Bruce Springsteen received some good news on Wednesday. The singer had DWI charges stemming from a November 2020 incident dropped due to a lack of evidence. According to Asbury Park Press, Springsteen told a judge that he consumed two shots of tequila after he pulled over his motorcycle to take pictures with fans at Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. He was stopped a short time later by a park ranger and, while he initially refused to take a breathalyzer test, he eventually took one at a ranger station where he registered a blood alcohol content level of .02 — well below the legal limit of .08.
As a result, U.S. Attorney Adam Baker asked a judge to drop the charges of DWI and reckless driving. Hours after the ruling, Springsteen’s Jeep Super Bowl ad was reinstated. The company pulled the ad after TMZ broke the news, saying in a statement that they would wait “until the actual facts can be established” before re-airing it. Now that the charges have been dropped, a representative for the company returned with an update to Variety, saying “Now that the matter has been resolved, we are unpausing the film.”
While the DWI charges were dropped, Springsteen was left to pay a $540 fine for consuming alcohol in a federal park.
There was a lot of anxiety when Disney absorbed Fox, inheriting a wide swath of the entertainment industry and making a corporation already too big somehow even bigger. Among the less important concerns was this: Would they neuter Deadpool, the giddily blue comic book property? Or perhaps worse: Would Deadpool be their only R-rated superhero? So here’s some good news and (possible) bad news: Deadpool will stay adult-friendly. But it looks like, for now at least, their reboot of Blade will not.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, MCU honcho Kevin Feige meant to allay some fans’ fears only to inflame that of others. All MCU movies have been a family friendly-ish PG-13, but he says they’ve “never been held back” by the rating. “If we ever are, then certainly there could be a discussion to be had …. but that just hasn’t been the case yet.”
Thing is, that suggests they haven’t considered an R-rating for their reboot of Blade, which is in the works and which finds two-time Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali stepping into shoes previously occupied by Wesley Snipes. All three of those films, released from the late ‘90s through mid-aughts, were gleefully R-rated. Snipes’ vampire-who-hunts-vampires slashed and diced his way through the undead, none more beautifully than in Guillermo del Toro’s Blade II. But Ali may have to keep the actual blood-letting to a minimum.
Mind you, Feige could have misspoke. He could see the backlash that followed and change his mind. Or maybe Deadpool really will be the exception that proves the PG-13 rule. Nothing’s settled! But once people put two and two together, people on social media were not happy.
The movie is still a long way to go but in my mind Blade does not work in PG-13. He legit carries a sword and kills vampires pic.twitter.com/4hbpUuSABM
With the new Blade movie going for PG-13, I have to say it’s the little things I’ll miss most… like Blade ripping out a vampire’s throat and throwing at another vampire’s face. pic.twitter.com/08twCbqaWY
I’m sorry, but I do not believe the good gentleman Mahershala Ali signed on to make a PG-13 version of Blade. No, sir! Not today, ma’am! No, thank you!
Meanwhile, Snipes spoke with Uproxx recently about Coming 2 America, and he took the time to say that while he isn’t involved in Marvel’s Blade reboot, he supports them. He also adds that he was only a white belt when he made Blade. “It’s wonderful what we did, but, brother, we’re so much better than we were then,” he told us. He also says he has another movie in the works that he describes as his “Blade-killer.” So watch that space!
Tekashi 69 has come after a number of artists and celebrities throughout his career. It was just last week that he was involved in an altercation with Meek Mill at a Miami parking lot. Now, Tekashi has shifted his attention to a new target: Cardi B. In a post to his Instagram Story, the rapper asked his followers, “If I took women to hotels and drugged them and then robbed them would I be canceled?” The question was a reference to a March 2019 Instagram Live session that Cardi held in which she said she drugged and robbed clients back when she was a stripper.
