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It’s a brand new month, which means you have a new opportunity to budget the right way. Granted, thinking about balancing your budget isn’t the most glamorous thing you can do at the start of the month, but hey, if you make smart decisions about how to spend your money, you’ll hit April with more dollar bills in your bank account, and as we enter music festival season, that’s important.

Ask yourself this: would you rather spend your money on some good meals and a few drinks with friends, or drop your cash on Coachella and a sweet Airbnb? If you like to make lasting memories, we’re going to assume you’re going with the latter. But, no matter how much money you intend save, you’re still going to have to eat, so we’re here to help by shouting out all the best fast food deals you can score right now that’ll get you fed on the cheap.

Whether you’re in the mood for a fried chicken sandwich, a juicy cheeseburger, or some fried fish (shout out Lent we guess), we’ve got you! We collected all the best deals across the fast food landscape for the month of March. Let’s dive in and get you fed.

Arby’s — Just in time for Lent, Arby’s has just dropped the $6.99 Surf & Turf Deal for an unspecified limited time. The deal allows you to mix and match any two of the following: the Beef ’n Cheddar, a Crispy Fish Sandwich, or the Fish n’ Cheddar Sandwich.

Dunkin — Breakfast fans can score the $6 Meal Deal which will get you a six-piece order of hashbrowns, a Sausage Egg & Cheese croissant and a medium coffee. It’s the sort of carb and sugar overload that’ll kick start your morning routine.

Jack in the Box — In celebration of March Madness, Jack in the Box is launching a BOGO (ish) deal they’re calling “Burger Madness.” From now until April 6th, when you buy a Jumbo Jack, Ultimate Cheeseburger, or Jr. Jumbo Jack, you can receive an additional burger for 50% off. It’s not a traditional BOGO deal, but we’ll take it!

The best move here is to double down on the Ultimate Cheeseburger, thank us later!

KFC — At KFC you can pick up two Mike’s Hot Honey Chicken Sandwiches for only $7. To claim the deal, hit the KFC app’s “Deals,” section and redeem.

Little Caesars — If you’re looking for a small quick bite, consider picking up one of Little Caesar’s new Crazy Puffs for $3.99. The Crazy Puff is essentially a muffin-sized mini calzone. The Puffs include a Bacon and Cheese, Pepperoni and Cheese, or 4-Cheese build.

Long John Silvers — It’s fish season! Hit up Long John Silvers and pick up a $6 Shrimp Basket. The baskets include your choice of Grilled, Popcorn, Battered, or LJS’ new Coconut Shrimp, a side, and some hushpuppies.

If you’re looking for more food, you can also pick up the $10 Shrimp Sea-Share, which will score you 1 lb of Popcorn shrimp or 15 Grilled, Battered or Coconut shrimp.

Popeyes — For those looking for a whole lot of food for cheap, Popeyes is now offering the Boneless Bundle. This meal includes 12 boneless wings, three tenders, and two regular sides for just $14.99.

The deal is available for an unspecified limited time.

Shake Shack — You know fast food sales are low when a premium brand like Shake Shack rolls out a discounted combo meal. The Shake Shack combo features a Chicken Shack, a side of fries, and a small drink for $9.99. Claim the deal by ordering via the Shack app or in-restaurant kiosk and check out with the promo code ‘Chicken.’ Let’s hope Shake Shack extends this deal to one of its burgers soon!

Subway — Subway has brought back its $6.99 Footlong deal for an unspecified limited time. To claim the deal, add any Footlong of your choosing to your order via the Subway app and check out using the promo code “699FL.”

Wendy’s — From now until March 16th, you can score a Son of Baconator for just $3 at Wendy’s restaurants nationwide. To claim the deal, claim the offer via the Wendy’s app or mention the deal to your cashier.

The Son of Baconator might sound small, but you get two patties of meat here as well as a double layer of bacon, so it’s still meaty even though it’s not the meat mountain that is the OG Baconator.

2024 breakout pop sensation Chappell Roan is releasing her next single soon — and today, we found out exactly when. She previously teased the song through a phone number that played a snippet for fans.

Roan posted the release date for “The Giver” to Instagram, along with a short story about its conception and creation. It’s due on Thursday, March 13, at 8 PM ET, and produced by Dan Nigro.

“@dan_nigro and I wrote this together and it was so fun!!!” she wrote in the caption. “We’ve never done a country song and I have such a special place in my heart for country music. I grew up listening to it every morning and afternoon on my school bus and had it swirling around me at bon fires, grocery stores and karaoke bars.”

