Nearly 30 years after he died, the remains of famed surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dali have been exhumed to see if he fathered a child with a woman in the 1950s.
Maria Pilar Abel, who was born in 1956, says her mom worked for Dali’s family during the time she was conceived, and believes her mom and Dali had an affair the year before she was born.
Dali’s body was exhumed Thursday after Abel won a 10 year court battle with the Gala Dalí Museums and Foundation. His signature long, waxed mustache was reportedly still intact.
As the BBC reports, the claim has surprised many, including Dali’s biographer Ian Gibson, who claims Dali used to boast that he was impotent.
DNA samples have reportedly been taken from Dali’s teeth, bones and nails. It may take weeks before the results of the tests are known.
Speaking with Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club,” Tyga said he and Kylie broke up because, like most exes, they were in different places in life and had different priorities. “I have love for her but I’m not in love no more,” he said. “When you’re with anybody that first year, it’s magic and then after that, you start realizing a bunch of shit.”
A lot of their differences had to do with their (often controversial) age gap and how they dealt with their celebrity status. “I think the main thing was a lot of people — a lot of outside influences — and … she’s younger than me and she’s dealing with perception,” he said. “I’m older so I can deal with perception. But for her, growing up how she grew up, image and perception was everything. So you have a bunch of people pulling from you and you’re still trying to develop as a young woman.”
Also an issue was Kylie’s social media fame and constant Snapchatting, apparently. “I like to keep a mystique and I know that’s how she made her money,” Tyga said. He also took issue with the media attention paid to him and thinks race had a lot to do with it. “For the last seven months we ain’t been together, have there been any negative stories out?” he said. “All I’m saying is whoever controls this kind of media doesn’t like seeing rappers with these type of women, especially young white women, and it’s just how it is.”
Overall, he said he likely wouldn’t get back together with Kylie, saying, “I mean, when it was good, it was good. When it was bad, it was really bad.” That said, he has no hard feelings for Kylie’s reported new boyfriend, Travis Scott.
On a (literally) related note, Tyga says it wasn’t awkward at all when his ex, Blac Chyna, started dating Rob Kardashian — even though he found out about it on the internet like the rest of us. In fact, Tyga says he told Rob what he was about to get himself into, before he ended up in the tumultuous relationship. “I told him what the play was. I told him what he was going to deal with,” he said. “I was just with her for three, four years, this is what you’re about to deal with.”
“She just has a different mentality. She really is a good person at heart, but she’s been through a lot in her life, and she didn’t have people to guide her in her life,” Tyga said. “He’s coming from a whole different world, you don’t know how she moves and how she thinks. When you’re in love and when you don’t care what nobody else thinks, love blinds you.”
Andrew Garfield Clarifies His ‘I’m Gay’ Comment
Andrew is trying to clarify:
“That’s of course not what I meant at all,” he told Newsbeat. “That discussion was about this play and how deeply grateful I am that I get to work on something so profound. It’s a love letter to the LGBTQ community. We were talking about, ‘How do you prepare for something so important and so big?’ and I was basically saying, ‘I dive in as fully as I possibly can.’”
He noted that his goal is to continue to support the LGBTQ community and help progress the conversation around it.
“My only longing is to serve and to keep the world spinning forward for the LGBTQ community in whatever way I’m meant to,” he said. “It’s important to a community that I feel so welcomed by. The intention [in my comments] was to speak to that, speak to my desire to play this part to the best of my ability and to fully immerse myself in a culture that I adore.”
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All of us have our own niche worlds online. Our small universes where we’re either all fans of similar pop culture, or activists in similar causes. The cannabis community is one such world, where those inside it may seem to live in their own reality, albeit a totally relaxed one.
But it seems Instagram user @minioor is taking that concept a step further. Since early 2016 he has documented a miniature world full of tiny figures and buildings that live in a world of cannabis. They farm, they shop at supermarkets, they visit museums, and more.
It’s a small community almost out of a Wes Anderson film with its delicacy and wistfulness. Except instead its full of marijuana plants, hash, and various paraphernalia. We picked some favorites below, but it’s really worth exploring @minioor page further to see this miniature world of weed.
The Latin American country Uruguay has become the first country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana nationally under a government sanctioned program. Uruguay is located in the southeastern corner of South America—sharing borders with Argentina, Brazil, and the Pacific Ocean. It is not without irony that a Latin American country is the first to take this unprecedented step in cannabis legalization, as countries such as Columbia and Bolivia have long been part of the international drug scene. In fact, the identity of Columbia on the world stage is practically synonymous with cocaine production. However, as Uruguay began its recreational cannabis program on Wednesday July, 19 they are setting a new precedent in the development of a regulated drug market.
