Taylor Swift jokingly sings about karma being her boyfriend, but protection is more fitting. The “Castles Crumbling” singer invites fans into her world through her music, yet that wasn’t enough for one supporter. According to TMZ, the musician’s security team heroically intercepted a fan as they attempted to enter Swift’s Rhode Island home.
In court documents retrieved by the outlet, the alleged perpetrator is 54-year-old Kimberly Meyer. After Meyer breached the property’s grounds, she was apprehended by security and asked to leave. However, it is being reported that Meyer refused, which led to the guards calling the local authorities.
Once police arrived on the scene, Meyer was arrested and later charged with one misdemeanor count of trespassing. Although Meyer is no longer in police custody, she is expected to appear in court on July 14.
While Swift is currently traveling around the world thanks to record-breaking The Eras Tour, sources told the publication that the singer had recently stayed at the house during the Independence Day holiday weekend. However, they could not confirm if Swift was present at the time of the incident.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time the entertainer has dealt with an over-jealous Swiftie. In fact, last month, one man was arrested for the same charge as well as intimidation, invasion of privacy, and harassment.
Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. If you’re a fan of classic sneaker silhouettes in the most coveted internet-breaking colorways … this, unfortunately, is not your week. It’s also not your week if you like a lot of variety. We’re just coming off a holiday weekend, so things are incredibly slow in the sneaker world right now. But the big brands are sneaking in a few gems this week before the summer season heats up again.
All of that said, if you’re all about the future of footwear, this week definitely delivers. Adidas is dropping a pair of sustainable sneakers by way of the brand’s latest collaboration with Sean Wotherspoon and the Adidas NMD-1, while also reaching into the vault and giving a forgotten classic skate shoe some shine. Elsewhere, Puma dropped its latest sneaker in the LaMelo Ball lineage, and Converse teams up with A-Cold-Wall for an ultra-sleek and futuristic take on the classic Chuck 70.
It’s a short week, but a strong one. So let’s dive into this week’s best footwear!
If last year was the Jordan 2 Renaissance, this year belongs to Penny Hardaway. Nike has been showing love to the Air Penny series of sneakers, and this week Penny’s Air Foamposite One gets a nice shiny facelift.
Featuring a metallic red upper with black contrast points, an icy outsole, and Penny’s signature logo, the Metallic Red Foamposite One is one of the sleekest sneakers to drop all summer. Best of all, this sneaker drops in a full-size run.
The Nike Air Foamposite One Metallic Red is out now for a retail price of $240. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Earthy, skate-ready, and cushioned, what’s not to love? The early 2000’s Adidas Adimatic is back, and it looks better than ever. Featuring a clay-inspired colorway, the Adimatic sports a zigzag midsole, wide-style three-stripes, a leather upper, textile lining, and rides atop a rubber outsole.
It’s made to take a beating while still offering control on your board. Not a skater? Even better, this sneaker looks great no matter where you take it and will last longer if you’re not beating up your pair trying to land that kickflip.
The Adidas Adimatic Wonder Clay is out now for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair at Adidas.
Of the big sneaker brands, Adidas is dominating the sustainable sneaker market. The NMD S1 is another sneaker made with sustainability in mind with its yarn upper made from 50% Parley Ocean Plastic and 50% recycled polyester, with textile lining, BOOST midsole, and a sock-like fit for ultimate comfort.
The sneaker drops in two dope stealthy colorways, Cloud White and Grey Two.
The Adidas NMD S1 is out now for a retail price of $220. Pick up a pair at the Adidas webstore.
The corduroy king is back! Okay, at this point we can probably stop calling Sean Wotherspoon that considering he hasn’t made a corduroy sneaker in years, but who else could lay claim to such a title? Wotherspoon’s latest with Adidas, the Orketro, is made with sustainability in mind.
The textile upper is raw and undyed with a lightweight build, Adiprene cushioning, and a mix of 50% natural and renewable materials in an effort to not add to the insane amount of plastic waste in the ocean.
The Adidas Sean Wotherspoon Orketro is set to drop on July 7th at 8:00 AM PST for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.
