Business Buzz The gizmo retail chain is going out of business, so you’re going to have to find another store whose merchandise mysteriously seems to have remained unchanged since 1989. Never has there been a better time to buy pointless garbage that resemble props from the set of Flight of the Navigator.
Food Buzz But only for three hours. All American locations were shut down temporarily so that employees could, in the words of one mocking headline, “learn how to make coffee.” Hopefully, anti-Starbucks crusader Reverend Billy enjoyed his brief respite from battling the tyranny of burnt-tasting java and pleasing adult-contemporary sounds. But he’ll have to regroup to fight the chain’s sinister “phase two of operation.”