| 1. WOODSTOCK 50 LOSES VENUE: Woodstock 50 lost its New York site, the Watkins Glen motor racing venue, on Monday. The development is the latest woe for the Woodstock anniversary event, which also lost its investor earlier this year. Organizers say they are looking for a new location for the festival, which is slated to take place August 16-19 with performers including Jay-Z and Miley Cyrus. Reuters: “On Monday, Watkins Glen said in a statement it had ‘terminated the site license for Woodstock pursuant to provisions of the contract. As such, (it) will not be hosting the Woodstock 50 Festival,’ the site owners said in a statement. Watkins Glen did not say why it had decided to pull out. Gregory Peck, one of the organizers of Woodstock 50, said the team behind the festival was ‘in discussions with another venue’ to host the event and looked ‘forward to sharing the new location when tickets go on sale in the coming weeks.’ … Tickets for the festival, expected to attract about 60,000 people, have not gone on sale.” 2. SOHO IS A HUB FOR WELLNESS POP-UPS: New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood is a hub for, well, trends—and the latest is an endless amount of wellness pop-ups. These range from matcha cafés CBD stores to high-end health food and product retailers. Big-name brands have also used wellness spaces in the neighborhood to hold their own events. The New York Times: “Buffy, which makes comforters out of recycled plastic bottles and eucalyptus plants, had a ‘physical touch-point’ called Soft-Space at 150 Wooster Street (where, last year, a penthouse sold for $32.6 million) during the 2018 holiday season. According to a news release for the company, inspiration came from Buckminster Fuller and the hippie modernist movement of the 1960s and ’70s. Clean Market, a store on 54th Street and Second Avenue that sells natural beauty products and services like vitamin IV drips, has a pop-up in NoLIta at Project by Equinox on Mulberry Street. … Large companies have used wellness businesses as destinations for their own events. OtterBox introduced its Otter & Pop phone cases to press at Chillhouse, a café, nail salon and massage studio on the neighboring Lower East Side. Landlords are enthusiastic about wellness-related tenants, according to Paul Wexler, the head of Wexler Healthcare Properties at the Corcoran Group.” 3. TONY AWARD RATINGS HIT FIVE-YEAR LOW: The ratings for CBS’ telecast of the 73rd Tony Awards on Sunday fell to a five-year low, despite a lively ceremony hosted by James Corden. The ratings for the theater awards show fell below six million viewers. Variety: “For comparison, that’s down 20 percent on last year’s 1.0 rating and 13 percent on 2018’s viewership figure of 6.3 million. Last time Corden hosted in 2016, the show notched a 1.6 rating and 8.7 million viewers. In both 2017 and 2015, the CBS-broadcast award show averaged a 0.9 rating in the same demographic. … The award show’s ratings were also likely hampered by the season 4 finale of Billions on Showtime and the season 2 opener of Big Little Lies on HBO, which both aired Sunday night.” | 