Cardi B’s online rants have made her a viral sensation. Although the “Bongos” rapper promised to take a break from social media, she came to Will Smith’s aid last week after some online gossip. She returned today, Sunday, November 19, because she had something else to get off her chest.
As a Bronx, New York native, Cardi was furious to learn about New York City’s recent proposed budget cuts. In an Instagram livestream, Cardi expressed anger about the pullbacks from the area’s public libraries, local schools, and more. She wasn’t afraid to tie President Joe Biden and New York City’s mayor Eric Adams into the fold.
“I’m an angry b*tch right now… I need y’all to spread this video, and if something happens to me, it’s because I’m speaking the truth,” said Cardi. “In New York, there is a $120 million budget cut that’s going to affect schools, public libraries, and the police department. And a $5 million budget cut in sanitation. B*tch, we are gonna be drowning in f**king rats.
“I’m lucky. I’m blessed,” she added. “I’m whatever the f*ck, but what’s going to happen to my nieces? What’s going to happen to nephews? What’s going to happen to my cousins, aunts, and my friends.”
Cardi has spoken out on several social issues, including inflation’s impact on the cost of groceries. She even lent her likeness to President Biden for his election campaign, but apparently, that is something we will no longer do moving forward.
“I don’t give a f*ck, I’m not endorsing any presidents no more,” Cardi said. “How is that $120 million budget cut in New York City for schools, libraries, police safety, and sanitation, yet Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars.”
Watch Cardi B’s full live stream below.
Cardi B goes off on the US government about the $120 Million Dollar budget cut in New York that’ll effect Schools, Libraries, The Police Department, & Sanitation while funding wars. pic.twitter.com/WwCrbFbvGS
If you bought a pair of pants on sale and later realized there was a hole in a less-than-desirable place, you wouldn’t consider that much of a bargain, right? The same goes for alcohol. You wouldn’t buy a bottle of bottom-shelf, hangover-inducing, harsh-tasting rum for less than the price of a three-cheese burrito and consider it a “deal.”
Who cares how cheap trash is? What’s the right price for swill?
When it comes to bargain bottles of rum (or any spirit for that matter), we aren’t in the “it’s all good as long as it’s cheap” lane. We’re talking about value-per-dollar — reasonably priced expressions that are complex, flavorful, and well-made. And to find these balanced, sometimes even award-winning rums, we often turn to the professionals behind the bar for guidance.
We asked a few of our favorite bartenders to tell us the best bargain rums under $30 that are truly worth buying. Keep scrolling to see all of their sugarcane-centric choices.
Flor de Caña 4 Añejo Oro
Flor de Caña
Alex Fitzgerald, beverage director at Paseo in Louisville
Flor de Caña 4 Añejo Oro is a great aged rum for a very affordable price. This is especially great if you want to pair it with coffee in an espresso martini. The rum stands up to mixed ingredients and expresses its smooth character in cocktails.
Tasting Notes:
It has a lovely demerara sweetness, the spice notes I look for in a sipping and cocktailing rum, and it doesn’t break the bank.
I recommend Brugal Extra Viejo Rum for an affordable sipping or mixing option. Brugal Extra Viejo is blended using the distillery’s older reserves, aged white American oak casks that previously held bourbon.
Tasting Notes:
It has notes of wood, spice, orange, and vanilla, offering a full flavor profile and balanced finish at the end of each sip, and can also be appreciated in a mixed drink.
Ten To One Caribbean White Rum
Ten To One
Tsuru Goto, food and beverage manager at Society Cafe in New York City
I love Ten To One Caribbean White Rum. It might seem like a lesser-known sleeper pick but it has won enough awards that it really should be more highly regarded. First of all, it is additive-free. You should definitely use this rum to make a classic daiquiri. It’s delicious.
Tasting Notes:
It is really easy to work with, given its inviting nose, complexity, that touch of sweetness, and some really nice tight flavors that make it taste great alone or paired with anything you want to mix a cocktail with.
Appleton Estate Signature Blend
Appleton Estate
Hunter Douglas, bar lead at L’Ardente in Washington, DC
Appleton Estate Signature Blend is a great rum to have on hand at all times. It can be served on the rocks and works well in both spirit-forward cocktails like an old fashioned or in something refreshing, like a daiquiri.
Tasting Notes:
For the price, it’s surprisingly complex. Notes of maple and nuttiness bring depth of flavor to either style of cocktail.
