The Bardstown Collection with Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Log Still, Preservation, and Bardstown Bourbon Company‘ is a great place to jump in and highlights the access Coleman and Cecil have to the bourbon industry. It’s also just a great listen with some seriously big names in bourbon speaking honestly about what they’re doing and why.
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Days before its official release, Netflix has unveiled the full trailer of the Kanye West documentary “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy.” But unlike the initial teaser released last month, this new, full look gives a preview of all three parts of West’s epic journey.
“When I first put the camera on this up-and-coming producer back in ’98, I knew he was destined for greatness. The goal would be to see how long his dreams would take him. But I had no idea where life would take us next,” the film’s director and narrator Clarence “Coodie” SImmons” says in the new trailer. “It felt like the bigger Kanye got, the farther we grew apart. But there was more to Kanye’s story I needed to tell.”
The first part of the seven-hour documentary series looked at West’s struggles trying to make it as a rapper in Chicago, and in Todd Gilchrist’s review of “Act 1: Vision” out of Sundance, he explains that West barely has a record deal by the time the first chapter ends. In addition to giving a peek at the Chicago hip hop scene and other emerging rappers such as Twista, Common and Rhymefest, it also shows West’s tireless effort to get someone to notice his even-then undeniable talent.
“It’s certainly fascinating to watch West be one of a scrum of people shuffling through a label-hosted birthday party for Jay-Z, waiting for his opportunity to shake the hand of the rapper for whom he produced ‘Izzo (H.O.V.A.).’ And it’s almost sad to see West be the ‘guy behind the guy,’ going from office to office in Def Jam performing ‘All Falls Down’ in a desperate effort to convince someone to sign him, or even advocate for him, knowing what we now know about his presence in modern music,” Gilchrist wrote in his review.
The West documentary “jeen-yuhs” is directed by Coodie & Chike and comes from Time Studios and Creative Control and is described as an intimate and revealing portrait of Kanye’s experience dating back to his formative days trying to break into the business as a rapper, brand and artist and includes never-before-seen footage of his challenges and triumphs across music and fashion.
Following its debut of “Act 1: (Vision)” at the virtual Sundance Film Festival, “jeen-yuhs” will also be released theatrically by Iconic Events Releasing Feb. 10. It will then debut across three weeks on Netflix beginning Feb. 16.
Simmons also wrote “jeen-yuhs” with J. Ivy and produced alongside Chike Ozah and Leah Natasha Thomas.
Check out the full trailer above.
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David Lynch has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg‘s semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age film, The Fabelmans. Lynch’s role is top-secret, but, knowing him, it will probably be absurdly wonderful. The Fabelmans is loosely based on Spielberg’s upbringing in Arizona when he first found an interest in movies.
The all-star ensemble cast includes Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Sam Rechner, Oakes Fegley, Chloe East, Julia Butters, among others. Williams and Dano are reportedly taking the role of Spielberg’s parents, while Rogen’s part is a reference to Spielberg’s uncle. Newcomer Gabriel LaBelle will star as Sammy, who is based on Spielberg himself. The film began production last summer, and is expected to hit theaters this Thanksgiving.
This is the first time the two iconic directors have worked together, despite working in similar circles. Spielberg is fresh off the press tour for 2021’s smash West Wide Story, which was adapted by a screenplay by longtime collaborator Tony Kushner, who also co-wrote The Fabelmans.
Lynch hasn’t worked on a major motion picture since 2006’s experimental film Inland Empire, which famously did not land Laura Dern an Oscar. He most recently directed the 2017 Twin Peaks revival series, and has kept up a daily routine of reporting on the weather every day since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“Lost” producers Jack Bender and Jeff Pinkner are back with the twisty new mystery series “From,” which debuts Feb. 20 on Epix. Instead of stranding people on an enigmatic island, the series, which reunited them with “Lost” star Harold Perrineau, is set in a nightmarish Midwestern town, where no one can ever leave and terrifying creatures prowl after sunset.
During an Epix panel at the Television Critics Association this week, Bender and Pinkner discussed how the series — which is created and executive produced by John Griffin — won’t make the same mistakes “Lost” did, where some mysteries ended in disappointing reveals or were never answered at all.
“I think that having done ‘Lost’ and then taking the lessons of ‘Lost,’ the storytelling lessons and sort of ran them through a filter fringe and tried to apply them here, I think we’re approaching every season like its own chapter with its own questions and its own answers,” Pinkner said.
He also promised that each season, which will be only 10 episodes compared to 22 on “Lost,” will be more “contained.”
“It’s a very contained arc. The limitations of 10 episodes force you to make harder choices. We, John and Jack and I, have been very cognizant of making sure that the characters are asking the questions that we know that the audience is asking,” Pinkner said, no doubt referring to the fact that the WTF moment in the “Lost” pilot where a scouting party runs into a polar bear — on a tropical island — wasn’t mentioned to the rest of the castaways.
“The show is sort of reinforcing and playing along with the audience’s experience of the show… we’re aware of what the audience is asking and looking for, and so being mindful of the questions and knowing that we have answers, and using all of it really just to focus back on what are the characters going through, really that’s the reason we’re so enamored with our cast is we’re taking kind of a ‘Twilight Zone’-y trope and using it to explore humanity,” he said.
Bender added, “Six years of ‘Lost’ was an amazing wave and a great learning experience… the great thing about episodic television is you can follow those roads where they take you. But our creator, John is are working to have every season be a chapter… It is worked out, and creativity may send it up and down, but the journey is clear. The map is out there. And I’m not so sure it always was with ‘Lost,’ as brilliant as ‘Lost’ was.”
In addition to Perrineau, the cast also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, Hannah Cheramy, Simon Webster, Ricky He, Chloe Van Landschoot, Shaun Majumder, Corteon Moore, Pegah Ghafoori, David Alpay, Elizabeth Saunders, Elizabeth Moy and Avery Konrad.
“From” is created and executive produced by John Griffin (“Crater”), directed and executive produced by Jack Bender (“Lost,” “Game of Thrones”) and showrun and executive produced by Jeff Pinkner (“Fringe,” “Alias,” ” Lost”).
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With 2 Chainz dropping his new album, Dope Don’t Sell Itself, today, the Atlanta rapper dropped by The Late Show for a stirring performance of “Lost Kings” featuring Lil Durk and Sleepy Rose. The song addresses America’s prevalent problem with gun violence — particularly when the victims are young Black men — while the performance was offered as a tribute to several of the rappers who were slain in the past few years, including Nipsey Hussle, Pop Smoke, and Young Dolph, photos of whom are projected behind the performers.
Along with last night’s performance, the rollout for Dope Don’t Sell Itself included the release of videos for “Million Dollars Worth Of Game” featuring 42 Dugg, “Pop Music” with Beatking and Moneybagg Yo, and the “Laffy Taffy”-sampling “Neighbors Know My Name,” as well as an eyebrow-raising freestyle over Pharcyde’s “Passin’ Me By” on the LA Leakers radio show. The album itself has already received rave reviews on Twitter, and features guest appearances from Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch, Stove God Cooks, Symba, Swae Lee, and more. Before the album’s release, 2 Chainz claimed that it would be his last trap-focused album and if that’s true, he’s bowing out at the top of his game.
Watch 2 Chainz’s “Lost Kings” performance on The Late Show above.
Some artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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Apple TV+ has set the premiere date for its four-part docuseries on L.A. Lakers legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, which is titled “They Call Me Magic.”
