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Rudy Giuliani is either a hot mess or really doesn’t want to face the music. Or maybe both! The former New York City mayor-turned-Donald Trump crony (and possible fall guy) has a lot of legal and financial headaches in his life right now, including this: He was scheduled to testify before a grand jury in Georgia on Tuesday, April 9, after having simply stood up prosecutors last month. But when he tried to claim he physically couldn’t make the trip, prosecutors tried to call his bluff.

As per Raw Story, Giuliani claimed that his doctor would not let him board a plane from New York City down to the Peach State, where he’s expected to testify about whether Trump interfered in the state’s election process in 2020. He even provided a note from said doctor. But prosecutors weren’t buying it, at least at first.

“We do not consent to change the date,” wrote Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Will Wooten in an e-mail to Giuliani’s own attorney. “We expect to see your client before the grand jury on August 9, 2022, here in Atlanta. We will provide alternate transportation including bus or train if your client maintains that he is unable to fly.”

Eventually Giuliani was able to semi-successfully delay the testimony, though that might not have been such a good idea either: A county superior judge will weigh in on his latest avoidance tactic on Tuesday.

But think about it: If you were traveling by bus or train, you could have wound up spending many, many hours sitting next to the guy who gifted the world with the Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle or the infamous wine lady. Or maybe it’s best not to think about it. Life is already tough enough.

In any case, Giuliani’s attempts to ghost a grand jury have already gotten him in trouble, and this may have just added to his already unraveling existence.

(Via Raw Story)

Canadian whisky does not get its due in the modern whiskey world. The juice from up north is often sent down to the U.S. where it’s relabeled under an American brand, which contributes to the style getting ignored in the wider discourse. The fact is, there’s a good chance you’ve been drinking (and loving!) Canadian juice this whole time without knowing it (looking at you, WhistlePig).

Let’s change that today by speaking seriously about some Canadian whisky — because there are some gems coming out of Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and beyond right now.

To that end, I’m conducting a blind taste test, with eight Canadian rye and blended whiskies that are either from a Canadian brand or sourced for an American brand. I’m also throwing some serious contenders in the mix with best-in-show award winners and 20+-year-old expressions next to stuff you can get on any liquor store shelf, even in the U.S.

For the ranking of these, the gist is simple. Taste is paramount. And while expensive whiskies tend to rank higher in blind taste tests, they aren’t the be-all and end-all of any tasting. That’s why I mixed it up for this one, with both high-end and low-end whiskies.

Our lineup today is:

• WhistlePig PiggyBack 100% Rye Aged 6 Years
• Crown Royal Fine De Luxe Blended Canadian Whisky
• Chicken Cock Cotton Club Rye Whiskey Aged 20 Years
• Pendleton Midnight Blended Canadian Whiskey
• Barrell Craft Whiskey Gray Label 24 Years Canadian Whiskey Finished in Sherry and XO Armagnac Casks
• Lock Stock & Barrel 21
• BEARFACE Canadian Whisky Elementally Aged Triple Oak
• Alberta Premium Canadian Blended Rye Whisky

Let’s dive in and find a great Canadian whisky for your bar cart!

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Part 1: The Tasting

Taste 1

Tasting Notes:

Green grass and green chili peppers draw you in on the nose — giving you a sense of “American rye” — as soft touches of leather, light tobacco, and maybe some creamy vanilla honey round out the nose. The palate has a stewed fruit vibe with hints of caramel and vanilla sauce leading to a light woody winter spice mix and some woody vanilla. The end leans into light wood and sharp yet sweet Red Hots.

This tastes like a “rye” from 2005 — spice, wood, caramel. That’s not a bad thing, just a little… shrug.

Taste 2

Tasting Notes:

Fruity leather with a dose of vanilla extract mingles with light chili spice and a hint of maple syrup on the nose. The palate is on the light side but carried layers of vanilla cookies, caramel sauce, and fruit candies (apple and pear). The end warms ever so slightly with a winter spice (nutmeg and clove) while the wateriness of the proofing washes the rest of the sip out.

This was pretty good until the finish washed out.

