While most of the big decisions the Chicago Bulls need to make this offseason revolve around the futures of their three big name players, one player who was slated to hit the restricted free agency market and would therefore test how badly Chicago wanted to keep him around was Coby White. The No. 7 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft out of the University of North Carolina, White has spent his entire NBA career with the Bulls, but has largely been a bench guard whose calling card is offense over the years. On Friday evening, reporting emerged from both ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania that White will return to Chicago on a three-year deal.

The disparity in reported compensation could relate to incentives, though it is consistent that White’s deal is for three years and at least an $11 million annual value. Entering free agency, it was unclear what White’s market was going to look like, and if an opposing team would put an offer in front of him that the Bulls would need to match. As Friday’s start of the league year arrived, there were increasing rumblings White was going to return to Chicago on a new deal.

White saw his time and production take a step back during the 2022-23 season, as the former lottery pick averaged 9.7 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 2.8 assists in 23.4 minutes per game. He largely came off the bench for Chicago, with only two of his 74 appearances coming as a member of the starting lineup, and he shot 44.3 percent from the field and 37.2 percent from three on 4.6 attempts per game.

Kyle Kuzma entered free agency after declining his player option in Washington and proceeded to watch as the Wizards began a complete teardown, trading Bradley Beal and Kristaps Porzingis to clear the slate for the future.

Kuzma, who averaged 21.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game last season, had initially been expected to consider a return to Washington on a long-term deal, but with their change of course to a rebuild, he figured to take at least a look at his other options. There figured to be few forwards on the market better capable of providing a secondary scoring punch for a team in need of that than Kuzma, and with plenty of the teams with open cap space looking to take a step forward next season as well as sign-and-trade possibilities to contenders, there were a number of potential destinations.

However, as free agency approached a number of potential destinations used their cap space up in trades, and Kuzma ended up circling back to the Wizards who re-signed the forward to a 4-year, $102 million deal.

It’s a strong contract for Kuzma, who cashes in on another solid season in Washington and gives the Wizards a veteran presence. He will now slot in alongside Jordan Poole as the expected scoring leaders in Washington, and could become a trade asset down the line should Washington’s rebuild call for it.

Summer is finally here. Get ready for cloudless days for the foreseeable future. And there’s no reason to think about anything beyond that. Fall is far off. It’s time to crack a frosty brew or two.

Specifically, a “summer beer”.

Summer beers aren’t a specific style, per se. Open a can from one brewery and another from a different spot and there’s a good chance they won’t even resemble each other.
The term can be traced back to 1984, when Anchor Brewing in San Francisco released its light, crisp, easy-drinking Anchor Summer Beer. This wheat beer led the way for all the summer beers to come for the next forty years — though more and more, “summer” just means “light-ish” or “fruity-ish” or… you get the idea.

Keep scrolling to see eight of our favorite summer beers ranked based on quality and seasonal flavor — just in time for the 4th of July.

8) Shipyard Summer Ale

ABV: 5.1%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Brewed with 2-Row British Pale Ale, Munich, and malted wheat, this summery wheat ale gets its hop presence from the use of Saphir and Willamette hops. The result is a crisp, refreshing, crushable wheat beer perfect for hot summer days.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is fairly light with some orange peel, lemon, and wheat. Not much more discernable. For a wheat ale, this beer is surprisingly crisp and drinkable. There’s more citrus, wheat, and some light hop flavor. It’s all fairly muted though.

Bottom Line:

This is a crushable summer beer. It’s not going to knock you out in the flavor department. But is that really the point?

7) Samuel Adams Summer Ale

ABV: 5.3%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

The Beer:

There are few summer beers more well-known than Samuel Adams Summer Ale. This “citrus wheat ale” is brewed with malted wheat, orange, lemon, and lime peel. This refreshing, thirst-quenching beer gets its unique, lightly spicy flavor from the use of Grains of Paradise.