The series will premiere on April 22.
With unprecedented access, the docuseries explores Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s remarkable journey from being the face of the Los Angeles Lakers and cementing himself as an all-time NBA legend, to changing the conversation around HIV, and transforming into a successful entrepreneur and community activist.
From his humble beginnings in Lansing, Michigan, to becoming the global force he is today, “They Call Me Magic” features intimate interviews with Magic, his family, and an all-star lineup, as the docuseries charts the cinematic life of one of the biggest cultural icons of our era.
Johnson’s had one hell of a life — even beyond the basketball court. But the Lansing, Michigan native’s college (Michigan State University) and professional (Los Angeles Lakers) career is the stuff of legend. Magic won five rings with the Lakers. Along the way, he forged an intense rivalry — and ultimately, a very touching friendship — with Larry Bird.
Magic passed the NBA torch to Michael Jordan when both were members of the 1992 “Dream Team,” the USA Basketball team that completely dominated the Olympics. You’ve probably heard of him too.
After retiring from the NBA, Johnson became a late-night talk show host and a businessman. One of those ventures was much more successful than the other. Johnson owned a movie-theater chain and a studio, and is now part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The docuseries, which hails from New Slate Ventures and XTR, features never-before-seen footage and interviews with Magic, powerhouses from business and politics, and those in his inner circle, according to the description provided by Apple.
Dirk Westervelt (“Ford v. Ferrari”) will edit together all the footage, Rachel Morrison (“Black Panther”) handles cinematography. The untitled docuseries is produced for Apple by XTR and New Slate Ventures, and produced in association with H.Wood Media and Delirio Films.
Johnson has been an activist for those with the virus since announcing his infection in 1991. Though he retired immediately upon receiving the news of his diagnosis from a routine team physical, Johnson played in the ’92 NBA All-Star Game and in Barcelona. Did we say “played?” He was the game’s MVP.
Tony Maglio contributed to this report.
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Next week, rowdy punk rapper Snot will release his second album, Ethereal, via 300 Entertainment, following up his attention-grabbing 2020 debut, Beautiful Havoc. After building his buzz with splashy collaboration with Denzel Curry (“Sangria“), Iann Dior (“Like Me“), and Kevin Abstract (“Slugger,” also featuring Slowthai), Snot levels up on his new album, which features guest appearances from Joey Badass, Juicy J, Trippie Redd, and ASAP Rocky.
The latter appears on a rebellious party song called “Doja,” named for exactly who it sounds like it is. Today, a week before the album’s official release, Snot dropped the video for the song, which features some surreal imagery like bodies falling upward outside a project building in New York (which features a mural of Virgil Abloh with ASAP Yams’ recognizable birthmark) and Snot getting the word “Doja” tattooed on his arm as the two rappers’ crew stampedes their way through a subway station.
The song and the video are exactly what we’ve come to expect from these two, fusing the rampaging energy of punk rock show with braggadocious rap lyrics. However, one of those lyrics actually got the attention of Doja Cat herself on Twitter (which might have been the point all along), who seemed to take issue with Snot’s assertion that he “f*cked that bitch named Doja Cat.” She tweeted and deleted a reply to his tweet sharing the track, writing, “You f*cked who?”
.@DojaCat reacts to being name-dropped on $NOT’s new song, "Doja" featuring A$AP Rocky:
“you f*cked who?” pic.twitter.com/fhx6mQSvu9
— Female Rap Room (@girlsinrap) February 4, 2022
We’re long past the era of expecting rappers to “keep it real” in their songs, so it’s likely Snot was just doing some youthful boasting but maybe next time, he should clear the reference with its subject before just throwing it out there.
Watch the “Doja” video above. Ethereal is due 2/11 via 300 Entertainment.
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Magic Johnson’s upcoming docuseries for Apple TV+, “They Call Me Magic,” is already inviting comparisons to ESPN’s “The Last Dance.”
After all, both docuseries center on an NBA Legend: “The Last Dance” chronicled Michael Jordan’s career with the Chicago Bulls, framed around his last season with the team. But Magic says the comparisons stop there.
“It’s totally different,” Johnson said Friday during the docuseries’ Television Critics Association press tour session. “‘The Last Dance’ was about basketball and Michael’s mindset and attitude towards winning. This is about my family. This is about me being a businessman… it’s a life journey.”
The docuseries, which will premiere on April 22, explores Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s remarkable journey from being the face of the Los Angeles Lakers and cementing himself as an all-time NBA legend, to changing the conversation around HIV, and transforming into a successful entrepreneur and community activist.
Magic did make one comparison to “The Last Dance,” though — he thinks NBA great Scottie Pippen will like it a lot more than the Jordan-produced docuseries. “I think Scottie would like it more no question about it,” Johnson said.
Pippen did not like how he and his Bulls teammates were portrayed in “The Last Dance” and reserved his biggest ire for Jordan.
In his memoir “Unguarded,” Pippen accused “The Last Dance” of propping up Jordan at the expense of Pippen and other Bulls from the ’90s. “They glorified Michael Jordan while not giving nearly enough praise to me and my proud teammates. Michael deserved a large portion of the blame. The producers had granted him editorial control of the final product,” Pippen wrote. “Even in the second episode, which focused for a while on my difficult upbringing and unlikely path to the NBA, the narrative returned to MJ and his determination to win. I was nothing more than a prop. His ‘best teammate of all time,’ he called me. He couldn’t have been more condescending if he tried.”
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HBO Max’s And Just Like That.. may have ended up being more of a horror show that planned, and one of those reasons ended up being the “Hey, It’s Che Diaz” memes that sprung up after Miranda Hobbes cheated on poor Steve Brady for the first time, in a kitchen (with Che Diaz, obv), while Carrie spilled pee on herself. ‘Twas perhaps meant to be, but it almost never happened.
Che was already planned to be on the show as Carrie’s podcasting boss, and presumably, as a stand-up comedian, but their role may not have been nearly as extensive. On the And Just Like That… documentary that aired after the show’s finale, Cynthia Nixon opened up about how we almost never really knew Che, at least not as the nonbinary narcissist who hissed, “I am reealllly good at sex.” Instead, Miranda almost ended up cheating on Steve with Dr. Nya Wallace, Miranda’s law professor who is straight and also unhappily married.
Cynthia described how she shut down this possibility from Showrunner Michael Patrick King, via Insider:
“So originally, when Michael was sort of trying to think about what would happen in our season, he talked about Nya, Miranda’s professor, being the romantic relationship… Nya was a straight character and Miranda’s a straight character and I was like, ‘That doesn’t sound very sexy at all.'” She said she didn’t like the idea of two middle-aged women “fumbling around,” both figuring out their sexuality at the same time.
She said she wondered why Miranda’s new love couldn’t be “this butch person that you’re talking about having for Carrie.”
Hmm. Nya was alright, but I don’t see the drama flying there, like it did with Che. And honestly, as much as Che swallowed up the curtains of every scene they encountered, this show needed that spicing up. Miranda and Nya would not have sparked any sort of social media controversy, which you arguably need for a show like this to be an object of discussion. This show didn’t arrive to be a “quiet triumph,” after all. Plus, we got a new villain for the ages, too. Maybe Che Diaz has some pluses? Just saying.
(Via Insider)
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”The league is very pleased,“ ESPN’s Ilan Ben-Hanan says
Having two media partners is paying off in a big way for the National Hockey League.
