The Akron Zips quite literally fumbled away a golden opportunity on Tuesday night.
Late the fourth quarter against Ball State in a Mid-American Conference game, Akron was in the red zone and on the verge of scoring a go-ahead touchdown. On a third-and-7 play, quarterback Zach Gibson dropped back and scrambled. As he darted towards the goal line, he put his shoulder down and fumbled away a potential go-ahead score pending the extra point when he was hit by two defenders. Ball State recovered the ball in the end zone and took over possession. From there, they simply ran out the clock and got the win.
OH. MY. GOODNESS.
Zach Gibson nearly scored the game-tying touchdown before he FUMBLED IT. Ball State has possession. pic.twitter.com/6b6T64Mmjo
Gibson made a nice read here too — he saw space, took off and easily had a first down if he had slid to avoid contact or was more careful protecting the ball. There was 1:37 left on the clock when Gibson fumbled and the Zips had all three timeouts to work with still. There was more than enough time to score from inside the five yard line. But of course, no football player is going to see the end zone right in front of them and get conservative.
Aside from the heartbreak for Akron — who could have picked up their third win of the year had they scored — Gibson’s fumble also had gambling implications. The over/under for total points in this game was set at 57.5. Had he scored and the the extra point been made, Akron and Ball State would have cleared the over. Instead, no one except Ball State and under bettors left happy.
Shortly after the release of his third album, Astroworld, in 2018, Travis Scott launched his very own festival under the same name in his hometown of Houston. He delivered two editions of the showcases, one in 2018, the other in 2019 before. The pandemic stopped a third one from happening in 2020. But the festival will be back this year, bowing at the end of the week. As an added treat, Scott announced his first solo set of the weekend will be livestreamed exclusively on Apple Music.
“Travis Scott’s Astroworld: Live” will stream in 167 countries on Friday, November 5 at 7 PM PST/ 10 PM EST, according to a press release. The announcement was made with a brief video that quickly recaps some of the most exciting moments from past Astroworld festivals.
In total, this weekend’s Astroworld Festival will feature performances from 21 Savage, Baby Keem, Bad Bunny, BIA, Chief Keef, Don Toliver, Earth, Wind & Fire, Houston All-Stars, Lil Baby, Master P, Roddy Ricch, Sheck Wes, Sofaygo, SZA, Teezo Touchdown, Toro Y Moi, Tame Impala, Young Thug, and Yves Tumor.
You can view the teaser video for the Astroworld livestream above.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
At the end of last year, TDE’s in-house engineer Derek “MixedByAli” Ali announced that he purchased Death Row Records, the iconic studio where rap legends like Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Tupac Shakur recorded classic records. He renamed it NoName Studios, after his newly-launched label, NoName Recordings, and quickly signed his first artist: Malik Moses, who recently released his new single, “Show Me Something” with Bas. Fresh off the singing, Ali explained what he liked most about his new artist.
“The way he was able to really catch my attention with his selection of beats, the way his production was laid out, the way his songwriting and just how he carried himself sonically, that reminded me of working with Kendrick [Lamar] and working with Thundercat and Terrace Martin,” Ali told Rolling Stone. “It gave me that same feeling instantly as soon as I heard the first four bars of his music, and that’s rare nowadays.”
Ali also spoke about his overall vision for NoName Recordings. “We just want our label to be that safe place where artists can create, artists can have that creative freedom,” he said. “I don’t hear of too many audio engineers starting ventures like this, so it’s a different perspective to bring into the industry, the perspective from somebody who’s in the trenches understanding how it works and the grind that it takes to really be successful.”
You can listen to Morris’ new single and read the full Ali’s full interview with Rolling Stonehere.
The race for New York City mayor ended predictably, with Eric Adams,winning handily, as was expected. The former NYPD officer and Brooklyn Borough President was widely seen as the more sensible candidate, at least when compared to Guardian Angels founder (and, to his credit, cat-lover) Curtis Sliwa. Adams is, to put it lightly, a bit of an odd duck. One sticking point: No one seems to believe he actually lives in New York City. And a recent attempt by New York magazine to get to the bottom of this pickle ended with them catching the city’s forthcoming leader breaking some traffic laws.
