Over the weekend, Morgan Wallen unexpectedly canceled his performance in Oxford, Mississippi after the Vaught-Hemingway Stadium was already packed and the audience sat through the openers Bailey Zimmerman, Ernest, and Hardy. It’s an understatement to say that fans were not pleased with that night. In fact, one is suing.
Wallen did offer an explanation. “After last night’s show I started losing my voice so I spent the day resting up, talking to my doctor and working through my vocal exercises trying to get better,” he wrote in an Instagram Story. “I really thought I’d be able to take the stage and it kills me to deliver this so close to showtime, but my voice is shot and I am unable to sing. All tickets will be refunded at point of purchase. I am so sorry, I promise you guys I tried everything I could.”
However, many concertgoers will not accept this apology. In her lawsuit, Brandi Burcham argued that ticket refunds neglect to include “out of pocket” expenses. One fan took to Facebook to share exactly what kind of out of pocket expenses she’s expecting to be reimbursed for — and she even included his Cash App. It starts off with basic things like hotel, gas, tickets, whatever — until she mentions Oxford Grillehouse, Cracker Barrel, Los Parrilleros, Rebel Rags, drinks at the show, and even merch.
I don’t know when the hell it happened, but there are an absolute shit ton of Reese’s Peanut Butter cups out right now. Seriously, it’s out of control. You’ve got cups with potato chips inside and cups with pretzels inside and cups with Reese’s cereal inside and big cups and thin cups and all sorts of things to change the ratio of peanut butter to chocolate (which was the absolute best thing about this candy in the first place). In 2016, an Uproxx article absolutely marveled at the idea of Reese’s cups with Reese’s Pieces inside and now that’s like real basic b*tch shit. There are dark Reese’s cups and “Chocolate Lovers” Reese’s cups and “Peanut Butter Lovers” cups and white chocolate and marshmallow top… it’s a lot. There are also organic and “plant-based” cups and — okay, seriously, who in the world is demanding all these varieties of Reese’s?
The rapid bloom of variety boggles my mind and we’re talking about my preferred dessert here. At least twice per week I will buy two cups, microwave them for 18 seconds, sprinkle some sea salt on top (how is there not a sea salt cup?), and eat them with a spoon like the famous epicure George Costanza. But I’m simply astounded by all the riffs on my favorite candy showing up at various stores (it’s never all of them at any one store, so some buyer is making a judgment call about which Reese’s flavors to give shelf space to). In fact, I’ve just spent 15 minutes of my one and only life on earth looking at the Reese’s website and there are also Peanut Brittle cups and Crunchy Cookie cups and Frankenstein cups, among others.*
*Okay, here’s my theory as to why Reese’s decided to flood the market with options: Their branding is really bold and clear. By gobbling up more shelf space, they’re also buying up ad impressions in the form of your eyeballs while you’re waiting in line at the grocer or pharmacist. Seriously, next time you’re at Walgreens look at the candy. The color block of five or six Reese’s varieties makes a statement, grabs the eye, and reminds you that maybe you want some candy and maybe that candy should be a new Reese’s flavor. In this sense, having more candy where people look for candy seems like a more effective use of money that any ad on TV or IG as those platforms grow increasingly health conscious.
Annnnyway, this whole mini-rant had been percolating in my for a few weeks, so when I saw a “Reese’s Creamy” and a “Reese’s Crunchy” at my local 7-11, I knew I had to take action by comparing them to the original. For what it’s worth, I tasted these blind and am happy to share that I got a lot of food writer points with my friends when I could tell the creamy from the original. Obviously, the Crunchy was the one with the nuts.
Check out the rest of my tasting notes and the ranking below:
3. Reese’s Creamy Cups
Reese
“This is thinner than the original, so it must be the creamy.”
The thing is, I don’t think anyone has ever thought that Original Reese’s cups weren’t creamy enough. That’s like a big selling point for the candy. But this version is certainly meltier and airy-er. Like the peanut butter filling is almost ready to slime right out of the cup when bitten. I don’t like that effect at all. You want a little bite with your Reese’s cup.
