Over Labor Day weekend, social media fixated on a brief but intense video. It found Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, sharing a heated moment. That the video was in slo-mo made it even more of a scorcher. It gave people on Twitter the vapors, and it seems the reaction did not escape at least one of the two actors involved.
Chastain herself weighed in late Sunday night (presumably from Venice), posting a picture that bears an uncanny resemblance to what went down in Italy. Itâs a still from the â60s TV version of The Addams Family, showing John Astinâs Gomez burying his lips in the long arm of Carolyn Jonesâ Morticia.
Was that what Isaac was channeling when he grabbed his Scenes from a Marriage costarâs one arm and laid upon it a gentle kiss? Who knows! The erstwhile Llewyn Davis did, of course, voice Gomez in the animated 2019 version of The Addams Family, so itâs not unlikely.
Just a little reminder: Both actors are married, to other people. And they go way back. They met at Julliard, acted together (as marrieds) in the 2014 drama A Most Violent Year, and share the distinction of both playing X-Men villains, albeit in different movies. Their latest team up is HBOâs revamp of the classic Ingmar Bergman miniseries Scenes from a Marriage, which chronicles the slow, combative dissolution of a couple who realize they canât be together, even as theyâre in effect chained together for life.
Marriage begins its run on HBO on September 12. In the meantime, you can rewatch their red carpet moment ad nauseum.
Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch is one of those bottles that everyone in the whiskey world wants but only a few actually get to try. Each year, the famed Kentucky distillery releases about 14,000 bottles of their special small batch. Before the pandemic, those bottles would be available at the distillery on a first-come-first-served basis. But thatâs not the wave theyâre on right now â for the second year in a row, youâll need to enter a lottery to win the right to buy a bottle.
Having entered and lost many a Pappy lottery, we know that the whole âwin the chance to BUYâ concept might sound a little elitist to the passive whiskey drinker; but Four Roses canât safely have thousands of people milling outside of the distillery for ten, 12, 18, or 24 hours waiting to buy a bottle of whiskey during a global pandemic. The lottery system allows them to spread out the bottle pick up. It also gives you time to get to Kentucky if you win that lottery!
If a lottery isnât your vibe, you could always just become a whiskey writer. I was lucky enough to taste the new edition with Brent Elliott, Four Roses Master Distiller, last week. You can watch our whole tasting on our Instagram channel. We also tasted Four Roses Small Batch and Small Batch Select (both excellent bourbons) before we got to the star of the show. Since then, Iâve tasted the release twice more and have developed a real fondness for this yearâs drop.
My detailed notes on this yearâs LE Small Batch can be found below. If this sounds like a bottle you might want to try, you have until September 12th to enter the lottery.
This yearâs LE Small Batch is a blend of four bourbons. Four Roses is renowned for its ten distinct recipes with two mash bills and five yeast strains. This whiskey marries four of those recipes with two from Mash B (very high rye) and two from Mash Bill E (high rye). The yeasts at play are âdelicate fruit,â âspice essence,â and âfloral essence.â The barrels ranged from 12 to 16 years old, making this a fairly old bourbon, all things considered.
Tasting Notes:
The nose has a mix of honey next to buttery biscuits, rich vanilla, a touch of tart red berries, dry cedar, and a very faint hint of dry mint. The palate dives into a dark plum jam with a spicy edge of allspice and nutmeg. That fruit gives way to a spritz of orange oils next to a light touch of dark chocolate on the mid-palate that leads to a rich finish. That finish leaves you with warming spice, more of that orange/choco vibe, and another mild hint of green, dry mint.
The Bottle:
The bottle is a classic Four Roses small batch bottle, which is to say that itâs very hefty. These bulbous bottles have a serious base and a legit cork. You really feel like youâre holding onto something weighty (in more ways than one). It also stands out on any bar cart thanks to its unique shape and size.
Bottom Line:
This is one of those bourbons where youâre immediately struck by its balance and depth. âGoddamn, thatâs nice!â was my first reaction and that has yet to wane. This really grabs you with a solid nose that feels very âFour Rosesâ with that hint of greenery and deep creamy flavors.
Itâs a damn near perfect sipper is what Iâm getting at.
