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When it’s December and it’s cold and dreary outside, you want to be able to revisit old familiar favorites to feel like a kid again. Or maybe you want to drown out the noise of your family all talking over each other. Whatever the reason, it’s always nice to put on your favorite Christmas movie this time of year, and if you have taste, then your favorite movie is A Charlie Brown Christmas. Or The Muppets Christmas Carol, which is already streaming on Disney+, but we have exhausted that subject.

Watching the 1965 animated classic used to be as easy as turning on your TV, but after Apple took over the Peanuts gang, it has become harder to watch the animated specials in recent years. Unfortunately, there is no way to watch the movie on cable this year.

Right now, the only way to stream A Charlie Brown Christmas is with AppleTV+. You could secure a subscription for $9.99 a month and watch various Peanuts titles year-round.

The good news is that you can sign up for a free 7-day trial in order to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas over the next week. If you can show your mom how to hook up an HDMI to her TV, then you’ll be able to replicate that warm and fuzzy childhood experience. Happy Holidays!

Through 11 weeks of the season, the Philadelphia Eagles were flying high with the NFL’s best record at 10-1, but after three straight losses the vibes in Philly have shifted rather dramatically.

The offense hasn’t clicked the same all year under new offensive coordinator Brian Johnson, but they had been making plays when it counted most for the first half of the year to pull out wins. The last three weeks that hasn’t been the case against the 49ers, Cowboys, and Seahawks, and after their third consecutive loss there’s some soul searching going on in the Eagles locker room as they try to get things right before the postseason arrives.

Jalen Hurts, who was questionable up until close to game time on Monday night due to an illness, spoke after the game and called into question the commitment of his team to do things the right way, noting the issue of execution has come up all season. When asked to elaborate, he said he didn’t have a dictionary on him and didn’t know how to say it any clearer.

Given how that game ended, with the Seahawks marching 90 yards in the final minutes for the game-winning score and the Philly offense’s last drive ending in an interception, it’s not a surprise that morale is low in what should’ve been a get right spot for the Eagles. The good news is, Philly should have a pretty simple path to wins in their closing stretch with the Giants, Cardinals, and Giants again to finish the season. That said, Seattle (with Drew Lock at QB) was also supposed to be a win for Philly and they managed not to get the job done. We’ll see if Hurts’ message is well-received in the locker room and becomes a motivator, or if things only get more fractured in Philly from here.

Maker’s Mark does one thing and they do it freakin’ perfectly. That one “thing” is a single wheated bourbon mash bill (recipe) for all of their bourbon expressions. Unlike the vast majority of whiskey distillers, Maker’s Mark only makes one bourbon recipe, whereas most other distillers also make not only other bourbon styles but also rye whiskey, American single malt, and various other styles of American whiskey.

So what is Maker’s Mark Wheated Bourbon mash bill exactly? Let’s dig in!

Wheated bourbon is nothing new. It’s the cornerstone of huge brands like Pappy Van Winkle, W.L. Weller, Old Fitzgerald, Larceny, Green River, and a ton of crafty brands from all over the country. But all of those brands come from distillers who also make everything else in the whiskey sphere. Maker’s Mark does not. They have one mash bill for their wheated bourbon. They don’t need to make anything else. They’ve dialed it in and are making hay while the sun shines.

The actual recipe goes back to Maker’s Mark founder Bill Samuels Sr. and his wife Margie Samuels (one of the most important women in Kentucky bourbon’s history), when they bought the old Burk’s Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky back in the fall of 1953. Bill Sr. and Margie Samuels reformatted the whiskey being made at the old distillery by baking bread to come up with their mash bill. They wanted something that was truly theirs and one-of-a-kind in the Kentucky bourbon scene.

They landed on a recipe that utilized Red Winter wheat as the core of their wheated bourbon. And while wheated bourbons were being made for a couple of decades (most notably at the Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky), this new red winter wheat bourbon mash bill was 100% their own. So while Margie devised the art and media for the brand including the iconic red wax dip, Bill Sr. got busy mashing and distilling a brand-new Kentucky bourbon.

Fast-forward to the present day and Maker’s Mark is one of the most iconic Kentucky bourbons on the planet. That’s thanks in part to Bill Sr.’s mash bill, Margie Samuels’ deft eye for artistic marketing, and their son Bill Samuels, Jr.’s pioneering of global brand ambassadorship and influencing over the back half of the 20th century while also keeping his parents’ dream of a premier bourbon alive.

