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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we are looking everywhere for the perfect gift – something not too big, not too small – something that lets your person know you were thinking of them. And something, dare we say, that comes in a cute little red box. What could be better than this darling tea sampler from the Little Red Cup Tea Co?

Organic Tea Sampler

Little Red Cup Tea Company is a company worth getting to know. Their teas aren’t your average grocery store tea blends. Each tea is complex and aromatic, with a unique flavor profile. Little Red Cup Tea Company offers so many amazing organic varieties of Chinese teas that the Four Tin Gift Sampler is probably the best way to start exploring their offerings for yourself or (more importantly?) for the tea lover in your life. This customizable sampler is an invitation to try four of the teas Little Red Cup has to offer. Whether they’re a seasoned tea connoisseur or just beginning their journey into the world of high-quality teas, this sampler offers a personalized experience that is sure to be appreciated. The sampler is offered all year long, but it is decked out in a fancy red box just for Valentine’s Day.

With the Little Red Cup Four Tin Gift Sampler, you can choose from preset configurations like Four Green Teas, Four Black Teas, Two Black Two Greens, or The Spectrum, or you can mix and match to create your unique assortment. So whether they love sweet subtle green teas, or pungent and smokey black teas,, or you don’t even know where to start, each tin in the Four Tin Gift Sampler offers an unparalleled tasting experience that will introduce you or them to new possibilities.

The Little Red Cup Four Tin Gift Sampler opens up a whole world of high-quality organic teas, and it is a wonderful way to show you care about the planet, as well.

Making the world a better place starts with the choices we make every single day. However, these choices don’t have to be difficult. In fact, thanks to the Little Red Cup Tea Company, even something as simple as having a cup of tea can promote a cleaner world and a better future. The Little Red Cup Tea Company is a family-run business that’s redefining what it means to enjoy a cup of tea. By embracing a mission to sell superior artisanal teas that are certified organic and fair trade, this company is making the world better, one cup at a time. So if you’re looking to take the tea drinking experience to the next level—and you want to make the world a better place at the same time—check out some of the bold and aromatic teas Little Red Cup has to offer.

The Little Red Cup Philosophy

At the heart of the Little Red Cup Tea Company is a story steeped in tradition, simplicity, and a deep respect for nature. Founded with a passion for authentic, traditional teas, this family-run business is on a mission to bring the highest quality Chinese teas to the U.S. market—pure, whole leaf, and brimming with tradition.

What truly sets Little Red Cup apart is their unwavering commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. Every tea leaf in their collection is not only USDA certified organic, but also Fair Trade certified, ensuring that with every sip, consumers are supporting a healthier planet and empowering tea-growing communities. They’ve built direct partnerships with worker-owned cooperatives, shortening the journey from field to cup and guaranteeing both quality and fairness. By choosing Little Red Cup, you’re not just choosing a delicious cup of tea; you’re becoming a part of a movement that values the planet, the people, and the timeless tradition of tea drinking.

Commitment to Sustainability

At Little Red Cup, “sustainability” isn’t just a buzzword. By strictly adhering to organic farming methods, they ensure that their teas are free from chemical pesticides and fertilizers, offering a purer, healthier cup to their customers. Moreover, their Fair Trade certification isn’t just a label; it’s a promise. It means that every purchase contributes to a fairer, more equitable system where tea growers receive a fair share, ensuring their communities thrive. This approach creates a direct, positive impact, supporting educational and social programs in rural tea-growing regions. When you sip a cup of Little Red Cup tea, you’re not just enjoying a high-quality beverage; you’re partaking in a global effort to make the world a little better, one cup at a time.

Little Red Cup Tea Company’s commitment to sustainability extends beyond their tea leaves to the very packaging they use. In an industry often marred by excessive and non-eco-friendly packaging, they lead by example, using food-safe tins without plastic liners to reduce waste and keep their teas fresh. Embracing a refill culture, they encourage customers to reuse these tins with larger, resealable tea pouches, further minimizing environmental impact. This thoughtful approach ensures that choosing Little Red Cup is not only about enjoying high-quality tea, but also about supporting a cycle of sustainable consumption and contributing to a healthier planet with every cup.

Join the Little Red Cup Family

The Little Red Cup Tea Company is more than a brand; it’s a movement. Each cup of their sustainably sourced, organically grown tea represents a step towards a better world—a world where quality, ethics, and environmental consciousness go hand in hand.

If you’re ready to explore a new world of exquisite flavors and truly sustainable practices, click here to order your Little Red Cup Four Tin Gift Sampler special Valentine’s Day edition today.

Just days after Megan Thee Stallion made headlines with her “Hiss” disses, the Houston rapper is once again dominating the conversation this morning — but for an entirely different reason. It was teased hours earlier that she would be stopping by Good Morning America to make a special announcement.

Now, fans know what Megan has planned for the rest of this year.

Is Megan Thee Stallion Going On Tour In 2024?

Megan Thee Stallion announced on GMA that she will be heading out on tour, which will kick off in the summer. It will be in support of an upcoming new album.

