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We know this about Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to Tom Cruise’s career-making ’80s megahit—it’s not the most secretive production.

Movie sets are often locked down tight. Actors and crew have to sign non-disclosure agreements. That may be true with Maverick, but photos are making it out and onto social media anyway.

Some pics are obviously sanctioned, like an Instagram slideshow posted to Luke Scott’s account. As Scott is a screenwriter, Ridley Scott’s son and late Top Gun director Tony Scott’s nephew, seems like he’s not too worried about letting fans of the movie (and of Tom Cruise, for that matter) get a little peek behind the scenes. 

Scott’s photos are the best too, featuring Cruise in full Maverick mode with jets old and new, apparently stoked to head back into the danger zone. 

Some Twitter users have managed to grab their own snaps as well. Not quite as close up and personal, but still interesting and perhaps telling—looks like the production is fully underway and Tom Cruise is in character.

Top Gun: Maverick brings back Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as well as Val Kilmer’s Iceman. Maverick is still flying, but he’s in a very different world. 

The plot of Maverick is still a secret, but it involves drones and the son of Goose—Maverick’s doomed partner from the first movie—and men in green flight suits. 

In the meantime, we’ll keep looking for more leaks.

Top Gun: Maverick roars into theaters on June 26, 2020.

Animal print, aka the number trend of fall 2018, is everywhere, but no other site or brand can quite match the vast selection of animal-print pieces currently available at Zara. In fact, the retailer even just introduced an entire edit devoted to the trend, and it is stocked. Leopard, zebra, snake, and tiger prints abound in the form of jackets, tops, skirts, dresses, shoes, and accessories galore. I was personally overwhelmed by the selection, which prompted me to create an edit of my own. Narrowing it down to 15 pieces wasn’t easy, but I think these selections are good enough to catch on and sell out by the time October comes and goes. (Many of them are already selling out, so don’t stall.) And in case you want a little extra styling assistance, the animal-print edit also features plenty of pieces that look perfect with animal print, from sweaters to trousers.

Keep scrolling to shop my animal-print picks. Your closet is about to get a lot more on trend for fall.

Next up: the Sienna Miller–approved Zara dress that looks perfect with ankle boots.

Along with NPR’s hit podcast, Serial, Netflix’s first season of Making a Murderer was responsible for a kind of true crime renaissance. It went from a genre full of covert devotees afraid of seeming creepy to a staple of casual conversations.

Making a Murderer is still sparking those conversations and it’s easy to see why. The story of Steven Avery—once wrongly convicted of murder only to be convicted again—is engrossing and unsettling. And it’s far from over, so a second season begins streaming in October.

Season Two is made up of 10 episodes examining continuing efforts to clear the names of Avery and his convicted accomplice and nephew, Brendan Dassey. While the trailer is brief, it takes fans right back to the heavy and often wrenching feel of the first season, embodied in the hashmarks indicating days in prison widening out to Avery’s mugshot.

Over the footage we hear a woman saying that “Once somebody’s convicted, they have to move mountains to get out of prison.”

For this second look at Avery’s ongoing efforts to gain his freedom, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos once again headed to Wisconsin, where they followed Avery’s and Dassey’s families and the attorneys working his case. 

Many do believe Steven Avery is guilty as charged. The popularity of Season One even prompted production of Convicting a Murderer—a series involving prosecutors, police, and victim Teresa Halbach’s friends and family.

While Avery’s lawyers in the first season attained a measure of celebrity, they’re no longer on board. His new attorney is Kathleen Zellner, who specializes in overturning wrongful convictions. Viewers will follow Zellner’s efforts to find the truth that might set her client free. 

Season Two of Making a Murderer begins streaming October 19. 

The majority of us can’t get drunk before going to work, simply because we’d get fired. But for someone like Dave Grohl, an epic drinking session before playing with the Foo Fighters is an absolute must.

In an interview with KLOS-FM, Grohl spilled the beans on how he prepares for a show, and let me tell you – it involves a lot of booze, and this man goes hard.

“Should I tell people how to do it?” he asked during the interview, to which drummer Taylor Hawkins replied: “Not how to do it. How you do it.” You know, because Grohl is legendary and his methods are unlike anyone else’s, and anything he’s doing definitely works.

Without further ado, let’s dive right into Grohl’s intense evening ritual he follows every single night before a Foo Fighters concert.