Ranking:
96/100 â This is yet another highwater mark for Four Roses LE Small Batch. While there are exactly zero faults with this expression, I didnât blow my socks off as something completely, 100/100 mindblowing. Itâs just a really, really great whiskey that deserves all the love it gets.
After going a little over a year without a new full-length project, Drake finally delivered his sixth album, Certified Lover Boy, But it seems he has more music on the way. The Toronto native just signed on to curate music for ESPNâs Monday Night Football for 10 games during the NFLâs upcoming season. The music includes tracks from Certified Lover Boy, albums the rapper previously released, plus work from other artists that Drake will personally select.
âNow we are here, the kickoff of the football season and who better to curate music for Monday Night Football than Drake who sits firmly at the intersection of music and sports?â Emeka Ofodile, Vice President Of Sports Marketing at ESPN, said in a statement according to Billboard. âWe couldnât be more excited for this upcoming collaboration. The music curator role has been a big hit with our fans with Diplo and DJ Khaled in previous years and this season, we will be living inside the moment with Drake as our NFL on ESPN soundtrack.â
The announcement comes after Drakeâs Certified Lover Boy, which features appearances from Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Travis Scott, Young Thug, Future, Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla Sign, and more, set first-day records on both Apple Music and Spotify.
Certified Lover Boy is out now via OVO Sound/Republic. Get it here.
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A new Texas law that went into effect last week criminalizes all abortions performed after the fetus develops a heartbeat, which is at around six weeks. That means that nearly 85% of all abortions that took place in the state are now considered illegal.
Critics of the new law say it’s a major violation of a woman’s right to bodily autonomy. It also has major religious connotations. The pro-life movement that’s been fighting to end abortion rights has been powered by conservative Christian activists for decades.
When signing the law, the Governor of Texas made it clear that the law is a way for Christians to force their beliefs on the population as a whole.
“Our creator endowed us with the right to life, and yet millions of children lose their right to life every year because of abortion,” Abbott stated while signing the law.
Abortion laws in TX violate our religious rights and TST has taken legal action. If TX judges abide by the Constitu⊠https://t.co/umhFyENbns
â The Satanic Temple (@satanic_temple_) 1630584013.0
One “religious” group is fighting back against the draconian abortion laws in Texas because it believes that “religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition.”
The Satanic Temple, headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts, filed a letter with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to request that its members have access to abortion pills using its Religious Freedom Restoration Act rights. Having abortion pills readily available could make it easier to bypass the new Texas law.
The same rights allow Native Americans to access the hallucinogenic drug peyote for their spiritual rituals.
The Temple is a quasi-religious organization that claims it doesn’t believe “in the existence of Satan or the supernatural” but that religious freedom law should apply to all religions.
“Religions have special privileges under the First Amendment and RFRA. The Satanic Temple is utilizing these privileges to protect our religious belief in bodily autonomy – we’re taking our fight to the next level,” Temple cofounder Lucien Greaves said in a statement.
“As the courts affirm the rights of religious organizations to practice their faith, TST is demanding our religious rights to abortion access without unnecessary state interference,” he added.
“I am sure Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton â who famously spends a good deal of his time composing press releases about Religious Liberty issues in other states â will be proud to see that Texas’s robust Religious Liberty laws, which he so vociferously champions, will prevent future Abortion Rituals from being interrupted by superfluous government restrictions meant only to shame and harass those seeking an abortion,” the statement continues.
Shoutout to @satanic_temple_ for protecting my reproductive rights.đ€ https://t.co/YqhG56tJLM
â CEO of âââââ (@mikuhatsunegirl) 1630691548.0
@ServeEmma @MemberBlasts If you live in Texas, @satanic_temple_ is fighting to give you a religious right to aborti⊠https://t.co/xxepDoOpJS
The Temple says its access to abortion pills is made possible by a precedent set by the Supreme Court’s 2014 Hobby Lobby decision. The decision prevents the government from putting a “burden on free exercise of religion without a compelling reason.”
The Satanic Temple places a very high priority on bodily autonomy. Its third tenet reads: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
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This isn’t the first time that the Temple has fought for the separation of church and state. It caused a huge stir in 2018 when it protested a Ten Commandments monument erected outside of the Arkansas state Capitol.
