One of the most common complaints drivers have these days is that car headlights are too bright. According to a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation, a whopping 88% of drivers have noticed headlight glare, and about 31% of them described it as “disturbing.”
The study also revealed that one out of every 100 drivers claimed that glare actually caused them to have a crash or a near miss.
How did the headlights get so bright? Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, headlights were made with halogen bulbs with a softer, warm yellow light. These days they’re made with LEDs that last longer but are much whiter and brighter.
Did you know that a button on your rearview mirror can tone down the headlight glare? Many people were blown away when TikTokker EverythingBrooklyn shared the simple tip on TikTok. Since being posted in March, it has received over 2 million views.
my boyfriend is a genius. who knew! #fyp #todayyearsold #foryou #rearviewmirror
“I didn’t know about this either until a few weeks ago, and my life has been changed ever since,” Nat wrote. “I LOVE YOU AND SO DOES MY ASTIGMATISM,” Kaitlin Carroll added.
The text of the video read: “Me flipping the rearview mirror tab so the headlights don’t blind me.”
A Mazda dealership explained the button’s function: “When auto-dimming is turned on, your rearview mirror will automatically darken to reduce headlight glare,” Capistrano Mazda confirmed.
Good news for all of you who can’t stand being dazzled by blinding headlines, the federal government has recently approved Adaptive Driving Beam headlights which shine more light onto the road instead of into your rearview window. But until they’re widely adopted, you can use this hack to keep yourself from being blinded by fellow drivers.
Caroline Ross is a professional photographer who specializes in fashion and editorial photography—you know, the kind of fancy images that grace magazine covers and billboards and the like. So it’s safe to assume she knows her way around Photoshop.
Over on her TikTok channel, Ross helps others gain social media literacy by showing exactly how Photoshop is used to create the highly stylized images we’re so used to seeing in advertisements…so much that we might forget it’s not real.
Recently, Ross also highlighted the double standards that exist when it comes to older female celebrities versus their male counterparts by applying the same amount of Photoshop to cover shoots of actors in their fifties that would be used on actresses of the same age.
When you see the side-by-side comparison—and how ridiculous it looks—it’s hard to deny how hardwired our brains are to accept, even admire aging in men, and at the same time expect women to remain untouched by time…lest they become an unsavory hag, that is.
In the video, Ross shows Pedro Pascal, David Beckham, Idris Elba, Ben Affleck, Gerard Butler, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds (all ruggedly handsome in their own way) suddenly have every wrinkle completely smoothed out.
Crazy, right? These guys look like completely different people once “yassified”—well, except for the immortal Paul Rudd, maybe. But the point is: seeing the stark difference laid out like that is illuminating. Several folks chimed in to comment on how it perfectly pinpoints how beauty standards have failed us.
“Yes!!! 🙌 ‘Men age better’ just equals- ‘we’re used to seeing men age’ It’s almost like representation matters 🤔,” one person wrote.
“I think we all knew this but SEEING IT is something else. Thank you for creating this,” wrote another.
Yet another added: “I’ve just realized why I’m convinced my husband is getting more attractive with age while I go downhill. I’ve been conditioned!,” another said.
You might have noticed the biggest Photoshop transformation can be seen on the forehead. In another video, Ross explained how women are rarely allowed to have visible expression in this area. It’s covered up with editing, Botox or (most likely) both.
Meanwhile, men are often “intentionally asked to raise their forehead and create these expression lines in their face,” Ross says while showing an editorial spread of Ben Affleck sporting his signature “adorable puppy” eyebrow furrow.
“Like when would you ever see a 50-year-old female celebrity with this expression on their face?” Ross asks. The answer, one we all know deep down inside, is almost never. This is because, as Ross eloquently puts it, men are allowed to “look like mature adult beings” while women are “expected to be these smooth dolls their entire lives.”
Yes, it’s frustrating that despite all the progress we have made with beauty standards, ageism and sexism, those modern views aren’t always reflected in Hollywood or in social media…two major influences for how people, especially young people, perceive the world. But that’s why efforts like Ross’ make such a huge difference. We are able to see firsthand how we are trained to think. Which, in turn, helps us to think differently. Or, at the very least, not succumb to low self esteem just because we don’t resemble works of fiction.
