A few years ago, Vince Staples began promoting something called The Vince Staples Show. At first, it seemed as though it was a new musical project he was preparing to release, paired with a series of funny vignettes about life in Long Beach and the surrounding Los Angeles County. The first two episodes included standalone songs “So What” and “Sheet Music” and revolved around a violent trip to the barbershop and a visit with Vince’s hero Ray J.
However, after only two episodes, the project mysteriously vanished; in its place, Staples released two albums — a self-titled album produced by Kenny Beats and Ramona Park Broke My Heart, his most accessible project to date — and appeared in a role on Abbott Elementary, tickling fans’ funny bones and breaking their hearts as Tyler James Williams’ Gregory’s romantic rival for Quinta Brunson’s Janine’s affections. Still, in September of 2022, it was announced that Staples had entered a partnership with Netflix to produce a scripted comedy alongside Black-ish creator Kenya Barris. Ian Edelman, writer/director on How to Make It in America and The After Party, director Calmatic, and Vince’s manager Corey Smith were all listed as producers.
Since then, two major entertainment industry strikes delayed further announcements, and we’ve had yet to hear more about the project. But today, Staples, then Netflix, both posted cryptic but promising tweets, suggesting that the release date may be coming sooner than later — perhaps with the trailer that Staples promised would be coming tomorrow.
Each January, we tell ourselves stories to make it through the season. Resolutions, declarations of self-betterment, and if you’re me, Dry January. It’s like being shot from a cannon through the gluttonous haze of the holidays directly into a freezing new world of self-judgment. Funnnnn!
Sometimes I wonder if we feel inclined to make these grand statements of change because the calendar’s new year is not in line with nature’s new year, which begins on the first day of Spring. Since the vibe of January 1st doesn’t always feel brand new, we must become brand new, transforming into better, less drunk versions of ourselves while the rest of the living world is simply enjoying hibernation.
Thankfully, weed makes a far more positive companion for the dark months ahead than alcohol ever could. It’s no coincidence cannabis is harvested in October, just before the cold snaps us into submission.
Each year, I do a harvest tour in the Emerald Triangle–a corner of Northern California known for producing the best weed in the world — visiting organic, regenerative cannabis farms and checking out what they have to offer. Below you’ll find the best weed I’ve seen come out of that harvest, along with some of my favorite ways to consume them… because most pre-rolls suck and you should not buy them, even if you don’t know how to roll a joint.
Let’s start with some uplifting varieties for the short days ahead when you simply can’t but you categorically have to. Just because it’s Dry January, doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.
Vietnamese by First Cut Farms
First Cut Farms
Vietnamese by First Cut Farms is a lightning bolt of energy, mental clarity, and joy.
This is an extremely rare and pure Landrace Sativa strain from the Red River Valley in Northern Vietnam. Landrace refers to varieties of the original non-hybridized cannabis strains found in nature that are grown where they are from, and sativa refers to flowers with looser bud structures and thin, razor-edged leaves that tend to produce uplifting effects.
It makes a big difference when you consume flower grown by a legendary grower and activist like First Cut Farms founder Jerry Munn. You can feel Vietnamese’s zingy, exhilarating effects just by smelling it. Spicy and refreshing on the nose, the taste of the smoke has a fruity undertone with spicy, lemon/pine overtones.
Bottom Line: Get your entire to-do list done whilst shimmering with joy. Vietnamese is like a cup of espresso in the morning that makes you feel happy and creative instead of energized and jittery.
It’s a true work of art. If you are lucky enough to get your hands on it, cherish every puff.
Buy it here: Available in 1/8th oz, 1/2oz and oz. Price varies.
Boost T1 by Emerald Spirit Botanicals
Emerald Spirit Botanicals
The Boost T1 by Emerald Spirit Botanicals (available through Farm Cut) is one of the flowers that I am most excited about this season. Family-grown in the hills of Mendocino, it radiates love and brings an overwhelming sense of existential warmth, making it perfect for filling up the cold, boring space that is not partying for a month in the dead of winter.
