Only a few short days remain before The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (a.k.a., “Big Ass Kicker“) debuts on AMC. The evening will be even more exciting due to another premiere, which will be Ride With Norman Reedus‘ sixth season. The premiere will even feature Reedus on his bike and tooling around “otherworldly” stretches of Utah with Keanu Reeves. This will be both “excellent” and not “bogus,” although you’ll have to wait to see if any crossbows are involved.
A trailer already revealed a flash of Keanu bumping fists with the main man. We have to hear both of them say “Whoa!” at some point, but here’s some good news while we wait: AMC has revealed more footage, and Keanu looks like he’s having the time of his life.
This season will also feature “motorcycle enthusiast Norman Reedus” (that’s an understatement) doing his thing with a different friend each episode. Prepare to see a TWD star (sorry, it is not Melissa McBride, not this time) join Reedus for an episode at Talladega Superspeedway along with Johnny Knoxville in Rome and Josh Holloway in Northern Italy.
Ride With Norman Reedus returns on Sunday, September 10. If you need help sitting down in the meantime, you can relive these Daryl moments to stoke those flames.
When Olivia Rodrigo crossed over from her Disney acting origins to a prime pop takeover with her debut album Sour in 2021, she came ready-made with an enviable closet. The hit music video for “Good 4 U” found her channeling Jennifer’s Body with cheer outfits and long black opera gloves, setting the tone for the youthful energy that inspired her work. (It also became a strong contender for Halloween costumes that year.)
In the two years since Sour, Rodrigo is gearing up for the release of her second album, Guts, out tomorrow. And in doing so, she has also continued to cement herself as an inspirational figure for Gen Z fashion.
Whether it’s for a high-profile appearance or a casual day-to-day look, Rodrigo opts for vintage archival pieces. At the MTV Movie and TV Awards last year, she rocked a halter John Paul Gaultier black dress — believed to be made around 1987, according to Cosmopolitan.
Her preference for thrifting started as a teenager when she watched a documentary titled The True Cost, which showcased the effects that fast fashion has on the environment. Rodrigo previously shared in an Instagram interview with Sophia Li, “That was just something that I had never really realized up until that point.”
The recycling of style has carried down to Rodrigo’s fans, who also frequently thrift for their own unique pieces — rather than buying new items from companies like Shein and Forever 21. Over the past few years, resale platforms like Depop and Mercari have also replaced eBay for younger users looking to sell their old clothes and buy pieces from others’ closets.
When speaking to some of Rodrigo’s fans, her push for sustainability is something that they highlight as why they respect her fashion approach.
As one fan named Jenn points out, the pop star briefly “had a stint as a Depop seller herself.” The account, dubbed “SOURShop,” found Rodrigo selling items from her music videos and closet with all proceeds going to charity. These included the feather boa from “Deja Vu,” her white Nike Air Max’s from “Good 4 U,” and a ringer band tee of The White Stripes — one of her personal musical influences.
Others, like a Boston-based fan named Haley, work in thrift stores and have experience seeing firsthand what the younger customers are purchasing: “Plaid skirts, platform boots, [and] lace tops.”
“Vivienne Westwood jewelry and pieces always sell especially fast in our store as well!” Haley adds, pointing out the designer’s recurring influence on Rodrigo’s public appearances — between the pink beaded dress and matching choker for her first Grammy Awards or her plaid look on Saturday Night Live.
“I wanted to do something fun and young, but also we’re at the Grammys, it’s glamorous,” she told E! on the red carpet in 2022.
Much like Rodrigo’s noted love for The White Stripes, her penchant for picking Westwood pieces speaks to the role that rock plays in her wardrobe. The late designer first rose to fame as bands like the Sex Pistols and other punk performers relied on her shop for unique and shocking pieces.
