At long last, Blink-182‘s new album, One More Time arrives this week. The album features the band’s classic line-up — Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge, and Travis Barker — reuniting for the first time since the 2011 album, Neighborhoods. Ahead of One More Time, Blink-182 has shared several songs from the album, including “Edging,” “Dance With Me,” and “Fell In Love.” Today (October 18), the band has given us one more taste of the album before its release.
On their latest single, “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got,” the band reflects on their temporary disbandment and the healing reunion that brought them together again.
“One phone call wiped out a year / Like waves swept under the pier / Long weeks of impending doom / Stuck in life’s waiting room / Always so close to goodbye / Pushed so far over the line,” sings Hoppus on the song’s opening verse.
In addition to dropping a new song, Blink-182 finally revealed the album cover for One More Time. Over the past few weeks, the band had shared the pre-sale information, along with a placeholder cover which cleverly reads, “THIS IS NOT THE ALBUM COVER.”
You can listen to “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got” above and see the One More Time artwork below.
One More Time is out 10/20 via Columbia Records. Find more information here.
Devoted Warrior Nun fans might be feeling a bit of whiplash. First, the show was cancelled by Netflix after two seasons. Fans, for whatever reason, then lobbied Kelly Clarkson to help them save the adaptation of Ben Dunn’s manga-style Warrior Nun Areala comic. Somehow, this worked, and earlier this year, creator Simon Barry dropped some surprising news, which was that “Warrior Nun will return and is going to be more EPIC than you could imagine.”
From there, word surfaced from The Hollywood Reporter that the revival would be a movie trilogy, not a series, and that this would not be happening with Netflix. Executive producer Dean English then confirmed the trilogy news but declined to comment further due to the writer and actor strikes. One of those strikes has now resolved, but it sounds like the Warrior Nun original creative team is anything but resolved.
Again, Simon Barry has shared an update, and it’s not good. He tweeted, “I am not part of the team producing the movies, and have no deal in place for any writing or directing services. I am [insert peering eyes emoji] with you.”
Hey #WarriorNun family, thanks for all your comments/messages/questions etc. FYI – I have no idea what’s being announced tomorrow. I am not part of the team producing the movies, and have no deal in place for any writing or directing services. I am with you. pic.twitter.com/L0kqmlXDb1
What does that mean? It means that a whole lot of Warrior Nun fans are angry in Barry’s replies. Did they really scuttle the series creator? Yep, and there’s been no updates on whether these films will star the original cast. Alba Baptiste, by the way, recently married Chris Evans, which is making me wonder how, exactly, a Captain America/Ava crossover would go. Surely, that idea can’t be any more chaotic than the mystery situation right now.
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee are gearing up for the release of their joint album, Los Angeles, next month. Ahead of the album, the supergroup has shared a new single, “We Got To Move,” featuring Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse.
The song is accompanied by a colorful visual featuring comedian and actor Fred Armisen. In the video, Armisen is seen in LA’s famous Break Room, where he breaks several glass objects, including teapots, mugs, and even a large toilet.
Brock also appears in the video on a small screen, warning Armisen, “We got to move!”
“Isaac is one of the most unique voices that we have. He’s brilliant,” Jacknife said in a statement. “He gave us this weird, anxious, beautiful rush of a song. To pump up the duality within the song my daughters and I came up with a chorus that made us giddy with its ridiculousness. The song is absurd. The sound is absurd. And it’s about bugs.”
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee is respectively comprised of the former drummer and keyboardist of The Cure, the drummer from Siouxsie And The Banshees, and an Irish music producer who’s worked with artists like Modest Mouse and U2.
You can see the video for “We Got To Move” above.
Los Angeles is out 11/3 via Play It Again Sam. Find more information here.
The Philadelphia 76ers held practice on Wednesday, but were without the presence of star guard James Harden, who is reportedly in Houston as he continues to push for the Sixers to trade him. The problem, as its been all summer, is that the Clippers are the only team interested in Harden and they aren’t interested enough to bid against themselves by offering what Philly wants — either in the form of multiple picks or Terance Mann.
