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This just arrived in our inbox. For Immediate Release: Brandworkers Contact: press (at) brandworkers.org Nov. 30, 2010 Brandworkers and Martin Garbus Pledge Vigorous Defense of Gorilla Coffee Workers New York, NY- Legendary First Amendment litigator Martin Garbus and noted…

Sprudge.com Lead Writer Jordan Michelman recently spent a long weekend in Portland. These are his notes, bites, sips and jokes from the City of Roses. This is not a coffee crawl. Formal coffee crawl write ups of Portland, and…

Or at least he’s the worst boyfriend since the last loser you used to date. This is the saddest news out of Hartford since the Whalers left: Matthew McClusky, 43, of Troutbrook Drive was charged with third-degree assault on…

This is very sad. Screech, Zach, A.C. Slater and Kelly Kapowski unavailable for comment. Finishing up a week ago, [Principal] McSwain has thrown out nearly all the books and filled the space they were unnecessarily taking up with couches…

From the city of Barry Bonds, steroid scandals and gaudy eco knick knack “shoppes”, our Good Food Award coverage continues today with an insider GFA email disqualifying a number of coffees due to the use of “pesticides, herbicides” and…

A very happy Thanksgiving indeed for us today, and we hope for you as well. This year we’re thankful for many a thing – so thankful, in fact, that our year-end list making has begun in earnest, leading up…

First LaGuardia, now JFK. We’ve written in the past about the World Bean program at LaGuardia Airport Delta Terminal, and we’ll there to see things for ourselves in 2 weeks, but in the meantime check out Oliver Strand’s coverage…

A glorious man-made victory has been won by the proletariat! Coffee Stakhanovites, grind workers of the world, you whose shots and rivets are the lifeblood of International Communism, now is the moment of your glorious achievement! A gift for…

From the Wilco Store: This past Fall, some members of the band dropped by our neighbors Intelligentsia’s Cupping Lab to select their favorite coffee. The unanimous selection is the Single Origin, Organic Ethiopia Sidama Homecho Waeno. This coffee comes…

In a recent post, we mentioned the rising popularity of caffeine energy drinks and declining popularity of coffee with Gen-Twitter. What’s even more popular? Alcoholic energy drinks. The feds recently intervened when 9 teenaged Central Washington “University” students blacked…

$8. From Sweet Maria’s: We had a lot of fun with last year’s calendar – so we have a new one for 2011.  There’s a new crop of great dog photos, and  a few photos of other  creatures from…

In our hearts, the Minneapolis neighborhood of Uptown is Prince’s candy-colored cornucopia Paisley Park of freedom, self-expression, and ice cool multi-ethnic omnisexual synth funk. It’s a place where you can “set your mind free”, and where the perogative, be…

OUR FRIENDS TROT THE GLOBE SO WE DON’T HAVE TO! *The Brazil Cup of excellence jury process (jury process?) is underway. From Andrew Barnett: “Congratulations to the 36 farms selected for the second round of the Brazil Cup of…

Brilliant! Megababe and caps lock GENTLEMAN Tim Styles is the hunky brains behind Tropical Saloon, perhaps the interweb’s most fabulous new blog . If you don’t subscribe to it on your RSS reader do yourself a favor and jump…

Nick Cho will be reviving the infamous Portafilter Podcast in 2011! Here’s an official statement from Nick Cho: Dear Sprudge readers, The Portafilter.net Podcast was born the summer of 2005. After 75 shows spanning over 100 total hours, the…

Old news but great outfit, and meme-tastic for today. Aimee Kick from Missouri’s fabulous filter prom dress! Check out more pics at Fashion Police. Aimee Kick from Missouri, US, spent a month creating this dress, which is made completely from coffee filters, for…