Tasting Notes:

On the nose, you’ll find aromas of sweet wheat, lemon, orange peel, and lightly floral hops. The palate continues this trend. There’s more lemon flavor as well as wheat, sweet malts, floral hops, and gentle spices that permeate throughout. Overall, it’s kind of watery though.

Bottom Line:

This is a gently spicy, citrus-filled beer well-suited for the summer heat. No flavor’s going to get you really excited though.

6) Brooklyn Summer Ale

ABV: 5%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

While many summer beers are wheat beers, Brooklyn’s Summer Ale is a “sunny pale ale”. Available from March until August, it’s known for its pilsner malts and light, floral hops. It’s crisp, sessionable, and well-suited for warm-weather drinking.

Tasting Notes:

This beer’s nose is classic pilsner through and through. It’s highlighted by sweet malts, cereal grains, and floral, grassy, lightly piney hops. Drinking it reveals pilsner malts, citrus peels, and floral, grassy hops. It’s crisp, refreshing, and very light.

Bottom Line:

This is a no-frills summery pilsner for a hot, sunny day. It ticks all the pilsner boxes but doesn’t really overwhelm.

5) 21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon

ABV: 4.9%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This wildly popular summer seasonal wheat beer is available from April through September. It begins as a traditional wheat beer. What sets it apart from other summery wheat beers is the addition of fresh watermelons. The result is a sweet, crisp, summery wheat beer with just a hint of watermelon flavor.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is exactly what you’d expect it to be and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There’s a ton of watermelon aroma as well as bready malts and sweet wheat. Sipping it brings forth more watermelon, wheat, and cracker-like malts. There’s not much else noticeable, but those flavors are enough for a sweet, summery wheat beer.

Bottom Line:

Fruited beers aren’t for everyone. This wheat beer, however, is fairly light on the watermelon flavor. It’s more balanced than most fruited beers.

4) Sierra Nevada Summerfest

ABV: 5%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Another beer that changes the notion of what a summer beer is, Sierra Nevada Summerfest isn’t a wheat beer. It’s a light, summery lager. Available from April through July, this sessionable pilsner is known for its crisp flavor, floral hops, and light citrus.

Tasting Notes:

Pilsner malts, citrus zest, cereal grains, and floral, lightly spicy hops make for a very promising nose. The palate is very similar in the best way possible. There are notes of freshly cut grass, floral hops, pilsner malts, and lemon peels. The finish is lightly bitter, crisp, and dry.

Bottom Line:

On the surface, this is a fairly simple summer lager. But after closer inspection, it’s highly flavorful and well-balanced.

3) Victory Summer Love

ABV: 5.2%

Average Price: $11 for a six-pack

The Beer:

If we learned anything from the movie ‘Grease’ it’s that “summer loving” is the best kind. We don’t know why Victory named its seasonal staple Summer Love, but we know we can’t get enough of this golden ale brewed with Pilsner and Carapils malts as well as Tettnang and Simcoe hops.

Tasting Notes:

A lot is going on with this beer’s nose. The first noticeable scent is of floral, earthy noble hops. This is followed by orange peels, sweet malts, and just a touch of resinous pine. The palate adds to this. There are a ton of herbal, grassy hops as well as pilsner malts, lemon peel, and a final flourish of dank, piney, gently bitter hops.

Bottom Line:

Summer Love is all about balance. This beer is labeled as a “golden ale” but it has all the characteristics of an easy-drinking summery pilsner.

2) Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale

ABV: 4.9%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

The Beer:

There are few, more refreshing summery beers on the market than Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale. This session beer is a mixture of a Kolsch, a Gose, and a Berliner Weiss. To add to that, it was brewed with sea salt, sour lime juice, and black limes.

Tasting Notes:

The nose smells very acidic with lime peels, spices, and sea brine. It’s a really unique nose that leads to an equally interesting palate. Sipping it reveals a ton of tart lime, sweet wheat, and light malts. There’s also an enveloping saltiness throughout that brings everything together nicely. Sweet, citrus, salt. It’s hard to beat as a summer refresher.

