This is good news. I spent a summer in a small city in Spain and, believe it or not, the place in which you could get your coffee in the morning was also the bar in which you could socialize late into the night. The only bars that did not have food all the time (tapas) and a big espresso machine were in the center of the tourist zone. The dank, dark, smelly, American-style bar full of drunks and desperate people muttering into their beer needs to be replaced with the bar as all-day social center. Let's leave getting blotto to the northern Europeans.

And, Anchorage needs a kid-friendly soccer bar-restaurant in the center of town, bad.