Nicki Minaj is one of the most visible rappers in the game. While you can often catch the “Big Foot” rapper posting online to her millions of followers, seeing Minaj live isn’t as simple. Ever so often, Minaj will sign on to headline a music festival (hi, Dreamville Fest and Rolling Loud California) but those are rare occurrences.
However, thanks to her Pink Friday 2 World Tour, the Barbs worldwide will have the opportunity to catch Minaj when it stops in a city near them. Yesterday (March 1), the 56-date run kicked off in Oakland, California. Although the opening acts are still pending, attendees have shared what has been hashed out, including the working setlist.
Continue below for the full setlist (according to Setlist.Fm), the remaining tour dates, and the official tour poster.
Nicki Minaj 2024 Tour Dates: Pink Friday 2 World Tour
03/03 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
03/08 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
03/10 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
03/13 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
03/15 — Inglewood, CA @ Rolling Loud California*
03/18 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
03/20 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
03/22 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
03/26 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
03/28 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
03/29 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
03/30 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
04/01 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
04/02 — Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
04/04 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
04/05 — Hartford, CT @ XL Center
04/07 — Raleigh, NC @ Dreamville Festival*
04/08 — Boston. MA @ TD Garden
04/10 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
04/12 — Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
04/13 — Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum
04/17 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
04/18 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
04/20 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
04/24 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
04/25 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
04/27 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
05/02 — Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom Center
05/09 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
05/11 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
05/12 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
05/23 — Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome
05/25 — Manchester, UK @ Co-Op Live
05/26 — Birmingham, UK @ Resorts World Arena
05/28 — London, UK @ The O2
05/30 — Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live
06/01 — Paris, France @ Accor Arena
06/02 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome
06/05 — Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena
06/07 — Berlin, Germany @ Mercedes Benz Arena
Dune: Part Two is a very, very long movie. And yet there are still key things missing from the book. Alia, Paul’s sister, is never born (though she’s visible as a fetus and, briefly, as a very famous star). Paul never teaches the Fremen the Weirding Way. A major character we won’t reveal is offed in a different fashion. And where’s Thufir Hawat, the Mentat played in the first by Stephen McKinley Henderson? Thufir is one of the survivors of the Harkonen assault on House Atreides, and yet he’s nowhere to be seen in Part Two. There’s a reason for his absence, says director/co-writer Denis Villeneuve.
“One of the most painful choices for me on this one was Thufir Hawat,” Villeneuve told Entertainment Weekly. “He’s a character I absolutely love, but I decided right at the beginning that I was making a Bene Gesserit adaptation. That meant that Mentats are not as present as they should be, but it’s the nature of the adaptation.”
The Mentats, for those who forgot, are basically human computers, because computers are outlawed in the distant future of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Remember, the original novels take place long after a war between humans and computers, who had enslaved the former after they gave them too much power. But that’s certainly not relevant to anything happening today.
Anyway, we live in an age when fans bristle at when any adaptation changes anything from the source. So kudos to Villeneuve for making some changes, and for acknowledging that you can’t keep everything.
“When you adapt, there’s always some kind of violence toward the original material,” Villeneuve said. “You have to change things, you have to bend, you have to make painful choices.”
There’s another major change from the Herberts, involving Zendaya’s Fremen warrior Chani. But that’s for another article.
Fun fact: Dune: Part Two runs some two hours and 45 minutes, covering the second half of the novel. But in the far battier David Lynch version from 1984, the same events are plowed through in under an hour. And yet Lynch still found room for Thufir, Alia’s birth, a lot of Weirding Way action, and a silly but cool death for one of that major character we mentioned.
You might see the term “cold IPA” and assume that this is simply a beer style created to be imbibed during the colder months. And while many brewers release their cold IPAs during the winter months and into the spring, some release them in the height of the summer. The name is simply a reference to the fermentation process. Cold IPAs are fermented at a lower temperature with lager yeast than other PAs.
The result is a malty, refreshing, crisp, crushable, very hoppy IPA. And this hybrid of a crisp pilsner and a West Coast IPA is perfect for any time of year. Especially spring.
The style was invented by Wayfinder Beer in Portland, Oregon in the fall of 2018. It was originally called Wayfinder Relapse IPA and it was created to pay tribute to Relapse Records. The goal was to create a ramped-up version of the classic West Coast IPA with classic bitter, piney hops but drier, crisper, and with a clean, memorable finish like a lager. That’s exactly what they did and it became so popular that other brewers tried their hand at making it.
