On last night’s Carpool Karaoke With James Corden, Lady Gaga sang some of her biggest hits, including “Bad Romance,” “Perfect Illusion,” and “Poker Face.” She also talked to Corden about her reaction after being told she’d play the Super Bowl (“Oh, fuck!”) and revealed that she just got her first driver’s license a few months ago.
“My whole family came with me to the DMV,” she said. “My father cried. It was so embarrassing.”
She also told Corden about the 400 pieces of Michael Jackson memorabilia that she owns. “I’ve got a Thriller jacket, I’ve got one of his gloves,” she said. “Lots of his tour costumes.”
“Do they smell?” Corden asked.
“No, they’re in pristine condition,” Gaga replied. “I actually keep them in a temperature controlled room so that they can be preserved for the rest of time.”
That conversation somehow led them to a discussion about early 2000s boyband OTown, which led them to an impromptu cover of “Liquid Dreams.”
Later, she told Corden it only took her 10 minutes each to write “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” and “Born This Way.”
Corden ended the clip by wearing several of Lady Gaga’s most well-known outfits, including a recreation of the infamous meat dress she wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. “The good thing with this one is you’ve always got a stack if you need it,” he said, before plucking a cold cut off his chest. Gaga responded by holding her nose in mock–or perhaps genuine–disgust.
“If you can’t take it, how do you think they took it at the VMAs?” he asked. “I really think you should take that off,” she replied.
Children living in states that allow medical marijuana are not more likely to use it, according to a new study out of Columbia University.
The groundbreaking study did find, however, that rates of use go up for adults 26 and older.
For years, opponents of medical marijuana programs have trotted out the canard that kids will be enticed to smoke weed if the message is that it is a medicine. This research appears to have debunked this talking point.
“Before medical marijuana laws changed, there was a concern that this type of legislation could potentially increase recreational marijuana use in adolescents and adult populations,” said Dr. Silvia Martins, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the lead author of the report. “At least for now, we do not see an increase in use among adolescents,” Martins added.
The authors of the study reviewed annual national survey results between 2004 and 2013. The surveys included more than 53,800 people. The researchers were looking to see how cannabis use changed in the states that passed laws allowing the medical use of marijuana from 2005-2013.
Medical Marijuana States Included:
Arizona
Connecticut
Delaware
Illinois
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
Rhode Island
According to the study, consumption of the herb did not change among people younger than 26 after the laws were passed, the study found.
Older Americans in medical states reported very slight increases:
Use among 26- to 39-year olds increased from 9 percent to 10 percent
Use among 40- to 64-year olds increased from 4.5 percent to 6 percent
Use among those 65 and older increased from less than one half of a percent to 1 percent
“It’s harder for (young people) to access it for recreational purposes and most of the medical indications of marijuana are for ailments that typically affect a larger proportion of older adults,” Martins said.
It has been a long month of Halloween insanity. Scary clowns have ruined your costume idea for the night and now, all you want to do is watch some bad horror movies and chill. That’s okay. Maybe you aren’t the crowd type and parties aren’t your deal anyway. Does that mean you can’t have a little fun with your cocktails on Halloween? Of course not! Here is a spooky spin on an Old Fashioned, with a boozy mashup of bourbon, homemade Orange and Black Coffee Syrup, and smoky mezcal for a little bit of fire and brimstone. It will warm you up to a long night of trick-or-treaters at your door…..if any are brave enough to venture out.
Black Cat Old Fashioned
(makes 1 cocktail)
1½ ounces bourbon
½ ounce mezcal
¼ ounce Orange & Black Coffee Syrup
1-2 dashes chocolate bitters
garnish: fat orange peel
Measure the bourbon, mezcal, syrup and bitters into a mixing glass. Fill three-quarters full with ice. Stir with a bar spoon until well chilled. Serve strained over a large ice cube in an old fashioned glass. Express the orange peel over the drink to release the oils, twist and add to the drink.
