Lil Baby was one of the most popular artists in 2020, and his work over that period is still being fêted. The Atlanta rapper was recently crowned Songwriter Of The Year during the 2021 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Award ceremony. The show highlighted “Baby” with DaBaby, “Emotionally Scarred,” “For the Night” with Pop Smoke and DaBaby, and “The Bigger Picture,” which peaked at No. 3 on the singles chart last year, as some of the songs that best showcased his writing talents.
The win comes months after some felt he was snubbed at this year’s Grammys awards. While he was nominated in the Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance categories for “The Bigger Picture,” many believed his 2020 album My Turn should have received a nomination as well. He failed to win in either of the aforementioned categories, but he did take home awards at other shows: My Turn won Hip-Hop Album of the Year at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards and “The Bigger Picture” received an award at the BET Hip-Hop Awards.
According to Variety, the Atlanta rapper will also perform a new version of “The Bigger Picture” on Wednesday at 4 p.m. EST/1 p.m. PST on ASCAP’s official YouTube page.
In other news, Lil Baby and Lil Durk will hit the road starting this fall for their Back Outside tour. It begins September 1 in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and continues through October 15 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
One fun element of the Phoenix Suns’ postseason run is the way that they’ve added in-arena entertainment when games have taken place in their building. Arizona’s very own Jimmy Eat World had a halftime concert during the conference semifinals, while Tag Team came to Phoenix Suns Arena to remind everyone of their favorite March Madness commercial during Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.
For Game 2 on Tuesday night, the team extended an invitation to another band from the state: Gin Blossoms. The group best known for heat rocks such as “Follow You Down” and “Hey Jealousy” announced the news earlier in the day, and even made it a point to pay tribute to legendary Suns player Charles Barkley.
Then, I don’t know if you’ve ever had plans before, but you usually have some time to kill before you go do whatever that thing is. So Gin Blossoms used the time to get into it with a fan of the Denver Nuggets, the team that the Suns took down to make it to the conference finals, by repeatedly getting off jokes about the franchise.
Because most Suns things seem to come back to this dude at this point, we even got a “SUNS IN 4” reference out of the band, although this had a slightly tweaked version of the hashtag.
I will be honest: I did not anticipate, at any point in my life, witnessing Gin Blossoms talking trash on the internet because the Phoenix Suns just swept the Denver Nuggets in the NBA playoffs. But to the victor go the spoils, so go off, Gin Blossoms.
On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported a story that sounded ridiculous enough to be true: Donald Trump was so incensed at Alec Baldwin’s parody of him over the years on SNL — as well as jokes by Jimmy Kimmel — that he tried to get the Justice Department to stop it. It made sense: Trump, a delusional type with an epically inflated self-image, is famously thin-skinned. And he was constantly pushing the limits of his presidential powers, whose reach he never seemed to fully understand. Later in the day, he tried to deny it, even as he doubled down on his belief that shows like it should be punished by the feds.
The denial was released as one of his occasional, clearly un-copy edited press releases — the ones he used to publish on his failed blog.
“The story that I asked the Department of Justice to go after ratings-challenged (without Trump!) Saturday Night Live, and other Late Night Losers, is total Fake News,” wrote the man who lives alone in resorts with strangers, to whom he rambles. He claimed it was “fabricated” by the “Lamestream Media,” one of a handful of Greatest Hits he threw his fans, including the one that he “got 75 million votes (the most of any sitting President)” in “a very Fraudulent Election.”
But there was one thing the Lamestream Media got right. “I did say, however, that Alec Baldwin has no talent, certainly when it comes to imitating me,” Trump wrote, then praised an older SNL alum: “The one who had what it took was Darrell Hammond.”
Hammond lasted 14 seasons on SNL, from 1995 to 2009. Though his most famous presidential impersonation was Bill Clinton, he did Trump as well, and he came back multiple times to do it, including after he clinched the Republican nomination. But Lorne Michaels chose Baldwin as his resident Trump throughout his presidency, letting him retire after the 2020 election. Feel free to debate whose Trump was better, but let’s just say it’s rarely a good idea when the person you’re savagely lampooning likes it.
Despite denying that he tried to sic the DoJ on SNL, he then claimed that they should…do that anyway, writing, “I do believe that the 100% one-sided shows should be considered an illegal campaign contribution from the Democrat Party.” He signed off with a faintly cryptic declaration: “2024 or before!”
So to summarize: Trump claims he never did the thing he was accused of trying to do, which he thinks should happen anyway. And maybe he’ll return to office before four years from now, even though he’s already busy with a speaking tour thing with Bill O’Reilly later this year. Well, at least he’s banned on Facebook through at least January.
