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Gossip: Brad Pitt’s Art Is Terrible; Meagan Markle Moving To London

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Gossip: Brad Pitt’s Art Is Terrible; Meagan Markle Moving To London

Meagan Markle is getting ready to move to London to be closer to boyfriend Prince William, and Straight Shuter caught her checking out apartments.

“Meagan has been looking in the trendy Chelsea area at small one-bedroom flats,” sources tell Straight Shuter. “She plans to spend more and more time in London and hotels are very expensive and not very private. She will not be moving into Kensington Place with Prince Harry, so renting a small flat is the best bet.”

Properties in the area cost around 3,000 pounds a month – which is around $3.900 a month! Ouch.

Brad Pitt’s Art Is Terrible

Brad Pitt has thrown himself into sculpting since his ugly split with Angelina Jolie, but let’s hope he doesn’t plan to quit his day job, acting, anytime soon.

“Like most celebrities who take up art, his work is not very good. In fact from what I hear, it is terrible,” one insider tells Straight Shuter. “It might sell because he is Brad Pitt, but let’s not pretend he is the new Michelangelo. He won’t be the first or the last celebrity that turns to art for comfort. Rosie O’Donnell has done it and so has President George W. Bush. The problem arises when they foolishly think it is worth anything. Remember that this is therapeutic but not art, and no one will get hurt!”

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5 Easy Steps To Creating The Best Grilled Vegetables In The Universe

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5 Easy Steps To Creating The Best Grilled Vegetables In The Universe

No matter what you’re grilling this summer, the one food that goes with everything is vegetables. And grilled vegetables not only look like summer, they taste like summer. A perfect char is a thing of beauty, and incredibly easy to mess up. Here are 5 tips to ensure that barbecue season’s most important side dish doesn’t end up in compost bin.

1. Chop Them Evenly

This may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s a step that’s often overlooked. Cutting them up into uniform chunks will allow them to cook thoroughly.

2. Practice The Buddy System

Nothing’s sadder than seeing your organic vegetables fall through the grates. Stop it from happening by making kebobs, placing them in a foil packet to steam, or using a vegetable basket.

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3. Avoid Water

In your vegetables, that is. Instead of veggies with high water content, like cucumbers and celery, opt for sturdy vegetables, like corn, tubers and even Romaine.

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4. Add Vinegar

Just like when you’re turning your sweet potatoes into chips, a dash of vinegar will heighten the flavor. After you coat your veg in olive oil, salt and pepper, add a few dashes of vinegar to turn up the taste before they hit the grill.

5. Sear Them First

To keep your veggies from burning on the grill, sear them over high heat and then promptly move them to a cooler area of the grill to continue cooking. This will prevent a charred exterior and raw interior. Even better, precook the vegetables and then sear them on the grill before serving to give them some grill marks and extra flavor.

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Spaghetti Doughnut: How To Make This Fad Food With Marijuana Added

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Spaghetti Doughnut: How To Make This Fad Food With Marijuana Added

Spaghetti Pie has just been sitting there in the back of everyone’s minds for years. Known for being a proving ground of trendy and sometimes sweeping food fads, Smorgusburg Food Fair in NYC has been stuffed with all of the most instagrammable foods for years now. Recently, Pop Pasta has come out with a trendy donut shaped serving of the traditional leftover user that is Frittata di Spaghetti aka Spaghetti doughnuts. It looks really tasty, and ripe for the weedhacking.

This is probably one of the more fun ways to use leftover pasta, since it gets boring to eat the same thing more than a few times. It’s exceedingly simple to turn strands of al dente yesterday into on the go perfection. If you don’t have a donut pan, simply make in a greased Casserole or baking dish and cut like people have been doing for decades before Instagram.

No matter what kinds of pasta you are into, throwing it in a bowl with some eggs, cheese, and garlic pretty much cements a tasty outcome. No matter how saucy or not saucy, you can supplement fewer or more eggs as needed.

Photos by Maria Penaloza

Spaghetti Doughnut

Based on Pop Pasta creation, recipe by Danielle Guercio 2017
Dosage: 4mg per donut

  • ½ lb leftover al dente pasta
  • 6 eggs
  • 1/4 c cream
  • 3 Tbsp sauce (optional)
  • 2 Tbsp cannabis infused butter*
  • ½ cup grated Romano cheese
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • Salt and pepper
Photos by Maria Penaloza

Preheat oven to 350. Whip eggs in a bowl until frothy. Drizzle in cream, half of the cheese, gently melted butter, chopped garlic, salt and pepper. Toss in spaghetti and sauce if you are using and mix well.

