Netflix has unveiled their teaser trailer for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, and my goodness, they aren’t messing around. The John Cho-starring take on the ridiculously beloved, cult-classic anime couldn’t be more visually striking. These few minutes absolutely nail the the spirit of the source material; and there’s such an action-focused, aesthetic punch that it’s actually difficult to behold during the traditional early-morning trailer-release hours. Sensory overload, man. In other words, they’ve nailed it. Bounty hunting never looked so stylish.
If you’re not even an anime fan but adore the ultra-stylized feel of, say, Scott Pilgrim or Sin City, you’ll like what you see here. And even the most casual Quentin Tarantino fan will also enjoy how this teaser — actually a standalone adventure-episode (which won’t appear in the series) called The Lost Session — looks and feels. The saturated colors and the shooting angles and the dialogue, it’s all a perfect manifestation and a means to take viewers on a ride. That ride will leave you feeling like you’re barely clinging to the back of this vehicle while it careens down the street, all while Spike Spiegel (Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) solidly kick some ass while dodging death and chasing bounties.
Here’s the official series synopsis:
COWBOY BEBOP is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them.
Do you like bold bourbon? Look no further than Sazerac, which has put out one of the boldest bourbons of the year — A. Smith Bowman Cask Strength Batch 1 release. The whiskey from Virginia is all about that ABV and clocks in at an eye-popping 70.55 percent or 141.1 proof. That’s well above absinthe’s average ABV of 65 percent.
This is so high-proof that it’s in its own category. This is what people in the know call a “Hazmat bourbon.”
Even if you’re only tangentially into bourbon, it’s likely you know what “high-proof” means. Very quickly, high-proof expressions are those bourbons that reach above bottled-in-bond’s 100 proof (or 50 percent ABV) towards 101, 110, 120, and even up to 139 proof. Generally, these are whiskeys that are purposefully cut with less water to achieve a higher-proof final product.
It’s important not to confuse high proof with “cask strength,” which is on the label of this expression. Cask strength (or barrel proof) spirits go into the bottle at the cask strength of either the single barrel or the batch of barrels vatted for the release. That doesn’t always mean they’re high proof, though. We’ve reviewed cask strength bourbons on this site that rang in at only 44.9 percent (89.8 proof). That’s well below even bottled-in-bond when it comes to ABV.
Then there are Hazmat bourbons. “Hazmat” is the term for whiskeys that ring in at 140 or more proof (or above 70 percent ABVs). Never heard of this before? It’s okay. We’re in super niche territory here and there are very few whiskeys that are released at this ABV range. That’s largely due to the fact that it’s illegal to fly with these bourbons because they’re too volatile. No, that’s not a joke.
For folks who are down to expand their palates by trying super-hot expressions, there’s definitely some allure in testing the Hazmat waters. Here’s our review of this particular launch, one of the highest ABV expressions on the bourbon market.
This release from Sazerac is all about the boldness of the Virginia spirit. The juice is from a few hand-selected ten-year-old barrels from Master Distiller Brian Prewitt from the lowest ricks in warehouses A and A1 at the A. Smith Bowman Distillery. The juice is vatted and then bottled as is, at what is clearly an extremely high cask strength.
Tasting Notes:
I’m not going to lie, the ethanol is absolutely there on the nose. But … it doesn’t overpower the deeply rooted flavors — starting with buttery pie crust that’s well toasted leading towards a few layers of toasted and honeyed pecans, dark Caro syrup-soaked brown sugar, and toasted off dark spice-filled streusel. The spice really leans into very woody cinnamon sticks, plenty of old leather pouches that held decades of tobacco, dry cedar bark ripped from the woodpile, and … the creamy vanilla base and toasted coconut from a coconut cream pie. That creamy mid-palate leads towards a very dry and charred finish that’s cut with bitter espresso oils and the darkest of chocolates that turns into a burnt caramel sweet/bitter heat that torches you down to your soul.
