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Shares Vegan chain By CHLOE will rebrand as Beatnic following a lengthy legal battle over its name. The new Beatnic chain will maintain a fully vegan menu but the branding will transition with a new Beat Generation-inspired logo, packaging, and messaging, scheduled to be completed by September 2021. The chain’s new name is inspired by the flagship location of By CHLOE, which opened in 2015 in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City—known as a Beatnik hangout in the 1960s.  “There has been a magic to this concept since the first day on Bleecker Street,” Greg Golkin, Managi...

Evening Standard/Getty Images Facts and Bob Dylan have always made for strange companions. Though he achieved worldwide fame as “The Voice of a Generation”—a young man celebrated for his honesty as he sang of both the hard truths of social injustices as well as his own personal romantic anguish—he did so as Bob Dylan, not as Robert Zimmerman, the name he was born with and went by growing up in Minnesota. Even today, more than 50 years after he first began kicking around the Greenwich Village club scene, Dylan remains an elusive figure who has at times been accused of making career cho...