While Harden skipped media day he did report to camp in Colorado and, at least initially, seemed like he would be playing nice amid his trade request, recognizing the need to build his value by being available. However, with reports indicating talks have once again stalled, Harden seems to have decided to return to the “make things uncomfortable” playbook, skipping out on practice.
Joel Embiid, who is a veteran of these sorts of co-star distractions, shrugged it off as only he can, noting that maybe Harden just had something he needed to do.
Joel Embiid, who goes on to say team had a good practice, on James Harden’s absence: “Maybe he had something to do” pic.twitter.com/FelUC0oqpf
That really is the only way to handle it for Embiid, who I’m sure is a bit frustrated to be dealing with this type of situation for the second time in three years, but also knows there’s nothing he can really do about it and the better job he does deflecting the less he’ll have to talk about it.
Britney Spears has been in the process of promoting her debut memoir, The Woman In Me, over the past few months. Recently, outlets like TMZ have reported some of the things that she claims in the book — including going into detail about why she shaved her head, having an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake, and that he cheated on her with another star.
Thankfully, those who want to read won’t have to wait too long, as Spears is releasing the book on October 24 — which is already next week.
“[Once] at a sleepover, we played Truth Or Dare, and someone dared Justin to kiss me,” Spears dished about her and Timberlake’s first kiss in a reported preview. “A Janet Jackson song played in the background as he leaned in and kissed me.”
“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up,” she also said of the previously-mentioned shaved head moment. “I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back. But under the conservatorship, I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.”
For information about how to pre-order Britney Spears’ The Woman In Me, visit here.
With the population growing and most of it happening in cities, these Canadian journalists wanted to take a closer look at whether our sprawling modern villages are up to the task of housing more humans.
That includes over 80% of people in the United States and 81% of folks in Canada, where this report was produced. Therein lies the problem.
A lot of modern cities are being described as obesogenic environments.
Dr. Karen Lee can tell you what that means:
Lee says our living environment has shaped public health for the worse:
“The ways in which we’ve been designing our cities have been making us sick. … We’ve inadvertently designed physical activity out of our lives.”
A healthy diet and regular physical activity are some of the most important things we can do for our health as individuals, but flawed city design has restricted opportunities for people to make those choices, which has contributed greatly to what are essentially public health epidemics — ones that require public health solutions.
Most cities have been designed for cars, not for people.
Look out your window and see for yourself. Brent Toderian, former chief city planner for Vancouver, says it’s a big problem:
Toderian says city design that makes it easier for people to get around instead of cars is one way to make physical activity a more natural part of our lives. And a lot of major cities are beginning to look to Latin America for ideas about how to achieve that.
In the 1990s, Medellín, Colombia, was one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
The constant threat of drug-related violence made it a place people wanted to escape.
But today, Medellín stands as a model of creative urban design.
The city was desperate for change. And they may not have had the resources of the world’s richest city, but with a few smart infrastructure investments, like outdoor escalators, suspended gondolas, and public gathering spaces, Medellín has been transformed into a place where people are proud to live.
Medellín’s escalators cost only $6 million to build — “peanuts in the scheme of modern infrastructure projects.”
Architect Carlos Escobar sees these developments as much more than just infrastructure upgrades:
“The new transportation system in Medellín … is not only a physical solution. It is not only transportation. It is also a social instrument that involves the community, that integrates the community in all the city.”
Medellín is more connected than it’s ever been, which makes it easier for workers to get to their jobs, and it brings more action to the local economy, strengthens the community, AND encourages people to be physically active.
If you’d rather spend more time in your community than in your car, give this post a share and help spark more people’s imaginations. The solutions are out there. And they’re not as costly or far-fetched as a lot of us might think.
This was a fantastic news report by CBC News (great job, Canada!). Here’s just a snippet, but check out the whole video if you wanna nerd out a little more like I did:
Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey had only been with the Food and Drug Administration for about a month when she was tasked with reviewing a drug named thalidomide for distribution in America.
Marketed as a sedative for pregnant women, thalidomide was already available in Canada, Germany, and several African countries.
It could have been a very simple approval. But for Kelsey, something didn’t sit right. There were no tests showing thalidomide was safe for human use, particularly during pregnancy.
