During an interview with “The Daily Show’s” Trevor Noah Jennifer Lopez came face-to-face with the question, and her response was…telling.
After some lighthearted ribbing about how she didn’t know how much it cost to ride the subway anymore, Trevor got down to the burning question at hand, telling her he had something very tough to ask her.
“Genuinely, did you get with Drake cause you didn’t know me yet?” the host asked JLo, who immediately laughed and started blushing at the same time. “Let me clear this up. I am not with Drake,” she revealed while Trevor let out a giant “Hallelujah” that she’s still available.
Unfortunately that broke her momentum as it looked like she was going to keep spilling about what really went down in their relationship. “Maybe that’s all I need to say,” she added, realizing that she probably just overshared too much information already.
By a show of hands, anyone shocked? Surprised? Is there even the faintest feeling of incredulousness? No. Yeah, us neither.
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Say what you will about the Golden Arches, that beacon of hope for many people who are desperate for want a quick bite. While it’s become an iconic symbol of fast-food, McDonald’s actually ranks last when it comes to quality. It is the burger chain that sucks the most.
And you know who we can credit for that fall from grace? Millennials.
Back in November, the Wall Street Journal found that only 1 in 5 millennials has even ever tried a Big Mac, preferring more gourmet burgers (read as: Instagramable) from competing chains, like In-N-Out and Shake Shack.
Fast forward to today.
Restaurant Brands International asked 1,000 people to rank the quality of burger and sandwich chains. In-N-Out Burger tops the list, followed by Chick-fil-A, Culver’s and White Castle. Sonic comes in ninth, followed by Jack in the Box, Burger King and…McDonald’s.
McDonald’s recently announced they’d be focusing their attention on sustainable beef (last year it was cage-free eggs), as well as beefing up their app with mobile ordering. They’re also expanding table service and adding digital kiosks.
Taking a page from the same handbook, number seven-ranked Wendy’s announced last week that they’ll also be rolling out self-serve kiosks to cut down on wait-times, as well as the dreaded personal interaction, in hopes of gaining more of a foothold in the burger chain power climb.
McDonald’s says they plan to upgrade 2,500 of their restaurants by the end of the year and revamp a majority of the country’s 14,000 locations by 2020.
In today’s America it seems that everything is bad for you. From detergents to diets, making health conscious decisions can feel like an overwhelming burden. Unreliable sources and false advertising have left many Americans seeking spaces where healthy living is not an impossible chore, but a respected standard. Communities across the country have been changing the local landscape to reflect a health-first model. In these special towns, getting healthy doesn’t mean emptying your wallet for specialists and overpriced trainers. It means great access to healthcare, insurance, and a general consensus that being and feeling healthy will lead to a better quality of life. Here are the 5 healthiest towns in the USA.
In an annual study put together by MONEY, they gather nation-wide data to decipher which towns in America are the healthiest to live in. According to their study, they use variables like “the number of doctors and hospitals within a 30-mile radius of a community, along with the percentage of the population covered by health insurance. We also considered the most basic factors: the number of residents who report that they feel healthy.”
Here we take a look at the five healthiest recorded towns in 2016, according to MONEY.
Quincy, Massachusetts
If you’re seeking healthier pasture, can count on Quincy. The Old County state residents have the fewest diabetes-related deaths nationwide.
Woodbury, Minnesota
There must be something in the water in Woodbury because these healthy Minnesotans have the lowest rate of heart disease nationally. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that “about 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year–that’s 1 in every 4 deaths.”
Greenwich, Connecticut
Bougie is not always bad, especially when it comes with the third highest health rating in the nation. This town ranks highly due to the high number of hospitals and doctors with an average of 500 beds available at any given time within 15 miles.
Tired of hearing that everything causes cancer? Perhaps it is time to pack your bags and head to Koolaupoko, a breezy Hawaiian town with the lowest cancer deaths in the country.