Photos by Maria Penaloza

Grease pan really well for this so that your creation comes out easily. Dispense spaghetti into a donut pan or casserole if you are going old school. All you have to do for donuts is shape the pasta around the center of the mold, and they still come out delicious if you don’t try that hard. Sprinkle the extra cheese and some salt and pepper on top.

Bake for 15-25 minutes depending on doneness, rotating once. If you want them a bit crisper you can go to 30, or take out of the molds and bake on a sheet with even more cheese. Try not to go over 350 or 30 minutes for the sake of the cannabutter. Always allow to cool for at least 5 minutes before attempting to remove from the pan, and giving them a twist, rather than trying to pull them out, will get you intact donuts.

*Cannabutter Recipe

Decarboxylate 3.5g of finely ground cannabis at 225 degrees for 20 minutes in a tightly sealed, oven safe container. Put cannabis in lidded mason jar or vacuum sealed bag with cannabis and one stick of butter.

Heat in water bath just under boiling for at least 1 hour. Strain and chill to use in recipes.

Photos by Maria Penaloza

Serve wrapped in paper to hit the road, cut in half and smeared with spread or stuffed with breakfast meats, or if you are feeling extra carby, stick it on an English muffin. The bite of the garlic will help wake up last night’s flavors, and a generous dose of cheese and cream makes the egg mixture fluffy and soft, not rubbery and tough, so you enjoy every second of this repeat.

Photos: Maria Penaloza

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10 Foodie Celebrities You Should Follow On Instagram

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10 Foodie Celebrities You Should Follow On Instagram

A lot of celebs fill their Instagram accounts with selfies and red carpet shots, but there are some flip-side foodie celebrities who love taking photos of food more than themselves. Here are 10 Instagram accounts belonging to famous people that will make you more hungry than envious.

Chrissy Teigen

The Cravings cookbook author loves simple foods that she can whip up for herself and her family. And the swimsuit model has no shame in devouring junk food. She’s got pics of Shake Shack burgers and Atlanta BBQ, but her cooking skills steal the show.

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Aziz Ansari

Season two of Master of None focuses on food in Italy and NYC. In fact, the season opens with Anzari’s character, Dev, making pasta in Modena, and proceeds to follow him as he sips espresso, and enjoys a birthday lunch at an exclusive restaurant before heading home to NYC where he hosts not just a cupcake baking competition, but a food and travel show on TV.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

An author of several healthy cookbooks, Paltrow doesn’t shy away from showing the world how skilled she is in the kitchen. But unlike her reputation, her photos aren’t nearly as pretentious. They genuinely seem to reflect her life as a mom, like the time she grabbed lunch at Legoland.

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Jessica Seinfeld

The only thing Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld loves more than eating is cooking for her family. Making a name for herself as a guru of family meals, she’s currently plugging her latest cookbook, Food Swings, but you can find tons more recipes on her website, which is a virtual (and searchable) recipe box.

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Questlove

The Roots drummer loves food so much, he wrote a book about it: Something to Food About.

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Jessica Biel

As the owner of Au Fudge, a glitzy kid-friendly restaurant in L.A., Biel likes to imbibe in a little Research & Development now and then, and often takes photos of the process.

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Jon Favreau

He isn’t actually a Chef, but he played one in the movie of the same name (which he also wrote, produced and directed). He told Jimmy Kimmel the movie was the reason he learned how to cook.

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Ali Larter

Like a lot of actors who love to cook, Larter has her own food blog and a cookbook: Kitchen Revelry. She’s been a guest judge on Top Chef Masters and Food Network Star. Needless to say, her Instagram is filled with the food she eats while dining out, as well as the food she makes herself.

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson

The Modern Family star has a passion for cooking and entertaining. How much of a foodie is he? He got to host the James Beard Awards (the “foodie Oscars”) this year. Oh, and he also has…wait for it…a food blog!