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Puma x LaMelo Ball MB02 Fade Queen City
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Price: $130
LaMelo Ball’s second signature sneaker is here with a super dope vibrant summer-ready colorway. The sneaker features a NITRO-infused midsole made from nitrogen-injected foam for extra cushioning without all the weight, with a non-slip rubber outsole, and a mid boot rise with a mesh upper and LaMelo branding.
It’s a great addition to the LaMelo Ball lineage.
The Puma x LaMelo Ball MB02 Fade Queen City is set to drop on July 7th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair via the Puma webstore.
A-Cold-Wall is dropping a new Converse Chuck 70 collaboration with a super sleek vibe. Featuring a waxed canvas upper and translucent details throughout, giving the classic silhouette a shimmering patina effect that gives the sneaker a futuristic edge despite its iconic shape.
The sneaker is dropping alongside a matching apparel capsule that features long-sleeve polos, t-shirts, and shorts in matching colorways.
The Converse x A-Cold-Wall Chuck 70 is set to drop on July 6th. Pick up a pair exclusively at the A-Cold-Wall store. A wider release is set to hit the Converse webstore and Converse retailers next week.
Steve-O had a run-in with the law after leaping off a famous landmark to promote his upcoming comedy special. While filming in London, the Jackass star figured it’d be a great idea to deck himself in Union Jack gear, grab an umbrella, and leap off the Tower of London bridge after stirring up the crowd. The police, on the other hand, were not so thrilled.
According to TMZ, the cops were mostly concerned about Steve-O sparking wave of imitators, who might not be as skilled as the comedian at sticking the landing. Also, apparently, the water is gross as heck:
Steve-O says he spent a good portion of the afternoon in a police car and says cops told him their issue with his stunt is it might encourage others to make suicidal leaps from the famed bridge. In the end, Steve-O says police let him go, and, as far as he’s concerned, the craziest part wasn’t the jump … it’s the state of the Thames. Steve-O says the river was absolutely filthy.
Steve-O posted photos from the jump on Instagram, which you can see below:
Naturally, the Tower of London Bridge isn’t the only place where Steve-O risked his neck. He also illegally jumped from a double-decker bus, which he told TMZ was “much worse” than the bridge jump. Turns out, water is more forgiving than pavement. Who knew?
The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.
ITEM NUMBER ONE – Listen to me
There are a lot of things that are pretty cool about The Bear. It’s a good show. It gets a lot of things right about working in a kitchen, which I say as a person who spent one summer working in a kitchen at a bar/restaurant inside the stadium where the Phillies play. (Expert analysis.) The performances are great and everyone is very sweaty and the music choices really hit the nail right on the head in a pretty fun way. I’ll repeat it for the record: The Bear is a good show.
There’s another thing I really dig about it, though. I love that most — not all, but definitely most — of the show’s episodes clock in right around 30 minutes, even though it is — probably, if we want to be technical about it — more of a drama than a comedy. It always struck me as weird that we do things that way, with 30 minutes for the funny shows and 60 minutes for the serious ones. What if you have a serious story to tell that you can wrap up quickly? What if you have too many jokes to squeeze into a half-hour window? We all went and created these dumb rules for ourselves and then stuck with them for many decades. Humans are strange creatures, man.
It’s even weirder that we still kind of stick to it now that streaming has taken over the television world. I can see why it was more important when advertisers were paying for commercials between chunks of action and wanted to know just about where their spots were hitting, but those kinds of parameters barely exist now. Make an episode of your show 24 minutes. Make it 53. Make it, like, 94 minutes if you really think you have to, but please, be careful here. I’ve already shouted at the movie people about bloated runtimes. I have this rant chambered at all times. Please do not make me pull the trigger. We don’t want to get carried away with all this. To quote a wise(…ish) man…
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This is what The Bear gets right, though. It gets you in and out quickly, which works well for the show for a few reasons, the primary one being that the action is often pretty stressful — shouting, clanging, Richie always on the verge of calamity — and the shorter episodes cut the viewer loose before it goes from fun and frantic to nerve-frying chaos. I hope more shows learn from this. Or at least try it. Longer does not always mean better. There’s something to be said for an action movie that goes hard for 90 minutes and then cuts to the credits, too. Go watch Nobody again this weekend if you need a reminder.
