Birch, a listening lounge serving cocktails and rotisserie chicken, is being opened in Norwich by the team behind Brick, Tallow and Yard.

Today in Music History for Jan. 21: In 1891, Calixa Lavallee, the composer of ``O Canada,'' died from tubercular laryngitis at his home in Boston. He was 48. In 1902, ``The Ode to Newfoundland'' was ...