When Chemie Grünenthal released thalidomide in West Germany years earlier, they called it a “wonder drug” for pregnant women. They promised it would treat anxiety, insomnia, tension, and morning sickness and help pregnant women sleep.
What they didn’t advertise were its side effects.
Because it crosses the placental barrier between fetus and mother, thalidomide causes devastating — often fatal — physical defects. During the five years it was on the market, an estimated 10,000 babies globally were born with thalidomide-caused defects. Only about 60% lived past their first birthday.
In 1961, the health effects of thalidomide weren’t well-known. Only a few studies in the U.K. and Germany were starting to connect the dots between babies born with physical defects and the medication their mothers had taken while pregnant.
At the outset, that wasn’t what concerned Kelsey. She’d looked at the testimonials in the submission and found them “too glowing for the support in the way of clinical back up.” She pressed the American manufacturer, Cincinnati’s William S. Merrell Company, to share research on how their drug affected human patients. They refused. Instead, they complained to her superiors for holding up the approval. Still, she refused to back down.
A sample pack of thalidomide sent to doctors in the U.K. While more than 10,000 babies worldwide were born with thalidomide-related birth defects, FDA historian John Swann credits Dr. Kelsey with limiting the number of American babies affected to just 17.
Over the next year, the manufacturer would resubmit its application to sell thalidomide six times. Each time, Kelsey asked for more research. Each time, they refused.
By 1961, thousands of mothers were giving birth to babies with shocking and heartbreaking birth defects. Taking thalidomide early in their pregnancy was the one thing connecting them. The drug was quickly pulled from shelves, vanishing mostly by 1962.
Through dogged persistence, Kelsey and her team had prevented a national tragedy.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy honored Kelsey with the Federal Civilian Service Medal. He thanked her for her exceptional judgment and for preventing a major tragedy of birth deformities in the United States:
“I know that we are all most indebted to Dr. Kelsey. The relationship and the hopes that all of us have for our children, I think, indicate to Dr. Kelsey, I am sure, how important her work is and those who labor with her to protect our families. So, Doctor, I know you know how much the country appreciates what you have done.”
But, she wasn’t done yet. Later that year, the FDA approved new, tougher regulations for companies seeking drug approval, inspired in large part by Kelsey’s work on thalidomide.
Reached via email, FDA historian John Swann said this about Kelsey’s legacy: “[Her] actions also made abundantly clear to the nation the important public health role that drug regulation and FDA itself play in public health. The revelation of the global experience with that drug and America’s close call indeed provided impetus to secure passage of a comprehensive drug regulation bill that had been more or less floundering during the time FDA was considering the application.”
Kelsey continued to work for the FDA until 2005. She died in 2015, aged 101, just days after receiving the Order of Canada for her work on thalidomide.
Bureaucratic approval work is rarely thrilling and not often celebrated. That’s a shame because it’s so critical.
People like Kelsey, who place public health and safety above all else — including their career — deserve every ounce of our collective respect and admiration.
Any parent of a marching band kid will tell you that they’re a different breed of kids. From July through November, these kids put in hours of work daily in order to perfect their routines for halftime and competitions. They are often at school before the sun comes up and well after it goes down.
Marching band kids become family so when Pocahontas High School in West Virginia found itself without a band teacher, they decided they would figure out a way to keep their band together. The band originally had 38 members but when the band teacher left over the summer the kids were given a choice to find a new elective to replace band or find a way to make it work.
According to The Real WV, many of the kids did pick other electives but 10 kids decided to take their principal up on the offer to stick it out.
“It wasn’t an option to quit,” Hailey Fitzgerald tells The Real WV. “I’ve been in the band for seven years. I love it! It’s too important for too many reasons.”
The principal has been searching for a new band teacher since the first one left for a new school district but just couldn’t find anyone. His search went well into August before coming up with alternative plans to offer the band.
“I said that we’d had zero applicants, and since we didn’t have an instructor, we’d have to get them into other classes,” Joseph Riley explains to the Washington Post.