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Sammy Hagar

The former Van Halen frontman turned rum entrepreneur lives an envious drinking lifestyle, but sometimes, he eats food too!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSXUb_fAwIP

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The Latest In The Fight For Texas’ Medical Marijuana Bill

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The Latest In The Fight For Texas’ Medical Marijuana Bill

It’s been a brutally tough month for cannabis advocates in Texas. Texas’ Medical Marijuana Bill 2107, the first comprehensive medical marijuana bill to clear a committee in the state’s history, originally was seen as a longshot for passage. But support for the bipartisan measure was picking up stream and passage — considered by many experts to be a political miracle — appeared possible.

But last week, despite a series of frantic moves by those championing the cause, the bill died on the vine. It was a maddening conclusion to a campaign that could have been a landmark law in a state not normally friendly to the cannabis industry.

The state’s Public Health Committee approved the bill by a vote of 7 to 2. Political insiders said the bill would most likely be approved by the full House if brought up for a vote, because 77 of 150 House members were co-authors of the legislation.

But 11th-hour bureaucratic wrangling sent the measure down to defeat. The legislation would have increased the number of medical conditions that qualify for the Texas Compassionate Use Program. It also would allow patients to consume medical marijuana if they had a doctor’s recommendation.

Neal Pollack, a Texas-based reporter for The Cannabist, wrote a compelling behind-the-scenes timeline of how the legislation came oh-so-close to passing.

Even though the law failed to pass this year, advocates in Texas are not giving up. Wrote Pollack:

Meanwhile, activists are going to have to spend another legislative session looking to gain rights that, by 2019, likely will be commonplace throughout much of the country. Heather Fazio [Texas political director of The Marijuana Policy Project] says it’s “going to be a campaign issue.”

“People want someone’s head on a pitchfork,”Texas NORML’s [Jay] Finkel said after the bill’s demise. “They are frustrated and angry. And you know what? They should be. They are dying. It’s awful. But they’re going to have to get involved during the full cycle…We finally find this bipartisan bill that so many people could agree on, and it was too late.”

One thing is certain: The groundswell of support for medical marijuana continues to grow in Texas.

Gossip: Jimmy Fallon Gets Candid About Drinking Allegations; Beyoncé And Jay Z Are Officially A Billion-Dollar Couple

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Gossip: Jimmy Fallon Gets Candid About Drinking Allegations; Beyoncé And Jay Z Are Officially A Billion-Dollar Couple

Jimmy Fallon addressed rumors about his alleged drinking habits and backlash over his controversial sit-down with President Donald Trump in a new interview with The New York Times, which was published on Wednesday, May 17.

Telling the NYT, “I could never do a day-to-day job if I was drinking every night. That’s just kicking you when you’re down.”

The TV host also brushed off concerns that his late-night show’s ratings have plummeted and that viewers are switching over to Stephen Colbert’s left-leaning Late Show. “We’re winning in something. People in the height requirement between 5-7 and 5-11, we’re No. 1, from 11:50 to 11:55,” he joked. “I never, ever care. I’ll know when someone fires me.”

Beyoncé And Jay Z Are Officially A Billion-Dollar Couple

Beyoncé and Jay Z have officially crossed the billion-dollar mark as a couple, according to Forbes.

According to Forbes’ list of “America’s Wealthiest Self-Made Women,” Beyoncé has amassed a personal fortune of $350 million. As reported last week, Jay Z’s fortune sits right at $810 million (he trails No. 1 Diddy by just $10 million). That brings the couple to a combined net worth of $1.16 billion and counting.

Via Forbes:

So how, exactly, did they pull it off? Ask Beyoncé, and the answer is straightforward: “I’m never satisfied,” she once told FORBES. “I’ve never met anyone that works harder than me in my industry.”

Lemonade Beyoncé’s sixth solo No. 1 album–as the singer pressed forward into weightier subject matter than she’d typically explored in her early career, tying herself to the Black Lives Matter movement along the way.

Beyoncé and husband Jay Z also waded into the national debate during the 2016 presidential election, performing at a Hillary Clinton event in Ohio last November and offering vocal support. Taking on a more political tone didn’t tamp down the Knowles-Carters’ financial prospects; on the contrary, they seem to be only increasing in stature–both in terms of influence and wealth.