While this may sound far out, the growers at Emerald Spirit Botanicals communicate with plant spirits to produce minor cannabinoids like THCV at never-before-seen levels. THCV is a cannabinoid that offers an uplifting, focused, and vision-enhancing high that also controls blood sugar, and thus curbs the munchies associated with cannabis use, making it highly sought after.
Boost T1 is a cross of their viral, energizing THCV variety, Pink Boost Goddess, and T1, is their greatest feat yet. It’s also historical in that it’s the first time a THCV-dominant strain has ever been created in an indica-leaning variety.
The smell is like a bouquet of every type of flower and tropical fruit. I also jotted down flowering trees in a pine forest, and effervescent jackfruit. The sensory experience is fruity, tingly, and activating, with a savory, tart cherry exhale. The high is relaxing, focused, and inspiring.
Bottom Line: The best possible flower for enjoying time spent alone.
This show-stopping presentation has a better chance of dethroning a fancy bottle of wine than any product I’ve encountered. The Harvest Queen by Moon Made Farms, a woman-owned regenerative farm high in the hills of Southern Humboldt, is a single, intact 24g cola of their Grapes & Cream flower, ensconced in glass in all her glory.
Moon Made Farms
This product encourages people to bring the party differently. The spectacle invites engagement from people who normally would pass on a nondescript joint, and the high of this flower is posed to elevate more than just conversation.
A cola in cannabis refers to the flowering part of the plant where the buds form. This Grapes & Cream cola smells creamy and peppery with a fruity, woody flavor. The high is like a hug for your body and mind, with a heavy head change that flushes out all anxiety and otherwise icky feelings, making it a great pick for social situations where people are drinking when you are not.
Bottom Line: Revolutionize your next dinner party by bringing Harvest Queen instead of a bottle of wine.
The name says it all. Snowcone by Moon Valley Cannabis, a living-soil indoor operation out of Sonoma County, is quite literally bursting with layered flavors and smells, similar to the striped colors of ice in its nostalgia-laden namesake.
This weed creates joy from nothing at all. It’s extremely potent with none of the negative aspects of cannabis consumption. The smell is predominantly orange with notes of cherry with gas, kind of like a diesel-y Fanta or cracking an orange soda at a gas station.
This flower reminds me of how weed used to be when I was young, back when the traditional market was bustling with Emerald Triangle flower grown by farmers who not only knew what they were doing but cared about providing stellar medicine to the people.
The reason that Moon Valley’s flower is so good is that, unlike most indoor cultivators, they use “living soil,” and grow in large troughs of soil alive with mycelium, bugs, and other plants, and use fertilizers they ferment themselves according to Korean natural farming practices.
While most people don’t think of cannabis as a living consumable, it is. Whatever goes into its growing experience comes out in the experience you have from consuming it. The better the inputs, the better the weed. Moon Valley is living proof.
Bottom Line: Energizing, nostalgic, and soul-soothing, just like the real thing.
I can’t imagine a better weed to welcome the winter than Northern Lights by the family-owned and operated Radicle Herbs. Everything about this flower creates a deep, genuine feeling of coziness.
If you’re a seasoned stoner, you probably remember this strain from the nineties and 2000s. The smell is mountainous in every way, like wet soil and evergreens, the earth beneath melting snow on a sunny day.
The high is fun and relaxing. It made me think of the sound of silence on a cold winter night when you can hear the hum of light radiating off the moon. Serene and, for a moment, perfect.
Bottom Line: Rarely is one able to experience something purely good.
Dark Side of the Moon is a brand new cultivar by WildLand Cannabis, a regenerative, artist-owned farm in Mendocino County.
These stunning, emerald green nugs smell like red fruit and pine trees, with a high that’s great for being creative or thinking deeply without experiencing anxiety.
This is a phenotype of one of my favorite WildLand strains, their proprietary Mountain Moon Cake. It’s fruity, and piney with an invigorating minty overtone that brings an unexpected freshness to the sensory experience.
Like all of WildLand’s flower, the high of this one is made to foster the creative process. While her sister Mountain Moon Cake is ideal for creating, I find Dark Side to be more effective in the reflective, editing phase that is so necessary before pushing the project to light.