While most Latin American’s are eager to lose the negative stigma of drug production and sales created in the 1980’s and 90’s, it’s worth noting as a point of comparison as progressive countries such as Uruguay implement legal cannabis use. This is because, as seen in the United States and Canada, the legal cannabis market can mean big business and large tax dollars for state controlled entities such as schools. The sort of big money that used to line the pockets of drug cartels. Interestingly enough, the Uruguayan recreational cannabis program has set forth to undercut black market prices of marijuana to take business away from illegal dealers . That being said, citizens of Uruguay (no international customers are allowed) can now purchase cannabis at pharmacies within a heavily regulated program. Moreover, Uruguayan citizens are limited to the amount of cannabis they can purchase in a week and the government has applied strict tracking systems to deter overindulgence.
The leaders of Uruguay hope that this “international pilot program” of recreational cannabis use can serve as a model for other countries considering a similar platform—essentially making a Latin American country an icon for responsible drug use and regulation. Nonetheless, and just as seen in U.S. States such as Massachusetts, the recreational cannabis program in Uruguay is not without its pitfalls and obstructions. To illustrate, some Uruguayan citizens fear that the implementation of recreational cannabis use will act as a sort of “slippery slope” by encouraging rampant drug use. However, these sorts of claims come hand-in-hand with all cannabis legalization programs the world over and are often times completely unfounded. Nonetheless, the international cannabis community will no doubt keep their eyes on the country of Uruguay in hopes of learning about the benefits and downfalls of recreational marijuana on a national scale.
Earlier this week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled that employers in the state must provide “reasonable accommodations” for medical marijuana patients, an unprecedented decision that is likely to have a far-reaching effect across the nation.
In the landmark case, a patient named Cristina Barbuto, was fired on her first day of the job at Advantage Sales and Marketing because of a failed drug test. Barbuto is a legal medical marijuana patient in the state and sought a civil remedy against her employer by claiming handicap discrimination.
Barbuto suffers from Crohn’s disease, a debilitating gastrointestinal condition. She has documentation from her doctor and court documents show that she did not use cannabis before or during work. The Supreme Judicial Court agreed with Barbuto’s claim and reverses the firing.
This is the first appellate court in any U.S. jurisdiction to hold that medical marijuana users may assert state law handicap or disability discrimination claims. The decision may provide guidance for employers to follow to avoid potential pitfalls when dealing with medical marijuana users.
According to the National Law Review:
The court also held that if a medical marijuana user is an individual with a handicap or disability — which would be the case for most if not all medical marijuana users — then that individual may assert a claim for handicap discrimination under Massachusetts state law. Thus, the court held that an employer must engage in an “interactive process” with a medical marijuana user to determine if the medical marijuana user can continue to perform his or her job duties with a reasonable accommodation to the handicap.
What does this mean for workers in other states? Does this decision create precedent that other appellate courts to follow? It’s unclear what other courts will do, but legal experts suggest that the Massachusetts ruling will have an impact nationally.
Some states, Arizona and Minnesota for example, protect employment of medical marijuana card holders whose use violates zero-tolerance policies.
But in 2015, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that employees do not have protection from being fired if they violate their’ workplace drug policies. And similar to Colorado, the California Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that companies are not required to accommodate an employee’s use of medical marijuana. California’s Proposition 64, which passed last November, states that employers may continue to enforce zero-tolerance policies prohibiting the use of marijuana.
In Oregon, a bill to prohibit Oregon employers from restricting or penalizing off duty marijuana consumption failed to pass.
“Patients should never have to choose between their health and their job and for the first time, a court has acknowledged that they shouldn’t have to do so,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri said about the Massachusetts ruling. “It is our hope that courts in other jurisdictions begin to apply this same rationale to patients as well as to all adults who are using cannabis responsibly off-the-job in compliance with the laws of their states.”
Explained Smith on Facebook Live: “Of course, Affleck doesn’t feel that way today and who knows if he even felt that way then? But he could’ve, he was in his 20s. We all say goofy sh*t in our f**king 20s. But it wasn’t something he went out into the world and talked about. It was something he said to me….I feel f**king terrible. You know me. I like keeping peace. I’m not the guy that likes to rattle sabers or upset.”
Tameka Foster Responds To Usher Herpes
With news of Usher Raymond passing around herpes making its way around the internet, Tameka took to Instagram to let everyone know that what happens with her ex-husband has NOTHING to do with her.
