Punky Brewster: Season 1 (Peacock reboot series) — Hear me out here on this one. Reboot madness won’t stop (no matter what we do), and after NBCU’s streaming service did the Saved By The Bell thing (which is already renewed for a second season), the progression toward Punky Power shouldn’t be too surprising. In this series, Punky’s a single mom who finds herself inspired by meeting a young orphan who possesses of all her old spunk. Both Soleil Moon Frye and Cherie Johnson reprise their roles, and Freddie Prinze Jr. plays Punky’s ex-husband. Did she go by “Punky” or “Penelope” while taking wedding vows? I kind-of need to know.
Snowfall: Season 4 Premiere (FX on Hulu) — It’s the next-day drill for FX on Hulu shows, thank goodness. The John Singleton-co-created series returns for the Season 4 premiere, and the show picks up with Franklin reemerging from his near-grave. In doing so, he aims to regain control over his empire prevent an all-out war of drug violence in the mid 1980s, Reagan-era streets of America.
The Unicorn (CBS, 9:30pm EST) — A memorial to honor Wade’s wife leads Natalie to realize that memories of her own mom are beginning to fade.
Clarice (CBS, 10:00pm EST) — The Silence of the Lambs franchise sees Clarice Starling looking for the psychological key that’ll open doors on a suspect’s confession while aiming to prove that she’s fit for duty.
The Hustler (ABC, 10:00pm EST) — Host Craig Ferguson stands by while contestants compete for money, and “The Hustler” among them keeps doing his or her secretive and enigmatic thing.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Michael Peña, Ava Max
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Regina King, Vic Mensa featuring Wyclef Jean
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Eddie Murphy, Eve Hewson, The Kid Laroi
The Late Late Show With James Corden — Jodie Foster, Holly Humberstone
Late Night With Seth Meyers — David Spade, Jason Mantzoukas, Raghav Mehrotra
In case you missed this recent awesomeness:
I Care A Lot (Netflix film) — Rosamund Pike’s got the Gone Girl hair again, which sends out some palpable vibes to be certain. She portrays a court-appointed guardian for elderly wards, and she’s siphoning their assets in an elaborate racket. However, she meets her match in a gangster played by Peter Dinklage, who’s got his own game while representing a mark (Dianne Wiest), who has no living heirs or family but has ruthless designs of her own. Dinklage has got a stare that can bore straight into your soul, and Pike can be as cold as they come, so this movie should be a deliciously dark treat for all.
Tell Me Your Secrets: Season 1 (Amazon Prime series) — Viewers of The Undoing are gonna dig this series for a few reasons, including the presence of Lily Rabe (who portrayed Grace’s best friend, Sylvia) as Emma, who’s a very Gillian Flynn-esque character with a mysterious and troubling past. Two other mysterious and troubling characters — John (Hamish Linklater), a former serial predator and Mary (Amy Brenneman) is a grieving mother of a missing daughter — make up one neck of a mysterious and troubling triangle. The motives of all involved grow murkier as the season wears on, and this show is bingeable as heck.
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Brewing beer is a tricky science. The most subtle of changes to a recipe and your end product could be an awful tasting waste of time. Too many hops here or too many malts there and your beer won’t strike the balance you want. Of course, some brewers skew these ratios on purpose — creating overly hoppy bitter beasts or roasted malt bombs — but we’re not here to talk about triple IPAs or dessert beers today.
Today, we’re all about balance. A harmony of hops and malts. To help us out, we turned to the experts for advice — asking 12 well-known bartenders to name the beers that land in the hop-to-malt sweet spot. Check their picks below.
The first beer that comes to mind is Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. Its 100% Centennial hops offer grapefruit and pine aromas. It’s perfectly balanced with a strong malty backbone.
Andy Printy, beverage director at Chao Baan in St. Louis
City Wide Pale from 4 Hands Brewery in St. Louis is one of the more perfect beers I’ve had. Toasty, malty, and rich on the front, with the perfect amount of dry hoppy-ness to finish. Pairs perfectly with a grilled pork steak or toasted ravioli.
Samuel Smith’s Organic Lager is my pick. I love the citrus notes with the spices and malt flavors. It has a great mix of hops and malts. Plus, it’s organic so that makes it even better.
