What to Remember Before Part 2

The Pogues might be again in motion Thursday afternoon as Half 2 of “Outer Banks” Season 4 premieres on Netflix, however virtually a month after the primary 5 episodes had been launched, you might want a refresher on what they’ve been as much as. 

The treasure-hunting crew of misfits are all scattered on the finish of Half 1, with a number of storylines to maintain monitor of as you come for the second batch of episodes. JJ simply discovered his dad might not be who he thought he was. Sarah and Pope are caught in a crypt with rats and rising water ranges. And the Pogues nonetheless haven’t solved the thriller of Blackbeard’s Blue Crown.

Whereas there have been a number of action-packed scenes in Half 1, the forged and crew have teased that the Season 4 finale sequence is the best within the sequence’ historical past. The Pogues are nonetheless set on their preliminary mission from Wes Genrette, even after his loss of life – a mission that may take all of them the best way to Morocco.  

Hold studying for a recap of the 5 most essential issues to recollect from Half 1 earlier than Half 2 premieres Thursday.

Who’s JJ’s actual dad?

Gary Weeks as Luke, Rudy Pankow as JJ in episode 405 of Outer Banks. (Credit score: Netflix)

On the finish of episode 5, JJ fingers a letter from Wes Genrette to his alcoholic, abusive father in hopes that he can acquire extra readability. Hoping to rekindle their relationship, Luke clarifies some factors of the letter to his son.

Luke reveals that he’s not JJ’s father, however his actual mother and father are Chandler Groff and Wes’s daughter, Larissa Genrette, who died in a drowning accident, which means that JJ would be the inheritor to a Kook fortune. JJ doesn’t imagine Luke at first due to his monitor document, however he begins to attach the dots as to why Wes gave the Pogues the treasure problem.

Sarah Cameron and Pope are caught with the rats

Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron, Jonathan Daviss as Pope in episode 405 of “Outer Banks.” (Credit score: Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix)

Among the Pogues made a visit to Charleston to search for Blackbeard’s Blue Crown. After drawing straws, Sarah Cameron and Pope are tasked to go down right into a crypt beneath a church to seek out the subsequent clue. The pair are chased by rats and ultimately runs into the mercenaries (together with Lightner, who killed Terrance). After hiding and efficiently avoiding the murderous mercenaries, Sarah and Pope notice they could be caught within the flooding crypt after Lightner and his companion unintentionally locked them in.

Mercenary Lightner kidnapped Cleo and killed Terrance

Carlacia Grant as Cleo, Rigo Sanchez as Lightner in episode 404 of Outer Banks. (Credit score: Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix)

It’s fairly onerous to neglect this heartbreaking scene in Episode 4, however it is necessary nonetheless. When the mercenaries realized that the Pogues had discovered the amulet, that they had a goal on their again. Lightner, arguably one of the violent of the pirate crew, already tried to assault Kiara and JJ underwater earlier within the season.

In episode 4, Lightner kidnaps Cleo and threatens to kill her if she can not give him the amulet. It’s at this level that she runs into Terrance, the daddy determine who she presumed was lifeless. Terrance insists he was not working with the enemy and assures Cleo he was on her crew. When the trio arrives on the Pogues’ home, Cleo struggles to seek out the trinket. Then, Pope arrives house with it. As Lightner makes an attempt to kill Cleo, Terrance jumps in entrance of her and is shot, ultimately being killed by the wound.

Rafe’s girlfriend Sophia is conspiring towards him

Drew Starkey as Rafe, Fiona Palomo as Sofia in episode 404 of “Outer Banks.” (Credit score: Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix)

Hollis Robinson, one of many greatest actual property brokers on the island, convinces Rafe’s girlfriend Sophia to encourage the inheritor to his household’s fortune to make a enterprise deal over the sale of Goat Island. She tells the Pogue Sophia that she ought to “get in whereas she will be able to.” At first she rejects it, however after Rafe speaks poorly about her due to her social standing, she pushes him to signal away his fortune to the calculated realtor. Rafe continues to be unaware of Sophia’s involvement within the scheme.

Sheriff Shoupe nonetheless hasn’t discovered the assassin

Cullen Moss as Deputy Shoupe in “Outer Banks” (Credit score: Netflix)

Sheriff Shoupe has all the time been skeptical of JJ and the Pogues, so with a number of lifeless our bodies to analyze and no suspects he turns to the troublemakers he is aware of greatest. The sheriff has but to establish the killer of the unidentified lifeless physique on the seashore and Wes Genrette, who was strangled in his house. He takes JJ in for questioning and warns him that if he acts up he’s the prime suspect.

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It’s arduous to imagine that it’s been nearly twenty years since I first noticed the good director David Cromer’s work. You don’t discover time passing once you’re within the presence of a bona-fide theatrical genius: you lengthy for what’s subsequent whereas pondering what you’ve simply seen. “Orson’s Shadow” was the primary piece that I noticed Cromer form. That was in 2005. Up till then, I had solely seen kind of typical narratives conventionally directed; Richard Foreman and Elizabeth LeCompte of the Wooster Group have been the one auteurs round, however they didn’t stage customary narrative performs. However right here, on that afternoon in 2005, was an artist who had taken a character-driven piece and made it an environment. The actors have been lit dimly; it was like watching figures edge their means by way of fog to get at your desires. After that, I stored my eyes peeled for what the director, who’s now sixty, placed on.

His early masterpiece was his 2009 interpretation of “Our City,” by which he appeared because the Stage Supervisor. Whoever noticed that manufacturing wasn’t more likely to overlook it. He took Thornton Wilder’s homespun story about loss and created an elegy that made you mourn for all of the residing you’d ultimately lose, together with your self. A 12 months later, there was “When the Rain Stops Falling,” and there it was once more, Cromer’s auteurlike affect on a spectacle that was solely enhanced by his love of the misplaced. His darkish lighting and his tendency to make a stage smaller promoted a level of intimacy that made a model of “Hire” he did in 2012 the one model that felt true to the poverty and the poetry of these characters’ lives.

