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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sales Agency First Slate International Debuts With Genre Features Including ‘Surviving Silence' & ‘Those Who Call'
EXCLUSIVE: Here's another new sales agency debuting in Cannes: First Slate International is on the Croisette with a slate of indie genre pics. The L.A.-based sales agency, which has been financed through private investment, will look to champion independent cinema, offering worldwide sales representation, development and packing support for films and TV programs. More from Deadline Mubi Acquires Kleber Mendonça Filho's Cannes Competition Title 'The Secret Agent' Wscripted Unveils 2025 Cannes Screenplay List Supporting Women & Non-Binary Writers Joachim Trier's 'Sentimental Value' Wows Cannes In Premiere, Gets Extraordinary 19-Minute Ovation The slate includes the likes of Surviving Silence, Peripheral and Those Who Call, along with Lifetime movie Tempted By Love. First Slate's founder is Jarrett Furst, a producer on VMI Worldwide's recent EFM action-comedy Special Ops Rent-A-Cop. He is CEO, with Brooklen Bruce as Chief Operating Officer, horror genre actress Devanny Pinn as Executive Vice President, and Ryan Ellis as Head of Legal Affairs. Supporting business development are industry collaborators Dave Weasel and Jared Cohn, with acquisition support from Greenlight Holdings LLC. International strategic consultation will come from Katisha Shaw at DTRM and Abi Anne Oliver leads social media strategy and digital engagement. 'After 15 years as a filmmaker, I started this company to truly support and fight for creators,' said Furst. 'I've been in their shoes – feeling overlooked by sales agents and distributors. These artists pour everything into their work, and they deserve a release that reflects that. We're here to make sure they get it.' Furst and his team have been in Cannes unveiling the inaugural slate and pressing the flesh with potential buyers as a partner of the Fantastic Pavilion. Best of Deadline Every 'The Voice' Winner Since Season 1, Including 9 Team Blake Champions Everything We Know About 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' So Far 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
San Francisco Chronicle
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Martinis are getting downright filthy in the Bay Area
The Filthy Martini at San Francisco bar Causwells is so full of olives it's practically a liquid tapenade. The house-made brine contains three kinds of olives. The vermouth includes both olive brine and an olive infusion. And the drink is garnished with an olive that, like a Russian doll, is stuffed with another olive that's stuffed with a third olive. 'We wanted to really lean on this olive thing,' said partner and beverage director Elmer Mejicanos. 'If we're going to make a dirty martini we're going to make it the dirtiest we can.' Mejicanos is one of many Bay Area bartenders finding creative ways to up the olive quotient in martinis lately. They're addressing a couple of different trends when doing so. The first is the all-consuming thirst that younger drinkers seem to have recently developed for the dirty martini, that classic concoction of spirit, vermouth and olive brine (the 'dirty' part). The second is more of a bartender-initiated push toward super savory, food-inspired cocktails. 'Trend-wise, it's felt recently like these swings have become really extreme,' said Nora Furst, one of three partners in cocktail consulting firm West Bev. 'We get really crazy into savory and then we get really into low and no (alcohol), and then we get really into high-proof bitter flavors,' Furst went on. 'And then we swing back and find some kind of middle ground where we can exist peacefully for a little while.' Furst's middle ground might be found in the Olive Leaf Martini her team developed for the Italian restaurant Corzetti off Union Square. It contains an olive leaf tincture made by her business partner Stephanie Gonnet, with olive leaves foraged from street trees in nearby Boeddeker Park. The tincture goes into the martini along with gin and two types of vermouth. Then the entire cocktail is 'olive oil-washed' — infused with olive oil that's later strained out through a freezing process, leaving behind a bit of flavor and a soft, unctuous texture. It's finally served ice cold with olives and a lemon twist. 'What we really wanted to do was to pay homage to the whole olive,' said Furst. Other bartenders like Scott Baird, who developed the menu for the top-floor Starlite in the Beacon Grand Hotel, olive oil wash individual components of the drink rather than the whole. His Dirty '90s Martini contains Grey Goose vodka washed with extra-virgin olive oil he called mild and buttery, and a mix of vermouth, sherry and brine. To keep things era-appropriate, the drink is shaken hard so that ice shards float on top, and it comes accompanied by a blue-cheese-stuffed olive on a bed of ice. Left Door, a Cow Hollow lounge in a former apartment upstairs from Bus Stop Saloon, is also highly committed to martinis. About half the menu is martini variations, including classics like the Vesper and Gibson. Their dirty version is made with vodka, a large portion of Castelvetrano olive brine, and an extra bump of seaweed-saline solution. They also offer an extra savory martini, with Belvedere 10 vodka washed with Meyer lemon olive oil, vermouth, fino sherry, and Hog Island Sea Salt solution. It's served with a caviar set-up on the side to help justify its $45 price tag. Apparently unsatisfied with the amount of olives, Left Door's bar manager Rachel Azhadi said they're working on another martini to go on a future menu made with an olive foam on top, plus an anchovy-infused vermouth made by local brand Veso. Veso, based on Treasure Island, is a common denominator in much of this recent martini revolution. Its olive vermouth contains Castelvetrano