A great bargain rum for sipping is any of Plantation Single Origin rums. Each one is a beautiful representation of distillation methods used in each country and is all finished in French Oak to help round out any aggressive flavors. The one I really enjoy is Plantation Xaymaca Special Dry Rum. It was created to pay homage to the traditional pot still Jamaican rums of the 1800s.
Tasting Notes:
This award-winning rum has a nice floral, fruity rum with a ton of coconut, pineapple, vanilla, and gentle island spices.
Bacardi Reserva Ocho
Bacardi
Josue Mancero, beverage director and bar manager at Jook Sing in Chicago
My favorite bargain rum is Bacardi Reserva Ocho, which comes right around under $30, and it’s perfect for shaking daiquiris, drinking neat, or even an old-fashioned. It’s balanced and well-rounded.
Tasting Notes:
Flavors of ripe banana, dried fruits, vanilla beans, caramel, and rich oak make for an exceptional bargain rum.
Plantation 3 Stars White Rum. Made with rums from Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados, it’s crafted at the same high level as their whole estimable line. This is even though it’s a bargain-priced white rum
Tasting Notes:
Given that it’s blended by a master cognac maker, it’s well worth sipping as well as mixing. The delicate grassiness and fresh citrus distinguish the blend.
$30 is a bit of an in-between spot for rum. Once you get into the mid-thirties you can really get some incredible rums. In the budget category, there are a few rums that represent a very good value. A very versatile option is Foursquare Probitas which is a blend of aged Foursquare Rum from Barbados and full-bodied Pot Still Rum from the Hampden Estate distillery in Jamaica. It is aged, but charcoal-filtered which makes for what some consider a white rum.
Tasting Notes:
It has more flavor and depth than the typical white rums you find in the budget category, so it makes great sour cocktails like Daiquiris. There are flavors of banana, vanilla, and a pleasant note of oak.
Havana Club Añejo Clasico
Havana Club
Wilmer Reyes, USBG bartender at Raines Law Room in New York City
Havana Club Añejo has those great properties in a rum that make you want to sip it or stir it into a stiff cocktail. It has enough body to stand on its own, but it can also be mixed with some sherry or an amaro to make something truly complex.
Tasting Notes:
For the price, you’d have a hard time finding a more complex, easy-drinking rum. Notes of candied almonds, vanilla beans, molasses, oak, floral flavor, and light spices make for a truly enjoyable rum.
Who doesn’t love Aardman? Since the 1970s the animation studio has been delighting audiences with their (mostly) claymation creations. They’ve given us Wallace and Gromit,Chicken Run (including a belated, Mel Gibson-less sequel), Shaun the Sheep, and parts of Peter Gabriel’s mind-blowing video for “Sledgehammer.” And now, alas, they’re in a pickle.
Per The Telegraph, Newclay Products, the company that has long provided Aardman with a special clay, called Newplast, has gone out of business. Perhaps that doesn’t seem like a big deal, but the clay Aardman has been using for eons helps give the films their special look. News of the company’s closing came as such a shock to Aardman that they bought up whatever Newplast they had left. Now they only have enough clay for one more movie, namely the Wallace and Gromit movie slated for next year.
When that film comes out, it will already be missing one key component: Peter Sallis, the voice of cheese-loving crackpot inventor Wallace since the first short, A Grand Day Out. Sallis passed away in 2017. His last stint as the beloved character was in the 2009 short A Matter of Loaf and Death.
Could Aardman find a new clay company? Almost certainly. Will it be the same? Maybe not. But for now, there’s always the forthcoming Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, which hits Netflix on December 15. You can watch the trailer below.
Not only is Sexyy Redexpectiing a second child, she’s also at work on a new release. On November 17, the“No Panties” rapper took to her official social media pages to announce that after fans begged her for an extended version of her Hood Hottest Princess project, she would finally give in.
So, when does Sexyy Red’s Hood Hottest Princess Deluxe come out? Sadly, that’s not yet known. In the rapper’s upload to Instagram, she left her followers with the responsibility of choosing a release date. “When y’all want it ,” asked Sexyy Red. She then added, “Tag an artist u wanna see on thurr I’m finishing it rn .”
Sexyy Red hasn’t confirmed when the deluxe album expected to hit streaming services, but it’s already received support from her past collaborator, Drake, who liked her social media post.