When it comes to smoky, peated Scotch whisky, it’s hard to find a more beloved brand than Ardbeg. Due to its rabid fanbase sipping on expressions like Uigeadail, Corryvreckan, An Oa, Wee Beastie, and Blaaack, it should come as no surprise that the distillery not only launches a special whisky for its most loyal fans once per year but also holds a yearly event to release it. Always held on the last Saturday of Islay’s Festival of Music and Malt (Fèis Ìle), Ardbeg Day (this year it was on June 5th and fully digital) is a day to celebrate the peaty, smoky goodness that is Ardbeg Scotch whisky.
This year, the brand released Ardbeg Scorch to celebrate the Islay distillery. This peaty, smoky, robust whisky was aged in ex-bourbon barrels that are (you guessed it) extremely charred. The high char adds an extra smoky, rich flavor to a whisky that’s already known for being a smoke bomb.
“This year will be my first Ardbeg Day ever: a baptism of fire!”said Colin Gordon, Ardbeg’s Distillery Manager. “It’s a shame we Ardbeggians can’t enjoy it together in person. With a whole virtual world to explore, including fantasy inns, campfire tales, medieval feasts, and live tastings, there’s plenty for people to be excited about this year.”
While you likely can’t taste this one in person at the distillery just yet, you can watch our own Zach Johnston and Ardbeg’s Global Ambassador, David Blackmore, breaking down the dram and tasting it live on Instagram.
This limited-edition whisky was bottled to celebrate Ardbeg Day 2021. Its name is a reference to “Islay’s definitely-real-and-totally-not-made-up flavor breathing dragon” that supposedly resides in one of the barrel houses. Although, having visited Ardbeg multiple times, I’ve never laid eyes on this supposed barrel-charring creature.
Besides being named for a mythical dragon that may or may not exists, this whisky is aged in “fiercely charred” ex-bourbon barrels.
Tasting Notes:
Right away, I was struck by the smell of wood char, subtle caramel sweetness, and the aromas of a wood fireplace. There was less peat smoke and more sweetness in the first sniff than I expected. The flavor is all smoke, but somehow it doesn’t destroy the flavors of toffee, vanilla cream, anise, and cinnamon. There’s also an herbal quality that pairs well with the swirling smoke throughout. The finish is classic Ardbeg with sweet smoke lingering on my palate long after my last sip.
The Bottle:
Ardbeg already has a pretty classic, almost black bottle. This is accentuated by a label that really pops, thanks to a lot of red. The box has a cool Celtic dragon theme with more red on black, making for a great, eye-catching presence on any shelf.
Bottom Line:
Fans of Ardbeg will want to seek this limited-edition bottle out. It’s smoky, sweet, and subtly peaty. All in all, a very robust, rich, memorable dram that’s well worth the price tag.
Rating:
90/100 – If you’re an avid peated whisky drinker who prefers a dram that has a great balance between vanilla sweetness and heavy smoke, this is the bottle for you.
Back in 2012, Wale released his eighth mixtape, Folarin, which would go on to be one of the better releases from hip-hop’s mixtape era. It was also an impressive effort in the rapper’s discography and nearly a decade later, Wale has announced its sequel is on the way. He shared the news on Twitter, along with a pretty big boast. “I understand you may feel how you feel for whatever soembody told you…but I just wanna reiterate that I’m one of the greatest of all time,” he wrote. “Catalog. Consistency. Influence. Longevity. DMV. With that said “#Folarin2” this summer.”
I understand you may feel how you feel for whatever soembody told you … but I just wanna reiterate that I’m one of the greatest of all time . Catalog .Consistency. Influence. Longevity . DMV. With that said #Folarin2 this summer .
The arrival of Folarin 2 should be no more than a couple of months away. Recently he’s shared several singles, including “Good Vibes,” “Flawed” with Gunna, and “Lions, Bengals, & Bears” with DJ Money. Folarin 2 would also be his first project since his 2020 EP, The Imperfect Storm, and his first full-length effort since 2019’s Wow… That’s Crazy, an album that posted highlight tracks like “On Chill,” “Sue Me,” and “Love (Her Fault)” with Bryson Tiller. Prior to the announcement, Wale joined Coi Leray for a remix of Earthgang’s “Options.”
