At long last, The CW is headed to the final frontier… er, wait, that’s another series, huh? Alright, alright… but The CW is bulking up their space content by reviving cult-classic 90s series Babylon 5. Oh, and for those of you already a bit skeptical hearing about the iconic space-opera’s resurrection, we have even better news: they’re doing so with original series creator J. Michael Straczynski.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, The CW, Warner Bros., and the Hugo award-winning Straczynski are teaming up for a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of the original show. While no cast members or timeline has been attached to the project as of yet, we do already have a lengthy description of the new Babylon 5‘s plot that is sure to delight former fans:
“The new take revolves around John Sheridan (originally played by Bruce Boxleitner), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.”
While The CW and Straczynski might seem an odd pairing to tackle this ambitious project, its also worth noting The CW has continuously been pushing to expand their channel and acquire new IPs. In addition, Straczynski does have some experience writing shows for a younger demographic, most notably Netflix’s Sense8, meaning this could very well be a match made in heaven.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, if the project does go forward “it would provide another key franchise revival for The CW and Warners at a time when well-known IP has become increasingly important as networks and streamers alike look to break through a cluttered landscape,” making this a pretty big opportunity for all parties involved. Here’s hoping we hear even more about the reboot early on next year.
Fletcher Cox has steadily established himself as one of the best interior defensive lineman in the NFL over his decade with the Eagles. The big man out of Mississippi State wreaks havocs on opposing offensive lines as one of the best pass rushing tackles in the league.
However, playing defensive tackle requires a certain sense of humility, because half of the job is occupying space and attention to allow linebackers and others to stay clean from blocks and make plays. That can be a tricky balance to strike when you’re talented enough to go make a play regularly, but Cox says it’s all about communication and understanding your job and assignment on each and every play.
We spoke with the All-Pro last week on behalf of his partnership with Tide about the Eagles defense’s strong start to the season, how they will adapt to Brandon Graham’s absence after suffering an Achilles injury, his favorite DTs around the league, how Jalen Hurts just needs to be himself, and what it was like doing voice work for a washing machine.
It’s been a good start for you guys on the defensive side of the ball. What have you felt has been working through the first two weeks for you guys and kind of clicking on that end?
I mean, just knowing that plays are coming to you. Just let the plays come to you, and not try to make everybody else’s plays. It’s just everybody’s alignment, assignment, and doing the job, and you know, everybody’s crowding the football. Everybody runs to the football, not guessing or thinking that one guy’s got him down. It’s about having two guys on one person than just one guy. Just accountability, you know? Just holding everybody accountable, doing their job, and so far it’s paying off. We just gotta keep that same mindset.
The first thing you said about everybody knowing their assignment and playing their assignment, that’s something that’s especially important on the defensive line with gap contain and making sure that you’re in the right spots. That’s as big of a job as trying to make the play every time. How do you learn to do that as you come through your football career and learn that patience that it takes to understand that sometimes it’s not your job to necessarily make the play, but to help set up your guys to make the play?
Absolutely. Just communication, communication and being disruptive at the same time. Knowing that, like you just said, that I don’t make every play, but at some point, I had something to do with being disruptive to help [Javon] Hargrave or Brandon [Graham] or [Josh] Sweat or [Derek] Barnett or Milton [Williams]. Or, one of those guys make plays, even if it’s a safety coming down in the box or a linebacker or a corner. So that’s the biggest thing, just being effective, and just knowing your job, and knowing who you are. So I think that’s one of the biggest deals about playing defense in the NFL.
Obviously it was unfortunate to see Brandon go down but I think his response was something a lot of people gravitated to. What does it say about him not just as a player, but as a person, that he’s trying to take this positive outlook even as he goes down with such a tough injury?