To make a statement about religious freedom the Temple revealed an eight-and-a-half-foot, half-man, half-goat Baphomet statue in front of the building.
“If you’re going to have one religious monument up then it should be open to others, and if you don’t agree with that then let’s just not have any at all,” Satanic Arkansas cofounder Ivy Forrester, said at the rally.
A trial was supposed to begin last year to settle the issue but it was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last year we had Hydroxychloroquine. This yearâs questionable miracle drug thatâs making those who take it sick is Ivermectin. Trump supporters skeptical of an FDA-approved drug their favorite president helped fast-track into production have had no problem taking medication often used for horses and other livestock, even after the company thatâs made it warned it shouldnât be used to treat COVID. But while thereâs been a ton of jokes â some of them reserved for Joe Rogan â no one has made a full-on parody video.
Until now. While The Daily Show, SNL, and John Oliver still on hiatus, The Lincoln Project â the cabal of anti-Trump Republicans formed last year to ensure the 45th president only served one term â have stepped up. Theyâve created a dead-on send-up of already questionable medication ads, which peddle drugs as a gateway back to folksy normalcy, all while burying a host of side effects in rapid-fire boilerplate.
âWhen it comes to protecting yourself against the COVID-19 virus, the FDA-approved vaccine might not be the right choice for patients who are allergic to reality,â a reassuring narrator purrs over top sunlit images of fields and people doing yoga. It then offers the livestock dewormer as âthe COVID-19 treatment option for real patriots.â
Of course, it comes with some warnings, advising users to abstain while âdriving, operating heavy machinery or if youâre wearing your good pants.â Side effects include âthe inability to pronounce Kamala Harrisâs name,â while some patients have reported âhallucinations of lizard people in the halls of Congress.â Thereâs also a diss of Joe Rogan, perhaps Ivermectinâs most famous client.
You can watch the full video above. And please listen to the FDA and donât treat COVID with a drug that combats worms in farm animals.
With NBA training camps only a few weeks away, the Indiana Pacers will have to deal with some unfortunate injury news.
The team announced on Tuesday that forward T.J. Warrenâs left foot stress fracture isnât recovering as quickly as expected and he remains out indefinitely as a result. Itâs unclear right now when exactly heâll be able to return to the court.
Injury Update: T.J. Warrenâs stress fracture in his left foot is healing during the rehabilitation process; but not at the pace previously anticipated. He remains out indefinitely, and further updates will be provided as warranted.https://t.co/gVDB4jHrJg
Warren is a key part of the Pacers, so this is a blow. He was sensational during the NBA Bubble in Orlando, but only played in four games last season after suffering the stress fracture early in the year. He underwent surgery for the injury on Jan. 4 and hasnât played since.
Itâs too early to say if this will impact Warrenâs entire season again, but itâs worth keeping an eye on as the 2021-22 campaign gets closer. Heâs a much-needed wing scorer for the Pacers heading into their first year under Rick Carlisle. Thereâs not really anyone on Indianaâs roster that can replace what he does as a perimeter scorer, sans more responsibility being placed onto Caris LeVert. And if Warren is going to miss any significant time, itâs going to hurt his ability to get comfortable in Carlisleâs system and playing under him in general.
Over the course of its 25 seasons, The Viewhas rotated through almost just as many hosts (so long, Meghan McCain). Part of the reason for that high rate of turnover could be that the women at the helm of the show not only seem to have differing opinions on just about every subject, including what color the sky is, but most of them donât even seem to like each other very much. Yet on Tuesday morning, as the ladies officially kicked off the talk showâs 25th season, there was a general agreement amongst the panel that Texasâ new abortion ban, which flies directly in the face of Roe vs. Wade and a womanâs right to choose, is a terrible precedentâwith co-host Joy Behar taking an exceptionally firm standpoint.
The law bans abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is typically around six weeks. And, at six weeks, most women donât know theyâre pregnant yet. It also allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone involved in facilitating abortions â including anyone who drives a woman to a clinic to get an abortion. As it stands, anyone who successfully prosecutes another person would win at least $10,000. And that particular aspect is where Behar took most issue.