Do not come on my page discussing rumors or people that have NOTHING to do with me. I have been divorced 8 years… Some issues are not my business… ex husbands, ex friends, snakes, hoes, characters, etc. Not my circus, not my clowns … I’m good and my health (Everywhere is great), well my right knee hurts and I need reading glasses but otherwise I’m awesome and enjoying the sun. Miss me with other grown folks crazy gossip.. Not my business at all. I’m living my bestest life. Always. Miss me with the bullshit. Thank you. Carry on.
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When it comes to the hobbies of late-night talk show hosts, everyone knows that Jay Leno is the car aficionado and Bill Maher is the cannabis enthusiast. But Leno, the former host of “The Tonight Show,” has veered into Maher’s lane in Wednesday’s episode of this current show, CNBC’s “Jay Leno’s Garage.”
In this week’s episode, Leno takes a spin in a car made out of cannabis — industrial hemp to be precise. And not only did he drive it, he decided to buy one.
The show examines the 2017 Renew, the brainchild of retired Dell executive Bruce Dietzen, who designed the car with the environment in mind. According to Dietzen, the unconventional car is “carbon neutral” to manufacture and is made from woven cannabis hemp.
“It sets an example and it lets people know that we can make everything out of plants,” Dietzen sid. “We may not be able to pull up [to] our local gas stations right now and say, fill it up with hemp gasoline, because we have to wait for these fuel companies to catch up and start doing the right thing.”
Manufacturing a vehicle emits roughly 1o tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “That’s before it even hits the road,” says Leno, where it will release another six tons a year.
According to Dietzen, industrial hemp is 10 times stronger than steel. Of course, Dietzen is not the first auto manufacturer to use hemp-based materials. Henry Ford, the father of the Model T, produced a car made of hemp back in 1941.
Just how much will a Renew cost you? Dietzen told the Miami Herald that he would be taking custom orders for as low as $40,000 to as high as $197,000, depending on the requested horsepower. Dietzen says he spent a total of $200,000 to make the Renew prototype.
“Believe it or not,” jokes Leno, “Bruce was not high when he invested $200,000 to build this prototype.” Dietzen confirms that he doesn’t smoke cannabis, he just makes cars with it.
Nearly every piece of Dietzen’s car that could be made of hemp is, including the body, dash and rugs. Engine parts, the car frame, windshield switches and other mechanical and electrical parts are not. Manufacturing a car from cannabis, and fueling it with biofuels, could have huge carbon rewards, Dietzen said.
Democratic Senator Kenny Yuko of Ohio doesn’t think cannabis should be classified with drugs also on the Schedule I list, ones that have the stigma of “no known medical use” and “high potential for abuse.” Drugs like heroin and Morphine-N-Oxide.
Twenty-nine states and Washington D.C. have medical marijuana and/or legalization laws in place, so one can see where Yuko is coming from. Federally, this enormous group of patients and imbibers are not protected and are committing a crime, regardless of what their state laws may say.
Also because of the Schedule I classification, researchers of the plant have a very difficult time. Not only getting the permits for research, but also obtaining cannabis to test. As of now, they are only allowed government provided pot, which is not of the same quality that is available at dispensaries and home grows. In fact government weed has been found to have mold in it – which can be deadly for patients with weakened immune systems. The stigma also limits the number of researchers willing to stick their necks out.
Ohio itself has been affected by the classification. Colleges (cannabis testing’s only havens) shied away from testing products once their law was voted in, scared they may lose federal funding, and lawyers were unable to advise clients on the ins and outs of the new law. And because banking institutions are unable to serve pot shops, some Ohio communities have gone back the way of prohibition due to fear about large amounts of cash floating around.
Though the resolution doesn’t say how marijuana should be scheduled, congresspersons have suggested II and III respectively. Both of them still contain illicit drugs, but that non-medical usage stigma would drop away and medical states could take a collective deep breath. Activists and proponents for cannabis believe that the plant shouldn’t be scheduled at all, and with zero deaths and the worst side effect being cottonmouth they’re probably right.
One step at a time. Congress doesn’t have to act on resolutions, but they do reach their ears and we can only hope someday soon their hearts. Patients across the country depend on it.
Netflix is a darling no more. The streaming service has become a major media platform, turning the movie and TV industries on their heads. Particularly within TV, their success has snowballed in recent years. They received 91 Emmy nominations this year, up from 54 noms in 2016, beating out every cable and TV network other than HBO. Their shows receive top mentions by critics and consistently create hyped fervor each time a new season drops, whether it’s House of Cards or Master of None.
Their cozy and influential relationship with standup comedy is undeniable. They essentially bought out the market, funding the comeback stories of Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock, but also jump starting previously lesser-known talents like Ali Wong. The creative freedom they allow artists has caused many to sing their praises, and that reputation has branded them into an ally of the creative community. Can’t sell a niche or obscure project to traditional buyers? Sell it to Netflix.
