If you’ve taken a glance at Cardi B’s Instagram page, you’ll notice that the Bronx native is in quite the lighthearted and happy mood. That’s because Sunday marks Cardi’s 28th birthday and she took to Las Vegas to celebrate the new year of life. That isn’t the only thing the “WAP” rapper has to celebrate, however, as Cardi also announced her new limited edition sneaker with Reebok. The Club C Cardi sneaker is slated for an official release on November 13, but Cardi opted to kick off her birthday weekend with an early gift to her fans.
“I’m kicking off my birthday weekend by announcing I am officially dropping my first ever Reebok x Cardi Footwear Collection on 11/13,” she said in an Instagram post. She then revealed that she would release limited pairs for her “loyal fans” on Sunday, more than a month before their official release.
The new Club C Cardi sneaker is just Cardi’s latest endeavor in the fashion world, her most recent one coming in September when she was announced as the latest face of Balenciaga. The company made the reveal with a colorful ad that finds Cardi laying on a large piece of artificial grass in a silky navy blue dress as various yellow items surrounded her. The new campaign also gave Cardi a large billboard that was placed on the side of The Louvre museum in Paris.
You can get a glimpse of the Club C Cardi sneaker in the post above. For more information on Cardi’s new sneaker or to make a purchase, click here.
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Game 5 of the NBA Finals was an instant classic, with Jimmy Butler and LeBron James each putting up incredible performances as the Heat came away with a 111-108 win to push the Lakers to Game 6.
Down the stretch, both James and Butler made play after play for their teams, trading the lead back-and-forth, with Butler handing Miami a 109-108 lead with around 16 seconds to play. This meant the Lakers had time to draw up a play of their own, and what they dialed up got the ball to James to get him moving downhill and take advantage of the fact that the Heat would collapse on him to make anyone else beat him. The result was a Danny Green three that was very open from the top of the key, even factoring in an aggressive, but somewhat late, closeout from the weakside.
Green’s shot came up short, barely drawing the front of the rim. From there, Markieff Morris grabbed the rebound and then threw something between a pass and a shot over the head of Anthony Davis and out of bounds, allowing the Heat to knock down a pair of free throws and put the game on ice. It was certainly not the way Green, Morris, LeBron, or Frank Vogel envisioned the close of the game, but they got a good look and simply missed it. However, as happens all too often, Green became a target for angry Lakers fans, as his offensive play this postseason has not been as good as his reputation as a big game shooter over his career has given him.
On Sunday, as the Lakers spoke to the media in the morning prior to Game 6, Green explained that he and his fiancee both received death threats on social media since he missed the shot.
Danny Green says his wife Blair got threats after Game 5.
Here are Danny Green’s full comments on the death threats he and his fiancee were receiving on social media over the last two days pic.twitter.com/AmAaAe2Tz4
It is the unfortunate reality of the social media era that players who make a key mistake not only have to hear criticism, but also have to deal with fans that go way too far and wish death and other horrible things upon them and their family members. As Green said, he understands he’s and easy target here for criticism after his miss, but it doesn’t change that it’s despicable to levy death threats at someone and their family members over a basketball game.
Green says he’s learned to just avoid social media after losses like Friday’s while a member of the Lakers. Frustration from fans is understandable, including some anger in the moment, but to have it be anything to the level of death threats or wishing harm on a person is so far beyond what should be acceptable.
Per their original schedule, the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live was supposed to have country singer Morgan Wallen as its musical guest. Reports from an Alabama publication found that Wallen ran up a fairly high coronavirus risk for the show after he was spotted at a college party, however, and as a result he was dropped from the show. Coming in as a well-prepared substitute for the late scratch, Jack White was announced as Wallen replacement on Friday.
Proving to be a smooth transition from artist to artist, Jack White took the SNL stage backed by a small band that was comprised of drummer Daru Jones and bassist Dominic John Davis.
For his SNL performances, Jack White delivered some of his best hits while putting a new spin on some of them. Playing three songs for viewers during his set, White’s highlight performance came with his closing track. Reaching back to his 2014 sophomore solo album, Jack White delivered a performance of “Lazaretto,” one that found him performing with an Eddie Van Halen model guitar, honoring the legendary guitarist.