In a new piece for Curbed, a total of seven reporters took turns staking out his alleged Bed-Stuy apartment building, where Adams has claimed he lives (but which may belong to his son). A number of publications have called this into question, finding legal documents that said Adams at least used to spend zero time there. A bizarre video tour of the place only raised more questions. Maybe he really lives in nearby Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he says he spends his weekends. Or maybe he still sleeps at his Borough Hall office, as he claimed he did during parts of the pandemic. Whatever the case, Adams has been nothing but unclear about the matter.
What did the gaggle of Curbed reporters find? On the first night of stakeout-ing, Adams did indeed enter the Bed-Stuy apartment building, albeit in the middle of a Tuesday night, around 4;18am. But the unusual hours were far from the strangest part:
[Adams’] Prius, it seemed, was illegally parked in front of an active garage for a plumbing-supply company. Which quickly became a problem for the trucks attempting to enter said supply company: They were soon backed up all the way down Lafayette Avenue, causing a bona fide pileup while Adams slept inside. This went on for hours — the trucks sat there; a few of the drivers got out to see what was the holdup — until finally, at 8 a.m., someone from the supply company came out in a forklift, tied a yellow rope to the back of Adams’s car, and towed it a few feet so things could get moving.
An hour and change later, there was still a traffic jam, which now blocked the driver’s side of Adams’ Prius. When the main reporter’s replacement showed up to take over, he had arrived just in time to see the mayoral hopeful “leave his apartment, climb into the car from the passenger side, shimmy into the driver’s seat, then drive the car up onto the sidewalk. He drove blithely on the sidewalk until he was past the jam, then turned right on Stuyvesant Avenue.”
Adams later responded to Curbed’s damning findings, saying, “I got home late and drove around my neighborhood several times looking for parking, like so many New Yorkers do, and thought I would be out of the house early enough to move my car before the business opened. There is no excuse for it. In reflection I should have just rode my bike.”
So does Adams live in this Bed-Stuy home? “Maybe,” Curbed concludes. After all, there was one other Adams sighting during their multi-day stake-out, when he showed up at the more reasonable time of 12:37am, entered the premises, only to emerge several minutes later to pace back and forth on the porch while on a call. He soon spotted the reporters spying on him and shouted at them, “Oh, s*it! I caught you! I caught you!”
In any case, Adams is now the mayor-elect of New York City.
When Gang of Youths released “the man himself” last month, it set the stage for frontman Dave Le’aupepe to explore his connection with his late father’s ghost on the band’s yet-to-be announced upcoming album. On the track, Le’aupepe sings about how he’s been struggling with looking towards the future since his father’s death in 2018.
Now in the song’s new video, director Joe Barney adds a new dimension to Le’aupepe’s plight, juxtaposing a visceral performance from the singer with a portrait of him as a boy. It drives home the internal monologues that Le’aupepe has been having with himself as he digs deeper into his father’s Samoan/Australian roots, and it shows the journey his father made to pave the way for his son life.
In a statement, Barney shed some light on the video’s concept:
“Dave came to me with the idea of creating a video that incorporated the idea of a younger version of himself. We wanted to blur the lines of the connection by making it seem like flashes of Dave reminiscing on his childhood or the younger version of himself imagining the future. One of the main focuses for the video was pulling together a sense of nostalgia whilst keeping it feeling dreamlike. We wanted to incorporate elements of stop motion 2D animation to give the video a textured feeling to it and to separate the two parts of the video visually, whilst still existing within the same world. Mickey, the animator, used real textured brush strokes and materials to give the video an authentic feel that visually brings the video out of the screen into something feeling material.”
You can watch the video for “the man himself” above.
Gang Of Youths is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Ever since the accidental killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western Rust, Alec Baldwin, the man who unwittingly pulled the trigger on a live prop gun, has played it safe. The actor, who was also one of the film’s producers, has cooperated with authorities and investigators and, apart from a testy yet measured run-in with paparazzi, kept quiet from the public. But on Tuesday, he did something on social media that shed even more doubt on already chaotic situation.
As caught by Deadline, Baldwin retweeted a lengthy Facebook post from Terese Magpale Davis, Rust’s costume designer, who asserted that widespread reports of the set’s “unsafe, chaotic conditions” are “bullsh*t.”
