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The IPA is the undisputed champion of the craft beer world. But when drinkers envision this style, they usually think of the bitter hop bombs bred on the West Coast. In recent years, however, the idea of the IPA has begun to change and evolve thanks to the introduction of the New England-style IPA into the American craft beer scene.

The NEIPA style is known for its hazy, cloudy appearance (sometimes it looks more like a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice than a beer). Instead of floral, piney, or bitter hops, this beer is sweeter, much less dry, and filled with myriad flavors like pineapple, mango, guava, and various other mouth-watering tropical fruit notes.

Its juicy, sweet, and refreshing flavor makes the NEIPA (sometimes called a Hazy IPA or just a “hazy”) a perfect beer for the dog days of July. In fact, we plan to sip on offerings from breweries scattered throughout the country from now until at least September (if not longer). To help you pick a few to stock the fridge with for the 4th, we decided to list eight of our favorite New England-style IPAs below.

Each of the beers featured here is juicy, hazy, and well-suited to quenching your summer thirst. You can try them yourself by clicking on the prices.

Lord Hobo Glorious

ABV: 6.5%

Average Price: $13 (four-pack, 16-oz. cans)

The Beer:

This hazy, easy-to-drink New England-style IPA is surprisingly simple in its ingredients. Brewed with Pilsner malt and “a double-dose” of Galaxy hops, it’s known for its unfiltered appearance, juicy flavor, and extreme crushability on a hot day.

Tasting Notes:

Before taking your first sip, take a moment to revel in this beer’s nose. You’ll be greeted with aromas of lime zest, ripe grapefruit, juicy mango, sweet peaches, and just a hint of spice at the end. The palate is swirling with lemons, limes, peaches, pineapples, and more tropical flavors as you sip. It’s juicy, mellow, and doesn’t have much malt flavor whatsoever.

Bottom Line:

This is the juicy, hazy, New England-style IPA for fans of citrus. There are a ton of lemon, lime, and grapefruit flavors.

Ommegang Neon Rainbows

ABV: 6.7%

Average Price: $14 (four-pack, 16-oz. cans)

The Beer:

Cooperstown, New York’s Brewery Ommegang is well-known for its Belgian-style beers. But this hazy, juicy, double dry-hopped IPA is its “unicorn.” It’s unique and completely satisfying with the addition of London ale yeast as well as Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra, Centennial, and Topaz hops paired with more Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra, and Topaz in the dry-hopping process.

Tasting Notes:

Aromas of ripe, juicy oranges, lemon zest, mangos, and peaches are prevalent on the nose. Sipping this beer reveals more lemon, lime, tangerine, and grapefruit citrus flavors as well as caramel malts and juicy tropical notes. There’s very little bitterness in this summer refresher.

Bottom Line:

This beer is like the IPA equivalent of a fruit salad. There are citrus, tropical fruits, and even berries on the palate. In the simplest terms: this is a fruity, flavorful beer.

Five Boroughs Gridlock

ABV: 6.5%

Average Price: $18 (four-pack, 16-oz. cans)

The Beer:

Gridlock is one of two juicy, hazy IPAs from Five Boroughs’ core line. Gridlock is brewed with Bohemian Pilsner and Pale wheat malts as well as rice hulls with Amarillo and Citra hops.

Tasting Notes:

After one whiff, you can tell how balanced this beer is. There’s a notable aroma of pale malts and caramel sweetness that pairs well with citrus zest. The flavor is similar to the aroma, with orange peels, grapefruit, and lime taking center stage, paired alongside biscuit-like malts. A mellow, sweet, fruity ending ties the whole sip together.

Bottom Line:

When you look up the definition of what a New England-style IPA should be, this is it. It has a great maltiness to sweet, juicy flavor. It’s definitely a beer you’ll want to drink all summer.

Weldwerks Juicy Bits

ABV: 6.7%

Average Price: $15 (four-pack, 16-oz. cans)

The Beer:

Sometimes a beer’s name tells you everything you need to know about what you’re about to sip. This is definitely the case with Weldwerks’ Juicy bits. This New England-style IPA is brewed with Mosaic, Citra, and El Dorado hops and lives up to its juicy, tropical fruit-centric moniker.

Tasting Notes:

Before you even drink this beer, you’ll be surprised at the massive amount of tropical and citrus fruits on the nose. But that’s not all. There are also prevalent floral and piney hops. Unlike many hazy IPAs, the pine resin hits you almost immediately. It pairs perfectly with the palate of ripe pineapple, guava, mango, and tangerine.