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The Peabody Awards are not like other award bodies. Established in 1940, they honor media, ranging from fiction to documentary to television to radio (and, these days, podcasts), not in specific categories, like “Best Actress” or “Best Cinematography.” Instead they do general ones. For instance, this year’s Peabody Awards for excellent in entertainment went to two different kinds of TV programs: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Ted Lasso, which is about to return. In other words, they’re hard to get, and the latter was able to nab one with its very first season.
As per Variety, the Peabodies had a lengthy appraisal of the Apple TV Plus show, which stars co-creator Jason Sudeikis as a mostly unfailingly upbeat American football coach who winds up coaching an English soccer (which is to say football) team. They praised it for offering a “charming dose of radical optimism,” and singled out Sudeikis’ portrayal as “endearing.” The fulsome praise continued:
“It turns out that more than simply a sports coach, Ted is remarkably good at honest communication with others, affecting change by being a deeply good human, one with his own quiet anxieties and pain. The Apple TV Plus series is the perfect counter to the enduring prevalence of toxic masculinity, both on-screen and off, in a moment when the nation truly needs inspiring models of kindness.”
So, mazel tov! And the same to Stephen Colbert, whose late night show was praised for reworking itself for the pandemic, yielding a “remarkably successful transformation of the late-night television model by a host inviting us into his home.” During a turbulent time, seeing a public health crisis, righteous anger over the murder of George Floyd, and a “morally contemptuous president,” Colbert, they said, provided, “kindness, gentle spirit, and deeply felt ethical nature provided a nightly salve the nation desperately needed.”
Also singled out for Peabody praise was the documentary series Asian-Americans, the incarceration documentary Time, the Katrina podcast Floodlines, two news specials — ABC15 Arizona’s “Full Disclosure” and Frontline’s “China Undercover” — and the Disney children’s show The Owl House.
You can read more about the winners and why they were chosen over at Variety.
Wolfgang Puck finally gets his due as a documentary subject this week when Wolfgang, from David Gelb, director of Jiro Dreams of Sushi and creator of Netflix’s Chef’s Table, premieres on Disney+. Gelb attempts to cover Puck’s many iterations as a public figure, from his early days as promising immigrant trying to to bring 1970s America’s backward food culture into the modern era, to Hollywood’s favorite chef at Spago, to becoming a media brand unto himself.
Between the historical recaps of Puck’s success, both as a brand and as a proponent of “California Cuisine,” Wolfgang offers a dual portrait of Puck as an illegitimate child in Austria and Puck as the one-time king of chefs trying to settle into old age. The timing of it couldn’t be better. With “celebrity chefs” on almost every channel in some form or another, Wolfgang Puck is one of if not the “original celebrity chef.” His name was everywhere in the eighties and nineties. I used to eat his frozen pizzas.
The open question is, where does that leave him today? What happens when your once-innovative recipes get so popular, and copied so often, that they start to seem dated? When you put your name on so many products that the guy who made it uncool to serve canned food in restaurants becomes synonymous with prepackaged foods?
Without getting too deep into introspection, mostly it leaves Puck rich, happy, and still wildly charming. Puck showed up a few years back as a guest judge on Top Chef and still stands out in my mind (as someone who covers Top Chef) as the most entertaining guest judge they’ve ever had (if memory serves, he made someone cry over a risotto). Basically every time Puck talks he reminds you why he became a media darling in the first place. His combination of candidness, volubility, and instantly recognizable accent all but guarantee good footage.
I got to speak to him this week to promote Wolfgang‘s release, and interviewing him was the same way. The sharp accent, the excitability — he’s the kind of subject who makes you think you’re getting great copy even when he’s dodging a question. Because you are. When someone has been a famous chef/restaurateur/personality for going on 40 years, there aren’t too many stories he could tell that wouldn’t be interesting.
— So the movie has a bit about your smoked salmon pizza. If there was a California cuisine dishes hall of fame, what dishes do you think would be on it?
I think if you count it as a cooking style, a restaurant-style… it’s really a whole combination of things. When we opened Spago that was an open kitchen. This was the first time, really, that a white tablecloth restaurant had that open kitchen. The restaurant was casual but the food was really the star on the plate. I said everything on the plate has to be serious, the best quality. I think that’s really how this whole concept worked. Yes, there were famous dishes like this smoked salmon pizza. Or somebody just asked me yesterday, “When are you going to make your goat cheese pasta you made at the old Spago. Why you don’t put that on the menu?” And so forth. So I think there will always be people who remember those. So the smoked salmon pizza or the duck sausage pizza, some dishes like the goat cheese pasta or, now obviously every restaurant does it, the tuna sashimi, the way I used to do that. They were all new things at that time. Nobody served raw fish in a restaurant. Today, everybody serves raw fish.
