While most people wouldn’t recognize the address 11222 Dilling St., Studio City, CA, most everybody would know the house: it was the main location of The Brady Bunch.
It seems after loving it, HGTV has decided to — to quote one of its hits — list it.
After purchasing it for $3.5 million in 2018 and extensively renovating the interior to exactly match the house as seen on TV — all part of a successful series called A Very Brady Renovation — the network is now letting it go for $5.5 million.
That show saw a team of experts, as well as former Brady Bunch stars, getting the house to look like what the sitcom’s viewers saw on TV. At the time, co-star EvePlumb (Jan) noted, “I think we were all involved in demo of some sort in each of the rooms. And then, we were all involved in the rebuilding of them.”
She added, “Furniture, if something couldn’t be found or sourced, they made it. Printed fabric to match for the couch, they made a beautiful stereo cabinet that we put together and I helped to stain.”
According to the listing, the five-bedroom, five-bath, 5,140-square-foot residence is “a lifetime opportunity to own one of the most iconic single family residences in the world.”
It continues, “From the infamous staircase that anchors the home, to the bright orange formica kitchen counters, to the blue bunk beds and pink twin beds, and let’s not forget about the groovy attic. … The possibilities are endless.”
HGTV plans to use a portion of the proceeds from the sale to help provide up to 250,000 meals for Turn Up! Fight Hunger, an initiative that benefits the food insecure through No Kid Hungry.
(NEW YORK) — Truck drivers delivering Bud Light have received the middle finger from passersby, distributors have faced intentional collisions from shopping carts as they drop off beer and vendors have endured homophobic jokes calling them “gay beer salesmen,” according to top officials at several beer distribution companies.
While Anheuser-Busch InBev weathers a consumer boycott of Bud Light over a promotion from a trans influencer, the fallout is hitting hundreds of independent, often family-owned distributors that sell and deliver Bud Light to stores, bars and restaurants.
Bud Light has recorded declining sales for six consecutive weeks after a product endorsement from Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer, set off ire among many conservatives.
The losses have strained Anheuser-Busch distributors that draw a significant portion of their revenue from Bud Light, the company’s top-selling beer, Anson Frericks, an executive who left Anheuser-Busch InBev last year, told ABC News.
“The biggest losers here are the 500 independent businesses in the U.S. that distribute Anheuser-Busch products,” Frericks said. “Those are the people really hurting.”
Anheuser-Busch InBev did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Company leaders at four different distributors told ABC News they have faced revenue losses and have weighed responses such as supplementing the income of salespeople paid on commission or burnishing the local brand with additional sponsorships of community events.
Distributors voiced frustration with Anheuser-Busch over its inability to anticipate the backlash and some faulted irate consumers for failing to understand the consequences of their boycott for independent sellers. Some of the distributors declined to share their names because they didn’t want to be publicly identified speaking about the business environment amid the boycott.
“I feel like my main supplier has put the wholesalers and their employees in a really bad spot,” the president of an Anheuser-Busch beer distributor told ABC News. “It’s frustrating.”
Speaking about consumers engaged in the boycott, one Anheuser-Busch beer distributor in the Pacific Northwest told ABC News: “It’s sad that they can’t make that disconnect between the independent wholesaler and a big corporation — it’s disheartening.”
Overall sales of Bud Light fell nearly 25% over the week ending on May 13 compared to the same period a year ago, according to data from Bump Williams Consulting and Nielsen NIQ reviewed by ABC News.
Pestinger Distribution Company, a distributor that serves 23 counties in rural Kansas, has suffered a nearly 30% drop in Bud Light sales since the boycott began in early April, Matt Pestinger, the owner, told ABC News.
Since Bud Light sales make up about a quarter of the company’s business, Pestinger said, the dropoff has delivered a blow to its bottom line: Revenue grew 5% compared to last year over the months before the boycott but has fallen 2% since, he said.
“We’re stressed some because you never want to see red numbers,” Pestinger added, noting that losses had moderated in recent weeks.
Instead of cutting costs, Pestinger has sought to contain the damage by spending more on sponsorships of local festivals and charities, he said.
“Our business philosophy is you take care of the community and the community takes care of you — we’re doubling down on that,” he added.
The president of a different Anheuser-Busch distributor, who declined to detail the extent of its revenue losses amid the boycott, said between 60% and 70% of the company’s employees are paid through sales commissions. At the end of this month, the company plans to pay such employees a lump sum to make up for the losses, the company official added.
