Year: 2024

When it’s time to make stuffing, whether it’s for Thanksgiving or any other meal, you have a decision to make. Do you make homemade stuffing or go for the shortcut and buy Stove Top? It comes down to the ease of making something right out of a box versus the satisfaction of making the perfect side dish from scratch.

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Why Stove Top

Stove Top can usually be purchased by the box or canister, depending on how many servings you need. There are also a few flavors to explore, including classic herb, chicken, and cornbread. All you need is either a saucepan or a microwave as well as a few basic ingredients like water and butter.

The stuffing is done in minutes and is easy to make. You can’t mess it up, which means you can also delegate the task to someone else in the kitchen while you focus on another element of dinner.

Why Homemade

Homemade stuffing gives you the ability to choose each and every ingredient. You can cube the bread of your choosing, dice an array of vegetables, infuse any herbs you wish, and even add in some broth. You can get a rich flavor that is your very own.

When people say that they love the stuffing, you get to take full credit for it, too.

Making the Final Decision

It all comes down to what you have time for and what your skill level is. If you have the time and skill to make homemade, go for it. Otherwise, Stove Top is perfectly acceptable, which is why it’s so popular.

You may also want to look at the nutritional elements. Stove Top may be higher in sodium. You’ll have full control over everything when you make it homemade, which may be better if you have people who are gluten-free or have other dietary requirements.

No matter what you choose, it’s sure to be delicious.

2024 seems to be ending in Tyler The Creator’s favor. Outside of the “Sticky” rapper securing yet another chart-topping album with Chromakopia, his beloved music festival Camp Flog Gnaw is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

This weekend (November 16-17), Tyler, Playboi Carti, and Schoolboy Q are set to headline Camp Flog Gnaw 2024. Today (November 12), the official set times for the multi-day event were shared online. Continue below to view, all times are p.m. and Pacific.

Camp Flog Gnaw Set Times For Saturday, November 16, 2024

Over on the main stage, Camp, Concrete Boys are schedule to perform at 2:30, following by Doechii at 3:35 and Omar Apollo at 4:45. Then Kaytranada will curate the vibes at 6:15, after which Daniel Caesar will perform at 7:55. The festival’s founder Tyler The Creator will close things starting at 9:50.

Kenny Mason will hit the Flog stage at 2:20. Action Bronson is locked in for 4:40. Then Vince Staples will entertain the crowd at 5:55, followed by Denzel Curry at 7:25. Schoolboy Q will wrap up the Flog stage performances at 8:55.

The Gnaw stage has several musicians worth checking out including Laila! at 1, Yves Tumor at 4:15, Sampha at 5:40, and Alchemist & Friends at 7:15.

Camp Flog Gnaw Set Times For Sunday, November 17, 2024

For Camp stage’s day two lineup, attendees aren’t likely to budge much. Raye will kick things off at 3:25. Then Syd at 4:35, Erykah Badu at 5:50, The Marias at 7:10, and Mustard & Friends at 8:40. Playboi Carti will end the night starting at 10:10.

You can catch Jean Dawson at 2 over on the Flog stage. Domo Genesis will follow at 4. Then Tommy Richman at 6:05, Earl Sweatshirt at 7:35, and Blood Orange at 9:05.

Orion Sun will hit the Gnaw stage at 4. André 3000 is billed to play his New Blue Sun album at 5:20. Sexyy Red will follow at 6:35. Faye Webster goes on after that at 7:55. The Gnaw stage will end with FM Mood’s A Tribute To MF Doom set.

Festival sets and lineups are subject to change. To stay up-to-date with Camp Flog Gnaw 2024’s scheduling, ticket holders are encourage to download the mobile app. Find more information here.

Diddy is entangled in a mountain of legal woes. The former head of Revolt TV has been accused of sex trafficking, sexual assault, abuse, and more. Since the allegations surfaced many industry insiders have attempted to create distance from him as not to be found guilty (in the public’s eyes) by association.

Yesterday (November 11), Sting did just that when asked about the controversy surrounding Diddy. During an interview with LA Times, Sting shut down the idea that The Police’s hit “Every Breath You Take” has been soiled as a result of Diddy.

When asked if the band’s famed smash, which was sampled by Diddy for the Notorious B.I.G. tribute track “I’ll Be Missing You” featuring Faith Evans and 112, was tainted Sting rejected the notion.

“No,” he said. “I mean, I don’t know what went on [with Diddy]. But it doesn’t taint the song at all for me. It’s still my song.”

The interview argued with Sting’s response, saying: “And people still love to hear it.”

“Absolutely,” chimed Sting.