With “The Counter” (on the Laura Pels, by way of Nov. 17), Cromer’s present for intimacy is in full flower. It’s fascinating to see how he makes the already small stage really feel even smaller, by constructing it out towards the viewers, so we’re sitting with the characters in that diner whereas they select life over what’s been misplaced—and over the potential of loss of life. Now Cromer is slated to direct George Clooney within the stage adaptation of the 2005 film “Good Evening, and Good Luck” (starting previews on the Winter Backyard on March 12). Who higher to indicate us the devastating results of McCarthyism in a grim world than this true auteur of the stage, whose work is like an additional textual content on prime of the script: mild however probing, magical and actual.

Zoë Winters, in “Walden.”

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One other standout of the theatre proper now’s the actress Zoë Winters, who seems in Second Stage’s manufacturing of “Walden” (on the Tony Kiser, by way of Nov. 24). Winters grew up in Santa Cruz, and graduated from SUNY Buy in 2007. She is among the nice appearing alumni from that college—Edie Falco is one other—who’re so astonishing of their pure items and command of the stage that you may’t assist however give your self over to their actuality, even when they’re unreal, demanding, fully too unusual. Regardless of Winters’s distinctive look—that lengthy black hair and fringe, the beneficiant mouth—after I coated theatre for this journal, I typically wrote about her as if I’d by no means seen her earlier than. That’s as a result of I hadn’t—not on this or that character, actually. She was all the time completely different, and so absolutely immersed in every character’s interior life, that she would perforce look completely different. And it made a specific amount of sense for her to be in reveals like Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “An Octoroon” (2014), or Lucas Hnath’s “Crimson Speedo” (2016).

As a result of her appearing was intently linked with these then rising playwrights’ work, she was an rising voice in appearing, too: daring and mental however intuitive and extremely sensible about scripts, and how one can play a personality. Simply as Maureen Stapleton and Geraldine Web page helped Tennessee Williams discover his means as a playwright within the nineteen-fifties, so, too, I felt, did Winters assist the playwrights she labored with. And when she was in a present by an older artist, akin to “White Noise” (2019), by Suzan-Lori Parks, she turned the factor that you just watched and listened to as a result of she might discover a actuality even because the creator looked for it herself. In “Succession,” I didn’t acknowledge Winters at first—she performed the patriarch’s aspect piece—as a result of, once more, she was bringing one other actuality to the story, one by which imply frequent sense received blended up with grief. In “Walden,” Winters performs a girl who’s estranged from her twin sister; think about what she’ll do in a job about familial alienation. She’ll flip the theatre inside out with rage, little question, however not with out that emotion’s frequent underpinnings: longing, and grief, and understanding.


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By the point the singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves received Album of the Yr on the Grammys—for “Golden Hour,” from 2018—she had already established herself as a progressive power in nation music. However, with that file, Musgraves, a local Texan turned offbeat pageant princess of Nashville, solidified her shift towards disco-bejewelled pop, with prismatic songs meditating on love in all its varieties. In recent times, she has balanced the private with the common: her electro-laden album from 2021, “Star-Crossed,” reckoned with the ache of divorce; “Deeper Properly,” the folk-tinged file she launched this 12 months, thought of extra cosmic truths with a hotter palette of sounds. In any mode, Musgraves’s candy voice and charming, infectious disposition are anchored by an open thoughts, an unshowy wit, and a steadfast curiosity.—Sheldon Pearce (Barclays Heart; Nov. 15-16.)


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Rudy Pankow, Cast React To Season 4 Finale’s JJ Death

SPOILER ALERT: The story consists of particulars concerning the Season 4 Half 2 of Netflix‘s Outer Banks.

Season 4 Half 2 of Netflix’s Outer Banks was a tortured hero arc for proud Pogue JJ Maybank. Reeling from the invention of his Kook ancestry within the last minutes of Half 1 and from the menace towards Poguelandia 2.0, he snapped and went on a rampage. He then was betrayed by his organic father Chandler Groff who tossed him overboard to die.

However, after hitting all-time low and resorting to ingesting, he bounced again with a exceptional act of sacrifice, leaping after Sarah when she was swept by a wave throughout an enormous storm because the Pogues’ boat was approaching the Moroccan coast. He attacked a militiaman who was about to shoot Sarah and John B. JJ then climbed a tall statue within the desert throughout a sandstorm to get the Blue Crown for the Pogues. He rapidly gave it as much as save Kiara when Chandler had her at knifepoint solely to be killed by his Chandler, leaving his buddies devastated.

Whereas the event could have shocked followers, it didn’t come as a shock to Rudy Pankow, who performs the fearless — and generally reckless — JJ.

“After I first discovered that JJ was going to threat all of it and never make it I understood it as a result of after I learn the character breakdown for the audition, it mentioned, loyal to a fault,” he mentioned in an Inside Look video function about JJ’s demise, which you’ll watch beneath. “And I believe, because the stakes bought larger and better, his entire factor is, he takes the danger and places his buddies earlier than himself.”

JJ has executed that quite a few occasions all through the seasons, together with taking the blame when Pope capsized Topper’s boat, getting arrested for it and being badly crushed up by his violent drug addict father Luke consequently.

(L to R) Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron, Chase Stokes as John B, Jonathan Daviss as Pope, Carlacia Grant as Cleo, Madison Bailey as Kiara, Rudy Pankow as JJ in episode 410 of Outer Banks. Cr. Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix

Pankow is properly conscious of the profound impression JJ’s demise would have on the Pogues and the present.