“I’m trying to keep my employees happy,” the company official said. “They’re feeling it.”
After the initial boycott, Anheuser-Busch InBev posted a statement from CEO Brendan Whitworth on its website.
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” Whitworth said. “We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
The company also placed two executives who oversaw the endorsement of Mulvaney’s Instagram post on leave, the Wall Street Journal reported last month.
Anheuser-Busch InBev also provided distributors with free beer for employees and additional ad spending, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.
At a meeting in St. Louis two weeks ago, the corporation’s upper management met with hundreds of distributors and responded to questions about the path forward, multiple distributors told ABC News.
Some distributors praised the company’s response to the boycott while others said the efforts have proven insufficient.
“I trust our leadership,” Pestinger said. “I respect the way that they’ve been handling it.”
Distributors voiced optimism that sales of Bud Light will rebound soon. However, if the slump continues for months on end, some distributors said they will need to make cost cuts such as limiting employee hours and slashing sponsorships.
“I think the bad times are behind us,” the Pacific Northwest-based beer distributor said. “We do have a game plan if it does come to that level of severity.”
Cyndy, an official at Nebraska-based distributor High Plains Budweiser, who declined to provide her last name, said the focus amid the boycott should be on the acute pain for independent sellers.
“In the end, the people hurt the most are the local small business retailers and wholesalers in your community,” she said.
DaBaby wants to win back his junkies, so he’s making music like he’s selling drugs. In his new song “Sellin’ Crack” featuring Offset, he talks of his desire to make a comeback after he made homophobic comments at Rolling Loud Miami 2021.
“Came a long way from sharin’ big, big brother/ Had to sleep on the floor, on the mattress,” DaBaby raps on the track. “And if I can keep it up, I’m goin’ platinum/ Hmm, again, n****, believe that.”
In the video for the song, the rappers recreate the 1991 film New Jack City about Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and the Cash Money Brothers’ drug empire.
“Sellin’ Crack” is one of three songs on DaBaby’s CALL DA FIREMAN bundle, which also includes his latest charting hit, “Shake Sumn,” now #74 on the Billboard Hot 100.
For the uninitiated, DaBaby had been canceled by many after he took the Rolling Miami stage in 2021 and requested that those who “didn’t show up today with HIV/AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that will make you die in two to three weeks” put up their cellphone lighter.
DaBaby later apologized for his “insensitive” comments, noting, “I have no intentions on offending anybody,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
Jackson Dean and up-and-comer Josh Ross have teamed up to cover Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan‘s timeless duet, “Girl from the North Country.”
Released via Spotify Singles, Jackson and Josh trade verses and harmonize on the reimagined track as they bring the romantic story to life.
“It’s a damn good tune,” shares Jackson. “I hope we did it justice for Dylan and Cash. This song has been a long time favorite of mine and it was a cool shot to interpret it with Josh.”
“I’m excited for this song to be out,” adds Josh. “When Jackson brought the song ‘Girl from the North Country’ to me, I immediately felt connected to it and hadn’t heard it in so long. I’m a huge Johnny Cash fan and always think of my roots in the North. I love that I got the chance to lean into a different vibe than what I normally record through this song.”
Check out Jackson and Josh’s cover of “Girl from the North Country” on Spotify.
Portugal. the Man has shared a new song called “Summer of Luv,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Chris Black Changed My Life.
The track, which features the psychedelic band Unknown Mortal Orchestra, is available now via digital outlets. You can watch its accompanying visualizer, which references the opening credits of The Simpsons, streaming now on YouTube.
“Summer of Luv” follows the previously released Chris Black Changed My Life songs “Dummy,” “Champ” and “Thunderdome [W.T.A.].”
Chris Black Changed My Life is the follow-up to 2017’s Woodstock, which spawned the megahit “Feel It Still.” It’s due out June 23.
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Aerosmith’s Peace Out tour doesn’t start until September, but guitarist Brad Whitford isn’t sitting at home waiting to take the stage.
The rocker made a surprise appearance at Godsmack’s show at the Firstbank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee, on Wednesday, joining the band for a rendition of the Aerosmith classic “Dream On.” A snippet of the performance can be seen on Aerosmith’s Instagram account.
“Such an incredible honor to have shared the stage with the one and only Mr. Brad Whitford of @aerosmith,” Godsmack frontman Sully Erna shared on Facebook. “We are still living out our childhood dreams and humbled every day! Thank you Brad!”