With Sexyy Red’s friend and fellow rapper Nicki Minaj’s album Pink Friday 2, slated to drop on December 8, fans hope she’ll follow suit soon after. Since she’s expecting her second child, it would be the perfect maternity leave send-off. Also, depending on when she gives birth, she could send fans into a spiral if she’s announced as an opener for Nicki Minaj’s 2024 tour run.
In 1997, ecologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs approached an orange juice company in Costa Rica with an off-the-wall idea.
In exchange for donating a portion of unspoiled, forested land to the Área de Conservación Guanacaste — a nature preserve in the country’s northwest — the park would allow the company to dump its discarded orange peels and pulp, free of charge, in a heavily grazed, largely deforested area nearby.
One year later, one thousand trucks poured into the national park, offloading over 12,000 metric tons of sticky, mealy, orange compost onto the worn-out plot.
The site was left untouched and largely unexamined for over a decade. A sign was placed to ensure future researchers could locate and study it.
16 years later, Janzen dispatched graduate student Timothy Treuer to look for the site where the food waste was dumped.
Treuer initially set out to locate the large placard that marked the plot — and failed.
“It’s a huge sign, bright yellow lettering. We should have been able to see it,” Treuer says. After wandering around for half an hour with no luck, he consulted Janzen, who gave him more detailed instructions on how to find the plot.
When he returned a week later and confirmed he was in the right place, Treuer was floored. Compared to the adjacent barren former pastureland, the site of the food waste deposit was “like night and day.”
“It was just hard to believe that the only difference between the two areas was a bunch of orange peels. They look like completely different ecosystems,” he explains.
The area was so thick with vegetation he still could not find the sign.
Treuer and a team of researchers from Princeton University studied the site over the course of the following three years.
The ecologists measured various qualities of the site against an area of former pastureland immediately across the access road used to dump the orange peels two decades prior. Compared to the adjacent plot, which was dominated by a single species of tree, the site of the orange peel deposit featured two dozen species of vegetation, most thriving.
In addition to greater biodiversity, richer soil, and a better-developed canopy, researchers discovered a tayra (a dog-sized weasel) and a giant fig tree three feet in diameter, on the plot.
“You could have had 20 people climbing in that tree at once and it would have supported the weight no problem,” says Jon Choi, co-author of the paper, who conducted much of the soil analysis. “That thing was massive.”
Recent evidence suggests that secondary tropical forests — those that grow after the original inhabitants are torn down — are essential to helping slow climate change.
Meanwhile, much of the world is awash in nutrient-rich food waste. In the United States, up to half of all produce in the United States is discarded. Most currently ends up in landfills.
“We don’t want companies to go out there will-nilly just dumping their waste all over the place, but if it’s scientifically driven and restorationists are involved in addition to companies, this is something I think has really high potential,” Treuer says.
The next step, he believes, is to examine whether other ecosystems — dry forests, cloud forests, tropical savannas — react the same way to similar deposits.
Two years after his initial survey, Treuer returned to once again try to locate the sign marking the site.
Since his first scouting mission in 2013, Treuer had visited the plot more than 15 times. Choi had visited more than 50. Neither had spotted the original sign.
In 2015, when Treuer, with the help of the paper’s senior author, David Wilcove, and Princeton Professor Rob Pringle, finally found it under a thicket of vines, the scope of the area’s transformation became truly clear.
“It’s a big honking sign,” Choi emphasizes.
19 years of waiting with crossed fingers had buried it, thanks to two scientists, a flash of inspiration, and the rind of an unassuming fruit.
The Giants and Commanders weren’t expected to produce one of the more exciting halves of football in the early window, as New York’s offense has been dreadful of late with Tommy DeVito under center and the Sam Howell-led Washington offense hasn’t exactly been dynamic.
However, DeVito had his best half of his young career with a pair of touchdown passes to put the Giants up 14-3 before Howell battered his way into the end zone on a tough run that saw him get rocked at the end by a big hit as he kept fighting for the goal line (despite having already broken the plane.
After that hit, Howell stayed down and a number of his Washington teammates came in to take offense at the big hit he took, as a brawl broke out on the sideline.
Things are getting chippy in the Giants-Commanders game
Both teams lost a player in the scuffle, as Commanders WR Curtis Samuel and Giants DB Cor’Dale Flott were each tossed as they threw hands at each other during the ordeal.
Giants CB Cor’Dale Flott and Commanders WR Curtis Samuel have been ejected after the skirmish on the sideline.