Baldwin shared Davis’ words over seven different Instagram posts. It found the designer contradicting a number of claims made to the press. Davis alleged that the crew were not overworked and that the hotels were not as far from set as they said. She professed that they had gun safety meetings “sometimes multiple per day.” She claimed that the producers “worked tirelessly alongside us” and that David Halls, the Assistant Director who admitted he didn’t thoroughly check the gun before handing it to Baldwin, “never seemed flippant about safety.”
Davis also trashed the camera crew, claiming they wanted to “hold the producers over a barrel” when they walked out, which she alleged was not due to poor working conditions but because they “tried to negotiate their contracts halfway through.”
It will be up to investigators to determine how much of what Davis wrote is accurate. But whatever the case, Baldwin felt compelled to share it with his followers, along with the words, “Read this.”
The stories that have emerged from the set of Rust have been both shocking and chaotic, with crew members like Hall and the set’s armorer making harrowing admissions. The entertainment production industry is already in upheaval. The same day as Baldwin’s Instagram share, over 200 cinematographers demanded an end to “functional firearms” on sets.
This past weekend, 50 Cent served as the headliner for the opening day of Rolling Loud’s New York Festival. 50 Cent brought out DaBaby during his headlining performance, a move that proved to be controversial, coming just three months after he made homophobic comments during his performance at Miami’s edition of Rolling Loud. Many raised an eyebrow at DaBaby’s appearance, but TMZ claimed a number of LGBTQ organizations have approved of it. However, one of the organizations said this is far from the case.
The publication claimed that Gwendolyn D. Clemons, CEO of Relationship Unleashed, which is an LGBTQ nonprofit organization, said that she and her fellow representatives approved of DaBaby’s appearance, as well as any other concerts he performs at in the future. TMZ added that Clemons said that she believes DaBaby understands the harm behind his comments after she met with him and more than a hundred organizations that advocate for the LGBTQ community. But in posts on Relationship Unleashed’s Instagram page as well as an interview with The Unleashed Voice Magazine, Clemons is saying she was “grossly misquoted.”
“Our organization stands on strong principles of being defenders of the LGBTQIA Community and nothing has changed,” the post read. “We will never normalize ‘trash TV or trash news stories!’ Today we were [engulfed] by the news outlet in a fire we did not start! Our comments to a brief question was grossly misquoted and intentionally framed in a click baiting headline to drive traffic to TMZ.”
They added, “We have written and repeatedly spoke with the News [Editor] @jacobwasserman to retract, correct, or delete this erroneous story. As of this time some modifications have been made but not enough to our satisfaction. We vehemently deny this assertion and the reporting does not align with our values or mission.”
Clemons’ full comments through The Unleashed Voice Magazine can be read here.
A group of students at Hillsboro High School in Ohio was crushed when they heard the school play they had been working on was canceled because there were complaints about a gay character.
However, instead of taking the news lying down, they banded together to perform it at a community theater instead.
The students at Hillsboro were working on a production of “She Kills Monsters.” It’s the story of a high school senior who loses her sister in an accident. She then embarks on a journey to discover who her sister really was through the Dungeons and Dragons campaign she wrote.
In the play, it’s implied that the main character’s sister is gay.
“We’re all excited,” student Christopher Cronan told WCPO. “We really wanted to do this, and when we heard it was going to be canceled we were devastated, and the overwhelming support from even outside of the state is great.”
The inclusion of a gay character in the school play led to a parent meeting where questions were raised about its sexual content. The theater students believe that the play was ultimately canceled due to the prodding of Jeff Lyle, an influential local pastor.
Via email, Lyle told WCPO that he was in favor of canceling the play but never spoke to the school board. Lyle said the play is “inappropriate for a number of reasons” that conflict with his personal religious beliefs, including implied sexual activity between unmarried people, foul language and innuendo.
The Hillsboro City Schools released a statement on October 25 that attributed the show’s cancellation to the play’s “use of inappropriate language, profanity, homophobic slurs, sexual innuendos and graphic violence.”
Laura Pickering-Polstra, a parent of one of the theater students, refuted the district’s statement by saying, “To set the record straight, the homophobic slurs had already been removed from the script by the directors before the Oct 18th parent meeting, which I attended. The sword-fighting wasn’t ‘graphic violence.’ It’s stage combat, not actual bloodshed.”