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
A planned community 15-miles south of Denver has come out on top as the healthiest place to live in the entire United States. Why, you wonder? Highlands Ranch residents have the lowest adult obesity rate in the country. Together, health, obesity and overweight issues are the second leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States, close behind tobacco use, according to Health Statistics Center.
Mostly I still can’t believe the biggest, surefire cash cow in Hollywood are kids’ products. If you want to make money in movies, superheroes and animation remain the most viable options. Any concept of old-school stardom is dead. Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Meryl Streep can’t deliver box office smashes on their own anymore. The biggest, most bankable star in a Hollywood executive’s green eyes today is…Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a bulging medicine ball of charisma and commitment to playing the marketing game; he’s a brand manager’s PR dreamboat.
So it’s barely eyebrow-raising that Johnson, too, has been sucked into the superhero apparatus via Shazam villain Black Adam. Assuming a comic book movie role is Hollywood’s newest rite of passage; a better game to play is which actors haven’t donned a cape at this point.
But it did not begin this way. Comic book movies were experiments and it started with X-Men and Hugh Jackman, an unknown Australian thespian cast three weeks into filming and who reportedly earned the role on Russell Crowe’s recommendation. It was pretty thrilling, definitely campy (those chops…), and a financial boon. It effectively altered Hollywood’s foundation, though that’s only realized in retrospect.
Still: That it would end up here, with the ultra violent and emotionally brutal Logan, is astounding. It’s already being regarded as one of the best superhero movies of all time, and those opinions aren’t wrong. It’s also a very atypical comic book film, at least how we’ve been conditioned to receive them. This isn’t an installment of a larger canvas, there is no post-credits sequence, no thrown-in romantic interest.
Perhaps, Logan is better described as a Western (the retired, cynical gunslinger pulled in one last time) or a wacky road trip movie (Dafne Keen’s Laura wearing those pink, flower-spotted shades is such a fabulous touch) or possibly a mid-budget family drama (a son saying goodbye to his mentally ill father, a father finding he has a daughter and faith in humans/mutants again). The action is vicious, reminding you of harsh War-is-Hell films like Platoon or Full Metal Jacket. Each kill is anti-glorious; you can almost feel Logan’s and Laura’s claws ripping into and away the human flesh as if it were your own. When Laura tosses a human head she’s severed into a crowd of baddies, it isn’t played as a joke or cocky achievement—it’s a warning shot to the audience this cute, little girl is a savage beast grown apathetic to murder. This is not Legolas and Gimli from Lord of the Rings competing for kill counts.
Death is very much on the mind of Logan: what it means to face and inflict that fact of life. Its characters wear death’s haunting presence on their faces either as an approaching inevitability (Charles) or tormented memory (Logan and Laura who’s mute for the first half of the film). Allow me to remind you something: This is absolutely bonkers! So often comic book movies treat mass murder as a plot device without ever dealing with the pathological impact on its characters or environment. Whole cities are routinely wiped away in those Avengers flicks and even Christopher Nolan’s moody, gritty Batman trilogy leveled football stadiums and hospitals without considered thought.
Logan is expressly made for adult audiences. Its often-referenced R-rating only underscores that fact; as seen by Deadpool, an R-rating doesn’t always indicate mature, savage intentions. My stepmother believes it’s the dumbest movie she’s ever seen—which, she has a point, though that’s part of Deadpool’s appeal. Meanwhile I watched Deadpool with my cousin and his friends, all several years younger than me this past summer, as one of them owned it on DVD and half of them could recite all the punchlines. My point: Deadpool is a movie made for teenagers.
That’s why, as sarcastically fun and commercially successful as Deadpool was, it can’t be considered a gamechanger. While it tried playing itself as a satirical farce on the genre, Deadpool really just delivered a left-field variation of the comic book movie formula: First chapter of a larger franchise (check), tongue-in-cheek post-credits scene setting up the sequel (yep), death as a punchline (lol), and a paper-thin love story (<3). And so on. Simon Kinberg, often regarded as the X-Men films architect, might disagree, as he told Deadline that Deadpool “was a love story at the core.” My response: kindly gtfoh. That quote goes to show you even talented craftsmen can spew hot garbage from time to time.