Skating into this weekend’s All-Star Break in Las Vegas, the league has seen a double-digit increase in viewership and ratings through the first half of its first season on ESPN and Turner.
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Through Feb. 1, TNT is averaging 427,000 viewers across 20 telecasts, an increase of 16% from NBCSN’s Wednesday night games last season (TNT also airs games on Wednesdays). Those numbers are also up 14% from the 2019-2020 season on NBCSN. Compared to the last two full seasons, TNT’s audience is up by 53% over last year and 46% vs the 2019-2020 year.
Among female viewers, NHL on TNT is up by a massive 86% this season.
The New Year’s Day Winter Classic, which moved to TNT this season, drew 1.4 million viewers, the most-watched regular-season NHL game on cable ever. Not surprisingly, that game is the most watched NHL game this season on any network so far.
ESPN and ABC are having similar success this year with hockey coverage, getting off to a strong start with its opening night doubleheader in October, which was the most-viewed in NHL history. Season to date, ESPN’s games are up 8% in the ratings through the similar portion of last season’s COVID-impacted campaign on NBCSN; throughout the last comparable season, ESPN ratings are up 28% over 2019-20.
ESPN’s deal is a little different than Turner’s, with the majority of games being carried by Disney-owned streaming services Hulu and ESPN+. Only eight games have aired so far this year on ESPN and ABC, averaging 701,000 viewers.
“This deal is not and should not be judged only off of our television ratings,” Ilan Ben-Hanan, senior vice president, programming and acquisitions, ESPN, told TheWrap. “This was a paradigm-shifting deal. This was about attracting subscribers to ESPN+ and putting live sports on Hulu for the first time. By all of those metrics, this has been very successful.”
Ben-Hanan pointed out that ESPN has “internal metrics” that “attribute a lot of that growth” to pro hockey. “We’re very, very pleased, the league is very pleased. It’s halfway through first year of a seven-year deal, it’s exactly where we would want it to be at this stage.”
ESPN broadcast four of the top six NHL games on cable this season and ABC’s first game on Black Friday last November, between the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers, was the most-viewed Black Friday game since 2016, with 1.2 million tuning in.
Disney and TNT parent WarnerMedia are collectively paying around $625 million in rights fees each year for the next seven years, more than tripling the NHL’s haul from its old TV partner, NBCUniversal.
“The league was very interested in when they partnered with us and with Turner on potentially attracting beyond their hardcore that maybe there was some good people sampling across our networks. And I think that they’ve been pleased with that,” Ben-Hanan said.
The NHL lags in the ratings behind the other Big 3 professional American sports. Last year’s Stanley Cup Finals averaged 2.5 million viewers to watch the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games. That was up from the 2 million that watched the Lighting defeat the Dallas Stars in six games the year before; as with the NBA, the last two NHL seasons were greatly disrupted, and delayed, by the pandemic.
In 2019, the last time the league was on its normal schedule, the seven-game series between the St. Louis Blues and Boston Bruins averaged 5.3 million viewers.
NBC splits the Stanley Cup between its broadcast network and cable channel NBCSN. Under its new deal, the Stanley Cup will rotate between ABC and TNT every other year.
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After rising to fame thanks to representing Stormy Daniels when she came forward to confirm her affair with Donald Trump, the one-time superstar celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was found guilty on Friday of stealing from the adult film actress. Following a whirlwind trial that featured everything from fired public defenders to accusations of paranormal communications, Avenatti was convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for skimming roughly $300,000 from an advance for Daniels’ memoirs. During her testimony, Daniels repeatedly described feeling betrayed by Avenatti’s actions when he was supposed to be protecting her during a public battle with Trump.
Making Avenatti’s conviction all the more embarrassing is that he made a last-minute decision to represent himself and basically boasted to the press that he had it all under control. Uhhhh… whoops. Via The Daily Beast:
Avenatti’s trial began Jan. 24 and included theatrical testimony about Daniels’ supposed paranormal experiences and ability to speak to dead people, Avenatti’s desperate plea for a loan from celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos, and an inside look at text messages between Daniels and Avenatti that revealed how their tight-knit bond turned sour.
On the second day of trial, Avenatti ditched his public defenders and decided to represent himself. He told reporters outside the courthouse that afternoon that he was innocent and going “pro se” would give him “the best chance at winning.”
Naturally, Avenatti plans to fight the conviction. “I look forward to a full adjudication of all of the issues on appeal,” he told reporters as if none of them would remember him saying he was going to totally win this thing the first time.
(Via The Daily Beast)
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Roland Emmerich is truly the master of disaster.
The German filmmaker has created some of the most iconic sequences of mass destruction in the history of film, nestled inside some of the most memorable big budget movies of the past few decades, hits like “Independence Day,” “White House Down,” and “The Day After Tomorrow.” His latest, “Moonfall,” involves the moon (yes, our moon) crashing into earth, which causes all sorts of problems including, but not limited to, zero G funkiness, out-of-control tides, and giant chunks of moon slamming into various parts of our planet.
To celebrate the new film and Emmerich’s illustrious history of destroying things we hold dear, TheWrap had Emmerich break down his favorite moments from his films – some of which might surprise you. You can watch above and see a breakdown of his choices below.
“Independence Day”
For his 1996 film “Independence Day,” still one of the most fun summer movies of all time, Emmerich picked an unlikely moment – Will Smith dragging an unconscious alien across the desert. Calling the moment “a totally absurd thing,” Emmerich noted that the only scripted line of the entire scene was “What’s that smell?” Everything else was improvised by Smith. The rest, as they say, is history. “That’s my true favorite scene in the movie,” Emmerich admits.
“The Patriot”
This scene, which shows the Revolutionary War being waged outside of a house where Heath Ledger and Mel Gibson are talking, was an area of contention – Emmerich said that Gibson questioned whether or not he’d actually show a cannonball decapitating somebody. “He thought I was making a PG-13 film,” Emmerich said in reference to his 2000 historical epic. “But this is war.” He described this scene as “the pivotal point where everything turns.” And it’s hard to argue.
“The Day After Tomorrow”
For his 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow,” Emmerich chose a scene with a tsunami barreling down the concrete canyons of New York City, in part, because “it was so hard to do.” “It was a nightmare,” Emmerich said. “It was just so hard to make this water. And it was a very pivotal scene! I had to get these kids [Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum] into the library. I couldn’t not use these shots!”
“2012”
This is the moment, in what is arguably the ultimate Emmerich movie, there’s a comedic beat with John Cusack and a car that he can’t figure out how to start. As it quickly becomes apparent, it’s voice controlled. Still, Emmerich admits, the scene was mainly “a cool way to show all of these luxury cars fall out of the back of [the plane].” About a moment towards the end of the scene, when the pilot of the plane thinks he’s made it only to crash into a ravine, Emmerich said: “Sometimes you have to do that, otherwise a movie becomes too silly. You have to have jokes and then show something brutal.”
“White House Down”
Emmerich’s edict to “White House Down” screenwriter Jamie Vanderbilt, for a helicopter attack on the White House, was: “Make this scene bigger.” “If you don’t have a big thing happening, the movie falls flat there,” Emmerich told him. “I was constantly inventing stuff.” There’s a particular moment that Emmerich loves – when a helicopter rotor blade crashes through the ceiling and advances on a tour guide. “We built that. And it was too close to actors and at the time I felt a little worried about that,” Emmerich said. He may level cities, but he still cares about his performers!
