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SJP Can’t Imagine Another ‘Sex And The City’ Without Kim Cattrall; ‘The Voice’ Coaches Joining Adam Levine At Super Bowl

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SJP Can’t Imagine Another ‘Sex And The City’ Without Kim Cattrall; ‘The Voice’ Coaches Joining Adam Levine At Super Bowl

SJP CAN’T ‘IMAGINE’ ANOTHER ‘SEX AND THE CITY’ WITHOUT KIM CATTRALL

A fan commented on one of Parker’s Instagram photos, writing, “You are still my hero. Please replace or write her out Kim / Samantha if she is not interested and bring back sex and the city movie #3. The fans need this.”

The “Sex and the City” star-turned-shoe designer, 53, replied, “Not sure if I can imagine doing another movie without her.”

Cattrall, 62, and Parker have been feuding publicly since Parker said Cattrall wasn’t interested in making a third film. Cattrall later said in an interview that she and her castmates were “never friends” and were simply co-workers. Despite their spat making headlines, Parker maintained that they weren’t fighting.

VOICE COACHES JOINING ADAM LEVINE AT SUPER BOWL – EXCLUSIVE

Maroon 5 is set to headline the 2019 Super Bowl Super Halftime Show and Adam Levine has already signed up some very special surprise guest performers – his friends from ‘The Voice.’

“Adam Levine and his bandmates will take the stage on Feb. 3 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta during Super Bowl LIII and he is hoping they will be joined by Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson,” sources tell STRAIGHT SHUTER. “Adam wants to give one of the all-time great performances. He loves his band but knows he is going to have to bring more star power if he is going to stop the show. Do not think this is going to be a regular Maroon 5 performance, he is pulling out ALL the stops.”

MEGHAN AND HARRY’S BIGGEST FEAR – HER DAD TURNS UP IN LONDON – EXCLUSIVE

Prince Harry is super-protective of his new bride, Meghan Markle, but not even royalty knows what to do if her troubled father turns up in London knocking on the door of the palace.

“Meghan’s worst fear is that her dad will just show up and try to get into the palace to see her. The scenario is so real that there have been several top-level conversations with the family’s security about what to do if such a situation arises,” sources tell STRAIGHT SHUTER. “The last thing anyone wants is a public scene outside the palace of daddy getting turned away. Yet at the same time you cannot just turn up uninvited, even if you are family. It’s all very ugly and there are no good options. The guards around the residence are on high alert fearing her dad could arrive at any moment.”

Listen: These Brothers Wrote A Song For Their Mom Battling Breast Cancer

Maria Loreto
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Listen: These Brothers Wrote A Song For Their Mom Battling Breast Cancer

Will and Anthony Nunziata are twins who’ve performed over 300 concerts in theaters and concert halls all over the country. They’re both singers and songwriters and are known for infusing their songs with their classical voice training.

When their mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, it inspired the siblings to write their first song. They titled it “The Gift Is You,” and co-wrote it with Jeff Franzel, a songwriter who’s worked with other performers, such as Josh Groban and Celine Dion. “This is a song that people can relate to, not only if they’ve suffered from cancer, but just an homage and a love letter to a loved one,” says Will.

In December 2016, the duet premiered “The Gift Is You” in a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall, where they performed with the New York Pops Symphony Orchestra. Since then, they’ve performed this song around the world and have released a Spanish version, with lyrics written by Grammy winning songwriter and producer Rudy Perez.

Fans of Will and Anthony have reached out to the duo thanking them and embracing the song and the positive message it has for breast cancer survivors and survivors all over the world. “Through social media and after shows, men and women come forward and discuss their experiences with breast cancer. It’s been really incredible to hear the stories of how this song affects people of all different backgrounds, no matter their language or culture,” Will says.

The official video of “The Gift Is You” features the performance of Tony award winning actress Cady Huffman and appearances from Anthony and Will themselves. Thankfully, their mother is now cancer-free.

You can watch the official music video below and share it with your friends and family over the course of October.

Cannabutter Pudding Pops For a Total Serious 80s Yum

Jessie Moore
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Cannabutter Pudding Pops For a Total Serious 80s Yum

Remember pudding pops? This homemade version has a totally tubular surprise in the middle: a cannabutter core!

This recipe starts out with instant pudding, which is combined with whipped cream for a perfectly creamy texture and flavor. Then, while filling the popsicle molds, you sneak in a spoonful of cannabutter in the center of each pop. When they’re frozen and it’s time to enjoy, it’s like each portion has a psychedelic buried treasure hidden inside!

