After a slew of July dates with Bleachers and her European tour dates, the singer’s Beatopia Tour of North America begins tomorrow, October 25th, in Washington DC. It will take her across the US, into Canada, and then back to the East Coast in December. Lowertown will be the direct support act for the tour; they’re an indie duo from Atlanta, Georgia. They’re on the same label as Beabadoobee — the iconic Dirty Hit, founded by Jamie xx. They describe themselves on their Bandcamp profile as “a blend electronic and lo-fi instrumentation with meaningful lyricism and melancholy, narrative lyrics,” they wrote. “Our music has been said to be indie with aspects of folk and electronica.”
Beabadoobee is known for putting on great and memorable live performances. When she was invited for a session on Live Lounge, she played a grungy rendition of the classic (and meme-ified) 2002 song “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton.
The New England Patriots entered Monday night’s matchup against the Chicago Bears favored by more than a touchdown in Foxborough. However, Bill Belichick’s team found itself trailing by 10-0 into the second quarter, with Mac Jones, making his first start since injuring his ankle, struggling and the visiting Bears playing with confidence. All of that seemed to change on a dime, however, and it began with an interception by Jones that led directly to his benching in favor of Bailey Zappe.
Facing a favorable situation at Chicago’s 36-yard line, Jones threw into traffic and was intercepted.
Following a three-and-out from the Bears, the Patriots got the ball back at their own 45-yard line and Zappe trotted out to a raucous ovation from the Gillette Stadium crowd. Just four plays later, New England was in the end zone behind Zappe and a 30-yard scoring strike.
On the ensuing possession, New England picked off Chicago’s Justin Fields, giving the ball back to Zappe and the offense. Again, it didn’t take long for the Patriots to find the end zone, with the biggest play coming on a 43-yard pass to Devante Parker.
Zappe completed his first four passes for 97 yards and a touchdown, earning a perfect passer rating on his first two drives. Though it should be noted that Zappe had the benefit of some (wide) open pass-catchers and a heck of a catch by Parker, the difference was stark in the numbers.
ZappeMania would finally cool off a bit after a fumble late in the second quarter on a handoff, but it certainly seems like he’s the guy for the rest of the night in New England.
It remains to be seen as to how Belichick, Matt Patricia, and New England’s coaching staff will handle the quarterback spot moving forward long-term, but Zappe has performed well as a rookie and the offense certainly seems to have more juice with him as the signal-caller. This stint did nothing to quiet the murmurs that he might be the better option under center, and New England found its stride, at least in this game, when Zappe took over the reins and folks couldn’t help but wonder if history was repeating itself from the Tom Brady-Drew Bledsoe moment two decades ago.
On Monday, ESPN dropped a cute little video about New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick ahead of their game Monday night against the Chicago Bears. It features Krasinski — or at least an animated, fake-claymation version of him. One problem, though: It doesn’t look — or sound — anything like him.
“I’m from Boston and I’m wicked biased,” Krasinski says in a thick Boston accent. He might have once had one: He was born in Boston and was raised in suburb of Newton. But the combination of an accent few have ever heard him do before and an animated avatar that looks like…just some dude? That was too much for people.
After ESPN dropped the ad — in which the animated not-quite-Krasinski chills in his man cave while comparing Belichick’s stats with other legendary coaches Don Shula and George Halas, both of whose records he could very well shatter someday soon — people couldn’t get past the un-likeness.
This is such a terrible John Krasinski that I literally had to google John Krasinski to make sure I knew who John Krasinski was. pic.twitter.com/hw4j349p9z
I’m no artist, but I feel like John Krasinski has very distinct features to caricature. This is an abject failure. Please stop, ESPN https://t.co/AHRIG5fdLH
Apple made another such message today. Through his account, civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger tweeted, “She’s become an avid, trained Court Watcher. Her observations helped people jailed pretrial file a civil rights lawsuit. Then came the retaliation. Shut off her access to court.” Along with this came a 10-minute video of Apple explaining the situation.
In the video, she talks about her observations of online court proceedings and the bigger problems of the system — like demeaning treatment of people and violations of constitutional rights — that she’s been witnessing within these specific cases. “How are we supposed to have our constitutional rights to observe these courts or help these people if we can’t hear?” she says. “And why did they take away this access right after this lawsuit was dropped? It really seems like they’re retaliating against us. And if they’re retaliating against us, I mean, man, what stupid asshole babies, huh?”
Watch the full video in the tweet below.
Fiona Apple has a story for you. And it’s incredible. Asked me to share.
She’s become an avid, trained Court Watcher. Her observations helped people jailed pretrial file a civil rights lawsuit. Then came the retaliation. Shut off her access to court.