My points here, summarized:
The Bear is a good show
Dramas can be lil half-hours, too
Not made of time over here, people
Thank you.
ITEM NUMBER TWO – Someone please give Margot Robbie a high-five
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The press tour for the new Barbie movie — which, as we have discussed, still has not been released in theaters despite feeling like it might have come out six months ago, which, as we have also discussed, is not so much a comment on the movie itself (it looks good and fun and weird) as it is the media and paparazzi fascination with it — continued this week. Specifically, for our purposes here, it continued with an interview with director Greta Gerwig over at Rolling Stone.
The interview is good and you should go read it. Greta Gerwig is a smart lady who makes me think about things from a slightly different angle than I had previously thought about them. That’s pretty cool. But it’s not the thing I want to talk about. The thing I want to talk about is this, from one of her answers.
How Barbie operates in Barbieland is she’s entirely continuous with her environment. Even the houses have no walls, because you never need to hide because there’s nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed of. And suddenly finding yourself in the real world and wishing you could hide, that’s the essence of being human. But when we were actually shooting on Venice Beach, with Margot and Ryan in neon rollerblading outfits, it was fascinating because it was actually happening in front of us. People would go by Ryan, high-five him, and say, “Awesome, Ryan, you look great!” And they wouldn’t actually say anything to Margot. They’d just look at her. It was just surreal. In that moment, she did feel self-conscious.
A couple of things are important to note here…
The first is, like, I kind of get why this happened. I think. It was probably a combination of a few things, starting with Margot Robbie feeling like a big fancy movie star that people are nervous around in a way they’re not as nervous around a fun goof like Ryan Gosling, continuing to her being in costume as Barbie on the Barbie movie and that maybe throwing people off a bit in the moment, and undoubtedly circling just the general thing in society where people treat men and women differently in ways that kind of stink sometimes. There are entire college degrees that focus on this. I’m not doing it justice in a single paragraph. But you get it, I hope.
This brings us to the second thing, though, which is a lot simpler: Maybe give Margot Robbie a high-five some time. Not all the time. Not if she looks busy or if she’s trying to eat dinner or anything. But if you see her — to choose a relevant example — out rollerblading and smiling and having a blast, maybe just hold your hand up in the universally-accepted high-five position as she zooms past you. Don’t be weird about it. Don’t yell or be creepy. Just offer Margot Robbie a high-five if she looks like a person who might be open to one.
Maybe a “hell yeah,” too.
Everybody loves getting a high-five and a “hell yeah.”
Lord knows I do.
I must stress again that you not be weird about it, though. That’s a very important part of this. Just be cool. Please. Just a quick high-five and on with your day/life.
ITEM NUMBER THREE – Tom Cruise will not rest until he has mangled his entire body in support of the movie theater experience
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Tom Cruise is a maniac. You know this. We all know this. The man has been heaving his body off of and into and through things on movie sets for something like 40 years now. He’s been doing it in the Mission: Impossible movies alone for something like 30 years. That’s barely an exaggeration. The first one — the one where he was dangling from the wires, the one that was somehow directed by Brian de Palma — came out in 1996. He’s still out here quite literally tossing himself off of mountains in 2023. Again, a maniac.
“Harrison Ford is a legend; I hope to be still going. I’ve got 20 years to catch up with him,” Cruise said. “I hope to keep making ‘Mission: Impossible’ films until I’m his age.”
See, the thing here is that you’re tempted to chuckle at the idea of an 80-year-old Tom Cruise… oh, I don’t know… let’s say jumping out of a flaming helicopter and onto a passing speedboat (the speedboat is also on fire). But think about it this way: Harrison Ford is still doing Indiana Jones things — pretty well! — at age 80. And Tom just drove a motorcycle off of a mountain at age 61. Let’s go ahead and file this one under “possible, if not probable.”
There is one place where Tom will never catch up to Harrison, though. Tom Cruise could never pull off something this cool.
Honestly, though, I don’t think any of us could. Let’s not give Tom too hard of a time about this one. He might take it as a challenge and try to commit so hard to being cool that it finally becomes the thing that kills him after decades of tossing his body willy-nilly into danger.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Important mustache news
This is the trailer for an upcoming movie titled Corner Office. It stars Jon Hamm as a man who works in who I am kidding look at Jon Hamm’s mustache in this sucker.