The actual mash bill is not made public anymore by Beam Suntory. But we all know it from historical records — it’s 70% distiller’s grade corn, 16% Red Winter wheat, and 14% malted barley. Those grains are milled on-site at the Loretto Distillery today. Once milled, the grains are mixed with local water from reservoirs and gently cooked, allowing the sugars to surface from the grains and become available to the yeast for fermentation in the next stage.

That mash is then filled into ancient cypress wood fermenting tanks (and newer stainless steel ones) and Maker’s Mark’s own yeast (also refined by Bill Samuels, Sr. back in the 1950s) to start the process of turning those sugars into alcohol. Since the tanks are all open to the air, there’s that little bit of local terroir in the mix too, thanks to wild yeasts from the air playing with the mash.

No one else is making this exact whiskey. That’s the point here.

After a few days of fermentation, the mash is then distilled but… we’re not here to get into all of that. This is about the mash bill! And that mash bill of Red Winter wheat adds a bite to it that’s closer to a fresh loaf of sourdough bread than, say, a soft buttermilk biscuit (which is more what a white wheat would give you). The richness is then made available via the distillate to the wood sugars during aging, which then become more pronounced as sweetgrass, sharp spice barks, and bread crusts with a mellow floral vibe from the yeast creating a brilliant balance in the end product.

That end product is one thing: Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky. As I mentioned above, that’s all that Maker’s Mark makes, full stop. You should sense a “but” coming.

But… Maker’s Mark plays around with their one bourbon produced from one mashbill quite a bit. There are cask-strength versions, special blends, and a stave finishing program that’s second to none. To make a very long story short, Maker’s Mark uses stave finishing for several of their special releases wherein they add wood staves to a finishing barrel — each with different wood sugars available to give unique profile notes to the final whisky.

Again, that’s how Maker’s Mark is aged and not the mash bill. Still, the chemical compounds that are created in Maker’s unique mash bill are what help those wood sugars express themselves. So it’s all just as important.

In the end, Maker’s Mark is a Red Winter wheat bourbon. That’s the key takeaway from the mash bill and what makes this Kentucky bourbon one-of-a-kind. It’s also a great candidate for making Manhattans in case you’re looking for a good cocktail bourbon to have on your bar cart… but that’s a story for another day.

One big question has hung over the New York Jets ever since their Week 1 win over the Buffalo Bills: Will Aaron Rodgers be able to play again this season? Rodgers, the future Hall of Fame inductee who joined the team over the offseason, barely was able to get going before he suffered a torn achilles on the team’s first offensive drive of the campaign.

It’s an injury that keeps guys sidelined for quite some time, but Rodgers claimed that he underwent a procedure that, essentially, was going to speed that timetable up to return this year. He made very clear that his intention was to try and play again, although the Jets’ struggles without him led to some caveats being put on his return being tied to their spot in the playoff race. And although Rodgers was recently cleared to return to practice, it turns out that it is actually extremely hard to return from achilles surgery as quickly as Rodgers would like, which he explained to Pat McAfee on Tuesday.

The Jets have three more games left to play this season: a home finale against the Commanders before trips to Cleveland and New England. Perhaps Rodgers is, indeed, able to come back before then, but with the team sitting at 5-9 and officially being eliminated from the postseason, it stands to reason the next time we’ll see him take the field will be sometime during the 2024 campaign.

In 2020, Netflix claimed its users had watched over 2 billion hours of Adam Sandler content on the streamer, thanks to its $250 million deal with him. Since then, Sandler has been pretty unstoppable in terms of range. Just this year, he has portrayed a private detective, a father of two teenagers, and a lizard. It only makes sense that his next role will be somewhere not on Earth.

Sandler stars in Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi drama Spaceman, based on the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar. The film follows Sander as an astronaut who is sent on a faraway mission and begins to learn more about himself and his relationships while in isolation. The movie also stars Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, and Isabella Rossellini.

It’s the latest dramatic role for Sandler, who gained popularity for being a certified Goofy Guy comedian. “I really wanted to have a performance from him that had nothing to do with the Adam Sandler we all know,” director Johan Renck told Tudum. “I don’t think people understand how [although] he may come across as funny and sweet and all that, he’s very intelligent, really smart, profound,” he added. He can also sing!