âWell you know, theyâre worried about the Taliban, and the Taliban women. Worry about Taliban in America because thatâs what these guys are really,â Behar said.
While Behar might be overstating the factâwomen under Taliban rule are often subjected to horrible violence and forced marriages; theyâre also not allowed to leave their homes without a male companion and are required to cover their faces at all times, or else be publicly floggedâher point is well taken, and not so far off. While many Texas Republicans, including Ted Cruz, have largely remained silent in the wake of the stateâs new abortion law, the senator/grotesque human beingâs past actions speak for themselves. Just last year, Cruz was desperately trying to get the abortion pill banned in Texas.
Still, Beharâs co-host, lawyer Sunny Hostinâwho thinks the decision will certainly lead to âterror against doctorsâ as wellâdoesnât think the ban will have the legal legs to stand on when challenged, saying:
âIf it gives anyone any solace, I do not think that this law will stand. Because it flies in the face of the constitution and a womanâs right to privacy. And peopleâs right to privacy. I think what we really need to be concerned about is the October term of the Supreme Court when Roe v. Wade is really going to be challenged.â
In the meantime, please refrain from ejaculating in the Lone Star State.
Weâre a little more than a month away from the start of the 2021-22 NBA season and Ben Simmons is still a member of the Philadelphia 76ers. Despite the fact that Simmons has reportedly made clear that he has no intention of reporting to training camp, the Sixers have an exceedingly high bar that opposing teams need to clear, and so far, no one has gotten close.
The list of teams that have been tossed around in recent days have included the Sacramento Kings and Minnesota Timberwolves, but according to Marc Stein, the Cleveland Cavaliers are lurking. In the latest edition of his newsletter, Stein mentioned that the Cavs are doing what they can to be in the conversation for Simmonsâ next team.
âThe Committee liked the Cavaliersâ recent acquisition of Lauri Markkanen, even after the Cavs drafted Evan Mobley and re-signed Jarrett Allen, because they added Markkanen on a team-friendly contract that will be easy to trade if needed,â Stein wrote. âThis is no small thing when league sources say that Cleveland continues to keep its hat in the ring to try to pry Ben Simmons from the Sixers.â
Cleveland is an interesting potential landing spot, as Evan Dammarell of Fear the Sword has reported that Simmons would be interested in getting the chance to go to a place where heâs the teamâs clear-cut best player and getting to play alongside fellow Klutch Sports client Darius Garland. Like plenty of other potential landing spots, though, the questions that exist stem from whether or not the pieces the team already has clear the bar Philly wants â while a package centered around Collin Sexton, Kevin Love, and a boatload of picks works financially, that doesnât really give the Sixers the level of players they want back in a deal. Remember, reports indicate that they refuse to entertain offers from Sacramento unless they include Tyrese Haliburton or DeâAaron Fox.
Perhaps the Cavs can eventually make something work, either because Philly lowers its asking price or Cleveland is able to get a third team in the deal. Training camp is looming, so maybe weâll be able to get an answer soon.
For years, a homeless encampment has been growing on Apple property in San Jose, California, and the company is taking some unusual steps to remove it.
According to The Mercury News, dozens of people experiencing homelessness have set up shelter in broken down vehicles, RVs, and makeshift wooden structures on a vacant lot where Apple’s North San Jose campus will be built. Apple has been working with local government and non-profit organizations to figure out what to do about the camp.
The company has taken a hands-on approach by making each resident of the encampment an offer on the company’s dime: Nine months in a motel room plus 12 months of services to manage addiction, mental health, and long-term housing plans. The move is costing Apple millions of dollars, according to Andrea Urton, CEO of the non-profit HomeFirst, which has been working with Apple to help relocate the residents.
“I think the level of Apple’s involvement is amazing, to be quite frank,” Urton told The Mercury News. “They could just kick these people off, throw away their belongings and displace them. That’s not what they chose to do.”
For people who don’t want to leave their RVs or other vehicles, an emergency safe-parking site will be provided by the city. Residents were also offered space at Boccardo Regional Reception Center, Santa Clara County’s largest homeless shelter.
