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Will Mike follow in his brother Mitch’s footsteps in the first season of the Mayor of Kingstown TV show on Paramount+? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Mayor of Kingstown is cancelled or renewed for season two. Paramount+ and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you’ve been watching this TV series, we’d love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Mayor of Kingstown here.
A Paramount+ crime thriller series, the Mayor of Kingstown TV show stars Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest, Hugh Dillon, Taylor Handley, Emma Laird, Tobi Bamtefa, Derek Webster, Pha’rez Lass, Aidan Gillen, Hamish Allan-Headley, and Kyle Chandler. The story follows the McLusky family. They are power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. There are seven prisons within a 10-mile radius and Mike McLusky (Renner) is at the center of the action. He’s a conduit between the incarcerated and the outside world. He works with the city’s unofficial Mayor, aka his well-connected brother and business partner, Mitch (Chandler). Their younger brother, Kyle (Handley), is a police detective. Their mother, Mariam (Wiest), teaches inmates and is not happy with her sons’ business.
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Injury Reserve makes rap music like you’ve never heard it before—and they wouldn’t have it any other way. The group, which consists of members Ritchie With a T, Stepa J. Groggs, and Parker Corey, first emerged on the rap scene with their breakout mixtape, 2015’s Live From The Dentist Office. The album, recorded at the office of Corey’s dentist grandfather, set the tone for the idiosyncratic and innovative rap style that the trio has continued to perfect in the following years. Injury Reserve has been steadily gaining momentum ever since, cultivated a loyal fanbase with two EPs, two mixtapes, and an eponymous studio album. But last year, the group was rocked by the death of Groggs, a tragedy that significantly altered IR’s internal relationships and sound. To navigate their grief, Corey and Ritchie took a brief hiatus from making music, coming together only to finish their latest album, By the Time We Get to Phoenix. The record’s distinctive, deconstructed feel, born of an impromptu-DJ set Corey performed in Stockholm, emerged as a result of the Swedish venue’s faulty sound equipment. Recorded when Groggs was still alive, By the Time We Get to Phoenix is, for Injury Reserve die-hards, a transcendent time capsule from more innocent times. To mark the record’s release, Ritchie and Corey sat down with Interview, in the midst of wrapping up their By the Time We Get to Phoenix tour, for a conversation about loss, pushing sonic boundaries, and fire alarms.
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JACKSON WALD: Sonically, this album is a departure from your past projects. Was there a moment, that triggered this experimental change? Or has it been a more natural, gradual shift?
RITCHIE WITH A T: It’s almost like a workout. If you keep doing the same workout, you’re not growing. We’ve been doing this together for a while and I think the only way that we were gonna feel really passionate and confident, and really love the process of making new music was to push ourselves to make stuff that if we were to hear it on the radio, would make us say, “Whoa, What’s this?” So to me, it’s about boredom and competitiveness. On our previous record, we definitely worried a little too much about questions like, “What is your debut studio record supposed to be like?” On this record, we didn’t really play into anything like that. We just told ourselves, “If we’re gonna do this, we got to have fun doing it and do something interesting.” Because if not, the fulfillment is not going to be there.
PARKER COREY: There’s also a certain intimacy thing, where you spend endless time with, just, sound. In any craft, the more time you spend with it, the more delicate that touch is going to get.
WALD: Have you managed to record at all during your current tour?
RITCHIE: We’ve really been leaning into fully fulfilling this record on the road. Going on the road brought home the emotional side of the record, and we weren’t sure how that was going to feel. At every show, we perform the entire record front to back. It’s our first time doing that. So, that’s allowed us to really realize the record.
WALD: Were there any moments on tour where things went wrong?
COREY: Definitely our L.A. show. At this particular show, the fog machine set off the fire alarm, which immediately cut power onstage, including the speakers. We went backstage, and then this one guy was being a callous asshole about the situation, and then we got into an argument. So this picture is from the beginning of the show, when it was going well.
WALD: What were you guys listening to while recording the album?
COREY: I did a lot of reading, which was the most influential thing for me when it came to sitting down and making beats. A lot of art-politics-theory shit. Mark Fisher was very big when we were working on the video stuff.
WALD: How does reading theory inspire your beat-making? Is it thematic, or do certain words trigger a response?
COREY: It’s like a battery pack sometimes. It adds a little bit of assurance to the necessity of making something new. Something that annoys the shit out of me is seeing how some people have reacted [to the album]. I expected that people were not going to like our album at all, and I felt like an asshole when the reaction was really positive. I felt like I didn’t have enough faith in people, but now I’m retracting all that faith in humanity, because humanity is loving this Silk Sonic album. That shit is everything that our album stands against. And that comes from that theory shit that I was on at the time.