Photo courtesy of Liquid Kitchen®
Orang & Black Coffee Syrup
(makes about 12 ounces)
¼ cup fresh orange juice
1 Tablespoon finely minced orange zest
24 coffee beans
¾ cup water
2 cups sugar
Combine ingredients (minus the sugar) in a small saucepan. On medium-high heat, bring liquid to a boil. Once it has boiled, add the sugar and stir to combine well. Continue to boil for about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and steep for 1 hour. Strain and store refrigerated for up to 30 days.
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Kathy Casey is a chef, mixologist, and is known as the Original Bar Chef. Her newest book is D’Llish Deviled Eggs, which is a great accompaniment to any cocktail. Follow Kathy on Twitter and Instagram. For more great cocktail recipes, visit www.LiquidKitchen.com.
If you were alive in the late 1980s and owned a TV, you saw the commercial. Over and over again.
The 30-second ad brought to you by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America featured an egg, a sizzling-hot frying pan and an actor saying “This is your brain on drugs.” The ad’s intent was to scare the bejesus out of teens — and their parents — from drugs.
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John Roselius, the actor now mostly known as the “This Is Your Brain on Drugs Guy” or simply “The Egg Guy,” has turned away from this campaign and has fully endorsed marijuana legalization. In fact, the 72-year-old actor has already voted in favor of Prop 64 in California. (The state allows for early voting.)
“I’m 100 percent behind legalizing it, are you kidding?” he asks.
In an interview in The Rooster, a Colorado-based magazine, Roselius said the 1987 commercial gig paid him $360. Did he believe what he was saying at the time? Nope. According to the interview:
He also admits that marijuana doesn’t fry your brain like an egg in hot cast iron. In fact, he knew it didn’t even when he made the ad. How? Because he’d smoked a bunch of it, mostly during the 1960s, when he was living in San Francisco, often on the dock at lunchtime, often with his other buddies in the Marines. “It was the most relaxed I ever was,” he said.
Roselius is one of many Americans shifting their position on marijuana legalization. According to the latest Gallup poll releases last week, 60 percent of U.S. citizens now support full legalization.
Marijuana is fully legal in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state and the District of Columbia. This November, voters in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada will decide on the issue. Three other states — Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota — will vote on whether to allow medical marijuana in its state.
Last week, a tweet by @double_cupp_me compared the Hillary Clinton debate fashion to the suits worn by various members of notorious 1990s rap label Death Row Records. The tweet went viral with more than 102,000 retweets and 147,000 likes. This morning, the former Secretary of State referenced it during her interview this morning on the syndicated hip-hop radio station the Breakfast Club.
“This is a good hip-hop meme,” host Charlamagne Tha God told Clinton as he showed her the tweet on his phone. “In one you dress like Suge Knight, in one you dress like Tupac, and in one you dress like Snoop Dogg.”
While it wasn’t entirely clear if she knew or remembered what Death Row was, Clinton laughed heartily and provided a smooth, if not completely convincing, answer.
“I think Death Row and a lot of other fashion sources have influenced my look,” she said. “Don’t you?”
She also gave her review of Saturday Night Live‘s recurring parodies of her and Donald Trump’s debates. “They’re pretty funny,” she said. “I think they did a great job. It wasn’t hard to make fun of those debates, but they did a great job.”
Later in the interview, Stevie Wonder joined the show to sing the presidential candidate “Happy Birthday” for her 69th birthday. Watch the full show below. Clinton addresses the Death Row Records meme at 18:04, and Wonder joins the group at 21:17.
This is what marijuana legalization looks like: Cannabis that does not pass regulatory standards is pulled from the shelves and consumers have a clearer idea of what they are buying.
Last week, the Oregon Health Authority announced its first “health alert” when it was discovered through lab testing that two strains of marijuana contained high levels of pesticide. According to the state agency mandated to regulate marijuana, 130 consumers purchased the tainted weed between Oct. 17 and Oct. 19 from New Leaf CannaCenter in McMinnville, Ore.
“Anyone who visited the dispensary during this time frame should check the label of the product they purchased and immediately return the product to the dispensary, or dispose of it in a safe and responsible manner,” the OHA said.
While this certainly is bad news for the 130 customers who bought the pesticide-laden cannabis, it is a perfect demonstration of what legalization does for consumers. A non-regulated industry would not have an agency dedicated to keeping the market free from inferior products. It ensures that growers, distributors, processors and retailers follow protocols designed to keep consumers safe. Try doing that with your unregulated neighborhood dealer.