“He has to evaluate each second of his life whether it is price it, and I believe he’s continually, yeah, it’s,” Pankow mentioned of his character. “Life is absolutely treasured and fragile and his demise actually does arrange the way forward for OBX with the query of what’s price it and when somebody that near you is gone, how do you navigate that.”

JJ and John B had been finest buddies since childhood — or “brothers for all times” as emotional John B known as it when JJ and Sarah lastly washed ashore in Morocco after the storm, asking JJ to be his and Sarah’s unborn child’s godfather.

“The fantastic thing about John and JJ, it exhibits the true definition of what friendship is – it’s not simply the excessive fives, it’s the lows, it’s holding one another accountable,” Chase Stokes (John B) mentioned. “And I’m ceaselessly grateful for the expertise that I’ve had with Rudy, it’s simply been such a enjoyable part of the present to shoot.”

Madelyn Cline (Sarah) known as JJ “the center of Outer Banks.” “He’s such a wild card and it was one thing that all of us love,” she mentioned.

Added Carlacia Grant (Cleo), “His character has all the time represented selecting friendship,” and Jonathan Daviss (Pope), “He’s simply the embodiment of that Pogue picture.”

(L to R) Madison Bailey as Kiara, Rudy Pankow as JJ in episode 408 of Outer Banks. Cr. Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix

Over the past two seasons, JJ had discovered love with one among his Pogue buddies, Kiara, whose life he saved in his last minutes, telling his father that he doesn’t want the treasure as a result of “I have already got all the things I’ve ever wished.”

“Being a Pogue is so much about making your individual definitions of happiness, pleasure and neighborhood, and I believe his character embodies the spirit of by no means giving up and rebelling towards what is anticipated of you to avoid wasting what actually issues,” Madison Bailey (Kiara) mentioned.

(For Outer Banks co-creators/govt producers Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke’ tackle JJ’s demise and what to anticipate from Season 5, learn Deadline’s unique interview.)

Alaskan native Pankow had just some shorts and a few small one-off visitor starring roles on his resume when he landed the sequence common function of JJ on Outer Banks.

“This present is by far the most important factor I’ve ever executed,” he mentioned. “To have this as my begin is the beginning of a lifetime. I’m gonna miss it.”

Pankow, who has been a lead in a number of movies since Outer Banks‘ breakout success, additionally addressed the sequence’ devoted followers.

“To all of the followers that present a lot love and assist for JJ, I simply wish to say thanks, it actually does imply so much to me. And P4L. [Pogues for Life]”

Burrow finds Ja’Marr Chase for 67-yard touchdown against Ravens

Locked in an in depth recreation with the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday Evening Soccer, the Cincinnati Bengals wasted no time getting on the scoreboard to start out the second half.Main 14-7 getting into the third quarter, the Bengals’ protection pressured a fast punt by the Ravens, getting the ball again at their very own 33-yard line.On their first play from scrimmage within the second half, quarterback Joe Burrow discovered his favourite goal, Ja’Marr Chase, and the Professional Bowl receiver delivered.After making the catch round midfield, Chase turned a nook and sprinted previous a number of Baltimore defenders, coasting to the top zone to place Cincinnati up 21-7.Chase entered Thursday’s recreation with 717 yards and 7 touchdowns, marks that ranked second and first, respectively, amongst move catchers within the NFL.

Locked in an in depth recreation with the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday Evening Soccer, the Cincinnati Bengals wasted no time getting on the scoreboard to start out the second half.

Main 14-7 getting into the third quarter, the Bengals’ protection pressured a fast punt by the Ravens, getting the ball again at their very own 33-yard line.

On their first play from scrimmage within the second half, quarterback Joe Burrow discovered his favourite goal, Ja’Marr Chase, and the Professional Bowl receiver delivered.

After making the catch round midfield, Chase turned a nook and sprinted previous a number of Baltimore defenders, coasting to the top zone to place Cincinnati up 21-7.

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Chase entered Thursday’s recreation with 717 yards and 7 touchdowns, marks that ranked second and first, respectively, amongst move catchers within the NFL.

Kimmel, Colbert and more late-night hosts react

The 2024 presidential election is over, and late-night hosts are right here to type by the aftermath.

After former President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to grow to be the forty seventh president of the USA, the comedians tried to consolation viewers on their reveals Wednesday night time whereas sharing disappointment within the Republican nominee’s victory. Additionally they confused their dedication to persevering with to offer laughter throughout what they characterised as a bleak time for America.

Jimmy Kimmel, who has often traded barbs with Trump on social media, opened his present with a sketch the place he’s seen frantically packing in his workplace.

“I am leaving the nation,” he broadcasts. “I am unable to keep for an additional 4 years of this. Who is aware of what he will do? … He mentioned he has an inventory of enemies. You suppose I am not on that listing?”

After his sidekick, Guillermo Rodriguez, satisfied him to remain within the section (earlier than declaring he is leaving to go “again to Mexico”), Kimmel started his monologue by joking about the truth that Trump received the election after falsely claiming he misplaced in 2020 because of widespread voter fraud.

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“I assume this election wasn’t rigged,” he mentioned. “That is bizarre although, proper? I imply, he mentioned it could be rigged. He mentioned it was being rigged whereas folks had been in line voting! Is not it exceptional that this time, the repair wasn’t in? Final time, the Democrats cheated. This time, we selected to not, I assume.”

Evaluating Trump to Emperor Palpatine from the “Star Wars” collection, who returned from obvious demise in “The Rise of Skywalker,” the comic quipped, “Donald Trump is just like the emperor from ‘Star Wars.’ He is outdated, he is evil and he retains coming again with no cheap rationalization in anyway.”

