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Scottish Sun
13-05-2025
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Award-winning UK brewery to shut with immediate effect after 9 years as owner admits ‘it's a heartbreaking outcome'
Owners are looking for someone else to take over the site LAST ORDERS Award-winning UK brewery to shut with immediate effect after 9 years as owner admits 'it's a heartbreaking outcome' A SUCCESSFUL brewery is being forced to close down in a "heart-breaking outcome" for its owners and customers. Lacuna Brewery in Penryn, Cornwall has been an award-winning beer provider after it started in 2021. 1 Lacuna Brewing Co, is located on the Kernick Industrial Estate in Penryn Credit: Instagram/lacunabrewingco It is co-owned by couple Tristan Hobbs, the head brewer, and his partner Ben Orhan who is from Majorca. However, Ben has been unable to obtain a visa to join his partner in the UK, meaning they have to close the business. This is despite Lacuna Brewery seeing growth and increasing success. Ben told The Packet: 'Needless to say, it's a heart-breaking outcome to so many years hard work and dedication. 'We would like to thank all the amazing local businesses that have supported us over the years. "Their championing of quality local beer has been incredible, along with their awareness in the importance of supporting small, local and independent businesses." He added: "The community that has developed has been heart-warming, and we will miss our many new friends." While the business is set to close, the brewery will remain for sale in-situ until the end of July. The current owners are therefore hoping some else will take on Lacuna, or at least their company's equipment. Ben said: 'It's a high-quality set-up in a fantastic location, and we believe it could be an exciting opportunity for a local team." Oldest brewery in America set to close after 127 years is saved despite 'declining sales' – as new owner revealed The couple met whilst working a previous job in London, often bonding over their love of beer. In an announcement posted to Facebook about the closure, Lacuna Brewing Co wrote: "Things change and sadly our head brewer is going to be moving back to Mallorca to be with his partner. "This has created a fantastic opportunity for a new team to step in and take Lacuna forward in their own direction," urging people potentially interested to come forward. It added: "While we work on these details we will continue to deliver our fantastic beers to all our lovely customers." Closure of Lacuna Brewey comes after a number of other independent taprooms have been forced to shut down around the UK this year. One of those is High Hill Tap in London, which had to close due to a four-year long dispute with the council in March. Last year, the Italian owners of ORA Brewing also had to close down their business due to financial challenges.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ariana Grande's new short film includes movie references to 'X-Men' and 'Minority Report.' Here's every detail you may have missed.
Ariana Grande released the deluxe version of her album "Eternal Sunshine" on Friday. The release was paired with a short film co-directed by Grande and Christian Breslauer. The short film features a string of movie references and an explicit shout-out to Steven Spielberg. Ariana Grande released "Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead" on Friday, an extended version of her Grammy-nominated seventh studio album. Grande has described "Eternal Sunshine" as a concept album, drawing liberally from Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." The 2004 sci-fi film stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as ill-matched lovers who decide to erase their memories of each other, arguably dooming themselves to a never-ending loop of heartbreak. The deluxe edition's arrival was paired with a short film, co-directed by Grande and Christian Breslauer, who previously helmed the visual for "Yes, And?" Much like the album itself, "Brighter Days Ahead" is thematically and aesthetically influenced by Gondry's cult classic — as well as other significant moments in cinema. Keep reading for the key references and details we found. Grande's character is called Peaches, a reference to Winslet's character in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Grande's fans first met Peaches in the music video for "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)," which premiered last March. The character's fruity name is a clear nod to Clementine, the impulsive yet lovable heroine from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," who is portrayed by Winslet. "We Can't Be Friends" shows Peaches arriving at Brighter Days, Inc. for a futuristic memory-erasure procedure. (In Gondry's film, the clinic is called Lacuna, Inc., a word that means "a blank space or a missing part," according to Merriam-Webster.) Grande's new short film picks up 70 years after the events of "We Can't Be Friends." "Now, she finds herself once again in the waiting room of Brighter Days Inc., but this time for a very different appointment," the video's description reads. "The company now offers advanced memory restoration, allowing her to revisit a curated selection of moments from her life — both cherished and painful." In the opening scene, we can see that Grande's signature hand tattoos have become faded and blotchy with time. Peaches uses a machine to revisit four past memories, which play out like a series of mini music videos. The short film features six songs from "Eternal Sunshine." "Intro (End of the World)," "Eternal Sunshine," and "Supernatural" were all included on the album's standard edition, while "Dandelion," "Twilight Zone," and "Hampstead" are deluxe tracks. The memory machine bears an uncanny resemblance to Cerebro from the "X-Men" franchise. Cerebro is a supercomputer that amplifies the telepathic powers of Professor Charles Xavier, played by Patrick Stewart in the original "X-Men" trilogy. Perhaps Grande is lobbying for a role in the newly expanded MCU? The machine's design also evokes Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi film "Minority Report." The futuristic action flick "Minority Report" stars Tom Cruise as Chief John Anderton. His police department, Precrime, is tasked with analyzing psychic premonitions, which they use to catch would-be killers before they commit premeditated murders. The memory machine depicted in Grande's short film resembles the technology in "Minority Report," especially the spheres where Peaches' memories are stored. The "Brighter Days Ahead" credits seem to confirm this parallel; they include a line that reads "Additional Thanks to Universal Studios, Steven Spielberg," the director of "Minority Report." Even before her Oscar-nominated turn as Glinda in "Wicked," Grande was no stranger to referencing movies in her work. She previously included nods to "Catwoman" in "The Boy Is Mine" (2024) and "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" in "34+35" (2020). Most famously, Grande's 2018 "Thank U, Next" video paid homage to a handful of female-led rom-coms: "Mean Girls," "Legally Blonde," "13 Going on 30," and "Bring It On." When she performed the hit song on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" with cowriters Victoria Monét and Tayla Parx, they reenacted the iconic final scene from "The First Wives Club." Grande used a similar looping machine for a live performance of "Positions." Following the release of "Positions" in 2020, Grande collaborated with Vevo to produce a series of live performances of songs from the album. To kick off her performance of the title track, Grande used a looping machine to stack her vocals and harmonies — almost identical to the one she uses in "Brighter Days Ahead" to perform the "Eternal Sunshine" title track. "That was one of the first instruments she had as a child, and she would loop her vocals to make songs up," Vevo exec Ed Walker told Business Insider. "She told us this story on set, about how it was crazy because she hadn't used one of those loopers in like, 10 years. She got one in the studio and she just used it and then she was like, 'Right, we're starting the song with this.' It took her back to being in her bedroom." Grande has also said she "fell in love" with using looping machines after watching Imogen Heap perform at a young age. Grande's real dad, Ed Butera, plays a Frankenstein-like version of her dad in the film. The final segment of the short film is a black-and-white music video for "Hampstead," the final track on the deluxe album. Grande's dad, Ed Butera, plays a doctor who literally stitches his daughter's body back together. He finds her still-beating heart in a tavern and her brain in a pile of junk, echoing the song's lyrics: "I left my heart at a pub in Hampstead / And I misplaced my mind in a good way." In the end, the doctor is able to resurrect his daughter by playing a song for her on his piano. Read the original article on Business Insider