Prior to his SNL set, White revealed in an Instagram post that he would use the model guitar during his performance. “I thought it could be a nice gesture for me to use this blue eddie van halen model guitar for one of the songs tonight on SNL,” White said in his caption. “Eddie was very kind to me and saw to it that this guitar was made for me to my specs. i wont even insult the man’s talent by trying to play one of his songs tonight. thanks again eddie for this guitar and rest in peace sir.”
Elsewhere in his SNL performance, White played a small piece of “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” his Lemonade collaboration with Beyonce, before moving on to “Ball And Biscuit.” The track, which comes from his 2003 album Elephant with The White Stripes, was reworked to include lyrics from a traditional gospel song, “Jesus Is Coming Soon,” a track that was centered around the 1918 Spanish Flu and was once performed by Blind Willie Johnson. The reworked performance of “Ball And Biscuit” with the lyrics from the traditional gospel song proved to be just as relevant today as it was at the time of its release:
“The noble said to the people/Close your public schools/Until death passes you by you better close all your churches too/ I’m done talkin/ Yes I’m walkin’/ God is coming soon,” White sang. “The great disease was mighty and people were sick everywhere/ It was an epidemic and it traveled through the air.”
Considering that a “lazaretto” is a quarantine hospital for people with infectious diseases, it’s clear White themed the performances for life during a pandemic as well as to pay tribute to a legend with his guitar. You can watch Jack White’s performances in the videos above.
Even Kate McKinnon seems to be struggling to cope with the current stresses of life during a pandemic. The Saturday Night Live mainstay did her best to bring the laughs on Weekend Update but even she had to break character and be honest about how tough it is to keep things together these days.
McKinnon appeared midway through the segment, which was tough on Donald Trump and the coronavirus pandemic as usual. But her doctor character, Dr. Wenowdis, gave her a grey mustache and hairdo and left her pondering things as Colin Jost set her up. The segment was goofy and awkward, and it seemed that McKinnon was primarily interested in making Jost uncomfortable.
That’s a recipe for success on Weekend Update for sure, but at around the 2:40 mark Wenowdis decided to give Jost an “exam,” where things got very strange: McKinnon started singing “blood pressure” to the tune of Queen’s “Under Pressure” and squeezing a fake medical tool that made a goofy noise. Giggling, Jost asked a clearly struggling McKinnon directly, not Dr. Wenowdis, if she was OK.
“Kate. Kate,” Jost said, stopping the bit in its tracks. “Are you OK?”
“I’m obviously not,” McKinnon said, with no accent, drawing applause from the crowd. She then explained that Dr. Wenowdis is a character she made up to cope with the realities of the pandemic, even if it’s not working as well as she hoped.
“I’m sorry you guys. It’s such a crazy time and this is something I started doing to cope,” she said. “I have a lot of wigs and mustaches at my disposal and it’s a nice way to escape, you know, it’s refreshing to play a character who, um, know dis.”
She then went on to list a few things we don’t know, such as when the pandemic will end, who will win the election and what will “happen to the world.” It’s a sincere moment that seems to have been a scripted breaking of the fourth wall, but there was a moment of unexpected levity when McKinnon leaned on the Weekend Update podium and accidentally set off the joke medical tool, which squeaked and made everyone break again.
“The one thing that we do know is that…” McKinnon offered before changing her mind, “No we don’t know dis.”
The sketch did end on a more positive note, but it was nice to see that even the pros are having trouble in what’s been a sad and oftentimes disturbing year. There’s a lot we don’t know, but at least we’re all in that together when you really think about it.
The second episode of Saturday Night Live’s return brought with it a sendup of the Vice Presidential Debate, which was held on Tuesday and was largely overtaken by a fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head for more than two minutes. That gave SNL plenty of material to spoof, and it did so by explaining just what that fly was doing up there in the first place.
The opening sketch featured Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris and hit all the notes people seem to remember from “the thing that will change everyone’s minds,” as the intro put it. There was inexplicable talk of fracking, Pence getting shut down for interrupting Harris, and the fly landing on Pence’s head. But that’s when things got weird. Jim Carrey, playing Joe Biden watching the debate at home, decided he needed to get in there to rescue Harris for some reason.
