Kyle Burgess, 26, recorded a terrifying, six-minute encounter with a cougar (aka mountain lion, puma) on Saturday at Slate Canyon near Provo, Utah. The video shows the cat methodically following Burgess, eventually pouncing at him with her massive claws while hissing.
Burgess was on a ten-mile run through the canyon when he came across some wild kittens. But he soon noticed that they were wild mountain lion cubs and their mother wasn’t very happy about him being around.
“I didn’t really know what kind of cubs they were or what animal they were,” Burgess told Fox 13. “Once I did realize what they were, I was like, that’s mom right there. I’m screwed.”
The mother then lunged out at Burgess and, in an attempt to save her cubs, followed him until she felt they were safe.
Cougar Attack in Utah | Mountain Lion Stalks Me For 6 Minutes!
In the video, Burgess yells at the cat attempt to scare her. “No! No! I’m big and scary! Go away! “Burgess yelled as she followed him down the path.
At about thee minutes in, the cat lunges and hisses at Burgess with its claws out. He screamed right back at the cat, making sure he never turned his back on her. At the end of the video, Burgess throws a rock at the cat and it quickly scurries away.
“Holy cow. Yeah, not going back that way,” a relieved Burgess said at the end of the encounter.
People can’t imagine living through such a scary situation. “I think I had a heart attack watching. My heart was racing so fast. I can’t imagine this happening to me in real life,” Brenda Raffin said on Facebook.
Others are criticizing those who say the cougar was stalking Burgess. “The selected headlines are fear-mongering junk ‘a cougar stalked a man for 6 minutes…’ No. ‘A cougar pushed back a perceived threat to her babies for 6 minutes,'” Blair Brown wrote.
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources praised Burgess for correctly handling the potentially deadly situation.
“He backed away. He didn’t go toward the mountain lion or her kittens,” Scott Root, DWR conservation outreach manager, said according to Fox News. “He stayed large, he stayed loud and he backed away from the area for quite a while. I think he did everything really well.”
The video is going viral because it’s thrilling and scary. It’s also a great opportunity to create awareness about how to handle a cougar encounter in the world.
The Houston Rockets have been in the market for a head coach for some time now, as the team’s former coach, Mike D’Antoni, opted to walk away following the expiration of his contract at the end of the season. According to a new report, Houston’s search is not only moving along, but there is a candidate generating some amount of excitement right now.
Per Adrian Wojnarowski and Tim MacMahon of ESPN, former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach and current Los Angeles Clippers assistant coach Tyronn Lue has piqued the interest of the Rockets’ decision makers. The pair write that Lue “has gathered significant momentum” in the search, in part due to the fact that he had a meeting with the organization on Monday.
Clippers assistant coach Ty Lue’s candidacy for the Rockets’ head-coaching job has gathered significant momentum after a meeting with Houston’s ownership and management Monday, sources told ESPN.
The Rockets are competing with the Clippers for Lue and could try to extend an offer before Los Angeles has completed its search process, but that isn’t expected to happen before Houston meets with former coach Jeff Van Gundy this week, sources said.
Lue would be a fascinating hire for the Rockets, as his strengths as a coach are his locker room management and how he coaches up an offense. Both of these things would be really good in Houston — where, ESPN reports, “prominent players” support him, something that also applies to L.A. — with his offensive acumen being particularly interesting in a franchise that has a defined way of playing on that end of the floor. Houston is a tricky job due to the team’s cap situation and the dearth of long-term assets it has at its disposal following the Russell Westbrook trade last year, but for a team in win-now mode, hiring a guy like Lue seems sensible. The question may be what team Lue prefers between the Rockets and Clippers, as he’s the expected frontrunner in L.A. as well.
Fleetwood Mac have managed to keep themselves at least in the back of music fans’ minds over the decades, but the group is currently in the midst of their most significance pop culture relevance in a while.
Last month, a viral TikTok video — of Nathan Apodaca drinking cranberry juice while riding a skateboard and listening to the band’s “Dreams” — brought a lot of renewed interest to the group, which caused streams and sales of “Dreams” to skyrocket. These increased spins have now led to some honest-to-goodness chart noise: On the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated October 17, “Dreams” (a former No. 1 single) places at No. 21.
