Last night, TMZ broke the news that Blueface was arrested outside Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles in Las Vegas for attempted murder that allegedly occurred on October 8. TMZ has since shared a video of the incident, in which the rapper pulls out a gun and shoots at the driver of a truck outside a Vegas club. The video depicts him firing several times while the truck speeds off.
Sources told TMZ that the driver walked into the bar and was attacked by Blueface’s crew, though Blueface himself was not directly involved in the altercation. Sources also told TMZ that as the man was leaving, he got in his truck and drove up to Blueface and his crew and asked, “Who hit me?!” Watch the footage of the shots on TMZ‘s site.
His charges, according to files obtained by TMZ, include felony attempted murder with the use of a deadly firearm or tear gas. There’s also another charge of discharging a gun into a house, building, vehicle or craft. When TMZ broke the news yesterday, they also shared a video of the “Thotiana” rapper being handcuffed on the ground, which was likely an undercover operation because cops had an open warrant for his arrest.
After dropping his debut album Golden One to accompany his autobiographical HBO special, Whitmer Thomas is back with a message we could all learn from nowadays: “commit to the cringe.” It’s a line he sings on his The Older I Get The Funnier I Was ballad-like dream pop track “Navel Gazey” and one that sums up his approach to songwriting. In order to “make it” as both a comedian and a songwriter (and to have a viral song about being a big baby), you’ve really got to lean into the cringe.
Thomas isn’t just a comedian who makes comedy music. Rather, he makes earworm indie rock with a humorous edge. Tracks like his demure album opener “Most Likely” speaks to imposter syndrome with a wistful edge, evoking popular indie songwriters like Alex G. Others like “Rigamarole” are more playful, leaning on synths and a catchy chorus while Thomas sings of shaking the depression of a monotonous routine.
To celebrate the release of The Older I Get The Funnier I Was, Whitmer Thomas sits down with Uproxx to talk Cindi Lauper, Hooters, and a hot take about Mark Hoppus in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Dammit, Dang, Dumbass, Guitar
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Hopefully some folks might relate and laugh while listening to some of it and then go watch the Dark Knight on channel Zorp.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
Tough to say, but my favorite show on the tour I’m currently on has been Columbus, Ohio.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Mark Hoppus. He’s the reason I started playing music. “Wendy Clear” is better than “Hey Jude.”
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
Probably the Hooters in Ontario on the way home from Morongo Casino after winning 200 bucks.
What album do you know every word to?
True Love by Hovvdy or Enema of The State by Blink-182.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
Watching my big brother’s band Life Left open for Norma Jean in Pensacola, Florida when I was 15 will never be topped.
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
I’m always trying to recreate The Cindi Lauper in Paris 1987 (True Colour Tour) outfit from this taped concert. Check it out on Youtube right now. Timeless. Perfect look.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
Apart from losing re-election in 2020, nothing bad has really ever happened to Donald Trump. He’s never had to pay the consequences of his actions, and even though he faces numerous legal and financial threats, there’s no reason to think he won’t weasel out of them, like he has every other calamity. Maybe his 2024 presidential campaign, which kicked off with a sad trombone sound, will prove another inexplicable Trump success. But for now, the reviews aren’t good, not even from Russian State TV.
Russia’s top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov couldn’t be less impressed with Trump’s announcement. Watch: pic.twitter.com/CyFXkLC994
“It’s a big joy for Biden that Trump announced that he is planning to run in the elections. Trump did it dramatically, beautifully, just in time at the moment when the world could totally spit on it,” Solovyov said sarcastically. “The world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as everyone thought, expecting that NATO is about to do something. It turned out not to be the case.”
After airing a clip from Trump’s epic announcement, which ran longer than many films, Solovyov really let the big guy have it:
I have a few technical questions. First of all, why is Trump doing this? Really, what is it for? It would be impossible to find a worse time for this. It gives him absolutely nothing. He performed quite poorly. And I mean very poorly. There can be no positives from this. What the heck is it for? Why is he doing this?