After the play was officially canceled, the students didn’t back down. Instead, they announced they would perform the show at a local theater where they won’t be censored. The one problem was that they didn’t have any funding for the project, so they set up a GoFundMe campaign with the modest goal of $5,000.
“While the play is no longer sponsored by the school, we are planning to perform the show in the summertime as a community theatre project with a different venue,” the organizers wrote on the GoFundMe page. “Without the show being sponsored by the school, though, we have no funds to produce it, which is why we need your help!”
Jake Zora, who has over 480,000 followers on TikTok, posted a link to the GoFundMe campaign. The video has received more than 315,000 views.
Hi gay 👋 We need your help today #gaytiktok #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #theater #school #drama
Hi gay 👋 We need your help today #gaytiktok #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #theater #school #drama
In just 10 days, the campaign has raised over $22,000, more than enough to stage the play. The students are looking to use the leftover money to start a trust to create a nonprofit theater group for young people in the Hillsboro community.
Pickering-Polstra thanked everyone who participated in the GoFundMe with a post on the site.
“I wanted to take a moment to tell you all how much your support, love, and encouragement have meant to all of Hillsboro’s theatre kids,” she wrote. “This week has been a roller coaster of emotions, but, thanks to you, no one will be silencing these amazing human beings.”
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the very ending of The Sopranos, a program you ought to watch sometime.
It’s been almost 15 years since The Sopranos dropped the mic with one of the most shocking endings in television history. If you were there, you know what happened: a cut to black so sudden that viewers across the country initially thought their cable had gone out. Some were delighted; others were annoyed. David Chase, creator of the show that changed TV, was annoyed, too, but not for the same reasons as most.
In a new career-spanning interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Chase — there partially to talk about the newish prequel The Many Saints of Newark, which even managed to blow the mind of its narrator and Sopranos alum, Michael Imperioli — inevitably wound up talking about the ending of his most famous work. He seems to dodge the question that everyone asks: Did James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano get whacked? (At one point he almost appeared to confirm that, yes, he did, but that’s not exactly what he said.) But while the lack of closure as to Tony’s fate frustrated many, Chase was vexed for another reason: that the ending was all people talked about.
“I had no idea it would cause that much— I mean, I forget what was going on in Iraq or someplace; London had been bombed! Nobody was talking about that; they were talking about The Sopranos,” Chase said. “It was kind of incredible to me.”
But there was something else that really got to him. “What was annoying was how many people wanted to see Tony killed. That bothered me,” Chase said. That people wanted confirmation did not sit well with him:
“They wanted to know that Tony was killed. They wanted to see him go face-down in linguini, you know? And I just thought, ‘God, you watched this guy for seven years and I know he’s a criminal. But don’t tell me you don’t love him in some way, don’t tell me you’re not on his side in some way. And now you want to see him killed? You want justice done? You’re a criminal after watching this s*it for seven years.’ That bothered me, yeah.”
In other words, Chase found a way to avoid the traditional ending to the gangster movie, which is that our law-breaking antihero gets killed, to appeal to censors and restore law and order. But what people wanted, in his estimation, was just that.
Then again, as Alan Sepinwall argues in The Sopranos Sessions, the book he wrote with Matt Zoller Seitz, even if Chase ever admitted, point blank, that Tony did indeed get whacked, that’s not what happens in the text of the show. What happens in the text of the show is Tony eats onion rings with his family and then it suddenly ends. And that’s that.
Although maybe the real crime is that the show ended with Journey and not Al Green.
Cool fall weather calls for warming whiskeys. And there’s no better whiskey to help scare away that autumnal chill than a spicy, warming rye. While whiskey actually cools you down, the sensation of warmth is high with rye whiskeys (especially those with higher levels of rye in their mash bills), thanks to commonly-occurring red, white, and black pepper flavor notes.
To find the best examples of this style, we went to the bar pros, asking them to name complex, well-balanced rye whiskeys well-suited to warm you up this fall. If any of these jump out at you, click on those prices to give them a try.
Knob Creek Kentucky Straight Rye
Knob Creek
Christopher Rodriguez, lead bartender at Lucy Bar in Yountville, California
The best rye whiskey to warm you up is Knob Creek Rye. It is 100 proof and delivers the feel of warmth when drinking neat or hot totty. It’s spicy, sweet, and complex.