Care to see more of Ross’s videos? Follow her on TikTok.
The typical kid’s experience in school is a lot different today than it was 30 to 40 years ago. It’s hard to say whether things are better or worse, but there’s been a sea change in how children are raised.
One negative development is that teachers tend to think parents are more likely to side with their kids over faculty in disputes than they were decades ago. On the positive side, corporal punishment is on the decrease, so students are much less likely to be physically punished for breaking the rules.
A Reddit user with the username u/theSandwichSister asked the ‘80s and ‘90s kids on the forum, “What’s something a school teacher did to you that would not fly today?” A lot of the responses were about the type of physical punishment and humiliation that used to happen in schools that would never happen these days.
There were also a lot of posts about teachers who smoked around their students. Can you imagine a kindergarten teacher lighting up in front of their students these days? They’d be fired in a flash.
Overall, the responses show that schools are a lot more concerned with the mental and emotional health of their students these days, which is a wonderful improvement. Schools also seem to be much more friendly environments to students who are people of color, LGBTQ or have disabilities.
Here are 17 of the best responses to the question, “What’s something a school teacher did to you that would not fly today?”
1.
“Not a teacher, but school one. If you read enough books during the year in elementary school you got to have a sleepover in the library. Like we brought sleeping bags and slept on the floor. In the morning they had griddles out and we made pancakes. I know, total nerds, but it was my favorite elementary school memory.” — 7askingforafriend
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“My elementary school principal would pull loose teeth. You could go to his office, have him pull your loose tooth and he would give you a lollipop.” — snowfuckerforreal
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“I told my biology teacher that I wasn’t feeling too well, he said that I didn’t look sick, and as punishment made me stand in the corner until I fainted.” — AustrianReaper
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“In high school, we would sometimes play knee soccer which was in our wrestling room (wall to wall wrestling mats) and was really just handball but on our knees. The PE teacher (football coach) let us play rough since it was an all male class and we were on our knees and couldn’t do too much damage. During the game, two of the students were grappling for the ball and as these things go, one of them accidentally knocked the other a little too aggressively. The kid that got hit (an known asshole of the school) got pissed and stood up and kicked the other kid.
The PE teacher (225lb jacked military hair cut) stormed over and shoved the kid who flew about 10 feet before crashing to the ground. The kid gets up ready to fight whoever shoved him and the teacher had closed the gap and started screaming at him. Then the teacher lectured the entire class about sportsmanship and honor. The teacher never got in any trouble.” — hangingonwith2fingers
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“In 5th grade, I was called to the office at my public school. I was a goody two-shoes so I had no idea why I was called, so I started tearing up thinking something bad must’ve happened to my family. Eventually, I was ushered into a room as my two best friends left. The principal and 2 other staff members then sat me down and showed me a piece of paper. It was a silly poem I wrote one of my friends about a good witch who granted wishes by mixing together some mundane ingredients. Apparently, their mother found the poem and complained to the school. Their response was to interview my friends about MY RELIGION.” — ktbunny
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“6th grade teacher Ms. Sullivan would take 3 kids every Friday to McDonald’s for lunch. She was cool as hell. Smoked during the drive and everything.” — SigP365SAS
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“My 3rd grade teacher had the whole class camp in her backyard after the last day of school. She took us to see the original TMNT movie in the theater, then we stayed up late telling ghost stories. One of my absolute fondest memories.” — Cambot1138
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“Yeah, there are a lot of negative things in this thread, which makes sense, but there are some ‘cool teacher’ things that we lost too. I got a ride home from school once from a male teacher in middle school (I’m female) when it was pouring rain and my mom wouldn’t come get me, but I bet that’s not allowed these days.” — rabidstoat
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“English teacher in high school used to cuss kids out for being noisy in class and if that didn’t work, he’d throw the blackboard eraser at us. I wasn’t on the receiving end of the eraser. That chalk would leave marks on kid’s backs for the rest of the day so everyone knew who pissed off Mr Charvet.” — Roscoe_Cracks_Corn
