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Inside The Fresh Toast Seattle Oscar Party

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Inside The Fresh Toast Seattle Oscar Party

Take a look inside the Fresh Toast Oscar Party. The evening was in partenrship with Piper Heidsieck and together hosted a glamorous Oscar party in downtown Seattle on February 28th.  Seventy-five well heeled guests sipped chilled champagne and feasted on appetizers and Chinese food during the evening. As the Best picture was announced, there was a gasp and a ripple in the crowd as the now well-documented snafu occurred.

Among the 75 guests attending were bold face names Robby London, one of the creators of the cartoon “He-Man,” philanthropist Betty Tong and former Seattle Times and Vulcan CFO Buster Brown. Also was Carie Fowler Antonelli, noted horsewoman and a board leader of Mary’s Place.

Global leader Piper-Heidsieck is a Champagne house founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck in July 1785 in Reims, France. Heidsieck joined with Piper in October 1839. In the late 1980s, Piper-Heidsieck became part of the Rémy Cointreau wine and spirits group. It was sold in 2011 to Européenne de Participation Industrielle, a privately owned holding company of French luxury brands. Marilyn Monroe was one of the House’s earliest supporters, rumoured to have kept a month’s supply of champagne in her kitchen.[4]

Also attending was the Seattle costume designer  who has designed clothing for films, several television series and commercial productions for over 30 years and dressed celebs James Earl Jones, Dolly Parton, Parker Posey, Kurt Russell, David Lynch and many others.

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Piper Heidsieck champagne is a major partner of the Academy Awards, their champagne flows at the ceremony and at swanky LA after parties. They also host a few select viewing parties around the nation. Piper has a tradition of being at the center of celebrations, and The Fresh Toast joined in the tradition while sommeliers, artists, business leaders, fashionistas and media gathered together to celebrate the evening.

Guests enjoyed OCCO, a Robotic Photography Entertainment machine from a Seattle tech startup. Check out the fun photos here.

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS), in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy’s voting membership. They are considered the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry in the United States and worldwide.

The major award categories are presented during a live televised Hollywood ceremony that is typically held in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929, the second ceremony in 1930 was the first one broadcast by radio, and the 1953 ceremony was the first one televised.

Lorde Lets Loose Explosive Emotions On March’s Best Track, ‘Green Light’

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Lorde Lets Loose Explosive Emotions On March’s Best Track, ‘Green Light’

Lorde doesn’t hide in her music. She may subvert and distract, but she’s never in hiding. Fans of the New Zealand pop star might disagree since four years have passed since her career-launching and pop-inverting 2013’s Pure Heroine dropped. Though Lorde maintained a pop presence by lending her anesthetized-yet-earnest wailing in a Disclosure collaboration and executive producing The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 soundtrack, she had yet to release a proper follow-up to her debut album.

What enticed listeners Lorde’s direction revolved around the multiplicity within her expression—on the inescapable “Royals,” her mood flips between seditious then somber then back again. She often utilizes her ample range to produce this effect. “Ribs,” Pure Heroine’s secret gem, displays a throaty, grumbling growl drenched in moody vibrato in its verses. “It drives you crazy getting old,” she sings. The ethereal ambience of the song’s opening leads into a manic, desperate chorus where Lorde reaches into a sweeter falsetto. Between verse and chorus, the lyrics repeat, but how she sings them changes their meaning, casting aside flippancy and opting for vulnerability.

If you’re looking for any correlation in the pop singer’s gestating evolution, it’s in that record. Lorde’s new single “Green Light” explodes her talents and tensions in every direction. The blasé teen has transformed into a bitter 20-something, weary and world-worn from first heartbreak and fame. “She thinks you love the beach, you’re such a damn liar,” she snarls, capturing the tiny white lies of former lovers that lead to massive irritations.

The millennial angst of “Royals” is now confused anguish. “Did it frighten you / How we kissed when we danced on the light up floor?” Lorde whispers in a menacing staccato.

But the massive success of this single lies in the ensuing key change. A dancing piano and thumping kick drum instills forward momentum in the spirit; the record lifts. Lorde strips away any usual effects and wink-smiling moodiness she’s leaned on in the past, and belts out a giant beast of a hook. It’s the most exposed her voice has ever sounded and it’s wildly powerful. Whereas she projected apathy previously, the opposite is true—she’s apathetic toward your feelings and your reactions while she ruptures externally everything that was once just internal.