Yeah man, you just got to take the good with it. I mean BG is a great person, great leader. He was always smiling. If you know BG, you know BG was always smiling and always have positive words to say, no matter what was going on during the game or what’s going on during a practice or during a meeting or somebody had miscommunication with something. He always tried to take it to make good out of it, and that’s why BG’s got so much respect. And for a guy that hasn’t missed a game in like I think like 9 or 10 years because of an injury, it says a lot about him and how much he values his body and how much he takes care of himself.
And then for you guys as a defensive line, how do you how do you adapt, because obviously you can’t replace a guy like that necessarily with one guy, but how as a group do you adapt to his absence the rest of the way?
You just gotta know that he’ll be there. You know he’ll be there helping, pushing up the young guys a little bit, after he’s able to get around after his surgery or whatever. But we got a lot of guys that’s played d end, that’s played a lot of ball too. You know, Ryan Kerrigan, Derek Barnett, Josh Sweat. So, I mean, those guys played a lot of ball and for them and for me I think it all again goes back to communication and just knowing what you’re doing, and knowing that we’re holding you, whoever that is, accountable. Whoever they decide to put there to fill that spot, knowing you gotta hold you accountable, and know that you don’t have to go out there and be BG. You got to go out there and be you.
There’s a ton of talent I think right now in the defensive line spot, especially on the inside at tackle. Who are some of your favorite guys around the league to watch when you get a chance to sit down and take in some games or take in some film at that position?
I mean, believe it or not, I don’t really watch a lot of sports, and I don’t really watch a lot of football. I’m a fan of a lot of people, though. Obviously I’m a fan of Aaron [Donald], Chris Jones, DeForest Buckner. I even have been talking to Derrick Brown a little bit from Carolina. I mean, just talking to those guys, communicating, and asking them — we all talk about, if I text them or something like that we’ll talk about how they played this block, how they play that block, and how to do certain things. But obviously we’re all in different defenses and, you know, it can only go so far. And obviously pass rush is pass rush, but in this game with defense you still have to play within your scheme of defense and make the best out of it.
And then on the other side of the ball, you’ve been going up against him for a year and a half now. What have you seen in the growth of Jalen Hurts every day in practice and what he’s bringing now that he’s in year two?
He’s being the best Jalen that he can be. I think he’s just taking in all of the coaching and the new system, and just taking off with it, just soaking it in, and doing what has to be done. And for a second year guy, when you ask for that, and they give it back to you, and you get paid back big in the end. So I was excited to see Jalen run around out there, have fun throwing the ball around, making plays. This entire offense, they just run around having fun, so I’m excited to watch them for Monday night.
How did this partnership that you have with with Tide come about, and what was it like doing voice work for a washing machine?
[Laughs] It was good, it was good. I’m very excited to be partnered with them, and it was a great opportunity for me to be a part of this. And really the biggest thing, a lot of us don’t really know this or understand about turning to cold with Tide, is that it saves a bunch on your energy bill. And basically just trying to help save the environment, save the planet in so many ways that turning to cold [water] can be effective. Not only that but doing the voiceovers was really fun. And then once I learned about the winner going to Tide.com, signing up, and you could get to win a voiceover washing machine with my voice on it which, it’d be great. And you get people excited to get out there and go in their washroom and be excited to hear my voice, their favorite Eagle on that washing machine.
The Many Saints Of Newark is, of course, a Sopranos prequel of sorts. It’s certainly possible to view it entirely as a stand-alone movie, and even in the age of the expanded universe, I’m a firm believer that you shouldn’t have to do homework before you watch a movie. And yet, how many of us are actually going to go in completely cold?
Many Saints is heavy enough on Sopranos lore that it seems reasonable to expect that if you’re interested in the movie you’d be interested in the lore. And considering it’s been a good 14 years since the show went off the air, we figured you might need a refresher. Besides, there are worse ways to while away the hours than by watching old Sopranos episodes (watching anything on CBS, say).
