Month: March 2021

As the months closed in on the two-year anniversary of his debut Grammy-nominated album, Painted, Lucky Daye returned to the music world with the third EP of his career, Table For Two. The project arrived with seven tracks and six duets with each featuring a vocal contribution from a female artist. Looking to bring some new life into the project, Lucky returns with a new visual for “How Much Can A Heart Take” with Yebba. It doubles as a lyric video for the song, but in it, viewers see the two singers switch roles as Lucky sings Yebba’s part on the song and attempts to sing and act like she would while Yebba flips the script to play the “Roll Some Mo” singer’s role.

Lucky’s return began with his “On Read” single alongside Tiana Major9. The song was his first single since 2020’s “Shoulda” with Babyface, which landed on the deluxe reissue of Painted. As for Table For Two, the project also saw contributions from Ari Lennox, Mahalia, Joyce Wrice, and Queen Naija. Prior the EP’s release, Lucky could be found working alongside Buddy, Kaytranada, Leon Bridges, Kiana Lede, Spillage Village, Kehlani, and others in what was a feature-heavy 2020 for him.

Press play on the “How Much Can A Heart Take” video above.

Table For Two is out now via Keep Cool/RCA. Get it here.

Until fairly recently, cannabis hasn’t exactly been presented with the most minimalist of aesthetics. Most products in the marketplace look as if they’re thirst trapping stoners with extravagant color schemes and bawdy graphics. While the industry has stepped out of the shadows, the branding is still in neighborhood weed dealer mode — shout out to attention-grabbing strain names like Durban Poison and Chemical Cat Piss.

But what about the people who like things neat and simple? The stoners who are looking for a cleanly-designed cannabis experience? Who’s making cannabis for the Apple nerds?

Enter Raw Garden, a California cannabis brand that approaches weed from the sort of farm-first, artisanal vantage point you’d expect from wine cultivars and wraps its products in minimalist packaging, featuring little more than a silhouette of a cannabis sprout. Even more Apple-ish, when you puff from a Raw Garden vape the logo illuminates — just like an old MacBook. But a Steve Jobsian design-bent isn’t what makes Raw Garden the most appealing to cannabis consumers, the award-winning strains and unique flavors are the primary draws.

To date, Raw Garden has produced 839 different strains, with a new drop launching every week. That sounds excessive. Especially in an industry where the longstanding reputation of certain strains still does more to appeal to the average consumer than farming practices and sleek aesthetics. (For evidence of this, ask any budtender how often customers inquire about the famous “Skywalker Kush.”)

“There’s a phenomenal capacity for aromatic diversity in the cannabis plant,” says Raw Garden’s Director of Product Khalid Al-Naser when asked about the brand’s unique approach. “Raw Garden wants to bring that diversity to our customers. These aromas are a result of terpenes and other aromatic compounds that also impact the effect that cannabis has when consumed. This ability for the plant to create aromatic diversity leads to a subsequently wide range of flavors and nuanced effects for consumers.”

In other words, if you’re all about the flavor profile of your cannabis and take your terpenes seriously, Raw Garden is your jam. The company’s product line includes extracts they call “Live Sauce” and “Live Resin,” which are both made from flash-frozen flowers and come in two different consistencies, something called Refined Live Resin Diamonds (more on this in a bit), and refined resin THC cartridges and pens. Because the brand is constantly rotating through strains, we were a bit puzzled on how to conduct a review — recognizing that the strains we tried might not be available when you read this. So instead of focusing on a specific strain and the high it offers, we’re going to review the overall experience of the product form factors instead.

Raw Garden THC Cartridges/Pen

Cartridge Sizes: 1 gram, .5 gram, .3 taster gram

Available Strains: 510 Currently

Average Retail Price: $22 for tester set (includes pen and .3 cart), $35 for .5 gram, or $65 for 1.0 gram

What I really love about Raw Garden’s vape cartridges is that they are priced by size rather than the quality of the product. That’s awesome for first-timers who want to see what Raw Garden has to offer but don’t want to drop close to $100 for a gram of extract and a pen to vape it out of.