Yuengling is America’s oldest running brewery, and a special treat to most, since it is not available in the majority of the states. When you’re visiting the east coast, I recommend grabbing a refreshing Yuengling and drink up some American history.
It has rich, sweet flavors and a great hop-to-malt balance.
Saranac Pale Ale hits that perfect balance of malt and hop. The citrusy grapefruit and orange notes are beautifully balanced with the malty caramel sweetness to make an incredibly easy drinking and delightful beer.
My favorite malt-to-hop balance beer would have to be Pernicious from Wicked Weed Brewing. The fruity aroma of the beer mixed in with the incredible hoppiness followed by the great subtle finish makes this one of my favorite beers in the last couple of years. The balance for me is almost perfect, because the beer is bitter with grapefruit notes in it but it also goes down so smooth, with the sweet, malty flavors.
Nikole Calvo, bar manager at SIX in Tampa, Florida
The best beer brand that hits the malt and hops the best is the Cigar City Guayabera Citrus Pale Ale. It’s extremely citrus-forward with notes of tangerine, lime, and berries and contributes to a unique and extremely crisp beer.
It’s also an easy beer to drink for novice beer drinkers.
Great Divide’s Yeti Imperial Stout is the perfect example of malt to hop balance. It boasts a huge 75 IBU score, which is comparable to most IPA’s, but that bright and bitter finish is needed to round out the extremely heavy malt start and sweet caramel and toffee middle. It’s a big dark beer that hits every section of your taste buds, making it great to drink alone or with rich, fat-heavy foods— cheese or cream-based pasta, a big ribeye, etc.
Ryan Cunningham, bartender at Anchor and Brine in Tampa, Florida
I have to shout out a local brewery and one of my favorite places to eat in Tampa, Tampa Bay Brewing Company, for this one. Their American Pale Ale (APA) is a perfectly balanced beer driving flavor and drinkability. The malts cut back the bitterness while adding depth and the hops stay strong with light citrus notes that make it perfect for Florida weather.
Jeff Rogers, bar director for Jester Concepts in Minneapolis
Boddington’s Pub Ale has always been my favorite for the perfect balance of all the classic beer ingredients. Sweet, crisp, bitter, and creamy all in the same pint. Bliss.
I feel that a Pale Ale is an under-rated style and a true test of a brewer. For this style, the hop character has to be detectable without overshadowing the malt, and vice versa. Stone in San Diego does a great pale ale.
Siobhán Cusumano, bartender at Buya Ramen in St. Petersburg, Florida
As someone with a gluten allergy, this is a tough one. I would have to say that Celia from Ipswich Brewing has the best-balanced beer on the market. It is a Saison that even my biggest beer snob friends have been impressed with, and that was before I told them it was gluten-free.
Last fall around the NBA, the only guys who seemed to get paid in free agency were stars on rookie contracts and, interestingly, shooting specialists. Two of the biggest deals given out were the Nets and Wizards re-signing their sharpshooters for $18-plus million annually, but the different situations in which Joe Harris and Davis Bertans ended up illustrate why shooting is more important to great teams, and why Harris is so valuable.
Even before Brooklyn traded for James Harden to be its new lead ball-handler, Harris figured to be among the more important pieces of the rotation. To understand why, consider the chasm between good and great shooters. Since the start of the 2018-19 season, Harris has taken more than 1,000 threes and made more than 46 percent. Through 33 games this year, Harris has made a whopping 51 percent of his triples. There’s hardly any precedent for that type of shot-making in the history of the league. He takes every single kind of three for Brooklyn, and he hits them at a shockingly good clip.
At his peak, Klay Thompson worked with a much higher volume, but he never touched the 47 percent season Harris had in 2018-19, let alone the way Harris has shot the ball halfway through this season. Of course, Duncan Robinson just tore through the NBA last year by shooting 45 percent on more than 600 three-point attempts, but Harris still outpaces him. And because of how the Nets’ offense functions compared to the star-laden Warriors of that era, Harris may not be a core part of the scheme — when the team is cooking, he’ll be Brooklyn’s fourth option by some margin when he’s on the floor with their three All-Stars — but he is immensely valuable.