What do you think that term California Cuisine means at this point? Is it still a useful way to describe food?
I think it depends what restaurant it is. So when I opened Spago in Hollywood, 40 years ago, I designed the menu, and I thought cooking should express the territory where you live, the place in the world where you are. Our place here in LA is multicultural. So we have a Chinatown, Olvera Street, Little India, Downtown, Little Tokyo — you name it. So I thought our cooking should express different cultures, and then I said, cooking should also express ingredients we have around us. I didn’t have cows around so I didn’t have steak on the menu when I opened Spago. I had a farmer who raised lamb, so I used his lamb and we had the roasted baby lamb. I went to the fish market, down to San Pedro and got the squid and got the rock cod from there and roasted them whole with some onions from the farm nearby.
I used to go down to the Chino Farm in a Rancho Sante Fe and picked up the best strawberries or melons or white corn. So that’s how the whole thing came about, and when I designed the cover of the menu, I said, I don’t know what style cuisine, so I just wrote on it “California Cuisine.” Did I think it’s gonna stick, or people gonna talk about it? No. I just thought that’s what we expressed, California. Because I always said if I would be in Provence, I would cook Provencal cuisine. If I would be in Southern Italy, I would make a dishes with a lot of butter and cream and fresh pasta. I would use olive oil, tomato, garlic, and basil.
When you invent or become associated with a specific style like that, do you worry about the term being co-opted or becoming meaningless? Do you try to protect that designation in any way?
We cannot copyright things in the restaurant, in the food world. I cannot copyright the smoked salmon pizza or this or that. We write cookbooks and give people the exact recipe, the exact measurements and everything! So I think cooking is about giving, it’s not about an egomaniac doing it. I’m sure there are egomaniacs out there too, but I think to me, cooking is about giving pleasure to people, making people enjoy the time, making them feel good and that’s the most important thing. I think David Gelb in the documentary really showed that beautifully in a way that even from my upbringing, which was very difficult, that at the end is really about making people happy.
I heard Jacques Pepin speaking a while back, where he talked about coming to America in the seventies and not being able to find fresh mushrooms. He could only find canned and dried mushrooms. I was wondering what American food was like when you first came over here, and what were some of the things that you were surprised by?
It was so different than what is now for sure. I tell you when I was in the Bel-Air hotel in the eighties, I did a dinner — because they tried to expand their hotel. The hotel Bel-Air is a total neighborhood property, it’s not the commercial district, so now all the houses around, they have to ask all the neighbors for permission to go forward with the expansion. So for the dinner I went to the Chino farm in Rancho Santa Fe, picked up peas, small carrots, green beans and I don’t know what else, and I cooked them properly and I made the dinner for them. The beans looked like beans, totally normal green, a beautiful color and everything. And then they send a letter to the president of Rosewood then and said, “Mr. Zimmer, we expected good food at the Bel-Air hotel. Now you’re bringing us colored vegetables? You put food color in the vegetable, that really should not be at the Bel-Air.”
So he showed me that letter and I said, “What the heck are they saying? What do you mean?” I didn’t even understand. So I go back to that Bel-Air, I go into their storeroom and I see canned asparagus, canned green beans, canned beans, and when you open them, they’re all gray and overcooked. So I said, “Oh my God, this is really a sad story.”
Even at the Bistro Garden where Spago is now, I remember I went there and I was already at Ma Maison where I used great asparagus from the Stockton region and they have the green asparagus. At the Bistro Garden, they served the veal dish with white asparagus out of the can. So that was so traditional, that you could get things out of the can. But I was lucky because I found the Chino Ranch in Rancho Santa Fe and they had great vegetables. Then all of a sudden we had farmers who started to bring us chanterelles and porcini mushrooms and things like that too. So we started to get into that really well and I think a little by little, the whole food scene changed. There were no farmer’s market then and now you have farmer’s market everywhere. I think we are lucky and the young chefs are lucky to be cooking today, especially in California, where you get so many great ingredients.
On that note, how much savvier is the average diner now than in the eighties? What kind of things do you think that they expect now that they wouldn’t have then?
Well, in the old time, people were, very much– they know what they ate as a kid. It was very historical, almost, the cooking, nobody really wanted innovation. Nobody was really prepared to try new things. Now because of television you’ll see so many different things. You can say, “Oh, I want to try that. I want to do that.” I was just a judge on a newer Iron Chef series and they made dishes and I said, “Wow, this is really amazing,” so now the people are going to see that out in the world and say, “Wow, you know what? This is really good. I want to try it too.”