We see this too in the “Green Light” music video. Her dancing is erratic, yet carefree, appearing as if she’s wearing no makeup at all. Everything is out in the open. Even though she’s had love and lost, she’s still relentless in her pursuit of that Gatsby-esque green light. As Lorde revealed to Zane Lowe upon the record’s release, “I realized this is that drunk girl at the party dancing around crying about her ex-boyfriend who everyone thinks is a mess. That’s her tonight and tomorrow she starts to rebuild.”

This is just the first single off Lorde’s second LP Melodrama. If “Green Light” is just her tonight, we want it to be tomorrow already.

Attention Beyhive: This Is Your Chance To Find Beyoncé Knowles

Brendan Bures
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Attention Beyhive: This Is Your Chance To Find Beyoncé Knowles

A few questions upfront: Do you love Beyoncé Knowles? Do you follow the Queen on all social media, refresh her personal website semi-regularly to check if she’s posted any new, exclusive photos? Have you seen the film Lemonade more than five times? Have you grown misty, teared, cried, or wept at a Beyoncé concert? Have you ever posted an aggressive number of bee or lemon emojis in the Instagram comments of another celebrity? Do you consider yourself part of the Beyhive?

If you answered yes to any or all of those question, then we have the perfect book for you.

Introducing Finding Beyoncé, a 40-page hardcover illustration book that includes various settings where readers must “find” Beyoncé hiding on the page. As the description reads, “Think Where’s Waldo but with way more sass.”

Perfect. Sugoi Books is selling Finding Beyoncé for £10. You can purchase the book on their website here.

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Throw Hands: Boxing To Get Fit Has Never Been So Fun

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Throw Hands: Boxing To Get Fit Has Never Been So Fun

Let the countdown begin. Ladies and gentlemen, sound the alarms and hide your cookie dough. Hibernation season is about to come to a dramatic end. It is time to start handing over burgers and fries for bananas and fruit smoothies. Getting your diet in order is usually pretty easy and somewhat exciting. Getting to the gym and making a difference there is another story. Mixing up your gym routine is crucial to keeping you interested and obtaining that body you so desperately want. What most people lack in their workout is change. Your muscles need to be worked in different ways. The workout we are about to walk you through will essentially give you the formula to Instagram body heaven. What’s the formal you ask?

Throwing Hands! Boxing is one of the world’s oldest sports and is the key workout to obtaining that beach body. Boxing workouts are Victoria’s real secret. The models we love to watch strut the runway once every year live and die by the heavy bag. Plus, have you seen Floyd Mayweather’s body? This routine is easy to explain and fun to do. Now let’s breakdown a power hour workout that will shred you to pieces and have every head turning in your direction this summer.

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Round 1: Warm-Up Run and Light Stretch (25 minutes)

Boxing puts some serious wear and tear on your body. Start of your workout with a 1-2 mile jog or run. Get your body feeling warm. No need to show off that sexy body yet and wear some sweats to the gym. After you are warm, lightly stretch your entire body. Boxing works out every single muscle from head to toe.  

Round 2: Shadow Boxing (10 minutes)

Shadow boxing is a classic box workout that involves just you and a mirror if possible (mirror is optional). This workout is you getting your body ready for the motion of boxing. This technique is you boxing thin air (punching a ghost). There is no reason to go 100% either. Take it slow and just though the motions. If a mirror is involved, stand at a distance so you do not punch the mirror. We do not need any injuries impair you from looking great this summer!

Round 3: You And The Heavy Bag (25 mins)

Now that your body is ready, it’s time to start boxing. The remaining 25 minutes of this workout is broken down into five rounds. Each round is 4 minutes and 30 seconds with a 30 second break in between. Use this break to take exactly one small sip of water. Too much water will inhibit your ability to box! Each round can vary between just fighting the bag, hitting the bag as hard as you can or hitting the bag as fast as you can. I recommend switching it up each round. Remember, take it slow and learn to hit the bag! You can serious hurt your wrist if you do not take it slow!

Wrap Up

Now that your covered in sweat, hydrate and walk it off. I recommend doing this workout 2-4 times a week. Each week you will recognize your gains and your ability to go harder, longer, and faster.