Kimmel informed viewers his “children had been very upset” by Trump’s win, and he acquired choked up whereas describing Tuesday as a “horrible night time.”

“It was a horrible night time for ladies, for kids, for the a whole lot of 1000’s of hardworking immigrants who make this nation go, for well being care, for our local weather, for science, for journalism, for justice, free of charge speech,” he mentioned. “It was a horrible night time for poor folks, for the center class, for seniors who depend on Social Safety, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the reality and democracy and decency.”

“It was a horrible night time for everybody who voted towards him, and guess what? It was a foul night time for everybody who voted for him, too. You simply do not realize it but.”

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However Kimmel took consolation in the truth that “we have been by this as soon as earlier than” throughout Trump’s first time period. “And sure, this time it’s in all probability going to be worse, perhaps loads worse. However I additionally suppose that perhaps we are going to look again and notice that, in the long term, that is what we wanted to wake us up. Perhaps the individuals who care a lot about him must learn how little he cares about them.”

He additionally joked about the concept that Trump will imprison him and his fellow late-night hosts after taking workplace. “My solely request to President-elect Trump is that he let me share a jail cell with Taylor Swift.”

Stephen Colbert: ‘It is actually exhausting to see a shiny aspect right here’

Over on CBS, Stephen Colbert opened “The Late Present” with a severe message delivered to the digital camera from behind his desk. “Should you watch this present usually, I am guessing you are not doing nice,” the comedian mentioned earlier than explaining he is grateful to be internet hosting the present as a result of “at occasions like this, what can we most need to be? Not alone.”

In his monologue, Colbert mentioned the “deep shock and sense of loss is big” after Trump’s win and concluded the president-elect’s supporters “do not care that a lot about democracy.”

“Who is aware of what the subsequent 4 years are going to be like?” he mentioned. “What we do know is that we’re going to be ruled by a monstrous little one surrounded by cowards and grifters, and my mind retains pumping out a vast provide of ramifications. It is actually exhausting to see a shiny aspect right here.”

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“That is tough,” he went on to say. “Final time Trump received, it felt like a grotesque fluke. This time, America knew precisely what they had been getting, they usually went exhausting for him anyway.”

Like Kimmel, the “Late Present” host did discover a shiny aspect: the truth that “we all know what’s coming” in a second Trump time period as a result of he has already been president.

“It is like the primary time you attend your kid’s spring live performance, nobody might presumably put together you for 25 second graders taking part in the recorder,” he joked. “However your subsequent child, you are prepared. You packed earplugs. No quantity of ‘Frère Jacques’ might break you.”

Colbert concluded by jokingly asking, “Can we simply inform Jimmy Carter that she received?” The thirty ninth president voted for Harris at age 100 after telling his household he needed to dwell lengthy sufficient to take action.

“After which can Jimmy Carter inform me that she received?” he added.

Seth Meyers: ‘The struggle for justice would not finish with one election’

Seth Meyers kicked off “Late Night time” by sarcastically appearing like the truth that he voted for Harris can be a stunning revelation.

“I do not suppose Donald Trump’s particular person,” he mentioned. “I might even go as far as to say he is a foul particular person. Now, in my protection, I am solely basing that on every thing I’ve ever been taught about what makes somebody good or unhealthy.”

“However that is one thing I settle for: Half the nation thinks he is particular person, or they do not care that he isn’t as a result of they suppose he is president,” he continued. “And due to that, he will be our president once more. That is how democracy works in America, a rustic that could be a privilege to dwell in, even on a morning like as we speak.”

Throughout a “Nearer Look” section, Meyers described Trump’s first time period as a “nightmare that plunged the nation into nonstop catastrophe and triggered mass struggling for tens of millions of Individuals” and cracked that to get by his second time period, “they are going to have to present me no matter medicine they’re giving Trump.”

“We’re about to step over the precipice into actually uncharted territory,” he added. “You want solely look again to Trump’s first time period to get a way of how harmful his second time period shall be, and nobody can say they did not know what they had been getting, as a result of Trump made it crystal clear. All I do know is that the struggle for justice would not finish with one election.”

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Jimmy Fallon: ‘America determined to get again with a loopy ex’

On “The Tonight Present,” Jimmy Fallon proclaimed that by re-electing Trump, “America determined to get again with a loopy ex” and quipped, “Regardless of who you voted for, I believe all Individuals can agree, it’ll be a tough Thanksgiving.”

“It was a giant night time for Donald Trump and a much bigger night time for Don Julio,” he mentioned, referencing the tequila model. “51% of the nation is basically comfortable, 47% are actually hungover, and (Rudy Giuliani) is each.”

Kimmel, Colbert and Fallon all referenced the truth that Google searches for “did Joe Biden drop out” spiked on Election Day — and all three had the identical punchline. “Most of these searches had been from Joe Biden,” mentioned Fallon.

Making time for some leisure information, the “Tonight Present” host famous that Netflix on Wednesday confirmed the ultimate season of “Stranger Issues” will arrive in 2025, a narrative the comic rapidly turned again to the election. “After final night time,” he mentioned, “how a lot stranger can issues actually get?”

Marchand scores late in OT, Bruins recover to defeat Flames

Pavel Zacha had a objective and an help, and Joonas Korpisalo made 34 saves for Boston (7-7-1), which has gained three of its previous 4 (3-1-0). David Pastrnak had two assists.

“I assumed [Korpisalo] was good, particularly within the second [period],” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery stated. “I assumed he made a variety of key saves after we prolonged our result in 3-1.”

Nazem Kadri, Yegor Sharangovich and Tyson Barrie scored, and Dustin Wolf made 34 saves for Calgary (7-5-2), which has misplaced six of its previous eight (2-5-1).