Rodrigo’s style also pulls inspiration from the “It Girls” of decades past. At a Grammys after party, she emulated Paris Hilton’s popular 21st birthday look — wearing a custom Blumarine dress alongside Hilton at the DJ booth. She even recently raided actress Chloë Sevigny’s sale in New York City, revealing her “most prized possession” of owning the actress’ plaid Versace dress, in a Vogue 73 Questions video to promote the new album. “I’ve had this dress, the picture of her wearing this dress, saved on my Pinterest for years, and I was actually able to get my hands on it,” she said.
Yet, compared to the “It Girls” of the early-aughts, Rodrigo has also served as a role model when it comes to representation. She is also around a similar age range as those who love her. In July 2023, she became the first Filipino girl to be on the cover of Vogue US, which is part of the reason why Jenn respects her.
“She’s a really valuable source of representation for me, and I was so happy, as a Southeast Asian girl myself,” she explains. “I always feel like I can trust her influence because of how her character seeps into her output as a person with a platform.”
That representation is also felt by fans like Paris, who appreciate the fact that Rodrigo takes plus sizes into consideration when putting out her own merchandise.
The stylist duo, Chloe and Chenelle, have worked with Rodrigo (and other celebrity clients) to bring a modern spin to the grunge and Y2K styles. According to an interview with i-D, they contacted the New York-based designer Sintra Martins to pull looks for Rodrigo’s Sour tour.
“Aggressively feminine in that it was masquerading femininity,” Martins previously told the publication about her design approach, as i-D applied it to Rodrigo’s pink ball gown look as one example. “I’m always asking how I fit into this world, what I get to do, and a lot of that is prescribed by gender. I feel like I’m really limited by gender, in some ways.”
And Rodrigo, like any fashion icon, isn’t remaining static. It’s been a little over a year since Rodrigo wrapped her Sour tour, and much has changed since then when it comes to her style. With Rodrigo now being 20, fans like Jenn have noticed that she is taking a “timeless and sophisticated” approach. If the Sour era was marked by colorful tees and pink dress that play with the previously-mentioned “aggressive feminine” concept, Rodrigo’s Guts era finds her in more monochromatic outfits.
Still, other Livvies are continuing to follow in Rodrigo’s footsteps. Around the time that we speak, Bridget is in NYC and planning on heading to a Guts promotional event in another recreated street-style look of the pop star’s past.
She sums up the mindset of those who turn to Rodrigo for fashion inspiration best: “[Olivia] can make anything look good, and she encourages me to have fun finding new styles and to play around with what I wear.”
The ladies of The View are not loving the “spin” around Joe Jonas filing for divorce from Sophie Turner. The pop singer made moves to end the marriage earlier this week, and since then, someone has been attempting to paint the Game of Thrones actress as a party animal who’s not tending to the couple’s kids.
The most recent addition involves photos of Turner drinking, which were published in the Daily Mail. However, The View co-hosts quickly jumped to her defense by noting some crucial context: Turner was at a wrap party for her new series Joan.
“I think the spin of this that bothers me is, she’s working, he’s working,” Sara Haines said. “These weren’t new careers. They met on these terms. She’s at a wrap party for a show she did,” — Haines was referring to a photo of Turner out at a bar with people — “We have wrap parties here. You celebrate the end! So that isn’t just a bar that she’s out hanging out, she happens to be with her colleagues at a bar, celebrating the end of a series.”
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin took things even further by calling out the shady reports of Jonas allegedly seeing or hearing something through the couple’s Ring camera.
“I sense some innuendo and undertones here of sexism,” Griffin said. “There’s even more out there, I don’t even want to give it steam, but like, alleging things that are on a camera without even saying what it was that they saw?”
“I’m sorry, is this an immaculate conception?” she said in response to reports that Jonas had the children with him on tour. “So what, he’s taking care of the kids. Like, does he get a gold star?”
Sting is busy. The singer of The Police sold his solo catalog and The Police catalog for an estimated $300 million last year. More recently, he shared his hot take about AI: “It doesn’t impress me at all.”