Taste 3

Tasting Notes:

The nose hits you with a brief note of barnyard funk before shifting toward pine resin, green grass, sour cherry candies, and a twinge of Orange Julius with a dash of cinnamon and clove. The palate carries on toward orange and lemon citrus with a creamy, almost pudding vibe while pear and vanilla candies lead to floral honey spiked with woody Christmas spices and a dusting of white pepper. The end leans into those woody spices with an almost sour apple cider and some wet black potting soil that sweetens toward brown sugar.

This was a funky and fun ride. This is certainly a contender but a little out of left field. We’ll see how it ranks.

Taste 4

Tasting Notes:

Butterscotch dominates the nose until hints of dark fruits and leathery prunes sneak in with a whisper of cinnamon and apple. The palate builds a very mild spice mix toward powdered ginger and some nutmeg with an underlying nuttiness supported by vanilla/caramel smoothness. The end has a faint hint of dry cedar next to mildly spiced tobacco with a walnut vibe that’s a little light and fleeting.

This was nice but didn’t grab my attention as it should have. Everything was a struggle to find in the flavor profile or very lightly rendered.

Taste 5

Tasting Notes:

Dry red leathery fruit slabs mingle with old jars of floral honey, cognac-laced plum jam, sticky pine pitch, and a mix of cardamon, allspice, and nutmeg infused into marzipan and packed into an old cigar humidor. The palate meanders through a green grass lawn, root beer float, and tea shop as pear and apple peels lead to savory melon and a hint more of those mild spices with a woody edge. The end mint and cardamon vibe as a fleeting sense of old peaches and fennel lurks in the background.

This is another wild and funky ride that’s definitely a winner on this panel.

Taste 6

Tasting Notes:

The nose on this is like silk by way of a spiced holiday cake full of stewed dates, plenty of cinnamon and nutmeg, candied cherries and citrus rinds, and a pile of roasted nuts next to a small drizzle of dark molasses syrup. The palate opens with a pine tar vibe that leads to more of those holiday spices with a woody edge, burnt orange peel, vanilla cake with poppy seeds, butter frosting with a hint of butterscotch, and a slight Almond Joy vibe. The end is lush and full of woody spices countered by freshly cut green grass with a leather pouch full of just singed tobacco leaves.

This is a “wow” whiskey. It doesn’t blow away all of the competition today, but a hell of a lot of it.

Taste 7

Tasting Notes:

This opens a little “oaky” but then leans into rich marzipan with a bright and almost pine-y honey next to soft vanilla and a hint of tart dried fruits. The palate moves towards a savory note with melon and saffron-stewed pears mingling with creamy balsamic vinegar (the thick and sweet kind), apricot jam with cinnamon, and a hint of scone. The end has a bit of spice to it — more nutmeg and cardamon — alongside orange peels, brown sugar syrup, and a light vanilla wafer.

This took me on a journey and was pretty damn good by the end of it.

Taste 8

Tasting Notes:

This is light. The nose barely reveals faint hints of vanilla, “fruit,” and “spice.” The palate is sweet and vanilla-forward but so vague it’s damn near vodka. There are notes of vanilla and oak with a light sense of cinnamon but it’s under a lot of proofing water. The end is almost blank.

I think we all know where this is going.

Part 2: The Ranking

8. Alberta Premium Canadian Blended Rye Whisky — Taste 8

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $22

The Whisky:

Alberta Premium is a classic, entry-level blended Canadian rye made for mixing from bar wells. The juice in the bottle is made from two 100% rye whiskeys with different proofs that then spend four years aging before blending. After combined, that whisky is proofed all the way down to 80 proof for bottling.

Bottom Line:

This is clearly a mixing whisky for shots and a beer back and highballs with Coke. Nothing more.

7. Pendleton Midnight Blended Canadian Whiskey — Taste 4

ABV: 45%

Average Price: $39

The Whisky:

This whisky is part of Hood River, Oregon, and part of Canada’s northern wilderness. The whisky starts off in Canada and ages for six years in American brandy barrels. That juice is then sent to Oregon where it’s blended and cut with glacier runoff from Mount Hood.

Bottom Line:

This was pretty nice, all things considered. I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it but I wouldn’t turn it away either. In the end, I think this is a suitable cocktail base or highball whisky and little more.