The Nets’ No. 1-ranked offense has been more than five points better per 100 possessions when Harris is on the floor, per Cleaning the Glass, and the Nets unsurprisingly take fewer threes when he’s on the bench. Isolation basketball is a fine plan when you have Harden, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Durant on your team, but those numbers show that Harris’ shooting and the space he opens up for the stars has real value.
Steve Nash and the Nets coaching staff have smartly used Harris in sets that force defenses to respect his shooting ability in a manner that frees up the stars for good looks. Because teams can’t let him loose, Harris will often screen for Harden or Irving to give them a switch they want at the top of the key, setting up a drive to the basket. That simple concept set up a big Nets comeback in Phoenix last week, with Harden punishing the Suns’ switches to lead the way.
At the same time, the Nets are running more this season under Nash and using Harris as a weapon in those spots. A larger portion of Harris’ scoring possessions have come in transition this year, and he presents defenses a nightmare decision about whether to help on someone like Irving downhill or leave the best spot-up shooter in the NBA open in the corner. And remember, because each member of Brooklyn’s big three are elite 1-on-1 players, it would be foolish to do anything other than try to hide your worst defender on Harris, who can and will punish them.
Like Robinson or even Thompson (who as an all-around player is clearly an outlier in a list like this), Harris also brings enough size to not be a major detriment defensively. The Nets’ defensive ceiling has been a debate among NBA fans all season, but their best defense has come with the starters on the floor, and Harris has survived with those groups.
And it’s not as if the Nets can afford to hide Harris. Sure, he will occasionally guard opponents’ spot-up threats in a Spiderman meme sort of situation, but he also defends opposing play-makers more often than not. According to private defensive matchup data from BBall-Index, Harris defends primary or secondary creators 26.3 percent of the time, which is a big-time responsibility relative to other players like him around the NBA. Most teams have enough defensive talent that a limited athlete like Harris doesn’t have to extend himself like that, but not Brooklyn.
That can obviously backfire. Harris defended Paul George for 2:05 in a win over the Clippers on Sunday and George promptly scored 10 points in quick succession, shooting 4-for-6 when guarded by Harris. Those metrics aren’t bulletproof, but they show the limitations of Harris’ game.
Still, Harris remains one of the best role players in the NBA. His shooting is vital for the top-heavy Nets, and he can hold his own in other parts of the game. He’s built himself into a player who is a perfect piece for a great team, which makes him worth his contract. Washington may have buyer’s remorse on Bertans (who is also injured), because there’s a hard cap on the impact a shooter can have on a team that is losing, but Harris is serving his purpose perfectly for Brooklyn and is a key part of the budding championship contender on the far side of the East River.
Mastering an American accent has become a rite of passage for British and Australian actors, and assorted other former British colonies. It’s an interesting phenomenon: in America we send most of our young actors through the teenybopper homogenizing machine, which spits out enough semi-interchangeable over-coiffed influencers every year to fill Disney Channel sitcoms and country music contracts. The downside of which is that casting directors looking for someone “authentic” looking frequently land on actors born and raised thousands of miles away. Half of our superheroes are English and Australian.
This, in turn, has led to a class of actors so good at American accents that hearing their natural ones in interviews is downright shocking. This past month alone has seen the release of Judas And The Black Messiah, starring British actor Daniel Kaluuya as American revolutionary Fred Hampton, and now Cherry, starring Brit Tom Holland as an Ohioan with an opiate addiction (actually Holland’s second turn as an Ohioan after Devil All The Time). Kaluuya looks like a lock for a Best Actor nomination, but both are quickly proving themselves masters of the American accent, and American regional accents.
It’s all very impressive if the actor can pull it off. When they can’t, it’s easy to wonder if they might just be better off writing around it. Scot Sean Connery didn’t even attempt an Irish accent in The Untouchables, and for the most part, no one cared. The reverse is also frequently true, like Richard Gere refusing to sound British opposite Connery in the King Arthur movie First Knight. Peter Dinklage more recently split the difference in Game Of Thrones, opting for Mid-Atlantic. Schwarzenegger never needed to sound like anyone but Arnold Schwarzenegger. There was an interesting tidbit in the recent More Than Miyagi documentary, about Pat Morita. The American-born, American-sounding Japanese-American Morita (whose family ran a Chinese restaurant growing up) had modeled his accent as Arnold on Happy Days after a Chinese cook that he knew. But the union initially had a problem with a Japanese actor doing a Chinese accent. Solution? Morita invented a backstory that Arnold’s mother had sent him off to China when he was a boy for complicated reasons.