People sure like I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robsinson. The comic’s Netflix sketch show only has 12 episodes over two seasons, but each segment is so funny, so strange, so filled with weirdly unfocused anger that they inspire memes, even rankedlists. But one sketch in particular ranks as the agreed-upon best: the one from the third episode of Season 1 in which a measly focus group for a car is taken over by a bottle-flipping lunatic played by Ruben Rabasa.
The Cuban-born actor has been working in movies since the late ‘70s. He’s even in two episodes of Miami Vice! But it was his sketch-stealing I Think You Should Leave appearance that made him an instant cult figure. He’s since popped up with a plum role in the recent Latinx redo of Father of the Bride. And when he popped up for a cameo in the new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, people sure did notice.
Rabasa has yet to be added to the threequel’s IMDb page, and it’s not known that his role — as a coffee shop worker (or owner?) who thinks Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang is actually Spider-Man — will be any bigger than a one-off. But upon seeing the actor whose antics launched a thousand memes, people couldn’t help but be astonished.
Cheering like the Portals scene but for I Think You Should Leave Car Guy showing up. https://t.co/hny2rzcIfr
— ornithopter dealership owner (@MuppetPastor_) October 24, 2022
For most, Halloween means candy, watching spooky movies and maybe figuring out what costume to wear if you’re invited to a party or two. For celebrities, though, Halloween is a great chance for you and your team to whip up insanely elaborate costumes for consumption on social media and the internet at large.
Not everyone in Hollywood goes all out, but actors and actresses know how to get into character and usually have some fun this time of year. And thankfully, celebrities are getting into the holiday spirit in a big way this year.
Megan Thee Stallion, fresh off hosting and performing on Saturday Night Live, got into the spooky spirit with a pumpkin on her head.
Jordan Fisher and his son, Riley, certainly made an impression as a cowboy and a dinosaur, respectively.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell got started a bit early, dressing up for their granddaughter’s birthday party in early October.
Doja Cat was looking very Elvira on Instagram as well.
Kylie Jenner did her part dressing up as a witch as well, as captured by Haliey Bieber.
Jennifer Garner went with another classic as well: a witch.
Convincing someone their preferred candidate didn’t win because the other side cheated is an easy political win, especially in a hyperpartisan atmosphere. But the reality is that the vast majority of Americans want elections to be as fair and accurate as possible, so sorting out truth from fiction and understanding how our election processes actually work—as opposed to how partisan sources tell us they work—is important.
Voting by mail comes up a lot in discussions of election integrity, so let’s take a look at how mail-in ballots work and clear up some misunderstandings that might cause people concern.
Frequently, people will share things they’ve heard from a friend or a cable news host or a social media post without verifying whether those things are true. Every state handles mail-in ballots a little differently in terms of how people receive ballots and when they get counted, but the safeguards to prevent fraud and ensure eligible votes are counted are fairly standard.
Rumor: Mail-in voting is too new to be safe and secure.
Reality: Americans have been voting by mail since the 19th century. Those early mail-in votes came from soldiers in the Civil War and since then, members of the military who are deployed outside of their home states have long been voting by mail.
Widespread mail-in voting for civilians is newer, but not new. Oregon has been conducting all mail-in elections since 2000, so has had more than two decades to perfect its system. Washington state has done the same since 2012 and Colorado since 2014. In the past three years, Utah, Hawaii, Vermont and California have gone to all-mail-in voting. (Incidentally, Vermont and Washington took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots for electoral integrity in the 2018 midterm rankings in Harvard’s Electoral Integrity Project, and all of the other states named here ranked in the top 20.)
Rumor: Mail-in voting gives Democrats an unfair advantage.
Reality: Studies have shown that there appears to be no statistically significant advantage for either party when mail-in voting is implemented. So there’s that.
But as an anecdotal example as well, Washington state (where I live) elected a Republican secretary of state—the person in charge of elections at the state level—multiple times with our mail-in voting system until she resigned last year to work on election security at the federal level. And that’s in a Democratic-leaning state overall. And the district I live in has elected a Republican representative to the House for years with all mail-in voting. Mail-in ballots are equally available to everyone and make voting very simple, so it doesn’t make sense that it would give either party an advantage.
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Rumor: Mail-in voting makes it easier to commit voter fraud.
Reality: The Brookings Institution shared data from the conservative Heritage Foundation that analyzed voter fraud over many years in different states. Here are the number of voter fraud cases Heritage found for states that had mail-in voting during most of the time period they analyzed and the total number of ballots cast during that time.
Colorado: 14 cases over 13 years out of 15,955,704 votes cast.
Oregon: 15 cases over 19 years out of 15,476,519 votes cast
Washington: 12 cases over 6 years out of 10,605,749 votes cast
This is what people mean when they say voter fraud isn’t a concern. It’s not that it never ever happens. It’s just that it doesn’t even come close to being anywhere near significant enough to approach making a dent in election results.