Bottom Line:

This is a very aptly named beer. It’s a salty, tart thirst quencher that tastes like it magically came from the ocean even though obviously came from a brewery.

1) Allagash White

ABV: 5.2%

Average Price: $10 for a four-pack

The Beer:

It might not technically be called a “summer beer”, but in the pantheon of easy-to-find summer beers, it’s tough to beat the appeal of Allagash White. This Belgian-style wheat beer is brewed with raw wheat, malted wheat, and oats. It gets its spicy flavor from the addition of orange peel and coriander.

Tasting Notes:

Complex aromas of candied orange peels, sweet wheat, bready malts, and coriander make for a very welcoming nose. The palate is more of the same. Yeast, wheat, caramel malts, coriander, and orange peel are prevalent. It’s lightly tart and hoppy at the very end.

Bottom Line:

This unfiltered, yeasty wheat beer is filled with all the flavors of summer. Orange peel and coriander only add to the appeal. “Summer in a can” sums it up neatly.

The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug, and more.

It’s an odd week; as the unofficial “true” beginning of summer, it’s the perfect time to kick off the returns of some of the biggest names in music after a strangely dry first half of 2023. But there’s also somewhat of a dearth of new material overall. In the wake of the BET Awards, there were notable releases from the likes of Young Thug, who a rejiggered, not-quite-deluxe edition of his new album Business Is Business with a new track featuring Juice WRLD and Nicki Minaj, and Jay Rock, who popped back up after a five-year hiatus with “Eastside.”

But aside from a new single from Flo Milli (“Anything Flows“), a freestyle from Omeretta The Great (over Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor“), and a new Luh Tyler song (“Brand New Blues“), all the attention seems focused on Lil Uzi Vert’s return (and Juvenile’s Tiny Desk Concert, which lived up to its hype).

Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending June 30, 2023.

Albums/EPs/Mixtapes

The Alchemist — Flying High

The California producer has quietly become one of the most consistent and prolific names in hip-hop, well over 20 years into his career. Flying High is a short project — five tracks — pairing some of the more iconoclastic names in underground rap today, including Boldy James, Earl Sweatshirt, Jay Worthy, and MIKE.

Curren$y & Harry Fraud — Vices

Every time Curren$y and Harry Fraud team up, it’s always a good time. A great thing about their pairing is that they never try to push boundaries; they know what the people want and serve it up the same way every time, like a rap version of In-N-Out burgers. Simple, but it hits the spot, and it’s hard to find a better comparison for the same price.

Kota The Friend — Protea

For his second full-length project of the year, Kota takes a big step to the left — and then another one back to the right, encouraging us to join him in an exuberant two-step, shaking off those blues for some melodic, jazz-influenced grown folks dancefloor music. I love the fun direction hip-hop has leaned this summer, and if anyone else wants to jump on the trend, I’m all for it.

Le$ — Bigger In Texas

Another laid-back lifestyle rap fave with a money sign in his moniker, Le$ has a lot in common with Curren$y (a frequent collaborator). For this outing, though, L-E-Dolla keeps things close to home, with twangy, organ-rich production and a guestlist primarily consisting of fellow Lone Star locals like Bun B, Killa Kyleon, Paul Wall, and Slim Thug.

Lil Uzi Vert — Pink Tape

After only a handful of setbacks this time, the increasingly consistent Lil Uzi Vert offers up 26 songs of boundary-stretching, genre-twisting new material. While it opens with a relatively straightforward rap anthem, it quickly spins off in any number of dizzying directions, incorporating metal, EDM, video game music, and even wrestling themes. “Uzi, you’re never going to change,” says a voice on the intro. That’s because he’s already so many things at once.

Veeze — Ganger

A member of Michigan’s bubbling underground scene, Veeze has generated a lot of excitement among those on the cutting edge of rap fandom with his burbling production and slippery way with words. Get past his allergy to engineering (not a single track is mixed the same as the others) and there are enough gems to justify the buzz.