LOOK AT IT
LOOK AT JON HAMM’S MUSTACHE
LIONSGATE
HAMM MUSTACHE
HAM MUSTACHE
MUSTACHE MADE OF HAM
HAMMSTACHE
MUSTHAMM
THAT ONE DOESN’T WORK AS WELL
BUT STILL
The official position of The Rundown remains as follows: It is deeply cool that Jon Hamm played the most serious man who ever lived on Mad Men and since then has mostly played weirdos and goofballs and Fletch and sometimes guys with bushy mustaches. Good for Jon Hamm, man.
But especially good for his mustache.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Well, here’s a fun little brain exercise
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Background, quickly…
There’s a podcast called 50 MPH that focuses entirely on the movie Speed, which is just kind of an awesome thing in general. On the last episode, host Kris Tapley talked to a former Paramount executive named Don Granger, who revealed that back when things for the movie were getting all gummed-up in pre-production, he actually pitched it as a Beverly Hills Cop sequel, just to try to get it made.
“I really wanted to try to mount the movie, and my last-ditch effort was … I pitched it at our chairman’s lunch as a possible script for ‘Beverly Hills Cop III,’” Granger said. “I got about 15 minutes of traction before it was dismissed, because that was back when the mandate was to find a ‘Beverly Hill Cop III.’ So I was like, ‘Let’s put Axel Foley on the bus.’ It was a Hail Mary, man.”
The primary takeaway here is that Hollywood is a fascinating and perplexing place. But there’s a second takeaway that I want everyone to focus on for a minute, too. This potential Eddie-Keanu swaperoo, the one that would have put Axel Foley on a speeding city bus, opens the door to a hypothetical situation where the two actors switch careers entirely.
Eddie in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Keanu in Trading Places
Eddie in Point Break
Keanu in The Nutty Professor
Eddie in John Wick
Keanu in Dreamgirls
And so on. Some of these don’t really work — Keanu in Coming to America leaps out here — but it’s still a fun little ride to go on anyway. My gift to you.
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From Joe:
I know you have a regional bias on this one, but where do you rank “Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson throwing out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game and the team’s Twitter account leaning into the ITYSL of it all” on the “Chase Utley throws out the first pitch to Rob McElhenney from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia after years of discussing it on the show” scale? I feel like it has to be pretty high.
Oh, buddy. Oh, it is really high. It would’ve been high even if it was just the two of them throwing out the pitches, too, if only because they’ve represented the city so proudly for years now. (WATCH DETROITERS. IT IS SO GOOD AND FUN. I AM TYPING IN ALL-CAPS BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT AND TRUE BUT ALSO BECAUSE I AM STILL MAD IT ONLY LASTED TWO SEASONS. COME ON.) But then, as you mentioned, the team’s official Twitter account got in on the fun. Look at this.
That’s just really excellent work all around. For those of us who are in on the joke, at least. It’s pretty funny to think about some like 65-year-old guy who just wants to watch a baseball game and doesn’t understand why a bunch of 33-year-old fans are shouting obscenities at a person named Bart Harley Jarvis who doesn’t even appear to be a player on the other team. I enjoy that.
Still behind Mac and Utley, though. For me. You are correct that my bias is showing here. Might have helped if they had the Phanatic there.
Hundreds of collectible plastic cups designed by Dallas rapper Post Malone were apparently stolen last week from a Galleria-area Raising Cane’s restaurant, according to photos of a police report posted to social media.
Well, this is about to be the only this I care about for a while.
The report shows that 249 limited-edition cups were taken from the fast food restaurant’s location inside the Galleria, with an estimated value of $6,150. Thieves also stole cleaning supplies, including nearly four gallons of Dawn dish soap.
See, your first instinct here is to assume that this is the work of amateurs. Just some goofs who broke in and ran off with whatever they could find. Cups, soap, anything they could carry. Real smash and grab operation.
But.
Think about this.
What if they stole the dish soap so they could wash all the stolen cups before they sold them off on the black market?
What if they’re just responsible and hygienic and thorough, like a real professional operation?