Bottom Line: Great for deep thoughts, nights around the fire, and finding perspective in creative endeavors.
Glitter Bomb, the social and laid-back flower from Sonoma Hills Farm, an organic cannabis farm with a culinary bend, is perfect for enjoying the weekend without getting obliterated.
She is, in a word, sparkly. Thick, chunky nugs glisten with trichomes and red hairs. The smell is lush and potent, like a fruity, woody pine forest. The high has a disco ball feeling that is fun and upbeat. I just smoked some and if I were at a party, I would be dancing.
This flower is a perfect way to get litty without alcohol. Smoke a bunch before going out with your friends, then Irish goodbye before the bad decisions start.
To the surprise of no one, Donald Trump handily trounced his presidential opponents during the Iowa caucuses. The next day, though, he was back to what’s become a familiar activity: sitting in a courtroom during one of his many criminal trials. These days he’s busy with his second defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll, whom last year he was found liable of defaming as well as sexually abusing in the ‘90s. it didn’t take long for the former president to defame her again. And he may have done it again in posts that dropped while he was sitting in court.
Per Raw Story, Trump’s Truth Social account was busy Tuesday, with over two dozens posts about Carroll alone. In some he again claimed not only did he not assault her, but he didn’t even know her. “Can you believe I have to defend myself against this woman’s fake story?!” went one. Others, though, were screengrabs of sex jokes Carroll had made on Twitter the previous decade, like this one, from 2014: “Everything interesting on Twitter is about sex.”
Many of these were posted while Trump was in court, not dithering around on his phone. It’s not clear if he scheduled them to go out while he was phone-less, or if some on his team were posting for him. (Given the specific weird syntax of his social media posts, it seems he’s long done his own posting.)
“He sat in this courthouse — you saw him — [and] while he was sitting here, he posted more defamatory statements,” Crowley said, according to a transcript. “More lies about Ms. Carroll & this case. By our last [count], 22 posts just today. Think about that when you consider how much money it will take to get him to stop.”
Trump’s big mouth — and his reckless social media posting — may get him in trouble in court, but they sure don’t with his die-hard fans. Over the weekend he straight-up told Iowan supporters to vote during dangerous weather conditions even if it kills them. “If you vote and then pass away, it’s worth it,” he told a crowd. Did they then realize that maybe the candidate they so adore might not give a crap about them? Of course they didn’t.
Kids learn about status symbols at a very young age. It seems that every generation, a new group of tweens has something that helps define the social pecking order at school, whether it’s having the right brand of Rollerblades in the ‘90s, Ugg boots in the 2000s, or the newest iPhone in the 2010s.
In 2024, the hip thing with the tween set is having a brand-name water bottle to bring to school, specifically a Stanley.
Historically, a Stanley was a blue-collar tumbler you’d bring to a construction site. But now, in a world where people are obsessed with hydration, the $45 bottle is all the rage amongst tweens and teens.
Dayna Motycka, the Ohio mother of a 9-year-old, shared a first-hand glimpse into the name-brand water bottle craze after her daughter was bullied for bringing a $10 Wamart tumbler to school. After returning to school from the holidays, 9 girls in her class got Stanley Tumblers.
I in fact did not keep it short and sweet 🤦🏼♀️ apparently needed to get this off my chest! 🤷♀️ #stanleycups #valentinestanley #targetstanley #parentsteachingkids #parentingtips101
“And they made sure to let her know that this is not a real Stanley, that this is fake, and it’s not as cool,” Motycka said, pointing to her daughter’s cup.
In a video with over 3.4 million views, Motycka says she could have given her daughter an expensive tumbler but didn’t think it was necessary.
“Can we afford to buy her a Stanley? Yes. Did I think that she needed one? No,” she said. “Apparently, I’ve been proven wrong by the children in our school who are making fun of her for not having a real name-brand Stanley.”
The mother went to a local hardware store and bought her a Stanley for $35. She also noted that she owns one herself.