But Logan has the potential to truly revolutionize the genre. Critically and commercially it’s a smash. What’s more: This is one of those rare cultural moments where everyone simultaneously agrees something was great. Numerous friends have commented how hungry they were for an edgy, realistic superhero film of this caliber. That sentiment matches the ongoing conversation online surrounding Logan, though I don’t think it goes far enough. Logan isn’t really a great superhero movie; it’s a great movie that just happens to include superheroes.
All comic book movies grapples with similar themes albeit in various ways: good vs. evil, the burden and isolation of enormous talent, what drives humans to wear the masks we do. Some of that’s in Logan as it’s kind of unavoidable, but Logan more features characters struggling with the tragedy and challenges life throws everyone’s way. It’s the first X-Men movie to showcase what comic book readers have always known: These mutants are a makeshift family of misfits and rejects and outcasts just trying to get by. Getting through life can be really, really hard and without each other, they couldn’t do it. In between all that, they fight the bad guys.
Last year I described Fox, with the exception of Deadpool, as “a studio possessing a bunch of rickety vehicles with no one to currently drive them.” The implication was clear—no one wanted to drive the tired X-Men properties. This couldn’t be more wrong now. As Kinberg said in that same Deadline interview: “The success of Deadpool and Logan have bolstered our confidence to make edgy, more daring, provocative bold movies that audiences will embrace. More than that, we feel a responsibility to make bold and provocative movies. […]For us it’s a way to excite filmmakers and our actors because they can play a really broad spectrum of colors that not all event tentpoles can do.”
The audience was always there but now the avenue there should be clear. Adults want adult movies, even when the characters are based on a childish flavor. Genuine, self-contained dramas within superhero flicks, like Logan, should be an option moving forward. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther so far appears like it might follow in this trend. So it’s very possible that Hugh Jackman could be saying goodbye to Wolverine in the same fashion as when he first unsheathed those claws—by quietly turning the movie industry on its head once again.
According to a report from the Dayton Daily News, Jimmy Gould and Ian James, the masterminds behind a 2015 rec proposal, are seeking to create a giant marijuana grow operation in the state of Ohio and applying for one of the 12 large cultivation licenses allowed under law.
Doing business as CannaAscend Ohio, the two entrepreneurs, intend to set up operations in the small town of Wilmington, which is located in between Cincinnati and Columbus.
“This has been a long journey, but a satisfying one because we’ve always kept our eye on legalizing medical cannabis for chronically-ill Ohioans — our returning veterans suffering from PTSD, children with epilepsy, those suffering from Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s and the many others suffering from debilitating illnesses,” Gould said in a statement.
CannaAscend Ohio is pushing to build a 25,000-square foot grow operation on a little over 19 acres in Clinton County. However, the development deal will only go through if the company is awarded a license.
If all goes according to plan, the facility would later push the limits of the law by moving ahead with an expansion effort that would create a 75,000-square foot facility.
A press release indicates the total operation could cost $45 million.
For now, state regulators are still trying to hash out all of the details for how marijuana will be grown throughout the state. These details are expected to be published sometime at the beginning of May. Once this happens, the state will begin accepting applications from wannabe cultivators, all of which will be required to put plants in the ground within nine months after approval.
Wilmington has its fingers crossed.
The town has struggled to regain its economic stability after the closing of DHL, reports Cleveland.com. That job situation there became even more hopeless after Amazon decided against using the area to expand its operations. It is for this reason that CannaAscend has the full support of local officials. The proposed cultivation site would create around 220 new jobs.