As far as the pen goes, we’ve got nothing but praise — it’s sleek and simple, featuring a single button and no temperature control, comes pre-charged enough to last your entire cartridge, and even though it’s totally disposable, it’s also reusable. Meaning once you’ve purchased it, you can slide in any future Raw Garden cartridges and get straight to vaping.

I’ve tried both the Pink Lemonade, which is a sativa mixture that utilizes the genetics of Lemonade and Jack Punch, and the Passionberry, an indica hybrid that mixes Raw Garden’s own Beary’ella with Dos y Dos and 4 am.

Flavor is king with Raw Garden, although both cartridges feature cannabis oil containing no filler, added flavors, or other questionable additives, both strains presented a unique flavor profile and high that relied solely on the strain’s terpene profile for its taste and aroma. While that might lead you to want to earmark your favorites in order to double-dip or simply keep buying the cartridges you like best, I actually appreciate the sort of chaos-theory approach to discovering each new strain.

I was surprised by just how different these two strains tasted, the Pink Lemonade had a much brighter and tart-forward bite to it, whereas the Passionberry’s fruity qualities were more subtle, showing up as part of the aftertaste, lingering on the palate in a pleasing way that didn’t make me feel like I needed a breath mint. Both strains have an underlying herbal taste to them, which helps to instill some confidence that these extracts really don’t have any harsh or questionable additives.

While the packaging is minimalist, each of Raw Garden’s available strains has an extensive chart online that runs through the strain’s full cannabinoid and terpene profile, even going as deep as including an analysis of the chemical residues down to the microgram per gram. That kind of transparency is greatly appreciated.

The Bottom Line

Clean cannabis oil that gets all of its flavor and aroma from the strains and nothing else, as it should be. Dip your toes in with the 0.3 cartridge and pen set.

Raw Garden Refined Live Resin Diamonds

Average Retail Price: $65

I’m a flower guy all the way, extracts aren’t really my thing. But Raw Garden’s Diamond resin just might make me a believer. Straight up, handling Raw Garden’s Diamonds will make you feel like you’re dealing with some hard and questionable drugs, the “Diamond” rocks straight up look like something Walter White would cook up.

These Diamonds are produced by taking Raw Garden’s live cannabis resin and then removing impurities like waxes, fats, and tannins, to produce something that is incredibly clean and laser-focused on its featured terpenes. Think of it like the Cristalino Tequila version of cannabis extract.

I sampled the Midnight Funk which featured 804.4mg of total THC, 90.95% THCa and less than 2.0mg of CBD. This flavor was anything but funky, instead what I got was clean tasting cannabis with a pine-forward flavor that pushed me into a deep state of relaxation after a single hit from my Pax 3 concentrate vape. My only gripe about the Diamonds is that it’s quite hard to dose, the rocks aren’t cut into a uniform shape — meaning you’ll just have to pick an amount you feel comfortable with and hope for the best.

That might lead some into the dangerous territory of getting higher than intended. But to Raw Garden’s credit, they suggest you vaporize at a low temperature right on the box. Vaping at a low temperature will help to not only keep the delicate flavors intact but prevent you from getting too blitzed.

The Bottom Line

A remarkably clean vaping experience for people who are serious about their terpenes. This is Raw Garden’s truly next-level product and a selling point for their farm-first science-heavy approach.

Find a dispensary holding Raw Garden near you here.

Elon Musk may have tweeted himself out of $15 billion a month or so ago, not too long after Tesla sent Bitcoin’s price soaring to a record high by investing $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency. Bloomberg had reported that Tesla stock slid 8.6% in one day, which eroded Musk’s net worth by $15.2 billion, probably because he tweeted that the value of Bitcoin does “seem high lol.”

Although the SpaceX and Tesla CEO does get spacey while tweeting about Dogecoin as well, it sure looks like Bitcoin is still his (arguably) semi-problematic fave because as Musk announced this week, “You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin.”

Elon added more details that only Bitcoin enthusiasts would truly understand about nodes and how Tesla will retain the revenue as Bitcoin (a bold move, considering the previous $15 billion one-day hit). He also revealed when the option would be available outside the United States.

Previously, financial analyst Daniel Ives said this to CNBC, “Musk is now tied to the bitcoin story in the eyes of the Street and although Tesla made a billion paper profit in its first month owning the digital gold, it comes with added risk, as seen this week.” It sure looks like Elon Musk is not afraid of that added risk.