Makes you think.
There are four different cup designs, meant to be released one at a time in two-week cycles. The first drop began on June 21, just a day before the theft took place. The next drop starts on July 6. A quick scan of eBay shows the first cup design reselling for between $15 and $30.
I choose to believe these cups are being sold with “WASHED AND CLEANED BEFORE SHIPPING” in the description field and I will absolutely not under any circumstances go do any research to ruin this for myself.
Lil Uzi Vert has announced the dates for their upcoming Pink Tape Tour supporting the album of the same name. Kicking off on Saturday, October 21 in Minneapolis, the tour will consist of 17 dates, concluding in the rapper’s hometown, Philadelphia, on Wednesday, November 22. It’ll be Uzi’s first official tour since 2018’s Endless Summer Tour.
Tickets will go on sale beginning today at 2 PM local time on Ticketmaster.com. Although Uzi’s openers have not been announced yet, you can bet that they’ll reveal them in due course. Meanwhile, fans already have plenty of new Uzi music to look forward to; the fashion-forward rapper has already teased a follow-up to Pink Tape in the form of LUV Is Rage 3.
Check out the upcoming tour dates below.
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10/21/2023 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
10/23/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
10/24/2023 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
10/25/2023 — Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
10/31/2023 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
11/02/2023 — Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
11/03/2023 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
11/05/2023 — Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing Company
11/06/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy
11/08/2023 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
11/09/2023 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
11/10/2023 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
11/13/2023 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
11/16/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Kia Forum
11/18/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11/20/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
11/22/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
Lil Uzi Vert is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Lately, I’ve been starting conversations with complete strangers by launching this pop culture missile. Why aren’t you watching Silo?
When the group chat grows bored of Titanic submersible conspiracies, I resurface it. Why aren’t you watching Silo?
When my parents tell me the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced they’ve added 528,000 jobs this month before asking if I’ve gotten a real one yet. Why aren’t you watching Silo?
There are variations of the question, new methods of interrogation. Have you watched Silo yet?Are you caught up on Silo?What episode of Silo are you on? But they’re all uttered with a kind of dismayed disappointment that the Apple TV+ project isn’t the sci-fi series on everyone’s lips at the moment.
An adaptation of Hugh Howey’s singular work of fiction, the Rebecca Ferguson starring vehicle takes a familiar concept – life after the end of the world – and makes it novel once more. It’s a show that understands Dystopia Fatigue is real, that post-apocalyptic suffering has lost the strange, exotic luster that made it so appealing just a decade ago – before societal collapse, government overreach, and global disasters were so tangible, so immediate, and so pedestrian. It skirts genre traps by confining its characters in a claustrophobic setting and tasking them with not just surviving, but solving murder mysteries and larger conspiracies that keep them … well, siloed – from each other and from the outside world. *whispersWhy aren’t you watching Silo?
Set hundreds of years in the future, the show’s basic premise centers on a collection of around 10,000 people – the last remnants of humanity – living below the earth’s crust in a kind of inverted skyscraper, a yawning 144-level structure buried deep beneath the surface. When the series begins, few know how they came to be in the silo or why they commemorate a failed rebellion every year but most have memorized The Pact, a set of rules for peaceful cohabitation, and all understand that expressing interest in going “outside” is a death sentence that can’t be reversed. We see proof of that early on as characters you’d expect would have major roles throughout the season end up choking on the toxic dust that makes the planet’s topside uninhabitable by the end of episode one. Characters like Allison (Rashida Jones), the sheriff’s wife who, in her struggle to get pregnant, uncovers proof that the ominous, unknowable authority controlling the silo has been gaslighting citizens in order to keep the unfit from procreating and the ungovernable from questioning too much. She’s both – a rebellious and curious mind whose frenzied search for the truth ends with an act seen as suicidal by her friends and her husband (played by David Oyelowo). Allison chooses to “clean” — a term that alludes to a person’s final act once freed from the underground bunker in which they wipe the structure’s aboveground sensors so that those within the silo can clearly see the thing they should fear — and her self-assured act thrusts the entire ecosystem of the silo into chaos. Her husband follows her years later, lasting long enough to investigate the possible murder of a man Allison trusted with the truth before she did him and allying himself with a brilliant, disaffected mechanic named Juliette (Ferguson) who serves as the true protagonist of this story.
