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Armed with a $13 million and a new investor on the West Coast, Flix Brewhouse is finalizing plans to widen the national footprint for its combination microbrewery-movie theater complexes both in Texas and two more states. Watch out, Alamo Drafthouse.

Snap Kitchen is a company built around eating right, and eating well. But it's having to wrestle with some serious disruption in the retail space. After layoffs and store closures in 2017, the company is optimistic about what's in store for 2018 and beyond.

Tech employees at companies based in the Bay Area and Seattle are more likely to be cannabis users than the average American.

That's the conclusion of a survey done by Teamblind Inc., a San Francisco startup whose app Blind is a sort of anonymous online watercooler where corporate employees can exchange real-time feedback they otherwise might not be willing to share because of bureaucracy and office politics.

Teamblind asked more than 5,000 users of its app whether they had used cannabis in the…

The Legislature will decide whether to add regulations to the sale of full-strength beer when grocers and convenience stores can begin the practice on Jan. 1.

The idea started during a conversation between friends over coffee.

Now it's about to make waves — quite literally — in downtown Wichita.

Adam Hartke, co-owner of Barleycorn's and the director of events for Wichita Festivals Inc., said the idea for a new indoor/outdoor concert and event venue downtown was initially just a conversation between friends.

“I was talking to Alex Pemberton over coffee one day and I was telling him about my thought of having an outdoor venue,” Hartke says. “He…

California Musical Theatre, the Sacramento region's largest performing arts group, has changed its name to Broadway Sacramento to avoid confusion and more directly say what it does.

Since the 1950s, the theater company has staged Music Circus in its own theater in downtown Sacramento, and since the 1980s, it has also presented touring Broadway Sacramento shows at the Community Center Theater.

It will continue to put on both series of performances, but it was time to change the names, said CEO Richard…

The Outrigger-sponsored festival will kick off its 16th year next weekend with a roster of 20 restaurants, 16 retailers and new entertainment options.

The Berkeley branch of cannabis testing company EVIO Labs wouldn’t look out of place in any biotech or pharmaceutical company. Inside the laboratory workers swirl multi-colored test tubes and analyze samples in mass spectrometers.

At the lab, a range of products including flower, edibles and concentrates are subjected to a battery of tests to determine potency, and contamination by pesticides, solvents and harmful bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella.

“Since any adult in California can buy…