Nick Cannon has more lives than a cat — and just about as many jobs as that. One of those jobs seemed threatened last year when the multihyphenate rapper-actor-tv-host made some comments on his podcast that were perceived as anti-Semitic, prompting ViacomCBS to sever ties with him. That left the future of his trademark show, Wild ‘N Out, in doubt as not was he on the outs with the owners of MTV and VH1, but production on the show was also shut down due to the pandemic.

However, it appears that his efforts to make amends have not gone unnoticed as a new promo teases the show’s return in April. According to Deadline, the new episodes were filmed before the coronavirus outbreak here in the States and will constitute the second half of the 15th (!) season of the popular improv comedy show. Guests set to appear include rappers 24kGolden, Ambjaay, Cuban Doll, Da Brat, MC Lyte, OMB Peezy, and Rapsody, along with Cannon’s show-hosting brethren Big Tigger, Donnell Rawlings, and Trinidad James. The Black Ink Crew: Compton cast will also appear, as will YouTuber-turned-R&B star Queen Najia.

The show will return on VH1 after Diddy hoped to bring Nick and his most popular creation to Revolt TV. The new episodes will air April 6 at 8 pm ET. You can watch the promo above.

In We Broke Up, Aya Cash and William Jackson Harper play a recently split-up couple who still attend her sister’s wedding as a pair as he’s “the king of the ushers.” Pretending to be together for three days is not ideal — but what is ideal is a movie with the You’re the Worst actress and The Good Place actor, two very good stars on two very good shows.

“Viewers can expect to see them get in a bit of trouble but they’re both good people,” Cash told EW about the romantic comedy. “That’s what’s nice about it, actually. Neither of them is the villain of the breakup in my mind, which probably means that I am. Like when people say, ‘There’s no a**hole,’ but it’s usually you. Either way, I don’t think there’s a villain here.” Harper added that We Broke Up tells “the classic story about this very relatable situation where two people find themselves on very different pages though still very much loving each other.” Hopefully she brought along some Trash Juice.

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

Lori and Doug, a longtime couple break up just days before Lori’s little sister Bea’s wedding. In order to not disrupt the fun, the couple decides to pretend they’re still together until the weekend is over

We Broke Up hits on demand on April 23.

The thing about making a movie called Godzilla vs. Kong is that it implies both a battle and a winner of that battle. We already know the first part is true because Godzilla vs. Kong has a trailer and that trailer features the two humongous beasts just walloping the heck out of each other on the deck of a battleship in the middle of the ocean. This is also how we know the movie will be good. There has never been a bad movie in which Godzilla and King Kong wallop the heck out of each other on the deck of a battleship in the middle of the ocean. More movies should work it into the plot somehow, even if it doesn’t make any sense, even if neither Godzilla nor King Kong had been mentioned to that point. This was my primary issue with La La Land.

All of which brings us to the second part: Who would win a fight between Godzilla and King Kong? It’s a fair question. One that has been asked many times by the movie industry over the past 100 years. One that has been absolutely destroying my brain ever since I saw King Kong punch Godzilla square in the mouth during the first trailer. That was a remarkable thing to see. Kong just wound up and popped him right in the scaly kisser. My entire universe tilted about two degrees to the left when it happened and it hasn’t returned to normal ever since. We’re all doing great: me, you, Godzilla, Kong, everyone.

Let’s go ahead and break this down, if only to help me get it all out of my head. It turns out I have a lot of opinions about this.

The case that Godzilla, my large scaly boy, would destroy Kong

Godzilla is a mythical beast who has superpowers, whereas Kong is just a very big gorilla. And even if Godzilla did not have superpowers, he’s still covered with armor-like skin/scales and has huge sharp teeth that would slice right through Kong’s soft, furry flesh. He could whip his tail around and send that stupid monkey flying. And that’s before we even get to the aforementioned powers or the part where Godzilla is amphibious. I know Godzilla is amphibious because it says so right on the deeply comprehensive Godzilla Wikipedia page. Here, look:

Godzilla is amphibious: it has a preference for traversing Earth’s hydrosphere when in hibernation or migration, can breathe underwater and is described in the original film by the character Dr. Yamane as a transitional form between a marine and a terrestrial reptile. Godzilla is shown to have great vitality: it is immune to conventional weaponry thanks to its rugged hide and ability to regenerate, and as a result of surviving a nuclear explosion, it cannot be destroyed by anything less powerful. It has an electromagnetic pulse-producing organ in its body which generates an asymmetrical permeable shield, making it impervious to all damage except for a short period when the organ recycles.