“Midway”
For his 2019 take on World War II, “Midway,” Emmerich chose a sequence where one of the pilots touches down on an aircraft carrier. The key phrase there is one of the pilots. “It’s heartbreaking,” Emmerich said. “It’s like, why did I come back and the other guy didn’t come back? For me, it was a great scene.” Agreed.
“Moonfall”
“Moonfall,” Emmerich’s latest extravaganza, involves a sequence where the space shuttle is lifting off at the same time that the moon is creating a “gravity wave” (also a literal wave made out of water). It came from the simple need for, as Emmerich says, “a time clock.” “They have to make it in 28 minutes and at the same time the moon is so close it makes a huge tide,” Emmerich said. The rest is pure, glorious Emmerich mayhem.
“Moonfall” is now playing exclusively in theaters.
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Apple TV+ revealed the premiere date and first trailer for sci-fi series “Shining Girls” on Friday, offering a first look at Elisabeth Moss in multiple incarnations as she chases Jamie Bell’s mysterious villain through ever-shifting realities while he targets “shining girls.”
The first three installments of the eight-episode series will debut globally on Apple TV+ on April 29, with subsequent episodes dropping each Friday.
Moss, who serves as a director and executive producer on the series, stars as Kirby Mazrachi, a Chicago newspaper archivist who survives a brutal assault. When she learns that a recent murder resembles her attack, she partners with seasoned but troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura), to track the perpetrator. Phillipa Soo and Amy Brenneman co-star.
The MRC Television series is based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling 2013 novel and was adapted for television by showrunner Silka Luisa.
Emmy Award-winner Michelle MacLaren (“Breaking Bad”), who also executive produces with Rebecca Hobbs for MacLaren Entertainment, directed the first two episodes.
Moss executive produces through her Love and Squalor Pictures, alongside Lindsey McManus. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson and Michael Hampton executive produce through Appian Way. Daina Reid (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) directs and executive produces. Author Lauren Beukes and Alan Page Arriaga also serve as executive producers.
Watch the trailer here.
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The 28th Slamdance Film Festival announced its awards winners on Friday, with Grand Jury Awards going to “Hannah Ha Ha” for Narrative Feature, “Forget Me Not” for Documentary Feature, “Killing the Eunuch KHAN” for Breakout Feature and “Straighten Up and Fly Right” for Unstoppable Feature.
The Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature went to “The Civil Dead,” while “Iron Family” scooped up the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature. “The Ember Knight Show: ‘Getting Mad'” received the Audience Award for Episodes.
“We congratulate the winners of Slamdance 2022 and every one of our filmmakers who together created a showcase that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in storytelling,” said Slamdance President and Co-founder Peter Baxter. “The future of film depends on these unique voices who defy simple classification and transcend analytics. Key to supporting this endeavor is accessibility and the major growth of our online audience who’ve tuned into the new Slamdance Channel.”
There were also four festival-wide awards given out this year, including the AGBO Fellowship, presented by Slamdance alumni and “Avengers” helmers Joe and Anthony Russo. For directing “Therapy Dogs,” Ethan Eng will receive the $25,000 prize as well as mentorship from the Russo brothers.
The festival’s top acting award went to Hannah Lee Thompson of “Hannah Ha Ha,” with an honorable mention for “Bracha”s Batel Moseri. The George Starks Spirit of Slamdance Award, awarded to the filmmaker who best embodies the spirit of Slamdance, went to Sasha Levinson, director of “Sylvie of the Sunshine State.” Lastly, Hannah Saidiner picked up the CreativeFuture Innovation Award for the animated film “My Parent Neal.”
Founded in 1995 in rebellion to its neighboring festival Sundance, the 28th edition of Slamdance runs virtually from Jan. 27 to Feb. 6. This year’s lineup included 23 premieres and showcased the talents of filmmakers from all over the world. As a platform for emerging talent and a celebration of low-budget filmmaking, each of the 8,000 submissions selected for competition were made on a budget of less than $1 million.
Here’s the full list of awards issued by the festival:
GRAND JURY AWARDS – FEATURES
Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize: Hannah Ha Ha (Dir: Jordan Tetewsky and Joshua Pikovsky)
Honorable Mentions: Ultrainocencia (Dir: Manuel Arija)
Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize: Forget Me Not (Dir: Olivier Bernier)
Honorable Mention: Fury (Dir: Krzysztof Kasior)
Breakouts Feature Grand Jury Prize: Killing the Eunuch KHAN (Dir: Abed Abest)
Honorable Mentions: Retrograde (Dir: Adrian Murray)
Unstoppable Feature Grand Jury Prize: Straighten Up And Fly Right (Dir: Kristen Abate and Steven
Tanenbaum)
Honorable Mentions: Selahy (My Weapon) (Dir: Alaa Zabara)
JURY AWARDS – SHORTS
Narrative Shorts Grand Jury Prize: Ratking (Dir: Eric Colonna)
Honorable Mention: See You, Garbage! (Dir: Romain Dumont)
Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize: The Ritual to Beauty (Dir: Shenny de Los Angeles and Maria
Marrone)
Honorable Mention: Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying (Dir: Jonathan Haff Mehring)
Experimental Shorts Grand Jury Prize: Chameleon (Dir: Ima Iduozee and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko)
Honorable Mention: Compositions for Understanding Relationships (Dir: David De La Fuente)
Animated Shorts Grand Jury Prize: I’m Here (Dir: Julia Orlik)
Honorable Mention: Oldboy’s Apples (Dir: Brad Hock)
FESTIVAL WIDE AWARDS
The AGBO Fellowship, presented by Joe and Anthony Russo, Award Winner: Ethan Eng, director of
Therapy Dogs
Slamdance Acting Award: Hannah Lee Thompson of Hannah Ha Ha
Honorable Mention: Batel Moseri of Bracha
George Starks Spirit of Slamdance Award Winner: Sasha Levinson, director of Sylvie of the Sunshine
State
CreativeFuture Innovation Award: My Parent, Neal (Dir: Hannah Saidiner)
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: The Civil Dead (Dir. Clay Tatum)
Audience Award for Documentary Feature: Iron Family (Dir. Patrick Longstreth)
Audience Award for Episodes: The Ember Knight Show: “Getting Mad” (Dir. Bobby McCoy)
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If the human race were to go extinct today, what would the world look like tomorrow? In a few months? In 20 years?
The apocalypse question has given rise to a whole subgenre of television, which tends to frame it one of two ways. Stories are either forged from the wreckage of disaster-stricken cities (“The Walking Dead,” “The Stand,” “Y: The Last Man”) or set in some distant future, lightyears away from the initial cataclysm (“12 Monkeys,” “The 100”).
“Station Eleven,” the HBO Max series based on Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, poses a simpler alternative: what if the apocalypse was just a giant reset button?
That framing – the way it collapses beginnings and endings, loss and possibility, life and death – informs every aspect of the 10-part miniseries, not least of all how it looks.
Production designer Ruth Ammon was in Budapest, scouting locations for another project, when she began working out her artistic approach. Taking bits and pieces from Mandel’s book, the “visual poetry” of showrunner Patrick Somerville’s scripts, and her own imagination, Ammon’s vision for “Station Eleven” didn’t share much DNA with its dystopian siblings.