Given that The Police’s “Every Breathe You Take” was already a chart-topping global smash back in 1983 and has maintained critically praise over the decades, Sting seems to have a point in many supporters eyes.

Cordae’s forthcoming album The Crossroads is due out this Friday, November 15. Before it hits streaming platforms, the “Syrup Sandwiches” rapper wanted to get something off of his chest.

Over on X (formerly Twitter), Cordae let data collecting critics know that he isn’t interested in The Crossroads‘ first week metrics. “Want to say this now I don’t give 1 f*ck about a first week sales,” he wrote. “It’s a very inaccurate way to calculate impact, especially with the current streaming metrics. I seen somebody do 11K first week and then do a ARENA TOUR off the same album. That’s the end of my Ted talk *2nd one.”

This year, there has been a growing trend of artists been shamed for album sales, streaming metrics, and chart placement especially in rap music.

Cordae went on to slam shamers, writing: “N****s said my last project first week numbers wasn’t good, and I ended up doing a sold out headline world tour.”

He then continued by taking a trip down memory lane reflecting on sales and consumer trends over the years. “In the 90/2000s music was consumed by people actually going to the stores and buying albums,” he wrote. “When you did 100K first week that meant 100 thousand people went and bought the CD. Now, you can have 300,000 people Listening to your album on streaming, and the units. Equivalent is 200.”

The Crossroads is due out 11/15 via Atlantic Records. You can find more information here.

In the first trailer for his upcoming album, Dreamboy, Lil Nas X introduces his alter ego via a cheeky and borderline profane short story. In the trailer, Nas plays a castaway, floating in the middle of the ocean on a makeshift raft. A flash of light races across the sky, and Nas encounters the titular Dreamboy, a Power Rangers-esque being who introduces himself as a version of Lil Nas X who tells him, “I’m gonna help you save yourself. It’s time to remember who you are — who you really are.” However, Nas’ response is less than satisfactory, and Dreamboy shows himself a little tough love to get him started on the journey as the album’s first single, “Light Again,” kicks in.

Nas had previously teased the upcoming album on social media, writing, “I just want to release music, but expectations are just like… insane. Like, I can’t even have fun. I just want to f*ckin’ have fun with this sh*t. I don’t even give a f*ck about all the other sh*t. Of course, I want to, like, be No. 1 all the time, I want every song to go up, and I want you to go crazy. But it’s like, at the same time, I want to f*ckin’ have fun. I want to go and live life, I just want to make music.” Incidentally, he had already given glimpses of the Dreamboy uniform at the MTV VMAs.

As far as pressure goes, even he knows he has little to worry about; after queer culture’s resident megahater Azealia Banks said he “fell off,” he reminded her (and the world at large) “i could never make a hit song again and you would still never in ur bussy soap selling chicken sacrificing botched body hating ass miserable life reach a 10th of my success.”

Check out the first Dreamboy trailer above.

(SPOILERS from the fourth Bridget Jones novel will be found below.)

Romcoms have been having a moment lately due to Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Blake Lively, and Justin Baldoni, no doubt about it. So it might be a fantastic time for a 1990s romcom institution, Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones, to make her post-Mark Darcy comeback with Renee Zellweger reprising the lead role. Heck, The Times once reckoned that “Bridget Jones could be described as the first rom com anti-heroine,” which could bode well for a fourth movie when escapism is sorely needed amid current events. (Seriously, try and watch this fight scene without cracking a smile. Not possible.)

The fourth movie, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, is indeed on the way, mostly without Mark Darcy as confirmed a new trailer and with Bridget as a single mum of their two children for the past four years (in movie time). What happened to Mr. Darcy (2.0 for Austenites)?

The corresponding 2013 book revealed that Mark, a human rights lawyer, met his end in a landmine explosion. According to author Helen Fielding, Firth was rather upset to hear of his character’s death, and although Firth does make a trailer cameo, there will be a Mark Darcy-sized void in London.

No wonder Hugh Grant recently called the fourth film “very, very sad” in addition to being “extremely funny.” He also added that Daniel Cleaver’s appearance in the movie makes little sense, yet “they wanted to cram me in.” Fortunately, the trailer does not suggest that Bridget wants to hook up with Daniel again, but she does move onto the dating app world at the urging of her friends (including the gloriously profane Shazzer). And the trailer makes it pretty clear that the 50-something Bridget gets busy with a 29-year-old man portrayed by Leo Woodall, who is also having a moment in real life.

A synopsis fills in a few blanks:

Pressured by her Urban Family – Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man. Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher.