Where to start? The Sopranos has six and half seasons spanning eight years (1999 – 2007), but not every episode is lore-heavy. Some of them are one-offs, very special episodes about Columbus Day, or the mafia’s view of cunnilingus (short answer: there’s nothing gayer than pleasuring a woman, according to the mafia). One could easily get lost in that pine barrens of one-offs, but luckily I’m here to be your gabagool sherpa. For the most interested rewatchers, I’ve attempted to compile here the most Many Saints-relevant Sopranos episodes, starting with the most relevant and working outwards.
(Note: there will be spoilers for the Sopranos — which, it should be noted, is 20 years old — but only light references to Many Saints)
1. “Down Neck” – Season 1, episode 7. AKA: The One With The Childhood Flashback.
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This is arguably the main inspiration for The Many Saints Of Newark, or at the very least its most direct reference, an extended flashback episode that sees young Tony (played by Bobby Boriello, who must be in his early 30s by now) stow away in the trunk of his father Johnny Boy Soprano’s car so he can go to the amusement park. Tony gets caught and has to take a bus, and ends up arriving just in time to see his father and his associates get arrested. All of which, coincidentally, takes place during the Newark Race Riots.
The episode focuses mainly on Tony and his feelings towards his mother, father, and sister, while the movie is more concerned with Tony’s sort-of uncle, Dicky Moltisanti, played by Alissandro Nivola. In fact, “Molti santi” means “many saints” in Italian. I bet you feel like a big stunad’ for not realizing that until now.
So, is Dicky the focus of Many Saints and not Johnny Boy? Well, have you seen the Sopranos finale? There’s nothing David Chase hates more than your expectations.
Additional Trivia: This was the only episode of the Sopranos directed by a woman, Lorraine Senna Ferrara. Also, the young black kid who yells at young Tony when he gets off the bus is played by Michael B. Jordan.
2. “For All Debts Public And Private” — Season 4, Episode 1. AKA: The One Where Christopher Avenges His Father.
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Along with “whatever happened to that Russian guy from the Pine Barrens episode?”, one of the biggest questions left open in the original Sopranos series is whether the guy Christopher kills in this episode is actually the guy who killed Chrissy’s father. Tony put Christopher up to it, see, telling Christopher that this recently-retired cop was the guy who killed Christopher’s father. He’d been useful to the mafia before, but now that he’s retired he isn’t any longer, so Tony’s story goes.
Christopher breaks into the cop’s house and the cop denies it, but then, what is he really going to say to a mobbed-up junkie hitman? Still, Tony is acting pretty suspiciously about the whole thing. Is the guy really Christopher’s father’s killer, or just some guy Tony wants dead and has found a clever way to get it done while bringing an underling closer to him in the process? Or is it something in between? Being that the main character of The Many Saints Of Newark is Dickie Moltisanti, it may or may not help answer some of these questions.
3/4. “Nobody Knows Anything”/”Isabella” — Season 1, episodes 11 and 12. AKA: The One Where Tony Survives A Hit.
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Out of any of the main cast the Sopranos, arguably the character whom Many Saints does the most to illuminate is Tony’s uncle Junior, aka Corrado Soprano (played by Corey Stoll in the film, and Dominic Chianese in the series). While Junior becomes increasingly addled and irrelevant in later seasons of Sopranos, in this two or three episode arc from season one, we see the conflict between Junior and Tony arise, come to a head, and dissipate between episodes 10 and 13 of season one. It comes to a climax in episode 12 with the attempted hit on Tony. There’s no direct reference to any of this in Many Saints, but it feels important to know.
5. “Kennedy And Heidi” — Season 6, episode 18 (or season 6B, episode 6). AKA: Christopher’s Final Chapter.
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Many Saints explains precisely how Chris Moltisanti died in its prologue, so I don’t think I’m spoiling anything here. Christopher is only a very minor character in the movie, but if you need a visual for what the movie describes, this is the episode. One of the things David Chase and company did best on the Sopranos was that even when you were convinced a certain character was inevitably going to die, the when and how of it all almost always came completely out of left field. This one is a classic in that regard.
6. “Fortunate Son” — Season 3, episode 3. AKA: The One Where Chrissy Gets Made.