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“7th-grade science class, the teacher walked around with a beaker full of mercury and told us to stick a finger in it to feel how dense it was. Then he gave us each our own penny-size drop of mercury to play with at our desks, so we could see how it moved. I’m sure we were poisoned that day. Nowadays if a thermometer breaks they clear the school.” — weirdkid71
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“Not something done to me per se, but my 3rd grade teacher had a little office with a door inside our classroom, and she would smoke cigarettes in there while we were at lunch/recess.” — HutSutRawlson
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“Cheese Day in the Midwest. It was in first grade. For an entire day, all you ate was cheese. Cheese puffs, curls, sticks, slices, balls, and Doritos. Drank orange Hi-C as well. For 10+ years, smelling that fake cheese made me gag. After her wedding, and the birth of her son, my sister says Cheese Day the best day of her life. Wasn’t Wisconsin either.” — 2_Spicy_2_Impeach
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“They told us Pluto was a planet.” — Representative-Fig96
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“Best math teacher ever made us say numerator/denominator in Schwarzenegger voices as we were learning fractions.” — kittensington
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“High School, we were on campus, drove a van to the locker rooms because I was with The QB, Linebacker and a couple of linemen who needed to get crap from their lockers. We were drinking beer in the van, it was 1:30, the football coach sees us, stops the van, looks inside and sees the beer, and shook his head and told us to be careful and get off campus. I don’t think that would fly today.” — kentro2002
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“A lot of people are posting bad stuff, so let me share a good one. In 9th grade, in 1984, I had a class analyzing lyrics in pop music. Students brought in records by Led Zep and John Cougar and we’d discuss what they meant. Seriously a life-changing class. It makes me sad that younger students in America are so caught up in the rat race that they never had experiences like that.” — Adventuresphere
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“I had an awesome teacher who would send one of us to the shop (just a minute’s walk away) with enough money to get ice creams for everybody whenever it was hot and she didn’t feel like teaching.” — wanderingsteph
It seems everyone needs subtitles nowadays in order to “hear” the television. This is something that has become more common over the past decade and it’s caused people to question if their hearing is going bad or if perhaps actors have gotten lazy with enunciation.
So if you’ve been wondering if it’s just you who needs subtitles in order to watch the latest marathon-worthy show, worry no more. Vox video producer Edward Vega interviewed dialogue editor Austin Olivia Kendrick to get to the bottom of why we can’t seem to make out what the actors are saying anymore. It turns out it’s technology’s fault, and to get to how we got here, Vega and Kendrick took us back in time.
They first explained that way back when movies were first moving from silent film to spoken dialogue, actors had to enunciate and project loudly while speaking directly into a large microphone. If they spoke and moved like actors do today, it would sound almost as if someone were giving a drive-by soliloquy while circling the block. You’d only hear every other sentence or two.
But with today’s technology, microphones are so small they can be strapped just about anywhere on an actor. This allows the actor to move about the set freely and speak at a normal volume without worrying that their words won’t be picked up. So then why can’t we hear them? Turns out it’s super complicated…and also not.
“A lot of people will ask, ‘Why don’t you just turn the dialogue up?’ Like, ‘Just turn it up.’ And…if only it were that simple,” Kendrick said before explaining, “If you have your dialogue that’s going to be at the same volume as an explosion that immediately follows it, the explosion is not going to feel as big. You need that contrast in volume in order to give your ear a sense of scale.”
Sure, you may be thinking, well that kinda explains it, but why do the music and other cinematic noises sound like they’re beating on your eardrum while the dialogue sounds like the actors are whispering every line? That doesn’t seem very balanced. There’s more to it, and again, it falls back onto technology.
In the video, they explain how our televisions are too thin to hold large speakers facing in the correct direction, and until this video, it didn’t dawn on me that the speakers to my television are indeed in the back. No wonder we can’t hear. The actors are quite literally talking to our walls.