6. Crown Royal Fine De Luxe Blended Canadian Whisky — Taste 2

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $32

The Whiskey:

Crown Royal is a Canadian blend that was made specifically for the arrival of the British monarchs back in the 1930s on their first visit to Canada. The blend marries 50 Canadian whiskies of varying grains and aging lengths from the 1-million-barrel Gimli aging facility in Manitoba.

Bottom Line:

For an 80-proof whisky, there was plenty going on here. The end faltered but that’s fine as this is meant to be mixed in a cocktail (old fashioned mostly) or a highball with fizzy water. Treat it as such and you’ll be set.

5. WhistlePig PiggyBack 100% Rye Aged 6 Years — Taste 1

ABV: 48.28%

Average Price: $50

The Whisky:

This is a 100% rye whisky sourced from “undisclosed” Canadian distilleries. Those barrels are sent down to Vermont where they’re specifically blended to create a cocktail whisky.

Bottom Line:

This is meant to be a cocktail whisky, and I think that’s hitting the bull’s eye. Sipping this wasn’t that arresting but I can see this working in a basic whiskey sour or old fashioned.

4. BEARFACE Canadian Whisky Elementally Aged Triple Oak — Taste 7

ABV: 42.5%

Average Price: $44

The Whisky:

This single-grain whisky from the northern Ontario wilderness is all about the aging process. The juice spends seven years resting in ex-bourbon barrels before being transferred into both old French oak and toasted Hungarian oak for a final maturation. That whisky is then blended and cut down with natural spring water for bottling.

Bottom Line:

Okay, this is where we get into the good stuff. This was a little mild for my palate but still delivered a solid flavor profile. I can see sipping this on the rocks or in a cocktail easily.

3. Chicken Cock Cotton Club Rye Whiskey Aged 20 Years — Taste 3

ABV: 50%

Average Price: $596

The Whiskey:

The juice in this bottle is made with a 90% rye and 10% malted barley mash bill, which is a standard you see with other big-name Canadian brands (cough, cough, Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye, cough, cough). In this case, that hot juice was left to mellow in ex-bourbon barrels for 20 long years somewhere in Canada (cough, cough, Manitoba, cough, cough). The barrels are then vatted and proofed down to 100 proof before bottling.

Bottom Line:

This was a funky, fun ride. That said, it was a little funky up top and that might push some folks away. Of the top three, I’d also say this was the lightest both in mouthfeel and look (it’s really pale). Overall, I can see really digging this on the rocks every now and then, but it’s not and everyday sipper by a long shot (which the price point already tells you).

2. Barrell Craft Whiskey Gray Label 24 Years Canadian Whiskey Finished in Sherry and XO Armagnac Casks — Taste 5

ABV: 60.82%

Average Price: $249

The Whisky:

This sourced whisky is pulled from 24-year-old barrels of Canadian whisky. Those barrels were sent down to Louisville, Kentucky, where the team at Barrell painstakingly blended them to create this one-of-a-kind expression that’s bottled completely as-is.

Bottom Line:

This was a little funky too but a lot more accessible on the palate. It was also, well, fun. This was a great whiskey from top to bottom that takes you somewhere new. But it wasn’t quite the next pour.

1. Lock Stock & Barrel 21 — Taste 6

ABV: 55.5%

Average Price: $490

The Whisky:

This rye is made from that magical Canadian 100% rye mash bill. The juice went into the barrel back in May of 1999 and was left alone in the cold north for over two decades before Lock Stock & Barrel blended and bottled this without any fussing.

Bottom Line:

This was magic in a bottle. If you can track this down (and don’t mind shelling out a car payment for it), add this to your collection. This is a stellar sipper that transcends rye and becomes a classic and great whisk(e)y in general.

Part 3: Final Thoughts

I really thought the funky whisky was going to win this one until that Lock Stock & Barrel pour hit my lips. It was so obviously the best whisky in this lineup from the jump that it almost felt unfair comparing the other seven drams to it. But there is no “fair” in blind taste tests just like there’s no “crying” in baseball. But I digress.