The appearance comes just a few weeks after Aerosmith announced their final tour. It’s set to kick off September 2 in Philadelphia, with dates confirmed through January 26, 2024, in Montreal. A complete list of dates can be found at aerosmith.com.
Citadel, the spy series from Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo, is getting another mission from Amazon Studios.
The streaming service announced Thursday that the show, which stars Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci, has been renewed for season 2.
Following its debut on April 28, the show has become the second most-watched new original series outside the U.S. and fourth most-watched worldwide, according to the streaming service.
Calling Citadel a “global phenomenon,” Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon and MGM Studios, enthused, “Our goal was always to create a new franchise rooted in original IP that would grow Prime Video’s international audience. This show has drawn an outsize number of new international customers to Prime Video.”
In addition to the renewal announcement, Salke revealed the streaming service will make the show’s debut episode free for one month on Amazon Freevee beginning Friday, May 26.
In the announcement, it was also noted that Joe Russo would direct every episode of the forthcoming season.
On behalf of their AGBO production company, the Russos said they’re “thrilled to embark on this next phase of the spyverse,” noting, “The innovative storytelling of Citadel has paved the way for an incredible, worldwide collaboration with creatives in front of and behind the camera.”
(WASHINGTON) — “The taxpayer must render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, but no more.”
With those words, Chief Justice John Roberts and a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a 94-year-old Minnesota woman who got no compensation when the government seized her home over a small unpaid tax bill and pocketed the profit.
In his opinion, Roberts said the state of Minnesota violated the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition against government taking private property without “just compensation” in 2015 when it took Geraldine Tyler’s one-bedroom condominium.
“A taxpayer who loses her $40,000 house to the state to fulfill a $15,000 tax debt has made a far greater contribution to the public fisc that she owed,” Roberts wrote.
Tyler’s legal team applauded the ruling as a victory for property rights.
“Today’s decision is a major victory for property rights in the United States,” said attorney Christina Martin with the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented Tyler in the case before before the Court. “This decision affirms that property rights are fundamental and don’t depend solely on state law. The Court’s ruling makes clear that home equity theft is not only unjust, but unconstitutional.”
Thomas Berry, a constitutional lawyer with the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank, also celebrated the ruling, saying, “After this decision, states will no longer be able to get away with the pernicious practice of ‘home equity theft.'”
The court rejected arguments made by Hennepin County, which seized the home, that Tyler essentially abandoned her property and could have sold it herself to pay the debt and keep any excess.
Roberts noted that Minnesota was also an outlier in not providing any opportunity for Tyler to obtain the excess after the state’s sale. Thirty-six states and the federal government require that excess value be returned to the taxpayer, the court said.
“The County had the power to sell Tyler’s home to recover the unpaid property taxes,” Roberts wrote. “But it could not use the toehold of the tax debt to confiscate more property than was due.”
The decision clears the way for Tyler to return to a lower court to seek compensation from the state. It also effectively strikes down the laws like Minnesota’s, which has been branded as “equity theft” by critics.
So-called home equity seizure is legal in roughly a dozen states that authorize municipalities to take possession of a home in the event of delinquency, sell the property and keep the entirety of earnings, regardless of the value of the outstanding tax bill.
Filter has premiered the video for “Face Down,” the band’s latest single.
The clip finds the “Hey Man Nice Shot” outfit recording the tune over a video chat session, which is hacked by a continuous video loop of different skateboarders, snowboarders and bikers wiping out and falling, well, face down. It also includes a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
You can watch the “Face Down” video streaming now on YouTube.
The song “Face Down” premiered earlier in May and follows the track “For the Beaten,” which dropped last October. A new Filter album, the follow-up to 2016’s Crazy Eyes, is due out later this year.
Filter will perform a streaming concert on June 17.
Lizzo paid tribute to the late Tina Turner by performing “Proud Mary” during her show in Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday night.
“Today we lost an icon,” the singer tells the crowd, as seen in a video posted to her social media. “And I haven’t allowed myself to be sad, I haven’t allowed myself to cry about it. I don’t want to right now because I’d much rather celebrate what an incredible legend Tina Turner is and always will be.”
“As a Black girl in a rock band, I would not exist if it was not for the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Lizzo continued. “And remember this, there would be no rock ‘n’ roll without Tina Turner!”
She then launched into an energetic performance of “Proud Mary” in honor of Tina, who died Wednesday at age 83.