The mother believes this sort of bullying starts at home with the parents. “This doesn’t start with the kids. This starts with us, with parents, with moms. What are we teaching our kids?” she asked. Motycka says that if her daughter bullied someone for their water bottle, she would be in serious trouble.
“You’d better believe that if our nine-year-old daughter came home and, somehow, we found out that she had made fun of another girl at school for not having something name-brand… we would be calling the family, we would be making her write a note to apologize, we would make her apologize in person because that’s not what we do in this household,” she said.
The video makes an interesting point because, on one hand, the mother is judging other parents for raising kids who would be so petty as to bully another kid for their water bottle. On the other hand, after the girl was bullied, she bought her a Stanley water bottle to fit in with the kids who bullied her. She also owns one of the bottles herself.
Is the mother sending mixed messages, or does it all make sense?
It’s called THE STANLEY 40 oz. Quencher H2.0 Flow State Tumbler!!$STAN
“So basically, do as I say not as I do??? This has to be satire. The only explanation for making this video,” an anonymous user commented on the video. “I’m not on board with her message about changing and not actually being the change she speaks of. Otherwise, I would agree with her 100%,” another user wrote.
One mom has taught her boys how to handle this type of bullying.
“My boys have followed my example. So they respond with things like ‘Well, at least I have the thing that I like instead of the thing everyone else likes,’” Kiki Rodriguez wrote.
In the end, Motycka admitted that teaching your kids confidence while shielding them from pain is hard.
“I feel this..but we should also teach our kids to be leaders with more confidence in themselves and their choices. Not being crowd followers,” Aim wrote. “I agree with you! It’s just such a tough line,” Motycka responded.
On Feb. 19, 2023, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” turned 55 years old. And the internet was feeling feelings over it.
After premiering on Canadian TV in 1963, Fred Rogers’ beloved children’s program debuted in the U.S. in 1968, inspiring generations of kids across North America to be more thoughtful, kinder neighbors.
One person feeling the feels on the show’s anniversary was model, author, and Twitter goddess Chrissy Teigen.
Teigen tweeted the most delightful anecdote about why Rogers would often announce that he was feeding the fish during the show.
Mister Rogers would narrate himself feeding the fish each episode with u201cIu2019m feeding the fishu201d because of a letter he received from a young blind girl who was worried the fish were hungry. Love you, Mister Rogers.https://twitter.com/pbsds/status/965596450733228032u00a0u2026
“Mister Rogers would narrate himself feeding the fish each episode with, ‘I’m feeding the fish,’ because of a letter he received from a young blind girl who was worried the fish were hungry,” she wrote. “Love you, Mister Rogers.”
Aaaaaand I’m crying.
Rogers included the text of the girl’s letter in his book, “Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?” published in 1996.
One girl and her family wrote to tell us there was a special reason why she wanted me to talk about feeding the fish each day.
Dear Mister Rogers,
Please say when you are feeding your fish, because I worry about them. I can’t see if you are feeding them, so please say you are feeding them out loud.
Katie, age 5 (Father’s note: Katie is blind, and she does cry if you don’t say that you have fed the fish.)
This downright adorable clip from the series shows Rogers reassuring little Katie that the fish were always well-fed:
Sylvia Earle brought her underwater microphone to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood so children could listen to the fish in the aquarium. When the fish don’t make…
“I need to feed the fish right away,” Rogers said in the episode, before shaking the container of food above the tank. “I have some friends who get very concerned when I forget the fish during our visits.”
Aaaaaand I’m ugly crying.
Rogers showed us how simple it often is to be a more compassionate friend.
“I just wanted you to know that even if I forget to feed them when we’re together, I come back later and feed them, so they’re always taken care of,” Rogers concluded. “It’s good to know that fish and animals and children are taken care of by those who can, isn’t it?”
Yes it is, Mister Rogers. The world needs more neighbors like you.
There was an emotional exchange on TikTok between two people who lost their fathers to cancer. One was actor Mandy Patinkin, the other was TikTok user Amanda Webb.
Patinkin currently stars on “The Good Fight” but one of his most famous roles is Inigo Montoya in the 1987 classic “The Princess Bride.” In the film, Montoya is a swordsman who is obsessed with confronting a six-fingered man who killed his father.