Singles/Videos

42 Dugg — “One Time”

Like his fellow incarcerated artist Young Thug, 42 Dugg isn’t letting his enforced staycation deter him from dropping new music. From the opening strings and ringing bells, Dugg sounds as hungry as ever, warning foes to watch out for his shooters and denouncing tattletales.

Bobby Sessions — “idGaf”

The radical Texas rapper switches up his style, choosing to focus on more personal concerns than the sociopolitical material that defined much of his past material. “idGaf” is more club-friendly than Bobby’s usual fare, but that’s not a bad thing. Sometimes, you have to relate to the audience before you can rile them up.

Chika — “Truth Or Dare” Feat. Freddie Gibbs

Chika dips another toe back into the pool before diving into the rollout for her debut album and her latest single shows she’s been maintaining her pen game in her time outside the spotlight. She continues to be ambivalent about fame but gets some support from Freddie Gibbs, someone who knows exactly where she’s been and how to take the next step.

Wiz Khalifa — “You” Feat. Ty Dolla Sign

A new song not found on Wiz’s recently released See Ya mixtape, “You” is the second single this month to conspicuously sample Cameo’s “Candy” after YG and Tyga’s “West Coast Weekend” and you know what? I’m not mad about it at all. Again, the summer months are the perfect time to put out all the upbeat, enjoyable, not-shooting-niggas music that rap needs more of, so I’m all for it. Consider the two songs companion pieces — some DJ out there is going to mix them and the combination of Blxst and Ty will make the crowd achieve liftoff.

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There aren’t a lot of surprises in the TV Critics Association Awards nominations, and they’ll almost certainly be mirrored by the Emmys. Prestige shows that would have been water cooler TV back when there were water coolers dominated the list, including Succession, The Bear, The Last Of Us, and familiar favorites like Abbott Elementary and The Good Fight.

“The 2023 nominees for the TCA Awards boast an eclectic lineup from across the entertainment spectrum,” said Melanie McFarland, TCA president and TV critic for Salon.com. “This season truly had something for everyone — from innovative comedies and gripping dramas, to immersive documentaries and refreshingly cerebral storytelling set in a galaxy far, far away. I am eager to see which stars and series our members have chosen to honor when the winners are revealed.”

So, not a ton of surprises, but it’s great to see some great shows get some love. There are also two new categories, each focused on children’s and essentially YA programming, and there’s a distinct possibility that Jury Duty might win for both Comedy and Reality, which will be the best of all possible worlds.

But saying that The Rehearsal is reality is just trolling.

Here’s the full list of TCA Awards nominees:

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Christine Baranski, The Good Fight – Paramount+
Kieran Culkin, Succession – HBO | Max
Dominique Fishback, Swarm – Prime Video
Betty Gilpin, Mrs. Davis – Peacock
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us – HBO | Max
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us – HBO | Max
Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul – AMC
Sarah Snook, Succession – HBO | Max
Jeremy Strong, Succession – HBO | Max

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary – ABC
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear – FX
Harrison Ford – Shrinking – Apple TV+
Bill Hader, Barry – HBO | Max
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary – ABC
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face – Peacock
James Marsden, Jury Duty – Amazon Freevee
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear – FX

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS AND INFORMATION
30 for 30 – ESPN
Free Chol Soo Lee – PBS
Frontline – PBS
Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? – Netflix
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence – Hulu
Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi – Hulu
The 1619 Project – Hulu
The U.S. and the Holocaust – PBS

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN REALITY
Couples Therapy – Showtime
Jury Duty – Amazon Freevee
RuPaul’s Drag Race – MTV
The Rehearsal – HBO | Max
The Traitors – Peacock
Top Chef – Bravo
Vanderpump Rules – Bravo
Welcome to Wrexham – FX

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING
Alma’s Way – PBS KIDS
Bluey – Disney+
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood – PBS KIDS
Donkey Hodie – PBS KIDS
Eva the Owlet – Apple TV+
Molly of Denali – PBS KIDS
Ridley Jones – Netflix
Sesame Street – HBO | Max
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures – Disney Junior/Disney+

