The NBA Playoffs are great for a lot of reasons, but one of them is we get high level basketball every night on national TV. That also comes with the benefit of getting the Inside the NBA crew on our televisions most nights throughout the week, instead of just once on Thursdays.
While it’s great for us, having to interact nightly ratchets up the tension between Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal, as they get on each other’s nerves much quicker than usual because they’re around each other every night. On Thursday, we got our first real Chuck and Shaq blowup of the postseason, and it was one of their dumber arguments in recent memory. Typically, one of them takes a dig at the other, but this time it felt like they both were trying to say the same thing in a slightly different way and just kept getting mad at each other.
In a discussion about the best players coming out and setting the tone, the two started yelling at each other about whether it’s the star’s job to get other players going. Shaq insisted it wasn’t, while Chuck said it was. However, they were really arguing two different things, but got madder and madder with each other.
Chuck’s argument was that the star has to keep the other guys engaged on the court, keeping them in the flow, especially when there’s help being sent at the star. Shaq also noted the star kicks it out when he gets doubled, but thought the argument was about getting guys ready emotionally, insisting that’s on each player to be mentally ready to get going.
As is usually the case, there was not really a common ground found in the two-minute-long argument. Instead, they just dropped it and moved on thinking the other was an idiot when, in truth, I think they mostly agree on this issue and were arguing two different points.
When people talk about sustainability in the food and drink industry, there’s a lot of talk about plastic straws and reducing waste. But at Bar Pionero, the sustainability standard is set much, much higher. They do things I didn’t even know were possible, and they don’t do things a lot of people—those who put profit before protection of the environment—would do in the name of conservation.
And most of it comes down to the vision of elite bartender Federico Gil.
Gil and his brother founded Bar Pionero 14 years ago, after moving to Chilean Patagonia from Uruguay. The bar sits adjacent to the main lobby of the Las Torres Hotel, just inside Torres del Paine National Park, and with its wall of windows framing a towering mountain, just being in the bar is an experience. The food is good, and as someone who doesn’t drink, I was delighted by the incredible mocktail offerings. But the highlight of the bar is Gil himself.
Watching Gil speak about sustainability was mesmerizing, even with him speaking in Spanish and me only understanding a few words of what he said. For the details, I needed the English-speaking translator, but Gil’s passion for sustainability needed no translation; it was genuine and palpable.
On a practical level, here are some of the zero-waste practices the bar has implemented:
– Not only do they not use plastic straws but they use signature copper straws. Chile is the world’s largest copper producer, so the metal is plentiful. It’s also naturally anti-bacterial (though they have a sanitation process they use to clean them, of course).
– They repurpose bottles and jars into drinking glasses and tools for the bartenders. Sometimes they even combine them with copper. Check out this gorgeous glass made from an upside down glass bottle top and copper.
– They make their own mixes, spirits, bitters, vinegars, etc. from the plants that grow naturally in the surrounding landscape as well as from the organic garden on site.
– They also make vinegar by capturing and repurposing the dribbles of beer that come out of the tap after a draft beer is poured.
– They brew their own beer using pure glacial water and hops grown in the garden. The byproduct of the brewing process then goes back into the garden as fertilizer.
– They distill their own gin in small batches, using glacial water, 13 botanicals from the natural landscape and the clay left behind from the moving glaciers. Gil says his goal with the gin is to convey the “spirit of the ice.” Glacial gin. Who knew?
The gin is so unique, Gil could certainly make money distributing it around the world, but he refuses. Same with the beer.
“The world doesn’t need one more gin or one more beer,” he says. The most sustainable way is not to sell it outside the hotel, where it would have to be shipped and transported. “We’re not thinking about how much we can sell, but what impact we have,” he adds.
It’s literally putting their money where their mouth is, knowing they could have a lucrative product on their hands but not capitalizing on it because of the environmental impact that would have. And it’s not just a guess—Gil says the bar actually keeps track and calculates their environmental impact using various measures.