The Fresh Toast – Remember pudding pops? Try these homemade cannabutter pudding pops for a total serious 80s yum.

Photo by Jessie Moore
  • 1 package (3.9 ounces) instant pudding (I used pistachio, because it’s clearly the best flavor, but you can use whatever flavor you prefer)
  • 2 cups cold milk
  • 1 cup whipped cream
  • 6 teaspoons cannabutter (regular cannabutter or vegan cannabutter is fine, too)
  • 6 small paper or plastic cups (6 to 8 ounces, and not too wide, works best)
  • 6 popsicle sticks or wooden coffee stirrers
Photo by Jessie Moore

1. In a large bowl, whisk the pudding mix and milk together until it begins to thicken.

Photo by Jessie Moore

2. Add the whipped cream, and whisk (or stir) until incorporated and smooth in color.

Photo by Jessie Moore

3. Spoon a small amount of the pudding into each cup. Spoon 1 teaspoon of cannabutter on top of the pudding.

Photo by Jessie Moore

4. Divide the remainder of the pudding evenly among the cups (they won’t be all the way full). Press a popsicle stick or wooden coffee stirrer into the center of each one.

Photo by Jessie Moore

5. Freeze for at least 4 hours (overnight is even better, texture-wise). To remove from the cups, I like to run a sharp knife around the perimeter of each cup; sometimes they’ll come right out, other times you might need to use kitchen shears to cut the cups away. Store leftovers in the freezer for up to 1 month.

A Note On Dosage:

I “dosed” this recipe with 1 teaspoon of cannabutter per serving. The strength of your finished product will depend on many factors, including the type of marijuana you used and how you made your cannabutter. For more tips on proper dosage, visit this post.

New Spotify Feature Helps Emerging Artists Find An Audience

Maria Loreto
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New Spotify Feature Helps Emerging Artists Find An Audience

Spotify’s newest feature brings the streaming service one step closer to becoming a record label, even though they’ll deny this if you ask them. While currently in beta testing, the feature was launched last week, giving musicians the chance to upload their music directly on the app without the influence of a third party.

Spotify for Artists allows musicians to track their metadata, preview how their song will look and sound and, most importantly, deliver the song to an audience.

Unlike Soundcloud and other similar apps, Spotify offers curated playlists which are extremely popular and one of the highlights of the streaming service. If a song gets picked up by one of these playlists, musicians could obtain overnight popularity and thousands of streams. Another perk of Spotify’s new feature is that artists will receive a 50 percent payout for their songs.

While this all sounds great for independent musicians, major executives are wary of Spotify’s true intentions, believing the feature could influence the way in which they do business. According to Dance Music Northwest, the 50 percent payout could lure artists to bypass record labels entirely and choose to upload their music directly to the app, since some labels offer payouts as low as 15 percent.

It’s important to remember that this new feature is still in beta testing and only a handful of independent artists are able to use it. It’s free and it doesn’t have a cap on the amount of content that artists can introduce, so it looks pretty great on the surface.

If you’re not an artist, then this doesn’t affect you in any way. Still, it’s pretty interesting to witness a changing music industry and the drama that’s lurking just around the corner.

Will Pepsi Be Next To Join Marijuana’s Green Rush?

Brendan Bures
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Will Pepsi Be Next To Join Marijuana’s Green Rush?

Coca-Cola made big waves last month when reports surfaced the company was exploring production of a possible CBD-infused drink in collaboration with Aurora Cannabis. Following the announcement, cannabis stocks soared across the board. Mind you, neither party confirmed the deal. The possibility of the deal was enough.

The opposite has happened to Pepsi, thanks to an interview from the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Hugh Johnston. In an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Johnston was pressed about Pepsi making similar advances into the cannabis industry like its major soft drink competitor.

“We will look at it very critically,” Johnston said about marijuana. “But I am not prepared to share any plans that we may have in the space right now.”

Johnston emphasized that while he was aware of Canada’s upcoming legalization, cannabis remains federally illegal in the United States. Still, Pepsi would “turn over every stone to look for growth.”

Johnston expanded his views on a company earnings conference call when asked by Cowen analyst Vivien Azier about cannabis.

“I think the difficulties in investing in that category, particularly in the U.S., where federally these things are still not legal, are quite a considerable challenge,” he said. “So we look at everything, but certainly no plans at this point to do anything.”

Cannabis stocks fell everywhere after Johnston’s announcement, none more than Tilray, which dropped by 16 percent Tuesday. Pepsi’s stock dropped 1.8 percent as well following the news.