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN FAMILY PROGRAMMING
American Born Chinese – Disney+
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series – Disney+
Jane – Apple TV+
Love, Victor – Hulu
Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Disney Channel
Ms. Marvel – Disney+
Never Have I Ever – Netflix
Star Trek: Prodigy – Paramount+
The Mysterious Benedict Society – Disney+

OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM
Andor – Disney+
Interview with the Vampire – AMC
Jury Duty – Amazon Freevee
Mrs. Davis – Peacock
Poker Face – Peacock
Shrinking – Apple TV+
The Bear – FX
The Last of Us – HBO | Max

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES, MINISERIES OR SPECIALS
A Small Light – National Geographic
Beef – Netflix
Black Bird – Apple TV+
Daisy Jones & The Six – Prime Video
Fleishman is in Trouble – FX
Mrs. Davis – Peacock
The Patient – FX
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – The Roku Channel

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Andor – Disney+
Better Call Saul – AMC
Interview with the Vampire – AMC
Succession – HBO | MAX
The Good Fight – Paramount+
The Last of Us – HBO | Max
The White Lotus – HBO | Max
Yellowjackets – Showtime

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
Abbott Elementary – ABC
Barry – HBO | Max
Poker Face – Peacock
Reservation Dogs – FX
Shrinking – Apple TV+
The Bear – FX
The Other Two – HBO | Max
What We Do in the Shadows – FX

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VARIETY, TALK OR SKETCH
The Amber Ruffin Show – Peacock
A Black Lady Sketch Show – HBO | Max
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson – Netflix
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – HBO | Max
Late Night with Seth Meyers – NBC
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – CBS
Saturday Night Live – NBC
Ziwe – Showtime

PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
Abbott Elementary – ABC
Andor – Disney+
Better Call Saul – AMC
Poker Face – Peacock
Succession – HBO | Max
The Bear – FX
The Last of Us – HBO | Max
The Other Two – HBO | Max
The White Lotus – HBO | Max

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Coming hot on the heels of her show-stealing appearance at the BET Awards, St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red makes another bid for the song of the summer with the unfiltered video for “Looking For The H*es (Ain’t My Fault)” video. As suggested by the song’s title, the chorus borrows the famed call and response from Silkk The Shocker’s 1998 single “It Ain’t My Fault.” There are no limits in the video either (heh) as Red and her girls twerk, shake, and pop for the camera at a house party.

“Looking For The H*es” appears on Sexyy Red’s debut mixtape Hood Hottest Princess alongside her breakout hits “Born By The River” and “Pound Town 2” featuring Nicki Minaj. The tape, released by Heavy On It and Open Shift Distribution, also features ATL Jacob, Juicy J, Sukihana, and Tay Keith.

In the wake of the tape’s release, Red has already begun to experience the highs and lows of fame. She was recently added to the lineup of the Days Of Summer Cruise Festival — undoubtedly a “high” — but also found herself cutting off a performance after fans threw objects on stage. But, as she says in the song, that ain’t her fault. For the time being, she seems comfortable continuing to be herself — exactly the thing that got her here in the first place.

Watch Sexyy Red’s “Looking For The H*es (Ain’t My Fault)” video above.

People feel very strongly about their condiments. No matter what condiment there is someone either loves it or hates it but one of the biggest debates on the food toppers is how to store them. Yeah, that might sound a bit strange because everyone knows open condiments are stored in the pantry, unless its hot sauce, right? Whoa, calm down. I’m only kidding. I don’t make the rules Heinz does, apparently.

They do make the condiments so it would be assumed that we would look to them to know how to store the products they make. But the people of Twitter are daring to argue with Heinz after the condiment giant posted a controversial tweet that declared ketchup does in fact belong in the fridge. This bold tweet is dividing the internet.

“Heinz don’t even know where their product should be stored,” one person declared. While another claimed, “Never, ever has it gone in my fridge, nor anybody else’s.” Who’s going to tell these people to read the back of the bottle?