To recap, Godzilla is:

• Immune to conventional weapons
• Able to regenerate body parts that have been damaged despite that first thing
• Able to breathe underwater

So, even if Kong manages to injure Godzilla with some sort of powerful nuclear weapon, Godzilla could heal himself like Wolverine and then just drag Kong to the bottom of the ocean. Godzilla doesn’t even have to “win” the fight. He can just hold Kong underwater for a couple minutes. And this is before we even get to the laser breath.

More information from the Godzilla Wikipedia page, which, one could reasonably argue based only on time spent reading and number of visits in the last few weeks, is now my favorite webpage on the entire internet:

Godzilla’s signature weapon is its “atomic heat beam” (also known as “atomic breath”), nuclear energy that it generates inside of its body, uses electromagnetic force to concentrate it into a laser-like high velocity projectile and unleashes it from its jaws in the form of a blue or red radioactive beam.

This seems important. Godzilla can shoot lasers out of his face. If I could shoot lasers out of my face, I would definitely do it to someone who just clobbered me with a hairy fist. I would do it so fast. Godzilla should do it right away. This whole movie should be 15 minutes long and be titled Godzilla Murders Kong With His Atomic Laser Breath. I’ll go as long as 45 minutes if we include a King Kong funeral. I’m picturing a casket the size of an apartment complex with 800 very sad pallbearers struggling to lug it down a flight of stairs. I’m also picturing a children’s choir singing a devastating version of “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” by Whitney Houston as three industrial cranes lower Kong into a massive hole in the ground. I’m sorry this has gotten so dark. I told you I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Too much.

And even if you throw out all the laser stuff, there’s still this:

This is a brief clip from the Japanese trailer for the film in which Godzilla counterpunches Kong and sends him flying. I guess it’s more of a counterslap than a counterpunch. Whatever it is, the result is clear. Godzilla would dismantle Kong even without the massive amounts of nuclear energy coursing through his cold-blooded veins. No contest. Book it.

Unless…

The case that Kong, my humongous fuzzy son, would demolish Godzilla

Kong has two key advantages here, even if neither quite reach the level of “magical dinosaur with murder lasers shooting out of his mouth.” The first is that gorillas are smarter than lizards. Lizards are so stupid. They have tiny little brains and eat bugs. Why would anyone eat a bug unless they were too stupid to realize they could eat something better? Gorillas at least eat bananas, which are fine as far as fruits go (peaches and strawberries are better), but are a vast improvement over bugs. Perhaps I am focusing on this part of the equation too much. My point is that Kong can use his superior brain to outthink this stupid nuclear lizard in some way that will neutralize the laser-based advantages. And that bugs are gross.

The second advantage Kong has is the use of arms. Godzilla has tiny little arms and no reach and no thumbs. Godzilla cannot build or operate tools. He certainly can’t, to choose an example at random, grasp a flying dinosaur and swing it like a baseball bat to knock another flying dinosaur out of the sky. Kong can, as we saw in the trailer, to my unending delight.

What this means, in short, is that Kong could simply, if he chose to, sneak up behind Godzilla — thus negating the laser breath — and strangle him with a 40-foot piece of piano wire, like an assassin in a spy movie. It’s fun to picture him doing this in a disguise, like a trenchcoat and a fedora, as though that would trick anyone into thinking he’s not a 100-foot-tall gorilla. I don’t even know where he’d find a trenchcoat that big. It would make for a fun montage.

He could also, again, to choose an example at random that is not just an excuse to post another GIF from the trailer, acquire some sort of massive weapon that redirects Godzilla’s laser breath and swing said weapon at the nuclear dinosaur’s head in a shocking display of athleticism.

So, there’s, you know… that, too. Plenty to consider, really. But now that we have all this information, the time has come to choose a favorite. Our champion. The king of the mythical beasts. Who ya got?