Cardi joins a long list of people Takashi has attacked, in one form or another. Last year, a video of him allegedly taunting boxer Gervonta Davis made its way to social media, though at least it didn’t escalated into an actual fight. He also mocked King Von’s death just days after the rapper passed away from a gunshot wound in Atlanta. Tekashi left a laughing emoji under an Instagram post that detailed how Lil Durk, a close friend of Von, learned about his death, an action that left hip-hop fans extremely furious at him.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
When the NBA All-Star reserves were announce on Tuesday night, a few notable names were surprisingly left off of the rosters. Among those in the West was Suns star Devin Booker, who LeBron James called the most “disrespected player” in the NBA currently.
Booker, who is averaging 24.7 points, 4.3 assists, and 3.8 rebounds per game on strong efficiency for the surging Suns, who are currently fourth in the West, was a first-time All-Star a year ago but just missed the cut this year. However, with Anthony Davis named to the team and sitting out with a right calf strain, the expectation was one West spot would still be up for grabs. On Wednesday, confirmation came from the league on that front and Booker was named the injury replacement for Davis by NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
The other top competition for the spot, at least in the eyes of most, was Mike Conley of the Utah Jazz, who has long been considered one of the NBA’s best players to have never made an All-Star roster, largely due to the crunch of star guards in the West where he’s spent his whole career. Conley doesn’t have the raw stats to match Booker, but his impact on the NBA’s best team has been immense and there was a push for him to get the honor for the first time in his career.
Still, it’s hard to argue with Booker, who has been especially great of late during Phoenix’s own winning streak, and he’ll join teammate Chris Paul in the backcourt for the West reserves. That should just about finalize the rosters, barring something happening in the next week-plus of games or someone pulling out for other, non-injury related reasons.
While the craft lager scene has exploded over the past few years, it still doesn’t rival the sales of the industry-dominating IPA. Whether it’s a dank West Coast, juicy New England-Style, or even a rich Milkshake IPA, you won’t find a craft brewery in the country without at least a handful of these hop-centric brews on tap.
While we definitely like IPAs around these parts, we know they can feel played out, overly hoppy, and redundant. Still, there are serious gems out there — gems which we all need a little help finding, because of the sheer number of these brews produced each year. In the past, we’ve shared our own IPA faves and called on bartenders for their picks, this time we grabbed the BeerAdvocate Top 10, drank them all, and reordered them according to flavor.
Check our tasting notes below and don’t you dare try to argue with us!
The fact that this classic West Coast IPA consistently makes top ten lists is amazing because it’s available at pretty much every grocery store in America. Many others on this list aren’t nearly as easy to find. This subtly bitter, hop bomb gets its flavor from being hopped five different times during the brewing process.
Tasting Notes:
Take a moment to nose this IPA and you’ll be met with strong pine and citrus aromas. The first sip is full of notes of fresh mango, citrus zest, orange peels, and guava. It all finishes with a nice, bitter bite of hops at the very end.
Bottom Line:
If you only try one beer on this list, make it Ballast Point Sculpin. It’s so damn easy to get. Grab a sixer the next time you’re shopping for groceries and see what the fuss is about.
The Lone Pint’s most renowned brew, Yellow Rose, is technically a SMaSH (Single malt and single hop IPA). It’s brewed with whole-cone Mosiac hops and then dry-hopped with even more Mosaic hops. It gets its name from the famous Yellow Rose of Texas.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find a massive spicy, pine needle aroma with a subtle hint of fresh fruit. The first sip is full of sweet berries, juicy pineapple, tart grapefruit, and more resinous pine. The last sip is refreshing, mellow, and full of more tropical fruit flavors.
Bottom Line:
If you’re a fan of Mosaic dry-hopped IPAs, this is the beer for you. It’s the only hop included and it’s definitely enough.
This year-round 7% IPA from Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California gets its name from the Nelson Sauvin hops that give it its flavor. These natives of New Zealand are added during the brewing process and dry-hopped to give it a memorable mix of floral and tropical fruit flavors.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find strong tropical fruit and piney hop aromas. The first sip is bursting with more resinous pine, malts, and notes of guava, grapefruit, and mango. It all ends in a final flourish of fresh, crisp hop flavor.