Now, the legendary musician is on his My Songs Tour. It kicked off in Toronto on September 5 and it’ll be all over North America throughout the month, and it’s packed with his own hits as well as highlights from The Police.
Check out his setlist from his performance at Hard Rock Live at the Etess Arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey, according to setlist.fm.
1. “Message in a Bottle” (The Police)
2. “Englishman in New York”
3. “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” (The Police)
4. “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free”
5. “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You”
6. “Loving You”
7. “Fields of Gold”
8. “Brand New Day”
9. “Heavy Cloud No Rain”
10. “Shape of My Heart”
11. “Why Should I Cry for You?”
12. “All This Time”
13. “Mad About You”
14. “Walking on the Moon” (The Police)
15. “So Lonely” (The Police) (With Snippet of “No Women No Cry”)
16. “Desert Rose”
17. “King of Pain” (The Police) (with Joe Sumner)
18. “Every Breath You Take” (The Police)
19. “Roxanne” (The Police) (encore)
20. “Fragile” (encore)
Questlove is known for making playlists for his friends. His friends, as O’Brien put it, just so happen to be “some of the most famous people in the world.” Questlove said the hobby “started with The Obamas” and admitted to some slight trolling after O’Brien asked, “Do you ever throw something in there — like the theme from Gilligan’s Island — just something that’s gonna freak [former US President Barack Obama] out?”
“I do that all the time,” Questlove said. “He doesn’t question much. There’s a few people who are like, ‘Did you really mean to put this version of that song on there?’ I will lightly troll. I’m not trying to troll more than I’m just trying to expand the palette.”
The Roots legend continued, “Because, I think, oftentimes when it comes to streaming, there are billions of songs out there, but we’re only gonna go to the 32 songs that we know. And I’m willing to do the musical, metaphorical equivalent of the Shawshank sh*t crawl. I go through about 500 songs a week, of which maybe seven are cool.”
Questlove then explained his Blue Ivy-related reasoning behind adding Beyoncé and Jay-Z to the group — even though it seems to me that the only reason he’d need is that they are, ahem, BEYONCÉ AND JAY-Z — and shared that Bill Hader, Spike Lee, Martha Stewart, Kenan Thompson, and Norah Jones are also among recipients of curated Questlove playlists.
“I text 700 times a month to [this] list of people,” Questlove said, handing his phone to a very impressed O’Brien. He asked O’Brien if he’d want to be added to the list, which feels like a rhetorical question.
Fans planning on checking out the remaining eight shows may be wondering what time Lil Baby goes on stage thanks to The Kid Laroi dropping out of the schedule. In fact, that question was asked recently on Reddit, with the consensus among the commenters putting his entrance around 9:30 pm. That leaves each of the four openers around two and a half hours between them, with one Redditor noting that GloRilla, the final opener, hits the stage around 8:30 pm.
Over the course of Baby’s set, he’s been performing songs from across his discography, with only three songs coming from the tour’s namesake album. The only It’s Only Us songs he performs are: “California Breeze,” “Heyy,” and “In A Minute.” Meanwhile, he performs six tracks from his fan-favorite 2020 album My Turn, and 14 from singles or features. You can see the remaining show dates below.
09/07 — Memphis, TN @ Fedex Forum *
09/09 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena *
09/11 –Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
09/12 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
09/15 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
09/16 — Jacksonville, FL @ Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena
09/19 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
09/22 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ FLA Live Arena
The skyscraper-sized sheet of dust barreling across the playa as I danced at Titanic’s End—an enormous mobile DJ stage made to look like an electric iceberg—was my first indication that serious weather was descending on Burning Man. An apocalyptic dust cloud rolling across the Black Rock Desert, in remote northwestern Nevada, is nothing especially noteworthy, but this one felt different. The cloud seemed unusually massive. And fast-moving. Strangest of all, later that Friday it was joined by an unprecedented amount of rain—two to three month’s worth in a mere 24 hours.
