The brand new comedy series Adults premieres on FX Wednesday, May 28 at 9/8c.
Those interested in checking out the latest FX series can stream the show even without access to traditional cable through Fubo (free trial), DirecTV (free trial) and Sling (50% off first month).
What is Adults?
Similarly to the hit 90s comedy Friends, Adults centers on a group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither “good” nor “people” yet.
Throughout the eight-episode debut season, the housemates tackle responsibility to varying degrees of success.
Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao and Owen Thiele star.
How to watch Adults season 1
Those interested in watching the premiere can stream the series through Fubo, DirecTV or Sling.
Fubo and DirecTV offer free trials, while Sling offers those that commit to a paid subscription half off their first month and one month free of AMC+.
What is Fubo and DirecTV?
Fubo and DirecTV are two of the top streaming services steadily replacing traditional cable services. Both offer free trials to new subscribers, a plethora of popular live TV channels, on-demand streaming options and helpful features such as unlimited DVR storage.
Fubo considers itself a sports-focused live streaming service, but with over 100 live TV channels available through its base package at just $84.99 after its free trial, it offers much more to its subscribers.
Popular TV channels available through Fubo include ABC, FOX, BET, MTV, CNBC, MSNBC, USA and much more.
DirecTV mirrors Fubo by offering many of the same live TV channels and useful features. The base package starts at just $86.99 a month after its 5-day free trial and includes popular channels such as HGTV, ESPN, Bravo, CMT, CNN, BET and much more.
Two other DirecTV packages are the Choice package (original price $114.99) and the Ultimate package (original price $129.99), both of which are part of an ongoing promotion that offers new subscribers $10 off the original price for the first three months of their subscription.
Those interested in comparing all DirecTV’s channel packages can check them out here.
What is Sling?
Sling is another streaming service to consider if you stream popular TV channels such as FX. Though no free trial is available to new subscribers, those who commit to a paid plan get half off the first month and one month free of AMC+.
Both the Sling Orange plan and the Sling Blue plan are normally $45.99 a month, but with the current promotion, Sling users will pay just $23 a month for the first month.
For those who wish to access channels from both the Sling Blue and Sling Orange plans can do so by signing up for the Orange + Blue plan, which combines the best of both plans for just $60.99 a month ($30.50 for the first month).
The 2025 WNBA continues to move along, with a strong slate of games set for this week. On Wednesday, the Indiana Fever will head to Washington to take on the Mystics. The Fever will be without superstar Caitlin Clark, as she’s expected to miss the next two weeks with a quadriceps strain.
Fans still looking to tune into the Fever vs Mystics game can do so on Fubo, who’s offering a free trial to new subscribers.
Here’s everything you need to know before the Fever and Mystics tipoff:
When: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Where: CFG Bank Arena, Baltimore, MD
Time: 7:30 p.m. E.T.
Fans still looking to tune into the Fever vs Mystics game can do so on Fubo, who’s offering a free trial to new subscribers.
Wide receiver Amari Cooper has posted seven 1,000-yard seasons and received five Pro Bowl invitations during his 10 NFL seasons. But 11 weeks after he became an unrestricted free agent and with NFL teams winding down their offseason work, the former Alabama All-American remains unsigned.
The five NFL teams that had not started the final phase of their offseason programs are doing so on Wednesday. By June 20, all 32 NFL teams will have completed their offseason work and entered the summer break until spring training.
Cooper isn’t the only player from an Alabama high school or college who became a free agent on March 12 and remains unsigned. Others still in need of a team include:
Smith is a 10-year NFL veteran who has been a Pro Bowl selection three times. Wills was the 10th pick in the 2020 draft who is coming off two injury-affected seasons. Hubbard is a 12-year NFL veteran. Abdullah and Uzomah just completed their 10th seasons.
Another set of free agents includes players who had contracts for the 2025 season but have been released this offseason. Players with Alabama football roots in this category include:
Defensive tackle Montravius Adams (Auburn)
Cornerback James Bradberry (Pleasant Grove, Samford)
Defensive tackle Raekwon Davis (Alabama)
Tight end Jordan Matthews (Madison Academy)
Linebacker C.J. Mosley (Theodore, Alabama)
Mosley has been a Pro Bowler five times in 10 NFL seasons. Bradberry missed the 2024 season because of injury, but the 2020 Pro Bowler started 124 games in the eight seasons before that.