Instagram Suffers Worldwide Outage After Former Facebook Exec Takes Over

Maria Loreto
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Instagram Suffers Worldwide Outage After Former Facebook Exec Takes Over

Instagram is pretty much back up and running for most users, after being temporarily down earlier this week when Adam Mosseri, a former high-ranking Facebook veteran, was hired to head up the app.

When IG took a nosedive Tuesday, the mobile version displayed a message that read “couldn’t refresh feed,” while the website version would simply not load. Users took to Twitter and Facebook to complain about the incident and make jokes through the use of the hashtag #instagramdown.

Reuters reports that some of the countries affected in the outage include some parts of North America, Europe, Australia, and Singapore.

Instagram has been facing some changes recently.  couple of days ago Kevin Systrom announced that he and Mike Krieger, the original founders of the app, were leaving the company in order to purse other creative ventures. “Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team. We’ve grown from 13 people to over a thousand with offices around the world, all while building products used and loved by a community of over one billion. We’re now ready for our next chapter,” wrote Systrom.

While their departures were unexpected, Facebook, the company that owns Instagram, claims that there’s no animosity between the two companies and that they’re excited to see what Systrom and Krieger develop in the near future.

Did Michael Jackson Almost Play James Bond?

Brendan Bures
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Did Michael Jackson Almost Play James Bond?

While rumors continue to circulate that Idris Elba will take over the James Bond mantle once Daniel Craig calls it quits, neither of the stars match the celebrity of a Bond that could’ve been. That would be the King of Pop, who pleaded with Hollywood to become 007 back in the 1980s.

The news comes courtesy of superstar agent Michael Ovitz and his new tell-all memoir Who Is Michael Ovitz? In the book, Ovitz recounts a meeting in Michael Jackson’s home, where MJ was gunning to become “the star of an action movie.” Ovitz recalls trying to keep a straight face with his business partner Ron Meyer, but then MJ’s hat fell into a bowl of guacamole.

“Then the blob fell off, and Ron totally lost it,” Ovitz wrote. “I cracked up, too, and Michael stalked out. I found him and explained for 15 minutes that we hadn’t been laughing at him. Finally, Michael’s face cleared. ‘OK, Ovitz. OK,’ he said. ‘But I want to play James Bond.’ I am proud to report I didn’t laugh, this time.”

Then Ovitz had to explain to the King of Pop why he wasn’t fit for the role of James Bond. He pointed out Jackson’s lanky frame, saying that MJ was “thinly built, you’re too sensitive, you won’t be credible as a brutal block of stone.”

This finally convinced Jackson to back off his pursuit. But had MJ pushed and gotten his way, he would’ve become the first black James Bond in the franchise’s history. And while Elba remains a hot candidate for the role, the actor has batted away the rumor multiple times.

“There’s no such thing as a black Bond,” Elba has said about the gossip. “It’s interesting that the James Bond thing continues to go. I think it’s more about ‘we just want to have a black guy play James Bond’ rather than ‘Idris Elba, the actor, play James Bond.’ That’s the part that I’m like ‘ugh, come on’.”

WATCH: ‘Please Let Go’ Says Prince Harry To Excited Teacher Who Latches Onto His Hand

Amy Hansen
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WATCH: ‘Please Let Go’ Says Prince Harry To Excited Teacher Who Latches Onto His Hand

When you meet your prince, hang onto him, right? One woman in England took that piece of advice a little too literally.

During Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s inaugural visit to Sussex on Wednesday morning, the couple shook hands and kissed babies, per usual. They also indulged a group of school kids in a quick chat sesh.

Harry asked the kids if they were on a school trip, and high-fived them when he learned they had instead skipped class in order to meet him, even saying, “I think that’s fantastic.” (Something tells us Harry was the kind of kid who used “royal obligation” to get out of a few studies in his day.) But when he asked the kids who their teacher was, a hand extended from the crowd with a woman exclaiming, “I’m not letting go!” With a smile, because charm always makes rejection a little easier to swallow, Harry responded, “Please let go.”

What’s Marijuana Lager And Where Can You Buy It?

Mary Schumacher
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What’s Marijuana Lager And Where Can You Buy It?

In states and areas where cannabis has been legalized, alcohol sales have dropped up to 15 percent. That’s a big chunk of capital just sitting on the shelves. Well, necessity is the mother of invention and it’s clearly become necessary for some savvy brewers to glom onto the wave of cannabis infused products, specifically by making their own weed beers. The latest? A lager out of South Africa.