This is the first time “Dreams” has been on the charts since its original chart run in 1977, over 40 years ago. The song just had its best weekly US streams and download sales totals ever, racking up 13.4 million streams (up 54 percent) and 22,000 downloads sold (up 197 percent).
The band’s Mick Fleetwood has expressed his gratitude to Apodaca, as he got the chance to speak directly to the new TikTok star last week, saying, “We owe you and it’s such a celebration of everything. It’s so joyous and fun and I was just lead right into it. […] I just want to say, outside of Fleetwood Mac, we owe you. It’s such a great story and so needed in days that are challenging. I’ve heard you speaking and I’m so happy to be a part of it. Congratulations on a wild, wild skateboard journey that has led us to talking today. I hope Stevie [Nicks]’s watching. She’s going to be overjoyed.”
With the majority of movie theaters in the United States either closed or unpopulated due to the pandemic (as Stephen King tweeted over the weekend, “Saturday night, 7 screens, 4 total customers including me and my nephew. I feel terrible for the film industry”), Paramount Pictures has sold the rights to Coming 2 America to Amazon Studios. It’s yet another sign, along with Disney making streaming its “primary focus,” that the theater experience won’t go back to normal for some time, if ever again.
As for Coming 2 America, the sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 comedy Coming to America was sold by distributor Paramount to Amazon Studios for “roughly $125 million,” according to Variety. “Final details are being hammered out, sources said, including two complex consumer marketing tie-ins with McDonalds and whiskey brand Crown Royal, which are expected to transfer over to Amazon Studios with the film.” The movie, like Borat 2, will likely bypass theaters entirely and debut on Amazon Prime Video.
In the sequel, Prince Akeem is set to become king of the fictional country of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America — a street-savvy Queens native named Lavelle. To honor the former king’s dying wish to groom his grandson as the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi set off to America. Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and James Earl Jones are reprising their roles. Additional cast includes Tracy Morgan and Jay Pharaoh.
Lauv and Conan Gray are undoubtedly two break-out artists taking over Gen Z-centric pop music. This year, Lauv debuted his shimmering debut album How I’m Feeling and just a few weeks later, Gray did the same with his record Kid Krow. Now teaming up for the first time, the singers dispel two-faced people in their buoyant collaboration “Fake,” which arrives alongside a vibrant video.
Directed by Jason Lester, the visual follows Lauv and Gray as they move through a busy day of staged photo shoots. The duo don neon polyester clothing and dance around various sets while coordinating pillow fights and dodging confetti bombs.
Speaking about the track, both Lauv and Gray described how the song came about, saying it was born out of a conversation about two-faced people. ‘We wrote ‘Fake’ the first time I met Conan and it’s one of my fav songs ever,” Lauv said. Gray added: “Lauv and I wrote ‘Fake’ while we were just hanging and ranting about those two faced people everybody knows. Those people who say one thing and do the other, people who constantly talk trash about their own friends. We wanted to make something fun you can scream in the car to, a song to flip a bird at those types of people.”
Today, Tory Lanez appeared in Los Angeles County court (by phone) for an arraignment regarding him being charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion, and there were some noteworthy developments.
TMZ reports that Lanez’s attorney, Shawn Holley, requested a continuance, which was granted, so Lanez did not enter a plea. That said, it wasn’t like nothing happened. The judge issued a protective order against Lanez, so he must now legally stay at least 100 yards away from Meg and not contact her. Additionally, the judge also ordered that Tory surrenders any guns he owns.
The rapper’s bail was set at $190,000, which Lanez will post via a bondsman present at the hearing. Immediately after the hearing, Lanez took to Instagram to share a photo of himself, which he captioned, “Happy camper.”
This news comes on the same day that Meg published a New York Times op-ed in which she references the shooting. In the piece, titled “Why I Speak Up For Black Women,” Meg wrote, “I was recently the victim of an act of violence by a man. After a party, I was shot twice as I walked away from him. We were not in a relationship. Truthfully, I was shocked that I ended up in that place. My initial silence about what happened was out of fear for myself and my friends. Even as a victim, I have been met with skepticism and judgment. The way people have publicly questioned and debated whether I played a role in my own violent assault proves that my fears about discussing what happened were, unfortunately, warranted.”