It wasn’t Heinz but some hero came with receipts in the form of a photo of the back of a Heinz ketchup bottle that clearly reads, “refrigerate after opening.” You would think this would end the debate but people are very invested in being right about the way they store their condiments with wide ranging arguments.

People made points about cold ketchup making their food cold and restaurants keeping ketchup on the tables. While others argued that it tastes better cold but if you thought Heinz was done antagonizing the internet, you’d be mistaken. They responded to several comments with sassy humor while still asserting the tomato based condiment belongs in the refrigerator.

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Someone named Dave asked, “so why is it on the shelves in supermarkets & shops then?” To which Heinz replied, “Where do you keep your soft drinks, Dave?”

I mean, Heinz does have a valid point. Most soft drinks are kept on the shelf in the grocery store but you wouldn’t catch many people drinking a warm can of Coke. But that logic didn’t stop team ketchup belongs in cabinets. A person named Mike responded to the thread with his thoughts on Heinz bringing soft drinks into the conversation.

“I’m not pouring my soft drinks on hot food. Cold ketchup nullifies hot food which some of us like better than cold food. Get your preservative cookbook out and make the stuff safe to keep in the cupboard.”

Where do you keep yours? It has to be… in the fridge!

— Heinz (@HeinzUK) June 28, 2023

In an attempt to either continue to antagonize the internet or quell the chaos (it’s hard to tell which), Heinz created a poll asking where ketchup belongs. Currently the Fridge has the cupboard beat by a pretty decent lead but with as heated as this debate has been, there may be room for team cupboard to catch up. Even if they’re wrong. There’s no right and wrong in where to store your ketchup as long as you don’t read the label.

Maybe you’re someone who likes to keep a bottle in their sock drawer for emergency late night snacks, who knows. Tell us, where do you keep your ketchup?

Look, it happens to the best of us. We see a celebrity that we love out and about in the wild. Our excitement takes hold, and we rush up to our icons hoping they might deliver a bit of that same joy we experience from them on the screen. For a moment, the lines blur between fantasy and reality, and we forget that we are dealing with an actual human being, rather than a character.

Well known celebrities deal with this kind of social interaction all the time, whether they want it or not. And many times, they have to resort to expressing frustration in order to set a boundary. It doesn’t take a very long internet search to find public figures losing their cool at a fan who couldn’t pick up a hint.

That’s why people are praising John Cena for the way he respectfully handled a fan who might have overstepped a bit. Once a Peacemaker, always a Peacemaker it seems.

The clip posted to TikTok shows Cena sitting at an outside table at a restaurant. We overhear a voice behind the camera ask the pro wrestler to recite his infamous “You can’t see me,” catchphrase used during his WWE days.

With a calm smile, Cena replied “How about I enjoy some time with my friends?” The person then apologized and Cena gave a polite nod before the video cut.

@alex99rocks my friend met john cena and decided to be a cornball🤣 @Arya ♬ original sound – alex

The video quickly racked up over 400,000 views on TikTok, with many, if not most viewers commending Cena for being a “polite boundary setter.”

Perhaps it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Despite his “tough guy” brand, Cena has proven himself to be one of the nicest guys in Hollywood. Really, more than just nice. From helping refugee families to making a record-breaking amount of Make-A-Wish appearances, the dude has shown genuine kindness.

We might not be celebrities, but we all need to establish boundaries in one way or another. Setting those boundaries doesn’t necessarily have to be a fight though. Sometimes it can be as simple as a courteous “not right now.”

A retired merchant navy engineer in England has found a treasure that would have made his country’s most popular folk hero proud. Graham Harrison, a 64-year-old metal detector enthusiast, discovered a gold signet ring that once belonged to the Sheriff of Nottingham.

The discovery was made on a farm in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, 26.9 miles from Sherwood Forest. The forest is known worldwide for being the mythological home of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. A central road that traversed the forest was notorious in Medieval times for being an easy place for bandits to rob travelers going to and from London.