WALD: Is there one song on the album that resonates with you guys, or has more of a significant emotional impact than the others? If so, why?
COREY: I still fall back on my big three: “Superman,” “Knees,” and “Bye Storm.”
WALD: Why those three in particular?
COREY: Well, after Groggs passed, his verse on “Knees” takes on so much more weight. “Bye Storm” feels like something that is holding on to you in a very comforting way. Like a weighted blanket.
RITCHIE: It’s those three for me, too. “Superman,” when I hear that song, it’s just like, ‘This is my type of song in a nutshell.
COREY: So this is probably t-minus four minutes to disaster. This is at our LA show. It’s the first song in our set, called “Outside.” At this particular show, the fog set off the fire alarm, which immediately cut power onstage, including the speakers. We went backstage, and then this one guy was being a callous asshole about the situation, and then we got into an argument. So this picture is from the beginning of the show, when it was going well.
RITCHIE: It was just an argument, though. He claimed that I tried to fight him. I didn’t try to fight him.
What list is better to have during the holidays then my top five horror movies of all time. But hey, with last minute shopping, the mall can sometimes be a living horror show. These movies have kept me up late at night and kept disturbing images lodged in my cerebellum. Here are my top five horror flicks of all time.
5)Paranormal Activity
A young couple buys a home and start to have paranormal activity in their new place. The couple sets up a camera, then it gets scary. A demon entered their southern California abode. We watch the movie through a series of pieced together home videos. PA is a movie in the same vein as Blair Witch Project. Don’t let the Lo – Fi camera fool you. This films will keep you up at night.
4) Saw
Two men wake up chained in a grimy bathroom. What could possibly go wrong? Answer: Everything. The men realized they have been taken captive by the menacing figure Jigsaw, who makes they do some horrible things, in order to put together the puzzle to keep them alive, while their loved ones watch. What would you do for a Klondike bar? Die!!!!!
3) The Thing
Classic Alert:
Scientist at the Antarctica find a wounded dog. The dog starts to attack the people on the base. They soon find out the dog is a monster that can take shape. The camp doctor and helicopter pilot try their best to fight off the monster before it destroy them all. Eighties horror were some best. Frozen shape-shifting monster. What else could be better.
2) The Exorcist
Classic Alert:
The Exorcist has kept many awake at night and inspired others to join their local church for Sunday mass. Even though the film came out in 1973. I did not watch it until the early 2000s. The story is based on an actual exorcism that went wrong. A young girl comes under possession. Her mother is about to lose hope, when she finds a priest willing to help her. The church send help, and they attempt to fight the devil. This movie has been banned at different theaters when it first came out. Sleep with a cross under your pillow.
The Shining
Classic Alert:
Jack Torrance becomes a manger at an isolated hotel in Colorado. He stays there with his wife and son, who can see mysterious things. The writer’s work gets terrible, and he sinks into insanity, while his sons’ visions become more perverse. Jack sinks deeper into the hotel’s evil atmosphere as the writer comes homicidal. This movie made me sleep with the lights on, during the day. Watch is at your own risk.
A famous poet once said, “It takes two to make everything right!” That poet was Rob Base, and he definitely had a point. In memorable movie – duos stay implanted in our mental Rolodex until the day we turn to ashes. Some of these iconic twosomes made movie magic happen simply with their unique symmetry, which jumped off the screen and embraced us like a group hug. Here are some of my top 5 movie duos – double ditching in my mental movie memories.
5) Danny Glover and Mel Gibson
The Lethal Weapon franchises were all the rage – in the time of, long hair sprayed locks and keyboard abused movie scores, we liked to call the late eighties. Widower Martin Riggs (Mel) a Los Angeles police officer was on the brink of a break-down, so he got reassigned to the cool, calm collected, senior officer Roger Murtaugh (Danny). The two immediately clashed – the young crazy cop with the grizzled veteran who had seen everything and scoffed at his new partner’s manic ways. The two eventually formed a bond, taking on the dangerous, LA crime scene together – like Paul McCarthy and Stevie Wonder on steroid.