“I need to do something,” Carrey said. “I need to teleport to that debate and save the soul of this nation.”
It was all a bit confusing, but it did allow the show to use Carrey and also reference something that went viral in the wake of the Fly debate. There was no Jeff Goldblum sighting, mind you, but Carrey did his best to play Joe Biden slowly turning into a fly version of the actor while paraphrasing his infamous line from Jurassic Park. The sketch also included Kenan Thompson, who appeared as a dead Herman Cain reincarnated as a fly also trapped on Mike Pence’s head.
It may not have been the Fly sketch that many fans wanted but it at least referenced what many were thinking the show would do, anyway.
The Los Angeles Lakers missed out on their first chance to secure the 17th championship in franchise history on Friday night. A huge game from Jimmy Butler propelled the Miami Heat to a 111-108 win in Game 5, although if a Danny Green three with less than 10 seconds remaining went in, perhaps history would have remembered this game differently.
The Lakers trailed by one in the game’s waning moments when LeBron James drove to the rim, attracted essentially every Miami defender’s attention, then threw a tricky pass to Green, who had an aircraft carrier worth of space between him and everyone else. Green pulled and got front iron, which led to a Markieff Morris turnover.
The sequence led to plenty of chatter about what James should have done and whether Green should have hit the shot. In James’ eyes, it’s not worth getting bogged down in this conversation, because sometimes, guys just simply miss shots.
“I mean, if you just look at the play, I was able to draw two defenders below the free throw line and find one of our shooters at the top of the key for a wide-open 3 to win a championship,” James said after the game. “I trusted him, we trusted him, and it just didn’t go. “You live with that. You live with that. It’s one of the best shots that we could have got. … Danny had a hell of a look. It just didn’t go down. I know he wishes he can have it again.”
It’s very much an example of “it’s a make or miss league,” because while he’s struggled during the Finals, Green is one heck of a player who you expect to make that exact shot. A wide open, straight away look is something Green hits in his sleep, but this time, he just didn’t. Still, he’s a good shooter, and we’ll bet he hopes this same shot pops up again during Game 6.
Joaquin Buckley might not be a household name in the world of mixed martial arts just yet, but his name will forever be tied to one of the most unbelievable knockouts ever during the prelims of UFC Fight Island 5. In just his second UFC fight, Buckley served Impa Kasanganay his first professional loss when he countered his ankle getting caught with a spinning back heel kick that caught Kasanganay square on the chin.
Kasanganay’s lights went out, his body went stiff and Buckley ended the night with his hand raised.
After the fight, Buckey acknowledged that his counter is something he practices in training.
“We drill to kill, but I never landed it in a fight before,” Buckley said, per MMA Fighting. “But he was coming hard, he had heavy pressure, so I said why not just throw it. And I got it, I landed.”
He got the knockout for sure, and he may have at least one of the UFC’s $50,000 bonuses for his incredible performance before the night is over.
After losing his first UFC fight in August by third-round knockout, Buckley bounced back in a big way to move his career record to 11-3. Kananganay made his way to the UFC after moving through Dana White’s Contender Series, earning his first Fight Night victory in late August.
If you’ve been watching Season 2 of The Boys you probably know by now that Stormfront is a Nazi, but if you saw the final episode of Season 2 you also finally saw her speak German. And according to some translating Redditors, we now know what the oldest member of The Seven was saying in the show’s Season 2 finale.
Some serious spoilers for the final episode of Season 2 are ahead, so be forewarned. In the episode’s final big showdown, Stormfront is in rough shape after Homelander’s son, Ryan, angrily uses his powers to try saving his mother. The result is pretty tragic, with his mother dying and Ryan blaming himself for it, but he did stop Stormfront and left her apparently dying in the grass, mumbling to herself in German.
According to The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke, the Nazi isn’t dead. But she was seriously injured, and with her limbs blown off and one eye gouged out it’s unclear if she will be able to regenerate like she could earlier in Season 2 when Homelander laser-eyed her skin. Which is why it seems likely that the German she was mumbling was about memories of, well, a significantly better time in her life.
According to Reddit user Raidoton, the German heard while the rest of that showdown was sorted out was about a memory Stormfront had from when she was the wife of Frederick Vought, who invented Compound V.