“I assumed it was a great recreation. It was a tough recreation,” Flames coach Ryan Huska stated. “And I preferred how our guys … how we caught with it once more. I imply, that’s sort of a trademark for our workforce, is that we at all times really feel like we’re nonetheless in video games. So I’m happy with how they had been a resilient bunch tonight, and that’s a giant level for us.”

The Flames trailed 3-1 getting into the third interval, however Sharangovich minimize it to 3-2 at 0:58 of the third on the ability play, redirecting MacKenzie Weegar’s level shot.

Kadri tied it 3-3 at 9:55, skating in and beating Korpisalo glove facet.

“It’s good to indicate some poise and composure, and I feel that’s the important thing,” Kadri stated. “Clearly on the highway, you possibly can begin forcing issues or you possibly can simply sort of persist with your recreation plan, and that’s precisely what we did. Made a few nice performs to return again into the sport, and simply an unlucky bounce to finish it.”

Starbucks Red Cup Day could be next week. Previous Red Cup Day dates

Probably the most great time of the 12 months is already right here for lovers of gingerbread, peppermint, cocoa and occasional. Some folks might wait till after Thanksgiving Day to let themselves take pleasure in all issues Christmas and holidays, however Starbucks lovers sometimes do not.

The Starbucks vacation menu is formally out there to take pleasure in from the entire espresso chain’s places within the U.S., as of at present, Thursday, Nov. 7.

Listed here are a few of the new seasonal coffees the shop will likely be providing this season and what to learn about Starbucks’ extremely popular annual Purple Cup Day, which could possibly be subsequent week.

What day is Starbucks Purple Cup Day this 12 months? When do Starbucks vacation cups come out?

Starbucks’ 2024 vacation assortment of reusable cups, mugs, tumblers and merch launch on the identical day as its vacation drinks, at present, Thursday, Nov. 7.

This 12 months, the lineup contains color-changing scorching cups, Stanley Tumblers and decoration keychains.

As for Purple Cup Day 2024, the date hasn’t been introduced but, however listed below are some previous dates:

  • 2023: Thursday, Nov. 16
  • 2022: Thursday, Nov. 17
  • 2021: Thursday, Nov. 18
  • 2020: Friday, Nov. 6
  • 2019: Thursday, Nov. 7

If you do not know, Purple Cup Day is a day when clients who order a seasonal beverage get a free, reusable purple cup. Based mostly on the Purple Cup Day dates of vacation’s previous, Starbucks lovers may see this 12 months’s Purple Cup Day on Thursday, Nov. 14.

What day does Starbucks launch Christmas drinks?

Starbucks began serving its vacation menu in shops nationwide at present, Thursday, Nov. 7.

However in case you simply can’t wait in a drive through line to your serving of Starbucks’ vacation flavors, some seasonal flavors can be found of their pre-made coffees and creamers in shops. 

“This 12 months, Starbucks is debuting the brand new Starbucks Vanilla and Chocolate Chilly Brew Focus, Starbucks Non-dairy Sugar Cookie Latte Creamer and the Starbucks Peppermint Mocha Flavored Creamer,” an Oct. 30 press launch on the shop’s web site mentioned.

To seek out Starbucks vacation flavors in a grocery retailer close to you, go to athome.starbucks.com.

Will gingerbread be again at Starbucks? See new seasonal drinks for the Starbucks 2024 vacation menu

In an Oct. 28 press launch, Starbucks introduced that two new seasonal flavors will likely be added to its common checklist of fan-favorites.

Right here’s the Starbucks vacation drink menu for 2024:

  • (New) Salted Pretzel Cocoa Oatmilk Latte: “Captures the festive season with savory notes of salted pretzel harmoniously blended with signature Starbucks espresso, the creamy texture of oatmilk, and a beneficiant drizzle of wealthy mocha sauce. It’s topped with a dollop of whipped cream, and a sprinkle of crunchy pretzel and purple cookie items, recreating the heat and nostalgia of cherished festive moments. Obtainable as a scorching, iced, and blended handcrafted beverage.”
  • (New) Salted Pretzel Cocoa Oatmilk Frappuccino Blended Beverage: “…That includes the savory sweetness of baked salted pretzel complementing the nutty aroma of oatmilk. Completed with a swirl of mocha sauce, whipped cream, and a festive combination of pretzel and purple cookie items, it’s a style of vacation pleasure in each sip. Obtainable as a blended handcrafted beverage.”
  • Toffee Nut Crunch Latte: “Wealthy, buttery Toffee Nut flavors are delicately paired with delicate hints of toasted nuts in our signature espresso for a heartwarming vacation drink, bringing reminiscences of days spent with family members. Obtainable as a scorching, iced, and blended handcrafted beverage.”
  • Gingerbread Latte: “Hints of spicy gingerbread blended with our signature espresso roast make this the right deal with to cozy up with family and friends. Obtainable as a scorching, iced, and blended handcrafted beverage.”
  • Peppermint Mocha: “Impressed by iconic seasonal delicacies, the luxurious Peppermint Mocha, topped with fluffy whipped cream and crowd pleasing purple and white sweet bits, indicators the beginning of the vacation season. Obtainable as a scorching, iced, and blended handcrafted beverage.”
  • Toffee Nut Crunch Chilly Brew: “The Toffee Nut Crunch Chilly Brew is a luscious mix of our signature Chilly Brew with buttery Toffee Nut and cane sugar flavors, topped with an ethereal blanket of Toffee Nut flavored foam and crunchy Toffee Nuts. Obtainable as an iced handcrafted beverage.”
  • Toffee Nut Crunch Nitro Chilly Brew: “Served ice-cold and straight from the faucet with a wealthy infusion of vanilla and cane sugar syrup, topped by a thick layer of Toffee Nut-flavored chilly foam and a sprinkle of Toffee Nut, this beverage is a pick-me-up that’s certain to brighten up your holidays. Obtainable as a chilly handcrafted beverage.”