She further elaborated on rumors that her next album would take on country sounds, writing, “Many people have asked if this means I’m making a country album??? My answer is.. hmm right now I’m just making songs that make me feel happy and fun and The Giver is my take on cuntry xoxo may the classic country divas lead their genre, I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for yall.”

Chappell’s breakout has led to even more speculation about her future — namely, that she’s on the shortlist of potential performers for next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance (unlikely, but not impossible). For now, it seems she’s soaking up the benefits of being a Grammy winner — including performing one of her biggest hits with a fellow gay icon, Elton John.

It was likely only a matter of time until Drake’s lawyers added Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance to the aggrieved Canadian rapper’s defamation lawsuit against their shared label, Universal Music Group. Today, Billboard confirmed that the inevitable has indeed happened. Although we’ve already argued that K. Dot’s show was probably about way more than Drake, the man who made Take Care and Certified Lover Boy was never NOT going to make it about himself.

Basically, here’s the gist: UMG wants to delay litigation, probably presuming that the longer this thing takes to go to court, the more likely it’ll be that cooler heads will prevail (read: Drake will realize how goofy this whole thing looks and call it off). Unfortunately for UMG’s legal team, Drake’s attorneys argued that delays are damaging their client’s career the longer it takes for the case to go to court (not, y’know… the fact that he lost a rap battle and sued his label over it). This is what they wrote:

Delaying discovery would unfairly prejudice plaintiff, who is continuing to suffer the consequences of UMG’s defamatory campaign. At the same time UMG has been delaying here, UMG launched new campaigns to further spread the defamatory content, including at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, which had over 133.5 million viewers.

For those who haven’t been keeping up, Drake sued UMG (which distributes both rapper’s music under joint ventures with their respective imprints) in January, claiming that it had unfairly and illicitly promoted Kendrick Lamar’s hit song “Not Like Us,” at the height of the two rappers’ feud last year. As “Not Like Us” includes a reference to online rumors about Drake’s supposed proclivity for women who are far too young for him (“Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles!”), Drake considered this a defamatory attack by the label, which he says promoted the song to lower his standing in the public eye and give UMG more leverage in upcoming contract renewal negotiations.

Of course, the outcome of the recent filing amounts to this: Judge Jeannette Vargas denied UMG’s request to postpone an initial hearing, which is scheduled for April. If UMG does wish to continue to put off litigation, its team can make the request then. I suppose this could count as a win for Drake, who has, admittedly, been in desperate need of one. But on the other hand, much of the ridicule he’s received (the part that isn’t a direct reference to the “Say, Drake” meme that’s cropped up on the internet after the Super Bowl) has been about the fact that losing a battle and suing just ain’t hip-hop.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live brought Rick Grimes back from offscreen obscurity, albeit for only six episodes. In the end, he stayed sassy and Michonne returned home to Alexandria and received a life-affirming welcome from Judith and RJ, and that could have been all that they wrote. However, happy endings are rarely that in this universe (can a lady even get some nice toothpaste with mint without Jesus screwing things up? I don’t think so), and it kind of seems like a waste to have Rick living as a free man again without showing him again onscreen. Maybe?

Perhaps that’s a reason why fans cannot resist wondering whether a second season will eventually be announced. One possible clue did arrive when the AMC spin off’s first season arrived on Netflix in January. Such arrivals are occasionally a precursor to an announcement, but a month later, sadly, no news of more has surfaced, so it’s time to check for clues again.

Will There Be A The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Season 2?

The Direct recently spoke with universe architect Scott Gimple, who admitted that the original “plan was to keep it limited” but “[n]ot necessarily never to see those characters again.” He then elaborated:

“There’s so many… I’ve been very careful to not say, ‘Oh, that’ll never happen,’ because it does. So you know, there are possibilities. And there’s possibilities of all sorts of strange iterations of shows with those characters and with other characters. So you know I think it’s entirely possible.”

Obviously, this suggests (and perhaps cruelly teases) that Rick that could pop up on one of the other currently running spin offs without ruining the thought that he and Michonne might currently be “moaning” in Alexandria. But which spin off? Realistically speaking, a smart man seems equally unlikely to pop up in either Manhattan (for Dead City‘s upcoming second season) or in Europe (for Daryl Dixon‘s third outing) in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-ridden world. However, Rick has notoriously wandered into a city and got labelled a “dumbass” as a result, so don’t count him out from doing it again. Also, would people complain if Rick somehow showed up as a reinforcement for Maggie in Dead City? Probably not.