According to the outlet, Riley told the kids if they chose to stay in the band, they would get full credit so the kids got to work finding two teachers, Casey Griffith and Jennifer Nail-Cook to be their advisors. The kids then had to decide on who would lead the Warriors band since there was no official band instructor so they nominated Hailey, who’s twin is also in band. There was a pretty big hurdle the kids had to overcome, though. Yep, bigger than not having a band director.
Most of the kids left in band played drums but in order to be a proper band, they needed to bring more than the beat. They needed woodwinds, horns, drums and more but instead of being discouraged, they continued to push forward. The band now has a clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, a trumpet and three drummers.
“Several members switched instruments and some even learned brand new ones,” Hailey tells The Real WV. “We aren’t even big enough to fill a closet, but we have instruments and uniforms and we are a band.”
Unless you’re in the band, it may be surprising to learn that you have to actually play certain songs during certain points in the game. You can’t just play what you want whenever you feel like it, so the kids had to not only learn new instruments but adjust the music. They recently played their first home football game where they were met with supportive signs from their classmates.
“We were nervous about how it would go, but people really stood up for us,” trumpet player Kaidence Cutlip tells the Washington Post. “Everyone made signs for us in support of the band, and that gave us a lot of confidence. We all felt like, ‘We’ve got this.’”
The band plans to play at all home games and go to ratings, which every band in West Virginia is required to attend to be rated on performance. While the band continues to take notes from The Little Engine That Could, the school is still looking for a band director.
We know our pets love us. Eternally. Enthusiastically. Unconditionally. But how do they know we love us?
Since renowned marriage counselor Gary Chapman, Ph.D. first coined the term in 2007, people have used the five love languages to better understand the different ways they give and receive love—either through physical touch, gifts, words of affirmation, quality time, or acts of service.
While love languages were first created as a tool for romantic relationships, they have since taken on a life of their own, extending to singles, children…and now, animals, apparently.
2,000 cat and dog owners were surveyed on behalf of Nulo pet food to find their furry friends preferred love language—and let’s just say it has nothing to do with giving gifts. Sorry, folks who love to dish out treats and toys.
That isn’t to say the way to a pet’s heart isn’t through their stomach. Pet parents reported being largely committed to offering high-quality meals (53%), with a focus on health and nutrition (47%), and incorporating diet variety (32%).
Quality time also ranked quite high at 27%. The next most popular pet love language is quality time which includes letting their four-legged friend sleep in their bed and bringing their pet along on trips. Although this last part has to be mostly coming from dog owners, right? Cause I know my cats would consider going on road trips with me as capital punishment.
But, without question, the reigning love language was physical touch. A whopping 83% of pet owners felt that petting their fur babies was the most effective way to express love. Another 62% endorsed hugging, and 55% were fans of kissing.
On an intuitive level, it makes sense. After all, animals use tactile communication with each other, why wouldn’t they do so with their human friends? And what pet owner among us couldn’t say that the message is very clear when they sweetly rub up against your leg or nuzzle up next to you?
What probably isn’t surprising is that 95% of the pet owners surveyed reported believing that their pet knows how much they love them because of how serious they took showing affection. Hey, it’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta cuddle that puppy.
Although, I must say, I am surprised that words of affirmation didn’t seem to make the list. We’ve all seen how a dog’s face absolutely lights up when being told they’re a good boy or girl, right? Cats seem to love it too.
Either way, it’s fun to see how, no matter what kind of creature you’re tending to, we all just wanna make sure our four legged companions have every bit of joy in life that they naturally bestow into ours.
Given that there are likely to be more big reveals about Spears’ life in the book, fans and general readers might be wondering how to pre-order it. Here’s what to know.
How to pre-order Britney Spears’ The Woman In Me
Spears’ book is out on October 24. It is currently available to pre-order around the world through a number of vendors, like Amazon, Target, Barnes And Noble, and more. A complete list of options, depending on where you’re located, can be found here.
“Over the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I sat back while people spoke about me and told my story for me,” Spears told People Magazine in a cover story to promote the book. “After getting out of my conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people in charge of my life. It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out. And my fans deserve to hear it directly from me.”
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