Does Starbucks have Refreshers 12 months spherical? Restricted time vacation refreshers out there

Sure, Starbucks all the time presents Refreshers, that are iced drinks with no espresso in them. The preferred refreshers are the strawberry acai and dragonfruit-flavored Refreshers.

And this vacation season, Starbucks is releasing holiday-themed Refreshers for the primary time ever and all three variations are cranberry-based.

Listed here are the 3 ways you’ll be able to order Starbucks’ new vacation Refresher:

  • Cran-Merry Orange Refresher: A refresher with flavors of candy orange, tart cranberry and heat spices, shaken with ice, water and actual cranberries
  • Cran-Merry Orange Lemonade Refresher: combines the Cran-Merry Orange Refresher with lemonade
  • Cran-Merry Drink: combines the Cran-Merry Refresher with creamy coconut milk

What number of Starbucks are in Florida?

There are over 900 Starbucks places throughout Florida. To find one close to you, examine its web site right here.

Contributing: Natassia Paloma, El Paso Occasions, Catherine Messier, USA TODAY Community – New England

FINAL – Kings 2, Canucks 4 – Edmundson, Foegele, Hiller

The LA Kings noticed their four-game level streak come to an finish, as they dropped a 4-2 resolution to the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night at Crypto.com Area.

Inside the primary two minutes of the sport, ahead Quinton Byfield opened the scoring for the Kings together with his second aim in as many intervals. Byfield used his velocity to realize a step down the left wing, working his solution to the entrance of the online. He deked to the backhand, throughout the highest of the crease and beat Vancouver netminder Kevin Lankinen with a shot for his second aim of the season and a 1-0 lead.

Halfway by the second interval, Kings ahead Tanner Jeannot was assessed a match penalty for a success to the top on Vancouver ahead Brock Boeser, giving the Canucks an prolonged, five-minute power-play sequence.

Vancouver scored simply as soon as on the person benefit, taking the sport into the primary intermission tied at one aim apiece. Ahead Conor Garland redirected the puck in the direction of the online, with Kings netminder Darcy Kuemper accidently swiping it together with his stick on the best way by, into the online, for Garland’s fourth aim of the season.

Early within the second interval, Vancouver took its first lead of the night. Ahead Jake DeBrusk was the goalscorer, utilizing a pleasant transfer to go round Kuemper, beneath the aim line earlier than he pulled it again and scored on the close to submit for a 2-1 lead. Defensemen Quinn Hughes and Filip Hronek collected the assists on the play for the guests.

Inside three minutes performed within the third interval, Hughes made it a multi-point recreation, as he buried his third aim of the season. Working the blueline on the left level, Hughes used his fast ft and stickhandling means to work his approach right into a little bit of area and despatched a seeing-eye shot by visitors, which discovered its approach by our bodies and in, because the Canucks took a 3-1 lead.

With simply over six minutes remaining in regulation, the Kings pulled a aim again by defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov, who buried his first of the season. On the left level, Gavrikov fired a shot that evaded a display in entrance from ahead Trevor Lewis and snuck contained in the submit, bringing the rating to 3-2. Forwards Phillip Danault and Trevor Moore tallied the assists on the play, extending each of their help streaks to 3 video games.

The Canucks picked the empty web with 1:14 left on the clock, as JT Miller collected the sport’s last aim, bringing us to the rating of 4-2.

Hear from defenseman Joel Edmundson, ahead Warren Foegele and Head Coach Jim Hiller following tonight’s recreation.

Joel Edmundson

Warren Foegele
On his takeaways from tonight’s recreation

That was two arduous groups that fought fairly arduous there. It was a very good hockey recreation and, you recognize, we simply got here up quick there, however I believed it was a reasonably aggressive recreation. Sadly, they gained the particular groups, and that may form of be a distinction successful hockey video games.

On the physicality in tonight’s recreation
It was in all probability a lot nearer to a playoff recreation than many of the different video games we’ve had this yr, however these are two good groups, competing arduous for the division. I’m positive we are going to see them much more, additional down the highway. So it’s a aggressive recreation and provides them credit score, however I believed we had a reasonably good recreation as nicely.

On happening to 11 forwards early and the way the group managed that
Yeah, clearly it’s not supreme. I believe it simply provides guys extra of a chance to tackle extra ice time and I believed, actually, the entire group performed fairly nicely. That they had their push and we have been pushing too. I believe on the facility play, there’s probabilities I believe we’d wish to bear down on and possibly it’s a special recreation, proper? However, like I stated, it was a aggressive recreation.

On seeing Quinton Byfield rating once more, after getting his first on Tuesday
They at all times say the primary one is at all times the toughest, and for him, you might undoubtedly inform he was gripping the stick fairly tight, so it’s very nice to see him get one final recreation. Right this moment, you recognize, somewhat bit extra relaxed and he completed on his probability. That’s the Q we all know, works actually arduous, has high-end ability and logs quite a lot of minutes for this staff. He’s an essential piece for us.

Jim Hiller
On Vancouver “beating the Kings at their very own recreation”

I believed they have been somewhat bit faster to pucks and somewhat bit stronger as soon as they obtained there. It’s a fair recreation, however I believed they have been somewhat bit faster and somewhat stronger as soon as they arrived. It’s not one thing we need to take pleasure in, we’re attempting to be that staff, so give them full marks for that.