This attitude is unanimously true everywhere except the film industry. That’s where things get tricky. In any other subset of the entertainment industry, they don’t just get invited to the big kids’ table—they are the big kids’ table. Though Netflix has cornered the independent film market in some ways, they still cannot garner serious respect amongst the major film community.
The strategy they employ within the TV and standup comedy industries has not had the same effect in movies. That strategy goes a little something like this: Target known celebrity commodities and dump boatloads of money at their feet. Allow them to do whatever they want, but no promises of serious advertising. They can promote themselves if they want. That method netted them stars like Brad Pitt and celebrated filmmakers like Ava DuVernay and Bong Joon-Ho. Yet the streaming platform has yet to win an Oscar for any of their feature films or release a movie anyone would consider a masterpiece.
And this year major voices within filmmaking and fan lovers alike have struck back. The wedge between Netflix and these dissenting voices is the platform’s outright dismissal of the theater-going experience. They believe it a thing of the past. This contention reached a maelstrom at Cannes, the premiere French film festival, where the visionary director Pedro Aldomovar read a manifesto defending the theatrical experience. “What I prefer is to be seen in not only 190 countries but always to be seen on a big screen,” he said.
At the time, Will Smith defended Netflix because, well, his project Bright will release on the platform this year and Netflix reportedly paid $90 million for it. (Also something about Jaden and Willa Smith liking Netflix, I guess?) Later at a Cannes press conference, Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos labeled Aldomovar’s statements as, “beautifully romantic.” All this caused Cannes to ban Netflix from future festivals, unless they followed a French rule that stipulates a three-year window between a movie’s theatrical release and it appearing on streaming platforms. Netflix refuses to oblige.
Now Christopher Nolan has come out against Netflix, amidst the promotion tour of his new war film Dunkirk. In an interview with Indiewire, Nolan stated he didn’t support Netflix’s release strategy and wouldn’t work with the company.
“Netflix has a bizarre aversion to supporting theatrical films,” Nolan said. “They have this mindless policy of everything having to be simultaneously streamed and released, which is obviously an untenable model for theatrical presentation. So they’re not even getting in the game, and I think they’re missing a huge opportunity.”
He condoned the Amazon model, which constitutes of a 90-day window between theatrical release and a title appearing on the company’s streaming platform. Nolan’s comments aren’t that surprising. He clearly favors large-scale epic films designed for maximum impact on the big screen. At the exhibitors’ conference CinemaCon in March, Nolan emphasized Dunkirk must be seen in theaters to truly appreciate the film.
Even when Warner Bros. worldwide marketing and distribution president Sue Kroll commented that audiences have spoken in wanting more options to consume content, Nolan didn’t back down. “The only platform I’m interested in talking about is theatrical exhibition,” he said.
Perhaps Netflix once felt they needed to horde their exclusive properties to drive membership subscribers to their streaming platform. They could promote themselves as the exclusive home to whatever star’s next big project. But how much water does that hold anymore?
With more than 100 million subscribers, releasing films in theaters will not drive away subscribers. No one will watch Okja or War Machine in theaters and think, “Welp! Don’t need Netflix anymore!” Netflix has already won its hard fought war. Through aggressively hording must-watch programming, and continuing to produce more of it, it has already established itself as a vital pillar in the entertainment industry. As millennials have proven with their dollars, having Netflix in your home far outweighs paying for a TV subscription.
So why not elevate the experience of your movies by showing them in theaters? Why not create hyped events around your releases and sustain increased excitement over your films and TV shows? Netflix almost seems to vehemently oppose watching their programs in any context outside of streaming it through their devices. You start to wonder if Netflix fears their programs becoming bigger entities than the bright red brand itself. Which is so utterly baffling. Netflix assumes the responsibilities of a production/distribution/tech company, but sometimes only operates with the mindset of a tech company.
Ultimately this is the end result of how contemporary tech media companies choose to view themselves. Netflix is not in the movie, TV, and comedy businesses. Netflix is in the content business. That is the word the company repeatedly uses in describing its projects. Because Netflix isn’t selling Stranger Thingsor Adam Sandler movies. Netflix is selling Netflix because that’s the only way the company assumes it can make money.
Netflix currently operates at a $2-2.5 billion negative free cash flow. While its CEO isn’t worried, believing their strategy will provide “enormous” dividends in the long run, it seems like ignorant foresight not to make money and positive good will where they can. It paints Netflix as the kid who takes his ball and goes home—and who likes that kid?