That this all happens over the course of the show’s first episode is yet another mark in the sci-fi experiment’s favor. Silo quickly establishes its stakes by unceremoniously dropping us into the lives of people like Allison and Sheriff Holston, allowing us to experience their pain, confusion, and grief, to come to care for them, before abruptly ending their journeys. We understand the drama is heightened, the risks are real, because we’ve seen the consequences of dissidence and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, firsthand. It makes meeting Juliette in the Down Deep — a place miles below the cushy, relatively comfortable living quarters these doomed characters enjoy where mechanical engineers responsible for keeping the silo running live in grime and grim lighting – more nerve-wracking. She’s our hero (of sorts) but she’s not infallible or protected by plot armor. We’ve learned that lesson too well.
Why aren’t you watching Silo?
The show delights in taking its time, squeezing every bit of tension from hour-long episodes that feed us key story details, murder clues, and character-fleshing flashbacks at an almost glacial pace. There’s action in-between – the series’ third episode focuses solely on Juliette’s seemingly impossible task of fixing a broken turbine responsible for powering the silo. As all 144 floors are enveloped in darkness, she fights to fix the machine’s bent parts in a thrilling race against the clock that feels destined to end in someone’s demise – probably her own.
But even dizzying foot races down the silo’s central staircase – the main “highway” connecting its many levels – and shadowy standoffs that end in bloodshed and still bodies can’t compete with the twists and turns the show’s driving narrative delivers. Silo can take its time, burning its plot slow and steady, because it knows where it’s going and, more importantly, it knows its audience doesn’t. When you think you’ve cracked a character’s intent and endgame, the show springs a new villain, a new catalyst, or a new path that’s been unassumingly lurking at its fringes.
As Juliette, Ferguson shoulders much of the burden in guiding us through this maze of treachery and intrigue. She’s an outsider to the Up Top and, like us, she’s learning to navigate its complex, unstated hierarchy as she hides her true motives for accepting the position as sheriff once Holston dies. As she seeks to solve one mystery, dozens more are unearthed to replace it, and Ferguson must tie those threads together by making us care to keep up. She does – deftly balancing the physical demands of playing detective in a cavernous, insulated colony where one wrong step plummets you miles closer to the earth’s core with the emotional gravitas needed to make Juliette’s mission one we can root for.
Ferguson’s always been too underrated for my liking but she owns her moment here, playing a more interesting, nuanced version of the “strong female character” stereotype we’ve come to expect from the genre. Cast additions like Common as a judicial enforcer, Tim Robbins as a suspicious IT head, Harriet Walter as a reluctantly maternal recluse, and Chinaza Uche as a by-the-book deputy that both foils and aids Juliette’s quest, add to the story in confusing, impressive, unexpected, and surprising ways (in that order). They exist in their own orbits, hiding life-changing secrets, pulling societal strings, battling past demons, and deciphering their own moral codes as Juliette’s presence challenges their status quo. And when riddles are solved, investigations closed, Silo pivots focus once more, proving moments we thought were monumental and plot details we assumed had been dissected to their bones, were simply smaller threads in a larger tapestry.
The show recently wrapped its first season, posing even more questions as it set about expanding its world. Juliette’s forced exile and shocking discovery, the threat of rebellion in the Down Deep, the notion that humanity might not be as close to extinction as first believed — these are all building blocks for a second season that’s already in production and appears to be following the template from Howey’s beloved books. So, despite some crafty cliffhangers, it’s likely fans will be gifted answers, possibly even resolutions, to the mysteries surrounding this self-contained world in the future. For now, our only job is to enjoy watching the show place its pieces on the board as we puzzle over potential moves and countermoves – a dystopian game of chess that feels revolutionary given what’s left on TV at the moment.
In a new interview with The Guardian, Ice Spice elaborated on her friendship with Swift. “I was like: ‘You f*ck with my project? Like, what?’” she said. “She’s so sweet — I was so obsessed with how humble she was and willing to work. She gives me so much advice — we talk all the time and she’s so funny… But I can’t say what she be telling me.”