Having this melted goo slither out reminds you too keenly of all the stabilizers and preservatives that it takes to make this product shelf stable in the first place. In that sense, this ignites the Uncanny Valley of candy — making it harder for you to lie to yourself about what you’re eating and feeling somehow more distinctly unhealthy while not adding anything in flavor or texture.
BOTTOM LINE:
This feels like a totally superfluous product. Regular Reese’s are already creamy. These are just sort of weirdly… slithery.
2. Reese’s Crunchy Cups
Reese
“This makes my teeth hurt. It’s the crunchy but it must have more sugar.”
I was wrong. The crunchy actually has one gram less sugar. But if we’re wildly speculating, maybe that’s because the chopped peanuts take up space where the sugary peanut butter solution would have gone, thereby making the sugar level drop. And — ready for a deep candy conspiracy? — maybe the brand compensated with a little more sugar in the base mix? I’m not sure and am not about to, like, call Reese’s for a comment or something, but these did make my teeth hurt.
I eat a fair bit of candy and that doesn’t happen often. I find it offputting.
Regardless, the nuts are so small here that it pales in comparison to chunky peanut butter — my preferred PB — which typically has practically whole nuts inside. These little slivers don’t add much crunch and are just generally a little discordant with the whole Reese’s cup experience. If you’re going to put something inside my peanut butter cup make it some sort of other candy or confection so at least it offers a flavor contrast.
Bottom Line:
A half-assed attempt at crunch that somehow seems more saccharine. If you want crunch get the potato chip cups, which also hit that whole “salted cup” note that I mentioned earlier.
1. Reese’s Cups
Reese
“This is the original. It tastes like a Reese’s cup. No notes.”
The icon. And, just from a pure flavor, texture, and balance perspective, a far better peanut butter cup than the other two. It was the only one I took another bite of after the blindfolds came off.
Bottom Line:
Hands down better than these two new entrants in the vast Reese’s cup universe. Maybe we need to rank all the cups next to see where this lands. But with so many new cups surfacing lately, I’m sure by the time the article launches there will be four or five new types to try.
For now, if it’s peanut butter flavor you want, stick to the OG — creamy and chunky aren’t doing anything special.
If you would for a moment think back to the pilot of Succession.I know, it’s been approximately 45 years since 2018, but we all remember watching Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy tearing up that check after bullying a child after taking over his family’s baseball game. Memories!
But you might also recall a time when Roman had a family with a wife (?!) that was only briefly mentioned in the first episode. As with most shows, the pilot was shot way before the rest of the season, and before the show was considered a “hit,” so it’s normal for things to change in that time, like hairstyles or characters being replaced. For Roman, he had a whole storyline with his family that was ultimately scrapped by the second episode.
When asked by Varietyabout the change, Culkin admitted that he was excited about the idea of playing a dad, though it never panned out. “It was in the pilot, and after it was picked up, it was his girlfriend, and she had a child. I’m wearing my real wedding band in the episode. I was excited about the idea of having a kid, and the kid was like 7 or 8,” Culkin explained, before adding that the idea was axed. “It was a little disappointing, but I think the idea was that it would just give them more freedom to play with the character.”
Since the writers wanted more freedom, this gave them the opportunity to be a little more ambiguous about Roman’s love life and sexuality. Culkin continued, “They had mentioned to me, even before we shot the pilot, about questioning what Roman’s sexuality is — and we don’t know what it is. But it put something in my brain, and I was like, ‘OK, but I’m married and have kids?’” He added, knowing that episode one introduced the idea of his family. “They were toying with the idea that she’s aware that you have sort of hangups sexually when it comes to monogamy and might be more fluid, but we don’t know what that is yet.”
This wasn’t the first time that writers toyed with the idea of making one of the family members gay, though it would have been Cousin Greg, who didn’t have much of a backstory until the later seasons. Perhaps a disgusting brothers spinoff will explore that idea a bit more!
This past Friday (April 21), Bad Bunny headlined the first night of Coachella’s second weekend for 2023. As People reports, the billionaire Amazon founder, who was once the wealthiest person in the world (he’s currently third), was seen attending Bad Bunny’s performance alongside partner and reporter Lauren Sánchez, Kris Jenner, and Corey Gamble. Fan-shot videos also show Bezos and Sánchez enjoying the show.