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
McDonald’s hit a home run with its Travis Scott meal, leading the way for the fast-food giant to collaborate with another popular artist in J. Balvin. But while the meals are a source of confusion for some folks — including the McDonald’s employees who have to hawk the variations on their usual menu items — there are some who apparently feel the gimmicky meals are too mundane to warrant the hubbub. Enter Diplo, who posted his vision of his own meal and apparently thought adding barbecue sauce to the french fries just wasn’t weird enough.
“Coming soon,” he tweeted ominously, sharing a photo of a monstrous sandwich alongside a description that makes it sound more stomachache-inducing than hunger-satisfying. The “Diplo Mad Decent Breakfast Meal” apparently consists of a Fillet-O-Fish sandwich inside an Egg McMuffin with extra sauce. This concoction purports to only be 965 calories, which was fans’ first indication that ol’ Thomas might just be having a laugh.
Eagle-eyed fans were quick to point out that the whole screenshot looked quite PhotoShop fresh, but that didn’t stop them from joining in on the joke. As one account gibed, “Travis Scott: I ADDED BACON TO A BURGER I’M AMAZING! Diplo: Hold my beer.”
Enjoy some of the best replies below and McDonald’s: You know what to do. Let’s get WEIRD.
Travis Scott: I ADDED BACON TO A BURGER I’M AMAZING!
The Senate confirmation hearing on President Trump’s Supreme Court nomination of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett started in Washington on Monday, but on Tuesday, things took a turn to a galaxy far, far away. On a day full of talk about the original intent of the U.S. Constitution and the concept of court-packing, it was a reference to Star Wars that got many people talking.
Tuesday’s session discussed the conservative bent to Coney Barrett’s beliefs and judgments, including her belief that the constitution cannot be interpreted outside of its writers’ original intent. Many on the left have criticized that belief, and the issue of court-packing raised eyebrows. Pitched by some Democrats as a way to balance what would be an extremely conservative court by increasing the number of seats on it, the move is one that presidential candidate Joe Biden has refused to comment on ahead of the election but what some liberals hope Democrats would embrace after the election.
Mike Lee, a senator from Utah who is attending the hearings less than a fortnight after contracting COVID-19 as part of the White House superspreader event, was highly critical of the idea and said the Supreme Court could soon look like the Galactic Senate from Star Wars.
Lee, on court-packing, says GOP would retaliate by adding more seats if they got the chance, and that SCOTUS would soon look like “the Senate from Star Wars.”
While those scenes from the Galactic Senate in the movies were not the most interesting while it was in session, you have to admit that it was a pretty cool visual. There was also a fun force lightning fight in there (thanks to Yoda) in the later prequels, so perhaps this outlandish concept isn’t nearly as dire as Lee hopes it would be.
Still, there were plenty of Star Wars parallels to be found and jokes to be made by people reacting to the quote.
Apparently this isn’t the first time Star Wars has been mentioned during the hearings, either.
Is anyone else keeping track of the number of Star Wars comparisons made during the ACB hearings? We’re up to two after an allusion to the Galactic Senate made by Sen. Mike Lee.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected diverse communities due largely in part to social factors such as inadequate access to housing, income, dietary options, education and employment — all of which have been shown to affect people’s physical health.
Recognizing that inequity, Harlem-based chef JJ Johnson sought out to help his community maximize its health during the pandemic — one grain at a time.
Johnson manages FIELDTRIP, a health-focused restaurant that strives to bring people together through the celebration of rice, a grain found in cuisines of countless cultures.
“It was very important for me to show the world that places like Harlem want access to more health-conscious foods,” Johnson said. “The people who live in Harlem should have the option to eat fresh, locally farmed and delicious food that other communities have access to.”
Lack of education and access to those healthy food options is a primary driver of why 31% of adults in Harlem are struggling with obesity — the highest rate of any neighborhood in New York City and 7% higher than the average adult obesity rate across the five boroughs.
Obesity increases risk for heart disease or diabetes, which in turn leaves Harlem’s residents — who are 76% Black or LatinX — at heightened risk for complications with COVID-19.