On managing a staff that ran with 11 forwards and 5 defensemen for a giant a part of tonight’s recreation
You’d by no means wish to be down, however we performed lots with seven final yr, down to 5 defensemen, we noticed Juice again there and Phil went again there somewhat bit, 4-on-4, so we simply must do it. I don’t assume it’s that onerous, actually [for the coach]. There are occasions when, for me they’re not that massive of a deal, for DJ, typically he goes cuts down to 5 defensemen anyhow. So, you’d wish to be recent once you’re doing that, I don’t assume we have been fully recent, or as recent as we’d have favored to be tonight, in order that makes it somewhat more durable.

On establishing circulate in a recreation with gamers out and a ton of particular groups time
Within the first interval, for positive. That they had seven minutes of energy play, we had 4, I imagine, in order that’s just about entire particular groups. You’ve obtained a bunch of men that play lots and a bunch of men that don’t get on the ice in any respect. So actually, no circulate for the primary however then we began recent within the second.

On the check tonight of a bodily recreation
I believed the Nashville recreation was fairly bodily, so I’d say that is possibly the second most bodily recreation. Yeah, I imply, we got here out on the quick finish of it, so it wasn’t adequate. I believe dropping Tanner early was a giant a part of that, we may have used him in a heavy recreation like this for the complete 60, in order that in all probability damage us possibly greater than we all know.

On if he has any concern Jeannot might be suspended after his match penalty
No, I’m not. [Reporter – How does a penalty like that get addressed, when punishment was already assessed with the ejection?] That’s one, there’s timing, it’s shut, there’s not a lot you are able to do. That’s a split-second response, that’s not being lazy and hooking any individual or carrying your stick larger than it must be.

On the staff’s play within the third interval, chasing the sport in the hunt for an equalizer
We’re down, so we’re urgent somewhat bit and so they defended nicely, give them credit score, they didn’t take quite a lot of danger within the third, so there wasn’t quite a lot of room there. We made some performs that have been in all probability not excessive proportion. I believed we in all probability may have thrown a number of extra good on the web, on the pads, and attempt to simply get one thing. It wasn’t going for us, so far as connecting a pleasant passing play, in order that was in all probability disappointing so far as that goes, that we didn’t simply get somewhat bit extra direct there.

Hiller added after the sport that he didn’t have any additional replace on defenseman Mikey Anderson, who left the sport within the second interval with an upper-body harm.

Notes –
• Ahead Quinton Byfield (1-0=1) scored his second aim of the season, his third level (2-1=3) in his final two video games.
• For the reason that begin of the 2023-24 marketing campaign, solely Cole Perfetti (+22) and Seth Jarvis (+25) have the next plus/ minus amongst skaters chosen within the 2020 NHL Draft than Byfield (+19).
• Defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov (1-0=1) scored his first aim of the season and extends his level streak to a 3rd consecutive recreation, marking the sixth time in his profession that the blueliner has established a run of such size (Final: 2-1=3, 3 GP; April 6 – April 10, 2023).
• Ahead Alex Laferriere (0-1=1) picked up his 14th level of the yr together with his sixth help this season. The primary interval helper marked Laferriere’s first profession help in opposition to the Canucks.
• With the help, Laferriere turns into the seventh Kings skater to achieve the six-assist mark. The Kings now be part of the Buffalo Sabres (7), Florida Panthers (8), and Winnipeg Jets (10) as the one 4 groups this season to have at the least seven gamers with as many helpers on the marketing campaign.
• Heart Phillip Danault (0-1=1) notched his seventh help of the season, extending his help streak to a fourth recreation (1-4=5).
• Ahead Trevor Moore (0-1=1) picked up his seventh help of the season, extending his dwelling level streak in opposition to the Canucks to a fourth recreation (2-2=4), relationship again to April 10, 2023.
• Ahead Warren Foegele (0-1=1) notched his second help of the season and first help at Crypto.com Area as a member of the Kings.

The Kings will maintain an non-compulsory apply tomorrow at 11 AM at Toyota Sports activities Efficiency Heart.

See the 2024 holiday menu, including new refresher

It could not even be Thanksgiving but, however Starbucks is already getting within the vacation spirit.

The espresso chain’s vacation menu formally dropped Nov. 7, bringing holiday-inspired drinks, meals, cups and reusable drinkware. From fan favorites like peppermint mocha espresso and shade altering sizzling cups to new creations like a darkish toffee bundt cake and a vacation Stanley tumbler, the brand new menu is certain to unfold festive cheer.

Able to get into the vacation spirit with a comfy Starbucks order? This is a have a look at the complete menu, obtainable now in all shops.

Starbucks new vacation drinks

For the primary time ever, Starbucks is providing a holiday-themed refresher, a non-coffee iced drink infused with inexperienced espresso extract from unroasted arabica espresso beans. The brand new addition is offered three other ways:

  • Cran-Merry Orange Refresher: a refresher with flavors of candy orange, tart cranberry and heat spices, shaken with ice, water and actual cranberries
  • Cran-Merry Orange Lemonade Refresher: combines the Cran-Merry Orange Refresher with lemonade
  • Cran-Merry Drink: combines the Cran-Merry Refresher with creamy coconut milk

Starbucks returning vacation drinks

Listed below are the returning favorites on the 2024 vacation drink menu:

Peppermint Mocha

This 20-year custom combines Starbucks signature espresso with steamed milk, mocha sauce and peppermint syrup, all topped with whipped cream and darkish chocolate curls. Out there sizzling, iced or as a Frappuccino.

Caramel Brulée Latte

A latte with wealthy caramel brulée sauce and caramel brulée topping. Out there sizzling, iced or as a Frappuccino.

Chestnut Praline Latte

A signature Starbucks latte with caramelized chestnut taste and vacation spices, topped with whipped cream and spiced praline crumbs. Out there sizzling, iced or as a Frappuccino.