Poison City is the brewing company behind this newest infusion and the product hit shelves in September. The drop in beer and liquor sales is global wherever territories have legalized and so a hybrid of the two intoxicants seems to only make sense, especially for investors and CEOs of alcohol companies and their affiliates.

The lager itself is a craft brew made with the hemp plant, so rather than getting high on cannabis’ component THC, which there is little to none of in the beer, imbibers enjoy the therapeutic and medicinal properties of CBD. The brewers, however, have hinted that if it becomes possible, they’d like to add a touch of THC for that extra kick.

Poison City is also in favor of local industrialized SA hemp farms, which would bolster the economy, create jobs, improve soil conditions and provide the hemp for the lagers at home base. Not to mention cut out import expenses for Poison City. Encouragingly, the Inkatha Freedom Party said that the efforts to legalize hemp were “starting to bear fruit,” while the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries said it had asked that the departments of health, justice and constitutional development consider the legislative changes that would allow for the production of hemp.

This SA lager isn’t the first cannabeer to hit the shelves. The master brewer behind Blue Moon beer created his own label and Constellation Brands – which brings us the likes of Corona, Pacifico and Modelo – paired up with cannabis company Canopy Growth with an investment of $4 billion.

There are even rumors circulating now that the makers of Guinness, Smirnoff and Johnny Walker are talking with Canadian entities to make their own infused creations. As the world changes to a darker shade of green all around, companies are keeping up by joining in. Rather than pour more money into anti-cannabis ads, these pioneering brewers have found a way to evolve and that speaks volumes as to the state of the growing cannabis marketplace.

The new lager comes on the heels of SA’s Constitutional Court making the ruling that using cannabis in private is a constitutional right. The fight to legalize for personal use was led by Rastafari Gareth Prince, who worked at it for 21 years and is now enjoying his success, perhaps with an infused lager.

FDA Advised DEA To Eliminate CBD From Drug Category

Mike Adams
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FDA Advised DEA To Eliminate CBD From Drug Category

When the DEA moved last week to put GW Pharmaceuticals new cannabidiol (CBD) derived drug Epidiolex into a Schedule V, the listing did not include any other products containing the CBD compound. But this was not the initial recommendation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which advised the agency to eliminate CBD from the restrictions of a controlled substance on the basis that it is not in the same league as a dangerous drug.

But the DEA was clever in its approach to the Epidiolex deal. Last week, the agency said in an official post in the Federal Register that, “this order places FDA-approved drugs that contain CBD derived from cannabis and no more than 0.1 percent tetrahydrocannabinols in schedule V.” Although CBD is a non-intoxicating component of the cannabis plant, it still contains 0.3 percent of the intoxicating THC. Not enough of it to get anyone high, but just enough to prevent this substance from reaching total legality.

Still, the FDA wrote in a letter to the DEA earlier this year that “CBD and its salts… do not have a significant potential for abuse and could be removed from the [Controlled Substances Act].” The letter also mentioned that eliminating CBD from the ranks of dangerous drugs would be a violation of International drug law. The treaties from which this law is comprised gives participating nations the freedom to legalize marijuana and its compounds for medicinal and research purposes. The 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, however, does not offer any flexibility when it comes to total legalization.

Citing those treaties, the DEA said that pulling CBD from its rank of a controlled substance would put the United States in breach of the law. The FDA then amended its recommendation to suggest CBD be listed a Schedule V, which is the least restrictive classification, as it labels the substance as having “currently accepted medical use in treatment” and “negligible potential for abuse.”

In the end, the FDA wrote, “we find that CBD does not meet the criteria for placement in any of Schedules II, III, IV, or V under the CSA.” It went on to say that the second the treaties were no longer an issue, the CBD listing should be reexamined.

This is not the first time the two federal agencies have clashed on marijuana. Two years ago, after the DEA rejected a petition to reschedule the cannabis plant, it was revealed that the FDA had recommended the Justice Department reevaluate “the legal and regulatory framework” it employs when determining whether a substance belongs in a Scheduled listing.

“While potentially daunting (depending on its nature and scope), re-evaluation of the legal and regulatory framework by DOJ/DEA and [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] could identify ways to encourage appropriate scientific research into the potential therapeutic benefits of marijuana and its constituents,” it continues,” the letter reads.

However, the proposed reassessment has never happened. Still, the DEA asserts it “will continue to support sound and scientific research that promotes legitimate therapeutic uses for FDA-approved constituent components of cannabis, consistent with federal law.”

Essentially, this means that drug companies like GW Pharmaceuticals will be given the opportunity to dominate Uncle Sam’s concept of a medical marijuana market while state sanctioned programs remain a violation of federal law.

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