On top of all of that, watching Gil craft a cocktail is like watching an artist at work. He’s as passionate about creativity as he is about sustainability, and it shows. I watched him light herbs on fire and set a glass bottle top over the flame to capture their essence, then paint a homemade cold extraction of lemon onto a frozen stone from the park, then shake together various liquids created from park botanicals and put it all together into glass made of layers of jar and glass tops.
I’d never seen anything like it, and I’ve rarely seen anyone who walks the sustainability talk so clearly in their work. It not only gave me hope for the conservation of Torres del Paine and Patagonia (which is stunning—a place bucket lists are made for, seriously), but also made me realize how much we have to learn from one another as we strive to protect our beautiful planet.
If you’d like to see Federico in action, check out this video from my experience there:
When people talk about sustainability in the food and drink industry, there’s a lot of talk about plastic straws and reducing waste. But at Bar Pionero, the sustainability standard is set much, much higher. They do things I didn’t even know were possible, and they don’t do things a lot of people—those who put profit before protection of the environment—would do in the name of conservation.
And most of it comes down to the vision of elite bartender Federico Gil.
Gil and his brother founded Bar Pionero 14 years ago, after moving to Chilean Patagonia from Uruguay. The bar sits adjacent to the main lobby of the Las Torres Hotel, just inside Torres del Paine National Park, and with its wall of windows framing a towering mountain, just being in the bar is an experience. The food is good, and as someone who doesn’t drink, I was delighted by the incredible mocktail offerings. But the highlight of the bar is Gil himself.
Watching Gil speak about sustainability was mesmerizing, even with him speaking in Spanish and me only understanding a few words of what he said. For the details, I needed the English-speaking translator, but Gil’s passion for sustainability needed no translation; it was genuine and palpable.
On a practical level, here are some of the zero-waste practices the bar has implemented:
– Not only do they not use plastic straws but they use signature copper straws. Chile is the world’s largest copper producer, so the metal is plentiful. It’s also naturally anti-bacterial (though they have a sanitation process they use to clean them, of course).
– They repurpose bottles and jars into drinking glasses and tools for the bartenders. Sometimes they even combine them with copper. Check out this gorgeous glass made from an upside down glass bottle top and copper.
– They make their own mixes, spirits, bitters, vinegars, etc. from the plants that grow naturally in the surrounding landscape as well as from the organic garden on site.
– They also make vinegar by capturing and repurposing the dribbles of beer that come out of the tap after a draft beer is poured.
– They brew their own beer using pure glacial water and hops grown in the garden. The byproduct of the brewing process then goes back into the garden as fertilizer.
– They distill their own gin in small batches, using glacial water, 13 botanicals from the natural landscape and the clay left behind from the moving glaciers. Gil says his goal with the gin is to convey the “spirit of the ice.” Glacial gin. Who knew?
The gin is so unique, Gil could certainly make money distributing it around the world, but he refuses. Same with the beer.
“The world doesn’t need one more gin or one more beer,” he says. The most sustainable way is not to sell it outside the hotel, where it would have to be shipped and transported. “We’re not thinking about how much we can sell, but what impact we have,” he adds.
It’s literally putting their money where their mouth is, knowing they could have a lucrative product on their hands but not capitalizing on it because of the environmental impact that would have. And it’s not just a guess—Gil says the bar actually keeps track and calculates their environmental impact using various measures.
On top of all of that, watching Gil craft a cocktail is like watching an artist at work. He’s as passionate about creativity as he is about sustainability, and it shows. I watched him light herbs on fire and set a glass bottle top over the flame to capture their essence, then paint a homemade cold extraction of lemon onto a frozen stone from the park, then shake together various liquids created from park botanicals and put it all together into glass made of layers of jar and glass tops.