Today, the forest is a designated National Nature Reserve. It contains ancient oaks that date back thousands of years, making it an important conservation area.

“It was the first big dig after lockdown on a glorious day. We were searching two fields. Other detectorists kept finding hammered coins but I’d found nothing,” Harrison said according to the Daily Mail. “Then I suddenly got a signal. I dug up a clod of earth but couldn’t see anything. I kept breaking up the clod and, on the last break, a gold ring was shining at me. I broke out into a gold dance.”

Gold Ring that Belonged to Real Sheriff of Nottingham.nnRead more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/sheriff-nottingham-0016568u00a0u2026pic.twitter.com/K7rhf2E62O

— Ancient Origins (@Ancient Origins)
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Harrison sent the ring to the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme to have it authenticated. After doing some research they found that it was once owned by Sir Matthew Jenison, who was the Sheriff of Nottingham between 1683 and 1684.

The first accounts of Robin Hood, then known as Robyn Hode, first appear in the 12th century, a few hundred years before Sir Matthew served as sheriff.

But there’s no doubt that the archer and leader of Merry Men would have been delighted to know that an everyday guy came into possession of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s ring.

Sir Matthew was knighted in 1683 and acted as a commissioner to examine decaying trees in Sherwood Forest. He was later elected to Parliament in 1701. However, a series of lawsuits over shady land dealings would eventually be his ruin and he’d die in prison in 1734.

The gold signet ring bears the coat of arms of the Jenison family, who were known for getting rich off a treasure trove of valuables left for safekeeping during the English Civil War. The valuables were never claimed, so the Jenisons took them for themselves.

Harrison decided that he would sell the ring to someone who appreciates its importance.

“There can’t be many people who’ve found anything like that. I’m only selling it because it’s been stuck in a drawer,” Harrison said. “I hope it will go to someone who will appreciate its historical value.” It was sold at auction by Hansons Auctions for £8,500 ($11,115).

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— Hansons (@Hansons)
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WOW! The final moments as the Sheriff of#Nottingham ring goes under the hammer… @HansonHistorica @HansonsAuctionsn@[email protected]/NLssFdaksL

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Let’s hope that the man who sold the ring does what Robin Hood would have done with a piece of jewelry that adorned the hand of a nobleman whose family came into money by taking other people’s loot. Surely, he’d take the proceeds from the auction and give them to the poor.

This article originally appeared on 04.06.22

These days, we could all use something to smile about, and few things do a better job at it than watching actor Christopher Walken dance.

A few years back, some genius at HuffPo Entertainment put together a clip featuring Walken dancing in 50 of his films, and it was taken down. But it re-emerged in 2014 and the world has been a better place for it.

Walken became famous as a serious actor after his breakout roles in “Annie Hall” (1977) and “The Deer Hunter” (1978) so people were pretty shocked in 1981 when he tap-danced in Steve Martin’s “Pennies from Heaven.”

But Walken actually started his career in entertainment as a dancer. He took his first dance lessons at the age of three. “It was very typical for people—and I mean working-class people—to send their kids to dancing school,” he told Interview Magazine. “You’d learn ballet, tap, acrobatics, usually you’d even learn to sing a song,” he later explained to Interview magazine.

As a child, he also studied tap dance and toured in musicals. He even danced with a young Liza Minelli. “I’d been around dancers my whole life, having watched my parents make musicals at MGM, and Chris reminded me of so many of the dancers I knew growing up,” Minelli said according to Entertainment Weekly. “He’s talented in every way.”

Craig Zadan, Executive Producer of “Peter Pan Live!,” agrees with Minelli. “I think that if he had been around in the heyday of MGM, he would have been a big star of musicals on film,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

His dance moves were put center stage in 2001 in Spike Jonze’s video for Fatboy Slim’s song “Weapon of Choice.” Walken says he did it because one day he’ll be too old to cut a rug. “You think, ‘Well, do it now!’ You know, you get too decrepit to dance,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

This article originally appeared on 02.15.22