olives infused into the fortifying brandy, and the brine from those olives is mixed into the wine before bottling. It's used everywhere from Causwells' Filthy Martini to the Blind and Dirty cocktail at Menlo Park's Bar Loretta (created by Furst from West Bev) and the House Martini at Outerlands. There, Outerlands bar manager Andi Miller mixes it with Four Pillars Olive Leaf Gin, relieving her of the need to make infusions or olive oil wash anything for the drink. The gin is made with olive leaf tea and cold-pressed olive oil, among other Mediterranean-inspired botanicals. Meanwhile, the Anatolian martini at Dalida quadruples the olives, with your choice of Grecian gin or vodka washed with fresh olive oil; the vodka itself contains some olive distillate. That's mixed with Veso Olive Vermouth, another dry vermouth and what bar director Evan Williams describes as 'a whisper' of potent house olive brine featuring Aleppo pepper. The drink is then garnished with a house-marinated olive and a strip of lemon. But Causwells martini is still the filthiest of the bunch. The team also makes their own brine: Champagne vinegar, white balsamic vinegar, lemon peel, dry herbs and other ingredients are blended with pulverized Kalamata, manzanilla, and Castelvetrano olives. Then the brine is run through a centrifuge to clarify it. Unlike most dirty martinis that have a recognizable seawater haze, the Filthy Martini at Causwells is clear. Nobody would know your dirty secret, if not for the garnish. The drink is topped with Mejicanos' 'olive turducken,' which is a sliced Kalamata olive stuffed into a Castelvetrano olive, which in turn is stuffed into a manzanilla olive. 'We thought, what if an olive didn't have a pit and it was all flesh? ' Mejicanos mused. 'When you're eating an olive without a pit there's such an opportunity there to fill that hole with flavor.'
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Yahoo
Man charged with DWI in deadly downtown Kansas City motorcycle crash
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Jackson County Prosecutor's Office charged a New Jersey man with driving while intoxicated resulting in death in connection to a motorcycle crash in downtown Kansas City in October. According to court documents, on Oct. 6, Kansas City police were in the area of Truman Road and Grand Boulevard when they heard gunshots. A probable cause statement filed last Friday says that a man on a Honda motorcycle was shooting a gun outside of T-Mobile Center. The man shot a person standing on the sidewalk and shot at an Infiniti, according to court documents. The driver of the Infiniti, Joseph Furst, followed the motorcycle south on Grand Boulevard. Police started to chase both vehicles to stop them. At 22nd Street, Furst rear-ended the motorcycle, ejecting the driver and killing him, according to court documents. Furst stopped after the crash and cooperated with the police. According to documents, Furst told police that he and his wife had left Green Lady Lounge and heard what he thought were fireworks and his 'windows popping out.' He said he saw the man on the motorcycle throw a handgun and drive off. Hurst told DUI officers that he consumed several shots of alcohol but said he took them directly after the crash, according to the probable cause statement. The DUI officers said they could smell alcohol on Furst and that his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, his speech was slurred, and his balance was off. The officers conducted a field sobriety test, which revealed signs of impairment, according to the probable cause statement. Furst gave a blood sample, and his results returned with a BAC of .149. Furst's bond is currently set at $100,000. The court date has not been set at this time. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Reuters
05-02-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Braden Smith goes off for 31 points, lifts No. 7 Purdue over Iowa
February 5 - Braden Smith scored 31 points on 11-for-15 shooting and No. 7 Purdue held on for a 90-81 win over Iowa in a Big Ten Conference battle on Tuesday night in Iowa City, Iowa. Trey Kaufman-Renn added 25 points on 10-for-18 shooting for Purdue (18-5, 10-2 Big Ten), which won for the 10th time in its past 11 games. Caleb Furst finished with 10 points and nine rebounds, and C.J. Cox and Fletcher Loyer scored nine points apiece. Josh Dix scored 27 points on 10-for-16 shooting to lead Iowa (13-9, 4-7). Payton Sandfort scored 23 points, and Brock Harding chipped in 11 off the bench. The Hawkeyes finished with a 22-6 advantage in bench points. Purdue pulled ahead with an 11-2 run early in the second half. The score was tied at 41 when Smith and Loyer made back-to-back 3-pointers, and Smith finished the run with another 3-pointer to make it 52-43 in favor of the Boilermakers with 16:21 to go. Furst made a jump shot to give Purdue an 80-69 lead with 5:06 remaining. Iowa responded with an 8-0 run to cut its deficit to 80-77 with 2:42 left. Dix scored all eight points during the surge thanks to two jumpers and four free throws. The roller-coaster trend continued, as Purdue answered with a 7-0 run to increase its lead to 87-77 with 57 seconds to play. Kaufman-Renn scored five of the Boilermakers' seven points during the decisive run. The score was even at 36-all at the half. Iowa jumped out to a 10-3 lead in the first three minutes of the game. Sandfort finished the early rally with a 3-pointer and a layup on back-to-back possessions. Purdue relied on a 10-0 run to seize a 21-15 advantage with 10:33 to go in the first half. Gicarri Harris and Camden Heide each made a 3-pointer during the surge. Iowa grabbed a 36-31 lead on a 3-pointer by Drew Thelwell with 1:14 left before the break. The Boilermakers scored five straight points in the final 36 seconds of the period to pull even. Furst made a pair of free throws, and Smith added a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
