Jimmy Kimmel didn’t have much time to react to President Trump’s worst supporters storming the Capitol building in a failed coup on Wednesday, but in a way, he channeled all the anger, confusion, and sadness he and many others have felt over the last four years into a single episode. “Thank you for joining us for the treason finale of the Donald Trump era. This was one of those days that I always assumed was behind us. This is not the sort of thing I ever imagined would happen in this country in my lifetime,” he said.
Kimmel noted how “laidback” the police looked “compared to the Black Lives Matter protests. Some were seen taking selfies with the criminals; others seemed to welcome them through the gates. It was a terrible day in the history of this country.” He then turned his attention to the president “and the scumbags that kept this ‘stolen election’ charade going — and that’s you Josh Hawley, that’s you Ted Cruz — either intentionally or just wildly irresponsibly lit these fires to start a war just to distract us from the fact that Donald Trump lost the election.” He was just getting started on that “lyin’ little bitch” Cruz.
“Ted Cruz, this guy doesn’t even believe the election was stolen. He knows better than that. He’s so hungry for political power. He’s so desperate to be liked and supported by these nuts who think Joe Biden is a Chinese agent and Satan is trying to force them to wear masks to the mall so that one day he can be president, he’s willing to roll the dice on a civil war.”
Kimmel listed the enablers that made yesterday a reality, including attorney Rudy Giuliani, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), “and especially Donald Trump. These people are not Americans,” Kimmel said. “There’s no ‘we, the people,’ there’s ‘me, the people’ and that’s it.” You can watch the Jimmy Kimmel Live! clip above.
Over the past 18 months, Taylor Swift has been more prolific than pretty much any other pop star. In August of 2019, she released Lover, which she followed in 2020 with a pair of companion albums, Folklore and Evermore. Now, at the top of 2021, she has returned with even more new music: Today, she released her deluxe edition of Evermore, which was previously only available in physical formats, on streaming platforms.
This means that two songs are now available online for the first time: “Right Where You Left Me” and “It’s Time To Go.” On the former, Swift sings about an ill-fated relationship that left her dwelling on the past, singing, “Help, I’m still at the restaurant / Still sitting in a corner I haunt / Cross-legged in the dim light / They say, ‘What a sad sight’ / I, I stayed there / Dust collected on my pinned-up hair.”
On “It’s Time To Go,” there are also some thinly veiled lyrics that are more than likely about Swift’s feud with Scooter Braun and Big Machine, as she sings, “Fifteen years, fifteen million tears / Begging ’til my knees bled / I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all / Then wondered why I left / Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones / Praying to his greed / He’s got my past frozen behind glass / But I’ve got me.”
Listen to “It’s Time To Go” and “Right Where You Left Me” above and check out our review of Evermorehere.
Harry Styles has been taking over headlines this week when rumors of him dating Olivia Wilde arose after the two attended a wedding together. Now, another photo of them together has gone viral — but not for the same reason. Styles was spotted wearing a face-covering bandana rather than a proper mask, and fans are urging him to be more careful.
“Harry wear a mask” went viral on Twitter after photos surfaced of him on an outing with Wilde and a few friends. Styles was covering his face with a bandana, rather than a cloth mask, and his fans took the opportunity to shame him for it.
Fans maintained their love for the singer while also urging him, and other Styles fans, to wear an effective mask to prevent against the spread of COVID-19.
i’m beyond disappointed. there is an incidence of 8 thousand cases per 100 thousand people in LA. that’s literally an 8%! not only is it dangerous but careless and selfish to be driving and walking around without following guidelines. please harry wear a mask, we are concerned!
not a single person is wearing a mask here. what the actual fuck. harry you cant say “stay home save lives”, then not wear a mask in a PANDEMIC. HARRY WEAR A MASK pic.twitter.com/WYQZr9d4Oy
Per the CDC’s website, the official safety recommendations are to wear a multiple-layered cloth mask that fits snug around your nose and mouth. The CDC does not mention bandanas but they do note that neck gaiters, or neck warmers, are acceptable only if they have two layers. However, items like bandanas or gaiters oftentimes are more likely to have gaps around the nose area.
See Styles fans encourage the singer to wear a proper mask above.
The events unfolding in Washington on Wednesday were some of the most surreal our country has ever witnessed. It was something few ever expected to see in America, as an armed horde of radical Trump supporters stormed the nation’s Capitol building with very little resistance from the security forces ostensibly put in place to protect against that type of an invasion.