The Bottle:
These Bowman releases have a great, bespoke bottle. The stopper is a heavy-duty cork with a wooden top. The label is embossed, allowing the juice within to take center stage. This is one of those bottles that you can’t miss.
Bottom Line:
Look, this is hot. It’s a hazmat bourbon. So that’s the whole point. Does that heat overpower the tasting experience? Yes, it does. And for many inexperienced palates, it may completely derail it. But I still found a lot of nuance at play beyond the heat.
Ultimately, this is unique and full of flavor — all while being hot as hell. But don’t get it twisted, I did like it. Alas, I can’t see drinking this regularly outside of a very slow glass on a lot of slowly melting rocks, in a highball, or in a very big cocktail.
Ranking:
90/100 — For a bourbon with this much punch, it’s kind of amazing how nuanced it still is. I’m eager to mix up some Manhattans with the stuff!
In the hierarchy of seasons, fall just might be the best. The weather is cooler but not cold. There’s a nice crisp feel in the air and the smell of sodden leaves is everywhere. Foods feature sage and thyme, fall fruits, and hearty broths.
It’s also the season with the most diversity of beers — definitely a point in its favor.
Luckily, we have the help of alcohol experts to steer us in the right direction. We asked a group of well-known bartenders to tell us the beers that they think taste like fall in a can (or bottle). Check out all of their answers below.
Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar is a European-style brown ale that just screams fall. It’s all chocolate, hazelnut, and baking spice with a surprisingly clean quick finish that I could drink way too much of. Sweet, malty, and absolutely perfect for the season.
Bell’s Best Brown Ale
Bell
Eamon Ketchum, bartender at Barrel and Beam in Marquette, Michigan
As a lifetime Michigander, the beer that says fall to me — I pick up a case every time it comes out — is Best Brown Ale from Bell’s Brewery. I just cannot stand to pass up the opportunity to drink a bottle in the woods while the leaves fall to the ground and the air gets cold. It has a nutty aroma and soft dark brown color. It has notes of dark caramel and a slightly bitter backbone.
It drinks extremely smooth for a brown. Plus, it’s got a Great Horned Owl on the label.
One beer that tastes like fall in a bottle is Matilda by Goose Island. It has a beautiful golden color with a dry finish. It also has small hints of fruit that remind me of fall weather. This seven percent Belgian-style ale is crisp, slightly funky, refreshing, and perfect for an early fall day.
Paulaner Salvator
Paulaner
Nicole Fas, beverage director and bar manager at La Pícara in Santurce, Puerto Rico
Paulaner Salvator is my go-to. It’s my fall in a bottle. It has this little tingle of clove-spice. It’s strong, malty and its robust caramel maltiness gets me ready for the fall night outs. Its high ABV also packs enough punch to warm you up inside and out on a cooler fall evening.
Avery White Rascal tastes like fall in a can. It’s light and filled with flavors like wheat, banana, and citrus zest. Perfect fall flavors that work in unison to warm and refresh you. This type of nostalgia is best knocked back in a can.
High Water Campfire Stout
High Water
Sue Stia, bartender at TPC Jasna Polana in Princeton, New Jersey
High Water Campfire Stout is my fall in a bottle or can. It’s brewed with coffee to give it an extra kick for those crisp fall nights. It also carries rich coffee, and caramel notes with a little sweetness to ease into fall.
New Holland Dragon’s Milk
New Holland
Robbie Robinson, sommelier and mixologist at The Ballantyne in Charlotte, North Carolina
New Holland Dragon’s Milk is a great fall beer in my opinion. It’s an 11% ABV stout that doesn’t skimp on flavor. It’s full of dark chocolate, canalized sugar, and coffee tones. It complements the season nicely. Barrel-aged to perfection to keep you warm any time of year, especially in the fall.