Outlets across the globe depicted a truly catastrophic event. Torrential rains had flooded Burning Man, leaving 70,000-plus burners trapped in a barren wilderness by an impassable sea of mud. Emergency and resupply vehicles couldn’t get in and revelers couldn’t get out. Organizers had spread the word to “shelter in place” (the headline writers loved that one) and conserve precious drinking water and food. One article blared “President Biden Has Been Briefed on Burning Man Chaos.” Predictably, schadenfreude echoed across social media (right on cue, at least one TikToker compared the situation to the calamitous Fyre Festival). At the mercy of the unrelenting indifference of nature, the news cycle painted a precarious future for burners—supplies would dwindle, waste from unserviceable Porta-Potties would overflow into the muddied pathways, and this desert gathering of free spirits, art weirdos, and wooks (and the uber-wealthy) would descend into chaos. Or worse.
This ominous state of affairs was unknown to those of us behind Burning Man’s shuttered gates. As the wind whipped dust into white curtains so thick they periodically obscured mutant vehicles and art installations that are usually lit up like the sun, and the rain turned the dust into muck so dense and sticky that cars and bicycles were rendered useless and even walking became a tremendous challenge, we did what one does when the weather gets weird at Burning Man: put on our goggles, checked on our friends, and kept dancing.
This is not to say that the situation wasn’t serious. Unprecedented rain really had made the roads impassable, trapping us in and service vehicles out, and word really had gone around to shelter in place and conserve resources. If the situation persisted for long it could become very dangerous in a hurry. And the gate closure wrought havoc on many a schedule—I needed to catch a flight with extreme urgency on very important business, yet as Monday dawned my car and my person remained stuck on Black Rock City’s untraversable streets. But, as is too often the case when disaster strikes, the scene on the ground bore little resemblance to the frantic tenor of the news.
“The real crisis is what shoes do you wear in this crisis?” whinged Erin Kindt, playa name Destiny, an Australian at her fourth burn. “How do I dance in these ten-inch moon boots? The mud is so sticky, I’m taking the playa with me.”
Cell service and wifi are very hard to find at Burning Man, but as the weekend wore on, and messages from friends and loved ones began to trickle in, the reality being presented to the world outside finally reached those of us inside. In came the texts and DMs and Snaps and reels.
UproxxUproxxUproxx
My aunt got hourly updates as my mom frantically tried to reach me. One burner, a CEO who asked to be referred to only by his playa name, had been hush hush about his attendance at the event, but one of his employees who knew let it slip when his concern overcame him and he messaged the company-wide group chat to ask after the boss’s welfare.
“Was I not clear that I didn’t want it broadcast that I’m here?” said Golden Dong on the phone to the employee, his voice inflected with all the forced patience he could muster as his girlfriend, dressed as a purple bear, served the three of us early morning Micheladas. “Usually, I live in a fish bowl. I’m allowed to have a private life”
As the gravity of the situation came into focus Friday afternoon and the shelter-in-place order went around, a magnificent double rainbow arched horizon to horizon across the playa. With the rainbow in the distance, I serenaded a sleepy camp with a rendition of Sam Cooke’s “You Send Me” while spraying bubbles in the breeze. Black Rock City grew quiet for a while, as burners took stock of their predicament and battened down the proverbial hatches, implementing a rationing regime for water and ice, finding shelter in RVs for those with flooded tents, and so forth. But it wasn’t long before the endless thump of EDM that is the unceasing soundtrack to Burning Man started back up. Bikes now unrideable, Burners hit the town on foot, and the festivities kicked back into gear.
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Determined not to let a little humanitarian disaster spoil his birthday, burner Ryan Hurd, playa name Fuego, set out in spandex and wrestling boots, his face bejeweled, to dance down muddy streets from camp to camp until well past dawn on Sunday with his friends and a bottle of Dom Perignon. Deluge or no deluge, Hurd was determined to see burners finish what they’d started.
“We came here to burn the man,” he said, “and we’re going to stay here until they burn the man.”