“New Leaf CannaCenter is deeply troubled that it received product from a grower that did not meet the standards set by the Oregon Health Authority or the very high standards New Leaf always strives to maintain. As soon as we learned about the problem, we immediately removed all of the remaining product from our inventory and cooperated fully with the OHA to remedy the situation.”
OHA offers the following tips to consumers considering purchasing marijuana products:
Read marijuana product labels. All labels must have the producer’s business or trade name and licensee or registrant number; the business or trade name of licensee or registrant that packaged or distributed the product, if different from the producer; the name of the strain; and the universal symbol.
Request a copy of the pesticide test results from the dispensary.
People choosing to smoke marijuana should consider the negative effects that smoking may have on their health.
On last night’s The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Phil Collins performed his 1981 classic, “In the Air Tonight.” In addition to his regular keyboardist and guitarist, Collins was backed by Tonight Show in-house band and Philly legends The Roots, who were clearly thrilled to be playing with the former Genesis drummer on his most popular song.
Roots guitarist “Captain” Kirk Douglas performed almost the entire song with his eyes closed, nodding along in a sort of silent reverence as Daryl Stuermer played his guitar solos, and Questlove was clearly ecstatic after nailing one of the most iconic drum breaks of all time. In fact, Fallon told Collins during their interview that Questlove was “really has been stressed out about this for months,” referring to the drum section.
Collins also explained that he wrote the song after divorcing his first wife, Andrea Bertorelli, in 1980.”I was pissed off. I was angry,” he said. “Well, you know, you go through a divorce. And sometimes it’s like ‘I love you, I love you. Don’t hang up. And sometimes it’s like, ‘Well, fuck you.’ And that’s where a song like ‘In the Air Tonight’ comes in. There’s obviously a lot of anger in there.”
Watch the full performance, and Collins’s interview with Fallon, below.
For as big of a fame whore as it is, you’d think pumpkin season lived and died by the introduction of the Pumpkin Spice Latte. But long before the PSL arrived, National Pumpkin Day (Oct. 26) has been the day to celebrate everyone’s favorite ubiquitous holiday symbol: the pumpkin.
This is the day when we all work ourselves into a frenzy over the anticipation of pumpkin pie, pumpkin festivals, pumpkin bake-offs, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brownand various versions of pumpkin beer we’d never actually be caught dead drinking at any other time. Pumpkins are the mascot for not only autumn and harvest, but Halloween, Thanksgiving and, once they start rotting on your doorstep, the shedding of a year and the beginning of a new one.
To honor everyone’s favorite seasonal talisman, here are five pumpkin flavored edibles to jump start your holidays.
Each of these pumpkin cookies from Glendale Greenhouse dispensary in Arizona contain 100 mg of THC and are topped with real cream cheese frosting, pecans and dried pumpkin flakes.
2. Mini Pumpkin Pies
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Denver-based Sweet Grass Kitchen has been making these pie-lettes every season since 2012. And since then, the small batch bakery has been selling thousands of pies every year. The recreational pies contain 10 mg of active THC, while the medical pies contain 75 mg.
3. Pumpkin Spice Liquid Gold Bar
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMCW4CKg8XC/
Available in Washington and California, Gfarma Labs introduced the pumpkin spice edible in 2014, and now offer it seasonally. Twenty bucks will buy you a whopping 210 mg of THC.
4. Pumpkin Pie Delight
This popular seasonal snack from Incredibles in Colorado is 45 grams of pumpkin spice and graham crackers infused with 100 mg of THC.
5. The Grand Pumpkin
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Big Daddy’s Edibles out of California makes some beautiful baked goods, such as milk chocolate ganache-dipped confetti cakes and these white chocolate cranberry cookies. And during the fall season, they sell pumpkin bread — more than 1,000 mg of TCH in each loaf.
Tragedy struck in Delaware earlier this week when a Weed World Candies filled with, uh, weed candies, burst into flames on the Delaware Memorial Bridge as it made its way into Philadelphia. No one was injured, but all of the weed edibles went up in smoke.