First off, the rocker pops three Advil 90 minutes before the show, probably to prepare his body for the waterfall of booze he’s about to ingest. Then, “an hour before the gig, I have a Coors Light,” he explains.

“About 50 minutes before the gig, I hit my first Jag [Jagermeister], finish the Coors Light, get another Coors Light going. Now there’s a bunch of people around, so I’m throwing shots at everybody and I’m taking shots with everyone in the room. 

“The next Coors Light is down, I got a cold one. Now it’s about maybe 20 minutes before going on. I’ve had three or four shots of Jager and three Coors Lights. Then they sort of clear the room and we get 15 minutes to ourselves.

“This is bad! This is how I’ve spent every night of the last year and a half. That’s why I’m not scared of the Lord. I’ve seen worse.”

Damn, dude.

“So then like 15 minutes before, we’re like, ‘We need our privacy,’ which is such bullshit. We totally don’t. So then, it’s all of us and I feel guilty because I’m the only one who’s been doing the shots of the Jag, so I start feeding shots of Jag to the rest of the band, who are all drinking white wine and champagne and whatever. 

“So I’m pounding them with Jag but I have to take them with them, so now I’m five or six shots in. And it’s like, it’s time to walk to the stage, so I crack another beer just to have a cold one as I walk up and I pick up the bottle and drink the last inch of the Jag!”

However, he added: “Kids, stay in school, don’t do drugs.”

You heard the man.

Watch the full interview in the video below:

Well, now we know that Grohl gets a little loose before going on stage, but clearly, it works for him. In fact, all that booze probably helped his decision to invite a fan — lovingly nicknamed “KISS guy” for obvious reasons — up on stage to jam with him.

“I swear to god, Kiss Guy—he was the fucking best one we’ve ever had come up,” he said. “Goddamn, Kiss guy,” Grohl said.

When Ducati first introduced the Scrambler Icon in 2014, not even the Italian moto maker could have imagined they’d have such a hit on their hands. The retro look, smaller frame, narrow tank and more upright riding position paired with the 803cc L-Twin engine was impressive. 

The Scrambler isn’t going anywhere—Ducati sold more than 55,000 of them in just five years. The 2019 model tweaks, without truly changing, the Scrambler Icon’s successful formula.

The biggest modifications made to the 2019 model are minor and almost entirely aimed at safety. First and foremost, is the addition of Bosche’s cornering anti-lock braking system that was first trotted out in the Scrambler 1100. 

The new system makes for better brake distribution, yielding smoother braking and minimizing the rider’s chances of losing control. It’s a feature normally found in much more expensive bikes and it’s nice to see Ducati’s concern with safety making it across the product line.

Other new safety measures include LED daytime running lights, LED brake lights and self-cancelling turn signals. Most of these are long overdue but it’s still easy to be happy about seeing them make it into the Scrambler Icon’s 2019 design.

Beyond safety, the Icon gets a boost in comfort for 2019. There’s an optional phone-pairing multimedia system which marks an acknowledgment by Ducati that riders want their smartphones—for music, for calls, for GPS—on their bikes. A seat redesign (it’s still a banana) and other detail adjustments like adjustable cabling for the brake handle and a switch to a hydraulic pull on the clutch round out the boosts. They add up to the pleasing conclusion that Ducati is finally perfecting the Scrambler Icon now that they’ve had four previous iterations to lock down (and how!) the essentials of this bike.

Starting under $10k, the 2019 Scrambler Icon is one of the easiest entry points for someone looking to join the Ducati family. Dealers are beginning to arrange test drives and new and old riders alike will have no trouble admitting that, while the Scrambler Icon may not boast the break-neck performance of so many other Ducatis, it’s still a damn fun little bike. 

You probably know about the Meghan Markle Effect—a.k.a. the duchess’s ability to make things sell out immediately—but Markle has some competition when it comes to Selena Gomez. The singer was photographed in Los Angeles wearing Urban Outfitters’ Button Down Midi Dress, which promptly sold out in her pretty yellow floral pattern. 

The good news: the $69 dress is still available in two other (equally cool) prints: polka dot and gingham. Urban Outfitters also has plenty of other options if you’re looking for a similarly easy-to-wear midi dress with short sleeves, including a cheery pink version and an ethereal white number. Scroll down to see how Gomez styled her affordable find and shop similar dresses.