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Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
A&W Root Beer: Which Came First The Soda Or The Restaurant?
Forget the whole debacle of whether the chicken or the egg came first; there's a real-world conundrum that fits the same bill. Nowadays, the A&W brand has spread far and wide, with approximately 460 restaurant locations in the United States alone as of 2024. But of course, it was not always this way, because A&W's humble origins date all the way back to 1919. A&W has some pretty stellar root beer, even placing high on Chowhound's ranking of popular root beer brands. And as it turns out, this soda with the misleading name has been a foundational piece of A&W's history since the very beginning. That's right, before A&W became a restaurant in any capacity, principal founder Roy W. Allen made some coin with a simple stand selling what would become his signature root beer. Fast forward over a century, and A&W has become a full-force fast food brand, but its root beer remains one of its standout products. So, whether you're enjoying a meal at A&W or simply grabbing a can of its signature soda to enjoy in a bourbon root beer float, you can thank the brand's root beer for its early success, allowing you to enjoy it today. Read more: 11 Ginger Ale Brands, Ranked From Worst To Best How A&W Grew Beyond The Root Beer Stand Roy Allen might have started this particular venture with little more than a root beer cart in Lodi, California, but it wouldn't take long before he brought his entrepreneurial know-how to this humble locale. Since Allen was originally a hotelier, it's no surprise that he brought a philosophy of expansion and growth to his fledgling root beer business too. After finding some success with his root beer operation, Allen partnered with Frank Wright, the "W" to Allen's "A" in 1922, and the two began selling root beer at stands throughout parts of California. From here, A&W continued to grow into the fast food mainstay that it is today. Even in 1925, after Allen had bought out Wright's shares of their company, A&W was selling locations to franchisees. However, in 1950, things really took off, with about 450 A&W locations serving their goods. In 1956, the first A&W outside of the United States opened, and international growth only expanded from there. Now, a little over 100 years later, A&W is so much more than its root beer, but so much of its brand is still tied to its origin — like its adorable mascot the "Rooty the Great Root Bear" and even a record for the largest root beer float back in 1999 in celebration of A&W's 80th anniversary. And considering how much success it's had thanks to its root beer, you really can't blame A&W for leaning into its most iconic product. Read the original article on Chowhound. Solve the daily Crossword
Business Upturn
11-07-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
ASHTON WOODS USA L.L.C. ANNOUNCES ANNUAL RESULTS CONFERENCE CALL
By GlobeNewswire Published on July 11, 2025, 15:06 IST ALPHARETTA, GA, July 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ashton Woods USA L.L.C. (the 'Company') announced today that the Company's Annual Report for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2025 (the 'Annual Report') is expected to be posted on the Company's website on or before Thursday, July 17, 2025. The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, July 17, 2025, at 11:00 AM EDT for the purpose of discussing the Annual Report and the Company's operating results for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2025. Please use the following call-in number if you plan to dial in to our annual investor conference call: Call-in Number: (800) 267-6316 (203) 518-9783 Conference ID: AWHQ425 There will be an operator who will ask for your name and company name. Please call in a few minutes early, if possible, to give the operator time to get everyone logged in. A replay of the call will be posted on the Company's website by Monday, July 21, 2025, and will be available for 31 days. The Company's quarterly and other reports can be obtained on the Company's website at or by contacting [email protected]. ABOUT ASHTON WOODS / STARLIGHT HOMES: Ashton Woods is the largest private home builder in the United States according to Home Builder Executive. The company was recently named Builder of the Year by Builder magazine and was recognized in 2025 by Newsweek as a Most Trustworthy Company in America. Ashton Woods markets its homes through its two award-winning brands, Ashton Woods Homes and Starlight Homes. The Ashton Woods brand is known for designing thoughtfully curated, inspired homes for people who love design. The company's industry-leading experience at the AW Studio and curation of distinct AW Collections® results in exceptional design and special designer touches in every Ashton Woods home. The Starlight Homes brand builds homes specifically for the first-time homebuyer, offering affordable homes with well-executed designs and quality finishes for buyers looking to make the dream of home ownership a reality. The company's commitment to innovation and continually evolving to meet the needs of the market is a key reason it is one of the most celebrated homebuilders in the nation, winning hundreds of national and local industry awards in product design, community design, architecture, merchandising, sales, marketing, customer service and innovation. ### Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash GlobeNewswire provides press release distribution services globally, with substantial operations in North America and Europe.