I’d never seen anything like it, and I’ve rarely seen anyone who walks the sustainability talk so clearly in their work. It not only gave me hope for the conservation of Torres del Paine and Patagonia (which is stunning—a place bucket lists are made for, seriously), but also made me realize how much we have to learn from one another as we strive to protect our beautiful planet.
If you’d like to see Federico in action, check out this video from my experience there:
Many people believe that someone’s personality can be determined by their birth order within a family. Older siblings are often seen as more responsible and the youngest is frequently characterized as the most laid-back. Although there isn’t much research to back up these claims, there is evidence that birth order can affect someone’s intelligence.
So, does birth order have any effect on multiples? In a unique case like triplets, there can be a small, self-fulfilling prophecy effect. Parents and siblings may project stereotypes onto one another, such as, “You were born first, now you’re first at everything,” or “You were born last, no wonder you’re lazy.”
Triplets on TikTok are going viral because they were never able to have any squabbles about their birth order because they never knew it until they turned 18. Janie Hilbert, 18, shared a video in February featuring her triplet brothers, Luke and Wright, that showed their reaction to learning their birth order for the first time.
The video is touching, but it didn’t reveal the actual order, just their reaction and it was still viewed over 20 million times.
After the post, TikTok was shouting for a follow-up video that revealed the results. A few days later, Janie posted a video that revealed their birth order, set to the theme song from “Full House.”
The post showed that Wright is the oldest, followed by middle child Luke and then Janie. Janie was not excited about being the youngest. “I did not want to be the youngest,” Janie told Today.com. “That’s the one thing I really hoped I hadn’t been waiting 18 years to be the youngest and then here we are.”
The triplets’ parents, Stewart Hilbert and Clay Hilbert, told Today.com why they decided to wait until their 18th birthday to learn the truth about their birth order. The decision was made because Clayton, their oldest child, was born three years before the triplets.
“He was also definitely precocious, a rule follower and very literal,” Stewart said, adding that he would probably tried to enforce an “olest gets the bottle first” mentality when the triplets arrived. “We just didn’t want to play his game, and we were like, alright, let’s just keep it a secret. It’ll be fun. They won’t have to subscribe to any of the stereotypes of oldest, middle, youngest, all that.”
It was tough keeping the birth order a secret for all those years, especially with the children constantly begging to find out the answer. “They definitely wanted to know, and that made it even more fun,” Stewart explained.
“We tried to figure it out for so long. We begged and begged. They wouldn’t crack,” Janie added.
The funny thing was that their father secretly revealed the truth in the family group chat which featured the children’s names in birth order. But the triplets never put it together. “I was so excited to try to tell them that it was in front of them the whole time,” Clay said.
There are often hypothetical scenarios that people get asked just to see what their answer will be. In most cases, the scenario is something that has a very slim chance of ever happening in real life, but it can be fun to allow your brain to wander. A hypothetical scenario is taking over social media right now and it has women nodding in agreement while many men are left scratching their heads.
Screenshot HQ took to the streets and asked random women if they would rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear. Overwhelmingly women chose to take their chances with a bear, some providing the inquirer with a reason as to why they’d chose a bear over a man. Unsurprisingly to most women, the participants saw the bear as the safer option.
Some men had a hard time understanding why women would risk being mauled by a bear, but several men did understand and took to social media to attempt to explain.
Some men seemingly easily knew why women would choose to be in the woods with a bear when their partners asked them the same question but the hypothetical woman was their daughter. In the video, one woman makes her case for choosing a bear.
“Well I’ve heard about bears, they don’t always attack you right unless you f**k with them? So maybe a bear,” she laughs.
Luis Torio responded to the video with an explanation for men who seemed confused by the amount of women choosing a bear. In his video he asks, “why would a woman choose a man over a bear when the number one predator of a woman is a man and not the bear?” He goes on to explain that if a woman is put in the woods with the wrong man, she could be in a much worse situation than with a bear.