Iced Sugar Cookie Almond milk Latte

This latte combines Starbucks Blonde Espresso with almond milk and sugar cookie flavored syrup. Topped with crimson and inexperienced sprinkles for a festive aptitude.

Iced Gingerbread Oat milk Chai

Starbucks’ chai latte will get a vacation twist on this drink with oatmilk and gingerbread-flavored chilly foam.

Vacation Chilly Foams

Any of those drinks could be topped with a holiday-flavored chilly foam, all of which could be made non-dairy. Listed below are this yr’s festive chilly foam flavors:

  • Gingerbread Cream Chilly Foam
  • Peppermint Chocolate Cream Chilly Foam
  • Sugar Cookie Cream Chilly Foam
  • Chestnut Praline Cream Chilly Foam
  • Caramel Brulée Cream Chilly Foam

Complete Bean Espresso

Along with attempting a handcrafted drink, Starbucks’ vacation menu permits the flavors of the season to go residence with you with their seasonal complete bean espresso blends. This yr has 5 choices:

  • Starbucks Thanksgiving Mix
  • Starbucks Christmas Mix
  • Starbucks Christmas Mix Blonde
  • Starbucks Christmas Mix Decaf
  • Starbucks Vacation Mix

Starbucks vacation meals menu

If you happen to’re in search of a candy deal with to go together with your vacation drink, Starbucks has loads of choices:

Turkey Sage Danish

This savory pastry, new to the menu this yr, is full of turkey sausage and a creamy sauce.

Darkish Toffee Bundt

Additionally new this yr is that this personal-sized bundt cake with deep toffee flavors.

Penguin Cookie

A shortbread cookie with a penguin design.

Snowman Cake Pop

Starbucks’ well-known cake pop will get a vacation twist with a snowman design, made up of vanilla cake dipped in white chocolate icing.

Sugar Plum Cheese Danish

A Danish full of cream-cheese and a spiced sugar plum unfold.

Cranberry Bliss Bar

This blondie is full of dried cranberries and topped with cream-cheese icing and orange zest.

Starbucks vacation cup design

After all, the Starbucks vacation drinks do not are available only a common cup. Whereas the corporate is well-known for his or her crimson vacation cups, this yr’s designs incorporate a shiny inexperienced shade.

The 4 distinctive designs on this yr’s line-up, pictured left to proper above, are: Joyful Connection, Lyrical Panorama, Siren Refrain and Heat Needs. There’s additionally a vacation chilly cup with festive appeal designs.

Starbucks vacation drinkware 2024

Vacation drink lovers can carry the festivity of Starbucks’ vacation cups residence with their vacation drinkware line. Right here is the complete line-up for 2024:

Gemstone Chilly Cup

A glimmering chilly cup that brightens the room with vacation sparkle. Out there in a 24 oz. cup for $24.95 or a keychain for $12.95.

Purple Studded Chilly Cup

Excellent for the lover of traditional vacation colours, this 24 oz. chilly cup is shiny crimson crimson with studs. Bought for $29.95.

Navy Gemstone Chilly Cup

This chilly cup has a geometrical design full of sapphire gems. The 24 oz. cup is offered for $22.95, and its matching decoration is $12.95.

Sweet Twist Mug

This 16 oz. mug designed after sweet canes is the proper strategy to get pleasure from a heat cup of espresso at residence. Prices $16.95.

Jade Inexperienced Studded Tumbler

If you happen to love Christmas timber, this jade inexperienced tumbler designed after fir leaves is the proper choice. Out there in 12 oz. for $22.95.

Purple Ribbed Tumbler

A 12 oz. shiny crimson tumbler for $22.95.

Luster Tumbler

This shimmery journey mug has a silver plaid design good for a winter stroll. The 12 oz. tumbler prices $22.95.

Pink Siren Scales Tumbler

Impressed by the scales of the siren from the Starbucks emblem, this 16 oz. tumbler will add a pop of pink to any vacation drink. Prices $24.95.

Striped Silicone Sleeve Tumbler

On-the-go vacation drinks are good for this multicolored silicone sleeve. The 20 oz. tumbler is offered for $29.95.

Shade Altering Pearl Scorching Cup Set (6-pack)

This set of shade altering sizzling cups has six distinctive designs that every rework into a brand new shade when a sizzling beverage is poured into it. Out there for $19.95.

Iridescent Glow-in-the-Darkish Pearl Scorching Cup

A shiny inexperienced glow-in-the-dark sizzling cup embellished with boughs of holly. At 16 oz., it prices $3.95.

Berry Pink Glitter Stanley Tumbler

Starbucks’ newest collaboration with Stanley brings vacation cheer with a berry pink glitter design. The 40 oz. tumbler is offered for $54.95.

Canucks’ Boeser leaves vs. Kings after illegal check to head

LOS ANGELES — Brock Boeser left Vancouver’s 4-2 win towards the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday evening within the first interval after being checked within the head.

Boeser had simply performed the puck within the impartial zone when the two-time All-Star ahead was leveled by Tanner Jeannot, who obtained a match penalty for an unlawful hit to the pinnacle. Boeser, who didn’t seem to see the test coming, spent a while down on one knee however finally was in a position to go away the ice and head again to the dressing room beneath his personal energy.

“I have not checked out it, however for the refs to name 5 minutes, clearly a harmful hit,” mentioned defenseman Quinn Hughes, who had a objective and an help.

Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet didn’t have any replace on Boeser’s standing.

“I do not know the way Brock is, I have not seen him,” Tocchet mentioned. “We’ll see after I see him, however, yeah, it is a robust play.”

Boeser leads the Canucks with six targets and is second on the group with 11 factors. He set profession highs final season with 40 targets and 73 factors.

Conor Garland scored on the five-minute energy play assessed to Jeannot, tying it at 1 at 14:20 of the primary interval.