I guess my point here is that doing an accent is an impressive trick, but you can always just write in a one-sentence explanation too. As Rob Lowe’s character says when explaining how they could have characters smoke in space in Thank You For Smoking, “It’s an easy fix. One line of dialogue: ‘that’s why we invented the… you know, whatever.’”
Honorable Mention: Christian Bale
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The big question we had while brainstorming this list: does Christian Bale count? Certainly, he’s played lots of American characters convincingly: Patrick Bateman, Dick Cheney, Batman, the fat guy in American Hustle. But did he really trick us into believing he was American? A seamless accent feels more like a character actor’s trick, whereas Bale seems more like a lead. His characters are more like unicorns than people you’d run into in everyday life, so their accents have kind of a hyperreal quality to them. He’s such an actor’s actor that you wonder if he even has a natural accent. That English thing he does in interviews seems like just as much a put-on. Bale was born in Wales with a South African father, which may have contributed to his dialectic fluidity.
Honorable Mention: Margot Robbie
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Margot Robbie, in my mind, is a lot like a female Bale. Clearly, she’s an incredible actress and has convincingly played a number of different Americans, from Tonya Harding to the Batman lady who falls in love with the evil clown. But again: mostly a unicorn. Which makes sense: it’s hard to look at Margot Robbie and think, “Ah an average American woman.”
She’s also Australian, which would’ve made my entire headline a lie.
10. Anya Taylor-Joy
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Anya Taylor-Joy has had the benefit of becoming famous (sorta) for American roles (in The Witch and Queen’s Gambit) before many people had heard her natural accent. Which is jarring to hear. And also… complicated. Her mother is English-Spanish, born and raised in Zambia. Her father is Scottish-Argentine, raised in Buenos Aires. Joy herself was born in Miami, and lived in Argentina speaking Spanish until she was six when the family moved to London. Incidentally, her father was an international banker turned powerboat racing champion which sounds like a Bond villain or Jason Statham character.
9. Imogen Poots
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“Imogen Poots” belongs on the Mount Rushmore of British-sounding names alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (which is Ralph Fiennes’ full name). “Imogen Poots” sounds like some kind of Cockney slang for a queef. What do your friends call you when you’re named “Imogen,” anyway? Jen? Emo?
Uh, anyway… that fancy handle was a big part of the reason it was so shocking to hear that Poots had probably the most believable accent in Green Room, where most of the cast was American. In films like The Art Of Self Defense and The Father, Poots has continued to excel at… well, at sounding like someone named not “Imogen Poots.” Probably for the best.
8. Tom Holland
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Tom Holland is 24 and very British-looking, so having a believable American accent was a must for playing Spider-Man. Holland plays Spider-Man slightly more “gee whiz!” than fellow British-bred Andrew Garfield, whose Peter Parker was more of a smart-alecky New Yawkuh. Of course, he wouldn’t be on this list just for being the second British Spider-Man (how about that, huh?). It was more his roles in Cherry and Devil All The Time, in which he’s begun developing an interesting niche as “British guy playing dysfunctional Ohioans.”
I genuinely hope for more roles in this vein. In The Devil All The Time, with a dynamite cast full of British and Australian actors playing Appalachian, Holland was rock solid as the lead. People notice Robert Pattinson for being weird, while Holland is right there next to him keeping the whole thing believable. Tom Holland acts so that Robert Pattinson can goof around.
7. Florence Pugh
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When I was trying to brainstorm this list with friends and someone suggested Florence Pugh, of Midsommar and Little Women fame, my first reaction was “wait, she’s British?”
Let’s examine that: do you know how good your American accent has to be for people not to realize you’re British despite being named FLORENCE PUGH? That is David Blaine-level illusioneering.