Webb recently lost her father Dan to mantle cell lymphoma. She had heard a rumor that Patinkin used his father’s death from cancer as motivation in a pivotal scene where he confronts the six-fingered Count Rugen (Christopher Guest) in a duel.
Rugen tells Montoya he will give him anything he wants after being bested by Montoya who passionately replies, “I want my father back, you son of a bitch.”
Webb’s father was a big fan of Montoya’s performance in the film so she reached out to TikTok to learn if the rumor was true.
“I saw on the internet the rumor that when Mandy Patinkin said that line, he was thinking of his own father who had passed away from cancer,” Webb said while crying. “And it was a very raw emotion. Ever since then, it’s kind of really stuck with me.”
“First of all, your dad is taking care of you,” he said. “Secondly, it is true, 100% true. I went outside in this castle and walked around and I kept talking to my dad.”
“The minute I read the script, I knew, I said to [his wife], I said, ‘I’m going to do this part because in my mind, if I get the six-fingered guy, that means I killed the cancer that killed my dad and I’ll get to visit my dad,” he said.
“That moment was coming, and I went and I played that scene with Chris [Guest], and then I went back out there and talked to my dad,” Patinkin said.
He then told Webb that she has the power to talk to her father, too.
“And so, you can talk to your dad anytime you want, anywhere you want,” he said. “If you could somehow let me know your dad’s name because I say prayers for anyone I’ve ever known. Now I feel like I know you, and therefore I know your dad, and I will list his name in my prayers every day, and they make me feel like they’re with me, wherever I go, and I’d like your dad to hang out with me.”
When it comes to winter beers, some drinkers tend to lean toward stouts, porters, winter warmers, and other darker beers. And while we enjoy all of those beer styles — especially when the streets below our apartments seem like frozen tundras — we also enjoy a respite from time to time. And that respite often means making space for a piney, dank, perfectly bitter West Coast IPA.
West Coast IPAs are known for their floral, extremely dank, piney flavors, thanks to popular Pacific Northwest hop varietals like Centennial, Chinook, Cascade, Simcoe, and more. It’s a very divisive style — some drinkers find it overly bitter. But if you take the time to find all of the various flavors, working in perfect unison, the hoppy, bitter finish will seem like a chef’s kiss.
There are countless exceptional West Coast IPAs on the market, perfectly suited for winter drinking. But to help you out we picked eight of the best, dank, piney, resinous, kick-your-butt West Coast IPAs on the market and ranked them. Keep scrolling to see them all.
First brewed in 2014, this award-winning, year-round West Coast IPA is known for its mix of citrus peels and dank, bitter hops thanks to the liberal use of Amarillo, Cascade, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Summit hops. It gets its sweet malt backbone from the use of two-row and Munich malts.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of grapefruit, tangerine, lemongrass, and dank, piney hops greets you before your first tip. Drinking it reveals a mix of sweet caramel malts as well as orchard fruits, grapefruit, orange zest, mango, guava, ripe peach, and pine needles. The finish is bitter and highly memorable.
Bottom Line:
This is a sublimely dank and bitter West Coast IPA, but it has a nice malt backbone that creates a great balance.
Gumberoo is a mythical creature that some lumberjacks claim to have stumbled upon. It’s supposedly bigger than a bear, has a mouth of jagged teeth, and has a hide too strong for bullets to pierce. It’s a strange, scary creature and one the folks at Rogue named their West Coast IPA after. This balanced, year-round beer is brewed with 2-row and Munich malts as well as wheat, Pacman yeast, and Mosaic, Simcoe, Belma, and Idaho 7 hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is heavy on caramel malts, tangerine, orange peels, ripe grapefruit, and earthy, resinous pine. The palate is loaded with honeydew melon, sweet malts, mango, grapefruit, and dank, resinous pine needles. The ending is bitter pine needles and woodsy flavors.
Bottom Line:
This is an epic, dank, bitter West Coast IPA. It’s one that absolutely deserves to be named after a mythical creature.