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Why? Scientists Want To Put Bugs In Your Body Lotion

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Why? Scientists Want To Put Bugs In Your Body Lotion

There are already “good” bugs, or bacteria, that contribute to your body’s healthy microbiome. Good bacteria helps you fight off the bad stuff.

In what could be the opposite, or at least an alternative, to that harsh hand sanitizer lotion you’re carrying around on a keychain for when you touch something sticky on a doorknob, researchers are studying how a lotion that puts good bacteria to work against the bad might help more effectively keep us healthy.

Dermatologists at the University of California, San Diego used a customized cream with “antimicrobial peptides” on people who suffered from itchy eczema, where the antimicrobials were scarce.

As the Associated Press reports:

[The researchers] tested five volunteers with atopic dermatitis who had Staph aureus growing on their skin’s surface — what’s called colonization — but didn’t have an infection. Researchers culled some of the rare protective bacteria from the volunteers’ skin, grew a larger supply and mixed a dose into an over-the-counter moisturizer. Volunteers had the doctored lotion slathered onto one arm and regular moisturizer on the other.

On those with the good bacteria salve, much, if not all, of the staph was gone after a day.

They researchers’ new approach is undergoing clinical trials now, so you won’t see the “good bug” lotion in pharmacies yet — the test subject sample size was small so it’ll likely need more study — but someday, itchy skin sufferers could benefit from rubbing down with the right live bacteria.

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Fresh Contest: Last Chance To Enter And Win A Year Subscription To Unbound Box, Valued At $600

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Fresh Contest: Last Chance To Enter And Win A Year Subscription To Unbound Box, Valued At $600

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Pie Tops: Check Out These Sneakers That Can Order Pizza For You

Brendan Bures
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Pie Tops: Check Out These Sneakers That Can Order Pizza For You

So here’s the pitch: Pizza Hut is releasing a set of limited-edition sneakers called “Pie Tops” that allows you to order a pie by pressing a button on the shoe’s tongue. Only 64 pairs of the shoes were produced by the cult sneaker artist the Shoe Surgeon. It is a collaboration intended to swell interest in Pizza Hut’s March Madness food specials (hence why only 64 pairs were made).

Now, the Shoe Surgeon truly is an artist who has crafted highly creative and inspired sneakers. His “Misplaced Checks” collaborations with John Geiger are very sought after within the sneaker community and for very good reason. These shoes are absolute fire.

But these “Pie Tops” are kind of dumb. They are a seriously dull shoe with some “geolocation” technology that is far below the impressive standards the Shoe Surgeon has established for himself. And in fear of coming across as a typical snarky blogger who hates everything, I will admit understanding this a probably a lucrative partnership and creates opportunity for all sides involved.

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The Shoe Surgeon continues the ability to create artistic custom sneakers. Pizza Hut earns some gimmicky internet buzz while sneaking in the real message of that Grant Hill commercial—displaying to viewers how easy and simple it is to order Pizza Hut pie.

As David Daniels, Yum Brands’ VP of media and advertising, told AdFreak, “As far as we know, this has never been done before. We feel it’s highly culturally relevant. Sneakers are hot. We’ve enlisted a really cool professional to design these shoes for us—the Shoe Surgeon out of L.A. These 64 pairs are handmade, and pretty cool.”

“Sneakers are hot,” he says. Just try not imagining Will Ferrell’s Zoolander character Mugatu shouting that. “Sneakers are so hot right now.”

Anyways, I accept this is a niche problem and with everything else going on in the world, not really a problem at all. Will I be flustered when encountering these “Pie Tops” at some SneakerCon event sold for thousands of dollars like they were a pair of LeBron IV “Fruity Pebbles” or Eminem x Air Jordan 4 x Carhartt’s? Yes, yes I will. But it’s really not that important. Pizza Hut deliver just okay pie and your consumption of it won’t (really) change from this advertisement.

But don’t tell me those sneakers are “cool.” They are dumb and always will be.

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Everyone Freak Out: Ben & Jerry’s Is Giving Away Free Ice Cream In April

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Everyone Freak Out: Ben & Jerry’s Is Giving Away Free Ice Cream In April


Mark your calendars for April 4. It’s the day Ben & Jerry’s will be giving away free ice cream cones worldwide.

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Free Cone Day started back in 1979 when the little known ice cream shop decided to thank its Vermont community for helping them get through their first year of business. The tradition became international by 2000, and today, Ben & Jerry’s says they give away over a millions scoops of ice cream every year.