One of the disc jockeys on the BRC radio station captured the general mood after a listener contacted the show to complain that they seemed to be having a party on the air instead of confronting what was a very serious, very dangerous situation.
Yes, it is serious, the disc jockey granted, and we’re diligently taking steps to address these nontrivial challenges.
“But we’re burners,” he added. “We’re going to celebrate the rain.”
Radical self-reliance is one of the core pillars of the Burning Man ethos, and seeing to the welfare of the humans stuck on the playa remained foremost in the archetypal burner mind. But, as Destiny neé Erin Kindt illustrated rather nicely, throughout the crisis, survival was far from the only concern coursing through Black Rock City.
“What if we have to stay here for three more days?” she said. “Are we gonna run out of flash tattoos?”
Maluma’s Don Juan World Tour will go out with a bang in Miami on November 4 and 5. Depending on if Inter Miami makes the playoffs, Messi could be free to join his pal Maluma on stage at one of those dates, and if he is available, it should actually be mandated that Messi be present when Maluma performs “Trofeo.”
The Don Juan World Tour began on August 31 in Sacramento, California and has since visited Portland, Oregon (on September 2), Seattle, Washington (September 3), and San Jose, California (September 6). Next up is Los Angeles on Saturday, September 9.
Below, study up on the rest of Maluma’s tour setlist (as chronicled on setlist.fm from the Seattle show).
In February 2020, Disney CEO Bob Iger finally stepped down after walking back his plans to retire at least four times. His hand-picked replacement, Bob Chapek, would take the reins of the entertainment giant, only to watch his short run as CEO immediately smash up against the COVID pandemic just a few weeks later.
Iger never really took his hands off the steering wheel, which became abundantly clear when Chapek was forced out the door in late 2022 and Iger was reinstated as CEO. However, there were warning signs right out of the gate that Iger would remain in power.
Despite Chapek taking the top seat, Iger reportedly refused to relinquish his office as he stayed on as executive chairman. While the decision could be seen as a power move, there was also a more prominent factor: Iger loves him a private shower.
There was a practical reason Iger didn’t want to move out of his office. It had a private shower, built for former CEO Michael Eisner, and a vanity for shaving. Iger, now 72, consistently woke up around 4:15 a.m. to work out and then shower. On evenings when Iger was heading out for a Disney premiere, award show or benefit, he would often take a second shower — this time in the office.
Iger told Chapek that he lived for those “two-shower days,” according to people familiar with the conversation.
Of course, the fact that Iger refused to relinquish his private office shower that he sometimes uses twice a day is sure to go over well with the struggling actors and writers who have been lambasting the Disney CEO ever since his initial remarks on the WGA strike.
“There’s a level of expectation that they have, that is just not realistic,” Iger said barely 24 hours the first strike. “And they are adding to the set of the challenges that this business is already facing that is, quite frankly, very disruptive. It’s very disturbing to me.”
We’d tell Bob to hit the showers, but we already know he did. Twice.
What if you needed a word for something that you can’t quite define? Where would you turn?
Have you ever tried to explain something but gave up because the person you’re talking to wouldn’t be able to relate? Or worse yet, there’s not an actual word for what you’re trying to explain?
Haven’t heard that term before? How about this one:
Anecdoche — a conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening.
No? How about this:
Opia — the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye.
Now, before you start doubting your own vocabulary skills, you won’t find those words in any of the major dictionaries. Instead, they come from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a collection of newly minted words for life’s hard-to-define feelings.
So, these words aren’t real? Well, it’s not quite that simple.
What makes something a “real” word?
It’s a word that’s found in the dictionary, you might say. That leads to an entirely separate question: Whose dictionary? Merriam-Webster? Oxford? Cambridge? Urban?
The truth is that language is ever-changing, and what one might say is a “fake” word today could very well be a “real” word tomorrow (or within a few years, at least).