4) Paul Newman and Robert Redford
Classic alert: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids has stood the test of time. If you have not seen this movie, then you cannot call yourself a cinephile. Which is okay. A Cinephile is a title one must earn. Paul Newman was the loveable Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford played the ever dangerous Sundance Kid. Their chemistry on screen was electric, as if they were both birthed to meet and play these roles. They were the leaders of the Hole in the Wood gang. These outlaws loved to rob trains. They robbed a few too many, and a pose formed to bring them to justice. They escaped to Bolivia and well nothing ever ends happily in Bolivia. That’s not real. I made it up. Paul and Robert will steal your movie imaginations.
3) Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon
Thelma and Louis is the ultimate girl power movie, and these two made an unstoppable pair that spawned girl trips to Mexico until this very day. Thelma (Geena) and Louis (Sue) planned a fishing trip (I know but stay with me) but the trip was cut short when they took the life of a man during an attempted rape. They decided the best course of action was fleeing south of the boarder – Mexico, that is. They discovered a young Brad Pitt and Thelma fell head over heels. Who wouldn’t! The ladies were pursued by Harvey Keitel, who reluctantly must bring them to justice, but warned them to give up before it was too late. The all-time best gal pal flick.
2) Harrison Ford and Peter Mayhew
The piolets of the Millennium Falcon, have been flying together through the Galaxies as the best Human/Wookie coupling of all time. They were a thorn to the dark side, ever since meeting his girlfriend Princess Lea and her rebellious friends. From Endor, Hoth, and even the Death Stars, these two helped the Rebel Alliance beat back the Evil Empire, led by the deep voiced Darth Vader. Harrison Ford and Peter Mayhew were the underdogs of the Hollywood buddy movie genre, not anymore, my friends. I am here to give them their second place flowers.
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd
Yes! We are putting the band back together! The Blues Brothers – in my humble opinion, is the best Film duo ever put together. Jake (John) and Elwood (Dan) are the Blues Brothers, who at one time were the leaders of a Chicago Rhythm and Blues band. Jake just got paroled and they received a sign. They had to put the band back together, because they had on a mission from God to save an orphanage, where they both were raised. The comedic situations the two of them get into are hilariously wild, and just when you think it can’t get any worse.
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On December 29, Naomi Ekperigin will debut her half-hour comedy special in the third season of Netflix’s The Standups. That meant a show this weekend was a chance to work out some new material. “Because that half-hour set is coming out, I can’t do that material anymore. Or at least I’ve chosen not to do that material anymore,” she says. “The audience was great. I was well received. But I felt like, Okay, girl, you got to get your shit together.” Along with her Netflix special, Ekperigin is a writer and voice actor on Mythic Quest and co-hosts a couple of podcasts, including Couples Therapy with her partner.
Thursday, December 9 It’s day four of my new job working as a writer on season three of Mythic Quest, and we’re working in person. Considering I haven’t been in an in-person work setting in almost two years, I’m anxious AF and trying to start my mornings on the right foot, which includes a sensible breakfast: two slices of cinnamon-raisin toast with butter, a glass of orange juice, ten milligrams of Lexapro and 300 milligrams of Wellbutrin XL.
Lunch was provided for us. It was Vietnamese. I got a vermicelli bowl with spring rolls, which is my go-to, but it was lackluster. The nuoc cham sauce was a little bland, and being a condiment queen, I couldn’t get past this!
I love sauces. I love dips. I’m telling you, I think they make everything taste better. One of the reasons I’m not that big into meats is because meats can be very dry. That’s where I’m really coming at you with pastas, coming at you with breads. With things that can be drenched, in a way. And I love that.
I got home after work simply spent from an entire day of human interaction and being constantly worried something was on my face whenever someone looked at it. Thank God, I was able to stuff myself with comfort food: leftovers from my birthday dinner of mac ’n’ cheese from Granville. What makes this mac ’n’ cheese so good is that it has chicken, peas, and asparagus in it — in other words, all the food groups are represented in one heaping plate of cheese-laden carbs. If that’s not delicious efficiency, I don’t know what is.
I chased the leftover mac with half of a half-pound cookie from City Cakes Bakery in New York City, a birthday gift from a New York friend who understands when I say, “Los Angeles just doesn’t know desserts.” Seriously, this town will give you all the cheese-and-milk substitutes you want, they love to wood-fire a pizza, and they live for “small plates, perfect for sharing!” But when it comes to sugar, flour, and butter, they really drop the ball. (Also: for all you math heads: I did have a quarter pound of cookie.)
Before we go any further, It’s important for readers to know that I’m between Trader Joe’s trips, and my fridge is pretty bare, with basically orange juice, some almond milk, bread, and pesto sauce. Please keep this in mind when reading the below and know that I’m not as lazy as this past week makes me seem.