Keep scrolling to see eight of our favorite cold IPAs to try this spring. We ranked them based on overall hoppiness and crisp, drinkable flavor.
This collaboration with Harland Brewing is made with HBC 586, HBC-638, Strata, and Chinook hops. It gets added flavor from the addition of 2-row malt, puffed jasmine rice, white wheat, and toasted rice. The result is a memorable, flavorful IPA with a ton of citrus, tropical fruit, and pine notes.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a mixture of tangerine, lime peel, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, and floral, piney hopes. There’s more of the same on the palate and we couldn’t be happier. There’s a lot of peaches, pineapple, sweet wheat, orange zest, lemon, and dank, resinous pine. It’s surprisingly smooth, creamy, and sweet with more pine than actual bitterness.
Bottom Line:
This is a very well-rounded, sweet, easy-drinking, crisp, complex IPA you’ll go back to again and again.
This popular winter IPA is fermented at a lower temperature to add to the hop character. It’s brewed with Mosaic and El Dorado hops. The result is an amber-hued, light, refreshing, crisp IPA with notable citrus, fruit, and dank pine flavors. It might be light and thirst-quenching, but it’s flavorful enough to be sipped any time of year.
Tasting Notes:
This beer smells like a tropical oasis. There’s a ton of ripe pineapple, peach, passionfruit, tangerine, grapefruit, and lemon. There are also grassy, floral, and piney hops to hold it all together. Drinking it reveals more tropical fruits like mango, pineapple, orange peel, peach, and grapefruit, but also some sweet malt flavor, and a dank, resinous pine finish.
Bottom Line:
Every sip of Ellicottville Chilly Willy is like taking a vacation to a tropical island where there’s also somehow an abundance of pine trees.
6.) Sierra Nevada Cold Torpedo
Sierra Nevada
ABV: 7%
Average Price: Available in mixed packs
The Beer:
Sierra Torpedo is already an outstanding imperial IPA. So, it shouldn’t surprise you that its cold IPA version Cold Torpedo is pretty great as well. Brewed with 2-row pale, Carapils, and Vienna malts, it gets its hop presence from the addition of Chinook, CTZ, El Dorado, and Motueka hops.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of cracked black pepper, grapefruit, orange peel, lemon, and floral, earthy piney hops. On the palate, you’ll be treated to flavors of candied orange peels, freshly baked bread, toffee sweetness, grapefruit, pineapple, and dank, floral, pine needles.
Bottom Line:
If you prefer your dank, piney cold IPAs to have a nice sweet malt backbone, this is the beer for you.
Big Top’s R-22 Cold IPA wasn’t crafted to be your classic bitter, piney IPA. It was brewed to have the crisp, easy-drinking, refreshing nature of a classic, light lager and the piney, hoppy, lightly bitter flavors of an IPA. Add in all the tropical fruit flavors and you have an exceptional, unique beer.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find a symphony of tropical fruit aromas including guava, mango, passionfruit, papaya, and pineapple. There’s also a nice caramel malt presence and memorable pine needle scents. The palate follows suit with juicy peach, mango, guava, pineapple, tangerine, grapefruit, and dank, pine. But unlike most IPAs, the finish is clean, and crisp, and has much less bitterness than you’d expect from the heavy pine aroma and flavor.
Bottom Line:
If you’re a fan of bold, tropical, dank aromas and flavors, but you prefer less bitterness at the finish, this is your jam.
The folks at August Schell took the blueprint for its West Coast IPA and turned it on its head. Like other cold IPAs, it was cold-fermented to give it a crisp, clean flavor. It’s known for its fresh, thirst-quenching flavor and bright citrus and tropical fruit aromas and flavors.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is centered on freshly baked bread, lemongrass, mango, guava, ripe pineapple, and dank pine. Sipping it brings forth notes of honeydew melons, tangerine, lemon, yeasty bread, mango, lime zest, and floral, earthy, spicy piney hops. The finish is lightly bitter and leaves you craving more.
Bottom Line:
This is a beer for fans of dank pine and citrus zest. It has both in absolute abundance.
Wayfinder calls this beer Original Cold IPA for a reason. This is the OG cold IPA. Wayfinder invented the style back in October of 2018. It’s brewed with an adjunct lager malt bill (that includes rice or corn and 2-row pilsner malt) and lager yeast. It’s dry-hopped and loaded with tropical fruit, citrus, sweet malt, and pine notes.