It left many baffled by the response, given the way Black Lives Matter protesters around the country have been routinely met with violent aggression by police forces throughout the past year. It was the perfect encapsulation of the hypocrisy and double standard that is in place when it comes to Black Americans.
Prior to Wednesday’s games, several teams took a knee during the anthem and released statements denouncing the actions in Washington, as well as the court ruling that the officers involved in the Jacob Blake shooting would not be prosecuted. After the game, several players used their media availability to address the situation, with Boston’s Jaylen Brown invoking Dr. Martin Luther King’s iconic quote about two Americas, in which Black people are still treated as less than equal.
“In one America, you get killed by sleeping in your car, selling cigarettes or playing in your backyard. In another America, you get to storm the Capitol, and no tear gas, no massive arrests, none of that.”
He was preceded earlier in the night be Bradley Beal — fresh off a career-high 60-point explosion — who condemned the lack of urgency in the response to rioters who overtook the Capitol building and forced lawmakers to flee.
Bradley Beal and Russell Westbrook, on the attempted coup by Trump supporters in D.C. today:
Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was part of the Bucks and Pistons taking a knee for seven seconds after tipoff for Jacob Blake, also spoke about his fears as a parent of a Black child growing up in a country where they can be targeted, not just by other citizens, but by the police themselves, without fear of consequences.
“My kid is going to grow up here in America and my kid is Black. I cannot imagine my kid going through what I see on TV.”
That was followed by Kyle Lowry, who in no uncertain terms called for Trump to be held directly accountable for his part in inciting the day’s events.
Lowry on Trump encouraging the scene at the Capitol: “That man is a criminal. Like, he should be charged…He basically told them to go do this, and people died.”
Others like Jimmy Butler, Steve Kerr, and Malcolm Brogdon likewise spoke out on how what transpired in Washington laid bare how different treatment is based on the color of one’s skin and the ideology they’re supporting.
As the Heat and Celtics stated, the league’s players decided together on Wednesday that they would participate in the scheduled games, rather than sit them out in solidarity, stating their goal to bring joy to fans on one of the darkest days in the country’s history, and true to their word, they continued to use their platform to bring awareness and call for accountability. In the day’s ahead, it remains to be seen just what will come of all this, but many of the league’s stars certainly aren’t shying away from discussing yet another inflection point in American history.
That being said, there’s a sort of universal rule in booze that the cheaper the juice gets the less palatable it becomes. And less than $10 per bottle is fire-sale (and fire in your throat) cheap. So please know that when we talk about bourbon at this price point, we’re not asking “can you sip it?” We’re simply asking “is it drinkable at all?”
Of course, what’s “drinkable” is very subjective. Generally speaking, we’re talking workhorse mixers. Bottles you use to make cocktails or, at the very least, add Coke, 7-Up, or soda water to. Many of these are also perfectly fine shooters and drinkable on the rocks in a pinch.
They’re all fine is what we’re saying. And for a tenner, that’s significant.
In the end, the ten bottles of bourbon below are most people’s gateway to the style. They’re cheap, readily available, and easy to understand. And, as you’ll see, you can still find nuance and flavor notes to enjoy, even at these bottom shelf prices.
This is a quality whiskey (from Heaven Hill) at a very accessible price point. It’s a bottled-in-bond, meaning it’s from one distilling season, aged for at least four years, and bottled at 100 proof.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a clear caramel and cream soda sweetness that definitely does draw you in. A touch of dark spice lingers in the background with a bit more of that vanilla-forward cream soda sweetness on the palate, making the sip very easy. The end has a touch more of that spice followed by a moment of oak buried under the creamy vanilla.
Bottom Line:
This is a steal for $7 a bottle. It works wonders in an old fashioned, given the underlying sweetness.
This is Heaven Hill’s other gateway bourbon. There are no frills involved. This is standard bourbon that’s aged for three years before blending, proofing, and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
This is light, with a sense of cornmeal next to classic bourbon vanilla and butterscotch. That butterscotch sweetness tends to be the defining point as the corn and vanilla fade. The end has a bit of warm spice that works well with the corn syrup sweetness and vanilla.
Bottom Line:
Try this on the rocks with a splash of water. It’s also a great beer back if you’re looking to try a new shooter.