I’ve been a real Trader Joe’s head for eight years now maybe. Probably longer. As soon as there was a Trader Joe’s in New York, I was at Trader Joe’s. That was when I lived in Harlem. I think the first one was at Union Square, and you had to wait in line around the block to get in. It was always so cheap, which made it worth the trek from Harlem. I was in my 20s and didn’t have a lot of money, but I was like, I should have groceries, and I should cook. Trader Joe’s was the way to do it.
I think because it’s their brand, you can get something organic that’s way cheaper than if you went to any other store. And then you’re like, “Oh, look at me, I’m buying organic. Ain’t I a class act!” When you find the stuff you like there in terms of their snacks and their frozen, once you lock in, once you lock in on your top snacks, I think you’re good to go.
In L.A., it’s basically the only store we shop at. Quite honestly, the only thing this town has going for it is the abundance of TJ’s.
Friday, December 10 Again, I had the breakfast of champions: cinnamon-raisin toast, OJ, anti-anxiety, and anti-depressant. Although I’m not that hungry when I first wake up, I know I’ll inevitably be desperate by 11 a.m., and since I don’t really like snacks, I need to put something in my stomach to get me to lunchtime.
For lunch, we ordered from Mendocino Farms, a classic soup-salad-sandwich spot that’s a go-to in every writers’ room I’ve been in. I got the not-so-fried chicken sandwich with both sauces — a barbecue sauce and a remoulade (see above, re: condiment queen). I also split a superfood salad just to say I tried to be healthy. And I ate a handful of chips, not because I’m disciplined but because I just want a touch of crunch every now and then in the eating process.
When I first moved here, I did not know that was going to be the case. Any room I had worked in before, we got our own food. The rooms in New York, I just got my own. So I had no idea. I got very excited. Once, I was like, “Oh, wait, we get to eat whatever?” I was like, Oh yeah, this changes the whole game.
In this room, we get an email at the top of the day that says, “We’re ordering from this place.” So you pick what you want. But I’ve been in other rooms where we each took turns picking the day’s lunch, picking from a big book of menus. In a way, I appreciate this version because I don’t have to think think, and I don’t have to resent anyone if they choose a place I don’t like.
I ate lunch in my office alone while most of my co-workers stayed in the writers’ room, chatting. I love them all, but I prefer solo lunchtime because I like to shovel food in my mouth like Tiny Tim and dip every bite of sandwich in sauce and I don’t want to have to explain myself. Also, because sitting in a room with people all day makes me anxious, and I need the hour-long lunch break to recharge and take a break from “active listening.”
Saturday, December 11 I was mostly lazy in the morning, taking a nice long nap after getting up and walking my dog. She’s never been inside Trader Joe’s. I want to be a person who would carry their dog in TJ’s, but I’m afraid because I’m not a white woman. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get away with it. She does like the cat treats, though, as do the cats. They have it all. This place.
In the afternoon, I recorded an episode of a podcast, Films to Be BuriedWith, hosted by Brett “I’m on Ted Lasso” Goldstein, and by the time we were done, around 4 p.m., I wanted to eat something.
We’d planned to go to a holiday party that evening, and though there was talk of tacos, I never go to parties on an empty stomach. Eating at 4 p.m. ensured I’d be full enough not to be desperate but not so full that I couldn’t avail myself of finger foods if they were available. I ordered (yes, again!!!!) quesabirria tacos from El Zarape, which are meaty and cheesy and perfect.
Once we got to the party, my fear of Omicron made me not want to touch anything communal, so I sat outside drinking grapefruit-and-soda. When I got home at 11 p.m., I quickly made some pasta with pesto sauce — capellini, because it cooks in three minutes, and it was too late to play games! This isn’t my first choice, though. I firmly believe pesto sauce tastes best with penne, but at 11 p.m., your girl didn’t have nine-to-12 minutes to wait!!
Have you tried stirring pesto into long noodles? It’s nigh on impossible. It clumps up. When you’re working with a thicker pasta, like penne, it’s easier to mix in and get everything nice and covered.
Sunday, December 12 At around 1 p.m., I picked up a breakfast sandwich at Loupiotte Kitchen, a French restaurant near my house that has the greatest egg sandwich of all time. Why is it the greatest? Well, the egg is omeletted (is that a word?), with Gruyère and bacon mixed into it! I add avocado and tomato, and it comes with a lightly dressed side salad — it’s a perfect complete meal that leaves me full for hours and hours. (Is that bad? Does it mean I’m having too much in one sitting?)