Mothers Brewing Winter Grind
Mothers Brewing
Emily Lawson, bartender, and owner of Foxhole Public House in Bentonville, Arkansas
I wait all year long until I can grab a six-pack of Winter Grind from Mother’s Brewing out of Springfield, Missouri. This beer is blended with cold brew coffee, making it rich and stout. Plus, a single beer gives you the perfect amount of pep and chill vibes. It’s rich, creamy, and perfect for rolling into cooler weather.
Karl Strauss Oktoberfest
Karl Strauss
Stephen George, director of outlets and bartender at 20 | Twenty Grill in Carlsbad, California
Being that Oktoberfest was here (even if you can’t celebrate in Munich), I’m going to go with Karl Strauss’ Oktoberfest. A Marzen style, Bavarian lager that is light and packed with traditional toasted malt flavors that taste like Fall in a glass.
Able Baker’s Atomic Duck IPA is fall in a can. With its strong hops and light malt presence, this beer makes me want to sit and relax on a warm porch as fall eases in. You’ll notice notes of citrus, tropical fruits, and pine. All work well during the fall months.
For something a bit unusual, I love a good German Aecht Schlenkerla Uralt Rauchbier. Rich and robust savory flavors of beechwood smoked malt pair wonderfully this time of year. The intense aroma and flavors remind me of grilling in the afternoon or the way your clothes smell after a bonfire.
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The last time Jordan Klepper went to a Trump shindig was on Jan. 6. It didn’t go so well. Since then, he’s gone to plenty of gatherings with Trumpists. But he’s skipped the handful of rallies the former president has held since being voted out of office. But over 10 months after the Capitol riot — “a day no one will ever forget, unless you’re a Republican member of Congress,” he jokes in his latest dispatch — he’s back, and doing what he does best: letting them hang themselves with their own incoherent ramblings.
Last week, the Daily Show contributor descended upon the rally Trump held in Iowa, which attracted the predictable crowds and their loony flags. Many of them said “Trump won.” What’s more, some of them think he’s actually still in office.
Klepper meets one older gentleman wearing a QAnon shirt who tells him Trump “never left.” When asked if he thinks Trump is still running the federal government, the man says yes. When Klepper asks him if he’s therefore to blame for the chaotic withdraw from Afghanistan, the man says no.
Sense was short on the ground at the Iowa Trump rally, and so was self-awareness. On two occasions, Klepper happens upon people wearing t-shirts featuring Trump giving Democrats the finger. In both cases, the people lament how divided the nation is, saddened that people with different worldviews — perhaps even wearing t-shirts with Trump giving Democrats the finger — can no longer have a polite conversation.
In another case, a woman in American flag overalls pushes back at the line that Trump supporters are in a cult. She then admitted that when it comes to Trump, “whatever he spews out of his mouth, I just love it.”
“It doesn’t matter what he says?” Klepper asked her. “But this isn’t a cult?”
“I don’t think so,” she replies.
In other words, this isn’t getting better any time soon. You can watch Klepper once again try to navigate the Trump world in the video above.
Donald Trump has always been very savvy about manipulating people for personal gain, but he’s also kind of a doofus. For every dastardly deed he does, there’s always some weird gaffe that no one else could come up with, from the “covfefe” tweet to informing a little girl that Santa Claus isn’t real to literally altering a weather map that contradicted him with a Sharpie. So this shouldn’t come as a surprise: Trump’s website was hacked and defaced.
As per CNN, a subdivision of the former president’s site was taken over by a Turkish hacktivist. It tacked on a spiritual message: “Do not be like those who forgot Allah, so Allah made them forget themselves.” Below it was a speech by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he quoted the Quran.
The hack happened as early as October 8, but by Monday it had gone back to normal. It was the kind of hack known as defacement, in which a hacker hacks into a website and replaces it with their own content. It appears the same hacker was the one who did the same thing to Joe Biden’s website shortly after he was elected president, so perhaps they’re an equal opportunity offender.