Though Jay Z hasn’t been hitting the road as hard as his wife of late, that should change this summer with a slate of huge festival dates in the wake of a new ten-year, $200 million deal signed with Live Nation last week.

“This renewed partnership is a testament to our longstanding relationship and the talented individuals at Live Nation,” Jay Z said in a statement. “For the next ten years, we will continue redefining the live event landscape.”

Beyoncé and Jay Z have earned plenty of cash separately, and though the bulk of the couple’s wealth is tied up in his companies–Roc Nation, Armand de Brignac and others–there is plenty of synergy as well.

The Knowles-Carters both hold significant equity in Tidal, the streaming service Jay Z purchased for $56 million two years ago. The value of their stakes soared when Sprint invested a reported $200 million for a 33% of the company–valuing Tidal at $600 million and helping launch Beyoncé and Jay Z into ten-figure territory.

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These Feds Are Fighting To Make Marijuana Legal Nationwide

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These Feds Are Fighting To Make Marijuana Legal Nationwide

A modest group of federal lawmakers assembled this week in the nation’s capital to generate some additional interest in a proposal that would drag the United States out of the pits of marijuana prohibition.

Representative Thomas Garrett of Virginia introduced a bill earlier this year called the “Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act,” which essentially would eliminate the cannabis plant from the confines of the Controlled Substances Act and allow weed to be taxed and regulated all across the nation in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco.

The lawmaker, along with the 11 co-sponsors that have now signed on in support of this legislation, believes it is time for Congressional forces to get serious about this reform in order to prevent hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-biding citizens from getting jammed up in the criminal justice system.

“I have long believed justice that isn’t blind, isn’t justice. Statistics indicate that minor narcotics crimes disproportionately hurt areas of lower socioeconomic status and what I find most troubling is that we continue to keep laws on the books that we do not enforce,” Garrett said.

But its not just the risk of innocent Americans being grudge humped by decades of injustice that has lawmakers jumping up and down on the Hill to make weed legal.

Ever since President Trump put anti-drug hound Jeff Sessions in command of the U.S. Department of Justice, there have been concerns that the marijuana industry is at risk of being man handled by federal law.

Although marijuana is now legal in over half the nation, it remains an outlaw substance in the eyes of the U.S. government. The only protection in place is a measly, temporary amendment tucked inside a federal spending bill that technically makes it illegal for the Justice Department to spend tax dollars to go after the medical marijuana community.

However, as President Trump so arrogantly put it in a recent signing statement, “I will treat this provision consistently with my constitutional responsibility to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” This means if Sessions deems it necessary to start kicking down the doors of medical marijuana dispensaries, “the king” will support the call.

Yet, Representative Earl Blumenauer, a member of the highly publicized Congressional Cannabis Caucus, says President Trump is “essentially irrelevant” and cannot stop the progress that has been made over the years with respect to marijuana reform in the United States.

“There are some challenges ahead,” Blumenauer told the Independent Journal Review. “But after four decades, I have never been more optimistic than I am this morning that the end is in sight to be able to eliminate the failed policy of prohibition, to be able to allow states to regulate marijuana as they see fit, and being able to extend medical marijuana to everybody in America.”

Unfortunately, there is still not enough momentum on Capitol Hill to get Garrett’s “Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017” the action it needs to win the support of Congress.

Similar bills have been introduced throughout the past couple of years – none have so much as been given a hearing.

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12-Year High: More Workers Are Failing Company Drug Tests

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12-Year High: More Workers Are Failing Company Drug Tests

More American workers are testing positive for illegal drugs than at any time in the last 12 years, according a study from Quest Diagnostics Inc., one of the nation’s leading workplace-testing labs.

The testing company’s analysis examined more than ten million workforce urine drug test results and revealed that overall positivity among the combined U.S. workforce in 2016 was 4.2 percent, a 5 percent relative increase over 2015’s rate of 4 percent, and the highest annual positivity rate since 2004 (4.5 percent).

“This year’s findings are remarkable because they show increased rates of drug positivity for the most common illicit drugs across virtually all drug test specimen types and in all testing populations,” said Barry Sample, senior director of science and technology for Quest Diagnostics Employer Solutions. “Our analysis suggests that employers committed to creating a safe, drug-free work environment should be alert to the potential for drug use among their workforce.”