“I think the investment that Netflix is putting into interesting filmmakers and interesting projects would be more admirable if it weren’t being used as some kind of bizarre leverage against shutting down theaters,” Nolan told Indiewire. “It’s so pointless. I don’t really get it.”
A word on Netflix’s supposed disruption, perhaps the silliest buzzword in Silicon Valley these days. (Quick: If a technology startup disrupts in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, does anyone care? Is it even a startup anymore?) Netflix didn’t really change the ritual behind watching TV. The machinations remain the same—you sit on the couch, turn on the TV, maybe smoke some weed or drink some wine, and slowly doze off. Maybe some teenagers and college kids watch on their phones or laptops instead now. For the most part, people still watch TV on their TV. Netflix changed how we receive TV—internet instead of cable or dish networks—not how we watch TV.
But the blanket statement that people don’t want to watch movies in movie theaters anymore is almost embarrassing in its arrogance. You can’t change the how of an entertainment experience and expect everyone to follow along. Netflix will tell you people consume content differently now, but how true is that? Netflix continues to refuse releasing the figures behind how many people watch their properties. Like Donald Trump, they expect us to trust their word on that one.
Years ago, network and cable companies blindly allowed Netflix to come underneath them and stake massive control in the TV world. Those companies did not value how their customers preferred consuming TV, even as technologies like TiVo and DVR rose in popularity: People want to watch TV wherever and whenever they want. Somehow Netflix seems to be making the same mistake. Loads of people may not mind watching movies on TV, but a significant number do. Moviegoers want to watch movies at the movie theater. Demanding otherwise isn’t disruptive. It’s just dumb business.
I was introduced to Limoncello at a very young age. Like neon yellow Galliano liqueur, I downright demanded of my parents to allow me to taste it in my tender single digit years. Before you think they let me chug the stuff, it was more of a thimble full, which turned me off to alcohol altogether for probably another eight or so years. Like that very first taste of beer, I remember it vividly. It’s almost astringent citron taste, something that so many artificially flavored liquors try to nail is perfume like.
Limoncello is the ubiquitous drinking spirit of anywhere south of Rome, where lemon groves grow accidentally and drape their dramatically fragranced leaves everywhere you turn. The mind wanders to how ideal these conditions must be for cannabis cultivation, with Italy’s similarity to California climate. Let’s combine the two and toast what could be if things progressed to a normalized degree.
Cannabis Limoncello
Danielle Guercio, 2017 Makes 12 oz, 5mg THC per shot
Zest of 10 lemons
10 oz unflavored high proof vodka or everclear
2 tsp Cannabis glycerin tincture*
⅛ cup sugar
⅛ cup water
Photo by Danielle Guercio
You should really know that you don’t want to used unwashed lemons for this recipe. Lemons almost always have ludicrous amounts of waxes and coatings to keep them fresh, so you have to wash them well.
You can also dip in boiling water for 5 seconds and wipe with a towel. I can tell you they don’t have this problem in Italy, and the lemons are exponentially more fragrant.
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Zest up your lemons, you can grate the skin if you are careful not to grate too much bitter pith, but I prefer to skin them with a knife or vegetable peeler. Collect in a large clean jar, and pour over your spirits.
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After 2-3 weeks, you’ll see the peels start to give up their color, and the fragrance oils embedded in the skin will also be released.
You can now strain out the peels and make the syrup that will sweeten it to a palatable degree and take down the alcohol content a little bit if you used Everclear to make the infusion.
Photo by Danielle Guercio
To make the syrup, boil some water and mix equal parts with 1/8th cup sugar until it’s dissolved. Add the glycerin tincture, pour into the bottle with the lemon spirit, and shake well. Serve neat in a shot glass or tiny aperitif glass with a lemon peel for garnish.
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*Cannabis Glycerin Tincture
In an oven safe container double sealed with foil, decarboxylate 3.5 grams finely ground cannabis at 225 degrees Fahrenheit. Put cannabis in a mason jar or vacuum sealed bag, pour over 2 oz vegetable glycerin and seal tightly. Place in a water bath at just under boiling for 1 hour. Strain and keep contents in a sterilized container. Stores indefinitely in freezer.
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Lord knows this recipe is hands-off. It takes some time to create, but like our cannabis amaro, this ish is next level.
Since we’re always trying to bring cannabis out into the beautiful sunshine, maybe or maybe not in Tuscany or the god awful Amalfi coast (pure sarcasm FYI), there’s no better marriage than the delightful and sometimes deadly composition of one of Italy’s most treasured local products with a sweet tincture. Try over some shaved ice for the most amazing summer granita you can dream up.