Bottom Line:
This is the highest-rated IPA for a reason. It’s crisp, light, smooth, and perfectly suited for any day of the year.
Project Dank is one of the top ten IPAs on the list, but it’s a strange selection because it’s an every-changing beer recipe from La Cumbre’s “hop laboratory.” That is to say that every time they release a new “Project Dank” using different hops and hopping techniques it’s completely different than those that came before it. It must be great every time or it wouldn’t hold such an esteemed position on BeerAdvocate’s list.
Tasting Notes:
The Project Dank we tested was filled with a garden of flowers and a basket of oranges on the nose. The first sip was honey, guava, grapefruit, and candied orange peels mixed with flowers and pine needles. The finish is slightly bitter with a large hop presence.
Bottom Line:
If you buy a few cans of Project Dank and enjoy it, save one to compare to the next batch. That is unless you can’t stop yourself from drinking it.
One of the easier beers on this list to find at your local grocery store, Tropicália is a well-balanced, fresh, juicy, hazy, and downright crushable summer (and any other time of the year) staple.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is filled with the scents of fresh-picked citrus fruits, sweet peaches, and just a hint of spicy hops. On the palate, you’ll find flavors of fresh tangerines, sweet passion fruit, and subtle pine that all end in a nice lingering but pleasing bitter undertone.
Bottom Line:
In a world of bitter and hoppy IPAs, this might be one of the most well-rounded. It’s also the most likely to appeal to IPA haters.
If you see that an IPA is made in San Diego, there’s a pretty good chance it’s going to be a subtly bitter, hoppy treat. The city is well-known for its prowess in the IPA game and Societe The Pupil with its Nelson Sauvin, Centennial, and Citra hops is no different.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll be greeted with hints of fresh-cut grass, resinous hops, and fresh-squeezed oranges. The first sip is loaded with tart grapefruit, sweet passion fruit, juicy guava, and a nice subtle malt backbone to round it all out in the end.
Bottom Line:
This is one of the most popular beers in Southern California and only recently became available in cans. If you see it in a store, buy it. You’ll be happy you did.
Surly refers to its beloved Axe Man as a “double dry-hopped journey to IPA Valhalla” and we couldn’t agree more. This 7.2% flavor bomb is brewed with Mosiac and Citra hops as well as Golden Promise Malts. The result is an aromatic, crisp, hop-centric brew.
Tasting Notes:
Take a moment to breathe this IPA in and you’ll be greeted with aromas of lime zest, orange peel, and fresh fruit. The first sip is refreshing and full of tropical fruit and crisp citrus flavors. It’s tied together with a nice malt backbone and ends with a final kick of subtly bitter, piney hops.
Bottom Line:
This is a bold, hoppy beer. To truly get the most out of it, you should dress up like a Viking and drink it out of the horn of some type of majestic creature. Or a pint glass, if you prefer.
When it comes to brewing legends, it’s hard to top the brewing prowess of Russian River. Since it opened in 1997, the Sonoma County, California brewing has consistently made some of the most sought-after beers in the country, this includes its hazy, citrus-filled Blind Pig IPA.
Tasting Notes:
This well-balanced brew starts with a nice bouquet of floral scents followed by citrus and subtle pine. The first sip yields notes of pine resin, grapefruit, lime zest, tropical fruits, and a dry, subtly bitter, pleasing finish.
Bottom Line:
While many drinkers go crazy over Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, they’re completely missing out on a fresh, juicy, special beer if they forget about Blind Pig.
We love that many craft breweries hire artists to draw, paint, and sketch elaborate, eye-catching designs for bottles and cans. But we can also appreciate that the beer inside Maine Beer Company’s containers is so good that they merely need a simple, white label detailing what’s inside. And what’s in this bottle is a 7% IPA bursting with citrus fruit and pine tree goodness.
Tasting Notes:
Before you sip, take a moment to breathe in the aromas of fresh pine, crisp grapefruit, and just a hint of sweetness. On the palate, you’ll find massive lemon zest, ripe orange, resinous pine, sweet papaya, and a gentle hint of caramel sweetness at the very end.