VERDICT

No. I will not do it. I refuse to choose between my two beautiful monstrous children. I hope they become friends and get a nice condo together. I don’t think that is an unreasonable request.

Broadcasters ranging from WNBA All-Star Layshia Clarendon to Sophia Jones, the daughter of the great play-by-play man Mark Jones, will join NBC Sports California’s broadcast of Kings-Cavaliers on Saturday night, making it the first all female and non-binary broadcast in the team’s and station’s history.

Clarendon (who identifies as non-binary) and Jones will be joined by Krista Blunk, Kayte Hunter, and Laura Britt, all longtime Bay Area media personalities.

“Each of these individuals are such valuable contributors to sports broadcasting and we are excited to bring them together to showcase their talent,” Kings President of Business Operations John Rinehart said in a statement. “It is critically important to provide opportunities and pathways for more diverse voices to be included in the industry while also highlighting the incredible ones working in sports currently.”

The news comes the same day as the Toronto Raptors are set to feature their first all-female broadcast team on Sportsnet in Canada, with analysts Amy Audibert and current WNBA player Kia Nurse calling the game, among others. An NBC affiliate doing this in the NBA could signal further steps toward more diverse broadcasts across the country.

“Advancing new and diverse perspectives is key to serving sports fans great content and in promoting opportunity and inclusivity in sports media and beyond,” said Devon Fox, senior director of live events and special projects at NBC Sports California.

The broadcast will begin on Saturday night starting at 6:30 p.m. PT.

Palehound‘s Ellen Kempner and Jay Som‘s Melina Duterte already boast a fair number of accolades for their respective projects. But last month, the two songwriters announced that they would be pivoting to focus on something else, their joint band Bachelor. They shared Bachelor’s debut single “Anything At All” alongside the project’s announcement and now, they’ve returned to announce a full-length album.

Bachelor’s debut LP is titled Doomin’ Sun, and Kempner and Duterte have offered another preview of its sound with the bass-heavy song “Stay In The Car.” About the single, Kempner explains that it was written shortly after their partner underwent top surgery:

“I wrote the lyrics to ‘Stay In the Car’ back in December of 2019 when I was in Florida for my partner’s top surgery. I had run out one afternoon, post op, while he was healing to grab lunch for us and as I was gathering my stuff in the parking lot, a big car pulled up and this absolutely beautiful woman got out. She was dressed all in red, dripping with jewelry and had the most wild fiery mane I’d ever seen. She was yelling at the man behind the wheel asking him what he wanted from the store and I wished I was that man. I wanted to be a part of her life, her best friend, her driver, whatever she wanted me to be. I was completely mesmerized.”

Echoing Kempner’s statement Duterte adds, “We wanted this song to be a visceral listening experience, inspired by The Pixies and The Breeders. For the music video, we worked on a two-day shoot with Haoyan of America in Poughkeepsie in extremely cold weather. We all collaborated on the idea that our friendship should be portrayed in a fun and stylish way. Haoyan captured that energy in his own unique and creative lens through his collection of 80s/90s/00s props and toys, CGI, and anything car-themed.”

Watch the “Stay In The Car” video above and find Bachelor’s Doomin’ Sun cover art and tracklist below.

1. “Back Of My Hand”
2. “Sand Angel”
3. “Stay In The Car”
4. “Went Out Without You”
5. “Spin Out”
6. “Anything At All”
7. “Moon”
8. “Sick Of Spiraling”
9. “Aurora”
10. “Doomin’ Sun”

Doomin’ Sun is out 5/28 via Polyvinyl. Pre-order it here.

Whenever the internet latches onto a strange moment, it tends to get even stranger as more details emerge (and more racist, i.e. the “milkshake duck” effect, but thankfully, this isn’t about that). Case in point, the man who kidnapped the internet’s attention yesterday by tweeting about a bizarre discovery in his breakfast cereal turned out to have a truly fascinating past as a battle rapper — one that resulted in plenty of success outside of the music industry.