What feels more satisfying, though, is for Rick and Daryl have a bromantic reunion when Daryl finally returns stateside. That could take a few more seasons before it happens, but the important thing to note is that both Gimple and Lincoln have been talking about more Rick on The Walking Dead shows, so discussions have been happening at some point. And if Rick does surface onscreen again, you know that Michonne probably won’t like the idea of him being out there unprotected, so they should be a package deal.

In other words, fingers crossed.

Certified good tipper Post Malone’s The Big Ass Stadium Tour with Jelly Roll kicks off next month. Select dates along the trek will feature a “Travelin’ Tailgate,” a stadium parking lot party featuring live music, food, exclusive merch, carnival games, tattoos by Malone’s personal tattoo artists from Oxford Circle Tattoos, and, of course, lots of Bud Light.

Per a press release, the event is free and open to the public and is being billed as “a larger-than-life parking lot party for everyone to enjoy ahead of select Big Ass Stadium tour dates.” It continued, “From the moment gates open, a DJ will set the tone before transitioning into performances by local artists, keeping the energy high all day long. The parking lot will absolutely turn into a full-scale party.”

The event is open to the public from noon to 6 p.m. at each stop. You can find more information here.

Check out which shows will have the “Travelin’ Tailgate” below.

Post Malone’s Travelin’ Tailgate Dates

05/03 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
05/09 — Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium
05/11 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes Benz Stadium
05/18 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
05/24 — Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
05/31 — Boston, MA @ Gillette Stadium
06/08 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium
06/13 — Ridgedale, MO @ Thunder Ridge Nature Arena
06/15 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High
06/21 — Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium

Last year marked the start of what Las Vegas-area fans of ’90s and 2000s indie and emo hope is a long tradition: The inaugural edition of the Best Friends Forever festival was hosted at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center with a lineup headlined by Bright Eyes, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Cap’n Jazz.

Well, good news: The 2025 edition was announced today, and it’s set for October 10 to 12 at the same venue.

This is a big one for reunions, as this fest will mark the first performances in at least a few years from Minus The Bear (playing Menos El Oso), Texas Is The Reason, Knapsack, Marietta, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), These Arms Are Snakes, Elliott, and Snowing. That’s also true of Rilo Kiley and Kind Of Like Spitting, who recently announced other reunion appearances. Inversely, the festival will mark the farewell of Mineral.

Aside from them, the lineup also includes Jawbreaker, Cursive, Pedro The Lion, Bear Vs. Shark, Superchunk, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Tigers Jaw, Wednesday, Rival Schools, Narrow Head, The Appleseed Cast, Hey Mercedes, Mates Of State, J. Robbins, Pity Sex, Oakwood, Speedy Ortiz, Ozma, Midrift, February, Knumears, Prize Horse, Awakebutstillinbed, Crochet, and Tiger Bike.

Tickets go on sale starting March 5 at 10 a.m. PT, and more information is available on the festival website.

This past Sunday, Red Rocket director Sean Baker became the only person to win four Oscars in one ceremony for a single movie (in doing so, he beat Walt Disney, who did the same but with four separate movies) with Anora. The Mikey Madison-starring movie scooped up not only Best Picture and Best Actress but also the Director, Editing, and Original Screenplay statuettes, and the movie will soon hit Hulu for streaming. Meanwhile, it’s only natural to wonder what Baker and Madison will choose for their next projects.

That’s been a question that been circling for months, actually, since Madison’s IMDb page has offered no clues, and backstage on Sunday night, Madison didn’t drop any hints either, only that she has “been really trying to remind myself to stay as present as possible throughout all of this, so I don’t know.” The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood actress added, “I just want to keep making movies … tonight I’s going to go home to my new puppies and probably clean up their mess, and it’s gonna bring me right down to earth.”

As for Baker, he has also remained mysterious, but previously, he told Gold Derby that he will start scouting locations next month:

As for what’s next, Baker says he has plans to start traveling in April after the Oscars to figure out his next location. “Because location is very much involved with the development of these movies and these screenplays,” he says. “I do feel that we will continue with the comedy and lean towards what we’ve been doing already. And all I can say is this: it might have a Jonathan Demme feel.”

Hmm. Clear as mud, but at least a few prominent Anora actors’s plans have been shared with the world. Mark Eydelshteyn (Ivan) will appear in the second season of Prime Video/Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Best Supporting actor nominee Yura Borisov’s schedule is jam packed, to say the least.

Look for Anora to surface on Hulu starting March 17.

On March 21, Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco will put an exclamation point on their relationship with the release of the joint album, I Said I Love You First. In the run-up to its release, the couple shared “Scared Of Loving You” and “Call Me When You Break Up” featuring Gracie Abrams, and now, they’ve shared the tracklist.