This whiskey combines excellent flavors and spice with the incredible legacy of the 10th mountain Division that trained in the very mountains we call our home. Without these guys, there would be no Vail Valley or Beaver Creek to enjoy 12 months a year and you have to pay respect to that.
Whistlepig PiggyBack 6 Year Rye is my selection. I feel like it’s Whistlepig’s best-kept secret. It’s spicy with subtle citrus and goes down super smooth.
Frey Ranch Rye out of Fallon, Nevada has been sustainably growing grains on their farm longer than Nevada has been recognized as a state. They are a true farm-to-bottle company. Their 100 percent Rye has notes of ginger, caramel, pepper, and honey. It’s a full-bodied whiskey that is smooth enough to drink neat or hold up in a cocktail and really feels like fall in a glass.
Exclave Rye
Exclave
Nicholas Karel, director of bars, lounges, and beverages at Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans
One of my favorite ryes is by FEW. They’re local to us, but after ten years in business, you can find them in more and more places. It’s got the delicious, sweet notes balanced out with that warming spice that I want from a rye whiskey.
A great rye whiskey to warm you up this fall is Angel’s Envy Rye. This particular rye is finished in Caribbean rum casks, which gives it a much different taste compared to many ryes.
On the nose, you will pick up on sweet caramel, maple syrup, and orange zest tones. The palate is almost like sipping on a Werther’s Original candy. It’s sweet, smooth, but at 100 proof it still boasts enough kick to keep you feeling warm inside.
Basil Hayden’s Dark Rye
Jim Beam
Robert Kidd, head bartender at Le Cavalier in Wilmington, Delaware
Basil Hayden’s makes a great dark rye. It’s rich with notes of molasses and dried fruit. The rye brings in some outstanding spice notes and the molasses really adds some sweetness to balance the spice. Overall, it makes for a great rye to enjoy on a cold night.
Rittenhouse Rye Bottled in Bond
Rittenhouse
Mickey Mullins, bar manager at The Bower in New Orleans
The best fall rye whiskey I reach for is Rittenhouse Rye. This one packs a punch while still being able to blend with other spirits. Rittenhouse also lends itself well to be mixed into classics like an old fashioned or Manhattan. This spirit is warm on the nose all the way through to the finish.
Pinhook Kentucky Straight Rye
Pinhook
Roger Eyles, general manager and sommelier at Mister Mao in New Orleans
Pinhook 2-Year Rye Whiskey is my go-to on a fall night. It’s not super-aged so you can still enjoy the rye taste. It’s also not too bready or spicy and is subtle yet assertive.
High West A Midwinter Night’s Dram
High West
Christy Bradley, spirit guide at Virgin Hotels in New Orleans
ABV: 49.3%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Whiskey?
I love High West A Midwinter Night’s Dram. They start the aging process in new charred white oak and finish it in French oak port barrels. It overloads the sense with baking spices, caramel, and molasses. It reminds me of Christmas.
Made by the legendary Dave Pickerel, this rye benefits from a second casking in French Sauternes wine barrels, which adds a sweeter note to the rye. It’s spicy with clove and pepper rounded off with honey and a light nuttiness.
I’m not a big rye drinker, so if I’m grabbing something rye-like to sit in front of the fire with, it’ll probably be a glass of Hochstadter’s Rock and Rye. The honey and orange make it taste cozy and warm.
My go-to bottle for a post-shift drink this fall is the San Luis Valley Straight Rye from Laws Whiskey House. It has a lovely bouquet of orange spice, a rich mouthfeel, and a pleasant peppery finish that showcases the 100 percent rye mash bill. Everyone I’ve introduced it to has fallen in love with it and you can understand why.
Whistlepig 12 Year Old World Aged Rye
Whistlepig
Nicholas Bennett, beverage director at Porchlight in New York City
It might be a little pricy, but I would recommend the WhistlePig 12 Year Old World Rye. The juice has 95 percent rye in the mash bill so it’s packing a lot of flavor. Then WhistlePig finishes the whiskey in Madeira, French Sauternes, and port casks at the WhistlePig Farm. The Madeira finish highlights peach and mint. The French Sauternes and port finishes bring out maple sugar, salty caramel, and winter berries.
I love a whiskey that doesn’t punch you in the face with every flavor it has and I feel like I can find something new and warming every time I pour from this bottle.
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