“Oh, we’re having the tour this year,” Megan said. “The Hot Girl Summer Tour is going to be 2024, summertime. I feel like I’ve never been able to be outside doing my own thing during the summer, since like 2019. So this is going to be the first time that I drop an album on time for the summer. I do want to give the hotties the Megan Thee Stallion experience.”

Over the past few years, she has made appearances at mostly festivals or one-off shows, so it will be a truly special return. Right now, not much else is known about the exact dates or stops that Meg will be making on the tour — but hopefully the Hotties get to find out soon.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Bryan Cranston spent years filming in the New Mexico desert as meth kingpin Walter White in Breaking Bad. However, his most dangerous acting moment occurred in the family-friendly sitcom, Malcolm in the Middle.

While promoting Argylle with an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Cranston revealed that a scene involving his bumbling dad, Hal, almost took him out of the game.

“One time, I did a thing where my character was in a depression, and he started painting, and I was completely covered in blue paint,” Cranston said. “Completely, head to toe, in blue paint.”

Now, if you know anything about paint and/or how the human body works, then you know where this story is headed. In fact, Cranston’s Argylle co-star Bryce Dallas Howard quickly noted, “That’s not safe,” and she was very right.

Via Entertainment Weekly:

“It’s not safe,” Cranston agreed, “because your body can’t regulate the heat if you’re covering up all your pores.”

Things then took a dangerous turn during filming. “As you shoot, you’re moving around, and then there was a part of me, at one point, I was like starting to shut down the circuits,” Cranston explained, miming being woozy. “And they went boom, and they grabbed me, and they threw me in the shower and they just… It was weird.”

Fortunately, Cranston survived the ordeal, but it is pretty funny that his most dangerous job to date was playing a sitcom dad on Fox. It just goes to show that parenting can kill you dead even if you’re just pretending.

Argylle opens in theaters on February 2.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

The Bachelor is now in its 28th season. There’s also been 20 seasons of The Bachelorette, nine seasons of Bachelor in Paradise, one season of The Golden Bachelor, and so on. With so many episodes in the BTC (Bachelor Televised Universe), eventually you were going to have a contestant who appeared in a Vin Diesel movie. That’s just math.

One of the women vying for Joey Graziadei’s heart in the current season of The Bachelor is Maria Georgas. As noted by Decider, the executive assistant from Kleinburg, Ontario, only has one pre-Bachelor credit on her IMDb: Firefly #1 in The Pacifier, the 2005 kid-friendly action comedy starring Dominic Toretto as a Navy SEAL who becomes — record scratch — a babysitter.

Georgas didn’t mention her unnamed movie character past on The Bachelor, but she does have strong movie takes.

You likely remember [Georgas] as the woman who let Joey know she didn’t approve of his favorite movie, Remember the Titans, on night one. Following the premiere, Georgas posted an apology to Instagram Stories, explaining, “I didn’t know Denzel Washington was in it, and I love Denzel Washington… When I found out he was in the movie I already automatically knew the movie was going to be fantastic. I have since watched it and it’s great. I’m so sorry about that, guys.”

If Graziadei said his favorite movie was The Pacifier, Georgas would know he’s a liar. No one’s favorite movie is The Pacifier.

(Via Decider)

A new theme park is coming to the Universal Orlando Resort.

Set to debut in 2025, Universal Epic Universe is described as “a level of theme park immersion and innovation that is unmatched – transporting guests to expansive worlds featuring more than 50 awe-inspiring attraction, entertainment, dining, and shopping experiences that come together to create an unforgettable adventure that is nothing short of epic.”

The heart of Universal Epic Universe will be Celestial Park, emphasis on “park.” There will be “lush living gardens” and “shimmering waters,” all “surrounded by stunning architecture inspired by astronomical and mythological elements.” Celestial Park is a gateway to the rest of the Universal Epic Universe — although there will be a dual-launch roller coaster, Starfall Racers — which you can access through a system of portals.

The other worlds in Epic Universe are The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic, which blends the 1920s Paris seen in the Fantastic Beasts films with the Ministry of Magic from the Harry Potter movies; Super Nintendo World (shout out to my guy Toad); How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk (“where guests can soar with dragons in a colorful world filled with Viking adventures”); and Dark Universe, a “shadowy landscape” filled with the old-school movie monsters. Hopefully this tweet appears on a Wanted poster somewhere.

Universal Helios Grand Hotel also features the Universal Helios Grand Hotel for when you need to take a nap after drinking Butterbeer all day.

Universal Epic Universe opens at Universal Orlando in 2025. For more information, click here.

In an interview earlier this month, Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) said of Drake, “Drake is pop to me, in the sense like, if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song… it feels like a lot of his music is compatible with shopping. Or shopping with an edge in certain instances… It’s likable.”

That got some reactions online, including from Drake himself. Now, Bey has explained himself further.

In an Instagram Live broadcast yesterday (January 29), he said:

“Drake, if you’d like to speak to me directly, you can at any point. I reached out to [Dave] Chappelle, I actually reached out to you. I DM’d you. You are a very talented MC, but for me, I require more of myself and others than just talent or charm or charisma, particularly in times of urgent crisis. And what I would like to see, in terms of creators or creative people in the world, as it relates to our culture, is for people to connect with us beyond the jukebox or the dance floor.