Sinar Daily
16-06-2025
- Sinar Daily
PLKN 3.0 absentees under scrutiny, may face legal action
Deputy Defence Minister Adly Zahari said a report on this matter will be presented to the ministry soon for further action, as attendance for selected individuals in the second series is mandatory. 16 Jun 2025 05:38pm A trainee under the PLKN 3.0 Series 2/2025 using an M16 rifle under the supervision of instructors from the Malaysian Army and the Royal Malaysian Air Force during a light weapons shooting training session at the First Battalion Royal Malay Regiment Firing Range, Sungai Besi Camp, on June 14, 2025. - Photo by Bernama MELAKA - The National Service Training Department (JLKN) is currently assessing and reviewing the reasons given by candidates who did not turn up for the National Service Training Programme (PLKN) 3.0 Series 2 of 2025, which kicked off on May 11. Deputy Defence Minister Adly Zahari said a report on this matter will be presented to the ministry soon for further action, as attendance for selected individuals in the second series is mandatory. "Yes, there are indeed several (individuals) who did not show up, and at present, we are receiving and reviewing all the reports in detail regarding their reasons for absence. "JLKN will present the findings to the Ministry of Defence soon. Essentially, this process is to raise awareness that once selected, it is mandatory for them to register, and we have provisions under the law to act on this," he told a press conference after officiating the Pingat Jasa Malaysia (PJM) award ceremony at the Melaka International Trade Centre (MITC), Ayer Keroh here today. Trainees under the PLKN 3.0 Series 2/2025 undergo a light weapons shooting session at the First Battalion Royal Malay Regiment Firing Range, Sungai Besi Camp, on June 14, 2025. - Photo by Bernama He said a review of the reasons is currently underway, as trainees' attendance is governed by Section 18(1) of the National Service Training Act 2003 (Act 628) and that selected individuals who failed to attend without a valid excuse may face legal consequences, including a fine of up to RM3,000, imprisonment for a maximum of six months, or both. It was previously reported that 344 PLKN 3.0, Series 2/2025 trainees had reported for 45 days of training between May 11 and June 24. Out of this number, 206 male trainees and 138 female trainees reported at Rejimen 505 (AW) Camp, Force 136 Camp in Pekan, Pahang, and Rejimen 515 (AW) Camp, Jalan Buku Lima, Kuala Lumpur. "So far, the main reasons for trainee absences that we have received are related to health, employment, and furthering studies. We are trying to improve related aspects to ensure 100 per cent attendance for every session of the programme," he said. At the ceremony earlier, 1,000 veterans from the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF), along with widows and heirs of veterans from Melaka and Negeri Sembilan, were presented with the PJM. The award honours the bravery and sacrifice of military personnel in fulfilling their duties to the nation. As of March, 48,346 MAF veterans who met the requirements have received the PJM. The award has been coordinated by the MAF's Department of Veterans Affairs since March 2004. - BERNAMA
Black America Web
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Gallery: Halle Berry Is The Moment At Cannes – And She's Playing By Her Own Fashion Rules
Source: Lionel Hahn / Getty Halle Berry is bringing the heat to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival – and we are here for the style smoke. Halle Berry Serves In Monochromatic Maroon At Cannes Turning heads in a jaw-dropping maroon corset Gaurav Gupta couture gown on May 19, the actress reminded everyone why she's an icon, a legend, and the moment. With its sculpted bodice, soft draping, and thigh-high slit, this dress oozed grown-woman elegance and unapologetic beauty. The couture moment is from Gaurav Gupta's AW 2024 collection. She paired the look with matching satin pumps and ruby drop earrings, giving timeless Hollywood glam with a contemporary twist. Maroon monochromatic never looked so good. (She is the literal embodiment of ' aging like fine wine .') Source: Andreas Rentz / Getty This fit isn't the only one we've loved from Halle at this year's film festival , though . A judge at the 2025 festivities, Halle has been flexing her style versatility all festival long. Our favorite Catwoman has been doing it all with confidence, power, and a touch of rule-breaking flair. Yes, even under Cannes' newly tightened dress code. (According to PEOPLE , this year's festival organizers rolled out stricter fashion rules, banning nudity, over-the-top trains, and even sneakers. Attendees are asked to wear in ' elegant ' shoes, floor-length gowns, and modest silhouettes.) But leave it to Halle to slay and make her own rules. From shimmering in a dazzling rhinestone halter gown that hugged every curve, to stepping out in a bold, vertical-striped black-and-white gown that felt effortlessly chic, Halle has consistently served the girls. Her structured pastel Chanel suit showed sophistication with a playful touch, proving you don't need a gown to make a major impact. Meanwhile, her classic black dress and striking emerald necklace combo screamed quintessential glamour girl. Gallery: Halle Berry Brings Timeless Style, Sexiness, & Elegance To Cannes What we love most about Halle's Cannes style, is her boldness. The 58-year-old continues to show the girls that age is just a number. Age is not a deadline for style, confidence, or sexiness. With her new wellness company focusing on intimacy, menopause awareness, and self-love, this fashion streak feels right. (And its so