Cali Boy is one of No Label’s flagship year-round beers for a reason. It’s an amplified, crisp, flavorful West Coast IPA loaded with tropical fruit flavors and dank pine. It’s dry, bitter, and highly memorable. It’s the kind of West Coast IPA that made San Diego famous even though it was brewed in Texas.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find scents of lemongrass, clementines, grapefruit, peach, and floral, earthy, sticky pine. On the palate, you’ll find notes of caramelized pineapple, guava, and a ton of pine needles. The finish is crisp, dry, and bitter in the best way possible.
Bottom Line:
This is one for the cannabis fans. It’s flavorful and has everything West Coast IPA drinkers enjoy but — warning — it’s daaaaaaaank.
Known for its mix of tropical fruit flavors, malt backbone, and heavy dank hop presence, this year-round beer was brewed with 2-row malts and Munich malts. It gets its classic West Coast IPA flavor and resinous, floral, bitter aroma and flavor from the use of Cascade, Strata, Mosaic, and Galaxy hops.
Tasting Notes:
There are a lot of aromas of guava, mango, pineapple, passionfruit, freshly baked bread, and resinous, earthy hops on the nose. The palate is heavy with tangerine, ripe grapefruit, grass, caramel malts, more tropical fruits, and a pine-forward, dank, pleasantly bitter finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a very tropical fruit-forward West Coast IPA. But it still has the dank bitterness fans of the style crave.
Full Blaze is an extremely aptly named beer. It was brewed with a handful of Northwest hops to be a classic, sublimely dank, hoppy West Coast IPA. Tropical fruits, citrus peels, and pleasant bitterness. This skeleton-adorned beer has everything hop heads desire.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is classic West Coast IPA. There’s a mix of tangerine, grapefruit, and assorted citrus peel flavors as well as light tropical fruits, and the expected resinous, cannabis-like hops. There’s more of the same on the palate as grapefruit, orange peel, and lemongrass move into mango, peach, and eventually herbal, earthy, dank pine. The finish is pleasantly bitter and leaves you wanting more.
Bottom Line:
While it has a nice fruity backbone, this one is for the West Coast drinkers who want their beer to taste and smell as dank as possible.
This well-balanced, award-winning, highly-rated West Coast IPA is known for its mix of tropical flavors, medium body, and dry, bitter finish. It’s brewed with a 2-row pale male base and malted wheat. It gets its hop presence from the use of Nelson Sauvin, Citra, and Centennial hops.
Tasting Notes:
Mango, tangerine, lemon, caramelized pineapple, and just a hint of floral, herbal pine needles make for a great start to this beer. Sipping it brings forth notes of lemongrass, lime zest, passionfruit, grapefruit, honeydew mellows, ripe grapes, and a nice kick of dank pine at the end. It’s well-balanced and has a pleasing bitter finish.
Bottom Line:
The mix of Northwest hops and Nelson Sauvin from New Zealand gives this beer the classic citrus and pine flavors of the West Coast IPA with more tropical, grape-like flavors from the Nelson Sauvin.
Everyone has a mutual friend, but does that friend brew an outstanding West Coast IPA? Probably not. Our Mutual Friend Time’s Arrow is a classic, pine, dank West Coast banger brewed with a mix of Citra and Idaho 7 hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose begins with yeasty fresh baked bread and moves into pineapple, grapefruit, orange peel, and resinous, cannabis-like pine aromas. On the palate, you’ll be treated to biscuit-like malts, caramelized pineapple, tangerine, lemon, mango, peach, and more dank pine. The finish is dry and has just the right amount of bitterness to remind you that you’re drinking a West Coast IPA.
Bottom Line:
This is a great take on the West Coast IPA. While bitter and loaded with hop aroma and flavor, it’s well-balanced with bready, biscuity malts as well.
This year-round offering from Alpine is classic West Coast through and through. While not containing any of the “C” hops (Chinook, Citra, and Centennial), it’s loaded with Simcoe and Amarillo hops, giving it a balanced flavor profile featuring tons of dank pine and bright citrus.