Bottom Line:

This is a great beer for classic IPA fans who want to give hazy IPAs a chance. It has enough resinous, dank pine flavor to appeal to their palates and enough juicy tropical fruits for New England-style IPA fans.

Cigar City Fancy Papers

ABV: 6.5%

Average Price: $12 (six-pack)

The Beer:

Even though this beer is called “Fancy Papers,” it’s anything but. It’s simply a reference to the designs printed on papers that are applied to cigar boxes to get consumers to purchase them. While we don’t get what that phrase has to do with this particular beer, the can does have fancy handwriting on it that makes us want to crack one open. A hazy, juicy beer brewed with Strata, Sabro, and Idaho 7 hops awaits within.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is all ripe orange, tangerine, lime zest, and fresh-cut grass as well as bready malts and sweet tropical fruits. The palate dances with notes of lemon, lime, bright grapefruit, mango, and juicy peaches paired with more earthy grass and caramel malts. It’s a multi-dimensional beer that has levels of flavors.

Bottom Line:

Cigar City makes nothing but high-quality brews. While Jai Alai gets all the press, Fancy Papers is one of our favorite New England-style IPAs because of its balanced, fruity flavor.

Green Flash Saturhaze

ABV: 4.2%

Average Price: $11 (six-pack)

The Beer:

Green Flash is another brewery that made its name with bitter, over-the-top West Coast IPAs. They even brewed a beer literally called Palate Wrecker. Its sessionable, low-alcohol foray into the world of hazy IPAs is its Green Flash Saturhaze. The kind of beer you could drink all day Saturday. It might be low in ABV, but it’s high in tropical fruit flavor.

Tasting Notes:

A lot is going on with this beer’s aromas. There are notable scents of pineapple, grapefruit, cantaloupe, and lime zest. Sipping it reveals more of the same with ripe tropical fruits, tangerine, and subtle piney hops making an appearance. Overall, it’s light, refreshing, fruity, and highly crushable.

Bottom Line:

When many drinkers think of New England-style IPAs, light, session beers aren’t usually what they visualize. But that’s exactly what Green Flash Saturhaze is — and that’s not such a bad thing when it comes to summer beers.

Voodoo Ranger Juicy Haze

ABV: 7.5%

Average Price: $12 (six-pack)

The Beer:

New Belgium might be most well-known for its classic Fat Tire Amber Ale. These days, it’s almost equally as known for its line of Voodoo Ranger IPAs. The best of which, in our opinion, is Juicy Haze. Brewed with American hefeweizen yeast, Pale, wheat, and C-80 malts as well as oats with Citra, Cascade, Centennial, Simcoe, and nugget hops, it’s hoppy, fruity, and highly juicy.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is packed with aromas of tangerines, lemons, lime, and grapefruit, along with dank, pine resin. The flavor is loaded with grapefruit, pineapple, lime zest, mango, subtle caramel malts, and a nice kick of slightly bitter, floral hops at the finish.

Bottom Line:

This is an extremely well-balanced IPA with juicy, ripe fruits that pair well with nicely bitter, piney hops. It’s zesty, dank, and refreshing on a hot day.

Elysian Full Contact

ABV: 8.8%
Average Price: $14 (six-pack)

The Beer:

This is a bold, potent, hazy beer that you won’t soon forget. The can is adorned with a mystical, mysterious-looking character holding a beer and pointing menacingly at you, the drinker. The juicy, hazy, fruity beer inside is brewed with 2-row malt, malted wheat, and un-malted wheat along with Centennial, Strata, and Simcoe hops, plus a few others that are mysteriously absent from the ingredients list.

Tasting Notes:

There’s nothing otherworldly about this beer’s fragrance. Unlike Elysian’s other hazy offering, Contact haze (which simply smells fresh and fruity), Full Contact has mango, guava, tangerines, lime zest flavor notes as well as a nice dollop of bitter, floral hops. The flavor mirrors the aromas with melon and peach being added to the tropical fruit and citrus flavors. A nice kick of bitter hops finishes everything.

Bottom Line:

Once you’ve enjoyed the fruiter, softer Contact Haze, work your way up to the bolder, spicier, hoppier, boozier Full Contact. You’ll be happy you did.

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Despite being the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States, fewer than half of Hispanic people living in the country own a home, and the median weekly income of Hispanic workers is well below the national average. Additionally, Hispanics have disproportionately faced economic and health-related hardships from the COVID-19 pandemic, putting even more financial stress on an already historically disadvantaged community.