The movie is set to hit the streamer on March 1st. Here is the official synopsis:

Six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut, Jakub (Adam Sandler), realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Lenka (Carey Mulligan), he is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. Hanuš (voiced by Paul Dano) works with Jakub to make sense of what went wrong before it is too late.

Netflix also dropped a teaser for the film, which features Sandler looking all spaceman-y. Check out the teaser above.

When it first arrived in theaters in 1983, A Christmas Story was a box-office bomb. Considering its current status as a holiday classic, it’s hard to believe the now-classic tale of young Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) and his desperate need for an official Red Rider BB gun was dead on arrival. However, thanks to it heavy rotation on syndicated channels in the ’80s and ’90s, the film found an audience and became a beloved holiday fixture. In fact, A Christmas Story 24-hour marathons have become a regular occurrence for over two decades now.

This year, you can catch 24 hours of Ralphie and the gang on both TBS and TNT starting Christmas Eve night. Below are the time schedules for each station. Via TV Guide:

TBS

• Sunday, Dec. 24 at 8 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec. 24 at 10 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 12 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 2 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 4 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 6 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 8 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 10 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 12 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 2 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 4 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 6 p.m.

TNT

• Sunday, Dec. 24 at 9 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec. 24 at 11 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 1 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 3 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 5 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 7 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 9 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 11 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 1 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 3 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 5 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 25 at 7 p.m.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Holiday favorite set in 1940s Indiana about Ralphie, a 9-year-old boy who desperately yearns for a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas. Despite protests from his mother that he’ll shoot his eye out, Ralphie persists, unsuccessfully trying to enlist the assistance of both his teacher and Santa Claus. All the while, Ralphie finds himself dealing with the constant taunts of a pair of bullies and trying to not get in the middle of a feud between his mother and father regarding a certain lamp.

A Christmas Story is also available for streaming with a Max subscription or through VOD rental on Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video.

A few months ago, Vanderpump Rules was in the news after a cheating scandal emerged between Tom Sandoval, Rachel Leviss, and Ariana Madix while Season 10 of the show aired. Because of this, the show’s producers filmed the aftermath and their breakup, along with the explosive reunion. Since then, the dust has started to settle a bit, but given that the show earned an Emmy nomination and a ton of new viewers, there are questions about when Season 11 will air.

Here’s what to know.

When Does Vanderpump Rules Season 11 Come Out?

Vanderpump Rules is returning very soon. Season 11 of the show is scheduled to start on January 30, 2024.

A few days ago, Bravo released the trailer for the upcoming season, and there is no shortage of drama. Although Leviss is not returning, a lot of the tension will stem from Sandoval and Madix navigating their split and a new dynamic in the group. Given that Madix made it clear she would not engage with anyone who remained friends with Sandoval, it seems that a divide will take place in the cast.

Other exes, Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz, appear to find themselves in a love triangle, as they both try dating the same girl.

Check out Vanderpump Rules‘ Season 11 trailer below.

We’ve all been in this scenario: you’ve worn your favorite pair of shoes to the very edge of “toss ’em” status. A pair so dirty that when you try them at the club the bouncers assume they came pre-distressed. But here’s the issue… you still think they’re fly. Whether it’s the colorway or the look or the vibe or the time in your life you were in when you bought them — you can’t let this fresh pair die.

“Wait!” You think to yourself. “One go-around in the washing machine will bring this pair back, baby!”

Yeah… don’t do that. Don’t put your sneakers in the washer. Washing your sneakers won’t bring your favorite pair back to life. And it might straight up destroy your shoes if you aren’t careful.

If you’re looking for an answer to the question of whether or not you can put your shoes in the washing machine, the answer is “yes.” Technically. And canvas shoes like Chuck Taylors hold up pretty well in the wash. But be very careful about how you wash expensive sneakers. Depending on the pair in question, sneakers have all sorts of foam, plastics, rubbers, dyes, and glues that the abuse of a washing machine and the harsh chemicals in detergent can mess with.

Plus, when your sneakers are saturated with water, it can be difficult to get them dry, creating an optimal breeding ground for fungi. Not to mention the smell.*

*Also, it may wreck the tumbler balance inside the washing machine during the spin cycle. Similarly, trying to machine dry a clunky pair of AJ3s will almost definitely mess your dryer (and shoes) up.