“It was a world where the future wasn’t drab and miserable and horrible; the future was verdant, the future was green,” said the three-time Emmy nominee, whose recent work includes “Heroes” and “The Alienist.”
“There was something hopeful and whimsical and kind of positive that we wanted to show.”
That might sound odd, considering that “Station Eleven” is about a highly contagious flu that wipes out 99% of the human population. But the show is equally, if not more focused on a web of interconnected survivors who, 20 years later, have built a new world out of the vestiges of the old one.
In that sense, while much of “Station Eleven” takes place in the future, it isn’t futuristic.
“Let’s put it [this] way: we didn’t want to see falling bricks [or] broken glass,” said Ammon. “We just wanted it to be as if the world had stopped.”
Since most of the early pandemic sequences take place in Chicago, the effect of this is staggering. Overnight, America’s third-largest city goes from bustling metropolis to ghost town, its vacant skyscrapers and shopping malls the only proof that 2.7 million people used to live there.
For Year 1 (the first year after the flu outbreak), Ammon drew inspiration from a place where this actually happened: Fukushima, the Japanese city that was abandoned in the wake of a nuclear disaster in 2011. Specifically, she looked at Yasusuke Ota’s photography series “The Abandoned Animals of Fukushima,” which includes a shot of cows loitering outside of stores and one of an ostrich strolling down a street.
Balancing those natural and man-made elements was the key to making “Station Eleven”s future feel realistic. When it came to designing Year 20, Ammon’s strategy involved mixing fragments of “recognizable architecture” into wide open spaces.
“With a suburban street with a million houses, or a shopping mall with too much stuff, you never really get the message because you’re getting caught up in lots of details,” she explained. “I felt, along with [Somerville], that it was more important to have isolated, whimsical landscape sculptures.”
Ammon’s “landscape sculptures” derive from things like gas stations and billboards, everyday architecture that loses its original functions in a post-apocalyptic world.
“These giant structures [would become] useless, and then they become something else,” she said. “And they don’t become derelict, they become beautiful.”
Take, for example, the deconstructed airplane that gets turned into a zen garden, or the 20-foot, three-dimensional fast food chicken bucket that some characters hide in during a rainstorm.
Those outdoor spaces are the backbone of “Station Eleven”s production design, but they’re hardly the only locations. In addition to Chicago and its surrounding areas, parts of the story take place in Michigan, Los Angeles, and Malaysia.
To bring these settings to life, Ammon and her team drove around for hours, checking out places they’d seen in photos and happening upon others by chance.
“Location scouting is really the start of forming an idea and a possibility of what the world can be,” she said. “Sometimes it’s very specific in the script and other times, you can adjust it.”
An old quarry provided the backdrop for the town of Pingtree, while a conference center in Chicago became the Malaysian hotel where the character Miranda is staying when the pandemic hits.
Other sets called for creative solutions, like printing 3D snow out of styrofoam or building a tropical beach in the middle of Chicago. “You kind of combine what is possible and what you find,” she noted.
One of the show’s most ambitious set pieces is the Severn City Airport, where a large chunk of the action unfolds. When the pandemic hits, a Chicago-bound plane gets diverted to the mid-sized Michigan airport; over the next two decades, the passengers turn it into a miniature suburbia, complete with gift shops that house families and a Museum of Civilization that houses their lifeless iPhones and Nintendo Switches.
Since no one airport could accommodate all of that, Ammon and co. designed “a jigsaw puzzle” out of three or four buildings that were miles apart.
“Our starting point was a small disused terminal at [Toronto] Pearson Airport. It was all boarded up, and there were no shops in there,” so they had to build it from the inside out.
For the sake of regional specificity, Ammon modeled all of the shops on real local businesses: Halo Burger, Mr. Pretzel, Silver Harbor Brewing Company, and Original Mackinac Island Fudge, to name a few.
“What that allowed us to do was to flip those shops [for the Year 20 versions],” she said. “If you create the original, then it’s easier to turn it around, because you have those materials and you can plan [the transformation] in stages.”
For the Atrium, a rounded indoor space where the airport dwellers often gather, Ammon selected the Ontario Science Center, a brutalist building designed by Raymond Moriyama in the 1960s. A two-story soundstage held the control tower-turned-Museum of Civilization, while a defunct airport an hour south of Toronto supplied the grown-over runways bordering the zen garden. Put it all together, and you have a complete airport.
“That was incredibly fun, and incredibly difficult,” Ammon recalled, adding with a laugh, “I’m exhausted just talking about it.”
“Station Eleven”s other set pièce de résistance is the series’ very first shot. The pilot, directed by executive producer Hiro Murai, opens with the interior of a theater cloaked in greenery so dense it almost appears to be underwater. Wild pigs roam through the rows, the outlines of seats barely visible under the flora blooming from every surface.
Rather than rely on visual effects, Ammon and her team carted in “truckloads and truckloads” of real and synthetic plants. “We needed the baby version, the mid version, the big version of all those [plants] to make it a truthful rewilding, and not just a kind of fabulous, crazy overgrowth,” she said.
“Because [Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, where they shot the scene] is historic, we had to cover all the seats with fabric [sleeves] that we dyed and added moss to.”
No set better conveys the promise and the heartbreak of the post-apocalypse than this one, a beautiful new world that humans will never live to see. But just like the landscape sculptures and the airport, this design is rooted in present reality.
About a decade ago, Ammon was in Detroit, working on the production design for “Low Winter Sun.” While there, she photographed homes that had been abandoned in the midst of post-WWII “white flight” and subsequently reclaimed by nature.
“I planted myself in a neighborhood very specifically to be able to go on my bicycle and explore these derelict buildings,” she remembered. “A lot of them were incredible Victorian architecture that had trees and plants growing out of them, and also birds and butterflies. So it was [an environment] that I had actually experienced myself.”
There was one thing, however, that none of her past experiences helped prepare her for: the fact that reality was about to mirror the one she was creating for “Station Eleven.”
Filming had begun in Chicago when Ammon heard the term COVID-19 for the first time. “‘Haha, isn’t that weird?’” she called out to Murai in the office across from her. “And then our first AD [Jennifer Wilkinson] sent a text out to all of us saying, ‘Hey, guys, isn’t this funny?’”
That was in December 2019. Before long, Ammon was working in complete isolation, as she never had before.
“When you’re a production designer during COVID, you’re driving yourself eight hours, ten hours a day to locations all over the place, and you’re in your own head, and there’s no place to stop for food, there’s no place to stop to use a toilet, everything’s closed,” she said.
“I felt like we had envisioned this world before it happened, but that only kind of supported it in this really weird way,” she continued. “The story is ultimately about artists creating art during a pandemic, and that’s what we were doing, so we were living very parallel lives.”
Admittedly, the loneliness and solitude Ammon felt during the two years she spent working on “Station Eleven” made watching the series difficult for her.
Still, she said she considers herself lucky to have been part of something that reflected her experience in a meaningful way.
As the lead artist of “Station Eleven” – and its poignant, hopeful vision of the future – it’s fitting that Ammon looks back on the experience of making it from a similar perspective.
“It was the hardest job in my life,” she said, “and it was the most magical.”
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100,000 registered attendees see LEAP22 leapfrog into first place in international technology events
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The inaugural edition of LEAP has set new records for a debut technology event, attracting over 100,000 registered attendees from more than 80 countries. Over 700 exhibitors including the world's leading technology companies and 1,500 start-ups, along with more than 500 international speakers joined LEAP22, which concluded yesterday in Riyadh, making it the largest ever first edition for a technology event. Over US$6.4 billion of investments and new technology initiatives were announced at LEAP22.