Jensen Karp, aka Hot Karl, may not be a household name to most, but in the LA battle rap scene — and in certain Hollywood television production circles — he’s kind of an underground legend. As Hot Karl, he was signed to Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate at just 11 years old, he entered Power 106’s Roll Call freestyle competition and held the title for 45 weeks while in college, and he signed to Interscope Records in the early 2000s, recording a debut with features from DJ Quik, Kanye West, Redman, and more which was never released. He wrote a memoir about it and shares his hip-hop knowledge as part of a trivia game. Oh, and he paid Chance The Rapper $5,000 to shoot a music video back in 2013.

Those experiences served him well in Hollywood, where after several gigs writing for WWE and VH1 and a truly fated radio hosting gig, he became executive producer of the short-lived celebrity rap battle show Drop The Mic, which famously featured battles between The Muppets’ Kermit and Miss Piggy, Randall Park and James Van Der Beek, and more, and helped launch the career of the white half of Blimes And Gab.

Users on Twitter were delighted to learn this info, but the “Hot Karl” trend was quickly taken over by teen fans of a gaming YouTuber named Karl Jacobs, who is apparently bad at taking selfies. I kid, teen girls, please do not murder me or perform witchcraft at me.

Karl Marx, the famed German philosopher who laid the groundwork for the modern conception of socialism, also got roped into the fun.

Knowing Karp, he’s likely enjoying all the shenanigans his tweets have caused because he’s a pretty funny guy, but hopefully, this thing doesn’t flatten his hard-won legacy down to just being “Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Guy” or “Danielle Fishel’s husband.” Oh yeah, that’s right: He’s also married to Boy Meets World‘s Topanga. I guess you could say he’s the real winner here.

Check out the reactions to “Hot Karl”‘s unlikely comeback above.

Netflix can’t stop and won’t stop giving us plenty of bingewatching opportunities as the pandemic keeps rolling through spring. For sure, this month’s selections form a batch of highly varied entertainment, and there’s likely no way that you can (or even will be crazy enough to try) absorb all of the films and TV shows that will be newly up for grabs in April. No one knows for sure how Netflix continues to pack itself full of fresh offerings without the coffers running dry, but sometimes, a little mystery can be better than learning the true process. Enjoy!

Tons of original offerings are on the way, including a film starring Idris Elba in a cowboy hat, and a highly anticipated fantasy series based upon bestselling novels. Then there’s a fascinating, high-dollar art heist to explore, and Sir David Attenborough continues to have a work ethic that’s somehow greater than all of us combined. How’s he still pulling those globetrotting feats at age 94? He and Betty White must know something. With that said, the sum of offerings look stoo good to be believed.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix in April.

Concrete Cowboy (Netflix film streaming 4/2)

Idris Elba in a cowboy hat should be enough of an attraction here, but assuming that you want to know about the all-important plot, here we go. A troubled teen (Caleb McLaughlin) spends the summer in North Philadelphia, where he’s torn between diving into a life or crime or embracing the urban-cowboy subculture that’s embodied by his estranged dad (Elba). The story’s based upon Ghetto Cowboy, the novel by G.Neri, and the film co-stars Jharrel Jerome, Byron Bowers, Lorraine Toussaint, and Clifford “Method Man” Smith.

Shadow And Bone (Netflix series streaming 4/23)

Need a little fantasy to shut down reality for awhile? You’re in luck. Based upon Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grishaverse novels, this show follows dark forces that move against an orphan mapmaker (Alina Starkov), whose power might be the key to transforming a war-torn world. Can Alina set her people free? She must conquer the Shadow Fold threat and train as an elite magical soldier (a Grisha) while learning that nothing is it seems, and she must also maneuver around a crew of charismatic criminals to determine who is an ally, who is an enemy, and who is both.

This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist (Netflix documentary series streaming 4/7)

This docuseries goes big while digging into a $500 million stash of missing art and a $10 million reward for the lucky person who finds it. The mystery sources back 30 freaking years after two thieves pulled off the greatest art heist in history in 1990 Boston, and investigators are now tracking the cold case in an attempt to uncover legendary works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and more. Get ready for dead ends and lucky breaks aplenty.

