• Pabst Brewing, the makers of Blue Ribbon, launched a light-beer brand last year.
• Pabst previously sponsored DIY YouTube channel BigTime for a budget drag racer and is now tapping it to overhaul a 1969 Kenworth semi truck.
• After checking the fine print, a brown Pontiac Trans-Am is not included.

Unofficial beer of late-night wrenching sessions, underground rock ‘n' roll shows, and maybe even just celebrating getting the lawnmowing done, Pabst Blue Ribbon has well over a century of heritage. Possibly it tasted even better back in 1890, when you had to mow said lawn with a scythe.

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In June of 2020, comedian Rory Scovel lost his father. It happened quickly, much like the rush of grief that followed. It was still early in the pandemic, and channeling any of it into comedy before the kind of packed audience he was accustomed to wasn’t an option. Not that he was necessarily ready to do so at that time.

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This is a spoiler-free review of The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn, which premieres on Hulu on Friday, August 14.

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An unidentified passenger allegedly created a fake Wi-Fi network on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday, prompting pilots to alert air traffic control, according to the airline and public broadcasts from the plane.

The best original song Oscar race — which already includes offerings from the likes of Taylor Swift and Travis Scott — just got a little more crowded: “La Nieve,” a Spanish-language tune featured in a key scene of Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s La Bola Negra, the Cannes breakout that Netflix acquired for an awards run, is being submitted for best original song Oscar consideration, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.

Your car has speakers for a reason.

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Sometimes, when you've gotten a snazzy new piece of tech, like a pair of high-end headphones, it can be hard to want to part with it even for a minute. But what about when you're going for a drive? The legality of wearing headphones while driving can vary drastically based on what state you're in, whether they're covering both ears and if your usage of them is deemed dangerous.

I t’s hard to remember this now, but before the pandemic of 2020, Anthony Fauci was probably the most widely respected public health official in America. As an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, he was instrumental in mobilizing the government against the AIDS crisis — a role immortalized in Randy Shilts’ epic book And the Band Played On. Activists blamed Fauci for Washington’s sluggish response, but he persisted in reaching out to critics and eventually won their grudging respect. Twenty years later, during George W. Bush’s administration, Fauci was part of the small team that designed and pushed for PEPFAR — the government program to fight AIDS overseas, principally in sub-Saharan Africa. It was Bush’s signature foreign policy achievement, credited with saving millions of lives (before Donald Trump set about dismantling it last year). Had Fauci stopped there and called it a career, he would have gone down in history, quietly, as one of the most universally admired public servants of his time.

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The Treasury Department on Tuesday issued guidance that could allow parents to make pre-tax contributions to their child’s Trump Account directly from their paycheck, with potential matching from employers, after a poll indicated a small percentage of companies would seek out a contribution program.

Regardless of whether leaders are born and/or made, great leadership is a choice.

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Whether great leadership is a result of nature or nurture is always a fascinating question to ponder. Quite frankly, I have found myself on both sides of this, which leads me to conclude that it is both. On the one hand, individuals are born with certain traits of great leadership, such as confidence, charisma, and, to some extent, a dose of curiosity. On the other hand, some traits can be acquired, such as integrity, empathy, and a deeper level of curiosity, which can be refined through lived experience and continuous learning. Regardless of whether leaders are born and/or made, great leadership is a choice.