Overall, this was a pretty illuminating process. Cheaper whiskies ranked pretty high and came in with great flavor profiles worth seeking out. BEARFACE was a big surprise and I’m looking forward to digging into more of their expressions. Still, that Lock Stock & Barrel is where you want to focus your energy if you’re looking for a prestige bottle for the ol’ bar cart.

In the mid-2000s, people were so eager to adopt smartphone technology that we never had time to create any etiquette for using it. Now, two decades later, it’s acceptable for people to stare at their phones when others are around, even in social situations. It’s also fine to take any event and turn it into little more than an excuse to create social media content.

But in 2022, the constant notifications can feel a lot more like an annoyance than a blessing. Further, these tiny interruptions take us out of the moment and prevent us from paying attention to our friends, a good meal or a show.

Studies show that having a cellphone in your pocket can make you feel more stressed, but when we don’t have our phone on us we experience a sense of anxiety as well. Smartphones, can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.

Smartphones have become such an interruption that some concert venues and comedy clubs have adopted a new system that locks phones in a pouch and they can only be opened in case of an emergency or when the show is over.

The system is great because it prevents others from being distracted by the guy in front who wants to film every moment and also allows you to enjoy the show instead of feeling pressured to take photos or text your friends.

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Tim Love, a chef who owns several restaurants in the Fort Worth area, thinks it’s time we enjoy smartphone-free dining, too. According to a report by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, customers at his new Italian restaurant, Caterina’s in Fort Worth, will be required to pack their phones away into small bags while they eat.

“The hostess gives each guest a pouch to put their phone in and the pouch stays with the guest the whole dinner,” Love told Paper City.

“We’re going to kindly ask them to put their phone in the bag,” Love said. “We’ve already had that happen. Some people forget. They just have their phone in their pocket. We give them the bag. They put their phone in the bag. It’s not a big deal.”

The idea is to create a place where people can disconnect and pay attention to their friends, fellow diners, the ambiance and food without being distracted by technology.

“If you can’t possibly deal without your phone for two hours, this is not the place for you,” Love told NBC. “I mean, people go to movies, they don’t get on their phone.”

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The restaurant has a swanky ’40s and ’50s vibe and, to keep things classy, men are required to wear sport coats. Love has made the restaurant’s old-school bright-red rotary landline available to anyone who needs to be reachable during their dinner. If a diner receives a call, the staff will walk over to their table with the phone.

The meals are served at a slower pace to help people relax. “At Caterina’s guests will be treated to a multi-course meal,” Love told Paper City. “It’s slow dining, or what I like to call analog dining where the entire experience encourages you to slow down. There will be lots of little surprises throughout the meal.”

Bud Kennedy from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram says the smartphone-free restaurant encourages people to socialize.

“Tables talking to tables—[patrons] making new friends—the vibe is so great,” Kennedy said.

We rushed into the new world of smartphones so quickly that we didn’t have a chance to figure out how far we should go. Now that we’ve had smartphones in our pockets for 15-plus years, many of us are starting to realize what we’ve lost due to the change in technology.

Kudos to Love for creating an environment that fosters human connection. Hopefully, others will run with the idea and we can start to find a better balance between digital technology and our natural environment.

After lighting the box office on fire with Top Gun: Maverick, and delivering a much-needed win to theaters, Tom Cruise can pretty much do whatever he wants now, and apparently, what he wants to do is more Les Grossman. As Cruise and writer/director Christopher McQuarrie get ready to bring the Mission: Impossible franchise in for a landing, the duo are reportedly hard at work on the next phase in Cruise’s career. They’ve narrowed the sights down to three targets, and one of them involves Cruise returning to his fan-favorite comedy role from 2008’s Tropic Thunder.

Oh, and also, he’d kind of like to do another musical. Via Deadline:

One is an original song and dance-style musical they’ll craft as a star vehicle for Cruise. They are also setting up another original action film with franchise potential, and they are also fixated on Les Grossman. The latter is the gruff, dance-happy studio executive Cruise played in cameo for Tropic Thunder. It’s unclear if they will create a whole movie around Grossman, or borrow him for inclusion in either of the other vehicles.