And there’s more. Check out the full explanation in the video:
In January, Jpegmafia promised fans three albums before the end of the year. He shared his collaborative record with Danny Brown called Scaring The Hoes in March, and he’s not done with it. On Tuesday, July 11, the pair released Scaring The Hoes DLC Pack, an expanded version.
Scaring The Hoes DLC Pack features four new songs, with predictably unhinged titles: “Guess What B*tch, We Back Hoe!,” “HERMANOS,” “Tell Me Where To Go,” and “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!”
Meanwhile, their tour kicks off in two weeks. Check out the dates below.
07/25 — Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
07/26 — Louisville, KY @ Paristown Hall
07/28 — Indianapolis, IN @ Old National
07/29 — Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
07/30 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre
08/01 — Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
08/03 — Portland, ME @ State Theatre
08/06 — New Haven, CT @ College St. Music Hall
08/08 — Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
08/09 — New York, NY @ Pier 17
08/12 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
08/13 — Baltimore, MD @ Ram Head Live!
08/16 — Richmond, VA @ The National
08/17 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
08/19 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
08/20 — Orlando, FL @ The Vanguard
08/22 — New Orleans @ Joy Theatre
08/24 — Houston, TX @Warehouse Live
08/25 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek
08/26 — Dallas, TX @ Factory Deep Ellum
Initially July 21 sounded like a duel: Would moviegoers choose to see Barbie, a PG-13 take on the Mattel doll? Or would they go with Oppenheimer, a grim downer about the invention of the atomic bomb that’s at least super sexy? Then a third option emerged: Why not see both, asked Tom Cruise? Tens of thousands of AMC Stubs members agreed, and now it’s a question of which one is better. But based on the first reactions, it appears the answer is: They both are.
On Tuesday evening, the embargo dropped on social media reactions to Christopher Nolan’s latest and biggest behemoth, and, well, they are as good as the ones for Barbie.
OPPENHEIMER is…incredible. The word that keeps coming to mind is “fearsome.” A relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way.
Bilge Ebiri, of Vulture, called it “incredible.” He went on, saying, “The word that keeps coming to mind is ‘fearsome.’ A relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way.”
Am torn between being all coy and mysterious about Oppenheimer and just coming out and saying it’s a total knockout that split my brain open like a twitchy plutonium nucleus and left me sobbing through the end credits like I can’t even remember what else.
Robbie Collin, of The Telegraph, was also effusive, writing, “Am torn between being all coy and mysterious about Oppenheimer and just coming out and saying it’s a total knockout that split my brain open like a twitchy plutonium nucleus and left me sobbing through the end credits like I can’t even remember what else.”
Christopher Nolan’s #Oppenheimer is truly a spectacular achievement, in its truthful, concise adaptation, inventive storytelling and nuanced performances from Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and the many, many others involved —- some just for a scene.
The AP’s Lindsay Bahr called said Oppenheimer is a “truly a spectacular achievement, in its truthful, concise adaptation, inventive storytelling and nuanced performances from Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and the many, many others involved —- some just for a scene.”
#Oppenheimer left me stunned: a character study on the grandest scale, with a sublime central performance by Cillian Murphy. An epic historical drama but with a distinctly Nolan sensibility: the tension, structure, sense of scale, startling sound design, remarkable visuals. Wow
Total Film’s Matt Maytum said it left him “stunned,” calling it a “character study on the grandest scale, with a sublime central performance by Cillian Murphy.” He deemed it an ”epic historical drama but with a distinctly Nolan sensibility: the tension, structure, sense of scale, startling sound design, remarkable visuals.” His final verdit: “Wow.”
I think #Oppenheimer is Nolan’s JFK. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE JFK. Cillian Murphy mesmerizes in a star-studded moral quandary about Scientific Theory becoming deadly fact. The entire cast is outstanding, and while the history is DENSE, it’s Nolan’s most streamlined and accessible. pic.twitter.com/S8B2wAgzEb
Sean O’Connnell, of CinemaBlend, made a bold statement, calling it “Nolan’s JFK. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE JFK,” referring to Oliver Stone’s batty but dizzying and absorbing look at one of the more wackadoodle JFK assassination conspiracy theories. (Yes, it’s stil a great film.) O’Connell added, “Cillian Murphy mesmerizes in a star-studded moral quandary about Scientific Theory becoming deadly fact. The entire cast is outstanding, and while the history is DENSE, it’s Nolan’s most streamlined and accessible.”