“It was so beautiful. How the three of us sat there, in the shade of an apple tree.
Do you remember the day Frederick? Chloe’s arms out of the car window. We found the perfect spot by the river, in the shade of an apple tree. It was the first time Chloe ate fresh apples.”
Edit:
I understood a bit more. This is what she says while Homelander and Ryan talk: “… war so glücklich. Es war herrlich. Ich wollte dass er nie zu Ende geht.”
Translation:
“… was so happy. It was wonderful. I wanted it to never end.”
Considering what we know about her fate and the idea that she will be tortured and disabled for at least the near future, it certainly makes sense that she would jolt back to a calm period of her life back before Compound V. And while it may not add much context to the rest of the chaos from the episode, it certainly confirms what Stormfront herself tried to dismiss as fake news at the start of that scene: she is a German Nazi, and though her future is as uncertain as anyone on The Boys, her past finally caught up with her.
In the simplest terms, taste is subjective. Whereas I might love blue cheese or hen of the woods mushrooms, you might absolutely hate both. There’s nothing wrong with you (there probably is, but not this) and there’s nothing wrong with me (there definitely is, but not this) — we just like what we like. Our palates evolved in different ways, shaped by our childhood influences, our biology, and our present-day experiences.
This is absolutely true when it comes to whisk(e)y. So naming the “best tasting” whiskey of all time is certain to yield a whole bunch of different answers. That’s not to say that having an opinion and arguing your case is futile. It’s fun to chop it up about what’s “the best,” then expand your palate and reassess.
We decided to ask a handful of bartenders to tell us the best-tasting whiskeys to ever pass through their lips. While many included U.S. brands, others branched out into Japan, Scotland, and even the middle of the ocean (sort of). Check their answers below.
Old Forester Statesman
David Tlaiye, bartender at Sage SRQ in Sarasota, Florida
I’m a big fan of Old Forester Statesman. It’s a classy bottle, with a complex-yet-light flavor that I love on its own or on any cocktail I make myself at home.
You do know this question is impossible to answer right?
But… if I have to pick the best whisky… I have ever had it would be The Yamazaki 18 Year or The Yamazaki Sherry Cask. Love those whiskies. I can’t even begin to describe how beautiful they are. Smell, taste, the experience is one hundred percent orgasmic.
Blanton’s Bourbon
Drew Reid, bartender at W Aspen in Aspen, Colorado
Tough question. Blanton’s will have to be my answer here. Without question Blanton’s stacks up against all the best. The smoothness of this bourbon is unmatched. This whiskey is truly an American treasure.
Compass Box Hedonism
Meredith Barry, executive beverage chef of Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis
A consistent go-to for me would be Compass Box Hedonism. Pineapple, banana, vanilla, brown sugar. Delicate and flavorful. Also, I’m a sucker for a PX sherry cask finish. Rabbit Hole Distillery Dareringer is another pick. It’s sweet but goes down oh so smooth.
Lagavulin 12
Benjamin Burch, bartender at The Nolen in San Diego
Lagavulin 12-Year-Old. I love Lagavulin. I think they make the best whisky in the world and every expression is top-notch. I’ve got at least one bottle of every expression on my shelf at home, but the 12 year is my favorite. It’s barrel-proof so it just has so much flavor. It tastes like a bonfire on the beach. Big smoke, big stone fruit flavors, and a really nice mineral quality and saltiness.
I have every release since 2013 and they are all just insanely good. If you like peated whiskey, find a bottle of this.
W.L. Weller Special Reserve Bourbon. This bourbon is very well known for its smooth taste which derives from substituting wheat for rye in the mash bill. The Weller brand falls under the Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve umbrella.
Angel’s Envy Bourbon
Eva Al-Gharaballi, bartender at Datz in St. Petersburg, Florida
My favorite tasting whiskey has always been Angel’s Envy Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. This whiskey is finished in port wine barrels and has robust flavors of vanilla throughout. It is a small-batch whiskey aged up to six years with just a touch of sweetness that goes great with a big rock of ice.
Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon
Tommy Ergle, bar manager at Dr. BBQ in St. Petersburg, Florida
Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon must always be in a whiskey drinkers’ collection. Its hints of cherry, licorice, and honey that hit your nose are incredibly vibrant and inviting. The cherry, licorice, and mahogany tasting notes give it such a warm finish that really leaves it second-to-none in my book.