There is yet another set of free agents who have been on the open market even longer. These are players who finished the 2024 season on practice squads. Each became a free agent a week after his team’s season ended. Players from Alabama high schools and colleges who appeared in regular-season games during 2024 as practice-squad members and remain unsigned for 2025 include:
Linebacker Kwon Alexander (Oxford)
Defensive tackle Angelo Blackson (Auburn)
Fullback Khari Blasingame (Buckhorn)
Linebacker Rashaan Evans (Auburn High, Alabama)
Cornerback Zyon Gilbert (Jeff Davis)
Safety Eddie Jackson (Alabama)
Safety Kareem Jackson (Alabama)
Defensive back Bobby McCain (Oxford)
Linebacker Nicholas Morrow (Huntsville)
Tight end John Samuel Shenker (Auburn)
Kareem Jackson is a 15-year veteran who ranks fourth with 205 regular-season games and second with 193 regular-season starts on Alabama’s all-time NFL list.
Eddie Jackson is a two-time Pro Bowler and one-time first-team All-Pro with 104 starts in eight seasons.
Alexander, Blackson and McCain are 10-year NFL veterans.
California based Santa Monica Seafood has voluntarily recalled Atlantic Salmon Portions with Seafood Stuffing because it may contain undeclared soy, according to a recent release from the company.
“People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to soy risk a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product,” the release reads.
The products were distributed at Aldi Stores in California, Nevada, and Arizona.
No illnesses linked to the allergen have been reported to date, the release says.
The company advised shoppers to look on the white portion of the label located on the front of the package for the product date code.
If it says to use or freeze by June 2, the release urged buyers to return the product to the store for a full refund.
“The supplier identified the problem during a routine inspection of label proofs from a completed production batch,” the release reads.
“This recall was initiated because the product contains soy, a known allergen, but the packaging does not list it as an ingredient. This labeling error means that individuals with a soy allergy may unknowingly consume the product.”
For questions, shoppers can contact Santa Monica Seafood at 1-800-969-8862, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST, the release says.
A “small tornado” caused severe damage Tuesday evening to a NASA building on Redstone Arsenal but resulted in no injuries, according to the arsenal Garrison.
The incident occurred about 7:30 p.m. as a line of severe thunderstorms moved through the area. Building 4604 at the Marshall Space Flight Center, which is unoccupied, suffered “severe damage to the exterior,” a Garrison news release stated.
“We are grateful that no one was injured during this severe weather event,” Garrison Commander Col. Erin Eike said. “Our team is working diligently to assess the damage and ensure the safety of all personnel.”
The area around Building 4604 has been secured.
Redstone officials are advising personnel to watch for potential hazards and to report any damage or safety concerns to their supervisors or the Directorate of Emergency Services, 256-876-2222.
Jared Hudson, a former Navy SEAL who founded an organization to fight human trafficking, has announced he will run for Tommy Tuberville’s seat in the U.S. Senate.
Hudson is a graduate of Mortimer Jordan High School. Following graduation, Hudson completed fire college and became a firefighter but said he felt led to join the military.
He served as a SEAL operator with Naval Special Warfare and was deployed multiple times to combat zones including Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Foal Eagle.
He served one year as a deputy with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and worked as a reserve deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
He also worked as an investigator with a prosecutor’s office in Indiana and is certified with the Alabama Peace Officer Standard Training Commission.
Hudson, who has his MBA, is CEO of his business, The Shooting Institute, which he founded. Through the institute, he has trained area law enforcement agencies, military personnel and civilians in self-defense.
He and his wife. Lauren, founded the Covenant Rescue Group, which fights human trafficking. Through Covenant Rescue, Hudson and his team train law enforcement agencies and also work with them to carry out human trafficking operations.
Hudson becomes the second candidate in the race, following Kyle Sweetser of Mobile, who announced in April that he would seek the Democratic nomination.
Sweetser is businessman and former two-time Donald Trump voter who bashed the president at last year’s Democratic National Convention.
Potential Republican candidates include Attorney General Steve Marshall, former Congressman Mo Brooks, U.S. Rep.Barry Moore, former Congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, former Secretary of State John Merrill, and former Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis.
Bubba had more than 20 ways to cook shrimp in the movie Forrest Gump.
But no matter how you like your shrimp cooked, they’ve first got to be caught. And in Alabama shrimping season begins in coastal waters at sunrise on June 1.
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) announced Tuesday that the annual season for state waters begins at 6 a.m. Sunday. It will last for nearly seven months, until New Year’s Eve on Dec. 31.
The season begins for all inside waters not permanently closed by Alabama state law or regulation. That includes Mobile Bay, Bon Secour Bay, Mississippi Sound, Perdido Bay, Arnica Bay, Wolf Bay, and Little Lagoon.
ADCNR is reminding live bait dealers holding a permit for special live bat areas that the area beside the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park south of the Tensaw River Bridge will be open from one hour before sunrise until sunset from June 1 to Dec. 31.
The Alabama Gulf Coast is among the more popular shrimping spots in the United States. The Gulf typically accounts for about 70% of the country’s shrimp catch due to the long season that generally runs from June to December.
June through August is considered the peak season when huge numbers of brown shrimp are harvested. White shrimp catches ramp up more in late summer and fall.