“The resulting jobs and potential for greater research opportunities offers important prospects for partnerships with area colleges that have a focus on agriculture science, chemistry and biology,” Wilmington Mayor John Stanforth said a statement.
Ohio’s medical marijuana program will allow people with 20 conditions to participate with a recommendation from a doctor. The industry will bring to market a variety of cannabis products, with the exception of flower. Smoking marijuana, even for medicinal purposes, is still prohibited under state law.
Pickle juice, pickle juice, pickle juice! Luckily when you say this three times no one appears but let me tell you something. Drink this three times a day and you will be on your way to fitness perfection. Growing up, my father was a competitive body builder and to this day he pushes me to drink pickle juice. Why might you ask? Let’s break down the benefits pickle juice has to offer and why you need to be adding this secret sauce to your diet!
Popular workout drinks such as Gatorade and Redbull are full of sugar. Sugar, add this to your cuss word dictionary. What your body really needs is electrolytes and there is no better delivery system than pickle juice. Sodium is necessary in the restoring of electrolytes. The calcium chloride and vinegar in pickle juice deliver the sodium to your body quicker than anything else you could digest. Your body needs electrolytes to survive. Electrolytes are a crucial part of fitness.
What is the purpose of electrolytes? Electrolytes regulate the body’s nerve and muscle function, our body’s hydration, blood pressure, blood pH, and the rebuilding of all damaged tissue. The moral of the story is that drinking pickle juice will prevent cramping, help muscles recover faster, protect muscles from injury and keep you stronger in the gym. (Sorry if I got a little scientific there).
Pickle juice is packed with antioxidants, electrolytes (stated above), Vitamin C, and calcium. What makes pickle juice so different is that it delivers all these necessary things to your body most efficiently. On top on top of everything, your stomach loves pickle juice! The vinegar in pickle juice is great for your digestive system. It promotes the growth of healthy of bacteria in your stomach and helps maintain that balance. Just be sure to have something to eat with your pickle juice. It is hard on an empty stomach. Trust me.
When To Sip The Juice
Pickle juice is recommended to be taken as a pre-workout and post-workout. I also advise drinking pickle juice with dinner. The serving size recommend is about three tablespoons. Note, you do not want to drink too much pickle juice! There is too much sodium in pickle juice to be consumed like other sports drinks.
Adding pickle juice to your diet will allow you to obtain that summer body by getting you to the gym more often and working longer, harder, and stronger. So don’t leave yourself in a pickle this summer when it comes to that bod and start sipping the pickle, juice.
David Letterman always had a lot to say. Known for his cantankerous spirit and matching wit, the former Late Show went toe to toe with Tonight Show host Jay Leno in the “Late Night Wars” for decades. Then, two years ago, Letterman passed the torch to Stephen Colbert and grew a magnificent Santa Claus beard.
Seriously, just look at that facial hair.
David Letterman always had a lot to say about late night TV, and now he says he really, really wants to interview Donald Trump.
Anyways, it turns out Letterman still has a lot to say. New York Magazine recently sat down with Letterman and conducted a sprawling, fascinating interview that covered Donald Trump (of course) and the postmodern existential terror of buying shoelaces (what).
Here are some of the highlights.
Letterman Really, Really Wants To Interview Trump
When asked regarding his dream interview, Letterman admitted Bob Marley in his later, more politically conscious years would be his choice. But when prompted to choose someone living, Letterman selected the man everyone can’t stop talking about.
I would just start with a list. “You did this. You did that. Don’t you feel stupid for having done that, Don? And who’s this goon Steve Bannon, and why do you want a white supremacist as one of your advisers? Come on, Don, we both know you’re lying. Now, stop it.” I think I would be in the position to give him a bit of a scolding and he would have to sit there and take it. Yeah, I would like an hour with Donald Trump; an hour and a half.
He Has No Interest In Nostalgia
Letterman has accomplished numerous comedic feats throughout his career, but he responded his proudest moment was employing so many people for 30 years. Even when he’s with former bandleader Paul Shaffer, the two don’t discuss the show.