Jeff Bezos, Kendall, Kylie and Kris Jenner were amongst the many attendees last night at Bad Bunny’s last performance in Coachella 2023 pic.twitter.com/bJKKyvcjlA
Bezos’ look drew some attention. As People notes, “Bezos, 59, also kept it casual in a long-sleeve light blue button-up shirt with butterflies on the front, a pair of jeans, and white sneakers with dark trim around the ankle.” Some onlookers took notice of the shirt, which can apparently be bought on Amazon for about $12 (or at least one that looks just like it can). One Reddit user summarized the ensemble, “Jeff looking like the dude that comes into a store and asks to buy the outfit off the mannequin.”
Tucker Carlson may have buried himself in Swanson money last night because he’s been pretty quiet after parting ways with Fox News. Still, that doesn’t prevent anyone else from discussing this shocking turn of events for cable news. The conservative network didn’t spare many seconds to summarily dismiss the subject while Brian Kilmeade punched in on Tucker’s old time slot, but other nighttime hosts had a field day.
The Daily Show was happy to pick up the subject with guest host Desi Lydic — who has served up rabid parody rants aimed at Fox News over the years — swinging in on a wild news day. Obviously, Desi wasn’t about to hold back on the irony of the non-gender-affirming Fox News deciding to “just cut off their own dick.” That wink was a nice touch.
Desi also addressed Tucker’s chronic wallpaper face by pointing out that, finally, the “stupid look” had a time and place to be appropriate. As well, Desi paid tribute to the “17 years of New Year’s Eve blackouts” contributed by Don Lemon at CNN before he lost his gig, too. And then Desi pretended to swiftly get fired as well and pack up her “giant fish” because, sure, why not, but hey, not so fast. Desi Lydic will guest-host The Daily Show all week long.
You can watch the full applicable The Daily Show segment below, and the Tucker part begins after 3:00.
Kicking off in North America this October before heading to Europe in early 2024, he will be joined by Mereba, Spinall, Sadboi, and another special surprise guest throughout select dates.
Tickets for 6lack’s new tour go on sale this Friday (April 28) at 10 a.m. There are also several presales happening before that, earlier throughout this week, and VIP packages available. Find more information here and a complete list of dates below.
10/01/2023 — Portland, OR @ Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds **
10/04/2023 — Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum **
10/05/2023 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater **
10/07/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic **
10/10/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ YouTube Theater **
10/12/2023 — San Diego, CA @ SOMA **
10/13/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren **
10/15/2023 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex **
10/17/2023 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium **
10/19/2023 — St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
10/21/2023 — Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory *
10/22/2023 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater *
10/25/2023 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center *
10/26/2023 — New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore New Orleans *
10/31/2023 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis *
11/01/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom *
11/02/2023 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit *
11/05/2023 — New York, NY @ Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom *
11/06/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Great Hall – Avant Gardner *
11/08/2023 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem *
11/10/2023 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
11/11/2023 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS *
11/13/2023 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY *
11/16/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia *
11/18/2023 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *
11/19/2023 — Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte *
11/21/2023 — Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Orlando *
11/22/2023 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center *
11/24/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena *
02/12/2024 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre #
02/14/2024 — Glasgow, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy Glasgow #
02/15/2024 — Manchester, United Kingdom @ O2 Apollo #
02/17/2024 — Birmingham, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy Birmingham #
02/18/2024 — London, United Kingdom @ Eventim Apollo #
02/20/2024 — Paris, France @ Bataclan #
02/21/2024 — Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall #
02/22/2024 — Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique #
02/252024 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg #
02/27/2024 — Berlin, Germany @ Huxley’s Neue Welt #
02/29/2024 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Amager Bio #
03/01/2024 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Berns #
03/03/2024 — Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller Music Hall #
After making headlines with his trip to rehab followed by a tabloid-ready relationship with Olivia Munn (and a new baby), John Mulaney is back with a new Netflix special, Baby J, where the comedian gets surprisingly candid about the past few years of his life.