Two weeks ago, Toronto-based electro R&B/synth wave duo Majid Jordan announced their third full length album and first in four years, Wildest Dreams, out later this month. Comprised of singer Majid Al Maskati and producer Jordan Ullman, the pair have already dropped a few stellar singles off of the album in the sleek 80’s dance floor floor inflected “Summer Rain,” the upbeat electro soul banger “Waves of Blue,” and one hell of a shoulder to cry in in “Been Through That.”
But now with the acoustic “Forget About The Party,” they’re really flashing a distinct versatility. Singing over a handsome guitar melody, Al Maskati paints the nightlife of The Six into the hook while he pleas with the object of his affection to drop what she’s doing and come be by his side: “The city’s got you blinded by the life, forget about the party, come to mine / I’ll give myself to you like its a habit, everything you wanted, you can have it.” He transitions from a gentle delivery into a high-pitch falsetto, showing palpable range that matches the diverse early offerings that Wildest Dreams has already yielded.
Listen to and watch the visualizer for “Forget About The Party” above and check out their upcoming tour stops below.
Wildest Dreams is due 10/22 via OVO Sound.
11/11 – San Francisco
11/19 – Los Angeles
11/20 – Los Angeles
11/27 – Chicago
11/20 – Brooklyn
12/1 – Brooklyn
12/2 – Toronto
Majid Jordan is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
For young rap stars, sometimes learning how to change and grow is the most important part of evolving into the artist they want to become. And for Uproxx cover star Yung Baby Tate, that evolution means a name change: She will now be going by just Baby Tate. She’s not the only rising female rapper to recently undergo a nomenclature shift — Latto is the second artist name that Alyssa Stephens has used since breaking out in the hip-hop world. While Tate’s shift isn’t due to backlash from fans like Latto’s was, it still represents a brand new era for the young artist.
Along with her name change, she let fans know that she’s now signed to a new label, Warner Records, and that new music is coming very soon. After initially signing a deal with Issa Rae’s record label Raedio, Tate has now made the jump over to Warner.
“New name, new label, new song drops 10/29,” she wrote in an Instagram post.
While she hasn’t shared any other previews of what the song might sound like, a tagline on the song’s artwork offers a hint: “I might be crazy but at least I’m authentic.” Keep an ear out for that new song dropping later this month, and lots more updates from the newly-minted Baby Tate.
Sometimes the adorableness of small children is almost too much to take.
According to the New Zealand Police, a 4-year-old called the country’s emergency number to report that he had some toys for them—and that’s only the first cute thing to happen in this story.
After calling 111 (the New Zealand equivalent to 911), the preschooler told the “police lady” who answered the call that he had some toys for her. “Come over and see them!” he said to her.
The dispatcher asked where he was, and then the boy’s father picked up. He explained that the kids’ mother was sick and the boy had made the call while he was attending to the other child. After confirming that there was no emergency—all in a remarkably calm exchange—the call was ended. The whole exchange was so sweet and innocent.
But then it went to another level of wholesome. The dispatcher put out a call to the police units asking if anyone was available to go look at the 4-year-old’s toys. And an officer responded in the affirmative as if this were a totally normal occurrence.
Is this what life is like in New Zealand? Practically no COVID-19 to speak of and police units casually dropping by kids’ houses to check out their toys?
Listen to the call shared by New Zealand Police:
Child calls 111 to show Police their toys | New Zealand Police
The New Zealand Police wrote on YouTube, “Constable Kurt from Southern District Police responded by arriving at the child’s house and was shown an array of toys. He also had a good educational chat with the child and his parents about only using 111 for emergencies.” The officer also showed the boy his patrol car, put the lights on for him and remarked, “He did have cool toys!”
Lovely exchanges all around, from the kind emergency dispatcher, to the clearly exhausted dad, to the officer going out of his way to look at a random kid’s toys, to the precious little kiwi who kicked off the whole chain of events with his thoughtful offer.
Add this to the ever-growing list of reasons to love New Zealand.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, welcomed twins Penelope Rose and Joseph August, in August. Even though Buttigieg has an important role in the president’s cabinet, he decided to take two months of paternity leave to care for his newborn twins.