People become more open-minded. But before it was very difficult. I remember when I was at Ma Maison, to undercook a fish was impossible. They sent it back all the time. I remember I undercook the salmon and the people said, “Wolfgang that’s not cooked. What’s wrong with you? Can’t you cook a salmon?” I said, “Well, it tastes better that way.”
Conversely, are there things that you had on the menu at Spago in the eighties that you couldn’t get away with now?
Well, I think when we opened Spago it created a whole new style of cooking because we had a charcoal grill, we had a wood-burning oven and everything. So everything was fresh and simple. We didn’t have space to make it complicated. This day and age a lot of the young chefs, they still think the more things they have on a plate, the better their food would be. But it’s not true. Or people doing things with tweezers, putting things on the food. I said, that’s not necessary. If it’s not really beautiful the way you buy it, don’t do it. And what’s it’s going to do, making little dots of sauce around the plate? People don’t even touch them. So I think the quality of the food should be great and the flavors should be strong and you don’t need a hundred different things around. By the time everybody puts that decor on their plate, the food is cold. And I like hot food hot and cold food cold.
What did you like about the wood-fired oven so much?
Well, because I grew up with it as a child in Austria, everything was wood-fired. We didn’t have electricity. We didn’t have gas. When I lived in Provence, I went to a restaurant and helped a friend of ours, really, he had this restaurant where he had simple food, I think mainly grilled food, like a steak, maybe lamb chops, and he had that wood-burning pizza oven. So I mean I was thinking about Spago and I was thinking about a restaurant similar like that. Then because I had to leave Ma Maison, I made it more upscale.
You talked about people not maybe being ready for undercooked salmon back in the day. Are there areas that you think are sort of the next frontier in cooking that the average diner hasn’t a warmed up to yet right now?
I don’t know. People talk about eating crickets or eating the cicadas or whatever. I don’t know. It doesn’t appeal to me. So for me, I don’t want to cook something I don’t want to eat, just because it becomes a fad or just because somebody saying it is good. I did that tryout with this Beyond Meat product and I tell you, I made a Philly cheesesteak with it. It was as good as any Philly cheesesteak I ever had.
You think that’s a way to go that maybe we haven’t reached its full potential yet?
Yeah, I definitely think so because some of these companies who do these inventions out of a laboratory making meat or making like meat out of plants, out of peas or beans or whatever using the proteins from plants, I think it definitely has a future because I think we definitely have to cut down on the greenhouse gases and we know how much it comes from the cows and everything. So maybe that will help. Maybe they can make it at a good price and it’s still tasty. Now to me, it has to be done right to be tasty because by itself, I might as well prefer to have a real hamburger.
The movie talks about this to some extent, but do you ever think that your celebrity got in the way of you being a chef? What was it like trying to find a balance there?
Well, I really tried to tell people that you can be a chef today and a businessman. I know a lot of food critics, a lot of papers they criticize, they think a chef should be behind the stove all the time. Now I tell you I’m 71 years old. If I would have to stand behind the stove and serve 250 customers every night, I think my life would be cut short. I don’t think we have to stop. If you want to be a boxer, they don’t ask you to be a boxer when you are 50 years old or 60 years old. You become the trainer, and I’m more like the coach and the trainer, I tell people what I want and taste the food with the way I like it. I teach the techniques and they have to execute and we have more than one restaurant.
A lot of chefs out there today have more than one restaurant and I think I’m happy and I’m really proud of showing people that a chef is not somebody who is sitting in the background somewhere, a chef is not somebody who is in the dungeon cooking the food, and nobody knows about it. I’m very proud to having lifted the profile of the chefs. Not only that they can be great cooks, but also great business people.
‘Wolfgang’ hits Disney+ June 25th. Vince Mancini is on Twitter. You can access his archive of reviews here.
A 95-year-old-grandmother has become a sensation on TikTok, a platform that’s most popular among the Gen Z set. Doris, also known as Sassy Gran, has become popular for her incredibly bold and refreshingly honest personality.
She’s had a tough life which has given her a special edge that you don’t find with most nonagenarians. There’s also her elegant couture to show the young kids what real class looks like.
Doris was made famous by her grandson Gio who clearly loves going out to dinner with his grandmother and hearing her stories and advice.
One particular video has been viewed 57 million times on Facebook and TikTok. In the clip, Doris explains how she took care of one of her ex-husband’s many mistresses. The grandmother’s “savage” besting of the woman who tried to steal her husband is as cold-blooded as they come.