This is a bit of a hidden gem from Barton Distillery (Sazerac). The juice is a blend of three to six-year-old bourbons that are proofed to varying ABVs before bottling. Their 100-proof bottled-in-bond tends to end up on a lot of “best of” lists while this expression serves as more of a first taste to the wider world of Very Old Barton.
Tasting Notes:
Vanilla pods mingle with plenty of oak and a hint of caramel sweetness — classic bourbon, really. There’s a note of spice and fruit lurking beneath the fairly smooth texture of the sip. The end is short, oaky, and a little peppery.
Bottom Line:
This one will be a little harder to find, depending on where in the country you live. Still, this is almost good enough to be a sipper on the rocks and goes down well as a cocktail base.
This expression from Buffalo Trace (Sazerac Company) really hits classic and accessible marks equally. It’s 40 percent ABV, isn’t overly done, and works really well as an entry-level bourbon to Buffalo Trace.
Tasting Notes:
Salted caramel mixes with plenty of cream soda vanilla and sharp spiciness. The sweetness edges toward honey as the sip takes on a very distant whisper of florals. The end is short and sweet with a nod to the vanilla and spice, and the sweet notes lasting the longest.
Bottom Line:
This could easily be $20 and people wouldn’t bat an eye.
Sticking with Buffalo Trace (Sazerac), we’d be remiss not to call out a classic: Ancient Age. The whiskey in the bottle is young but crafted to be a shooter or mixer. It doesn’t pretend to be anything more that it is and that’s fine by us.
Tasting Notes:
Classic notes of vanilla-meet-caramel with a hint of spice and tart apple. That vanilla/caramel nature carries on with a small dose more of the spice as a minor idea of citrus arrives late. The end is warm, short, and very keyed into the sweeter sides of the vanilla and caramel.
Bottom Line:
This is made to be shot or mixed, so do just that.
Heading over to Louisville’s Glenmore Distillery (Sazerac Company), Zackariah Harris hits some very easy-to-drink marks. It’s a high-corn mash bourbon that’s blended, proofed, and bottled with no bells or whistles.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a clear lightness that leads toward plenty of vanilla and caramel with a touch of kettle corn and cinnamon. The taste stays light and almost soft as the spice gets a little peppery and the vanilla leads towards some woodiness. The end is short but leaves you thinking about taking another shot.
Bottom Line:
While this is a fine shooter, it also works well as a cocktail base for anyone looking to practice without breaking the bank.
If you’re going to buy Evan Williams (Heaven Hill), it may as well be this one. It’s a standard bourbon that’s aged at least four years before blending and proofing down to 40 percent. It’s almost always under $10 per bottle, even if you’re not in Kentucky, making this a winner.
Tasting Notes:
This bourbon hits the classic triad of vanilla, caramel, and oak squarely on the head. There’s a continuation of those notes with the addition of sweet fruits and a very distant hint of toasted coconut next to corn. The end returns to the oak and vanilla but holds onto the sweeter fruits on a quick fade.
Bottom Line:
You can’t beat this for simple cocktails or highballs (especially with colas or lemonades).
This wheated bourbon from Heaven Hill is an entry point to the much higher priced and much older Old Fitz expressions from HH. While this has no bells or whistles built into the blend, it’s still crafted to highlight the quality of wheated bourbon and makes for a good starting point.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a bit of that bourbon vanilla up top, but it’s more about the Christmas spices and, dare we say, mint on this one. The sip brings along a caramel sweetness while leaning into the spices with a note of fruit lurking beneath. The end holds onto the cinnamon-forward spices and caramel sweetness as it quickly fades out.
Bottom Line:
This is another one that’ll be tougher to track down outside of Kentucky. Still, if you come across a bottle, give it a shot for, well, shots. And cocktails.
This is a classic bourbon that became part of Jim Beam about 30-odd years ago. Until then, it was famed for being the drink of choice of President Grant back in the 1870s, which gave it a lot of panache as a brand. The juice in the bottle is a year younger than a typical Jim Beam bourbon but still holds up to any other bottle in this price range.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a bit of sweetness on the opening that’s very reminiscent of Beam while leaning into caramel and vanilla. An undercurrent of popcorn draws the sweetness back. The body of the sip is warm (not for the faint of heart) and touches on caramel apples, more popcorn, and plenty of that vanilla.