The downside? The women are badly served – Emily Blunt only once gets out of her stressed mother role. But it’s straight into my Nolan top three, alongside Memento & The Prestige
Jonathan Dean, of The Sunday Times, took a more critical approach, even though he said he was “[t]otally absorbed” by this “dense, talkie, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are. Happy summer!” Dean also called it an “audacious, inventive, complex film to rattle its audience.”
But there is a downside. “The women are badly served,” Dean charged, saying that “Emily Blunt only once gets out of her stressed mother role.” Still, that carp aside, Dean said Oppeneheimer goes “straight into my Nolan top three, alongside Memento & The Prestige.”
So if you’re one of the hundreds of thousands spending five hours on or after July 21 watching maybe the pinkest movies ever made and another “about how doomed we are” (that, again, at least has “prolonged full nudity,” sounds like you’re going to have a blast.
For majority of those who participate in Summer League, the games serve as a job audition, whether it’s trying to land a full-time deal, two-way contract, training camp invite, G League contract or opportunity outside of the NBA. Often, that job audition works out well for an array of players, even if it leads to something unrelated to the NBA.
Yet July 11, 2023, will unfortunately not be a beneficial day for the efforts of Nick Perkins, who’s a forward on Brooklyn Nets Summer League squad. Just 74 seconds into his appearance during Tuesday’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks, Perkins was ejected from the contest. He swiftly received two technical fouls, presumably for whatever he said to Vin Baker Jr., and was ousted for the rest of the evening.
Nets forward Nick Perkins was ejected from their Summer League matchup vs. the Bucks after playing only one minute pic.twitter.com/hmDragEz5w
The kicker here is it’s not the first time Perkins has been exiled from a Summer League game. Four years ago, Perkins was tossed for nabbing Mitchell Robinson’s and throwing it back at the New York Knicks big man. Look at all the sweat that ripples off of that headband, whew.
Nick Perkins gets ejected for ripping Mitchell Robinson’s headband and throwing at him…sweat and all….nasty lol pic.twitter.com/z3Rd2zwvlD
If I had a nickel for every time Nick Perkins had been ejected from a Summer League game, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t it a lot, but it sure is something that it happened twice, right?
Mezcal is having a moment in the spirits industry right now and for good reason. It’s smokey, savory, mouthwatering, and ultimately more adventurous than what you get out of a typical bottle of tequila. Tequila has a very defined and recognizable mix of flavors but mezcal, with all its different varieties of agave both wild and cultivated, can surprise you in ways that its cousin can’t.
That makes landing on a great bottle a bit more difficult. With tequila, you’re pretty safe once you reach a certain price bracket, but with mezcal things feel a bit like the wild west right now and with all the new brands on the market, separating the good from the bad is very necessary. So allow us to guide you through the varied and complex world of mezcal with our eight favorite bottles under $50. These bottles all taste remarkably different, but each brings something to the table that is worth experiencing.
I’m a huge fan of Mezcal Amaras’ Cupreata variety, which is a bit pricier than the Reposado, but for the money, this is a good bottle and a great entrance into the world of Mezcal if you’re more familiar with tequila.
Mezcal Amaras Reposado is produced by Mescalero Armando Martinez in Oaxaca and made from Espadin agave that is aged in wooden barrels after distillation which really helps to mellow the mezcal out.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Warm luscious caramel with a hint of woodiness.
Palate: Gentle smoke hits the palate with round caramel notes, a hint of spice and an oily body.
Finish: Buttery with hints of oak.
The Bottom Line:
A simple, gentle mezcal with a wonderful depth of flavor that is great for beginners who are used to the flavors of tequila.
Overseen by master Mescalero Raúl Rodriguez Reyes, Campante’s joven mezcal is small batch produced in Oaxaca and uses Espadin and barril agave that is tahona ground and cooked in a conical oven before being copper pot distilled.