The state urges people to call 251-861-2882 for more information.
While we all love an entree, whether it be fried chicken, a burger, barbecue or something else altogether — sometimes it’s the side dishes that really make a meal.
After all, would a plate of barbecue taste as good without the mac and cheese or baked beans alongside it? Would a seafood dinner be just as satisfying without the coleslaw and hushpuppies? And let’s be real — a lot of us look forward to the “and-three” part of our favorite meat-and-three meal more than anything else.
That’s why This is Alabama recently asked its Facebook followers about their favorite side dishes at Alabama restaurants, and we pulled some of the responses, along with a few of our favorites too, to highlight the local spots that are serving sides worthy of being the main attraction.
The steam table at Niki’s West Steak & Seafood Restaurant features about 40 fresh vegetables and sides daily. Many of the vegetables come from the nearby Alabama Farmers Market on Finley Avenue West. (Bob Carlton/[email protected])
Niki’s West
233 Finley Avenue West in Birmingham
For more than 60 years Niki’s West in Birmingham has been in business, and that’s given them plenty of time to perfect their recipes. So while you might not know exactly what sides will be up for grabs given that the menu can vary from day-to-day, you can safely bet they’re going to be good (and there’s going to be a lot of ‘em). From Southern classics like mac and cheese, cabbage and fried green tomatoes to more unique dishes like broccoli cheese casserole and rutabagas, you could make a whole meal just out of the sides at Niki’s West — and many do.
In business since 1983 and with seven locations in Alabama (and one in Florida, too,) David’s Catfish House is another restaurant with a long history of serving good eats to customers all over the state. Included in those eats are their sides. While the turnip greens, hushpuppies and creamy coleslaw at David’s Catfish seem to be a draw for hungry diners all on their own, its the restaurant’s cheese grits — which have been named one of the “100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama Before You Die” by the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel in the past — that are the star of its sides menu.
DeSoto’s Seafood Kitchen, a Gulf Shores landmark, offers a value-oriented home-cooking lunch that attracts a loyal audience of regulars.Lawrence Specker | [email protected]
Desoto’s Seafood Kitchen
138 West 1st Avenue in Gulf Shores
You might expect a seafood restaurant in Gulf Shores to have the standard fare of sides, and Desoto’s Seafood Kitchen certainly does have those, but it also has so much more. In addition to the usual French fries, coleslaw and hushpuppies, you can also get unexpected offerings, like grit cakes, corn fritters, gumbo, lima beans, fried green tomatoes and even sweet potato casserole, alongside your lunch or dinner entree at Desoto’s, which is likely why so many readers ranked the popular eatery at as a good place to go when you’re looking for sides that stand out.
Just to be clear, though, we recognize that sometimes you’re just in the mood for something fried and delicious to munch on alongside your burger, sandwich or salad, and when that’s the case, Ragtime Cafe in Hoover is a popular pick with readers. While its sides offerings include everything from cheese fries to sweet potato fries, tater tots and more that could easily satisfy your fried food craving, it is their onion rings, which consist of Sweet Spanish onions batter-dipped to be perfection and served with a Cajun horseradish sauce, that garnered a shout-out in our reader question.
Chris’ Brussel Sprouts, an appetizer from Gather executive chef Chris McElhaney, is enhanced with honey balsamic, shaved onions and a slice of Nueske’s thick bacon.(Bob Carlton/[email protected])
Gather Restaurant
111 W. Nashville Avenue in Atmore
Tucked away in the small town of Atmore is Gather Restaurant, an eatery that’s putting its own spin on Southern favorites, one (side) dish at a time. Among the standout sides served on its menu are pimento mac and cheese, fried green tomatoes, crispy grit cakes, caramel bacon green beans, sauteed broccolini and more. In addition, Chris’ Brussels sprouts, which are made with honey balsamic, shaved onion and Nueske’s thick bacon, are a serious kick of flavor. Technically speaking, they’re considered an appetizer, but you can order ‘em to eat along with your entree — and we highly recommend you do.
There are a lot of classic sides you might expect to find at most barbecue restaurants in Alabama, and Larry’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q in Enterprise certainly has all of them — including baked beans, mac and cheese, coleslaw and potato salad. But it’s their battered and fried yellow squash, a side you don’t see too often, that has garnered them popularity among our readers and a spot on this list. Of course, if you’re not a fan of squash, their other side options, including fried okra, green beans, mashed potatoes and those listed above, aren’t bad either.