Life in Color with David Attenborough (Netflix documentary series streaming 4/22)

Earth Day needed this three-part series, and so does your soul. Or at least, I’m assuming that your soul will be soothed while watching Sir David Attenborough traveling from Costa Rica’s rainforests to Scottish Highlands’ snow-covered landscape to show the world how animals make extraordinary use of color. The show promises “revolutionary camera technology created specifically for this series” (according to Netflix) to reveal, uh, invisible-to-us colors? It sounds utterly fascinating, especially the details about a butterfly wing sending “seemingly magical ultraviolet signals” and the revelation of what a Bengal tiger’s stripes truly signal.

Here’s the full list of titles coming to Netflix in April:

Avail. 4/1
2012
Cop Out
Friends with Benefits
Insidious
Legally Blonde
Leprechaun
Magical Andes: Season 2
The Pianist
The Possession
Prank Encounters: Season 2
Secrets of Great British Castles: Season 1
Tersanjung the Movie
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family
White Boy
Worn Stories
Yes Man

Avail. 4/2
Concrete Cowboy
Just Say Yes
Madame Claude
The Serpent
Sky High

Avail. 4/3
Escape from Planet Earth

Avail. 4/4
What Lies Below

Avail. 4/5
Coded Bias
Family Reunion: Part 3

Avail. 4/6
The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You

Avail. 4/7
The Big Day: Collection 2
Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute
Snabba Cash
This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist
The Wedding Coach

Avail. 4/8
The Way of the Househusband

Avail. 4/9
Have You Ever Seen Fireflies?
Night in Paradise
Thunder Force

Avail. 4/10
The Stand-In

Avail. 4/11
Diana: The Interview that Shook the World

Avail. 4/12
New Gods: Nezha Reborn
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn: Seasons 1-4

Avail. 4/13
The Baker and the Beauty: Season 1
Mighty Express: Season 3
My Love: Six Stories of True Love

Avail. 4/14
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!
The Circle: Season 2
Law School
The Soul
Why Did You Kill Me?

Avail. 4/15
Dark City Beneath the Beat
The Master
Ride or Die

Avail. 4/16
Arlo the Alligator Boy
Ajeeb Daastaans
Crimson Peak
Fast & Furious Spy Racers: Season 4: Mexico
Into the Beat
Rush
Synchronic
Why Are You Like This
The Zookeeper’s Wife

Avail. 4/18
Luis Miguel – The Series: Season 2

Avail. 4/19
Miss Sloane
PJ Masks: Season 3

Avail. 4/20
Izzy’s Koala World: Season 2

Avail. 4/21
Zero

Avail. 4/22
Life in Color with David Attenborough
Stowaway

Avail. 4/23
Heroes: Silence and Rock & Roll
Shadow and Bone
Tell Me When

Avail. 4/27
August: Osage County
Battle of Los Angeles
Fatma
Go! Go! Cory Carson: Season 4

Avail. 4/28
Sexify
Headspace Guide to Sleep

Avail. 4/29
Things Heard & Seen
Yasuke

Avail. 4/30
The Innocent
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Pet Stars
The Unremarkable Juanquini: Season 2

TBA
The Disciple
Searching For Sheela

Here’s the full list of titles leaving Netflix in April:

Leaving 4/2
Honey: Rise Up and Dance

Leaving 4/4
Backfire

Leaving 4/11
Time Trap

Leaving 4/12
Married at First Sight: Season 9
Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning: Season 1

Leaving 4/13
Antidote

Leaving 4/14
Eddie Murphy: Delirious
The New Romantic
Once Upon a Time in London
Thor: Tales of Asgard

Leaving 4/15
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

Leaving 4/19
Carol
The Vatican Tapes

Leaving 4/20
The Last Resort

Leaving 4/21
The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass: Seasons 1-3

Leaving 4/22
Liv and Maddie: Seasons 1-4

Leaving 4/23
Mirror Mirror

Leaving 4/24
Django Unchained

Leaving 4/26
The Sapphires

Leaving 4/27
The Car
Doom

Leaving 4/28
Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Leaving 4/30
17 Again
Blackfish
Can’t Hardly Wait
Den of Thieves
How to Be a Latin Lover
I Am Legend
Jumping the Broom
Kingdom: Seasons 1-3
Knock Knock
Palm Trees in the Snow
Platoon
Runaway Bride
Snowpiercer
The Green Hornet
The Indian in the Cupboard
Waiting