Gomez shared the list in the form of a photo on social media, in which she holds up a photo of a Polaroid of the song titles written on a blackboard. “benny & I are so excited to reveal the official tracklist for our album,” she wrote in the caption. You can see the full list below.

Blanco and Gomez are well-aware of the reputation that such projects can have. In an interview, Blanco said, “We said at the beginning, ‘If this ever is weird, we cancel it f*cking immediately,’ because we knew what we had was so important.” Gomez echoed that sentiment, but stressed that “I definitely didn’t feel any sort of pressure. I was maybe just nervous with jitters in the beginning, and then slowly but surely it was happening and it sort of fell into place with a lot of hard work and love.”

I Said I Love You First is out 3/21 via SMG Music/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope Records. Find more information here.

01. “I Said I Love You First”
02. “Younger And Hotter Than Me”
03. “Call Me When You Break U”
04. “Ojos Tristes”
05. “Don’t Wanna Cry”
06. “Sunset Blvd.”
07. “Cowboy”
08. “Bluest Flame”
09. “How Does It Feel To Be Forgotten”
10. “Do You Wanna Be Perfect”
11. “You Said You Were Sorry”
12. “I Can’t Get Enough”
13. “Don’t Take It Personally”
14. “Scared Of Loving You”

In 2020, AEG, the global entertainment company, sued Atlanta rapper Young Thug for $5 million, claiming he’d breached a contract with the company by promoting and performing at live events without AEG’s approval. Today, Billboard reports that the two parties have filed documents ending the dispute after coming to an undisclosed settlement.

The initial deal, signed in 2017, gave AEG exclusive rights to promote Thug’s concerts in exchange for a $5.3 million advance. However, AEG claimed that Thug immediately breached the agreement, performing at outside shows, and never paid back the $5 million. The lawsuit, filed in 2020, was delayed during Young Thug’s racketeering trial, in which he was accused of being the leader of a criminal organization by the Fulton County District Attorney.

Now that the lawsuit is settled, both parties can turn to a more recent legal dispute between them. In 2024, AEG sued Thug again, after he allegedly sold off the rights to 400 songs to Kobalt Publishing, despite using the rights to his recordings as collateral against the previous $5 million loan. He earned $16 million from the transaction, which AEG argues should be invalid as a result of their previous agreement.

The second lawsuit was also put on pause throughout Thug’s criminal trial, but after he reached a plea deal with Fulton prosecutors, AEG pushed to renew litigation. While there has been little movement on that case since, it’s possible that their new settlement could mean that the second lawsuit can move forward. In any event, it turns out Thug is set to begin performing again, setting his first show since prison at a Belgian festival.

Car Seat Headrest, one of the defining indie bands of the 2010s, have announced their first album in five years.

The Scholars is a self-described rock opera that’s set at a fictional college campus, Parnassus University, and follows the “students and staff whose travails illuminate a loose narrative of life, death, and rebirth.”

The rest of the logline reads:

Rosa studies at the medical school of Parnassus University. After an experience bringing a medically deceased patient back to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood, of healing others by absorbing their pain. Each night, instead of dreams, she encounters the raw pain and stories of the souls she touches throughout the day. Reality blurs, and she finds herself taken deep into secret facilities buried beneath the medical school, where ancient beings that covertly reign over the college bring forth their dark plans.

Car Seat Headrest — which consists of singer Will Toledo, lead guitarist Ethan Ives, drummer Andrew Katz, and bassist Seth Dalby — have also shared the album’s epic first single, the nearly 11-minutes-long “Gethsemane.” Above, you can watch the track’s cinematic video, directed by Andrew Wonder.

Also check out The Scholars‘ album cover and tracklist, as well as Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming tour dates, below.

Car Seat Headrest’s The Scholars Album Cover Artwork

Car Seat Headrest’s The Scholars Tracklist

1. “CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)”
2. “Devereaux”
3. “Lady Gay Approximately”
4. “The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)”
5. “Equals”
6. “Gethsemane”
7. “Reality”
8. “Planet Desperation”
9. “True/False Lover”

Car Seat Headrest’s 2025 Tour Dates: The Scholars Tour

05/16 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
06/07 — New York, NY @ Governors Ball
06/28 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
07/12 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
07/26 — Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed (Fairgrounds)
08/08 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek
09/12 — Philadelphia, PA @ Highmark Skyline at the Mann Center
09/27 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall
11/01 — Oakland, CA @ The Fox

The Scholars is out May 2 via Matador. Find more information here.