The red wave did not materialize. They did not take the Senate, not as big of a majority in Congress as they needed. Within the party, DeSantis looks more successful. Is this an attempt to interrupt DeSantis? Or is this a gift for Biden?
In other words, Russian State TV agrees with many in the GOP, who’ve come to the conclusion that Trump is now toxic for the party, at least after the disastrous midterms, which saw one MAGA candidate after another underperform or flame out. They begged him not to run, or at least to hold off. But Trump is Trump — and that means he may still, somehow, have a chance.
When The Super Mario Bros. Movie hits theaters in the spring, it won’t be the first big screen take on the classic Nintendo game. But it will be the first animated one. Back in 1993, Hollywood spent nearly $50 million — almost $100 million today — on a live-action adaptation (that bombed and was hated by one of its leads). For Mario and Luigi, they didn’t cast two Italians. Instead they chose a Brit (Bob Hoskins) and a Colombian with Spanish and African roots (John Leguizamo). It’s the kind of diverse casting you see today — which is why Leguizamo is pretty disappointed that the new one stars two white actors, namely Chris Pratt and Charlie Day.
“I’m O.G. A lot of people love the original,” Leguizamo told IndieWire. “I did Comic-Con in New York and in Baltimore, and everyone’s like, ‘No, no, we love the old one, the original.’ They’re not feeling the new one.’ I’m not bitter. It’s unfortunate.”
He recalls his casting being rare for the time. “The directors Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton fought really hard for me to be the lead because I was a Latin man, and [the studio] didn’t want me to be the lead,” Leguizamo said. “They fought really hard, and it was such a breakthrough. For them to go backwards and not cast another [actor of color] kind of sucks.”
It’s not the first time Leguizamo has criticized the new Mario Bros. for its non-diverse casting (although it does have Keegan-Michael Key voicing Toad). Last year, when Pratt’s casting was first announced, he sounded off on Twitter.
So glad #superMariobros is getting a reboot! Obviously it’s iconic enuff. But too bad they went all white! No Latinx in the leads! Groundbreaking color-blind casting in original! Plus I’m the only one who knows how to make this movie work script wise! pic.twitter.com/lNokmdpwMq
“So glad #superMariobros is getting a reboot! Obviously it’s iconic enuff,” he wrote. “But too bad they went all white! No Latinx in the leads! Groundbreaking color-blind casting in original! Plus I’m the only one who knows how to make this movie work script wise!”
Leguizamo isn’t the only one critical of Pratt’s casting. Pratt had promised that his voice in the film would be “unlike anything you’ve heard in the Mario world before.” When the first trailer dropped, people had lots of jokes, though perhaps the best one was that he sounded less like an Italian plumber and more like Linda Belcher from Bob’s Burgers.
Fresh off Kristen Stewart‘s nomination for portraying Princess Diana in Spencer and Imogen Poots‘ starring in the Oscar-worthy The Father, the pair are set to keep those Academy vibes rolling along with a prestige memoir adaptation. This time, Stewart will be behind the camera, making her feature film directorial debut and co-writing the screenplay for The Chronology of Water with Andy Mingo.
Based off Lidia Yuknavitch’s creative non-fiction work of the same name, the movie will feature Poots as a woman overcoming familial sexual abuse and violence, discovering her own sexual identity alongside her identity as an artist. Stewart joked(?) in May that if she didn’t get to make the long-gestating film this year, she’d “die.”
“Lidia’s memoir honors corporeal experience, radically,” Stewart told Deadline. “To make that experience physical feels vital to me and what this impulse means … is that it absolutely must be a film. This project has been cooking for five years with the help of Scott Free, whom I could not be more privileged to have as partners and friends. Imogen Poots will carry this movie and the staggering weight of Lidia’s life. She can hold it. I am beyond lucky to have her.”