Even though the film is over 14 years old, Cruise has repeatedly talked about getting into the Les Grossman prosthetics again. In fact, he got his wish a few years back when he busted out his old dance moves for Conan O’Brien at Comic-Con 2019. Sure, Cruise loves riding motorcycles off of cliffs and jumping out of helicopters, but it really seems like the guy’s true passion is wearing a fat suit while dancing to Ludacris. Who are we to stop him?

(Via Deadline)

Once upon a time, it seemed as though Kanye West and Kid Cudi were, if not the best of friends, then at the very least close colleagues as a result of the mentor/protege relationship they shared when Cudi first rose to prominence after writing on Kanye’s 808s And Heartbreaks. The two remained close collaborators for the next decade, even joining forces in 2018 for the joint album Kids See Ghosts, which was one of the better projects to come out of their GOOD Summer release schedule. So how did they go from that to Cudi catching a stray on Kanye’s Instagram post trolling Pete Davidson after he broke up with Kim Kardashian?

Well, Pete Davidson might be the linchpin to the whole falling out between them, as Davidson and Cudi have shared their own friendship over the years stemming from Cudi’s many appearances on Saturday Night Live, on which Pete was a regular cast member since 2014. In addition to bonding over their love of comedy, both men have been open about their struggles with mental health, with Pete even going as far as crediting Cudi’s music with saving his life. “I would have killed myself if I didn’t have Kid Cudi,” he told The Breakfast Club in 2016. All three celebrated Cudi’s 35th birthday at Nobu with Kardashian and Timothee Chalamet in 2019.

Kanye’s issues with Cudi likely came to a head after he and Kim filed for divorce in 2021 and Kim began dating Pete late that year. Kanye, sensitive soul that he is, took issue with his wife moving on while he wanted to reconcile, viewing Pete as the biggest obstacle to their reunion. After Kanye launched several social media attacks on his rival earlier this year, it’s clear that he wanted Cudi to side with him. And while Cudi never publicly sided with Pete, an increasingly paranoid Kanye began taking even neutrality as a sign of betrayal.

In one Instagram post, he wrote, “I just wanted my friend to have my back the knife just goes in deeper.” He also declared that Kid Cudi was disinvited from his album Donda 2 (honestly, no big loss for Cudi there, all things considered), prompting Cudi to call him a “dinosaur” in the comments of the post. Two months later, both featured on Pusha T’s album, but Kid Cudi minced zero words when talking about their proximity. “I am not cool w that man,” he told his Twitter followers. “He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha cuz that’s my guy. This is the last song u will hear me on w Kanye.”

Pusha’s response to that? “It f*cking sucks,” he told Vulture.

Following the tragic news that actress and Grammy award-winning singer Olivia Newton-John has passed away at the age of 73, her Grease co-star and longtime friend John Travolta kicked off an outpouring of social media tributes from the entertainment world.

“My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better,” Travolta wrote on Instagram. “Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”

Following Travolta’s tribute, more and more of Hollywood took to Twitter to mourn the loss of Newton-John, who was iconic presence for generations.

“I am SO saddened at the news of the passing of Olivia Newton John,” tweeted Marlee Matlin. “I remember being so star struck when I met her at my first Hollywood gathering for Paramount. She was the sweetest and brightest light and I loved getting to know her on “It’s My Party.” RIP dear, sweet Olivia.”

“My heart is broken. Rest now, sweet friend. You were as kind and loving a person as there’s ever been,” Richard Marx wrote. “I’ll miss you every day.”

“‘Grease’ is my #1 movie of all time and made me a lifelong Olivia Newton John fan,” Gabrielle Union tweeted. “Me and my sister watched Xanadu more times than I could count. Sending so much love and prayers to a real gift of a woman and talent.”

“Very sad that lovely, talented, brave Olivia Newton- John has died,” wrote Mia Farrow. “I never got to meet her, but everyone says she was wonderful- always kind.”

You can see more tributes to Newton-John below, which are pouring in by the droves:

(Via John Travolta on Instagram)

The Phoenix Mercury’s push for one of the final playoff spots in the WNBA amid a tumultuous season got even more difficult on Monday. The team announced a hardship signing of Yvonne “Vonnie” Turner after an injury to Diana Taurasi, somewhat burying the lede that Taurasi’s quad strain that had caused her to miss the last two games would officially end her season.