A fair-weather friend can hardly be called a friend at all. The people who party with you: that’s cool. But will they show up for you when you’re at the triage?”

Check out the video below.

Finally, the 2024 Super Bowl match-up has been set, as the San Francisco 49ers will take on Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs, on February 11 in Las Vegas.

Taylor Swift hasn’t confirmed if she’ll be in attendance; She has an Eras Tour concert in Tokyo the day before, but it’s actually possible to make it back to the States for the game. So, Swifties might be wondering:

Will Taylor Swift Perform With Usher At The 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show?

It appears that she won’t.

TMZ, citing “sources with direct knowledge,” reports, “Not only is Taylor not going to pick up a microphone to croon a tune … but we’re hearing there’s no chance T-Swift will go anywhere near the stage, let alone step onto it. In other words, our sources say there are zero plans to have her participate in the Super Bowl whatsoever — outside of her just being there as a fan — and Usher is going to have the spotlight all to himself in terms of live entertainment that day.”

Given that Usher has been planning his show for months, and that Swift probably wasn’t sure she’d be Super Bowl-bound until just a few days ago, it makes that she’s not involved. While Kelce playing in the Super Bowl and Swift performing at the halftime show would have been one of the biggest couple flexes ever, it looks like that’s just not going to happen this year.

After years of subtle jabs, Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj have officially removed the sparring gloves. On Friday, January 26, Megan Thee Stallion dropped her latest single, “Hiss.” The venomous record is a striking lyrical act at several folks, including her ex-boyfriend Pardi, DaBaby, Tory Lanez apologist, and most viciously, Nicki Minaj.

As users online praise Megan’s display of wit, one family is calling the rapper out for being insensitive. In a conversation with TMZ, Richard Kanka expressed disgust with Megan Thee Stallion’s line and even threatened her with legal action.

With her eyes aimed at Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty’s past sexual assault allegations, Megan rapped: “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law.”

As one of the leading forces behind getting the legislation passed, Kanka didn’t take too kindly to his late daughter’s death being used as a punchline in a petty rap feud. Although Kanka admits that he didn’t listen to the entirety of the song, he had a chance to pull up the lyrics and felt that it downplayed the severity of his late daughter’s brutal death by a sex offender.

Megan Thee Stallion has not issued a response to Kanka’s remarks. But referencing “Hiss,” according to Megan, she’s Teflon in the courtroom.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Boy, conservatives hate Taylor Swift for some reason. The world’s probable most popular pop star has been the scourge of the right for months now, who take umbrage with her being a Joe Biden supporter. She’s not even that vocal about it. Things got even worse after her the Kansas City Chiefs, which counts her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, as a member, got into the Super Bowl. There were tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, Fox News meltdowns, plus one of Trump’s many lawyers absolutely embarrassing herself.

Over the weekend, a Twitter/X user posted a bizarre question: “Who thinks this country needs a lot more women like Alina Habba, and a lot less like Taylor Swift?”

Habba, of course, is part of the latest round of revolving door lawyers who’ve worked for Donald Trump. Recently her client lost a case so bad that the jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defamation. In other words, few rational people would prefer a bad lawyer to Time’s most recent Person of the Year.

Still, there was one person who agreed with that Twitter/X person: herself. And there was another: Habba, who reposted the post on her Instagram account. That makes two, as well as however many deranged far right anti-Swifties are out there.

Habba joined Trump’s legal team over the summer despite specializing in real estate. Apart from losing her client tens of millions, she’s also done things like admit he lost re-election in 2020. Granted, Trump has been known to do that, too.

(Via Newsweek)

Entering Monday, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Oklahoma City Thunder were the top two teams in the Western Conference, and they squared off at Paycom Center in OKC in a riveting showdown. Ultimately, the Wolves emerged victorious by the final score of 107-101, out-pacing the Thunder by a ten-point margin the fourth quarter.

Immediately following the game, television microphones captured Wolves star Anthony Edwards celebrating with his teammates, including Rudy Gobert, and Edwards made a reference to “cheating ass refs.”

Edwards didn’t stop there, as he looked directly into the camera in his postgame interview and called out the officials.

Asked how he and the Wolves picked up the road win, Edwards said “I don’t know. I don’t know. And I’ma take the fine. Because the refs did not give us no calls tonight. We had to play through every bump, every grab. I don’t know. I don’t know how why we won tonight.”

On the whole, it was not a game marred by a bevy of fouls, as Minnesota and Oklahoma City combined for only 37 total free throw attempts. However, the Thunder took seven more than the Wolves, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander accounted for nearly half (16) of the full-game total.

It seems as if Edwards may be in line for a fine from the league, which he predicted before speaking. Given the impressive nature of the road win, though, Edwards will probably take it in stride, and he led all scorers for Minnesota with 27 points on 10-of-20 shooting in the game. If nothing else, perhaps this can add a bit of extra fuel for a potential playoff matchup between two teams enjoying fantastic seasons and now facing real expectations for April and May.