“For decades, people in Harlem have been buying food at supermarkets that have been injected with antibiotics and pesticides because they can’t afford healthier options at organic grocery stores,” Johnson said. “Harlem isn’t a food desert because it doesn’t have food. It’s facing food insecurity because of the food its residents have access to.”
Despite his intentions to break this cycle, Johnson says the concept of FIELDTRIP was met with skepticism over concern as to whether Harlem residents would be open to trying its exotically seasoned rice bowls and salads — even if they were the healthy alternative.
“When I opened FIELDTRIP, many people in the community didn’t think it was owned by a Black person,” Johnson said. “In the heart of this pandemic, people saw me and my staff — which is primarily Black and Latinx — behind the counter and realized they wanted to support us.”
While dishes from eastern cultures may not traditionally be sprawled across dining tables in Harlem, Johnson saw his hometown as the prime location for breaking down barriers within the food industry when FIELDTRIP opened in 2019.
“It’s become this engraved part of Harlem that when the lights come on at FIELDTRIP, there’s a sense of hope installed throughout the community,” Johnson said.
That connection with local residents has been put on full display during this pandemic.
To maximize the restaurant’s ability to feed those facing food insecurity during the pandemic, Johnson joined forces with Chef Erik Bruner-Yang who created The Power of 10. This initiative was built on the idea that if a restaurant were to receive $10,000 a week during this crisis, it could create 10 full-time jobs and provide 1,000 free meals to its direct community.
Born out of Washington, D.C., The Power of 10 partnered with Capital One earlier this year to expand nationally to help restaurants like FIELDTRIP thrive in cities across the country such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Charlotte, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia and Fairfax, Virginia.
Since May, this partnership has helped enable The Power of 10 to donate more than 200,000 meals and provide income to workers at 38 restaurants.
“We were eager to do our part to help in this urgent and unprecedented time of need,” says Andy Navarrete, Head of External Affairs at Capital One. “Restaurants play a vital role in unifying the communities we serve.”
This work comes as part of Capital One’s Impact Initiative, an initial $200 million, five-year commitment to support growth in underserved communities and advance socioeconomic mobility by closing gaps in equity and opportunity. The Impact Initiative builds upon Capital One’s core mission to change banking for good and its priorities around racial equity, affordable housing, small business support, workforce development and financial well-being.
Through this support to The Power of 10, Johnson could assist Harlem’s residents in ways that weren’t possible before.
FIELDTRIP began distributing free “JJ Boxes” — prepared meals that consist of organic produce from local farms in the Tri-state area. Johnson first sought to give these meals to essential workers in the area but soon expanded FIELDTRIP’s offering to any people in need.
To date, this initiative has helped FIELDTRIP distribute more than 3,000 free meals.
“Many of these people receiving these meals had lost their jobs and had very little money,” Johnson said. “The Power of 10 helped us ensure that those families still had fresh produce that they could cook at home and put a delicious dinner on the table every night.”
This funding has also allowed FIELDTRIP to continue working with local farms to use the freshest ingredients possible in its meals in an effort to help Harlem residents stay healthy.
“In every community we serve, we’ll look at who needs help and how we can be there for them,” Johnson said. “As I expand FIELDTRIP, my goal is to make our food so affordable that people chose us over fast food every time.”
Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.
For their new album, Future Islands put a large emphasis on group collaboration, they told Derrick Rossignol in an interview for Uproxx. During the process, the band made a point to give the project the time and space it needed to come into its own, without the input of producers or the pressure of a looming deadline. The result is one of the most inspired entries into the Future Islands catalogue, an exciting listen from start to finish.
Garcia Peoples – Nightcap At Wits’ End
While the new album from Garcia Peoples is a little more succinct in its runtime than some previous efforts (no 30-minute songs like there were on 2019’s One Step Behind), Nightcap At Wits’ End does not shy away from experimentation. Each of the album’s twelve tracks exist as an interconnected cyclical arrangement, wherein each song flows into the next. Needless to say, the latest from the prolific psychedelic group is a journey well worth your while.
Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders
Sometimes, you just need the soothing sounds of a harp to decompress. On her new album Silver Ladders, Mary Lattimore is armed with little more than just a harp and a loop pedal, teaming up with Slowdive’s Neil Halstead in the producer’s seat to create ambient soundscapes for a sense of ultimate intentionality and retrospection.
