BREWED BEHAVIOUR
Lifestyle, Fitness, Health, and more.
No Single Cut Closes a Room
Employees Only will serve its last cocktails in West Hollywood on Sunday 27 September, after more than eight years at 7953 Santa Monica Boulevard. When the closure was announced over Labor Day weekend, no reason was given. Managing partner Tom Sopit has now given one, and it is the most quotable thing in hospitality this month precisely because it refuses to be a single thing. It was not one thing that killed the place, he told Eater LA. It was...
The Good Cafe Moved Out of Town
Forbes ran a property piece this week on six suburban houses around the world, and buried in the framing was a sentence doing far more work than the photographs. The old suburban bargain, it said, promised space and safety in exchange for the city's restaurants, late nights, cultural buzz and daily immediacy. These days that trade looks considerably less lopsided. The properties are the usual parade of things nobody reading this is buying. A...
The Average Recovered
Alexandria, Virginia can now say its office vacancy rate is 18.8 percent, down from 21.6 percent a year earlier, and better than Northern Virginia's 20.1 percent. That is a real sentence, it is accurate, and it will appear in every economic development deck the city produces for the next twelve months. Here is the other real sentence from the same report. Over the first half of 2026 Alexandria posted negative net absorption of 160,400 square...
Keep the Ritual, Change the Cup
Cochrane published an updated review of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, pooling 80 randomised controlled trials and 29,861 participants, nine of those trials new to this update. It is a living review, meaning it gets revised as evidence arrives, and this version carries Cochrane's top grade of high-certainty evidence on its central finding. People given nicotine e-cigarettes were about 61 percent more likely to still be off...
Own the Van, Not the Bottle
C&C Group agreed on Friday to acquire Asahi UK's wholesale interests, including Nectar Imports and Asahi UK's direct distribution business, for nominal consideration. The shares closed up 13.45 percent at 101.2p, adding roughly £44 million of equity value against a market capitalisation of about £373 million. Nominal consideration. Effectively, the assets changed hands for a token, and the buyer's market value went up by more than forty...