6. Idris Elba
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I remember hearing Idris Elba’s natural accent for the first time while I was binging The Wire and being shocked. It’s harder to remember now that he’s spent the last decade playing the character equivalent of a series of bowler hats filled with fish and chips, but there was once a time when you’d see Idris Elba and think, “That guy? British? No way!”
I considered leaving him off the list after Molly’s Game, in which Elba’s ability to sound American seemed to have regressed 15 years, but I think Elba has earned an off day after The Wire. We can blame Molly’s Game on Aaron Sorkin and keep it in the repressed memory file.
5. Matthew Rhys
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Watching The Americans, you’d never guess that Matthew Rhys was an alumnus of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd in Wales. Yes, he has acted in Welsh. But consider what he’s pulling off in The Americans: a Welshman pretending to be Russian pretending to be American. It’s like the non-parody version of Robert Downey Jr. shouting “I’m the dude playin’ a dude disguised as another dude!” in Tropic Thunder.
4. Daniel Kaluuya
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With Judas And The Black Messiah, it feels like Daniel Kaluuya has just about completed the transition to playing singular figures — unicorns, like the characters Christian Bale and Margot Robbie play. Fred Hampton isn’t just some random American guy, he’s a specific historical figure, a Black Panther from Chicago in the late sixties, with a distinctive way of speaking. Kaluuya nailed it, but this was only after Queen And Slim, Widows, and Get Out, which all required slightly different regional American accents. This from a guy who sounds like this when he isn’t working:
It’s hard to tell which version of Daniel Kaluuya is more compelling, Daniel Kaluuya in character, or Daniel Kaluuya as Daniel Kaluuya. After he gets his Oscar for Judas And The Black Messiah this year, I’d love to see a Schwarzenegger phase where instead of learning new accents, movies have to write in a character explanation for Kaluuya’s regular accent.
3. Hugh Laurie
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To be honest, I never watched the House show. It was like Columbo or Matlock but a doctor and on heroin, right? America is a strange country: we don’t have universal healthcare, but you can find a show about a hospital on any channel any time of day.
Anyway, Laurie is one of those actors who tricked us into thinking he was American despite being named “Hugh Laurie.” Whose full name is apparently the even more British-sounding “James Hugh Calum Laurie.” Another thing I just learned about Hugh Laurie is that his father “was a physician and winner of an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games.”
Jesus Christ, is there any British actor who wasn’t the spawn of a wealthy industrialist and/or champion of obscure sport? “Ah, yes, it’s Ashley Oxbridge-Twizleshire, the son of Quidditch Grand Dragon Marcus Oxbridge-Twizleshire and current star of CBS’s new primetime drama, Psychic Nurse.”
2. Damian Lewis
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Damian Lewis (OBE) is a ginger-haired Englishman whose most famous roles are Major Winters in Band of Brothers, a Marine-turned-Muslim suicide bomber in Homeland, and Steve McQueen in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Not many British gingers could pull of Steve frickin’ McQueen. And yet the London-born Lewis (no industrialists or obscure athletes in his family tree, sadly) did it all, and despite his incredibly small mouth. A hero to disabled people everywhere.
1. Daniel Day-Lewis
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If Bale, Robbie, and Kaluuya tend towards “unicorn”-type characters, Daniel Day-Lewis is the all-time king of unicorns. He never just does “American” accent, it’s always “misanthropic Gilded Age tycoon” or “Civil War-era homicidal nativist New Yorker,” or “Abraham Lincoln.” Luckily Daniel Day-Lewis is probably the greatest actor alive. Certainly the most insane. Technically Daniel Day-Lewis has dual British and Irish citizenship, but what even is he? I think his first language is “actor.”
And just to complete a stereotype, I should point out here that Day-Lewis’s father was the poet laureate of the UK from 1968-1972. It’s probably hard to get out from under your father’s shadow when he’s a poet laureate, but whatever the opposite of a failson is, that’s Daniel Day-Lewis.
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After the live music industry shut down in 2020, The Flaming Lips’ vocalist Wayne Coyne thought up an inventive way to play live shows while keeping the audience safe: giant plastic bubbles. The band has already proved the method successful with a handful of in-person shows earlier this year. Now as schools across the country begin to reopen, one Washington public school is taking inspiration from Coyne’s plastic bubbles.