The bottle design here looks super modern with the syllables of the brand broken up in large text.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Soft and inviting, notes of vanilla waft from the glass.
Palate: Smooth, suspiciously so. There is a rich chocolate flavor here with flecks of floral and herbal qualities that give this a slight medicinal vibe.
Finish: Oily with a nice lingering burn that ignites the salivary glands.
The Bottom Line: A bit boring to shoot but great for a cocktail. It’s more herbal and floral than smokey, but that characteristic mezcal burn is there.
Madre’s Espadin Cuishe mezcal is a combination of — wait for it — Espadin and cuishe agave that is produced in open-air palenques in the hills of Oaxaca using local water, airborne yeast, and minerals. The agave is cooked in an earthen oven.
I love the bottle design of this one, the label is equal parts minimalist and loud with a simple two-color design. Madre Mezcal produces a handful of other varieties and each one has a simple label that utilizes a different two-color design. It makes differentiating the bottles incredibly easy (take note Del Maguey Vida).
Tasting Notes:
Nose:
Warm chocolate with a dusty earthy vibe.
Palate:
Hints of vanilla with a surprisingly gentle smokey flavor. There are hints of earthy minerality in the flavor, but in a soft approachable way.
Finish:
Almost floral, that smokey flavor lingers on the finish but it’s super smooth and gentle.
The Bottom Line:
If that dusty smokey vibe is what turns you off about mezcal, give Madre a try — it’s smokey but in a gentle and inviting way.
Del Maguey Vida has a strong track record with affordable mezcals and their latest bottle, Puebla, is no different. This joven mezcal is produced in Axocopan Puebla and utilizes ripened local agave roasted underground, naturally fermented, and distilled in small copper pots.
There is something incredibly appetizing about Del Maguey Vida’s glittering green bottles, but I think it makes differentiating the different varieties a bit tough, so be sure to get a good look at the label.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Soft milk chocolate with the slightest hint of nail polish.
Palate: Surprisingly bright and fruity. It has a citrus body with soft peach flavors hovering over roasted agave.
Finish: Easy, and clean, not too much smoke. A fruity finish that would work well in a cocktail.
Mezcal De Legends’ Maguey Verde is overseen by second-generation Mescalero Maestro Juan Jose Hernández, known simply in the mezcal industry as “Che,” and follows an original recipe developed by his late father Don Che.
Verde is a limited production mezcal — under 30,000 liters produced per year — from San Luis Potosí. The agave is cooked in steam-heated steel ovens, crushed, and fermented in ground-level cement tanks before being distilled in a custom-designed copper still.
The mezcal is bottled in a short stout bottle with super thick glass a wide mouth and a real cork top with a twin neck for better handling at the pour.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Bright and grassy with sweet chili heat on the nose.
Palate: Surprisingly green and citrusy. It’s not smokey so much as it’s grassy and warm.
Finish: Jalapeño at the finish, no smoke.
The Bottom Line:
If you’re familiar with the flavors of mezcal Verde will straight up taste off at first, but give it a minute for your tastebuds to recalibrate, it’s very interesting and unique. Would work perfectly in a spicy cocktail or anything with pineapple.
Made from 100% maguey criollo, this joven mezcal hails from Guerrero Mazatlán under the watch of Héctor Obregón. Once cooked, the wild local agave is fermented in open air for five days and double-distilled in Arabic and Filipino stills.
The label design is a reference to the Doliente Hidalgo, a banner that represented the “squadron of death,” which sought revenge for the murder of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a leader in the Mexican revolutionary war.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Gentle spice on the nose with some soft buttery characteristics.
Palate: Warm and round with a hint of caramel and sweet apple.
Finish: Burning spice and dusty earth. It grows the more of it you drink.
The Bottom Line:
A strong characterful mezcal that relies on dusty spice tones to shock your tastebuds.
Montelobos’ Espadin Joven utilizes organic agave that is roasted underground, milled with a single stone tahona, and small batch distilled in copper heated by firewood at Palenque Montelobos.
