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Apocalyptic farce/cappucino

Imagination is seizing power!
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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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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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Coffee Culture (Wars?) illy vs. my hometown sandwichboard…

A scary thought: could Dunkin’ Donuts and I have the same birthday? (No, I’m not 60). Or, at least, the same birthday month? Driven to distraction by a forest of sandwich-sign blackboards announcing coffee shop deals on the sidewalk (in colorful chalk), courtesy of the plethora of Yuppified Gourmet Coffee Spots, I had to duck into [...]
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