Women were asked if they would rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear – and their answers are sad #manvsbear
YourTango jumped in on the debate and dropped a few facts with the most staggering being, “the 750,000 black bears in North America unalive less than one person per year on average. Men aged 18-24 are 167 times more likely to unalive someone.” The woman in the video also cites assault statistics for women.
That’s not to say that all men would be dangerous if trapped in the woods with them, commenters and content creators point that out. The concern seems to be more about the predictability of bears verses the predictability of an unknown man.
You can watch the original video that started this weeks long debate below:
The question of being stuck in a forest with a man or a bear is circulating on TikTok right now and sparking some interesting conversation…. we know what our answer would be 🐻🌳 #manvsbear #tiktok #tiktoktrend #trending #challenge #streetinterview #voxpop
While fans wonder whether Beyoncé will perform at Diplo’s HonkyTonk stage at Stagecoach Festival, he’s added some surprise guest sets. The Chainsmokers and Marshmello have been added to the bill, bringing a little more dance flavor to the nominally country-oriented festival. Their addition makes for an even more packed lineup, which already included Brandi Cyrus, Cheat Codes, Dillon Francis, DJ Famous Dave, DJ Rick Dominguez, DJ Slim McGraw, Y.O.G.A., and the mysterious newcomer, Backwoods Barbie.
That last name has been the subject of much speculation, as some fans are convinced that it’s an alias for Beyoncé, whose latest album, Cowboy Carter, dabbled heavily in the core genres showcased at Stagecoach — namely Americana, country, and folk (with some rock ‘n’ roll and hip-hop liberally peppered in, to boot). That, combined with Backwoods Barbie’s Instagram page — which posted its first photo the day of Cowboy Carter‘s release and has maintained a heavy Beyoncé bias ever, complete with disco-country mashup mood board posts — lends some credence to the fan theory (although the smart money is on Bey’s established DJ sister, Solange).
Meanwhile, the Stagecoach Festival at large also features some other unexpected names like Nickelback and Wiz Khalifa as recent country music converts like Post Malone and Jelly Roll back up headliners Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, and Morgan Wallen.
After winning his Oscar for Oppenheimer, it would not be out of character for Cillian Murphy to retreat back to his native home of Ireland and spend the rest of his year whittling a decorative flute out of a small tree. But, despite his explosive year, he isn’t giving up on the highly-anticipated Peaky Blinders movie, which is set to go into production this fall. So at least Murphy will have a nice quiet summer, as opposed to last year.
Creator and writer Steven Knight has confirmed that Murphy is on board with the movie based on the popular drama, which concluded two years ago.
“It’s gonna happen. It’s gonna happen this September,” Knight told NME of the feature film. “I’m just doing the final polishes, which will continue up until the day before we start shooting. But we’re there. We’ve got everything sorted, we’ve got all the commitments we need, we are ready to go,” he added. While the entire cast has not been revealed, Murphy has been ready and willing to return to the Peaky world.
In terms of story, Knight hasn’t dropped any plot points, but promises that the team is pulling out all of the stops. “I think the film is gonna be a step up again, and it’s gonna be great that Peaky fans can meet in one place and watch it. The budget will be bigger, but also because we know we’re ending this chapter, we’re all going to try to do our best. Cillian [Murphy] is really up for it. So I can’t wait for it to start shooting.”
Even though Murphy is a big-time Oscar winner, Knight revealed that the actor has still maintained excitement to reprise his role of Tom Shelby. “Isn’t it amazing? I’m so pleased for him because he deserves it. After every award that he won, he would text and say, ‘I really can’t wait to be doing Peaky.’ Confirming that none of this was going to change what we’re going to do next.”