Eastmont High School in Wenatchee, Washington has been open since the end of January. The school had to find ways to mitigate the risk of possible infections by staggering student’s class schedules and restricting cafeteria tables. But bringing back band indoor band practice was a bigger challenge — until they came up with a clever solution. According to a report from The Wenatchee World, the school’s band teacher has placed a number of bright green individual tents in their room for students to play their instruments in.
Some tents clearly worked better than others, however. The photos show a number of students able to comfortably play instruments within the cramped space. But for one tuba player, it seems like the tent was not quite big enough.
Even still, the school’s principle Eric Anderson is excited for the students to be back in the halls, and he says the kids are equally as happy. “It is amazing the level of energy in the building, having adults interacting with kids but also the conversations of adults to adults,” Anderson said. “You get kids back in the building, you get a lot of smiles even with masks on. You can tell people are happy.”
Check out photos of the COVID-safe band practice above.
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NBA Top Shot seems to be the only thing that basketball fans are talking about right now, as the digital collectables are rapidly becoming the most highly in-demand thing in the world of hoops that we’ve seen since Giannis Antetokounmpo before he signed his supermax with the Milwaukee Bucks.
With this demand comes an unfortunate reality of internet commerce, but the folks behind the entire project are doing what they can to keep that being too much of a hassle. That has meant, unfortunately, that the company delayed a rare pack drop on Thursday after what it described as “botting activity.”
Top Shot had a originally planned pack drop for Thursday afternoon at noon ET. After some log-in issues popped up for users, an announcement came out that the drop would be pushed back a few hours.
We are aware of log-in issues and are working to resolve them ASAP. We are investigating and will the delay the drop if necessary to ensure collectors have a chance to join.
And then, the single-biggest issue in purchasing collectable things on the internet became a headache: bots. In an attempt to keep this from becoming an issue, Top Shot announced that this pack drop would be postponed indefinitely, citing “botting activity on the platform.”
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We are postponing the Premium Pack drop indefinitely & we will keep you updated with an announcement. We are troubleshooting issues & working to make this the best experience & as fair as possible for all collectors. Thank you for your understanding. pic.twitter.com/jpvch8zHPl
We have seen issues with botting activity on the platform over the last 60 minutes & we want to be responsible about this drop knowing how many collectors are excited for this Premium Pack drop. https://t.co/D963XmIntF
Dapper’s founder also addressed the delay on Twitter, noting that for many users it would be their first “rare” drop and the company wanted to make sure its release was fair.
every decision has tradeoffs, and we’ll always prioritize real fans – i am sorry for the delayed drop today i know 100k+ of you were super excited, but for many this will be their first rare pack drop in @nba_topshot – we didn’t want a super fast but unfair sellout https://t.co/6npaHKbd92
According to the Top Shot Discord, the company doesn’t plan to try the drop until at least “business hours” on Friday, so collectors won’t have to lose sleep over potentially missing it if problems get fixed. The company hasn’t had a major pack drop since February 15, instead opting for the occasional “stress test” that usually sees 5,000 packs sold with nearly 100,000 people waiting in queues to buy them. The product, which is still in Beta, is constantly getting tweaked in real time, even as its user base has soared in recent weeks and flooded its marketplace with activity.
As anyone who has, say, used the SNKRS app or tried to purchase an Xbox Series X knows, bots that gobble up merch can end up being a disaster that excludes folks from getting in on these sorts of drops. Trying to get out ahead of bots overwhelming the platform is an admirable intention, but those who use bots are awfully good at building them in such a way that they can skirt any sort of regulatory framework a place puts into effect, so now that this first step is being taken, Top Shot will have to continue to stay out in front of botting for as long as it’s in the hoops zeitgeist.
Jean Dawson found himself on many people’s radars last year thanks to his eclectic and well-received sophomore album Pixel Bath, which features everything from hip-hop to punk music. He’s a relatively new face to a lot music listeners, meaning there’s still a lot about him we don’t know.
Now, Dawson has filled in some of those gaps with his new short documentary, Burnout. In the 7-minute video, Dawson incorporates a lot of creative visual elements and talks about his past, being “anti,” getting happier as he gets older, and more.