Tasting Notes:
Breathing in the nose, you’ll be met with ripe berries, peaches, tangerines, lemon, pineapples, sweet malts, and floral, piney hops. The complexity remains on the palate as you’re met with flavors like raspberry, ripe peach, tangerine, mango, pineapples, sweet, bready malts, and spicy, floral, piney, bitter hops. The finish is crisp and almost lager-like.
Bottom Line:
Wayfinder manages to bridge the gap between IPA and lager perfectly this beer has all the aroma and flavor characteristics of a classic IPA, but finishes like a sweet, refreshing, crisp pilsner.
This year-round cold IPA is brewed with Apollo, Centennial, Strata, and Mosaic hops. It gets its sweet malt backbone from the liberal use of pilsner malt and flaked rice. This results in a fruity, piney, malty, sweet, well-balanced, crushable cold IPA.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of bright berries, honey, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, grass, crack-like malts, and bright pine start everything off on the right foot. The palate is filled with yeasty, bready, cracker malts, candied orange peels, caramel, grapefruit, lemon, tangerine, and resinous pine. The finish is crisp, lightly bitter, and highly memorable.
Bottom Line:
This is another beer that feels like someone created a beer that was half crisp, refreshing pilsner, and half citrus and pine bomb IPA.
This year-round triumph of a cold IPA is brewed with a base of 2-row pale malt and also has pilsner malts and flaked corn. It’s hopped Citra, Centennial, Citra Cryo, and Strata hops. All of this combines to make an award-winning cold IPA loaded with cereal, berries, stone fruit, and pine aromas and flavors.
Tasting Notes:
A lot is going on with this beer’s nose. There are bold, memorable scents of ripe raspberries, strawberries, apricots, cereal grains, grapefruit, lemongrass, and resinous pine. On the palate, you’ll find notes of honeydew melon, grapefruit zest, mandarin orange, strawberry, caramel malts, and gently bitter floral, piney hops. The pine tree bitterness lingers in a very pleasant way.
Bottom Line:
If you only drink one cold IPA on this list, make it Fremont Legend. The best part? It’s available all year long so you can easily add this banger to your rotation.
Did you see Damien Chazelle’s Babylon in theaters? There’s a good chance you didn’t. A star-studded, pricey extravaganza about Hollywood’s chaotic transition to synch sound — it’s basically a hard-R, epic, downer version of Singin’ in the Rain, which makes a surprise cameo — it hit the nation’s theaters like a thud, grossing a measly $15 million. Some of us saw it in an otherwise empty theater! Chazelle’s CV includes the almost Best Picture winner La La Land — to say nothing of Whiplash — so surely his career isn’t toast. And yet he’s still unsure about his future.
Per Variety, Chazelle recently appeared on the podcast Talking Pictures, where he was blunt about how he’s doing post-Babylon’s failure, a year and change off.
“I’ve been head in the sand. I’ve been sort of busy writing. So I’ll get a real taste of how it’s changed or not [since Babylon] once I get to finish this script and try to actually get it made,” Chazelle said. “I’m in a sort of trepidatious state of mind, but I have no illusions. I won’t get a budget of Babylon size any time soon, or at least not on this next one.”
Babylon — which stars Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt as silent-era movie stars who do not make the transition to synch sound, to put it mildly — wasn’t a hit with critics either, and it was ignored by the Oscars to boot. Maybe one day it will be redeemed; swing-for-the-fences doozies like Babylon often are. But for now Chazelle can’t ignore its stink.
“Certainly, in financial terms, Babylon didn’t work at all,” he admitted. “You try to not have that effect what you’re doing creatively, but, at some level, it can’t help but affect it. But maybe that’s okay? I have very mixed mind about it. Who knows. Maybe I won’t be able to get this one made. I have no idea. We’ll have to wait and see.”
Before Babylon, Chazelle reunited with La La Land co-star Ryan Gosling for the Neil Armstrong docudrama First Man, which didn’t bomb but did underperform. Perhaps he’ll return to smaller films like Whiplash and get back on top. Or perhaps viewers will eventually reclaim Babylon after streaming it on Paramount+, where it currently lives. After all, it’s got Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt.
You can listen to Chazelle’s Talking Pictures appearance below.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day recently surfaced in many people’s memories due to a current (and sobering) event, which might bring to mind how Arnold Schwarzenegger will always be back. That also includes returning to his first leading TV role, Netflix’s FUBAR, which turned into a top dad-show for the masses in 2023. The streamer didn’t waste any time in renewing the show, so it’s worth discussing what will come next for the former CIA agent who supposedly returned for “one last job.”