LEAP22 saw the announcement of multiple investments and funds for start-ups and entrepreneurs of over US$266 million. Among the announcements was the completion of the second round of Khwarizmi Ventures fund with a value of US$69.8 million; investment into the Emkan VC fund of over US$49.8 million and the launch by Saudi Venture Investment Company of a new fund worth over US$134 million, to promote start-ups. A new partnership to build start-ups between Unifonic and TheSpaceKSA, called UnifonicX, was also revealed.
Start-up deals included Nana closing an investment round led by FIM Partners and the STV Fund, worth US$50 million; and Quant closing an investment round worth US$800,000 led by VentureSouq with participation by RaedVC and Seedra, and also announced an additional round of investment. Muzn Artificial Intelligence raised an investment round of US$10.1 million, led by Raed Ventures with the participation of Shorooq Partners, VentureSouq, Sukna Ventures and others; while Taffi raised more than US$1.8 million investment, and SIFI and Tamawal closed pre-seed rounds.
Start-ups from around the world went head-to-head in the Rocket Fuel Start-up Competition, promoting their innovative business ideas to win a share of the US$1 million prize fund. Seven winning start-ups took home cash prizes for their new business ideas, scored on creativity, innovation, potential, functionality and impact on people and society.
Apple selected Riyadh for its first Apple Developer Academy headquarters in the Middle East and North Africa region. The academy caters solely to female programmers and developers and is located at the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University.
Michael Champion, Regional Executive Vice President – MEA, Informa, the event's organizers said LEAP22 is a breakthrough success, attracting the biggest audience for a technology event in recent years, surpassing even Web Summit and CES, and setting a new record for most attendees to a new platform.
"LEAP22 has been able to bring to Riyadh the leading names in technology with the most exciting new start-ups and creators, to present cutting-edge innovations that will reshape the world around us. We would like to thank our world-class speakers, sponsors and partners and look forward to hosting an even bigger LEAP next year," said Champion.
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While the Apple TV+ series “The Afterparty” may be a comedic twist on the murder mystery genre, building the structure of the show was serious business.
Creator, writer, executive producer and director Christopher Miller revealed during a Friday TCA panel for the show that initially, crafting the structure of the series was mathematical in nature – and the remnants of that problem exist in the characters’ names. “It’s like it was a math problem at first,” Miller said. “That’s why all the characters’ names start with ABCD – WXYZ.”
Indeed, the main characters in the show – each episode of which is told from a different person’s point of view – are Aniq (Sam Richardson), Brett (Ike Barinholtz), Chelsea (Ilana Glazer), Danner (Tiffany Haddish), Xavier (Dave Franco), Yasper (Ben Schwartz) and Zoë (Zoë Chao).
Many of the main cast members, also present on the panel, had never put this together before and were visibly wowed by the added detail. “Now the show is amazing,” Schwartz quipped. “I was on the fence but now.”
Each episode of the series finds Haddish’s Detective Danner interrogating a suspect for the murder of Franco’s Xander at the afterparty for their high school reunion, and in each person’s retelling of the events the show takes on a different genre. “We were sort of looking at each character and thinking about how we can push the style of what their worldview is,” Miller said. “And then as we picked genres for each person, we had to adjust everything and adjust their characters to fit into the world of that style. So it did keep evolving back and forth, but it started with the characters of the mystery first, and then the genres sort of built out of who they were.”
The first four episodes of “The Afterparty” are currently streaming on Apple TV+, with new episodes releasing every Friday.
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AABB Launches New Alliance to Support the U.S. Blood Supply
The Alliance for a Strong Blood Supply aims to improve the resilience of the blood supply.
BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To better address the current challenges with the nation's blood supply, AABB (Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies) is launching the Alliance for a Strong Blood Supply – a coalition of organizations committed to ensuring sufficient blood is available for all patients during the pandemic and beyond.
The initial 17 organizations comprising the Alliance represent the nation's hospitals and blood collectors, as well as more than 200,000 physicians who routinely provide blood to patients in need. Alliance members have pledged to facilitate communications on the state of the blood supply and to work together on coordinated advocacy and communications campaigns to champion the importance of blood donation, the value of blood transfusions and why a robust blood supply is critical to patient care. Member organizations have also committed to sharing best practices aimed at supporting the stewardship of the blood supply.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated chronic challenges that have impacted the nation's blood for some time," said Debra BenAvram, chief executive officer of AABB. "By launching this first-of-its-kind coalition, AABB is bringing its 75 years of experience in leading the blood community and harnessing the collective power of a diverse group of organizations throughout the country toward a singular goal: ensuring that there will be sufficient blood available for any patient who needs it on any given day."
Regions throughout the United States are currently facing significant blood supply challenges, with many blood collectors operating with less than a one-day supply on hand – well below the ideal goal of at least a three-day supply. As a result, hospitals have been forced to delay life-saving blood transfusions and postpone nonessential surgeries. Without immediate action to strengthen the blood supply, the effect on patient care could be disastrous.
The new Alliance will facilitate communications between member organizations and will serve as a forum for members to educate one another on challenges and opportunities to strengthen the blood supply. Members will be able to mobilize their networks to support the blood supply and will explore collaborative activities and solutions aimed at supporting the stability of the blood supply.
"Ensuring an adequate blood supply for today, and a stable blood supply for tomorrow, requires ongoing communication and collaboration," said Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD, chief medical officer of AABB. "By bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders dedicated to ensuring that blood is available for all patients in need, the Alliance provides a critical vehicle to help stabilize the blood supply in the short-term and to identify long-term solutions that protect the availability of blood and cultivate a committed new generation of blood donors."
In addition to AABB, the initial members of the Alliance are: Alliance for Community Transfusion Services, America's Blood Centers, American College of Emergency Physicians, American College of Surgeons, Association of Donor Recruitment Professionals, American Hospital Association, American Red Cross, American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, American Society of Hematology, Association of American Medical Colleges, Blood Centers of America, College of American Pathologists, Federation of American Hospitals, and Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management.
AABB is continuing to expand the Alliance to include patient organizations, public health groups, industry and other organizations committed to strengthening the blood supply, as well as the broader public health infrastructure. Organizations interested in joining the Alliance should contact AABB at [email protected] for additional information.
About AABB: AABB (Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies) is an international, not-for-profit organization representing individuals and institutions involved in the fields of transfusion medicine and biotherapies. The Association works collaboratively to advance the field through the development and delivery of standards, accreditation and education programs. AABB is dedicated to its mission of improving lives by making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available and effective worldwide. For more information, visit www.aabb.org.
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The announced reboot of Adult Swim’s “The Boondocks” at HBO Max is no longer moving forward, TheWrap has learned.
Aaron McGruder was set to return as showrunner and serve as executive producer alongside Norm Aladjem of Mainstay Entertainment as well as Seung Eun Kim and Meghann Collins Robertson. The series was given a two-season order of 24 episodes that was supposed to premiere in the fall of 2020.
“The Boondocks” voice actor Cedric Yarbrough said earlier this week that the show was “not coming back” during an appearance on the Geekset Podcast. “We’ve been wanting to do the show and Sony…they decided they’re going to pull the plug,” he told the podcast host Rudy Strong. “Hopefully one day we’ll be able to revisit it.”