Swift also discussed their friendship back in May. “Collaborating with Ice Spice on ‘Karma’ was one of the most natural things,” she said. “She reached out through her team just kind of saying, ‘Hey, you know, Ice has been a big fan of Taylor since she was a little kid. We’d love to collaborate if that was ever something that came about.’ And I had been listening to her nonstop like getting ready for my tour I was just listening to Ice Spice constantly.
She continued, “So I immediately got her number and said, ‘Hey, would you want to do your version of ‘Karma’? Do you relate to this? And so she jumped in headfirst and getting to know her has been so special because I’m blown away by her. She is — in my opinion — she is the one to watch. Just watching her work ethic and how thoughtfully she approaches her career — she’s like my new favorite artist and I’m so honored that she’s on the song. So, yeah, what a joy!”
PartyNextDoor heard that 2023 was the musical year of comebacks. So he’s deciding to give fans what they’ve been begging for — new music. The singer has broken quite a few hearts in the past, but on his new single “Resentment,” he acknowledged that it’s no fun when roles are reversed.
The self-produced track marks the entertainer’s official follow-up to his song “Her Old Friends,” shared in January. On this release, PartyNextDoor turned inward to examine his role in the relationship’s demise instead of blaming others for his failed attempt at a forever love.
As he sings, “Thinking about getting even, but I ain’t even aspire to get that low / I just want to know what we’re waiting for, baby
I won’t keep bringing up the past, I won’t keep trying to run it back / I won’t keep standing for it / What be going through your mind, staying out past 5 / And you know you’re going to get checked for it,” the singer confessed how his nonassertion eroded the health of the relationship.
While his 2020 EP Partypack, didn’t have much staying power, his forthcoming album PartyNextDoor 4 is shaping up to deliver a lasting punch.
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In the video for his new song “Merch Madness,” Lil Baby has some fun with the title’s sports-related concept by teaming up with a squad of athletes to show off his philanthropic side. Filmed at a youth event where NBA players like Chris Paul and Joel Embiid gave away gear backed by Fanatics, Lil Baby roams the halls of The Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, New York, and hangs out with the kids as they enjoy their new sports equipment.
Other cameos in the video include Baby’s fellow rappers Meek Mill and Quavo, NFL legends Eli Manning and Tom Brady, and Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin. The Merch Madness event, which took place on June 27, reportedly gave away over 300,000 licensed pieces to approximately 100,000 underserved youth in 100 locations across the US. In the song, Lil Baby highlights the endeavor, rapping on the chorus:
Merch madness, I done took it global
Jump back in my bag, did this one for the culture
Ain’t too good to give, my cup been runnin’ over
Made these millions for the kids, I gotta turn it over
One of the more surprising names that lost a job during ESPN’s latest round of layoffs was Jeff Van Gundy. After spending a decade-plus in the booth for the company as part of its top NBA broadcasting team, Van Gundy saw his time with the company come to an end on June 30, leaving questions about whether someone will replace him alongside Mike Breen and Mark Jackson.
It’s unclear what is next for Van Gundy, but according to Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated, he has the itch to coach once again. In the aftermath of his time with the Worldwide Leader coming to an end, Mannix reports he’s been in talks with NBA teams about returning to the bench as an assistant.
Jeff Van Gundy, a cost-cutting casualty at ESPN last week, has been actively exploring a return to coaching, sources tell Sports Illustrated. Van Gundy, who last coached in the NBA in 2007, has been discussing assistant coaching jobs with several teams. Dallas and Boston discussed roles with Van Gundy before beefing up their coaching staffs. There’s some mutual interest in Washington, where the Wizards have room on Wes Unseld Jr.’s staff. Van Gundy, who won 57.5% of his games as a head coach in New York and Houston, won 52 games in his last season with the Rockets.
Van Gundy spent some time as an assistant in New York before taking over the team’s head coaching role in 1995. Despite his tenure with the Rockets coming to an end in 2007, he did return to the bench in 2017 as the head coach of the United States men’s national team for the FIBA AmeriCup. After winning a gold medal with that group, Van Gundy stayed on as the coach during qualifying for the 2019 FIBA World Cup.
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