Silly rabbit, it’s never only a solitary final job, but fortunately, this show brings plenty of action and levity to keep the entertainment factor high with this show. Arnold will never go out of style (Netflix even dubbed him as their “Chief Action Officer” when this series proved to be a hit), so let’s talk out what the second season will bring.
Plot
As acronym lovers already know, FUBAR generally refers to the abbreviation for “F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition.” The show revolves around a True Lies-squared type of story where Arnold portrays a secret CIA operative, Luke Brunner, who would really like to retire but gets hauled back into the field. He also discovers that his daughter, Emma (Monica Barbaro from Top Gun: Maverick), is also a hush-hush CIA operative. This allows for father and daughter to save each other’s asses and work in some bonding time in the process, along with giving the audience what they really want: enough trademark Arnold one liners to light a cigar.
The first season finale ended with (as suggested by cast member Fortune Feamster) Arnold uttering “FUBAR,” which subsequently became the title of the series. Diego Luna’s arms dealer, Born, attempted to make Luke and Emma kill each other during a wedding standoff, but that did not end well for Boro. Once the day is saved, the team of undercover operatives realizes that their compromised identities prevent them from returning to their current at-home lives, which opens the door for them to either be on the run or adopting newfound aliases when the show returns.
For the second season, creator Nick Santoro told Tudum to expect something “bananas.” There will be “a million things” for the Brunners to work out, and “we’re going to go in knowing there might be a rat in the kitchen. And what are they going to do about that?”
Cast
Arnold and Monica Barbara shall return with new additions to the extended Brunner family remaining under wraps for the time being. The first season co-starred Fortune Feamster, Milan Carter, and Travis Van Winkle as fellow undercover agents along with Gabriel Luna as a baddie.
Release Date
The first season arrived close to Father’s Day 2023, and since this is a clear-cut case of dad TV, it’s entirely possible that Netflix will choose the same window in 2025 to release the second season. Then again, the first season took five months to shoot, so nothing is preventing the streamer from finishing this show up and delivering a surprise “early” release.
Trailer
No trailer exists yet, but seriously, if you haven’t yet watched this declaration from Arnold as starring in every Netflix show — including Cobra Kai, The Queen’s Gambit, Emily In Paris, and You — via “FUBAR mode,” then you have really been missing out on some sheer joy.
Scottie Barnes is not the only player to suffer a fractured left hand during Friday night’s slate of NBA games. During the matchup between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Washington Wizards at Crypto.com Arena, Clippers guard Russell Westbrook left the game and got ruled out for suffering the same injury that ended Barnes’ night.
Clippers guard Russell Westbrook has a fractured left hand, team says.
Unlike Barnes, who pretty clearly hurt his hand against the Golden State Warriors, it was much harder to see when Westbrook got hurt. But thanks to Tomer Azarly of ClutchPoints, we saw that Westbrook appeared to get banged up early in the second quarter while trying to poke the ball away from Jordan Poole. He managed to stay in the game for another two minutes or so before exiting.
Here’s the play where it appears that Russell Westbrook suffer his hand injury. He grabs at and flexes his hand multiple times immediately after trying to poke the ball out of Jordan Poole’s hands. https://t.co/we7FFBzDxXpic.twitter.com/vqgUTDt7px
While Westbrook is no longer the all-encompassing force he was earlier in his career, Ty Lue has trusted him to serve as the team’s backup point guard this year. With his injury, it is easy to assume that a path will open up for young guard Bones Hyland — who was put on leave prior to the All-Star break but has returned to the Clippers — to get more minutes.
On the year, Westbrook is averaging 11.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 4.5 assists in 22.8 minutes per game.
Gesaffelstein is scheduled to perform at Coachella 2024 next month, and the French DJ and electronic producer will have plenty of new material. On February 15, Gesaffelstein announced Gamma, his third studio album and first since 2019, will be released on March 29. On Friday, March 1, he wet fans’ appetite by dropping “Hard Dreams,” written and sung by Yan Wagner.
The Jordan Hemingway-directed video finds a masked Gesaffelstein alone in an ominous room. He stares at himself in the mirror, and the mirror explodes. He falls backward as shards of glass spray into the air — and pieces of the glass slowly reveal a beautiful woman. The disjointed elements in the video match perfectly with Wagner’s lyrics about a confusing love with verses like, “I trick myself with gasoline / The fire grows inside my skin / No fantasy, no in-betweens / Don’t tell me no lies.”