Rumor: I know of people who received more than one ballot in the mail, which means they’ll be able to vote twice.
Reality: Nope, they can’t vote twice even if they have two ballots. It doesn’t really matter how many ballots a person receives since only one can be submitted and processed for each voter. Election officials try to avoid voters receiving more than one ballot since it causes confusion, but if it happens, it’s not an indication that anything fishy is going on. Once one ballot is processed, another ballot for the same voter can’t be. Multiple safeguards are in place to ensure that only one ballot is processed for each registered voter and to ensure that the person’s signature on the ballot envelope is legitimate.
Rumor: Mail-in voting opens up the possibility of voter coercion.
Reality: This could be true. At a polling place, each individual votes privately so no one else can see who they vote for. People can still feel coerced into voting a certain way, but there’s no way for anyone else to really know how they voted. When ballots are mailed to homes, it is possible for one person in the home to force another person to vote a certain way, but: 1) If there are really enough controlling and abusive households that coercion could sway an election, we have bigger problems on our hands than mail-in voting, and 2) Voter intimidation and coercion is a crime, whether it’s someone sitting next to a drop box with a gun or someone sitting next to their spouse with a threat.
Rumor: Mail-in voting offers more opportunities for mistakes in the election process.
Reality: There’s no evidence for a claim like this. Every voting system can run into problems. Polling places have power outages and voting machines break. Tens of thousands of voters in Virginia were recently given the wrong information about which polling place they are supposed to go to to vote in person. Mail-in voting systems aren’t any more prone to things going wrong than any other voting system.
The full reality is that mail-in voting is a convenient, secure way to run an election, which has been proven by bipartisan and nonpartisan sources over and over again. Claims to the contrary are simply political games designed to sow fear and distrust, which is unfortunately an easy way to sway voters.
However you decide to vote, just vote. Democracy only works as intended if we all participate.
Whether you’re a horror aficionado or your scary threshold is at a level 2, you’re bound to be familiar with at least a couple of iconic horror movies. The horror genre is a huge part of our culture, allowing us to explore the darkest depths of the human psyche within the safety and comfort of home—or a theater, if you dare.
As counterintuitive as it might sound, watching horror movies can be more than stimulating entertainment for some people. It can act as a form of exposure therapy, helping reduce anxiety levels. Of course, this is not the case for everyone, but it certainly helps explain why the genre is so well loved and continues gaining popularity. Even in 2020—arguably an anxiety-inducing year for everyone—horror movies were the only ones to actually see a surge in ticket sales. Sometimes it’s just more cathartic to see an actual monster wreaking havoc in a fictional world than it is to think about all real-world worries that haunt our imaginations.
Still, not everyone can shake off that scary feeling that a horror movie elicits, and therefore might not partake in watching. Nonetheless, they might enjoy seeing the edge taken off with a bit of lighthearted humor. After all, it’s often recommended to watch a little comedy after a horror flick to clean out the heebie jeebies.
Jimmy Fallon asked folks to “take a horror movie and add one word to change the plot and tag it with #AddAWordRuinAHorrorMovie for his ever-popular Hashtags segment on “The Tonight Show.” Granted, some people took liberties with the rules—occasionally replacing a word in the title, for example—but nonetheless, grammatical fun was had. And well-known horror movie plots did undergo hilariously drastic changes.
Below are 23 of the best ones. Enjoy, because even those who can’t handle anything too scary deserve a little spooky entertainment.
1. “The Blair Witch Project Manager” – @ ite_mumma
Fall, with its cooler, sometimes rainy weather(depending on where you live) is a great time to catch up on all of that TV you missed while you were out enjoying the sunshine all summer. And while you’re covered in blankets, catching up on what Netflix, Amazon, and other streaming services have to offer, why not do it with a fall beer in your hand? What’s better than finally finishing Stranger Things with a malty, sweet Marzen-style beer or a smoky Rauchbier by your side?
Today, we’re highlighting some of the most underrated, underappreciated, and downright undervalued fall beers. And nobody knows more about fall beers than the brewers who make them. So we asked some well-known craft beer experts and brewers to tell us their picks for the most underrated beers for fall. Keep reading to see all of their picks.
Anchor Porter is surprisingly underrated. Porters are usually a bit lighter than your typical Stouts. They are a bit thinner, with a lighter mouthfeel. They are balanced beers that are more malt-forward and don’t have the hop bite of an IPA. There are often notes of chocolate, dark bread, and coffee with a little sweetness making porters easy drinking and still satisfying.
First brewed in 1972, Anchor Steam’s Anchor Porter is a classic; deep, dark, and roasty with a thick, creamy dark head. There are notes of roasted coffee, dark chocolate, and berries. At 5.5% ABV, it is still a sessionable beer with plenty of flavor.