“So you found out who she was, made friendly with her, and then what happened?” Gio asked, kicking off the epic tale.
Sassy Gran is proud of the “savage” way she handled the other woman and her husband. “‘I know and I love it,” she told her grandson.
In a follow-up video, Doris explains that she wanted to go even further than giving the woman a face full of food. “I wanted to slap her face black and blue,” she said.
How she felt about her husbands mistress 😂😂. (FYI the mistress knew he was married)#sassygran
Doris would eventually leave her cheating husband and take her five kids with her. At a time when she had to work three jobs to get by, she decided to start a business that would help other mothers. She started a daycare center where people who on welfare didn’t have to pay.
Sassy Gran is also a lifelong ally. Back in the ’50s, her best friend was a gay Black man who she urged to come out of the closet. “Don’t be ashamed,” she told him.
Gio has pranks! Grandma isn’t having any of it 😂#sassygran
Then there was the time she told Steve Harvey, a happily married man, that he should leave his wife. “I’m just shootin’ off my big mouth,” she said. “But if I had to say it again, I’d say it again.”
She kept insisting he dump his new wife. She misunderstood what he said #sassygran @steveharvey
Sassy Gran is a great example of the old cliché that whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. Doris admits that she’s had a hard life but that’s helped forge her into the confident, honest, and adorable woman that she is today.
Forget aging gracefully. We should all hope to be like Sassy Gran and age savagely.
Frankie, a 16-year-old tabby cat in Cheshire, England, didn’t come home on May 19 and his family was devastated. Rachel Fitzsimons, her husband John, and their children Thea, 10, and Remy 7, launched a search party to find their missing pet.
The news was especially distressing to young Remy who slept with Frankie every night. “He cried and cried,” Rachel told Manchester Evening News.
A few days later, the family was driving on the highway near their home and saw a dead cat on the side of the road that appeared to be Frankie. The cat was badly mangled and they didn’t want to get too close a look, in case the decapitated feline was their beloved pet.
Rachel reached out to local authorities to pick up the cat’s remains.
“We called the Highways agency who were very helpful and went out several times to look for the body. I gave them a description of Frankie; a fluffy tabby with a white tummy, and the dead cat matched that,” Rachel said.
Frankie went missing in May. His family thought they found his body and had him cremated – and were shocked when he… https://t.co/8jYaiLQtXw
The Highways England staff said the cat matched the markings described by Rachel. They collected what was left of the cat and handed it over in a box to the family. They didn’t look at the cat because it was in such terrible shape.
The family decided to have the cat cremated and when its ashes were returned, Remy slept with them in his bed for a few days. “We were all in tears for days afterwards,” Rachel said.
On June 10, three weeks after Frankie went missing, John heard a familiar meow at the door.
”My husband heard a meow outside and then I heard him shouting,” Rachel said. We all ran out and there was Frankie! Remy was crying and asking: ‘Is he real?’ It was an amazing moment.”
The family had to have been in complete shock after they had already accepted his death.
“He was bedraggled and very thin,” Rachel remarked. But after a few good meals and a checkup at the vet, Frankie was his old self again. “We’ve no idea where he’s been but just feel so lucky to have him back,” she said.
“My two children are thrilled to have him home, they are making a big fuss of him, and he’s back on Remy’s bed each night,” Rachel said.
Still can’t stop laughing at the story I saw on @thismorning this week where a family cremated their cat only for i… https://t.co/TxoLdxitT7
Now that all of the sadness has turned to joy, Rachel has found some humor in the story. “We cremated someone else’s cat,” she said.
If there’s a bright side for the poor cat that was hit by a car on the highway and its family, at least its remains were treated with respect. It would be wonderful if somehow they found out that their cat was treated respectfully after meeting such a terrible demise. It would also give them some closure after losing their pet.
We’re officially in the thick of summer, which means that enjoying the outdoors is growing less and less appealing — unless, you know, you enjoy slowly melting away like a freshly free from quarantine Olaf.
That being said, there’s a ton of entertainment to keep you busy the in air-conditioned indoors ,and it’s all hiding over on Hulu. This July, a handful of blockbuster comedies are coming to the streamer along with a new terrifying anthology from, who else, Ryan Murphy. Here’s everything worth watching this month on Hulu.
Bill & Ted Face The Music (film streaming 7/2)
Over 30 years after the original ’80s cult classic, this sequel brought us on another trippy galactic adventure. Sure, Bill and Ted are weathered dads now, but they’re still up to their old hijinks — time travel, songwriting, and world-saving. Keanu Reeves is terrific, Samara Weaving is a great addition. There’s really no reason not to enjoy this romp.
Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar (film streaming 7/9)
Friends and writing partners Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig have a f*cking blast paying two Midwestern gals who take a spontaneous trip to Florida, hook up with a seagull-crooning Jamie Dornan, and thwart an evil plot to eradicate everyone living in the beautiful, balmy Vista Del Mar. Have fun, and try not to think too hard.
American Horror Stories (FX series streaming 7/15)
Ryan Murphy’s taking the structural formula that’s made his American Horror Story series so popular — and absolutely terrifying — and shortening it a bit. Instead of one horrific nightmare playing out over the course of a season, Murphy’s giving us an anthology of short stories that play out each episode.
Avail. 7/1 The Mighty Ones: Complete Season 2 RuPaul’s Drag Race: Complete Season 7 127 Hours (2010) 28 Days Later (2003) 28 Weeks Later (2007) 68 Kill (2017) 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017) A Ciambra (2018) The Adventures of Hercules (1985) Almost Human (2014) Alpha & Omega: Legend Of The Saw Toothed (2014) American Gun (2005) An Acceptable Loss (2019) Australia (2008) Bad Teacher (2011) Band Aid (2017) Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest (2011) Beetlejuice (1988) The Best Man (1999) Better Living Through Chemistry (2014) Big Fish (2003) Bitter Harvest (2017) Blue Sky (1994) Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Breakdown (1997) Bruno (2009) Caddyshack (1980) Caddyshack II (1988) Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999) Carnage Park (2016) Caveman (1981) Chaplin (1992) Chuck (2017) The Chumscrubber (2005) Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2017) Cliffhanger (1993) The Condemned (2007) Confessions Of A Shopaholic (2009) The Conversation (1974) Coyote Ugly (2000) The Cured (2018) Dangerous Minds (1995) Dealin’ With Idiots (2013) Dealt (2017) Dear White People (2014) Donnybrook (2019) Dumb & Dumber (1994) Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2014) Eliminators (2016) Enemy at the Gates (2001) The Face of Love (2014) Factotum (2006) Fargo (1996) The Feels (2017) Fired Up! (2009) Foxfire (1996) Frank Serpico (2017) Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) Free To Run (2016) From Paris with Love (2010) Galaxy Quest (1999) The Gift (2000) Gimme the Loot (2013) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) Gorp (1980) Graduation (2017) Grandma (2015) Hellions (2015) Hideaway (1995) House of the Dead (2003) House of the Dead 2 (2006) The House That Jack Built (2018) Housesitter (1992) I Daniel Blake (2017) I Do…Until I Don’t (2017) I Remember You (2017) Ice Age (2002) In The Cut (2003) Indignation (2016) Intermission (2004) Intolerable Cruelty (2003) Johnny English (2003) Knowing (2009) The Ladies Man (2000) Last Days Here (2012) Let’s be Evil (2016) Manic (2013) The Mask (1994) Maximum Risk (1996) Mercury Rising (1998) Morning Glory (2010) Mystic Pizza (1988) The Natural (1984) Ode to Joy (2019) Open Range (2003) Open Water (2004) Open Water 2: Adrift (2006) Passage to Mars (2017) Personal Shopper (2017) The Polar Express (2004) Rabid Dogs (2016) Rebel in the Rye (2017) Reno 911!: Miami : The Movie (2007) Revolutionary Road (2008) Robocop (1987) Robocop 2 (1990) Robocop 3 (1993) Rookie of the Year (1993) Seabiscuit (2003) Shelley (2016) Sightseers (2013) Sleeping With The Enemy (1991) Sleepwalkers (1992) Soldier Boyz (1995) Something’s Gotta Give (2003) Somewhere (2010) Sorority Row (2009) Space Jam (1996) Stand by Me (1986) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Star Trek: First Contact (1996) Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift (1990) The Stepfather (2009) Stonewall (2015) Stray (2020) Sunshine (2005) Super Troopers (2002) Sweet Virginia (2017) Taffin (1988) Take Every Wave (2017) Take Shelter (2011) Taken (2009) The Terminator (1984) They Came Together (2014) Thunderheart (1992) Timeline (2003) Tooth Fairy (2008) Twisted (2004) Underworld (2003) Underworld Awakening (2012) Underworld Evolution (2006) Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans (2009) Universal Soldier (1992) The Unknown Girl (2017) Walking Tall (1973) Whip It (2009) White Nights (1985) William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) Wolves (2017)