Yet, our country’s Hispanic community remains resilient and perseverant. In support of those who never quit, Modelo, through its Modelo Fighting Chance Project, is partnering with UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, to further strengthen Hispanic families’ financial security by expanding UnidosUS’ financial empowerment and homeownership programs.

“Discriminatory policies from well before the pandemic have placed Latinos at a huge financial disadvantage compared to other groups,” says Lautaro Diaz, UnidosUS Vice President of Housing and Community Development. “That’s why increased support for important initiatives like housing counseling can get families the help they need to pull themselves up and get through these difficult times.”

Modelo’s $250,000 contribution will directly support vital financial literacy programs through the UnidosUS National Homeownership Network, which enables families to build wealth and increase their financial mobility. Since its inception in 1997, UnidosUS’ National Homeownership Network has provided more than 590,000 families with housing counseling, helped more than 30,000 people to buy homes and prevented some 90,000 families from facing home foreclosures.

“Modelo has a tradition of honoring those who embody the fighting spirit and show grit, perseverance, and determination in the face of adversity,” says Greg Gallagher, Vice President of Modelo Brand Marketing. “We are proud to work with UnidosUS and to help support their mission to provide our core Hispanic audience with the necessary resources to build unified, prosperous, and resilient communities.”

To learn more about UnidosUS and Modelo’s partnership, as well as to learn more about the Modelo Fighting Chance Project, click here.

Iggy Azalea is gearing up for her third album, End Of An Era. She previously shared the Tyga-featuring single “Sip It,” and now she’s back with another preview, the fun and bouncy single “I Am The Strip Club.” She also shared a video for the track, which features the rapper dancing and having fun on the road, in the back of an 18-wheeler and an ATV.

She says on the hook, “Don’t need dark rooms / I am the strip club / Don’t need red lights / I am the strip club / I do the lap dance / I ride the pole up / I am the, the strip club.” That lines up with how Azalea explained the song back in April, writing on Twitter, “The concept of the song ‘iam the strip club’ is basically about the fact that YOU ARE the good time. You don’t need to be in a club to be that lit.”

More recently, she wrote of the track on Instagram, “This song is really special to me – Seriously! […] This is my art, it makes me happy creating it and gives me purpose – So I hope someone is out this weekend dancing to this song! Your support matters to me so much I hope I can make everyone proud!”

For part of the video, Azalea is seen sporting black hair and skin that some people on Twitter think was intentionally made to look darker than her natural skin tone. After the video was released, in response to a compliment about her hair, Azalea noted that she’s retiring the black wig.

Azalea also thanked the people involved in making the video, saying, “I wanted to give a big Thankyou to @yeah_thas_me for bringing my music to life with his choreography as well as to all the dancers in this video… You guys made the video next level! I also want to give a giant Thankyou to @smashstunts for bringing together a group of amazing female riders for this video! Watching you guys handle those bikes with Eaze on those dark winding roads really blew my mind. You girls are amazing!”

Watch the “I Am The Strip Club’ video above.

Chris McKay was coming off directing the hugely successful The Lego Batman Movie when he was tapped to stay in the Batman universe and direct the live-action Nightwing film. (Nightwing is the alter ego of Dick Grayson, who was the first Robin.) Things seemed to be moving along, to the point McKay was tweeting about how the movie would be cast and openly talking about how special the story is that he has in mind. And then a few things changed. There was the whole saga with the Zack Snyder movies, and Warner Bros. kind of moving away from them, but not in all cases. And then the pandemic seems to have reset a lot. I asked McKay about Nightwing and, as you read below, it does seem to sound like it’s not completely dead, but fan enthusiasm would sure go a long way.

In the meantime, we’ve got The Tomorrow War, which is a saga of its own. It was supposed to be released in theaters in 2020 by Paramount, but of course that didn’t happen and Paramount eventually sold the film to Amazon and the movie hits Amazon Prime this weekend. McKay makes no bones about it, it’s been a stressful experience. Or, at the very least, he’s “sighed a lot” over the last few months.

The Tomorrow War is about evil aliens attacking Earth. But the twist is they attack in the future. And Earth does such a bad job of fighting them that they have to time travel back to the present in order to draft new people to fight. Dan Forester, who already served in the military, is drafted to go to the future and fight.