The famous fried green tomatoes at the Irondale Cafe in Irondale, Ala. (The Birmingham News / Michelle Campbell)BN FTP
Irondale Cafe
1906 First Avenue N. in Irondale
You can probably guess which dish garnered the beloved Irondale Cafe in Irondale a spot on this list — yes, it’s those crispy fried green tomatoes made famous by Fannie Flagg’s 1987 novel and the 1991 film based upon it — but those certainly aren’t the only side dish served at the classic Southern meat-and-three worth writing about. From mashed potatoes to red beans and rice, slow-cooked collards, carrot and raisin salad, fried okra and more up for grabs on its menu, which varies daily, the hardest part with be narrowing your sides down to just three.
With more than 100 years in business, The Bright Star in Bessemer is a beloved Alabama restaurant for a lot of reasons, and it turns out that having an expansive and delicious selection of side dishes on its lunch menu is one of them. Our readers noted that when eating there, it’s hard not to simply order a vegetable plate and fill it with everything from homemade dressing to Greek hashbrown potatoes, candied yams, black-eyed peas, creamed corn and the many other dishes that could be served on the eatery’s rotating menu.
Barbecue chicken plate at Jim ‘N Nicks’ Bar-B-Q in Homewood, Alabama. The plate has a quarter of a chicken (white. meat) with red barbecue sauce, potato salad, slaw and cheese biscuits. (Mary Colurso | [email protected])
Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q
Locations throughout the state
Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Qs are a common sight throughout Alabama and the South these days after the popular restaurant got its start in Birmingham in 1985. We can’t help but think that the popularity wasn’t just of its barbecue, but those delicious trimmings served alongside it. While its brisket chili might be the most well-known and its potato salad got plenty of shout-outs in our community question, you can’t really go wrong with the mac and cheese, collard greens, baked beans or other sides offered at Jim ‘N Nick’s either. And yes, if you want to count those sweet cheese biscuits as a side, we’ll allow it.
The last Morrison’s is still going strong in Mobile — with a 100-year history in the city — offering hungry customers a wide selection of entrees, salads, desserts and, of course, sides on a daily basis. Among those side dishes up for grabs at the cafeteria-style eatery is everything from turnip greens, baked mac and cheese and gravy-topped mashed potatoes to carrot souffle and broccoli madeline. And since the desserts are served right beside the vegetables, we’d say a slice of one of their many pies could count as a side too. At the very least, we doubt anyone’s going to tell you it doesn’t.
Banana pudding at Dreamland Bar-B-Que.(Bob Carlton/[email protected])
Dreamland Bar-B-Que
Locations throughout the state
While Dreamland Bar-B-Que, which first opened in Tuscaloosa in 1958 and now has several locations throughout the state, is best known for its barbecue, its fixins’ have developed a following of their own. From its popular mac and cheese to its filling potato salad, coleslaw and even its signature banana pudding — because anyone with a sweet tooth will tell you some desserts are hard to wait for — Dreamland has all the sides you could need. Even their barbecue sauce, soaked up with their white bread, got a shout-out as a side worthy of praise.
The Costway Patio Furniture Set usually sells for $439, but is now on sale for only $199. The outdoor conversation set comes with one love seat, two single chairs and a glass-top coffee table. It features a black rattan frame with white weather-resistant cushions.
Costway 4-Piece Patio Furniture Set
$439 $199.99
The Costway 4-Piece Patio Furniture Set is on sale for less than $200 this week at Walmart.
One promising review reads, “I can’t begin to stress enough how much I enjoy this set, especially for the price! The only downside I’d say would be the build time. It took about 90 minutes total. They have not faded in all day direct sunlight for months. Durable too! Funky cushion smells went away after a week of being outside.”
Another helpful and detailed review states, “This is a fairly decent set, especially for this price. The chairs/love seat are smaller than you’d get in more expensive sets. It’s sturdy and comfortable to hold me at 230 lbs and six feet tall. As others have said, it can be a bit annoying to put together as the bolts are in hard to reach places and YOU CAN NOT TIGHTEN THE BOLTS UNTIL THE WHOLE PIECE IS PUT TOGETHER. It says this in the directions but people don’t seem to listen. All you have to do it hand tighten all the bolts about halfway, once it’s all put together, go back through and tighten them all. To make it easier, I used a cordless drill with a snake attachment and hex (allen key) bit so it can reach the tight spots and do the work for me. Doing it myself, I had the whole set put together in less than an hour.”
The 2025 WNBA continues to move along, with a strong slate of games set for this week. On Friday, the Indiana Fever will take on the Connecticut Sun. The Fever will be without superstar Caitlin Clark, as she’s expected to miss the next two weeks with a quadriceps strain.
Fans still looking to tune into the Fever vs Sun game can do so on Fubo, who’s offering a free trial to new subscribers.
Here’s everything you need to know before the Fever and Sun tipoff:
When: Friday, May 30, 2025
Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN
Time: 7:30 p.m. E.T.
Fans still looking to tune into the Fever vs Sun game can do so on Fubo, who’s offering a free trial to new subscribers.