In a recent interview with Uproxx, Travis Barker cited Dawson as one of his key musical discoveries of 2020, saying, “That record is amazing, and he’s still kind of slept on. Not that many people know about him, and hopefully you and I talking about him helps get his name out there even more. He made an incredible album. […] He’s someone that’s really taking genres and throwing them all together and doing something different, in a time where so many people determine what their sound is gonna be like by whatever’s popular on the radio. And then you have a fresh breath of air like Jean Dawson. Like, thank God, you know?”
Seattle rapper Macklemore is trading in those thrift store duds for something a little fancier (but just as retro) with the launch of his Bogey Boys clothing label, which remixes the type of looks you’d expect to see on the green (circa ’79-82) and puts them more in line with what you’d see on the streets. If you’re wondering “why golf?” we’ve got an answer. As Macklemore recently shared on Uproxx’s People’s Party with Talib Kweli, he’s become an avid golfer during the pandemic.
As far as golf-playing celebrities go, Brad Pitt’s Cousin is actually pretty damn skilled, too. He recently won a five-hole match at AT&T’s Every Shot Counts Charity Challenge — well, technically he tied with Alfonso Riberio, who literally seems like the inspiration for much of this line.
Bogey Boys feels like a big, wild, fun maximalist vintage golf adventure, but it doesn’t feel like some white-label cash grab. Macklemore told Hypebeast, “Design has always been an integral part of the creative process… all the tech specs of the work have been a journey and definitely a new endeavor… It’s something that I’ve been passionate about and definitely has been in my wheelhouse.” In short, Macklemore’s merch, artwork, and music video concepts have always come from in-house, so pivoting to apparel isn’t that surprising.
Remember, the dude got huge on a song about clothes!
The full Bogey Boys collection consists of polo shirts, button-ups, jackets, sweaters, pants, sweatshirts, t-shirts, and hats — everything you’d need for a dope golf fit — and is now available at the Bogey Boys webstore. The whole thing takes on a sort of colorful Golf Wang vibe, but a little more mature. Check out some of the Bogey Boys lookbook photos below and head over to Bogey Boys to shop the full collection.
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The Boston Celtics entered this season hoping to build on an Eastern Conference Finals appearance in the Bubble, following the lead of their two young stars on the wing in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Those two earned All-Star nods this week, but the team success hasn’t matched up, as Boston has scuffled to a 15-17 start as the end of the first half of the season nears.
Most recently, the Celtics fell flat against the Hawks in Atlanta on Wednesday night, a third straight loss that dropped them to ninth in the East and into play-in position. On Thursday, Tatum spoke with Dime as part of his new Ruffles Chip Deal, and the two-time All-Star is remaining optimistic about this season, noting that he’s taking comfort in the fact that the conversations they’re having are productive and everyone on the team is on the same page of wanting to turn this season around in the second half.
You’re in a rough patch right now as a team and, I know you’ve been asked a million times, ‘How do you fix it?’ and if you had an answer, y’all would do it. But what are the conversations you guys are having about what you need to do to figure out what’s going on and the adjustments that y’all need to make to get back on track and get back to where you guys were at the end of last year?
The conversations are productive. You know we have … we’re in good spirits. We enjoy being around each other. We got good chemistry. We care. We want to fix the problem. So I think that’s a good sign. It’s not like guys don’t enjoy playing with each other or not gettin’ along, this and that and chemistry issues. We all want better and want to fix it. So, I think that’s the positive that I’m taking from it. That we care. The guys in the locker room, they care.
For yourself, something I talked with with Damian Lillard about before this season is once you get to the All-Star level, it’s all about being willing to be self-critical because that’s where you can really start to target weaknesses that that exist in in small parts your game and continue to grow. What are the things that you’ve learned over the last couple years about that process, and really learning to kind of pick your own game apart so that you can continue to find ways to get better?
Yeah, I think that’s the goal for each and every season. Obviously, you know, bein’ an All Star twice is a big deal at this age and something that I’m proud of, but it’s far from you know the end goal. It’s far from where I want to be. This is just, you know, something I’ve always dreamed of and something I always told myself that I was going to do. And I’m always setting goals for myself that I’m trying to achieve and check off the box. So I know that it can’t stop here. I can’t be satisfied here, that I still got a ways to go.