Ahead, McKay takes us through his last year a bit – and no laments that if these aliens we are hearing about in the news get themselves a Prime account, he’s now given them the blueprint to beating us. And, yes, talks about the prospects of his Nightwing movie and how letters to Warner Bros. sure would help.

With the world situation and then the movie changing studios, I guess my question is how many times over the last year-and-a-half have you sighed?

[Laughs] Yeah, a lot. A lot. Definitely have had a few ups and downs with the movie. But, again, every challenge has been an opportunity. The fact that there’s something about what’s happening in the world that tangentially relates to themes in the movie and that kind of thing? There’s a reason why things happen why they do, I guess,

When you say the way this movie relates to the real world, are you referring to the pandemic? Or are you referring to the aliens we keep hearing about that you think might eat us?

Yeah, I think a lot of it evolves. Just the idea that we’re all in something together. How do you leave the world a better place than you found it? That kind of thing.

Are you a pessimistic alien person, or are you an optimistic alien person?

Wow. That’s a really good question.

Is it going to be like the Vulcans in First Contact, or is it this movie?

I mean, Vulcans in First Contact, that’s good!

E.T., Close Encounters, they all seem to be nice creatures.

Yeah. I want that. Or I want a universe that has some kindness and benevolence and positivity to it, but I also like the long game of Star Trek, where the Klingons are bad guys in the original series. But then they become part of the Federation in Next Generation and that kind of thing. I always liked that.

I liked that, too.

I remember watching Next Generation as a kid. I’d seen the original series in reruns. And it shows what you can do – as somebody who at that time was definitely feeling he wanted to be a filmmaker – seeing what they did with Next Generation made me go, yeah, you can change stuff radically, and it’s actually more meaningful because of it.

At this point, it just feels like if aliens showed up tomorrow, it would be like, “Oh, God, now we’ve got to deal with this? How long is this going to last? How long are we going to stay inside to avoid these creatures now?” That’s what it feels like.

Yeah. The aliens are a pain in the ass. There’s no joy or wonder.

Right. I don’t want them showing up any time soon. Can we just have a couple of normal years before that happens?” But they’re going to come right now.

Yeah. It is weird that we are living through a time where we don’t know what the next four months are going to hold for us. I don’t think there’s ever been a time, at least in my lifetime: You had a certain amount of confidence in how your next four months would lay out. I don’t think that we have that anymore. So when aliens in the news pops up, yeah, of course, aliens, right. That absolutely makes sense, with the way the world is working right now.

I guess you’ve thought about it more too, because the aliens in this movie seem pretty mean.

Yeah, these aliens are terra-formers. They’re meant to wipe out something, a populous. So yeah. I wanted them to feel like they were ancient. I wanted them to feel like they were hungry, that they had a feral intelligence, that there was a kind of like wolves or coyotes.

What happens if these aliens we keep hearing about on the news get an Amazon account and watch this? And then you’ve given the blueprint how to take us down?

So I’m the architect?

You’re the architect.

So we should film this. This is the origin. This is the prequel, us having this conversation and how we make the movie.

This is what plays before the credits. And we’re laughing, having a nice time, joking around.

Having a good time.

And then here they come.

I love the idea, “Let’s see what’s on Amazon today. Oh, watch this. Aha!”

They first watched Palm Springs, which wasn’t much help. And then this was recommended next.

“J.K. Simmons’s in that. We like him, so let’s watch him in this.”

Are you still doing Nightwing? Is that happening? Or is that lost in the ether now?

I don’t know. I hope so.

I feel like everything has changed. The last year has reset a lot of stuff, didn’t it?

A million things have changed in the industry. A million things have changed when you now narrow it down to like specifically Warner Bros., DC, et cetera. But I still want to make a movie. That’s still something that’s really important to me: the character of Nightwing, the story that we were working on. All of that stuff is really important to me. Warner Bros. and DC have been through a thing and I think that they’ve had some really great successes recently. I hope that we’re next in line. I hope that they watch The Tomorrow War and get excited about the idea of me making a Nightwing movie.

So I’m on the outside looking in, but would you say it’s not dead? From your perspective, is it just “wait and see”?

I think if all the people reading this article sent letters to Warner Bros., saying that they wanted a Nightwing movie, I think that Warner Bros. would probably respond positively.

‘The Tomorrow War’ is now streaming via Amazon Prime. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.

After an explosive diarrhea outbreak forced NBC to shut down production on Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide, it’s upcoming game show based on the popular backyard water slide, the network is reportedly struggling with how to air the show. According to reports, the show only had five days of filming left, but those five days were pretty important because it involved shooting the final event. In other words, it’s a game show that doesn’t have a champion, and it’s threatening the release of the $18 million project hosted by comedians Bobby Moynihan and Ron Funches.