Tasting Notes:
A complex nose of cedar wood, candied orange peels, lime, tangerine, and resinous, earthy floral pine starts everything off on the right foot. Drinking it reveals notes of sweet, biscuit-like malts, wet grass, grapefruit zest, orange peel, juicy peach, passionfruit, ripe pineapple, and a nice kick of resinous, dank pine needles. The finish is aggressively bitter and dry in the best way possible.
Bottom Line:
This is a true West Coast IPA for fans who love everything about the style. It’s potently bitter and loaded with hop flavor and aroma. What’s not to love?
The White Lotus was just supposed to be a one-off, with a premise that even if it got a second season couldn’t ever reunite the same cast. The upside to that, though, is that each season always has an amazing new ensemble. Round two had such luminaries as Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli, and F. Murray Abraham, to say nothing of the returning Jennifer Coolidge. Round three already has Parker Posey, Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan, and Jason Isaacs. (Still no sign of Coolidge, whose Tanya could always be exhumed somehow.) But now it’s gotten even better.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the vacation show’s third season has just added no less than Walton Goggins. Walton Goggins: the human steroid injection for any show or movie. Walton Goggins: the guy whose range includes bone-chilling Boyd Crowder on Justified, trans prostitute Venus on Sons of Anarchy, and pickle-loving Baby Billy on The Righteous Gemstones. Walton Goggins: an actor who should be in everything anyway.
Where will Goggins and company be vacationing in the next batch of White Lotus episodes? In Thailand, in and around Koh Samui, Phuket, and Bangkok. He’ll be joined by four other new additions: Sarah Catherine Hook (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It), Sam Nivola (Maestro), Aimee Lou Wood (BAFTA winner for Sex Education), and Patrick Schwarzenegger, of The Staircase and the Boys spinoff Gen V and who has two pretty famous parents.
2024 is shaping up to be a devastating year for hip-hop power couples. Cardi B and Offset, who had been staples of red-carpet events and the picture of a wholesome rap family, called it quits ahead of the new year (although that didn’t stop them from backsliding on New Year’s Eve). Now, a lower-profile but still popular couple, YG and Saweetie, has also apparently broken up, according to a report from The Shade Room.
According to the Instagram gossip account, a source close to the couple confirmed they made a mutual decision to split up, as both are busy with their careers and focused on making the most of them.
The two California rappers were rumored to be dating after Coachella last year, seemingly confirming the speculation during a cozy getaway in Cabo, Mexico a month later. In July, they announced a joint tour along with Tyga, which concluded in November with a hometown show at the Forum in Inglewood. The three rappers also collaborated on Saweetie’s July single “Birthday.”
Since then, YG and Tyga collaborated on their joint project, Hit Me When U Leave The Klub, while Saweetie most recently popped up on fellow Cali native Anderson .Paak’s Apple Music radio show .Paak House Radio to play a game of “Name That Tune.”
Before they made it big as Hollywood heartthrobs, Brad Pitt and Jason Priestley were roommates living in a “really crappy part of L.A.” And like all young men, their living conditions were gross as hell thanks in no small part to a gross competition they apparently couldn’t stop playing.
“Brad wasn’t as bad as my other roommate, who was an absolute disaster,” Priestley recently told Live with Kelly and Mark via PEOPLE. “But Brad was okay. We used to play this game, all of us, to see who could go the longest without showering. I think about it now and I’m like, ‘Dude, how disgusting. What were you thinking?’”
According to Priestley, there was a routine winner of the no-shower contest: “Always Brad,” he told hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. “I don’t think he does that anymore, but back then he could go a long time without showering.”
While this is definitely the grossest tale about living with Pitt, it’s not the first time that Priestly has opened up about their shared living situation. Back in 2014, he wrote a memoir where he talked about their dirt poor lifestyle before Priestley found teen fame on 90210 and Pitt became a sex symbol for the ages with Thelma & Louise.
“We lived on ramen noodles and generic beer — the kind that came in white cans labeled BEER — and Marlboro Light cigarettes. We were all broke,” Priestley wrote before revealing that he and Pitt lost touch after striking it big in Hollywood.
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