In June 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary added a handful of new words to its rolls, including “Interweb,” “jeggings,” “hot mess,” “crowdfunding,” and “cisgender.” Will all of these words stick with us for the long haul? Almost certainly not. Still, in the mind of OED’s editors, those words are just as real as any others.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, on the other hand, contains many useful terms that you won’t find in a traditional dictionary … yet.
You’ll find words like “Vellichor” (“The strange wistfulness of used bookshops”) and “Adronitis” (“Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone”) buried within the dictionary’s six-year history.
While some terms come off as, well, obscure, others seem to fill meaningful voids left by the limitations of language for common emotions.
Its existence feels almost otherworldly, like spells from the mind of J.K. Rowling.
u201cHarry Potter Spells Listu201d
— Harry Potter World (@Harry Potter World) 1589672580
“I’ve been writing a dictionary of emotions for about five years, and still the most common question I get is, ‘Are these words real?'” Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows creator John Koenig told Upworthy over email.
To answer that question, Koenig says (emphasis mine):
“One answer is an obvious ‘no,’ [they’re not real] because you couldn’t find them in a leather-bound dictionary — and because I create them myself by twisting together word roots from any one of a dozen different languages, from French, Japanese and Mayan to my personal favorite, Greek.
On the other hand, of course these words are real, because in reality there is no such thing. A word is not like a gold coin that you bite to tell whether it’s counterfeit, so you might be able to trade it for a mule. It becomes real when it’s spoken and understood. And by that standard, I’ve seen some of my words (particularly ‘sonder’) used earnestly in many different conversations online. Are they all wrong? Is ‘sonder’ any less meaningful because it hasn’t yet been enshrined on the page of a leather-bound book? After all, almost every word in the Oxford English Dictionary has a birthdate, a notation of its first recorded use, back when it was just a yawp of nonsense that only made sense to one person, then two. All words were born this way.”
Here’s “sonder” by the way:
When it comes to how we think about words, popularity is often a stand-in for legitimacy.
You might not find the verb “retweeted” in the dictionary on your bookshelf, but it’s an understood term. Koenig has thoughts on that, as well:
“So then, does realness require the blessing of popular use? How many millions of people does it take to change the word ‘literally’ to mean ‘figuratively’? Is a word still alive if only one person knows its meaning? Or is that too far?”
“Personally, I think words should exist for their own sake, regardless of how they are used,” Koenig says, pointing out that our language is particularly lacking when it comes to describing emotions.
“When I post a new definition or a new episode of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, I often have no idea if anyone else out there feels the emotion I’m trying to pin down. Because it’s a one-man show, it’s totally possible that it’s just me. So then this question about realness [of a word] becomes just another way of asking, ‘Am I the only person who feels this way?‘”
During her talk, Curzan recounts someone asking her if “defriend” is a “real word.” She wound up in the same sort of existential rabbit hole:
“What makes a word real? My dinner companion and I both know what the verb ‘defriend’ means, so when does a new word like ‘defriend’ become real? Who has the authority to make those kinds of official decisions about words, anyway?”
Here’s Curzan giving her TED Talk “What makes a word ‘real’?” in March 2014.
She touched on the process of words making their way into the dictionary. This might seem like a stale topic, but it’s pretty fascinating.
To her, dictionary editors are similar to anthropologists — that’s a way most of us probably hadn’t thought about them before (if we thought about them at all).
“So how does a word get into a dictionary? It gets in because we use it and we keep using it, and dictionary editors are paying attention to us. If you’re thinking, ‘But that lets all of us decide what words mean,’ I would say, ‘Yes it does, and it always has.’
Dictionaries are a wonderful guide and resource, but there is no objective dictionary authority out there that is the final arbiter about what words mean. If a community of speakers is using a word and knows what it means, it’s real. That word might be slangy, that word might be informal, that word might be a word that you think is illogical or unnecessary, but that word that we’re using, that word is real.”
So, what makes a “real” word? That’s entirely up to you.
This article originally appeared on 07.02.15
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