good). RELATED: Social Media Can't Stop Talking About Halle Berry's Lingerie Dress – See Why Halle Berry at Cannes 2025 is a whole mood—and we're absolutely here for it. The event runs through May 24, and if these first few looks are any indication Halle Berry isn't done bringing the heat. See our gallery of looks below. Gallery: Halle Berry Is The Moment At Cannes – And She's Playing By Her Own Fashion Rules was originally published on Source:Getty Halle Berry sparkled in a glittery floor-length neckline dress from Gucci. With its body-hugging fit, halter-style neckline, crystal detailing, and slight sheer illusion, the dress is simply picture perfect. And, Halle's bawdy looks amazing! Source:Getty Halle Berry showed fans the versatility of the classic suit in this ridiculously good whimsical suit from Chanel. From its pastel colors and wide leg design to its cropped blazer and black bow details, her fit was everything we love about professional looks with a touch of feminity and fun. Source:Getty Halle Berry made a bold statement in what can only be described as a 'pink cloud.' The actress posed on the Cannes carpet to celebrate Mission Impossible in a stunning dress from Celia Kritharioti SS25 Couture. Her strapless black corset paired with an oversized pink ruffled skirt nearly defied Cannes' train ban—but she made it fashion! And we loved it. Halle topped off her look in black Aquazzura shoes. Source:Getty Halle Berry attended the 2025 opening dinner during of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 13. For the soiree, she chose a black-and-white exaggerated A-line gown with vertical stripes that slim the bodgy and a high neck that was daring yet playful. And the back, sis, was everything! The back features an oversized draped bow detail. Source:Getty One of Halle's first looks to the Cannes Film Festival was a classic skirt suit from Chanel. The look oozed timeless elegance and sophistication with its pleated details, grey color, and black and silver buttons. Halle kept her makeup and hair look minimal for a clean, fresh, yet, rich look. Source:Getty Halle Berry exuded old Hollywood glam at the Chopard event in this ruched black off-the-shoulder gown. The figure-hugging silhouette and dramatic neckline were elevated with a bold emerald and diamond statement necklace. Her soft curls and glowing makeup completed the timeless look. Source:Getty Halle Berry stunned at Cannes in a blush-toned strapless Elie Saab SS25 Couture gown featuring a structured bodice and a thigh-high slit. She accessorized with sparkling diamond jewelry and crystal-embellished heels for a glamorous finish. A sleek bob and bronzy glam tied the whole look together. Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
The Independent
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
A24: The best of the cult studio's films ranked, from Moonlight to Lady Bird
There are few companies across the entire entertainment industry that evoke more brand loyalty than A24. Over the past decade, the hip distributor has taken the world of film fanatics by storm, releasing a host of the most acclaimed indie films in recent memory, among them Aftersun, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Midsommar, The Zone of Interest and Ti West's X trilogy. While the phrase 'an A24 film' has almost become a term with a specific set of stylistic connotations, the fact is that the company has released a multitude of different films, spanning all sorts of styles and genres. From coming-of-age comedies to sweeping period epics, here are the 15 best A24 movies ranked... 15. Climax (2018) A great workout playlist disguised as a grimy, slimy psychosexual thriller, Gaspar Noé's Climax plays out in a series of long takes (one is 42 minutes long), with a troupe of French dancers spiralling out of control after imbibing spiked sangria. Like the best of Noé's films (among them the 'stoner in film class' fave Enter the Void and the distressing Irreversible), Climax is practically designed to be divisive, and its striking mix of horror, psychedelia and pure aesthetic razzle-dazzle make it peak A24. Adam White 14. Under the Silver Lake (2018) Another divisive A24 cult classic, Under the Silver Lake tends to inspire groans as often as it does praise – and that's really OK! Filmmaker David Robert Mitchell seemed to be given creative carte blanche after the success of his 2014 micro-budget horror It Follows, and voila: a chaotic, romantic neo-noir conspiracy tale that wears its inspirations, notably Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye, on its sleeve, tosses in a great fake-band song ('Turning Teeth' by the fictional Jesus & The Brides of Dracula), and boasts an irresistibly committed performance by Andrew Garfield as an aimless Los Angeleno investigating his neighbour's disappearance. What a weird, wondrous pleasure. AW 13. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth was the first answer to the decades-old hypothetical, 'What would a Coen film be like if Joel and Ethan separated?' (The second answer was, Ethan's 2024 romp Drive-Away Dolls.) This Macbeth is a pretty compelling answer, and remains one of the best, and most cinematic, Shakespeare adaptations put to screen. Denzel Washington is magnificent as the scheming king-to-be, while Frances McDormand sizzles as his poisonous paramour. Louis Chilton 12. Eighth Grade (2018) Heartbreakingly honest when it comes to coming-of-age, Eighth Grade is anything but easy viewing. We follow young Kayla (a revelatory Elsie Fisher) as she transitions between years in school, her fears and anxieties rising to the surface while she desperately attempts to mask them. The specificities here – vlogging, iPhones, the internet – feel decidedly of the 2010s, but there's a universal melancholy to Eighth Grade that will strike a chord with audiences of any age. Shamefully, director Bo Burnham – a graduate of internet comedy – has yet to make his follow-up feature. AW 11. The Brutalist (2024) Brady Corbet's architecture epic was a frontrunner for many of the major 2025 Academy Awards, and will partially be remembered as the film that birthed the most interminable Best Actor speech of all time (Adrien Brody's). Thankfully, The Brutalist is sure to be remembered for other things too: it's a film of staggering ambition, rich in meaning and audaciously stylish. It's one of the best films A24 has released, and one of the best films in recent memory. LC 10. Janet Planet (2023) While A24 has certainly increased its commercial aspirations in the last year or two (most notably via films including Alex Garland's Civil War and indistinct horror comedies such as Death of a Unicorn and Opus), they are also a company still eager to make films like Annie Baker's tender, intimate Janet Planet. Zoe Ziegler is the quiet 11-year-old of the title, a girl trapped in a cycle of odd father figures and endless existential yearning courtesy of her mother (a spellbinding Julianne Nicholson). AW 9. Lady Bird (2017) Greta Gerwig's debut feature as a solo director is a charming and specific coming-of-age story following 17-year-old Sacramento misfit Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson (Saoirse Ronan). It's by turns funny, moving, world-wise, and wonderfully shot, with Laurie Metcalf turning in career-best work as Lady Bird's combative mother. This is the movie that really put Gerwig on the map as a filmmaker; it's no less than she deserved. LC 8. High Life (2018) High Life is an utterly unique sci-fi drama from French maestra Claire Denis. Robert Pattinson plays a prisoner on board a spaceship bound for a black hole, alongside Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and Andre 3000. Some clunky, stylised dialogue only heightens the weirdness of this film, which is all things to all people: vibrant, tactile, philosophical, sexually perverse and even, at times, quite moving. LC 7. Hereditary (2018) Much like Robert Eggers's A24 folktale The Witch – which just missed a spot on this ranking – Hereditary felt like the birth of an incredibly special horror visionary. Ari Aster's haunting and genuinely scary feature debut revolves around a fractured family (led by Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne) seemingly cursed by ancient evil. The film travels to ghoulish places consistently, notably in a shock end-of-act-one plot twist involving a telephone pole that entirely upends where you think Hereditary is going. AW 6. 20th Century Women (2016) Mike Mills's 2016 drama is a warm hug of a film, bursting with such lived-in feeling that it wouldn't be too surprising if you burst into tears repeatedly while watching it. Annette Bening is the free-spirited yet overbearing, wise yet drifting single mother determined to raise her young son right at the tail end of the Seventies, and roping in friends and lovers to help her. AW 5. Under the Skin (2013) Jonathan Glazer boggles the mind. The British director has made just four films – each of them a masterpiece and each entirely distinct from what's come before. Under the Skin is an arthouse horror starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien who assumes the appearance of, well, Scarlett Johansson in order to lure randy Scottish men into some kind of lair. It's a completely singular piece of work, endlessly inventive and both emotionally and philosophically profound. LC 4. American Honey (2016) British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank; Red Road) turned her attention to US poverty with American Honey, a vivacious and poignant film about love on the road. Then-newcomer Sasha Lane is utterly transfixing as Star, a teenager who flees her home to join a band of travelling magazine hustlers. (Shia LaBeouf, as her rough-and-tumble love interest, gives an unexpectedly brilliant performance too.) There is life in every crevice of this film: a total triumph. LC 3. Moonlight (2016) It's still remarkable that Moonlight, from a then-unknown director named Barry Jenkins and a nascent film studio with only so much awards campaign money to their name, won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2017. But it's deserving of its acclaim in every frame, this being a richly human triptych of tales in the coming of age of a gay Black man from childhood to adulthood. Sensationally acted and absolutely gorgeous to look at, it's deservedly something of a modern classic at this point. AW 2. I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow revolves around two teenage loners drawn together by an alluring fantasy series – a Buffy -like Nineties horror hit – and finding their own lives mirroring its strange, surrealist twists. Primarily, though, it's about growing up trans, and the trauma of ultimately living a life that doesn't fit right. This is dazzling, beguiling filmmaking, Schoenbrun conjuring a dream-like suburban fantasia full of purple neon, moon men and Caroline Polacheck wailing on the soundtrack. Glorious. AW 1. Uncut Gems (2019) A film with tension so thick that you'd need a machete to cut through it, Josh and Benny Safdie's Uncut Gems is the story of Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a New York diamond dealer consumed by his chaotic gambling addiction. It's brilliant and transformative work from Sandler, in service of one of the funniest, tensest, and altogether best films the 21st century has yet produced. LC