Prateek Kuhad – Cold / Mess EP
Along with Frank Ocean and Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama’s list of his favorite songs of 2019 featured an unfamiliar name: Indian singer-songwriter Prateek Kuhad. While he’s not sure how the title track from his new EP caught the ear of the former president, Cold / Mess doubles down on the low-key heartthrob tendencies that caught the attention of his new label Elektra Records and delivers a quiet but impressive collection that will be sure to catch on with American audiences.
Slow Pulp – Moveys
Although Moveys is the debut album from Chicago’s Slow Pulp, it boasts the confidence of a veteran band. Perhaps this can be attributed to the massive upheavals the quartet each experienced individually during the album’s writing and production process, but the intensity and exploration that is demonstrated in the band’s fuzzy pop-rock tracks make Moveys one of the most impressive debut albums of 2020.
Touche Amore – Lament
On their fifth album, the post-hardcore band teamed up with famed metal producer Ross Robinson to craft their most direct and accessible music to date. Lament is an album about the simultaneous appreciation for one’s platform as a performer and discomfort with becoming a source for venting about grief and personal struggles. At just 35 minutes, the album is incredibly intense, poignant, and generally impressive.
Hundredth – Somewhere Nowhere
Hundredth is the latest punk band to make the transition to a more hazy, shoegazey sound (see: Title Fight, Turnover). The band’s impressive versatility is on full display throughout Somewhere Nowhere, wherein the band takes on a more indie-pop approach with a sound more evocative of Tame Impala than Converge.
Petey – Checkin’ Up On Buds EP
On his new EP, released with little fanfare, Petey is “combining elements of emo, electronic, and folk music into a sound that is unmistakably Petey,” according to Derrick Rossignol for Uproxx. Checkin’ Up On Buds only includes four songs, but it sets the bar incredibly high for whatever comes next from the relatively mysterious singer-songwriter.
Michelle – “Unbound”
Although Michelle haven’t announced a formal project yet, they have been releasing music consistently since signing to Atlantic Records earlier this year. “Unbound” is the latest, a unique and genuinely exciting indie-pop song that takes on a more danceable, R&B approach than their (also great) previous summery track “Sunshine.”
Stevie Nicks – “Show Them The Way”
Stevie Nicks is taking full advantage of Fleetwood Mac’s viral moment by releasing “Show Them The Way,” her first new solo single in nearly a decade. Featuring Dave Grohl on drums, the track is distinctly Stevie Nicks, but also takes on a more epic stance as it spans nearly seven minutes and was inspired by poem she wrote after waking up from a dream she had about the 2008 presidential election.
Jeff Tweedy – “Gwendolyn”
Ever prolific, Jeff Tweedy is gearing up to release Love Is The King, his latest solo album while his band Wilco takes a short break after 2019’s Ode To Joy. “Gwendolyn” is the third single from the forthcoming effort, a groovy folk-country number featuring Tweedy’s signature hazy vocal and light percussion. “Folk and country type forms being the shapes that come most easily to me in a comforting way,” he said in a statement.
Kississippi – “Around Your Room”
While Kississippi came up in the underground emo scene, Zoe Reynolds’ ambitions have always laid in spaces far greater than the basement or club. “Around Your Room” is a perfect indication of where Reynolds is planning to take Kississippi on her forthcoming LP, an impressive indie-pop track that at times sounds like like Taylor Swift’s Red. Although there is no official release date, this record is sure to be a game-changer.
Another Michael – “New Music”
Philadelphia-based trio Another Michael have signed to Run For Cover Records for the release of their debut album. The lead single “New Music” is a dreamy, lushly-produced indie number that is centered around the spiritual experience of musical discovery, featuring Michael Doherty falsetto vocals morphing into an inescapable earworm hook (which is great to sing while cooking).
Wild Pink – “The Shining But Tropical”
Wild Pink’s catalogue is one of the most impressive and underrated in indie rock. “The Shining But Tropical” previews the New York band’s new album A Billion Little Lights, which is due out in February, and is already one of our favorite albums of 2021. It’s what Steven Hyden calls for Uproxx the band’s “most ambitious and overall best work, infused with deep lyrical craft and impeccable melodies that set Wild Pink apart from the indie-dude pack.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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