It’s a bold, audacious project from a singular writer. Yuknavitch is a staple of the Oregon writing scene and wrote the memoir partially because of a good-natured ribbing from Chuck Palahniuk who joked about not seeing much value in the form (but who proclaimed he’d read any memoir she wrote). Stewart is an exciting voice for this, and it’s positioned perfectly to shoot, lounge around Cannes, and then bound onto screens next fall. There’s no official timeline for it, but don’t be too surprised if that’s how it goes down.
To date, more than 80 women have accused former Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, with charges ranging from harassment to rape. With that many women sharing very similar — and equally terrifying — accounts with the man behind such critical hits as Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Gangs of New York, Paddington, and Carol, it was clear from the beginning that the details revealed during any trial would be both disturbing and salacious. But one thing people might not have been expecting were the bizarre details Weinstein’s accusers have given about his highly abnormal genitalia, photos of which the jury in his current Los Angeles trial were forced to examine last month.
Weinstein’s legal team came out of the gate swinging when the trial first kicked off in October, and spent days grilling the first victim to testify, a.k.a. Jane Doe #1, about her claim that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on his. Though it was just one of several horrific acts the alleged victim described, Harvey’s legal team pounced on the oral sex aspect of her claim that he had forced her to “suck him and suck his balls” to paint her as a liar. The case has only grown more contentious, and strange, since.
Last week, as Insider reported, another victim — Jane Doe #2 — described Weinstein’s “disgusting” genitalia in further detail, saying that his penis looked as if “it had been chopped off and sewn back on, like something wasn’t right about it.” Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California governor Gavin Newsom, echoed the latter part of this sentiment earlier this week.
Newsom, who is identified in court as Jane Doe #4, testified in California on Monday about her 2005 encounter with Weinstein, who she claimed raped her at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. As the New York Post reported, Newsom — clearly shaken up and emotional — described the incident as, “My worst nightmare. I’m just this blow-up doll that he’s just trying to masturbate off of.”
When asked to describe what she recalled of Weinstein’s physique, she replied:
Lots of bruises, markings, yellow and green, lots of stretch marks on his belly, very not physically fit at all. Looked uncircumcised and strange though, kind of fish-like, the penis, something was distorted in the testicles … Lots of skin, lots of skin down there.
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault related to his trial in New York. In Los Angeles, he is being charged with sexually assaulting four women between 2004 and 2013.
If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual violence, help is available 24/7 through the National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-HOPE and online.rainn.org.
Last week, Sam Bankman-Fried was the king of crypto. Now he’s a supervillain. FTX Trading — the young, shorts-wearing exec’s cryptocurrency exchange company, once backed by Larry David and Tom Brady — collapsed in the span of a week. On Friday, they filmed for bankruptcy, leaving millions of people and companies short of funds they may never see again. Details continue to pour in, many of them bizarre. Now, to make things even more surreal, Bankman-Fried has been sending unhinged DMs to reporters.
Vox reporter Kelsey Piper revealed that on Tuesday night she spent an hour chatting on Twitter with Bankman-Fried, who’s mostly spent his infamy sleeping and playing video games, and may or may not be on the run. She asked hard questions; she got weirdly, distressingly honest-seeming answers. For one thing, his previous public stance as an agent of do-goodery who’s even open to the crypto world being regulated? Partly a façade.
“f*ck regulators,” Bankman-Fried told Piper. “they don’t protect customers at all.” He’s not against regulation per se, but he claims that regulators, at least the ones running the show nowadays, “can’t do it” because they “can’t distinguish between god and bad.”
So is that why he may have done some supremely shady things, such as allegedly gamble with — and lose — billions of other people’s money? It’s not clear. He told Piper, “I didn’t want to do sketchy stuff” and that he “didn’t mean to,” adding that “each individual decision seemed fine and I didn’t realize how big their sum was until the end.”