As a new parent, Buttigieg learned pretty quickly that paternity leave isn’t about rest and relaxation.
“The big thing is having a newly personal appreciation for the fact that this is work,” Buttigieg told CNN. “It may be time away from a professional role, but it’s very much time on.”
Even though he took leave he has stressed that he’s been available “24/7” to handle any issues.
Buttigieg received a lot of criticism from conservatives for taking leave at a time when the U.S. is having major supply-chain issues and the president is working to pass a massive $3.5 trillion transportation bill.
His decision also came during a time when Democrats are debating whether to include a historic 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the bill.
Right-wing provocateur Candace Owens called Buttigieg “sickeningly pathetic” for taking time off from his professional life during the transportation crisis. “Privileged times have produced the weakest men that have ever lived in America. Remove this little boy from office,” she tweeted with the hashtag #BringBackManlyMen.
Owens’ criticism isn’t much more than a repeat of the old sexist trope that men who take care of the children are somehow weak.
Tucker Carlson from Fox News mocked Buttigieg on his show. “Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went,” Carlson quipped.
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“I guess I want to push on where this is coming from because it’s misogynistic I guess to think that dads shouldn’t be home,” she told Buttigieg on Friday. “It feels homophobic to suggest that you were trying to figure out breastfeeding. It feels dirtier than that.”
Buttigieg has a long history of making quick work of Fox News critics and it took him very little time to point out Carlson’s hypocrisy as a member of the party that once stood for family values.
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“Well, look, in his case, I guess he just doesn’t understand the concept of bottle feeding, let alone the concept of paternity leave. But what is really strange is that, you know, this is from a side of the aisle that used to claim the mantle of being pro-family. What we have right now is an administration that’s actually pro-family,” Buttigieg said.
He then made himself a living example of the type of family leave policies that the Biden administration is pursuing.
“And I’m blessed to be able to experience that as an employee, being able to have the flexibility to take care of our newborn children, which is, by the way, work. It’s a joyful work. It’s wonderful work, but it’s—it’s definitely work,” he added.
To Buttigieg, it’s all about practicing what you preach.
“It’s one thing to believe something as a matter of policy,” Buttigieg said according to The New York Times. “It’s another to live it and see how much of a difference it could make.”
On Saturday, the Washington State Cougars won their third consecutive college football game, knocking off the Stanford Cardinal by a 34-31 margin in a Pac-12 clash. Following the contest, Washington State head coach Nick Rolovich was doused in Gatorade by a group of players and, with no additional context, it was easy to see a celebratory atmosphere in Pullman. However, that victory came only two days prior to a looming deadline for Rolovich and, on Monday, word broke that the 42-year-old would be fired for cause after failing to meet the state of Washington’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
Nick Rolovich has been terminated by Washington State, per a university source.
Terminated for cause, along with the other unvaccinated WSU assistants.
Rolovich filed a religious exemption request but, as of his most recent media availability, there was no update on the status of that inquiry. With that as the backdrop, Monday was the deadline for compliance for all employees at colleges and universities. Over the summer, Rolovich indicated that he would comply, although he used vague language, but he later noted that he chose to apply for an exemption, rather than become vaccinated.
Dating back to Pac-12 Media Day, Rolovich’s situation has been national and regional news. He participated in that event only on a virtual basis, later revealing in a statement that he was not vaccinated, saying “I have elected not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine for reasons which will remain private” and declining further comment.
In addition to Rolovich’s termination, he is reportedly joined by multiple assistant coaches, though nothing is official on which assistants, or how many, have been fired at this juncture. On the football side, Washington State is 4-3 overall and 3-2 in Pac-12 play, competing for the Pac-12 North division title. It remains to be seen as to how the program will approach the rest of the season from a coaching standpoint, and it is also possible that this saga could continue should Rolovich elect to challenge his termination.
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