Bottom Line:
If I was going to drink beer for lunch, I would hope it would be a bottle or two of this epic, citrus-filled hop beast.
Regardless of its name, this 11.1% monster isn’t playing around all. However, the “Triple Play” name doesn’t actually refer to baseball at all. It’s a reference to the three hop varieties in its recipe (Citra, Simcoe, and Amarilla).
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, this beer is a hop monster. The aromas are all pine, citrus, and floral. The first sip is splashingly juicy and filled with dank hop flavors along with pine, grapefruit, orange, and subtle honey at the finish.
Bottom Line:
Lawson’s Finest is easy to find in Vermont, but not so easy in other places. If you can get your hands on this beer, drink it fresh. That’s the way they prefer it.
Many industries have struggled to make do with the pandemic, but perhaps no moreso than movie theaters. Even those that have stayed open have had to deal with an almost no new product. In other words, Hollywood hasn’t been giving them new blockbusters to show the few showing up in the first place. (With exceptions.) But while some studios have opted to release their new films to streamers the same day they hit theaters — or, in the case of Disney’s Mulan and Soul, only on Disney+ — Paramount is remaining stubbornly pro-theatrical.
On Wednesday, the company unveiled more details about what’s coming to their forthcoming streamer Paramount+, which will be a merger of them and the already existing CBS All Access. They’re bringing back Frasier, they’re bringing back Inside Amy Schumer, they’re giving Avatar: The Last Airbender an extended universe. They’re even doing a Ray Donovan movie. They’ll also, as per Deadline, play home to two of their most anticipated films: Mission: Impossible 7 and A Quiet Place Part II. Or it will eventually: Both will hit theaters and then, after 45 days, drop on the streamer.
The movie is not surprising, especially considering one of them comes from Tom Cruise — one of the biggest cheerleaders for watching movies in movie theaters. But it should also flies in the face of Disney and Warner Bros., the latter who announced late last year that the entirety of their 2021 movie lineup would hit HBO Max the same day they were released to theaters. It should send a message to other studios — such as Sony, who’ve had a new Bond rearing to go since last spring — that theaters very well could make a comeback, at least once vaccines have helped the nation achieve herd immunity.
In early February, it was reported that the long-threatened Frasier revival was inching ever closer to becoming a reality. Even better, it would count as its head writer one Joe Cristalli, who runs the much-liked Twitter parody account @FrasierContempo, which imagines what Kelsey Grammer’s beloved shrink and snoot would get into today. Well, sometimes nice things do happen: As per The Hollywood Reporter, that new season of Frasier is a go.
Grammer has spent years trying to get Frasier Crane back on the small screen. But he’s been picky, and his need to find a good reason for his return — especially without his dad, who was played by the late John Mahoney — has been one reason it’s taken this long. Mind you, it will still take some time: Grammer has a prior commitment in an ABC comedy that pairs him with Alec Baldwin. (There’s also that potential Money Plane sequel to consider.) Meanwhile, David Hyde Pierce has the HBO series Julia. Then they can start tossing salad and scrambled eggs.
Frasier first appeared in a 1984 episode of Cheers, where he was merely the bookworm boytoy of Shelley Long’s Diane Chambers — there only to make Ted Danson’s Sam Malone jealous. He kept coming back, though, and he was soon welcomed into the fold, despite his occasional need to read them Dickens or something else no one else but Diane would enjoy. He remains one of the longest consistent characters in television history, though the honor of longest goes to John Munch, the character Richard Belzer played on Homicide: Life on the Streets and Law and Order: SVU over 22 seasons. But between Cheers and Frasier, he was on TV for 20 years, and that’s nothing to sneeze at.
The stock saga that launched a handful of streaming deals doesn’t appear to be over just yet. GameStop may have already had its day on Capitol Hill, but the retail store’s stock saw another surge on Wednesday that had investors, and the Internet at large talking about another trip to the moon.