The end is shortish, warm, and has a slight salted and buttered popcorn flourish.
Bottom Line:
This works pretty well on the rocks if you’re looking to get tipsy. It’s easy to drink but you know you’re drinking whiskey with a capital “W.”
Jim Beam’s PET bottle is almost always under $10. The whiskey is the standard 4-year-old Beam in a plastic bottle. If you know Beam, you know exactly what you’re getting with this bottle.
Tasting Notes:
Sweet notes mix with corn, vanilla, and oak. The sweetness edges more towards a cherry or Red Vine as a mild spice kicks in with plenty more vanilla, caramel, and oak. The end is short and sweet but very much in the classic bourbon column, only hindered by a slight plasticky taste.
Bottom Line:
Note, the plastic bottle does come through a bit here. That’s a shame. That being said, if you’re mixing this with Coke or ginger ale or Sprite, you’re not going to notice it.
If there’s anything you know about Key Glock, it’s that the Memphis rapper is always hard at work when it comes to his music. The proof behind that statement arrives through a new video which arrives just six days into the new year. Key Glock shared his new song and visual for “Off The Porch” to officially kick off his 2021 campaign. Unlike his previous videos that erred on the rambunctious and raucous side of things, Key Glock’s latest effort is a bit simpler, yet equally captivating. It finds the Memphis rapper in a dark setting with just a bright yellow car and a BMX bike behind him as he lays his menacing raps into a silver microphone that hangs just above his head.
Key Glock’s latest visual comes after he blessed his fans in 2020 with two projects: Yellow Tape and Son Of A Gun. Both albums were entirely solo efforts that showed a sharp improvement in his music. He backed up the project with videos for songs like “1997,” “Rich Blessed N Savage,” and “Son Of A Gun,” all of which added to his portfolio for an impressive 2020. As for what’s in store for Key Glock in 2021, that remains to be seen but if the “Off The Porch” serves as evidence for the future, you can expect a lot of good things from the Memphis native this year.
When I first heard about Pizza Hut’s Nothing But The Stuffed Crust pizza I was a non-believer. You probably are, too. Not because Pizza Hut is trying to sell people the best part of their Stuffed Crust pizza, that actually makes sense. But because of the presentation of the product — a regular pizza-looking pizza crust without any middle. A pizza donut.
I had so many questions when I heard about this curious item. Does it come in a normal-sized pizza box? Is it expensive? What’s the structural integrity? And most of all: Who is it for?!
Clearly, I was skeptical. But you know what? After trying it, I almost love this thing…
As an avid pizza eater I take pretty big offense to the notion that any part of a pizza, a product of unrivaled culinary perfection, is disposable. But Pizza Hut’s regular Stuffed Crust Pizza challenges my stance. On the one hand, the idea of cheese stuffed in pizza crust is genius. For someone who has absolutely no problem tolerating lactose and also loves mozzarella cheese, it’s a dream come true. On the other hand, it’s missing the classic Pizza Hut fried crispy pan-style crust for some ridiculous reason, which always leaves me tempted to let the actual pie fall by the wayside.
If only there was a way to have the Stuffed Crust without the actual pizza attached…
Well, now there is. And even though eating it made me — a person who covered insane Popeyes chicken sandwich rollout — feel like I’d finally reached peak fast food absurdity, I think this can actually work as a deliciously dip-able side dish.
But not in this form…
Everything Wrong With Nothing But The Stuffed Crust
Dane Rivera
For starters, the name. Nothing But The Stuffed Crust is an awkward mouthful to say. But not nearly as awkward as the shape. When my Nothing But The Stuffed Crust — which I’ll now abbreviate as NBTSC before I go insane — arrived, I was surprised to find that it actually came in a full-pizza-sized box. This is a stunning waste of cardboard. Why would they do this? I get the gimmick of having it be circular but have some class, Pizza Hut. Cut it up and put it in a reasonably sized box for god’s sake.
There’s ignoring global warming and then there’s just rubbing people’s noses in your stance.
There’s also something dark and ominous about opening a normal pizza-sized box and finding only crust. It’s like catching a glitch and realizing you’re not living in the real world. Instead, you’re living in some weird and dark simulation built by corporate fast-food overlords. In other words, if weed makes you paranoid, don’t eat this while stoned — you’ll probably have a mental breakdown.
