Category Archives: Coffee Culture
Apocalyptic farce/cappucino
Imagination is seizing power!
The muse sat on my shoulder
Got a lot of work done on art dealer profile of Julie Saul on this one Stumptown cappuccino.
Pourover, Stumptown, single origin
It’s finally come to my local corner coffee bar: the pourover.
This contraption, courtesy of Drew, the local coffee meister, was welded out of copper pipes. Does the trick.
Pretentious, or worth waiting for? Some of those African coffees can be pretty volatile on the tongue, bouncing all around. That said, I’m willing to wait until the [...]
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Daylight F*cking Savings Time
In honor of the fact that my double espresso of Intelligentsia Coffee is still not working (WHY, oh why must America have more daylight??) I am going to tell you about March, art, and how busy I’ve been.
Read four of my reviews in Art in America this month—pick whatever keeps you most awake: Don Dudley [...]
Intelligent(sia) spotted in Carroll Gardens
We interrupt all this musing on the nature of representation in the visual arts (blah blah blah) to make an important Coffee Culture announcement:
Intelligentsia Coffee is now being served on Henry Street, at Naidre’s former location. I was so stunned, I didn’t even bother to note the new ownership’s name.
Though served in an over-large cup [...]
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Uh Oh, I did it again
Three times will make a trend. And, while adding my sugar to the not-as-good-as-last-time brew, I actually heard a patron saying wistfully, as they left the chain, “American Runs on Dunkin’.”
Aaagh. Scary.
that said, zero hipsters. zero laptops. just the gentle non-snow falling in front of the funeral parlor. On to CVS, where I could increase [...]
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