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In episode 303, Christopher finally becomes a made man, complete with the drawing of blood, the burning of saints, and all of the oaths and the ceremony and so forth. As it’s happening, a raven lands on the windowsill. What does it mean?? In the original episode, the raven is less about the symbolism in the show than it is about what the superstition means to Christopher the character, though I’m sure there are fan theories that argue otherwise. Many Saints sees David Chase having some fun with this mythology. (Again, here I would argue that David Chase seems to like fucking with us more than he likes symbolism for its own sake).
Additional Trivia: This episode has a cameo by pre-blog Perez Hilton, as the guy selling tickets to a Jewel concert.
7. American Gangster (2007). AKA: The Movie About Frank Lucas.
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What, you thought The Many Saints Of Newark would only have lore pertaining to the Sopranos? Please, David Chase would never do anything that straightforward. Despite there being multiple Sopranos characters who claimed to have some part in the Newark race riots, The Many Saints of Newark invents an entirely new guy for Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, One Night In Miami) to play: Harold McBrayer. McBrayer, oddly, turns out to be an associate of Frank Lucas, the Harlem drug lord portrayed by Denzel Washington in American Gangster (well, the “lord” part may be embellished — whether Lucas was really the boss is still a subject of some debate).
8. “Watching Too Much Television” — Season 4, Episode 7. AKA: The One With The HUD Scam.
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As noted above, The Many Saints Of Newark weirdly chooses not to bring back many of the Sopranos characters involved in the Newark Race Riots. But in this episode, Tony makes some money off a HUD scam by leaning on his mafia-friendly assemblyman, Ronald Zellman (played by Peter Riegert), and Zellman’s old buddy, activist Maurice Tiffen (Vondie Curtis-Hall) — the two of whom seem to have gotten their start in politics and activism during the riots.
Mostly, this episode explores how many civil rights leaders from the sixties sold out or got sold out during the Clinton revolution (see also: Bulworth). But the film also offers a nice background on how full of shit Tony is during this episode, which the original episode only hinted out. It’s hard to find a Sopranos character who doesn’t enjoy self-mythologizing.
9. “Where’s Johnny?” — Season 5, Episode 3. AKA: The One Where Junior Goes AWOL.
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I’m trying to be more thematic in this rundown rather than explain every single callback from Many Saints (of which there are many, including John Magaro’s trying-way-too-hard Silvio impression), but this episode is a little of both. In this episode, Junior’s originally-fake dementia turns real (it’s later revealed to be the result of a minor stroke), causing him to repeat his most hurtful (to Tony) assessment of Tony like a broken record. Junior ends up running off, eventually wandering the streets of Newark, where the Many Saints Of Newark is set asking questions about many of the people and places the movie depicts.
Additional Trivia: The Junior-faking-insanity storyline is said to have been inspired by real-life mobster Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, who spent 30 years trying to convince the government he was insane, wandering the streets of Greenwich Village in a bathrobe mumbling to himself.
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10. “In Camelot” — Season 5, Episode 7. AKA: The One With The Scumbag TV Writer.
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I said I was going to start with the most relevant and work outward, and this episode is certainly more spiritually related to Many Saints than literally, but go with me here: David Chase is a long-time television writer who originally wanted to make The Sopranos as a movie. The Sopranos is chock full of movie references to the point that it’s basically impossible not to notice that Chase is a huge cinefile. And yet in both his directorial debut (2013’s mostly enjoyable Not Fade Away) and in Many Saints (co-written by Chase but directed by Alan Taylor), Chase has made movies that feel like nothing so much as pilots for future shows.
There are multiple brilliant storylines in In Camelot, one of the all-time greatest Sopranos episodes, but the one most relevant here involves Christopher’s friend from recovery, an incorrigible television writer named JT played by Tim Daly. Between this episode and the one with Jon Favreau, Sopranos writers more than prove that they’re at least as good at writing showbiz parody as they are at writing mafia stories, and JT is an absolute classic. A delusional, pompous prick so high on his own supply that he at one point compares his own shakedown to Tarantino, JT eventually ends up at a pawn shop impotently attempting to argue for the value of his own Emmy (and by extension, the medium of television as a whole).