I don’t have those kinds of memory flashes. Somebody will say, “Remember when so and so happened,” and I’ll say, “Jeez, I sure don’t.” Paul Shaffer and I get together about once a month and have dinner, and nothing about the show ever comes up. Memory lane is closed for repairs.
Letterman And Leno Still Haven’t Talked
Though highly contentious when they were on-air, Letterman and Leno both have softened in their older age. Though no bad blood exists between the two currently, Letterman says the two haven’t talked since he left his Late Show post.
That doesn’t mean they’ll never talk again, says Letterman.
I’m assuming I will bump into him before we die.
Shopping At Designer Shoe Warehouse Sounds Like Hell
Being in the limelight for as many years as Letterman was, it’s easy to assume adjusting to a more typical civilian life isn’t the smoothest transition to make. Letterman recently needed a pair of shoelaces and when visiting a Designer Shoe Warehouse, the experience wasn’t so fun.
So I go over there, and it’s a building the size of the Pentagon. It’s enormous. If you took somebody from—I don’t know, pick a country where they don’t have Designer Shoe Warehouses—blindfolded them and turned them loose in this place, they would just think, You people are insane. Who needs this many shoes? It’s sinful. […] I’m not finding the damn shoelaces, and finally I think, Maybe it’s one of those items they’ve got at the counter. I go up there and I’m nosing around the counter and, by God, there’s shoelaces. This is after about an hour. So now I’m waiting in line and the woman checking people out says in a big loud voice, “May I help our next shoe lover, please?” I just started to tremble. Nobody else seems to have a problem with going to a store! You don’t want to have painted yourself into some elite position where it’s “Bob, go out and get me some shoelaces.” It makes you feel stupid.
People love to combine shit with wine. Orange juice, mulling spices, whatever. Yet recently I heard about someone soaking coffee beans in wine, which strikes me as so fantastically stupid that I had to write about it. Wine coffee, here we come.
I love wine. I love coffee. The two should never, ever come together, though that didn’t stop several publications from fawning all over a product that none of them had even tried.
For those who can’t just leave a good thing alone, here are 20 things I’d rather mix with wine besides coffee.
1. Peach puree. Bellinis are delicious.
2. Creme de cassis. You know what’s WAY better than a mimosa? A Kir Royale.
3. Fresh fruit. Sangria is delightful!
4. Grapefruit juice. If you have to have a mimosa, this is the better way to go.
5. Campari.
6. Green Chartreuse.
7. Beer. A Black Velvet is surprisingly delicious!
8. Some other wine, like when you accidentally refill someone’s glass with the wrong bottle.
9. Orange juice. It’s really too sweet, but hey, it works.
10. Apple juice. Never tried it, but seems vaguely tolerable.
11. Lemonade. Seems to work for iced tea.
12. Mulling spices. Hot wine usually sucks, but can sometimes be ok.
13. Water. I mean, it’s what the French do for small children, but it’s still wine.
14. Tea. Hey, at least black tea also has tannins.
15. Literally any liqueur you can imagine.
16. Yes, even Jagermeister.
17. Coca-Cola. They do this in Argentina for some inexplicable reason, and it’s horrifying. Still better than coffee though.
18. Chocolate. If someone hasn’t already tried it, they will soon.
19. The spit bucket at the tasting room, like Miles in Sideways.
20. Red Bull. Just kidding, I’d rather not drink at all.
“Wine-flavored coffee” is like catnip for trend writers. This liquid monstrosity really just amounts to soaking coffee beans in wine, which I highly doubt has any real impact on the flavor. You might not know this, but espresso is typically rather strong. If this leads to Cabernet-Hazelnut Frappucinos, I’m quitting my job and moving to Madagascar.
Smoking marijuana in public places could soon become a thing on the Las Vegas Strip, that is if one state lawmaker has a say in how the state moves forward with its newly legalized recreational pot market.