As Mulaney explains it, at the height of his addiction, his friends had to sit him down for what he jokingly describes as a “star-studded intervention.” Fortunately, the effort worked, and the former Saturday Night Live writer checked himself into rehab. However, one of his closest friends, Pete Davidson, couldn’t attend the intervention, which led to a funny moment when Kim Kardashian’s former lover attempted to call Mulaney in rehab.
Mulaney had Davidson listed in his phone as “Al Pacino,” which led to a nurse frantically waking the comedian in the middle of the night thinking he had missed five calls from the real Pacino. While that bit killed, Mulaney wanted to make sure to set the record straight about his old pal after hearing some not cool rumors.
“Some people suggested he and I did drugs together because he has tattoos and I am plain,” Mulaney told the audience via USA Today. “I’ve never done drugs with Pete. He’s always been very supportive of my sobriety.”
John Mulaney: Baby J is available for streaming on Netflix.
Now, Barker has teamed up with Liquid Death for an appropriately wild partnership for… drum roll… enemas. The Liquid Death Enema Of The State Collectible Enema Kit is fittingly $182 and it’s apparently the first-ever celebrity-endorsed luxury enema kit.
To go with the announcement, Barker stars in a graphic ad to promote the product: “What’s my secret?” he asks. “How did I marry the woman of my dreams? How have I had such a successful career in music? I use Liquid Death mountain water. In my asshole.”
Blink-182 recently made headlines for hopping on the Coachella lineup last-minute following Frank Ocean’s cancellation. DeLonge shared the news by posting a photo of a monitor on social media that read: “Sh*t, piss, f*ck, c*nt, c*cksucker, motherf*cker, tits, fart, turd & twat,” which true fans know are lyrics from their 1999 song “Family Reunion.”
Watch the ad above and find more information here.
Blink-182 is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
George Lucas gets all the heat for the Star Wars special editions, but his buddy Steven Spielberg edited one of his most beloved films, too. In the original version of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, government agents are seen holding guns during the stirring bike sequence (a hammer would have sufficed), but in the 20th anniversary edition, Spielberg replaced the firearms with walkie-talkies.
It’s a decision that the Oscar winner has come to regret (and since fixed).
“That was a mistake,” he said during the TIME100 Summit. “I never should have done that. E.T. is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.”
Spielberg doesn’t want other filmmakers to make the same mistake he did. “All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like, and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having that out there,” he said.
You got that, the Russo Brothers? You think it’s a good idea now to digitally remove the scene in The Gray Man where the Gray Man does the Six Flags dance, but you’ll eventually wish you hadn’t (I have not seen The Gray Man).
This is a simple drink that packs a huge punch of flavor with a super refreshing vibe. The two-ingredient highball was born in Jamaica and has taken the small island nation and now the world by storm. Punch did a great history of the Campari Ting, in case you’re into mixology histories. Long story short, Campari was looking to expand into new markets in the Caribbean like Jamaica (they’d already cornered the market on other islands) and bartenders came up with the Campari Ting. The drink was such a smash hit that Jamaica went through a two-year Campari shortage while trying to catch up with demand.
If that’s not an endorsement of how good this drink is, I don’t know what is!
You really only need two things here. It’s self-explanatory. I ordered Ting off of Amazon but you might be able to find it if you’re in a part of the country with Caribbean supermarkets. Otherwise, you can totally use any grapefruit soda really. I would lean more toward Jarritos as a replacement than, say, Squirt but both work fine.
Zach Johnston
What You’ll Need:
Tom Collins Glass
Straw
Zach Johnston
Method:
Fill the glass with ice.
Add the Campari and then top with Ting soda.
Gently stir once as you drop in the straw. Serve.
Bottom Line:
Zach Johnston
Yeah, this is what I’ll be drinking until September. It’s bright, tart, and fresh AF. The bitterness of the Campari is perfectly accented by the sweet and fizzy grapefruit bite of the Ting, creating this effervescent flavor bomb.
Overall, this is almost too good — especially if you’re already into Campari. My only quibble is that it is on the sweeter side, which means I’ll be drinking a lot of sugar over the warm months this year. But f*ck it, this is too good (and easy) not to keep pouring.
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