The original “Boondocks” animated series, based on McGruder’s comic strip of the same name, aired on Adult Swim from 2005-2014.
The original voice cast also included Regina King, John Witherspoon, Gary Anthony Williams and Jill Talley.
“The Boondocks” reboot, which was to be a co-production between Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Television, aimed to update the cult, subversive satire for the modern era. It chronicles the adventures of the Freeman family against the evil local government tyrant Uncle Ruckus, who rules the fictional Woodcrest County, Maryland with an iron fist.
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WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardelyx, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDX), a biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize innovative first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs, today announced that on February 1, 2022, the compensation committee of the company's board of directors granted four new non-executive employees options to purchase an aggregate of 35,547 shares of the company's common stock, and granted an aggregate of 25,750 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to five new non-executive employees. Each stock option has an exercise price per share equal to $0.84 per share, which was the closing trading price of the company's common stock on the date of grant. The stock options and RSUs were granted as inducements material to each employee's decision to enter into employment with Ardelyx, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
Each stock option vests over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date, and the remaining 75% of shares vesting monthly thereafter. Each RSU vests over four years, with 25% vesting on the first company designated quarterly RSU vest date following the first anniversary of the grant date, and the remaining 75% of shares vesting quarterly thereafter. Each stock option has a 10-year term, and each option and RSU is subject to the terms and conditions of the company's 2016 Employment Commencement Incentive Plan and the award agreement covering the grant.
About Ardelyx, Inc.
Ardelyx is focused on discovering, developing and commercializing innovative first-in-class medicines to meet significant unmet medical needs. Ardelyx received approval for IBSRELA® (tenapanor) with plans to launch in the second quarter of 2022. Ardelyx is developing tenapanor, a novel product candidate to control serum phosphorus in adult patients with CKD on dialysis, which has completed three successful Phase 3 trials. Ardelyx is also advancing RDX013, a potassium secretagogue, for the potential treatment of elevated serum potassium, or hyperkalemia, a problem among certain patients with kidney and/or heart disease and has an early-stage program in metabolic acidosis, a serious electrolyte disorder in patients with CKD. Ardelyx has established agreements with Kyowa Kirin in Japan, Fosun Pharma in China and Knight Therapeutics in Canada for the development and commercialization of tenapanor in their respective territories.
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David Lynch has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmens,” the film that’s loosely based on Spielberg’s childhood, according to an individual with knowledge of the project. Details about Lynch’s role are being kept under wraps as a closely guarded secret.
“The Fabelmans,” from Amblin Entertainment, will hit theaters wide on November 23, 2022.
The film stars Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Paul Dano and Gabriel LaBelle. Also in the supporting cast for the film are Chloe East, Oakes Fegley, Isabelle Kusman, Julia Butters and Sam Rechner.
Spielberg co-wrote the script alongside Tony Kushner. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but this is the first time in 20 years that Spielberg has shared a writing credit on a film since “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.” Spielberg, Kushner and Kristie Macosko Krieger are producing.
“The Fabelmans” will open alongside another untitled Disney animated film that’s on the release slate for the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Last Thanksgiving saw strong numbers for “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” in its second week and was headlined by Disney’s animated “Encanto,” which brought in $40.3 million. However, last year’s Thanksgiving was down 45% from the same weekend in 2019, despite other big releases like “House of Gucci” and “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.”
Variety first reported the news.
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BOSTON, Feb. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ariadne Labs today announced nine recipients of the Ariadne Labs Spark Grant innovation awards. The Spark Grant program provides support for new and early-stage ideas focused on addressing gaps in health care and improving delivery of care. Now in its ninth year, the program has funded more than 20 projects.
The 2021-2022 grantees are working to close gaps in health care across a variety of clinical areas. Projects include optimizing transitions from obstetric to primary care, improving care for stroke patients, applying mobile health technology to surgical care, and supporting clinicians in medication management in hospice settings. Grantees were chosen following a competitive selection process from a diverse pool of candidates.
This year's recipients additionally include five projects funded by Harvard Medical School (HMS) Dean's Innovation Grants in Health Care Delivery. HMS Dean's Innovation Grants are supporting innovations in home-based palliative care, postpartum care for patients who deliver via cesarean section in rural Africa, equity in oncology, and monitoring for complications following recovery from tuberculosis.
"At Ariadne Labs, innovation is core to everything we do. We are committed to investing and supporting early-stage ideas that can bring health systems innovation to other areas of health care delivery," said Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Ariadne Labs. "These grantees play a critical role in identifying the gaps where the health care system is not working, and developing scalable, systems-level solutions to deliver high quality care to every patient everywhere."
"Innovative approaches that reshape health care delivery, patient outcomes, and human lives needn't always come from cutting-edge technologies or the latest breakthrough in science. Indeed, some of the most transformative solutions can often arise from creative, yet simple, new ways of tackling long-standing challenges," said Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley, MD, PhD. "This is precisely the type of innovation that these catalytic grants promise to enable."
The 2021-2022 recipients of the Ariadne Labs Spark Grant innovation awards are:
Beyond Birth: Optimizing the Transition from Obstetric to Primary Care
Chloe Zera MD, MPH, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Ann Celi MD, MPH, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Division of Women's Health, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
The transition from obstetric to ongoing primary care represents a key opportunity to reduce short- and long-term adverse outcomes following birth and delivery. This project aims to design and test a solution to close integration gaps during this period between obstetric and primary care providers. In year one of the project, the team designed a prototype of a workbook to guide the birthing person and their provider through the postpartum care plan over time and began a qualitative study of patients' perceptions of their health care needs after delivery. In year two, the team will refine the tool further, test the feasibility, acceptability, and perceived utility of the tool, and complete collection and analysis of qualitative patient input. The team will also develop a provider implementation guide and patient education resources.
Checklist for Improving Endovascular Thrombectomy for Stroke
Sandeep Kumar MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Ajith Thomas MD, Chairman and Professor of Neurosurgery, Cooper University Hospital
Magdy H. Selim MD, PhD, Physician, Neurology, BIDMC Department of Neurology
Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability and death worldwide; recent advances in stroke management, such as endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic strokes, has been shown to be very effective when used appropriately. EVT, however, remains underutilized, and gaps in current stroke care practices decrease its effectiveness in real-world settings. This project aims to adapt and test feasibility, acceptance, and utility of a prototype checklist to streamline workflows for rapid assessment and triaging of potential EVT candidates at community hospitals.
Improving Surgical Recovery through High Quality Integration of mHealth Technology in Perioperative Care
Christy Cauley MD, MPH, Faculty, Safe Surgery, Ariadne Labs; Staff Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Trey Sinyard MD, MBA, General Surgery Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Safe Surgery Fellow, Ariadne Labs
In surgical care, gaps in communication and coordination can lead to poor patient outcomes and decreased system performance. Mobile health (mHealth) offers an opportunity to improve quality of care through timely, individualized assessments, improved patient education, and more effective care coordination. The project aims to conduct necessary background research and develop a toolkit for high quality integration of mHealth into perioperative care.
