Good week for:

National service, after a U.K. finance firm estimated that the nation’s hospitality sector can recoup its pandemic losses if every citizen of legal drinking age performs “the basic duty of every British adult” and consumes 124 pints of beer this summer.

Newark, N.J., which was named one of the top 10 barbecue cities in the U.S. by an Australian food blog that did not include any city in Georgia, Mississippi, or Texas.

Ill-gotten gains, with the news that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was paid $5.12 million for American Crisis, his memoir about the pandemic. The book stopped selling amid allegations that Cuomo sexually harassed female underlings, hid nursing-home deaths, and used staff on the state payroll for work on the book.