Earlier this week, Senator Tick Segerblom introduced a bill to the Nevada Senate aimed at giving local governments the ability to issue licenses that allow people to smoke weed in designated public areas. The proposal (Senate Bill 236) is intended to provide the locals, as well as the tourism community, with “marijuana safe-havens,” which would most likely operate in bars, dispensaries or even yoga studios, according a report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A similar measure, which was designed as a one-year pilot program to test the waters of social marijuana use, was passed last year in Denver, Colorado. Since then, however, lawmakers have been working to bypass all of the experimental shenanigans and make public pot consumption something the entire state can enjoy. A bill calling for this reform was recently approved by a Senate committee and is now set to go before the full Senate for a vote.
If Nevada’s legislative forces approach the issue with the same tenacity as Colorado is working to do, it is distinctly possible that we could see places like Las Vegas (Clark County), which attracts around 39.2 million visitors every year, become a stoner oasis.
Senator Segerblom, the driving force behind Nevada’s social use proposal, believes it is imperative for the state to put a law of this nature on the books in order to prevent a law enforcement nightmare. Although marijuana is now fully legal all over the state, it remains a violation of the law for anyone to consume pot products anywhere other than residential dwellings. This means the millions of tourists who pour into hot spots like Vegas will have no choice but to break the law if they wish to partake in the state’s newly legal cannabis operation.
And trust us, Nevada wants tourists to spend money on weed.
Last year, a report from the Las Vegas Sun suggested that Nevada stands to relish in $7.5 billion in economic activity over the next seven years because of the recreational marijuana trade. This includes $464 million in estimated tax revenue and the creation of almost 41,000 new jobs.
Considering the estimates, it is easy to see why it is so important for Nevada to make its pot laws tourism friendly.
Unfortunately, not everyone believes the state is ready to take such a bold leap.
Clark County Commissioners Steve Sisolak and Mary Beth Scow have voiced concerns over the concept of social use. They feel it is “too much, too early,” reports the Journal.
Nevertheless, Senate Bill 236 has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. If it proves successful there, it would then go before the full Senate for a vote.
So, is it the boring-but-safe treadmill or the thrill of the uneven pavement? What matters is that you get to work, inside or out.
The debate on whether to run outside versus on a treadmill is as old as, well, treadmills. One involves fresh air and sunshine, bees and avoiding dog poop. The other features an even, steady terrain, with the bonus of being surrounded by the scent of other people’s armpits in an enclosed space. Which would you rather run through, and more importantly, which is better for your body?
If you’re concerned about the impact to your joints and knees, running on a treadmill is a little softer and more forgiving. There’s a tradeoff in muscle strengthening, however: Hamstrings, especially, are under-worked on treadmills because the belt is doing some of the propelling work for you. Active.com outlines this difference:
Unlike outdoor running, where you would typically rely on your hamstrings to finish the stride cycle and lift your leg behind you, the propulsion of the belt does much of that work for you. This means your hamstrings aren’t firing as much and don’t get worked running inside as they would outside. The extra effort demanded of your quads is also a factor to keep in mind.
But if you’re trying to avoid getting snow in your face during a run, or don’t want to hoof it outside after dark for safety reasons, rest assured that you’re not sacrificing that much.
For the average person, the difference is mainly mental. Casey Kerrigan, founder and president of Oesh Shoes, told Runner’s World that the debate is pretty pointless. “People have a bias against treadmill running — that real runners don’t do it, or that it changes your leg movements. It’s all garbage. We found some minor changes, but they weren’t the ones people expected, and they don’t affect anyone’s running biomechanics.”
In a study of treadmill runners, the differences in air speed and pace only showed up in those hauling ass a 7:09 mile pace or faster — much faster than the average in-shape person.
So, is it the boring-but-safe treadmill or the thrill of the uneven pavement? What matters is that you get to work, inside or out.
