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Vanderpump Rules is starting Season 11 on January 30 of next year, and there is a ton to unpack. Last season ended with the explosive cheating scandal between Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix, and Rachel Leviss, which caused tension and division between the cast. Because of this, there are some lineup changes for who viewers will see on their screen when it starts airing.

Here’s an official cast guide for what to know for Season 11.

As expected, the show’s titular character, Lisa Vanderpump, will still be a key player as she watches over her staff at Sur — and guides them through the drama.

DJ James Kennedy seems to have the least drama level, as his arc finds him continuing his relationship with Ally Lewber and playing his regular shows.

Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz‘s story for this season revolves around them dating different people after their divorce. Things get messy though when they both become interested in the same woman.

According to Bravo’s description, Lala Kent will find “an unlikely connection with Tom Schwartz, forming a friendship that neither saw coming, but creating tension between her and the rest of the girls as her forgiveness for the Toms grows.”

Scheana Shay and her husband, Brock Davies, are experiencing some relationship trouble that will surface this season.

Although he is not included in Bravo’s official cast guide, Jax Taylor is also set to return to the show, at least for a little. The season trailer saw him having a conversation with Vanderpump.

Finally, Madix and Sandoval will both be returning this season. However, Leviss has left the show and did not film for Season 11.

Over the last few weeks, streaming giant Spotify has been a trending topic, but it hasn’t all been positive chatter; The company’s latest round of layoffs was accompanied by news of artists like Snoop Dogg and “Weird” Al calling them out over its payout rates

However, users flooding their social media timelines with the Wrapped results have somewhat helped offset the negative remarks. The platform is focusing on user excitement by rolling out yet another feature: AI playlists.

What is Spotify’s AI playlist feature?

Similar to the AI DJ function, which rolled out in February, the AI playlist feature allows users to generate a collection of songs using prompts.

Spotify has several curated playlists based on genre, artists, decade, release date, charting history, and even modes. However, the AI playlist feature allows users to think far beyond what already exists. According to TechCrunch, users must select the AI chatbot to get started to access the add-on. Users can let their imagination fly once the box takes over the screen. Prompt ideas mentioned presented by the outlet as an example were “get focused at work with instrumental electronica,” “fill in the silence with background café music,” “get pumped up with fun, upbeat, and positive songs,” and “explore a niche genre like Witch House.”

The feature has not yet gotten a wide release, and it’s not clear when (or if) it will. A spokesperson told TechCrunch, “We routinely conduct a number of tests. Some of those tests end up paving the path for our broader experience and others serve only as an important learning. We don’t have anything further to share at this time.”

Vanderpump Rules is starting Season 11 on January 30 of next year, and there is a ton to unpack. Last season ended with the explosive cheating scandal between Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix, and Rachel Leviss, which caused tension and division between the cast. Because of this, there are some lineup changes for who viewers will see on their screen when it starts airing.

Here’s an official cast guide for what to know for Season 11.

As expected, the show’s titular character, Lisa Vanderpump, will still be a key player as she watches over her staff at Sur — and guides them through the drama.

DJ James Kennedy seems to have the least drama level, as his arc finds him continuing his relationship with Ally Lewber and playing his regular shows.

Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz‘s story for this season revolves around them dating different people after their divorce. Things get messy though when they both become interested in the same woman.

According to Bravo’s description, Lala Kent will find “an unlikely connection with Tom Schwartz, forming a friendship that neither saw coming, but creating tension between her and the rest of the girls as her forgiveness for the Toms grows.”

Scheana Shay and her husband, Brock Davies, are experiencing some relationship trouble that will surface this season.

Although he is not included in Bravo’s official cast guide, Jax Taylor is also set to return to the show, at least for a little. The season trailer saw him having a conversation with Vanderpump.

Finally, Madix and Sandoval will both be returning this season. However, Leviss has left the show and did not film for Season 11.

The Renaissance World Tour was one of the biggest events of the year — alongside you-know-who’s concurrent tour — and created so many moments, we’ve decided to recap some of the best.

Beyoncé Trolls Her Fans Over “The Visuals”

Ever since the release of the album, Beyoncé’s fans have pestered her for “the visuals.” It’s a function of the singer’s own productivity; thanks to her last two albums, Beyoncé and Lemonade, dropping with a slew of music videos attached, her fans have become accustomed to the idea that she’ll always do so. However, during the tour, she hit them with a reminder that “a queen moves at her own pace.”

Blue Ivy’s First Performance

Beyoncé may be one of the biggest stars on the planet, but it seems even she can be upstaged. The 11-year-old Blue Ivy stole the show the first time she popped out onstage, to run through the choreography behind her mom. And while there was some criticism of her performance, she worked hard and every time she returned to the stage, her improvement was more than evident.

Beyoncé Pays Tribute To Tina Turner

The world lost a legend this spring in Tina Turner. Her impact has left fingerprints on the artistry of generations of singers — including, of course, Beyoncé. So it was no surprise when she paid tribute to Turner’s legacy shortly after her death. But it was a surprise that she selected an underrated song from Turner’s catalog to do so. Where many might have expected Beyoncé to flip her wig to “Proud Mary,” she instead delivered a stirring rendition of “River Deep — Mountain High.”

Washington DC Wins The “Errbody On Mute” Challenge

As the tour wound its way across the United States, a pattern emerged. During Bey’s performance of “Energy,” when she sings “look around, errbody on mute,” the crowd joins in a quick game of “quiet coyote.” After Beyoncé’s stop at FedEx Field in Landover, she declared the DMV area fans the “eerbody on mute war winner.” Of course, this might have just been a thing she did every night on the tour, because she later crowned Atlanta with several weeks remaining on the route.

Beyoncé Fans Buy Out Every Silver Garment In The Country

Okay, so that header is a little dramatic — BUT, while it may lack total accuracy, it feels true in spirit. After Beyoncé asked fans to turn up to the last handful of shows decked out like disco balls, they responded in force, driving up Etsy shop sales 200% and giving this writer one hell of a weekend walking around LA as my girlfriend tried to find an outfit.

A Literal Baby Was Born During The Show

Hairspray actress Sarah Francis Jones got a unique souvenir from the tour stop in Inglewood: a new addition to her family. She wasn’t about to let a little thing like pregnancy stop her from seeing Beyoncé, but during the concert, it seems the unborn wanted a better view of the show. The baby popped out a little later but Jones certainly has one hell of a party story now.

So Many Special Guests

Not only did Kendrick Lamar and Diana Ross join Beyoncé on her birthday show, but the singer also got to perform her and Megan Thee Stallion’s massive smash “Savage” in front their hometown Houston crowd with the Hot Girl Coach herself.

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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.