“Come on, man! This is, like, huge, this shit,” JT pleads to the pawn shop owner, who initially offers him $15.
“If it were an Oscar, maybe I could give you something. An Academy Award! But TV?”
It’s a hilarious line, and probably heavily tongue in cheek for the people writing it. Yet it also seems to lay bare David Chase’s relative inferiority complex when it comes to TV. To me he seems almost like the platonic ideal of a TV writer. A guy who cut his teeth writing for iconic shows like Rockford Files and Northern Exposure, who ended up changing the very idea of what TV could be with The Sopranos. Yet somewhere in his heart he probably still mythologizes the idea of writing for the movies. And yet even when he gets the chance, he still ends up writing stories that feel like TV shows.
‘The Many Saints Of Newark’ hits theaters and HBO Max October 1st. Vince Mancini is on Twitter. You can access his archive of reviews here.
As the Succession Season 3 release date draws near, HBO has dropped a new set of character posters that has fans of the dynastic black comedy experiencing a wide range of emotions over the interesting pairings.
Right out of the gate, there’s Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) paired with his tyrannical father Logan Roy (Brian Cox), which tracks given the third season will see father and son going to war over the fate of the Roy media empire.
Next up is Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook) and Connor Roy (Alan Ruck), which is definitely the biggest head-scratcher given the two didn’t really interact all that much during the first two season. However, Shiv recently wrapped up a stint in politics, and Connor is looking to run for president, so there could be something there.
This next pairing completely tracks as Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) and Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Mcfayden) have been practically joined at the hip since the first season, and as everyone knows, you can’t make a Tomlette without breaking a few Greggs.
And, finally, the show’s hottest romantic pairing, Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) and Gerri Kellman (J. Smith Cameron) whose unusual relationship took off in Season 2, but behind closed doors. Literally.
After two years since Season 2, Succession fans are obviously hyped for the show’s cast of absolute cretins to return, and you can see for yourself in the reactions to the character posters below:
A couple days ago, Christine And The Queens took to the Eiffel Tower (well, right in front of it) in Paris and performed a five-song set, as part of a Global Citizen Live benefit concert. Her set featured a pair of covers, Michel Fugain and Le Big Bazar’s “Comme l’oiseau” and George Michael’s “Freedom,” and now she has shared studio recordings of those covers in a surprise new EP, Joseph.
Additionally, while not included on the EP, her set also featured performances of some of her own songs: “People, I’ve Been Sad,” “Tilted,” and “Doesn’t Matter.”
She also took to Instagram to share a message about her performance and the EP, writing (partially in French), “Thank you to [Global Citizen] for having us perform yesterday. [I missed you so much. Thank you for everything you give me when I search with my eyes closed.] The EP gathering the two Joseph bird songs is out and all profits will go to [Global Citizen] — little by little, more light. Upgrade is king upgrade. Upgrade is love flow. See you soon my loves.”
This comes a couple months after Christine And The Queens declared she was taking a break, sharing a poetic message about her planned hiatus of an undisclosed length.
Stream Joseph above and check out the live performance of “Freedom” below.
Joe Rogan, the popular podcast host who would rather take horse medicine than get vaccinated (but don’t make fun of him for it, or he’ll threaten to sue), posted a video to his Instagram on Monday that compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
“As soon as you give politicians power, any kind of power that didn’t exist previously, if they can figure out a way to force you into carrying something that lets you enter businesses or lets you do this or lets businesses open, historically, they are not gonna give that power up,” Rogan lectured over images of “sorry, we’re closed” signs, Jesus Christ carrying a cross, and Arnold Schwarzenegger saying “I’ll be back” from The Terminator, for some reason. But most concerning is the footage of the Holocaust.