Piper spoke with Bankman-Fried over the summer, long before the collapse of his company and reputation. When reading back some of the altruistic beliefs he shared — like how one should never do “unethical s*it,” he replied, “heh,” laughing off “all that dumb s*it I said,” which he revealed was “not true, not really.” He even agreed that the “ethics stuff” was mostly a “front.”
Bankman-Fried was also pressed about one of the wilder parts of the FTX collapse: that they had transferred billions to a sister company, Alameda Research. He said that their promise that they would never invest their deposits was “factually accurate,” but only, it seems, because it was Alameda that had done it. He admitted he “thought Alameda had enough collateral to reasonable [sic] cover it.” Turned out he was wrong, to which he said, “life creeps up on you.”
Oh, and that missing billion or so dollars that can’t be accounted for? Bankman-Fried blames it on the hack that hit the company last weekend.
Bankman-Fried eventually admits he “f*cked up,” “big,” “multiple times.” But his biggest regret wasn’t that he lost billions. It was that he filed for Chapter 11, thus losing control of the company, which he swears he could right if he had the chance. As of now, he has “2 weeks to raise $2b.” Surely that will be difficult, if not impossible, given that his name — and possibly his entire future — is in the toilet. To that, he can only point out that “a month ago I was one of the greatest fundraisers.”
You can read the full article — and see many of his DMs — over at Vox.
Hannah Einbinder holds her own against Jean Smart in HBO Max’s Hacks to such a delicious degree. The way those two (rather insufferable on their own) characters circle each other is masterful and so f*cking funny. In real life, Hannah’s also terribly amusing on her own. She did a blazingly good Conan Needs A Friend podcast episode (here’s the Apple link) if you are so inclined. And she still dabbles in stand-up from time to time.
At the moment, however, Hannah’s not feeling very entertained by Dave Chappelle’s most recent SNL monologue, in which he once again courted controversy (months after those “I’m Team TERF” jokes in a Netflix special). Einbinder did find much of the SNL monologue to be very funny, but she didn’t appreciate what she called his “two truths and a lie” approach, which she believes is a “genius technique” (regarding his commentary on Kanye West’s blazing anti-Semitism) but still nonetheless not her thing. The Anti-Defamation League wrote that Chappelle’s jokes “not just normalize but popularize” anti-Semitism, and Hannah seems inclined to agree. As Deadline notes, Einbinder used her Instagram story to outline her issues with Chappelle’s monologue.
Near the end of her statement, Einbinder declared, “These men who pick on marginalized groups are establishment bullies reinforcing the status quo — not at all the job of a comedian.” Here’s more:
“No one who laughs at the solid jokes would be willing to admit that there was antisemitism in that monologue, because that admission would then qualify them as complicit. No one wants to feel like a bad person. The fact is: non Jews aren’t as keenly aware of antisemitic ideas, tropes, verbiage etc. Most people just missed these ideas all together, and only remember that they laughed. So when Jews say hey, there was antisemitism in there, folks go, ‘you’re too sensitive. Learn to take a joke.’ … The danger here is that Dave Chappelle, and every other male comedian who believes that their amplification of bigotry is just freedom of speech, are seen as tellers of hard truths, and thus anyone who criticizes them are seen as snowflakes.”
You can read Hannah’s full remarks here. As well, Jon Stewart has defended Chappelle while declaring, “I don’t believe that censorship and penalties are the way to end anti-Semitism or to gain understanding.” He then added, “I don’t believe in that. It’s the wrong way for us to approach it.”
Did you know there are only eight more weeks of the 2022 NFL regular season? It seems like time is flying by but, with four teams on bye in Week 11, there are still 11 games to consume over a five-day period that begins on Thursday. In this space, we’ve found our footing to some degree with a stretch of 8-1-1 over the last two weeks, but nothing comes easy and we must grind through another slate.
Before we touch on this week’s selections, let’s take a broad look at the season-long progress.
Week 10: 4-1
2022 Season: 26-23-1
Come get these winners.