The first time Eritrean-born, Amsterdam-raised singer RIMON graced my ears was back in 2021 with the release of her second EP I Shine, U Shine. Its six songs present a blend of dancehall, neo-soul, and hip-hop that soothe the ears as much as it adds a pep to your step. “Out Of My Way” is a perfect example of that as RIMON issues a warning to a soon-to-be partner moments she begins an endless free-fall into love. Immediately after that record comes “Got My Back” with Denzel Curry where the two artists play the role of two partners filled with gratitude for the support they give one another.
Three years later, and RIMON has only gotten better. Her latest single “Flowers” is a towering epic that magnifies her pleas to loved ones as she begs them to accept the well-deserved praise and honor she bestows upon them. Prior to that record, RIMON professed her commitment to a lifelong love on the triumphant “I Choose U” with RINI before calling on Kelz2busy to ensure the memories of a past relationship would live on in her mind on the enchanting “Can’t Forget.” It’s these records and others that emphasize RIMON’s graceful approach and determination to soothe the worrying mind, even if it’s her own in some cases.
RIMON is currently hard at work on her debut album, and in the midst of that, the singer found a second to answer our Uproxx Music 20 questions that shed light on her inspirations, influences, and future aspirations.
What is your earliest memory of music?
It has to be me listening and watching the video of “Lady Marmalade” by Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, Mýa, Pink, and Lil’ Kim on this tiny television whilst I was living on a boat that temporarily hosted refugees. I was so intrigued by all those badass women.
Who inspired you to take music seriously?
A lot of people. I was considering it, but I thought it would be very difficult. Until SoundCloud and streaming became a thing and the entry to releasing music was way easier than before. I’d listen to people like Abra, SZA and Jorja Smith before they blew up and seeing women making a career for themselves without huge labels convinced me to also try.
Do you know how to play an instrument? If so, which one? If not, which instrument do you want to learn how to play?
I used to play the piano as a kid, I kinda forgot everything. Except for some basic chords, but I told myself to get back into it and bought a piano to practice. In the pandemic, I tried the guitar, but I don’t want to give up on my long nails [laughs].
What was your first job?
I used to deliver the local newspaper in my town when I was 12. That sh*t was so hard, and way too heavy to carry by myself, I don’t even know if that sh*t was legal.
What is your most prized possession?
I don’t often buy very expensive things, but I think a bag that I got gifted from Louboutin. It’s fully covered in Swarovski diamonds, I can’t even find the price online that’s how I know it’s expensive.
What is your biggest fear?
Subconsciously it would be losing my mom, but I don’t want to give into that fear.
You get 24 hours to yourself to do anything you want, with unlimited resources: What are you doing? And spare no details!
I’d book a big ass private jet that fits all of my friends and family and fly to a destination that is not too far, let’s say Milano, Italy. We’d take the morning to go shopping for everyone — clothes, glam, everything. Then we’d head to Lake Como, rent a boat and spend the day on the water, eating, swimming and drinking. From here we’d have dinner near the lake and then take the plane to London to spend the night partying over there and all stay in the same hotel and wake up with a hangover. Good memories and a brand-new wardrobe.
What are your three most used emojis?
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What’s a feature you need to secure before you die?
If you could appear in a future season of a current TV show, which one would it be and why?
I hardly watch TV shows at the moment, but if I could pick a movie it would be Dune 3.
Which celebrity do you admire or respect for their personality and why?
Rihanna! See just seems so fun, a rebel at heart and looks like she’s always having a good time, but also remaining a bit private, you know? As well as her being the businesswoman that she is and always including her roots, it’s all qualities and things I relate to myself.
Share your opinion on something no one could ever change your mind about.
That astrology is real. It’s just too accurate, and lots of people think it’s bullshit, but I truly relate to so much of it, in regards to myself but also people around me.
What is the best song you’ve ever heard in your life and what do you love about it?
It’s between “Ultralight Beam” by Kanye West and “Yebba’s Heartbreak” by Yebba. “Ultralight Beam” is just a spiritual experience packaged in a song, it’s just too good and so powerful with the choir, Chance’s verse, and the drums. “Yebba’s Heartbreak” is one of those songs that had me crying so many times. Her vocals, the lyrics, the piano, everything about it is just so beautiful.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform, and what’s a city you’re excited to perform in for the first time?