Taurasi has averaged 16.7 points, 3.8 assists, and 3.4 rebounds per game this season in 31 games with the Mercury, playing in all but two contests so far. Her 16.7 points per game is the second-most on the current roster behind All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith, whose status as the Mercury’s primary option will only increase in Taurasi’s absence. For a team that is currently tied for 7th in the WNBA standings with the Atlanta Dream at 14-19, this is a considerable loss and will only make their efforts to hold onto a playoff spot tougher.

Phoenix is just a half-game up on the ninth-place New York Liberty (13-19) and one game up on the Los Angeles Sparks and Minnesota Lynx, both of whom are 13-20, with three games remaining (four for New York). Phoenix close the season with three straight home games against the Lynx on Wednesday, where a Minnesota win would draw them even with the Mercury in the standings, and then the 6th place Dallas Wings and the Chicago Sky, who own the league’s best record.

You’d think MSNBC frontwoman Rachel Maddow would absolutely loathe Fox News poster boy Tucker Carlson. One is a progressive journalist who presents fact-based, heavily-researched news segments intent on educating viewers, the other just suggested on national TV that we rename Monkeypox “Schlong Covid.” Clearly, these two TV personalities are not the same.

But, surprisingly, Maddow has nothing but nice things to say about her former boss who used to have his own show on MSNBC before he jumped ship to spew nonsense about the benefits of “testicle tanning” to throngs of Trump supporters. In fact, in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Maddow complemented her political rival on his show’s ratings success.

“Tucker’s doing great right now,” Maddow told the magazine. “Look at Tucker’s career. The first show I worked on was his 11 o’clock show on MSNBC that nobody remembers. But he was always kicking around the business and has always been talented. It just — this turned out to be his moment.”

Maddow doesn’t mention how Tucker decided to blame women for the rise in mass shootings committed by men. Maddow went on to praise Carlson’s ability to stand out in a crowded news landscape, comparing watching him host to watching a *checks notes* professional baseball player … baseball?

“It doesn’t mean you don’t appreciate whatever they’re doing in terms of, you know, where they put their shortstop in order to give them a better defense. There’s a sort of, like, respecting the game, in terms of people who are doing well and people who are good at it,” she continued.

Of course, she also took a second to recognize how dangerous Carlson’s rhetoric is, but even then, she found a way to compliment him When Vanity Fair quizzed Maddow on a New York Times piece that investigated his style of “reporting,” Maddow seemed to brush over the effects that Carlson’s devoted airtime to ridiculous conspiracy theories have on his viewers.

“More than the issue of, you know, how dangerous are Tucker’s ideas, and how do they interact with the growth of the authoritarian right in the Republican Party — more so than that question, which is obviously what the central thrust of the reporting was about, I was interested in how they deconstructed why it works.”

It’s a take, alright.

(Via Vanity Fair)

Ever since Top Gun: Maverick singlehandedly saved the movie industry (a slight exaggeration) and secured its spot on the highest-grossing movie list, Paramount has been looking for more ways to get fans involved (and to buy more tickets because why not?).

For their Top Gun Fan Appreciation Weekend, fans are encouraged to see Tom Cruise fly through the skies once more in theaters, with exclusive content and behind-the-scenes footage airing before the movie at participating theaters. The movie also features Miles Teller, Val Kilmer, John Hamm, Glen Powell, and that one Lady Gaga song.

Fans can head to theaters this weekend to see the long-awaited sequel (again). As per the official press release:

“This Friday, August 12th, marks the return of Top Gun: Maverick to some of the most immersive cinema formats at participating theatres. From Friday through Sunday, August 14th, before the movie presentation begins at all participating theatres, attending fans will experience exclusive content featuring a behind-the-scenes look at shooting onboard the USS Roosevelt with Tom Cruise and the cast to see what it takes to operate, film, and live on an active warship.”

But wait! There’s more: a Top Gun: Maverick collectors print will also be available at select theaters while supplies last. While they did not release any images, it’s probably a large poster of Tom Cruise and a plane. Just a hunch! Check out movie times and participating locations at the official Top Gun website here.