• A two-alarm fire gutted Glenview restaurant Matty’s Wayside Inn on Wednesday. [FireGeezer]
• A barista and trainer at Metropolis Coffee was killed when her bike slipped under a truck. [Gapers Block]
• Despite the current craze for raising backyard chickens, chicken-rearing is no cake walk. [NYT]
• Wild game is big on London menus right now. [WSJ]
• The makers of Monster energy drink have dropped their lawsuit against a craft brewery that produces a beer called Vermonster. [NYP]
Earlier: Wrong People Suing Over Vermonster Beer