Avail. 7/2 Summer of Soul (2021) Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Avail. 7/3 Flower of Evil: Complete Season 1 (Subbed) I’ll Go To You When The Weather Is Fine: Complete Season 1 (Subbed) More Than Friends: Complete Season 1 (Subbed) Dreamcatcher (2021)
Avail. 7/4 Leave no Trace (2018)
Avail. 7/8 My Wife and Kids: Complete Series Murdoch Mysteries: Complete Season 13 Papillon (2017)
Avail. 7/9 This Way Up: Complete Season 2 Grown-ish: Season 4 Premiere Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) In a World… (2013) Moffie (2021)
Avail. 7/10 47 Meters Down (2017)
Avail. 7/12 Love Island UK: Season 7 Premiere
Avail. 7/14 Cleopatra in Space: Complete Season 1 Cleopatra en el Espacio: Complete Season 1 My All-American (2015)
Avail. 7/15 American Horror Stories: Two-Episode Series Premiere 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) A Field In England (2013) The Act of Killing (2012) Amira & Sam (2014) Borgman (2013) Bullhead (2011) Cheap Thrills (2013) The Complex: Lockdown (2020) The Congress (2013) The Connection (2014) Enforcement (2021) Exit Plan (2021) The Final Member (2014) The FP (2011) I Declare War (2012) The Keeping Room (2014) Men & Chicken (2015) Mood Indigo (2013) Pieta (2012) R100 (2013) Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015) Wrong (2012)
Avail. 7/16 McCartney 3,2,1 (2021)
Avail. 7/17 Horimiya: Complete Season 1 (Dubbed)
Avail. 7/22 Olympic Dreams featuring Jonas Brothers: Special
Avail. 7/26 The Artist (2011)
Avail. 7/29 The Resort (2021)
Leaving 7/4 Warrior (2011)
Leaving 7/9 Desierto (2015)
Leaving 7/20 The Last Full Measure (2019)
Leaving 7/21 Bolt (2008)
Leaving 7/24 All The Wild Horses (2017) B.B. King: On The Road (2018) The Beatles: Made on Merseyside (2018) Bees Make Honey (2017) Closing Gambit (2018) Gloves Off (2017) I, Dolours (2018) In Extremis (2017) Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death (2017) The Last Animals (2017) Lost in Vagueness (2017) Painkillers (2018)
Leaving 7/27 For A Good Time, Call… (2012)
Leaving 7/30 The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) Like Someone in Love (2012) Mad Detective (2007)
July 31 (500) Days of Summer (2009) 28 Days Later (2003) 28 Weeks Later (2007) A Perfect Gateway (2009) The Adventures of Hercules (1985) Alive (1993) Batman Begins (2005) Before We Go (2015) Blue Sky (1994) Breach (2007) Broken Flowers (2005) Captain Corelli’S Mandolin (2001) Caveman (1981) The Crazies (2010) Cyrus (2009) The Dark Knight (2008) Dinosaur 13 (2014) El Dorado (1967) Evening (2007) Fargo (1996) Footloose (1984) For Richer Or Poorer (1997) Friends With Benefits (2011) Gamer (2009) Goodnight Mommy (2015) Gorp (1980) Grace Of Monaco (2015) Hannibal Rising (2007) Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia (2013) Hyde Park On Hudson (2012) I Feel Pretty (2018) I Saw The Devil (2010) In The Mix (2005) Internal Affairs (1990) The Iron Giant (1999) The Jackal (1997) Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) The Ladies Man (2000) L!fe Happens (2012) Lucky Number Slevin (2006) Machete (2010) McLintock! (Producer’s Cut) (1963) Morning Glory (2010) Mystic Pizza (1988) The Nanny Diaries (2007) National Lampoon’s Van Wilder (2002) The Natural (1984) Ong-Bak (2003) Ong-Bak 2 (2008) Ong-Bak 3 (2010) The Pawnbroker (1964) Predator (1987) Predator 2 (1990) Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) Red Cliff (2008) The Relic (1997) Robocop (1987) Robocop 2 (1990) Robocop 3 (1993) Seabiscuit (2003) The Skeleton Key (2005) Sliver (1993) Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Soldier Boyz (1995) Something’s Gotta Give (2003) Soul Food (1997) The Spy Next Door (2010) Stand by Me (1986) Star Kid (1998) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Star Trek: First Contact (1996) Star Trek: Generations (1994) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Step Up 2 The Streets (2008) Step Up 3D (2010) Step Up Revolution (2012) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) Taffin (1988) The Terminator (1984) Triangle (2009) Turbulence (1997) Unstoppable (2010) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2009) What’s Love Got To Do With It (1993)
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