Howell would return for the Commanders next drive, but was clearly still feeling the effects of that hit as he left the field for the locker room at halftime (after taking another hit on a sack to end their final drive of the half). How he handles hits in the second half will be something to watch, as will whether his ability to throw the ball is impacted by anything he’s dealing with, but for now the Commanders are within five thanks to his efforts on this run.
Last week, organizers forLollapalooza unveiled next year’s lineups for Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Now, the roster for India has been revealed, with Uproxx cover stars Jonas Brothers, Halsey, and Sting set to headline.
On January 27 and 28, 2024, the musicians will take over the Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai for the multi-day event. Other notable acts on the lineup include OneRepublic, Keane, Lauv, Jungle, Royal Blood, Jpegmafia, Meduza, Malaa, Caribou, Anoushka Shankar, and Parvaaz. View the full lineup below.
Lollapalooza India is one of the newest installments of the festival. In a statement shared with Business Standard, founder, Perry Farrell spoke about the decision to bring the show to India. “The music of India is transcendental, and it draws our spirits East. Lollapalooza is an instrument for unity, peace, and education, utilizing the universal languages of music and art to find common ground,” said Farrell. :You may be excited, and we are equally as excited.”
Lollapalooza India 2024 will be held at the Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai. The event will take place on January 27 and 28, 2024. Tickets for the general public are on sale now. Find more information here.
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Martin Scorsese may be notorious among comic book movie fans, but he’s relatively diplomatic. He’s not, say, Ridley Scott, who straight up said those films’ scripts aren’t “any f*cking good.” The Gladiator filmmaker has other blunt assessments where that came from. He’s already said told critics of his latest epic, Napoleon, to “get a life.” He’s even meaner to those critics who happen to be French.
In a new profile by the BBC, Scott addresses some of the reviews he’s been getting in the nation over which Napoleon Bonaparte once ruled. Unlike the notices elsewhere, which have been strong, even arguing that it’s best read as a comedy, the French have described it as a “deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally funny.” Napoleon biographer Patrice Gueniffey slammed it, calling it a “very anti-French and very pro-British” rewrite of history.
Scott predictably had a withering response to his Gallic critics. “The French don’t even like themselves,” Scott replied. “The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.”
Perhaps Napoleon haters simply didn’t enjoy the short-ish cut that’s hitting theaters. As of now, the film runs two hours and 38 minutes — exactly as long as his last feature, the Jared Leto vehicle House of Gucci. That may seem short for a movie about the famously diminutive emperor, but don’t worry: There’s a good chance you’ll one day be able to see a longer cut Scott swears is “fantastic.”
Jimmy Johnson oversaw the best stretch of Dallas Cowboys football since the 1970s, as he won back-to-back Super Bowl titles in 1993 and 1994, leaving shortly after that 1994 Super Bowl title after a dispute with owner Jerry Jones.
In the 30 years since, Jones and Johnson have feuded, with the Cowboys owner refusing to put Johnson in the team’s Ring of Honor despite being at the helm for two of the franchise’s five championships. In recent years the two have patched up their relationship and Jones told Johnson at the Hall of Fame Game ahead of his induction in 2021 that he would be going in the Ring of Honor. However, two years had gone by without that day coming and there was some wonder whether it would actually come to fruition.
Finally, on Sunday morning, Jones told Johnson the news in person, live on FOX NFL Sunday, that he was going to be inducted into the Ring of Honor on December 30 when the Cowboys host the Lions in primetime — with a pretty funny misstep saying he’d be going in in 1923, not 2023.
It’s a long overdue honor for Johnson, but it’s nice to see the two longtime friends back to being friendly and Jones finally putting the Hall of Fame coach into the Ring of Honor.
The 2023 Latin Grammys were a star-studded night filled with some of the biggest names in reggaeton, salsa, cumbia, and more. Although the ceremony is all about the year’s new releases, “When We Were Young (The Logical Song)” musician David Guetta took a moment to announce something special.
While walking the red carpet, Guetta and his partner Jessica Ledon revealed they are expecting their first child together. This isn’t newfound territory for Guetta. He’s already a proud father to two children (son Tim Elvis and daughter Angie), whom he shares with ex-wife Cathy Lobé.
The couple took to their official social media pages to echo the announcement. “We have a big news for you!!! Most important release of the year ,” wrote Guetta on X (formerly Twitter) with a picture from the ceremony.
The couple has been together since 2015. Since then, they’ve attended several notable events, including the 2023 Grammy Awards, BRITS 2022, and the 2019 Billboard Music Awards.
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