Everything Right With Nothing But The Stuffed Crust
Dane Rivera
Did we mention that this is crust stuffed with Mozzarella cheese? It shouldn’t be hard to understand that such a thing is delicious.
No one is suggesting that you replace pizza with only crust. But as a side item, this is a great way to indulge and eat even more cheese and bread. I enjoyed heating it to molten hot-levels for ultimate mozzarella stretchability, then dipping it in my own homemade blend of tomato sauce, Italian herbs, pepper flakes, and garlic powder. Pizza Hut also has its own variety of sauces with the same end goal in mind.
Final Thoughts
Dane Rivera
We’d like to call this genius but so much about it just makes us angry. Pizza Hut, leave the gimmick behind, find a better way to present this, put it on your menu, and people will buy it. We. Will. Buy. It. And bring it to every future Super Bowl party or fast food office potluck we’re able to attend in the (hopefully not so distant) future.
But in this ultra wasteful form? It just makes us feel disgusted for wanting to eat cheese stuffed in bread. And society already does a good enough job at making us feel that.
Pizza Hut, to their credit, seems to get that this isn’t a viable item in the long-term. The Just The Stuffed Crust is available for a limited time as a free add-on with any $10 purchase for the first 50 orders each day at every Pizza Hut location until January 7th.
Tyga nearly completed 2020 without sharing a new project, but in the last month he finally dropped a new batch of songs. His mixtape Well Done Fever came on Christmas Day, and now we have a video for the track “Nigo In Beverly Hills.” It places Tyga on a tarmac, where viewers can see a private jet and luxury cars behind him. The flashy affair continues when a beautiful woman joins him and the two board the plane filled with jewelry and bundles of money, which he uses to flex some muscle.
The Well Done Fever mixtape is the fifth installment in Tyga’s Well Done series, which he launched in 2010. The new tape arrived seven years after Well Done 4 and it finds him giving his own take on a number of popular hip-hop tracks, including Pop Smoke’s “For The Night” and “Foreigner,” Moneybagg Yo’s “Said Sum,” and Lil Baby’s “We Paid.” The project was also a follow-up to his 2019 album Legendary, which many heralded as his comeback album, especially since it helped him land a new contract with Columbia Records.
After vocal chord surgery delayed her initial plan to released an album in 2019, Miley Cyrus finally got to release what proved her seventh album, Plastic Hearts, in 2020. It found the singer stepping into the rock & roll lane with help from Dua Lipa, Billy Idol, and Joan Jett. But she’s not done with the genre: Previously she announced she was recording an album of Metallica covers. Now she’s released some of the artists who will be joining her.
Sitting down with Capital FM, Miley revealed that she’s doing a cover of “Nothing Else Matters” with Elton John. Legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma is also on it, as is Chad Smith of The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Miley first spoke about the Metallica covers album back in October, during a sit-down with Interview Magazine. “We’re so lucky to be able to continue to work on our art during [the coronavirus pandemic],” she said. “At first, it felt uninspiring and now I’ve been totally ignited.”
But it a Metallica cover album may not be the only thing you’re getting from Miley in 2021. She began they year by telling fans on Instagram that she hopes the year will be filled with “more f*cking MUSIC.”
Wednesday brought grim news: MAGA rioters broke into the Capitol building in Washington D.C., trying to overturn the 2020 election. Numerous videos surfaced of the president’s supporters clashing with police officers and eventually breaking the windows of the government building. Many wondered when — or if — the mob would receive any significant pushback by the police, or even the National Guard. One of those people was Cardi B, who shared some posts to Twitter as the situation unfolded.
At first the Bronx rapper simply asked, “Where the National guards ?” — an excellent question, considering the level of danger that was present as the rioters entered the Capitol. Cardi also pointed out the difference between the police reaction towards the MAGA rioters and that of this past summer’s Black Lives Matter protests. “The irony is pretty funny………weren’t people just wild animals in the summer for demanding justice and now?” she asked. “Let me just watch.”
And y’all better NOT BE OUTSIDE!!These are wild thugs out here ! Stay home.This ain’t our business.Stay at home safe but dangerous!
She also sent a stern warning to her followers: “And y’all better NOT BE OUTSIDE!! These are wild thugs out !” she said. “Stay home. This ain’t our business. Stay at home safe but dangerous!”
Cardi is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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