Making Goal-Concordant Prescribing Training Scalable
Susan DeSanto-Madeya PhD, APRN-CNS, FAAN, Ariadne Labs Associate Faculty; Nurse Scientist, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Erik Fromme MD, MCR, Ariande Labs Core Faculty, Serious Illness Care Program; Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
Patients in hospice care are often prescribed numerous daily medications, putting them at increased risk for drug-related harm and creating stress and confusion for family caregivers. To support a person-centered approach to medication management, this project will adapt Ariadne Labs' Serious Illness Conversation Guide to create and test a Goal Concordant Prescribing Serious Illness Conversation Guide. The guide will help clinicians regularly review and simplify treatment regimens in alignment with patients' goals of care. The team will also develop a package of educational materials for scalable clinician training.
Recipients of the Harvard Medical School Dean's Innovation Grants in Health Care Delivery are:
Developing a Model for a Joint Provider-Payer Strategy to Increase Use of Home-Based Palliative Care
Anita Wagner PharmD, MPH, DrPH, Associate Professor, Department of Population Medicine, a joint Department of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute; Director, Point32Health Ethics Program.
Research suggests that home-based palliative care offers numerous benefits, but most patients who could benefit do not receive it, as it is difficult to identify eligible patients at a population level. This project aims to develop a scalable provider-payer collaboration to support rapid identification of patients for whom home-based palliative care would be appropriate and address the barriers to adoption among payers and providers. Having completed extensive background research in year one of funding, the team will use year two to develop and test a payer-provider engagement model.
Protocols for Safe Postpartum Care at Home for Women Delivering by Cesarean Section in Rural Africa
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Global protocols for cesarean sections detail standards of care for the procedure and hospitalization, but do not provide guidelines for after discharge. This gap is particularly harmful for women as many complications, such as surgical site infections which are common in sub-Saharan Africa, occur after discharge. This project will build a foundation for developing postpartum care protocols to improve consistency in discharge messages and quality of care. In year one of this work, the team completed a scoping review and began developing post-discharge instructions. In the second year the team will test the acceptability and feasibility of the instructions with mothers, community health workers, and providers and will develop strategies to effectively communicate the instructions.
Improving Equity in the Quality of Oncology Care with Practice Feedback
Nancy Keating MD, MPH, Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine and Practicing General Internist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mary Beth Landrum PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
While research shows persistent racial inequities in cancer treatments, quality assessments have rarely incorporated measures of racial inequities, and few metrics are available for practices to know if they are providing similar care to all patients. This project aims to develop an audit-and-feedback intervention to provide oncology practices with actionable, race-specific data about their performance in delivering equitable and high-quality care to both Black and White oncology patients relative to other oncology practices.
Optimizing Supervision of Community Health Workers in Remote Settings
Matthew Bonds PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Community health that expands beyond the formal health care system is key to achieving universal health coverage, particularly in low-income, rural locations such as Madagascar. Since 2014, PIVOT, a nongovernmental health care organization, has partnered with the Madagascar government to strengthen the health system of one district. Community health workers are an integral component of this effort, but global evidence to guide community health worker supervision is lacking. This project aims to develop a new protocol and tools for data-informed supervision of community health workers and to study the impact of this supervision on quality of care and health worker motivation.
LIBRE Post-TB: Protocol for Care for Post-Tuberculosis Pulmonary Sequelae in High-Burden TB Settings
Carole Mitnick ScD, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
While tens of millions of people have been successfully treated for tuberculosis (TB), many are left with an increased risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or recurrent TB, and guidance on routine screening for these conditions is lacking. This project will develop a package of tools to reach vulnerable individuals when they complete TB treatment. Using the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease guidelines as a guide, the package will characterize lung function and quality of life following TB treatment, determine need for follow-up, and monitor for and treat post-TB lung disease. Together, these approaches could decrease morbidity due to recurrent TB and COPD and improve quality of life for millions after TB recovery.
About the Spark Grant Program:
Founded in 2012, the Spark Grant program provides eligible Ariadne Labs and Harvard Medical School faculty with a year of funding to support research and refine promising new ideas to address gaps in health care and create a pipeline of innovative, scalable systems-level solutions to continue to improve delivery of care for every patient, everywhere. To learn more about the Spark Grant program, visit: https://www.ariadnelabs.org/spark-grants/.
About Ariadne Labs
Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. With a mission to save lives and reduce suffering, our vision is that health systems equitably deliver the best possible care for every patient, everywhere, every time. We use human centered design, health systems implementation science, public health expertise, and frontline clinical care experience to design, test and spread scalable systems-level solutions to some of health care's biggest problems. From developing checklists and conversation guides to fostering international collaborations and establishing global standards of measurement, our work has been accessed in more than 165 countries, touching hundreds of millions of lives. Visit ariadnelabs.org to learn more.
Media Contact:
Brigid Tsai
Email: [email protected]
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While DUIs are serious business, Tiffany Haddish had a pretty strong joke about her recent Georgia arrest during Friday’s Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour for Apple TV+ series “The Afterparty.”
When a reporter asked the impressive ensemble cast if they secretly were hoping their character would be the comedic whodunnit’s killer, Haddish replied first.
“Not for me,” she said on the Zoom. “I don’t want no issues, nope,” adding: “Go ahead, y’all. Let me shut up. I got a case already.”
You’ve got to admit, that’s pretty good off the cuff.
The Friday press conference wasn’t Haddish’s first time addressing the arrest with humor. On an episode of “The Tonight Show” last week, host Jimmy Fallon offered Haddish the opportunity to address the incident, if she wanted to. Haddish didn’t go into specifics, but she had some material ready to go.
“I can say this, Jimmy. I’ve been praying to God to send me a new man. A good man,” Haddish said. “And God went ahead and sent me four — in uniform. I wasn’t expecting it. I was not expecting that at all.”
The other part of Haddish’s joke is in reference to the fact that she is currently single, having split up with rapper/actor Common late last year, after the pair had been dating for a year. The actress and comedian added that she is working things out, in terms of consequences of her arrest, but remained in good spirits.
“Now I got a really great lawyer, and we’re going to work it out,” Haddish added on the NBC late-night appearance. “I’ve got to get my asking of things to God a little better!”
Getting a bit more serious, Haddish explained some of the grief she’s been experiencing in recent weeks, having lost her grandmother and Bob Saget — someone she described as both a “big brother” and a “father figure” to her — within weeks of each other.
Fallon comforted Haddish once more, reiterating how happy he was that she still came on the show, saying “it takes a lot of guts.”
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GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) announced today that Management will present at the 2022 RBC Capital Markets Global Financial Institutions Conference at 9:20 a.m. ET on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 and will meet with investors throughout the conference.
An investor presentation will be made available prior to the conference and can be accessed via Associated Banc-Corp's website at http://investor.associatedbank.com.
ABOUT ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) has total assets of $35 billion and is Wisconsin's largest bank holding company. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Associated is a leading Midwest banking franchise, offering a full range of financial products and services from more than 200 banking locations serving more than 100 communities throughout Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, and commercial financial services in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Texas. Associated Bank, N.A. is an Equal Housing Lender, Equal Opportunity Lender and Member FDIC. More information about Associated Banc-Corp is available at www.associatedbank.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements made in this document which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This includes any statements regarding management's plans, objectives, or goals for future operations, products or services, and forecasts of its revenues, earnings, or other measures of performance. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "estimate," "should," "will," "intend," "target," "outlook," "project," "guidance," or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations and, by their nature, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Factors which may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements include those identified in the Company's most recent Form 10-K and subsequent SEC filings. Such factors are incorporated herein by reference.
Investor Contact: Ben McCarville
Vice President | Director of Investor Relations
920-491-7059 | [email protected]
Media Contact: Jennifer Kaminski
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