The video continues on for a minute after this, using, among other things, imagery of Hitler and Black American citizens being attacked by police as the music reaches a feverish crescendo and Rogan proclaims that anything inhibiting freedom is un-American.
The video was put together by Samuel Rivera Films, which helps “brands, businesses, and entrepreneurs tell their story.” This story involves stock footage of a bald eagle.
Rogan’s monologue is from an August episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, where he declared that vaccine passports have made the United States “one step closer” to a dictatorship. “As soon as you put the boots to them, as soon as you tell them, ‘You have to do this, or you can’t do that. You have to listen to me,’ now you have a mini dictator. You have one step away from a king. One step closer. You’re moving one step closer to dictatorship. That’s what the f*ck is happening,” he said. “That’s what going to happen with the vaccine passport. That’s what’s going to happen if they close borders, you can’t enter New York City unless you have your papers, you can’t go to here unless you have that, you can’t get on a plane unless you do what I say.”
This is not what is happening, but at least Rogan doesn’t have a major platform with millions of listeners and 13.2 Instagram followers. Oh… right.
Ivermectin advocate Joe Rogan is currently comparing COVID vaccine mandates to the holocaust and Nazi Germany on Instagram. Joe’s “just asking questions” schtick about vaccines during a deadly pandemic continues to be incredibly disingenuous and dangerous. pic.twitter.com/V5d8PbTHNc
Pumpkin beer might be the most divisive beer style of all time. When real, fresh pumpkins are used in the brewing process, it’s typically solid. When the earthy flavors of the harvested pumpkins are complemented by seasonal spices it’s often great. When it’s a fizzy, overly sweet, cloying, pumpkin spice-flavored carbonated drink that tastes more like air freshener than beer, it’s really really bad.
Like I said, divisive. Luckily, for every one of the orange-hued pumpkin spice duds on the market, there are a handful of highly-rated, well-rounded seasonal sippers.
Below, you’ll find eight of our favorite pumpkin beers that aren’t overly spiced, aggressively sweet, or otherwise unpalatable. In fact, they’re the exact opposite. These are some of the best examples of the style with the pumpkin taking center stage and the other flavors merely adding to the overall experience. Check these beers out below and enjoy your pumpkin-filled autumn.
Named as a reference to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” — pretty much the greatest Halloween story of all time — New Holland Ichabod is made with a base of real pumpkins, malted barley, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The result is a surprisingly sessionable, malt, sweet, slightly spicy fall beer.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a symphony of fall spices with cinnamon and cloves starting everything off. This is followed by sweet malts and ripe pumpkin. But… not much else. The palate is more caramel malts, freshly baked bread, vegetable pumpkin, cinnamon sugar, and just a hint of floral hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
This isn’t a bad pumpkin ale. It’s just that it’s touted to be brewed with a malty backbone, but it’s dominated by seasonal spices and pumpkin. We could do with more malt to balance everything.
Many breweries only release one (if any) pumpkin ale. Seattle’s Elysian has been known to drop a handful depending on the year. One of its most popular is The Great Pumpkin. This imperial pumpkin ale is brewed with Cara-Hell, Pale, Munich, Cara-Vienne, Cara-Munich, and C-45 malts, as well as roasted pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice.
It’s a rich, dark, malty seasonal sipper.
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This beer’s nose is pumpkin beer through and through. Right away, there’s a hit of ripe pumpkin, nutmeg, and spicy cinnamon. There’s also a bit of dark chocolate and caramel corn. The palate is filled with more roasted pumpkin flavor, ginger, cinnamon, caramel malts, and a nice dry, slightly bitter finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a bold, slightly bitter, pumpkin-fueled stout. While pumpkin takes top billing, there are enough other flavors to marry everything together.