WPVI reports that firefighters quickly arrived at the scene and extinguished the massive fire, but not before the truck and its contents were completely destroyed. According to NBC 10, more than $50,000 worth of edibles and other merchandise were lost in the fire. All five people traveling in the RV escaped unharmed.
Video shot from other vehicles shows the truck burning in the center lane of the bridge. There’s no word what started the blaze, which WPVI reports brought traffic to a near standstill for an hour.
According to their website, Weed World Candies started operations in 1999 “with the goal to get Marijuana & Hemp legalized and industrialized.” They drive around the U.S. in “loud” RVs, vans, and trucks to promote the legalization of marijuana.
My high school days consisted largely of sitting on the back of a pickup truck drinking cheap beer. (Of course, I was 21 in high school and/or went to a high school where the drinking age was high school age. Moving on). And in college, we drank cheap beer in pine forests, dorm rooms and, eventually, in bars. In other words, I’m a cheap beer expert. Like the way scientists can detect the existence of planets just by studying light patterns, I can tell a good cheap beer just by the condensation dripping down the can. As such, we wanted to impart some hard-earned beer knowledge about something I know a lot about: cheap beer. Sometimes they’re the best, sometimes they’re all that’s available! Below are 11 versions for you to crack open (in case of emergency). Cheers!
11. Coors
They call this the Banquet Beer, but really it’s a lot like Utica Club: overly heavy for what it’s trying to be. Coors is the unfiltered Marlboro Red of light beers. People who drink it consider themselves old school – cowboys even.
10. Natural Ice
Likely the strongest of all the cheap beers. We learn early on in college that anything “Ice” at the end means “stronger.” So, “Natty Ice,” as it’s known, was the first thing people looked to buy if money was an issue, which it often was. Natty Ice is bitter, so much so you can taste the cheap booze going down when you drink it.
9. Utica Club
Ah, the cheap beer I drank most my freshman year of college. Utica Club has a name like a small yacht someone is trying to convince you is a cruise ship. It’s beefy, for a light beer, and fills you up.
8. Coors Light
While I often wanted MGD those fateful high school days, the people buying the beer all too often bought Coors Light, which has always tasted the most watery of any cheap beer ever. Is it all water? I’m still not sure.
7. Rainier
This refreshing beer originated in Seattle, WA in 1878. For a company to still be around THAT LONG, they must be doing something right. And that something is simple, crisp light beer. Anecdotally, visiting most bars in the Seattle area, Rainier is just about the most popular brew, despite being surrounded by so many craft options.
6. Olympia
The other most popular beer in Washington State is just a few years younger than Rainier, which originated in 1896. Olympia is brisk and clean and a touch lighter in body than Rainier. If chilled properly, it tastes like a rushing river out of an ice luge.
5. Pabst Blue Ribbon
Likely the most popular “tall boy” can of beer in the country. Everyone knows the white can with the big blue ribbon. If given a blind taste test, I’m sure I couldn’t differentiate between PBR, Olympia and Rainier, so let’s call them all super duper fantastic!
4. Miller Lite
I’ve been working in a bar for about seven years now, and this one fellow has been coming in since day one. He orders two Miller Lite bottles each night and each night I rib him and say, “Tastes great, less filling.” Miller is fine beer. It’s also a beer I used to be able to drink a bottle of in under three seconds. I’m not sure why I’m telling you this.
3. Miller Genuine Draft
For some reason, I always liked MGD best out of any of the other Miller family beers. It tastes the most robust, like it has some body and a strong flavor composition, relatively speaking. Whenever someone would pick up a case of beer in my early drinking days, I’d always request MGD.
2. Yuengling
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One of the first beers I ever drank, Yuengling is thought to be the oldest operating brewing company in America. I drank a ton of it when I lived in New Jersey and while the beer is easily drinkable and on the lighter side of the spectrum, it has some good flavor, a touch of malt, and is often served at parties as the high class cheap brew option.
1. Rolling Rock
If I could only drink one beer from this list forever, this would be the one. It’s sophisticated for a light beer. Heck, it comes in a fine green bottle! It tastes the most like a craft pilsner and doesn’t leave me feeling awful ever. That’s a win!