The bottle design is stealthy and moody in a blackened glass bottle with a sleek wolf-adorned label. It admittedly, looks f*cking cool, which is always a plus.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Honey and green grass, very inviting and fresh.
Palate: A bit of harsh smoke that is counterbalanced with zesty citrus notes.
Finish: A vibrating mouthwatering finish. It’s very oily and drool-inducing, with bright citrus qualities.
The Bottom Line:
Straight-up fun to drink, Montelobos’ Espadin activates the palate with a mix of strong smokey and citrus flavors.
Made from Espadin maguey from Oaxaca matured to seven years and cooked in a conical earthen oven with mesquite wood in a six-day process, tahona ground, fermented in wood barrels and copper pot distilled. Paquera Espadin is crafted by Mescalero Francisco Javier Pere Cruz.
The bottle is ridiculously tall, the photo doesn’t really do it justice. That’s not a slight against Paquera but it’s something to consider if you don’t have enough shelf space.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Sweet caramel with a fruity character.
Palate: Spicy with hints of wood and the gentlest kiss of brown sugar.
Finish: Oily with a warm savory butter finish.
The Bottom Line:
Well balanced, warm, smokey, and buttery. A very versatile mezcal that is great for shooting, sipping, and mixing.
San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama has been heralded one of the preeminent prospects of all-time. Among the few popular critiques of his potential are his weight, given he stands 7’4, 209 pounds. Despite that, Wembanyama’s agent, Bouna Ndiaye, thinks focusing on adding weight as a means of improvement and opening up his game are misguided.
Instead, he’s focused on Wembanyama increasing his functional strength and deems that integral to a lengthy, prosperous career.
“People are wrong. We’re not focused at all on weights. I don’t want to put weight on his body. We’re going to fight to not put weight on his body. Weight on his body [is] a big mistake,” Ndiaye told Andscape’s Marc J. Spears. “We focus on strength, core. We were very pleased that he linked up [with Kareem Abdul-] Jabbar who played until [41] years old.
“I’m very glad they, they connected because uh, have a similar body type. Kareem was not heavy. Victor is more mobile, gaudier and taller than Kareem. So, that difference in height is a challenge and is something that we are working on every day. Making him heavy? We don’t want to do that.”
Wembanyama’s brief introduction to NBA hoops before being shut down for the remainder of Summer League was up and down. In his debut against the Charlotte Hornets on Friday, he struggled as a scorer with nine points on 2-for-13 shooting, but added eight rebounds, five blocks and three assists.
Two days later, against the Portland Trail Blazers, he bounced back in the scoring column behind 27 points on 9-for-14 shooting, while chipping in 12 boards, three blocks and one steal. We’ll presumably next see Wembenyama when the Spurs begin their preseason schedule in the fall, at which point we can gauge what sort of desired progress he and Ndiaye have made in refining his core strength.
Ozzy Osbourne announced on Monday, July 10, that he was leaving the Power Trip Festival lineup. “Unfortunately, my body is telling me that I’m just not ready yet and I am much too proud to have the first show that I do in nearly five years be half-assed,” he wrote in a statement. “The band that will be replacing me on Power Trip will be announced shortly. They are personal friends of mine and I can promise that you will not be disappointed.”
The band replacing Ozzy has already been revealed, and it’s none other than Judas Priest. About joining the roster, the band shared an enthused statement in a press release: “POWER TRIPPERS ARE YOU READY FOR SOME JUDAS PRIEST STYLE HEAVY METAL! WE ARE EXCITED AND READY TO RAISE DOUBLE HORNS WAY UP HIGH TOGETHER. KEEPING THE METAL FAITH AT THIS BOSTIN ONE OF A KIND POWER TRIP WORLD EVENT!”
In February, Ozzy shared an update on his health after canceling a tour: “My one and only purpose during this time has been to get back on stage. My singing voice is fine. However, after three operations, stem cell treatments, endless physical therapy sessions, and most recently groundbreaking Cybernics (HAL) Treatment, my body is still physically weak.”
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