Via Yahoo!:

And the pressure is on, because it’s scheduled to premiere in a prime spot, on Aug. 8, immediately after the closing ceremony of the Olympics. Not only that, but most of the $18 million show had already been filmed — seven weeks, leaving just five days of filming ahead — when up to 40 crew members fell violently ill.

As previously reported, Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide was forced into shutdown two weeks ago after a crew member tested positive for giardia, a microscopic parasite that can cause explosive diarrhea. The situation quickly worsened as it became a full-on outbreak that resulted in members of the crew collapsing or being “forced to run into port-o-potties.” An all-around crappy situation, if you will.

(Via Yahoo!)

In a pre-recorded collaborative concert with Grey Goose titled In Bloom, SZA unveiled part of a brand-new song, “Shirt,” live. Fans and social media users might already be familiar with the silky track, as it made the rounds on TikTok earlier this year when the R&B sensation shared a snippet of “Shirt” to her Instagram story. Likewise, SZA’s “Good Days” video included a tease of the new track near the clip’s end.

In a statement prior to the event, SZA said:

“I feel like In Bloom really captures where I’m at right now, especially after a year and a half of lockdown, which is also why it feels like the best place to debut some of my new material. I’m so excited for my fans to see this performance.”

At the event, which took place in Los Angeles, SZA also provided an update regarding the long-anticipated follow-up to 2017’s critically adored Ctrl. “I’m actually probably about to scrap all of it and start from scratch,” she told WWD about the new record. “I think [fans will] be surprised to know that it’s not what they thought, and it’s not coming when they thought,” she said. “I hope that they’ll be pleasantly surprised.” Then she added, “I’m literally not talking about my album anymore until it’s out in the world. At this point, I’m gonna start jinxing it, and I don’t want to jinx anything.”

To hear SZA perform a bit of “Shirt,” head to the 49:05 mark in the video above.

The Alien franchise, but particularly the first two films, Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 sequel Aliens, are about a lot of things: sex; gender; the danger of bringing a cat to space. But to Noah Hawley, it’s largely about capitalism.

The Fargo creator is working on an Alien show for FX that won’t feature Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, but will tell “a story about inequality,” as he explained to Vanity Fair. “You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot. They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. The second movie is such an ’80s movie, but it’s still about grunts. Paul Reiser is middle management at best. So, it is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work.” Hawley continued:

In mine, you’re also going to see the people who are sending them. So you will see what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now isn’t resolved. If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us? There’s that great Sigourney Weaver line to Paul Reiser where she says, “I don’t know which species is worse. At least they don’t fuck each other over for a percentage.”

The Alien films, like 95 percent of science fiction, is heavily political, but this is apparently news to Dave Rubin. After Hawley’s interview was published, the host of The Rubin Report, “the largest talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube,” tweeted, “I’ve been saying for years that Wokeism is a parasite that fully infects the host and then eventually bursts forth like in the movie Alien. The circle is now complete…”

In space, no one can hear you scream. But on Twitter, everyone can make fun of your bad take.

At least RoboCop is about a cop who is also a robot, and NOTHING MORE.

The Lynchburg Lemonade is inextricably tied to Jack Daniel’s. It’s their official cocktail, even though it was invented in Florida by a bartender who was looking for something new and refreshing to serve his clientele back in 1980. History aside, this drink is made for hot and humid days that only an ice-cold boozy lemonade can cure.

We’re adhering to the official Jack Daniel’s recipe for this one. The gist of this cocktail is in the highball arena — it hems very close to drinks like a Tom Collins. The base is a mix of Jack Daniel’s, triple sec, and sour mix. That’s topped up with a lemon-lime soda (Sprite or 7-Up) and… that’s about it. It’s very easy to make over and over again, or in batches for a 4th of July bruhaha.

Since this is a build-in-the-glass mixer, we don’t really need any more preamble. Let’s get mixing!

Lynchburg Lemonade

Ingredients:

• 1-oz. Gentleman Jack
• 1-oz. triple sec
• 1-oz. sour mix*
• 4-oz. Sprite or 7-Up
• Ice
• Lemon wedge

For this recipe, I’m using Gentleman Jack. That’s mostly because I have that open at the moment. It’s also a perfectly fine version of the Tennessee whiskey with a creamy texture that sort of converts the lemon into a lemon cream pie in the finished drink.