The movie will not only see the return of Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant but also the “urban family” portrayed by Sally Phillips (as Shazzer), James Calls (as Tom), and Shirley Henderson (as Jude). Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones will also be back as Bridget’s parents. New cast additions include not only Leo Woodall but Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Isla Fisher.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy will stream via Peacock on Feb. 13, 2025.

Linkin Park‘s website currently lists only two live shows in 2025: one in Las Vegas at Sick New World Festival, and another in Columbus, Ohio, for the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival. That might be changing very soon.

A number of venues across the globe, including London’s Wembley Stadium and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, have been sharing images on social media with banners reading “Counting To Zero” being changed to “Counting From Zero.” There’s also a cryptic tease for something being announced at 7 a.m. ET on November 14. The most popular theory is that the reformed Linkin Park will announce a tour behind their new album, From Zero, on that date.

The “Counting From Zero” tease also popped up for Moody Center in Austin, Texas; CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, Maryland; United Center in Chicago, Illinois; Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado; Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan; Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee; T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri; Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey; BOK Center in Tulsa; and Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, among many others. There’s also international venues in Germany, Italy, and France.

Linkin Park had been on hiatus since 2017 following the death of lead singer Chester Bennington, but the group reformed earlier this year with a new vocalist, Emily Armstrong.

From Zero is out 11/15 via Warner Records.

It looks like Gunna is branching out in his video for “Him All Along.” The single, which has been out for a few weeks, focuses on Gunna’s pursuit of his goals. In the new clip, which dropped earlier today, Gunna details just what that looks like. Rather than simply flexing and flossing his way through another showcase of his material wealth, “Him All Along” finds Gunna indulging in new experiences, from hitting the links to work on his golf stroke to taking in a display of equestrian excellence. The video ends with Gunna putting on a community day for the kids of Atlanta, complete with carnival games and a supersized inflatable slide.

“Him All Along” continues Gunna standout run since leaving jail in late 2022, which has included the Bittersweet Tour, his new album, One Of Wun, and an initiative to guarantee income to two dozen families in Fulton County. Meanwhile, he recently wrapped up another slate of tour dates ahead of his upcoming Amazon Music Live performance in Los Angeles and appears to be rebuilding his status in hip-hop, even as some hackers try to downplay the olive branch extended to him by Young Thug on his last day in court.

You can watch Gunna’s “Him All Along” video above.

Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” has been the biggest show in the world for the past few years, as the tour has had millions of fans pass through the gates at stadiums around the globe. After finishing her international leg of the tour, Swift added another run of U.S. tour dates, which included recently playing three nights in Indianapolis at the start of November.

In attendance for those shows was the biggest sports star in the city at present, as Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark wasn’t about to miss a chance to see her favorite artist play shows in her new home city. The only problem for Caitlin at the Eras Tour was that she’s too popular in Indianapolis, which meant she was being constantly given friendship bracelets from other Swifties. That’s a very nice problem to have, but in her effort to wear every one she was given, it started to create an issue, as she explained at the Women’s Leadership Summit.

“Taylor Swift, I just went two nights in a row in Indianapolis. I’ve been three times,” Clark said. “I had a ton [of bracelets], all the way up the arms. I had to take them off, my circulation was getting cut off! Everyone was just chucking their bracelets at me. I’ve seen her three times, and every time the show has just gotten better.”

She showed off her collection on Instagram during one of the shows and it was a lot of bracelets.

Clark has spent the last year or two learning the ups and downs of life as a superstar, but this is certainly a very unique pitfall of fame, being so popular you get too many friendship bracelets and start to lose feeling in your arm.

Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial was a career-making moment for Roddy Ricch, as his debut album went No. 1 and spawned the chart-topping single “The Box.” The 2019 album turns five years old next month, so Ricch is celebrating: Today (November 12), he announced a “5 year anniversary experience” set for December 6 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

As for tickets, there’s an artist pre-sale starting on November 13 at 10 a.m. PT and ending on November 14 at 10 p.m. PT. The password to access that is “NAVYERA.” That will be followed by the general on-sale, which starts on November 15 at 10 a.m. PT. There are some additional pre-sales as well, and more information can be found here.

Also on December 6, Ricch is set to release his third album, The Navy Album.

In his 2022 Uproxx cover story, Ricch talked about what he learned from his early career, saying, “A lot of times, you may get distracted by trying to rekindle relationships with different things. I feel like just what I learned is just sometimes, even if it’s broke, sometimes it’s just better not to deal with certain things or don’t let certain things bother you — everything’s not going to be perfect. Sometimes when you sit down and think about a lot of sh*t, you try to make everything perfect, and I feel like the thing I learned is it’s okay to not be perfect. There’s perfect in imperfection.”