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If you’re set on washing your Nikes, Jordans, Adidas, Balenciagas, etc. remove the insoles, place your sneakers in a laundry bag, use the coldest setting available on your machine, and select the delicate cycle (avoid spin if you can, for the reason mentioned above). Once your sneakers are washed, put them outside immediately to air dry in the sun. Some shoe dyers use hair dryers to speed up the process. Do not — as referenced before — place your sneakers in the dryer. Aside from the problems it causes your machine, the upper can detach from the midsole once that glue gets heated up.

So what if you do wash them? Well, truth be told, the results will likely be pretty solid the first time. But there’s no second time, the glue will likely have deteriorated or weakened during the first wash.

And if you don’t wash them? What to do instead?

If you want to keep your sneakers looking fresh, you will need a sneaker cleaning kit and a bottle of repel spray. Repel spray will provide a stain-resistant coat for your sneakers and a shoe cleaning kit will allow you to spot clean or scrub more difficult stains or substances.

I’m going to refrain from suggesting a specific brand of shoe cleaner here because if we’re being honest, they’re all kind of the same. We always include one in the Sneakerhead Gift Guide, if you’re in the market. The kit comes with a soft brush and a solution that works on suede, leather, canvas, and whatever else your sneakers are made of.

Above all things, keeping your sneakers looking fresh is all about maintenance rather than one big clean. So if you want to get the most mileage out of your favorite pair of sneakers, clean them right and hand clean them often.

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Sydney Sweeney is an actress by trade, but being in the music video for a Rolling Stones song made her feel like a rock star.

It also made her feel “hot,” she told Glamour UK. “I picked my own outfit out of racks and racks of clothes. I felt so good in it.” The Euphoria and Reality star said she found “empowerment through embracing the body that I have. That’s sexy and strong, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I’m in a Rolling Stones video. How cool and iconic is that? I felt so good. All the moves, everything I was doing was all freestyle. I mean, who else gets to roll around on the top of a convertible driving down Sunset Boulevard with police escorts? It’s the cool things in this career that I had no idea I’d get to do.”

In the interview, Sweeney, who stars in the romantic-comedy Anyone but You with Glen Powell, also discussed how she considered getting breast reduction surgery before her mom talked her out of it.

“Flaunt what you got. Own it. Love them. When I was in high school, I used to feel uncomfortable about how big my boobs were and I used to say that when I turned 18, I was going to get a boob job to make them smaller. And my mom told me, ‘Don’t do it. You’ll regret it in college.’ And I’m so glad I didn’t. I like them. They’re my best friends. Everybody’s body is beautiful. When you are confident and you’re happy within is when it really shows to other people.”

Sydney’s grandparents agree.

Anyone but You comes out on December 22nd.

(Via Glamour UK)

Back in March, Taylor Swift kicked off her massive The Eras Tour — and a lot has happened since. As the pop star completed both her North American and South American legs of the tour, she has thrown in some surprises along the way.

With 2023 coming to a close, here’s a look back at some of the best moments.

Taylor Swift’s first Eras Tour concert

Swift’s first show in Glendale served as the introduction to not only The Eras Tour, but fans both found out it was three hours long — and had two surprise songs thrown in each night.

Taylor Swift announced Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) in Nashville

A few stops later at her first show in Nashville, Swift announced Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and performed “Sparks Fly (Taylor’s Version)” as the first of the surprise songs. That show also had Phoebe Bridgers joining her for a duet of “Nothing New” and Matty Healy (whom she was reportedly having a fling with) in the audience.

Taylor Swift announced 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in Los Angeles

She would also do the same when announcing 1989 (Taylor’s Version) at her final show at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, teasing it during the concert by changing all her costumes to blue outfits instead.

Taylor Swift joined on stage by Aaron Dessner, Haim, and Gracie Abrams

As previously mentioned, there have also been a few very special guests. At the Tampa date in April, The National’s Aaron Dessner joined Swift to perform “The Great War.” Haim appeared at Swift’s Seattle date in July to help perform “No Body, No Crime.” That same month, she brought out her tour opener, Gracie Abrams, to do a duet of Abrams’ song, “I Miss You, I’m Sorry.”

Check out a few other special moments from Swift’s Eras Tour this year below.