“The new album showcases Gesaffelstein’s raw, industrial sound and finds Gesaffelstein finally giving the mask a voice,” a press release explained upon Gesaffelstein’s Gamma announcement, adding, “The visuals and imagery for the album have been spearheaded by Jordan Hemingway (FKA Twigs, Post Malone, Gucci, Acne Studios) in close collaboration with Mike Lévy.”
Watch the “Hard Dreams” video above, and check out the album’s trailer and tracklist below.
1. “Digital Slaves”
2. “Hard Dreams”
3. “Your Share Of The Night”
4. “Hysteria”
5. “The Urge”
6. “Mania”
7. “Lost Love”
8. “The Perfect”
9. “Psycho”
10. “Tyranny”
11. “Emet”
Gamma is out 3/29 via Columbia Records. Find more information here.
The Toronto Raptors won’t have the services of Scottie Barnes for the foreseeable future. In the aftermath of the team’s 120-105 loss to the Golden State Warriors on Friday night, the team announced that the former Rookie of the Year and the up-and-coming face of their franchise is out indefinitely after suffering a fracture in his left hand.
Raptors say Scottie Barnes has sustained a fracture to the third metacarpal bone of his left hand and is out indefinitely.
The injury occurred late in the second quarter of the game. Barnes attempted to contest a layup by Jonathan Kuminga, but as he was getting ready to jump, his left hand caught the leg of his teammate, Immanuel Quickley. He was in clear pain after the play, and following a Gary Trent make on the next possession, Barnes took a personal foul and made his way into the back.
Scary stuff for Raptors fans. Scottie Barnes smacks his hand against the rim and is in so much pain he can’t even catch the pass. He then immediately sprints to the locker room after intentionally fouling to get out of the game. pic.twitter.com/anZLlKn231
While Toronto sits in 12th place in the Eastern Conference and are 4.5 games back of a berth in a Play-In Tournament, losing Barnes is absolutely brutal, as the team entered Friday night’s game with three wins in its previous four games. Getting to use the final month and a half as a chance for Barnes and his teammates to continue to build up chemistry would have been incredibly valuable, and while we’ll have to see if he’s able to return this year, those efforts took a hit on Friday night.
Entering Friday night’s game, Barnes — who made his first All-Star team this season — averaged 20 points, 8.3 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.5 blocks, and 1.3 steals in 35.2 minutes per game.
On Thursday, February 29, Porter Robinson scared his fans. A paparazzi asked him if he was “really deleting his music,” which earned a playful thumbs-up from Robinson. “Yes,” he said, as captured by Getty. “Yes, I am. Thank you!” It turned out to be an expertly executed troll job, as Robinson confirmed on Friday, March 1, that his third studio album is arriving sooner than later.
“The album is done,” Robinson posted on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). The post also included a photo of Robinson holding a giant pink star over his shoulder. The star has hearts and faces spray-painted onto it. The photo could be anything from a one-off or a promotional press image to the official album artwork or an as-yet-announced single’s artwork. For now, Robinson’s announcement remains vague.
However, on Instagram, Robinson also posted a video showing him in what appears to be his studio. Once he hits play, his face is covered by a pink cartoonish face — the same animation is now Robinson’s profile icon across his social media accounts, as well as his Spotify page. The video’s foreshadowing caption reads, “_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 😀 #NEWMUSIC.”
Robinson’s forthcoming third LP will follow 2021’s Nurture, peaking at No. 52 on the Billboard 200, and 2014’s Worlds, peaking at No. 18 on the Billboard 200.
In one video, Cardi B scrolls through “like 100 songs” on her computer dating back to January 2023. “Look how long I’ve had this f*cking record for,” she says off-camera. “January 27, 202-f*ckin’-3. I was working on this sh*t at 5 a.m. You know I’m a night owl.”
Cardi added, “I’m not letting my anxiety, I’m not letting what haters say, I’m not letting what fans say — if I do a song, I’m gonna just f*cking drop it. Well, I got no choice because I’m dropping my album this year, so stay tuned for the announcement. But don’t play with me!”
Cardi B via her Instagram story
“I’m dropping my album this year so stay tuned for the announcement.”
Cardi’s next album will be her first since her sensational, record-breaking 2018 debut, Invasion Of Privacy. Whenever it arrives, Cardi will likely prove why her forthcoming sophomore LP was among Uproxx’s “Most Anticipated Albums Of 2024.”
For now, watch the “Like What (Freestyle)” video above.
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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