Green Bay Packers (-3) over Tennessee Titans
Candidly, I grabbed this at 2.5 early in the week and that is obviously a better spot. I still like the Packers at 3, though, and we’re banking on repeat success after riding Green Bay in Week 10. The Packers seemed to find something by leaning heavily on the ground game and Christian Watson bring more dynamism on the outside. Tennessee’s defense is stout, but I’m generally a bit lower on the Titans and I tend to lean on home teams on short weeks.
Detroit Lions (+3) over New York Giants
Why in the world is this number three? Well, it stinks. Even with two wins in a row, Detroit is 3-6. New York is 7-2 and playing at home. That split would lend itself to a much larger spread but, as soon as this number floated to 3.5, it got gobbled up by sharp action. The Giants aren’t a bad football team, which is a win itself, but most do not believe in their 7-2 record being indicative of team quality. Put me in that camp as well, and the Lions are plucky on offense. Hold your nose.
Philadelphia Eagles (-6.5) 0ver Indianapolis Colts
A road favorite? Yeah, it’s gross. This number opened above seven in some spots, and I wouldn’t lay that many points, but 6.5 is a good spot. It’s a mini-dip for Philadelphia after a loss on national TV, and there seems to be a belief that the Colts are “back” after the Jeff Saturday Experience led to a win in Week 10. Admittedly, Indianapolis is much better with Matt Ryan at the helm, and there was a lot more juice on offense, but I’ll take Philadelphia’s roster and, um, an established coaching staff to take care of business in a bounce-back spot.
Houston Texans (+3.5) over Washington Commanders
Yep, we’re taking the other side of the post-Monday reaction frenzy, too. Washington did look great against Philadelphia, managing the game beautifully and making enough plays to get a win. Now, with a bit of a shorter week, they are laying more than a field goal on the road. Houston is definitely bad, and I get why no one wants to take the Texans here. At 3.5, I just have to. Principles are principles.
Dallas Cowboys (-1) over Minnesota Vikings
The Vikings are running incredibly hot at 8-1, including a slew of one-score victories. Maybe that continues here and we’ll be wrong, but Minnesota is No. 16 (!!) in the NFL in DVOA right now despite one loss, and I just think Dallas is better. Is it scary to take Dallas in a coin-flip game on the road? Maybe a little, but I trust the defense and this is a good price on the Cowboys.
Memphis rapper GloRilla is having one hell of a year. Her breakthrough single, “F.N.F (Let’s Go)” dropped in May, which led to her inking a deal with Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group label. She then dropped the track “Tomorrow 2” featuring Cardi B which saw her reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and now just received her first-ever Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance at the 65th Grammy Awards.
So why stop now? Her debut EP on CMG, Anyways, Life’s Great, came out last week and now GloRilla has announced her first-ever US headlining tour. GloRilla’s 2023 Anyways, Life’s Great Tour begins on January 27 at the underground in Charlotte, NC, and closes on February 25 at Union Stage in Washington DC.
SO EXCITED!! I’m going on my VERY FIRST TOUR!!! Get the presale code when you join my Discord . Presale starts 11/17 @ 10AM local time Public on sale Friday, Nov 18 at 10AM Local BIG GLO & GANG EM COMING TO UR CITY !https://t.co/zihJ0ICO2x#AnywaysLifesGreatTOURpic.twitter.com/uhjcgWMUGd
Check out the complete list of GloRilla 2023 Tour dates below and get tickets here.
01/27 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
01/28 – Atlanta, GA @ Hell At The Masquerade
01/30 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
01/31 – Dallas, TX @ The Cambridge Room at House of Blues
02/02 – Phoenix, AZ @ Aura
02/03 – Las Vegas @ Hakkasan
02/08 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
02/09 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
02/14 – Denver, CO @ Cervantes’ Other Side
02/16 – Chicago, IL @ Avondale Music Hall
02/20 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
02/22 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
02/23 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
02/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
02/25 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage
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