Sometimes you just want a hearty, big breakfast. When I saw it for the first time, I was like, We’ve got Gruyère going on and bacon. Mmm, baby. I think I got it for delivery, and when you get something for delivery, you just don’t know. You’re taking a risk. It arrived, and it was so big. It was so delicious. I love that all the ingredients were already mixed in. You know how sometimes you’ll get an egg sandwich and everything is piled on top and then it’s impossible to chew or bite into it without spilling it everywhere? You don’t have that problem with this omelet situation. I did think maybe I shouldn’t even tell people. I can’t have people coming up here and making it hard for me to get my egg sandwich. I don’t believe in waiting a long time for eggs. I hate brunch. I hate the culture of brunch. I love it as a meal, but I really do not believe I should have to stand in line for pancakes.
I wanted to be full because I had a show at the Hollywood Improv that night, opening for Matt Rogers (one of Las Culturistas!). I hate eating before shows, ’cause I’m worried I’ll toot or burp or something else embarrassing. But Los Angeles is an early town, especially on a Sunday, and if you don’t grab something before 9:30 p.m., your only option is a drive-through. Luckily, I had dinner lined up — I texted my partner and podcast co-host, Andy Beckerman, as I was leaving, which was his cue to order from Flore Vegan, a casual spot that’s actually open till 10 p.m. on a Sunday, making it a veritable all-night diner! I got the club sandwich, made with tofu, tempeh bacon, tomato, and a side of shoestring fries. I also ordered a flojito — a homemade mint-lime soda that I love. I’m really into lightly sweetened beverages and any mint-lime combination.
Monday, December 13 I skipped breakfast because I spent too much time on Instagram seeing who liked the post about my upcoming Netflix special, and that did not provide the nourishment I’d hoped for!!! Around 11:30 a.m., I got desperate, and I ate a small bag of white-cheddar Pirate’s Booty, which did not taste as good as I remembered from my youth.
Lunch arrived around 12:30 p.m., and we ordered from a healthy restaurant — vegan options, but it also offered real meat so I wasn’t quite sure what they were aiming for. I wasn’t particularly enthused because it was one of those restaurants that was doing too much: They had Mediterranean dishes, Mexican food, and pastas. There’s no way they can do all of that well! We can’t all be multi-hyphenates. I say, pick a lane and perfect it!!!
I ordered the salmon tacos with a side of chips and guac and … isn’t it weird when something has tons of sauce and spice and is still bland? It’s so confusing to me. There was just something off, but I ate both tacos ’cause I was really hungry and because they were free.
But if you think that’s gonna stop me from ordering dinner, you thought wrong! Andy and I ordered Italian food from Blair’s, a cute spot in Silverlake that’s been a real ride-or-die in the pandemmy. I got an arugula salad and gnocchetti with swiss chard and sausage, which usually lasts for two meals. This arugula salad shouldn’t make sense, but it’s perfect — dare I say, my favorite salad. It’s got arugula, radicchio, pickled onions (what?!), Parmesan, and bread crumbs, and it comes with a Caesar-esque dressing. As a born-and-bred balsamic gal, loving this dressing has really reminded me how important it is to remain teachable.
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Injury Reserve makes rap music like you’ve never heard it before—and they wouldn’t have it any other way. The group, which consists of members Ritchie With a T, Stepa J. Groggs, and Parker Corey, first emerged on the rap scene with their breakout mixtape, 2015’s Live From The Dentist Office. The album, recorded at the office of Corey’s dentist grandfather, set the tone for the idiosyncratic and innovative rap style that the trio has continued to perfect in the following years. Injury Reserve has been steadily gaining momentum ever since, cultivated a loyal fanbase with two EPs, two mixtapes, and an eponymous studio album. But last year, the group was rocked by the death of Groggs, a tragedy that significantly altered IR’s internal relationships and sound. To navigate their grief, Corey and Ritchie took a brief hiatus from making music, coming together only to finish their latest album, By the Time We Get to Phoenix. The record’s distinctive, deconstructed feel, born of an impromptu-DJ set Corey performed in Stockholm, emerged as a result of the Swedish venue’s faulty sound equipment. Recorded when Groggs was still alive, By the Time We Get to Phoenix is, for Injury Reserve die-hards, a transcendent time capsule from more innocent times. To mark the record’s release, Ritchie and Corey sat down with Interview, in the midst of wrapping up their By the Time We Get to Phoenix tour, for a conversation about loss, pushing sonic boundaries, and fire alarms.