When drinkers think of St. Louis, a much larger brewery usually comes to mind. But just because the “King of Beers” is located there, beer fans shouldn’t discount much smaller Schlafly. Its Pumpkin Ale is brewed with real pumpkin along with nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove. It was brewed to taste like a piece of pumpkin pie, and it definitely hits its mark.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of caramel malts, butterscotch, cinnamon sugar, ginger, and roasted pumpkin are prevalent. Taking a sip reveals hints of bready malts, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, and cloves. The finish is warming and a nice mix of spice and sweetness.
Bottom Line:
This bold 8% ABV pumpkin ale is warming, spicy, and filled with sweet pumpkin flavor. It’s a great beer for a cool fall evening.
Brewed since 1995, this seasonal sipper isn’t your average pumpkin ale. It starts with a bold, robust brown ale that’s made with ripe pumpkin, brown sugar, and various seasonal spices. It’s warming, slightly spicy, and completely unforgettable.
Tasting Notes:
This beer is all spice upfront. There’s a good deal of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and various other spices that pair perfectly with fresh pumpkin. The palate swirls with caramel candy, cinnamon sugar, more pumpkin, and a nice, warming, rich finish.
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Dogfish Head fans eagerly await this fall seasonal beer every year. It’s warming, subtly spicy, and malty. A great beer to sip after a heavy fall meal.
This 8.6% imperial pumpkin ale is only available from August until October. It’s brewed with real pumpkin, various spices, two kinds of malts, two types of hops, and ale yeast. The result is a nutty, sweet, malty beer that tastes like fall in a pint glass.
Tasting Notes:
The first aroma is that of crisp pie crust. This is followed by toasted vanilla beans, ripe pumpkin, and fall spices. Sipping it brings forth notes of vanilla, caramel candy, cinnamon sugar, sweet malts, and more pumpkin. The last sip is a nice mix of sweet pumpkin and autumnal spices.
Bottom Line:
This beer is so rich, sweet, and indulgent it could easily be a dessert beer. Pair it with actual pumpkin pie and see if the whole planet spins off of its axis.
This award-winning imperial pumpkin ale sits at a stout 8% ABV. It’s brewed with a ton of malts, pumpkin, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, and cloves. The result is a rich, sweet, caramel, and pumpkin-spiced beer you won’t soon forget.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find scents of cinnamon sugar, fresh pumpkins, nutmeg, cloves, and other autumnal spices. The palate is filled with pumpkin at the forefront as well as cinnamon, and caramel. A nice malty backbone pulls everything together.
Bottom Line:
There’s a reason this beer has won numerous awards. It’s a great balance of malts, pumpkin, and spices that you’ll look forward to every year.
Many pumpkin ales are darker beers, think stouts and porters. This popular seasonal brew is a wheat ale base with pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and various other spices. This beer is so popular the Portland, Maine-based brewery didn’t even wait until the fall to release it this year. They dropped it in early August.
Tasting Notes:
Before you first sip, breathe in the aromas of caramel candy, fresh pumpkin, cinnamon, and various other spices. The flavor is heavy on pumpkin. This is followed by caramel, nutmeg, cloves, and more spices. The finish is warming, sweet, and slightly spicy.
Bottom Line:
This is a beer for fans of pumpkin. It’s also a great beer for drinkers who plan to have more than one. Especially at a highly sessionable 4.5% ABV.
This 8.8% imperial pumpkin ale is one of the most popular pumpkin ales for good reason. It’s brewed with pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, and even vanilla. Like many brewers of the style, the folks at Tampa’s Cigar City set out to create a beer that tastes like a slice of pumpkin pie in beer form and the result is this rich, sweet beer.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is loaded with scents of fresh, roasted pumpkin, cinnamon sugar, cloves, and pie crust. Taking a sip brings you flavors of nutmeg, cinnamon, ripe pumpkins, and caramel malts. It all ends with a nice sweet, slightly dry finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a complex beer. It’s bold, rich, sweet, and loaded with pumpkin flavors with a gentle dry, slightly bitter presence well-suited for fall sipping.