Booker’s Bourbon
Jerry Shaffer, food and beverage manager at Embassy Suites Napa in Napa, California
My pick for best tasting whiskey is Booker’s — because of its flavors of oak tannin, smoky vanilla, mocha and coffee, and intense finish.
Whistle Pig Old World Rye
Anthony Aviles, General Manager at Jack Dusty in Sarasota, Florida
If you’re willing to spend the coin on it, Whistle Pig Old World is tops of my list and worth every penny. The sweet and salty notes, richness, complexity, and smooth finish are able to stand up to just about any other $90 plus bottle of whiskey I’ve come across.
Son of Bourye from High West is a fantastic blend of bourbon and rye that you were not expecting. The spice of the rye and the smoothness of the bourbon absolutely crush in this bottling.
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked
Damian Langarica, head bartender at a.bar in Philadelphia
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked is the perfect whiskey for those who love scotch (or bourbon). It’s aged in two different barrels. The second one being an extra charred barrel, for some extra smokiness.
Hakushu 18
Emmanuelle Massicot, beverage director of Kata Robata in Houston
As a scotch drinker, I also enjoy Japanese whiskies and I like Hakushu. Everyone goes for Hibiki or Yamazaki from Suntory but Hakushu 18 has a bit of a peatiness that is reminiscent of scotch.
Glenlivet 21
Marta De La Cruz Marrero, food and beverage supervisor of Burlock Coast in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Glenlivet 21 year is quite full and rich. There are notes of sandalwood and pine with a resinous note. Potpourri creeps in with barley sugar and cereal notes with acacia honey. The palate is rich and full. There are notes of oily walnuts and winter fruitcake with spice and sugar. The finish is long and sweet with a soft, chewy oakiness.
Jefferson’s Ocean has to be one of my favorites. They float the casks in seawater for three years. The nose is just that — the ocean. I haven’t found the salted caramel flavor in many other bottles.
The novel coronavirus has started to make its presence felt in the NFL. A handful of teams have begun reporting positive cases, with games getting either rescheduled or thrown into uncertainty after players get positive COVID-19 tests. For one league elder statesman, the entire thing has led to him questioning the NFL and the NFLPA’s priorities.
Jason McCourty of the New England Patriots spoke to the media on Saturday and said that he was in the process of “trying to figure out who has [the players’] best interest in mind.” McCourty has recently seen one of his teammates, Cam Newton, test positive for COVID-19, and instead of the team having its games postponed while players who had come into contact with Newton quarantined, the team flew to Kansas City earlier this week. Players who came close to Newton flew on a separate plane, the game was moved to Monday, and later in the week, another Patriot, All-Pro cornerback Stephon Gilmore, got a positive test of his own.
“I think outside of here, the people that don’t have to walk in our building — whether it is the league office, whether it is the NFLPA — they don’t care,” McCourty said, per Mike Reiss of ESPN. “For them, it is not about our best interest, or our health and safety, it is about, ‘What can we make protocol-wise that sounds good, looks good, and how can we go out there and play games?’ I think what I kind of learned personally throughout this situation is it is going to be up to us as individuals in this building to just really take care of one another.”
It is really hard to disagree with the veteran cornerback’s assessment that the NFL and the players’ association want to make sure the plan in place for COVID-19 does just enough that it looks good, but not enough that it would automatically throw games into jeopardy if players start getting the virus. An example of this is how the Patriots’ game against the Denver Broncos this week is still happening, although it has been pushed to Monday afternoon.
McCourty went on to talk about the days leading up to the game against the Chiefs. While he said that the players opted to do everything they could — masking up, keeping their distance, etc. — the team was still perplexed as to why the game happened.
“But without a doubt, that’s a thought — the same way you guys are sitting there thinking about it like, ‘Hey, they’re getting on a plane on Monday [to go to Kansas City], well, those days don’t really add up with the incubation period,’” McCourty said. “That was the same question we were asking our union before we head out there.”
Perhaps this will turn into something worth keeping an eye on if other players end up expressing gripes with how the NFL handles positive tests. But regardless, a player being this open about the league and the PA dropping the ball is fascinating.
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