Obertrumer Märzen
Trumer
James Bruner, director of production at The Bruery in Placentia, California
ABV: 4.8%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Trumer, an Austrian brewery with an outpost in Berkeley, California, is known for making one beer, a Pilsner, but every so often they will add a Märzen to their lineup. Their version of the Oktoberfest staple leans more towards the light and crisp festbier than the typical malty melanoidin heavy Märzen you will find in the United States, but Obertrumer Märzen is just as clean and crushable as its Pilsner cousin.
When I was attending UC Davis, you could find this on tap throughout the bay area fairly consistently in the fall, but I will admit it has been increasingly difficult down here in SoCal. Maybe the fact that it has minimal ratings makes it underrated, but I think it deserves way more attention if you can find it.
ESB. We did make one – Motor Boat. But people aren’t drinking styles like this much anymore. I blame TikTok. Luckily, there are still a few out there. A great example is the very underrated Redhook ESB with its notes of caramel, bready malts, and sweet fruit esters.
Black Husky Elderberry Gose
Black Husky
Garth E. Beyer, certified Cicerone® and owner and founder of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin
ABV: 4.2%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Underrated fall beers for me tend to be beers that use seasonally harvested ingredients like Black Husky Brewing’s Elderberry Gose, which uses elderberries that got picked in mid-September. This beer, like spring, brings with it a unique cold crispness and feelings of transition.
Smoked beers will always be underrated because they are mostly excellent and no one seems to realize that but me. One of the very best is Smoaktoberfest, a beechwood-smoked version of Live Oak Brewing Co.’s brilliant fall seasonal, Oaktoberfest. It exhibits the toasty malt and crushability of a festbier but is elevated to superstardom by well-integrated smokiness. It’s like if you baked a loaf of bread over a campfire.
Without a doubt, it’s Schlenkerla’s Marzen Rauchbier. The worldwide industry standard of smoked beers produced in Bamberg, Germany the way it has been for centuries. Malt that’s smoked over beech wood fires creates a brew that pairs perfectly with friends around a warming campfire, with anything off the tailgate grill before the big game, or with a cigar as you ponder the beauty of the changing of the seasons. Don’t knock it before you try it.
Idle Hands Brocktoberfest
Idle Hands
Matthew Steinberg, head brewer and co-founder of Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing in Framingham, Massachusetts
I would have to say that Idle Hands Brocktoberfest is that beer. Not sure how it’s rated, but I don’t ever look at ratings. This fall classic has everything a proper Marzen should have like notes of caramel, bready malts, and light hops. More people should know about this American take on the Marzen-style fall seasonal.
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Rodenbach
Morgan O’Sullivan, co-owner of FlyteCo Tower in Denver
Rodenbach Grand Cru, I love me some Flemish red. It’s a really pleasant blend of fruit flavors mixed with a nice sourness. Aged in oak foeders, this tart, fruity, oaky fall beer is the reason so many sour beers are on the market now. It’s highly underrated.
Genesee Oktoberfest
Genesee
Chris Spinelli, co-founder and brewer at Roc Brewing Co in Rochester, New York
Genesee Brewing’s Oktoberfest is a hard-to-beat fall beer. It’s always great to visit the brew house on a fall day to have that tasty Marzen-style beer while looking at the falls. Even if you’re nowhere near Western New York, this rich, malty, well-balanced Marzen-style beer is a highly underrated fall beer that should find a place in your refrigerator as soon as possible.
Valley River Nottely Cru
Valley River
Adam Cranford, lead brewer at Left Hand Brewing in Longmont, Colorado
ABV: 9.5%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Nottely Cru from Valley River Brewery and Eatery in Murphy, North Carolina is a very underrated fall beer. You probably wouldn’t necessarily associate a sangria-inspired Belgian-style wheat ale with fall, but this beer can pull double duty. It’s made with locally sourced Chambourcin grapes, spiced to emulate a sangria flavor profile, and fermented to a whopping 9% abv, allowing this beer to quench your thirst and cool you off on the roasty days of late summer/early fall in the Appalachians, but heavy enough to keep you warm when those temperatures start falling.
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“We have to turn our taste into politics to delude ourselves into thinking our consumption can change the direction of the ship of state.” -Matt Christman
This is a mid-aughts HBO prestige crime drama, so the crime guys have to have a strip club to use as a clubhouse. Fitting that The Sopranos’ dumbest character, Georgie, was running the Bada Bing, because The Wire’s dumbest character, Orlando, is running this show’s Balta Bing. As Vince points out, everyone in the aughts was trying to ball a little, and Orlando, tired of being the steady, nondescript hand behind the front, gets flipped by the detail after trying to buy heroin from a cop.
Things don’t end well for Orlando, or anyone else related to the Barksdale crew who tries to cooperate with the detail (poor Wallace). Don’t talk to the cops! Not even lovable, scampy, irish f*ckboy TV cops.
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