The rest is pretty straightforward. I’m using Sprite, again, simply because that’s what I have around.

Lastly, if you want to make this in batches, the recipe is 1:1:1 mix. Add one cup of the Jack, triple sec, and sour mix to a pitcher over ice and top with Sprite or 7-Up. Chop up some lemon wedges and drop them in. Give it a good stir. Done.

*SOUR MIX: Add 1/2 cup simple syrup, 1/2 cup fresh and strained lemon juice (three to four lemons), and 1/4 cup fresh and strained lime juice (two to three limes) to a jar or bottle with a lid. Affix the lid and shake vigorously until fully emulsified (no more than ten seconds). It’s ready!

What You’ll Need:

• Highball glass or jar mug
• Jigger
• Paring knife
• Cutting board
• Straw

Method:

• Prechill your glass overnight.
• Fill the glass with ice.
• Add the whiskey, triple sec, and sour mix to the glass. Stir with the straw.
• Top up with the 7-Up or Sprite and stir again.
• Cut a lemon wedge and garnish the glass.
• Serve.

Bottom Line:

Thinks takes me right back to Tennessee in the summer. It’s basically creamy lemon candy with a very slight echo of woody and vanilla-forward whiskey lurking in the background.

On a hot day, this is so crushable. It’s hard not to just down the first and make a secon within five minutes. It sounds like it’s thin or light but there is heft to drink. That creamy lemon pie, almost lemon meringue, comes through and helps this feel like more than a simple whiskey and soda.

That being said, these are on the sweeter side of the highball spectrum. Luckily, there’s enough orange, lemon, and lime citrus there to balance all that sweetness out.

While discussing the “very sad goss” that Meghan McCain is leaving The View at the end of July, the eponymous hosts of Desus & Mero offered up some suggestions for McCain’s next career move, and they’re definitely playing with fire one of them. As the two warmed up, Desus floated the idea that McCain “should get a cop show” or stick to her talk show roots with “a court show in the middle of the day, that could work.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be a segment on McCain if the hosts didn’t mention her wild hairstyles that have been a staple on The View ever since she returned from maternity leave, and that’s when Desus trotted out his admittedly “controversial” idea for McCain’s next project. “She should host a show where she judges Black hairstyles,” Desus joked. “BET, I know you’re thinking about it!”

But the hair jokes didn’t stop there. The two hosts then dared McCain to show up during her final episode wearing Bantu knots:

DESUS: Has she come out with Bantu knots yet? For her last episode she has to. She’s really gonna rock the boat and be like, “And what?”

MERO: Whoopi’s going to be like, “girl.” And [Meghan’s] like, “You can’t cancel me. You know why you can’t cancel me? ‘Cause my father was John McCain!”

Despite vowing back in January that she’s “not going anywhere,” McCain announced that she’s leaving The View on Thursday morning after tabloid reports leaked that she was going to resign. According to McCain, the pandemic had shifted her priorities and made her want to change the way she’s living her life. She revealed that she’ll be staying on The View until the current season ends in late July, and joked with her co-hosts that “if you guys want to fight a little bit more, we have four more weeks.”

(Via Desus & Mero on Showtime)

Cardi B has a distinct look: When you see her, there’s no mistaking that it’s Cardi. If she had made one different decision as a teenager, though, her appearance would be even more idiosyncratic today. On Twitter last night, she revealed that when she was younger, she wanted a face tattoo.

Cardi tweeted, “Everyday I’m thankful at the fact that ain’t get this face tatt I wanted when I was 16.” She then followed up by describing her previous ink plans, sharing a GIF of Mel B facepalming on America’s Got Talent and writing, “Little stars from the top of my eyebrow swirling down to my jaw.”

Cardi actually has a tattoo that’s somewhat similar to that proposed one, though, as behind her right ear, she has a tattoo of a star next to the American Sign Language symbol for “I love you.”

Meanwhile, Cardi has been busy lately. She stole the show at the 2021 BET Awards by revealing that she is pregnant. She also has a role in the new movie Fast & Furious 9 and she loves her character, saying in a behind-the-scenes clip, “I like the fact that I’m representing such a powerful, strong woman. She’s just that bitch [laughs]. […] I remember when I saw Ludacris in Fast & The Furious, […] then to see Don Omar, it makes the hood have hope. Being around Vin [Diesel], he’s just so nice, so dope. He makes you feel so comfortable. I’m just so excited.”

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.