To put the data in historical perspective, the positive test rate in 1988 was 13.6 percent. The rate declined over the next 22 years, reaching a low of 3.5 percent in 2010. It has risen each year since 2012.

Positive results for marijuana continued to climb. Acc0rding to the report:

In oral fluid testing, which detects recent drug use, marijuana positivity increased nearly 75 percent, from 5.1 percent in 2013 to 8.9 percent in 2016 in the general U.S. workforce. Marijuana positivity also increased in both urine testing (2.4 percent in 2015 versus 2.5 percent in 2016) and hair testing (7.0 percent in 2015 versus 7.3 percent in 2016) in the same population.

In Colorado and Washington, the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, the positivity rate for marijuana outpaced the national average in 2016 for the first time since the statutes took effect. The increase was larger in Colorado, which increased 11 percent (2.61 percent in 2015 versus 2.90 percent in 2016), than in Washington, which increased 9 percent (2.82 percent in 2015 versus 3.08 percent in 2016). California’s rate of 3.9 percent was lower than the national rate of 4.2 percent.

“We have been tracking the trends in marijuana positivity in states that have passed medical and recreational marijuana use statutes for several years now. 2016 is the first year since Colorado and Washington approved recreational use that the rates of year-over-year change were sharply higher than the national average,” said Dr. Sample.

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Was Khloe Kardashian Smoking Marijuana During Latest ‘KUWTK’ Episode?

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Was Khloe Kardashian Smoking Marijuana During Latest ‘KUWTK’ Episode?

Even with all the special attention paid to their brand, even the Kardashians let things slip from time to time. That’s what happened in last Sunday’s Keeping Up With The Kardashians. In the episode, Khloe Kardashian appeared to be holding a joint in her hand while hugging Scott Disick. Some Twitter users were quick to point out the weed.

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The family was vacationing in Costa Rica during the episode’s filming. In Costa Rica, marijuana is decriminalized for personal use so Khloe wasn’t breaking any laws by enjoying a joint.

Later, sources confirmed to TMZ that Khloe was in fact smoking weed. According to the website, “[P]roducers didn’t mind Khloe shooting scenes with it because it was natural—she was having a good time with the fam in Costa Rica, and sometimes ganja happens.”

Khloe later denied smoking the joint when asked about it on Twitter, stating she was bringing the J for someone else.

For the record, we don’t care if you were or weren’t smoking that joint, Khloe. No need to pretend otherwise.

Gossip: Taylor Swift Is Dating British Actor Joe Alwyn; Katy Perry Signs On To Judge ‘American Idol’ Reboot

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Gossip: Taylor Swift Is Dating British Actor Joe Alwyn; Katy Perry Signs On To Judge ‘American Idol’ Reboot

According to The Sun, the “Shake It Off” singer, who has kept out of the spotlight for months, and Alwyn — who most recently wrapped filming alongside Swift’s pal Emma Stone in The Favorite — have been seeing each other for months.

Swift, 27, has allegedly been stepping out in London in disguises to keep things on the down-low and has even rented a London pad to be near her new beau, 26, who The Sun reports still lives with his parents.

“Taylor and Joe are the real deal, this is a very serious relationship,” The Sun reports. “But after what happened with Tom Hiddleston, they were determined to keep it quiet.”

As fans are well aware, Swift and Hiddleston called it quits in September 2016 after a whirlwind — and globe-trotting — three month-long relationship that kicked off at the 2016 Met Gala.

Katy Perry Signs On To Judge ‘American Idol’ Reboot

She got the golden ticket! Katy Perry has officially signed on to be a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” reboot. The announcement was confirmed at the network’s upfront presentation on Tuesday, May 16.

Fox Executives Blast ABC’s “American Idol”:
“I am honored and thrilled to be the first judge bringing back the American Idol tradition of making dreams come true for incredible talents with authentic personalities and real stories,” Perry said via a press release. “I’m always listening to new music, and love discovering diamonds in the rough — from mentoring young artists on my label, or highlighting new artists on my tours, I want to bring it back to the music.”

The “Bon Appetit” singer hinted at the gig during an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ show on Tuesday, May 16. After DeGeneres asked her about the rumors, Perry subtly hinted she was on board.

“Judge not, lest you be judged, but they didn’t say anything about constructive criticism, and I’m good at that,” Perry said with a smile.

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