I think Paris! It’s the place I’ve performed the most I think so far, and I just love their crowds, you can tell they really appreciate music. I’ve never performed in New York, so that’s definitely on my list!
You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location where it would be held.
Rosalía, Travis Scott, Tame Impala, Burna Boy and Erykah Badu. This is based on energy and the ‘live’ experience. I think it would be somewhere near water. Maybe in the Azores? That would be cool.
What would you be doing now if it weren’t for music?
Probably still in the creative industry. Either a creative director, photographer or director.
If you could see five years into the future or go five years into the past, which one would you pick and why?
Definitely the past! What’s fun about knowing what’s ahead of you? Also, I’m a sentimental and nostalgic person, so I’d just love to relive some of my best memories.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Stand your ground more, stop being too nice to people, and have clearer boundaries from the jump.
It’s 2050. The world hasn’t ended, and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
As something that impacted some part of their lives, even if it’s a small part. That it encouraged them, healed something in them, or helped them feel less alone in their feelings.
As Neil Gaiman die-hards know, The Sandman‘s second season is currently filming, and given the show’s wealth of special effects, it’s unlikely that we’ll see episodes materialize until, hmm, maybe mid-2025. The wait will be worth that long and more, but for those who need a Vertigo-imprint fix now, a new Netflix series about ghostly teenage detectives hails from the same universe.
Dead Boy Detectives revolves around characters who surfaced during Season of Mists, which is the fourth graphic novel volume of The Sandman comics. These detectives solve crimes that human souls cannot hope to reconcile, and Gaiman previously explained to Tudum that he only felt it natural for these teenagers to take up the profession: “Who amongst us can honestly say that if we were hanging around the Earth as a ghost we wouldn’t want to start a detective agency?” Exactly. Co-creator Steve Steve Yockey has duly added that this series is like “the Hardy Boys on acid.” He believes that this show is as compelling as The Sandman “but through a severely cracked lens.”
So, where’s the connection to The Sandman? The detectives’ boarding school is awash with the consequences of Lucifer’s petty grudge against Dream/Morpheus. The story eventually struck such a chord that Gaiman branched the ghostly duo into their own comic. Via the official series description:
Meet Edwin Payne (Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Revri), ‘the brains’ and ‘the brawn’ behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries. They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Nelson) and her friend Niko (Kitamura), they are able to crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.
Could we also (pretty please) have a Death spin off series to match those comic-book miniseries? Nobody could be mad at that.
Dead Boy Detectives‘ first season is streaming now on Netflix.
With every passing year (and every instantly forgotten streaming service action movie), the Lord of the Rings films seem like even more of a miracle. Peter Jackson‘s trilogy — The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Best Picture winner The Return of the King — are rightly hailed as modern classics. And great Christmas movies, even if they have nothing to do with Christmas. Do hobbits even celebrate a Christmas-like holiday? (That’s a redundant question: please do not direct me towards the 700 page entry in The History of Middle-earth that gets into the history of holidays in the Shire.)
You can still have your annual winter-time viewing of the battle at Helm’s Deep during the holidays, but this year, Warner Bros. and Fathom Events are re-releasing the trilogy into theaters during the summer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “the versions screened will be Jackson’s extended editions (so you might want get the jumbo tub of popcorn), and also the versions that the filmmaker remastered in 2020 for a 4K Ultra HD rerelease. This is the first time the remastered versions will be in theaters.”
Here are the dates and times:
June 8: The Fellowship of the Ring at 4 p.m. local time
June 9: The Two Towers at 4 p.m. local time
June 10: The Return of the King at 7 p.m. time
Looks like searching Google for “when to take a pee break during The Return of the King” is back on the menu, boys.
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