A few residents have refused all of the offers, but 53-year-old Frank Pacheco told The Mercury News that his new motel room provided by Apple is “the best thing I could ever have.”
Pacheco has lived in an RV at the encampment for two years, after a work-related head injury impacted his job as a mechanic.
“It’s a wonderful thing that Apple’s doing for us,” he said. “They don’t have to do anything for us. They could just kick us off the property. They could just feed us to the wolves.”
Urton said that Apple’s funding also will provide residents with clothes, food, dental careâwhatever they needâin the hopes that after nine months of housing and services some of them will be ready for employment. However, the cost of living in the area is one of the highest in the nation. While Apple contributing some of its substantial resources to directly address its local homelessness issue is admirable, it’s just one piece of a large, complex puzzle that’s going to require more long-term, sustainable solutions.
Long-term solutions to the homelessness crisis in the Bay Area and around the nation are not simple, however. Even the temporary solutions offered by Apple are not without controversy. According to the San Jose Spotlight, there have been an assortment of complaints regarding treatment of the homeless population during the clearing of the site, protests from local residents about individuals from the Apple site moving into their neighborhoods. Additionally, some activists are critical about Apple’s timeline for clearing the camp before the city had provided the safe parking area for those with vehicles to move to.
In 2019, Apple made a $2.5 billion pledge to address the housing and homelessness crises in the Bay Area, and had promised to make some of the land for its North campus available for affordable housing. However, progress has been slow on that front, which is unsurprising considering the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The issue of homelessness is multi-layered and multi-faceted, and Urton points to Apple as a shining example of what companies can do for their part to contribute to solutions.
“If every company took responsibility for what’s happening with homelessness in their neighborhood,” Urton told The Mercury News, “I think we’d nail it.”
Crews Clear North San Jose Homeless Encampment on Apple Property
Joe Rogan says so much questionable stuff that he rarely actually gets called out. But last week he went to far. The NewsRadio alum-turned-podcast superstar announced that heâd somehow caught COVID after a year and a half of questioning its severity and spreading misinformation. In an Instagram video, he rattled off a slew of folk remedies heâd binged. Among them was Ivermectin, the parasite drug that is best known for treating horses and other farm animals. He got mocked bigly, by social media and medical experts alike. And that hurt his feelings so much that heâs toying with suing CNN.
On Tuesdayâs episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the former Fear Factor star was belittled by guest Tom Segura, who greeted his host by saying, âWell, well well, if it isnât old âHorse Worm Rogan.ââ Rogan clearly didnât like being dragged for taking a drug despite warnings from public health officials, whoâve noted a massive uptick in Ivermectin-related poisonings. But Roganâs beef wasnât with internet chuckleheads. It was with the news outlets who reported on his drug intake disapprovingly.
âBro, do I have to sue CNN?â Rogan said, making a solid claim for one of the most 2021 lines of 2021. He continued:
âTheyâre making s*it up! ⊠They keep saying Iâm taking horse dewormer. I literally got it from a doctor. Itâs an American company. They won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for use in human beings and CNN is saying Iâm taking horse dewormer. They must know thatâs a lie.â
Itâs true that the company did win the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2015. But as it so often is with Rogan, his intel was selectively chosen to bolster a dodgy argument. While versions of Ivermectin are used on humans, others are used to deworm livestock. Moreover, the FDA has sternly warned, again and again, that they have ânot authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans or animals.â They have also, they said, âreceived multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention, including hospitalization, after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for livestock.â
But Rogan was still mad that heâd been painted negatively. âCNN was saying I am a distributor of misinformation,â he said. âI donât know whatâs going on, man. You know, there is a lot of speculation. One of the speculations involves the emergency use authorization for the vaccines. That, in order for there to be an emergency use authorization, there has to be no treatment for a disease.â
He also attacked the medical experts whoâd attacked him, saying they were âpretending they donât really work or they are conspiracy theories.â
But Rogan had his own theory on why he was torched for recklessly stumping for a potentially dangerous drug. âThe grand conspiracy is that the pharmaceutical companies are in cahoots to try and make anybody who takes this stuff look crazy,â Rogan posited. âBut whatâs crazy is look how better I got [sic]! I got better pretty quick, bitch.â
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