Are there things that you can point to that you’re particularly proud of being able to add to your game since you’ve come in as a rookie and that are part of that process that you’re going on?
I mean, I think I feel like I’ve gotten better in all aspects. I’ve gotten, with my body, I’ve gotten stronger. I think mentally I understand the game a lot better now than I did when I first got drafted. Play-making for others, being a two-way player. I think the list can continue going on and on.
Obviously this season is one that’s not like anything that you’ve been through. Can you explain the differences, particularly when you’re on the road, and what it’s like with the traveling and the protocols and the testing and everything that you go through and the adjustments that you have to make to changing your routine to kind of fit into this new world?
Yeah, it’s different. We take the service elevator and kind of go through the back. You got to get tested and wait an hour for your results in the morning before we can be around each other to go for shootaround and the team meeting. Then you gotta get tested after the game, you know, before you leave the arena. You can’t go out to eat. You can’t go see friends or have someone come see you as if you have family in a certain city. So it’s definitely different.
I remember the video last year from the Bubble of when Deuce and your family were finally able to come in. What does it mean for you being a father and being able to go home to that, even when you have a tough game or like this season it’s been a little more difficult, but you have that at home and how does that kind of shift your perspective, even when there might be a rough patch on the court?
That puts things in perspective of kind of what’s really important in life, and whether if I have a good game or a bad game, he doesn’t know. When I come home and it’s just all about, you know, daddy’s home and let’s make a slushie, or let’s read a book, or let’s play. And it just it really takes my mind off everything else, and I’m very, very happy that I’m in that position.
You’ve got this new partnership with Ruffles. How did that come about, as you’re the second one joining Anthony Davis in getting a chip deal?
Yeah. For me, you know when I’m doing a partnership, I like to do things that are natural and genuine and organic. You know I love chips, and I’ve been eating chips ever since I was a kid. I remember going to stores, when I was younger and grabbing, you know, bags of Ruffles chips. Like you said, I remember last year when Anthony Davis had his chip partnership and I remember seeing it especially at All-Star, and I just thought that was really really cool. And I was like, you know, if that opportunity ever presented itself that I would love to be a part of it and it did. And I’m super grateful and thankful to be a part of the Ruffles family.
You’re doing the Own Your Ridges campaign about embracing being yourself. When you come into the league you have so many demands and people coming to you for stuff, what have you learned about just making sure that you stay your authentic self, on and off the court as a pro?
Yeah, talking about Owning Your Ridges, and I think it has a lot to do with how you were raised how you were brought up. You know I think being from St. Louis has a lot to do the type of person that I am. My mindset, how I approach things on and off the court and just having a good, stable family foundation around you. Good, genuine people that have the best interest for you and care about you. You know cause there’s a lot of, obviously, there’s a lot of things that could bring you down when you kind of get to this level. So just having a good support system.
You’re launching the Flamin’ Hot BBQ Ruffles and I just have to ask how that flavor combo works?
Yeah, you know, they’re delicious. For me personally, I love spicy food. Anything I’m eating that I could give it that extra kick to it, you know I’m all for that. And I’m from St. Louis and St. Louis is known for barbecue, so mixing those together make for a great combination.
TMZ has released a graphic video of Lady Gaga’s assistant being shot in a robbery in Hollywood earlier today which was captured by a nearby porch camera. In the video, viewers can see a white sedan pulling up alongside the assistant, Ryan Fischer, and two men jumping out to threaten Fischer with a gun. Fischer apparently tried to fight back, yelling for help just before being shot by the assailants. The robbers grab two of the dogs, while the third runs back to Fischer.
Gaga agreed to release the video in the hopes that it helps police capture the robbers and recover the dogs. The neighbor who provided the video says that the vehicle was a Nissan, either an Altima or a Sentra. Gaga has also offered $500,000 for the dogs’ return — which may have been the whole point of the theft in the first place. Gaga’s bodyguard retrieved the third dog, while Fischer was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.
Lady Gaga is said to be in Rome to shoot Gucci with Ridley Scott, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, and Adam Driver. The film is based on the story of Patrizia Reggiano, who was convicted of murdering her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci.
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