“We believe in having fun, and in thanking our fans with free ice cream for our anniversary every year,” said Ben & Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim. “Through the power of ice cream, we are able to form strong connections and create positive social change together. Free Cone Day is one way to show our fans how much we appreciate them.”

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Free cones are being given away between noon and 8 pm. You can find your local Scoop Shop on their website.

Now, instead of worrying about tax day, you can lose sleep over which flavor you’re going to chose.

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Many New York Patients Can’t Afford The Medical Marijuana They Need

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Many New York Patients Can’t Afford The Medical Marijuana They Need

For some New York patients who have found a cure or respite for their ills in marijuana, their hope has been tempered by the high costs of controlled version of the drug. Tashana Small, for example, told PIX11 she pays nearly $500 a month for medical marijuana for her 27-year-old daughter, who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy.

“Anyone with Lennox Gasault can have 50 to 100 seizures a day,” Small said. Drug after drug failed to relieve her daughter until she tried medical marijuana.

“This is something that’s given her more seizure control than any medication we have ever given her, ever,” Small said. “She’s never been seizure free. Never. Until she started taking medical marijuana.”

But the drug is prohibitively expensive for Small, who says she receives subsidies for other medications for her daughter but not for marijuana.

“It makes me feel very inadequate,” she said. “In 27 years, this is first time I’ve seen major difference in her condition. I just feel very inadequate.”

There is some reason for optimism. You can now have medical marijuana delivered in New York, which will save Small the six-hour round trip she makes to Queens to pick up her daughter’s prescription.

NFL Players Are Demanding Medical Marijuana As Alternative To Opioids

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NFL Players Are Demanding Medical Marijuana As Alternative To Opioids

Over half the nation has legalized marijuana for medicinal use — some legal states are even home to NFL teams — yet professional football players are still prohibited from using the herb for various health issues, including chronic pain. It is for this reason that the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) believes the league should start being more lenient with respect to the use of marijuana, in such a way that allows players to use it as an alternative to prescription painkillers without risking any disciplinary action.

NFLPA president Eric Winston recently told NBC Sports that he believes the time has come to loosen the restrictions on the use of marijuana in the NFL. He said mostly the league’s current policy does not keep players off pot – it only gives them an opportunity to clean up before officials bring down the hammer in the form of suspensions.

“What will we ever give up for marijuana?” Winston said. “We get tested once per year, 99 percent of them know it’s coming.”

Last month, the NFLPA said it was going to submit a proposal to the union board of player representatives, begging for a “less punitive” approach to the use of marijuana. The announcement came just months after the organization revealed it wanted to actively research the cannabis plant to determine its efficacy as an alternative to opioids.

“We are actively looking at the issue of pain management of our players. And studying marijuana as a substance under that context is the direction we are focused on,” George Atallah, NFLPA assistant executive director of external affairs, told the Washington Post.

On Wednesday, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith told USA Today Sports that he would like to see the NFL to approach the marijuana issue as a question of player health and safety.

“I think that there is a better way to evaluate players who test positive for marijuana,” Smith said, “to figure out whether or not they have just a recreational use issue, whether they have an addiction problem, but equally important, whether or not they’re using marijuana as a result of some other issue that we’re not even looking for – whether there is a depression issue, whether there is an anxiety issue. And currently, the way the system works, that evaluation, that therapeutic look at the player isn’t occurring.

“I believe if the players vote on it, it will be a policy that is in the best health and safety interest of the players, and we will treat it the same way that we treated changes in the collective bargaining agreement to make concussion protocols safer, practice on field safer, ways to ensure that players are treated the right way for injuries, and that’s our obligation as a union,” he added.

Later this month, the NFLPA will attempt to get a proposal in front of the league aimed at changing the rules with respect to marijuana. If the NFLPA can show evidence of the herb being an effective pain management tool, the NFL may have no other option but to embrace it for medicinal purposes.

“At the end of the day the owners have to decide what they want to do,” Winston said. “Do they want to make the game healthier for the players or not?”

Last year, an ESPN poll found that 71 percent of the players in the NFL believe marijuana should be made legal all across the nation. The survey also discovered that around 46 percent of the league’s players are likely using dangerous prescription narcotics on a daily basis.

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