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A few months ago, Jake Gyllenhaal somehow got involved in the whole do-they-or-don’t-they-bathe controversy. What a weird few weeks that was. The whole ruckus began when Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher revealed that they’re not too big on showers or bathing their kids. Soon, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard joined in with “wait for the stink” comments on their kiddos, and The Rock stepped up with a contrary perspective: no one is smelling with The Rock is cooking
The subject swiftly got out of hand, and soon enough, celebrities were being asked for their bathing perspectives during interviews to promote movies and such. Yet Jake Gyllenhaal got drawn into the subject during a Vanity Fair interview, which he did in large part to discuss his Prada fragrance campaign. So, smelling good was on the agenda and relevant, and there was a seemingly good-natured question about his shower ritual, to which Jake offered up, “More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times.” He added, “I do believe… that good manners and bad breath get you nowhere. So I do that. But I do also think that there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves.”
In a followup interview with The Times, Jake’s here to tell everyone that he’s definitely a bather, and he found the line of questioning about his showering ritual to be “a bit invasive.” Here’s what he said to clarify:
“I think someone asked me about my bathing routine — which I found to be a bit invasive. And so my response was that I do it all, sometimes. And what I got back was that I don’t bathe… I’ve never been accused of being smelly. It’s fine. Of course I bathe.”
Fair enough. It’s understandable that Jake wouldn’t want to talk about his bathing habits, and the whole subject just sounds awkward all around. Also, Jake Gyllenhaal is a bather, end of story.
With a live-action multiverse-packed movie on the way, a second animated film coming next October, and a new game from Insomniac lined-up for release in 2023, it’s safe to say the world can’t get enough Spider-Man — and if you’re a PlayStation 5 owner, that’s not where it stops. According to MP1ST (via IGN), Marvel’s Avengers upcoming Spider-Man DLC doesn’t just offer players a new character, but an entirely new story as well, making the exclusive content even more alluring for all the Spidey fans out there and potentially well-worth picking up.
The big news was confirmed earlier this week by developer Crystal Dynamics’ senior producer Dan Matlack himself on the official Marvel’s Avengers Discord server. After a long period of silence regarding the game’s web-slinging DLC, a fan asked if the new content would feature a Spider-Man storyline. Matlack quickly assured them the new content was considered an “event,” and would therefore come with an entire story:
“Spider-Man is what we call an ‘event’ so he will have cutscenes and a story for sure.”
Following the big reveal, Matlack proceeded to outline the game’s upcoming raid, in which players will battle Klaw, the primary villain of the Marvel’s Avengers’ last expansion, War for Wakanda. This raid marks the first-ever for the series, and should help appease fans of the pseudo-looter-shooter title who’ve been asking for this kind of content for as long as Marvel’s Avengers has been on shelves.
Both the raid and the currently unnamed Spider-Man DLC are scheduled to hit Marvel’s Avengers by the end of the year. Furthermore, Crystal Dynamics has confirmed even more content is coming in 2023, keeping the games-as-service title alive even longer.
When “Old Town Road” was becoming the biggest song of all time in terms of chart performance, there was real concern that Lil Nas X would be a one-hit wonder. As we now know, though, the rapper has gone on to have multiple hits since then. In fact, he has three hits right now: On the new Billboard Hot 100 chart dated October 2, Lil Nas X has a trio of songs in the top 10.
New to the top 10 is the recently released single “That’s What I Want,” which debuts in the No. 10 spot. Elsewhere, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” is at No. 9, while “Industry Baby” currently sits at No. 2, its Hot 100 peak. As for the song that claimed the throne this week, that’s The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber’s “Stay,” which is now No. 1 for a sixth total week.
Having three songs in the top 10 is impressive and not something that happens all that often, but it’s also far from the most top-10 songs in a single week. That honor belongs to Drake, who landed an unprecedented nine songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 following the recent release of Certified Lover Boy. Two songs from that album are represented on this week’s top 10: “Way 2 Sexy” is at No. 3 and “Knife Talk” is at No. 8.
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