GameStop was the biggest of the retail stocks that were bet on heavily by a Reddit form that caused a massive spike in the stock’s price due to short sellers getting fleeced back in January. Much of that bump — especially with the other stocks that were shorted like AMC, Nokia and Blackberry — swiftly fell back to Earth. But that all changed on Wednesday, as GameStop’s stock price soared 100 percent in the matter of a few hours.
AMC’s stock price actually saw a bump up as well. And GME and AMC trended again on Twitter by Wednesday afternoon, with people either excited about the sudden surge or thrilled that they had hung on to their stock.
As CNN reported, it’s not entirely clear what caused the sudden rise in price this time, though many investors had said recently they were holding onto GameStop and other stocks in hopes a rise would occur again. And the rapid activity actually caused a halt of stock sales on GME at least once on Wednesday:
Shares were halted once around 3:40pm ET after climbing nearly 74%, and again just over 10 minutes later after gaining 104%. GameStop’s trading volume was roughly three times higher the five-day average for the stock, according to data provider Refinitiv.
Less than an hour after the closing bell, the stock was on the move again — gaining nearly 90% in after-hours trading.
There were a lot of celebratory memes as the sales were halted and the huge increases came on Wednesday.
A year ago when Kobe Bryant died there were a number of suggestions for how the league could honor one of its all-time greats. They ultimately settled on naming the All-Star MVP award after him and used the new Elam Ending to be a race to 24 points in the final quarter as another tribute.
There were some who wanted the league to do more, including a push to change the NBA logo from the silhouette of Jerry West to a silhouette of Kobe. On Wednesday, Kyrie Irving, who was a close friend of Bryant’s and has been among the many in the NBA to pay tribute to Bryant on numerous occasions over the past year, revived that push with an Instagram post that garnered support from others around the league like Carmelo Anthony, saying “BLACK KINGS BUILT THE LEAGUE.”
It seems doubtful that the NBA is going to make the change, but if players continue to bring it up it’s possible that they’d consider it. The naming of the All-Star MVP award after Bryant was the league’s chief annual measure to ensure Kobe is honored each year, but his impact on this generation of stars makes it unsurprising that they’d want to see a bit more and an update to the league’s long-time logo.
In a showdown over the upcoming vote for the LGBTQ+ Equality Act, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the QAnon-obsessed and newly-elected Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to task over her attempts to obstruct the bill’s passage. Greene, who has been a lightning-rod for controversy ever since she arrived in Congress and immediately supported Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” efforts that led to the Capitol insurrection, has been a vocal opponent of the Equality Act on Twitter, where she proposed that the House adjourn under the pretense of giving members a moment to reflect on the bill.
“I just made a motion to adjourn in order to give every Member of Congress time to rethink destroying #WomensRights and #WomensSports and #ReligiousFreedom before voting for the #EqualityAct!” Greene tweeted.
AOC was having none of it and called out Greene’s ruse. “You could just vote ‘no’ instead of trying to get out of work early,” AOC tweeted. “And you should probably stop using those hashtags because women’s rights include trans women.” In a follow-up tweet, AOC made it clear that Greene’s efforts would fail. “We’re gonna pass the #EqualityAct today, protect our LGBTQ+ family and make the world a little bit better. Nothing is going to stop that.”
You could just vote “no” instead of trying to get out of work early.
And you should probably stop using those hashtags because women’s rights include trans women. https://t.co/iJzA5BrLZF
Greene’s ploy to adjourn the House isn’t her only assault on the Equality Act. The QAnon congresswoman is pushing admendments to the bill that would do significant damage to trans Americans. Via The Independent:
The proposed changes, which Ms Greene called “America First amendments,” echoing one of former president Trump’s slogans, would entirely replace the bill with one that prevents trans women and girls from participating in women’s sports, exempts churches and other non-profits from the anti-discrimination bill, and, even more broadly, allow people to sue the federal government “if their religious rights are violated.”
Greene says her “America First” amendments are necessary because she feels the Equality Act is an “attack on girls, churches, and believers.” Clearly, that is not the case, and now Greene’s efforts have her on AOC’s radar, which is never a good place to be. Just ask Ted Cruz.
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