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SoHo, Manhattan: Really, you’re just kind of wandering down the street. There’s an informality of motion one can bluster with in New York, this kind of hip-swinging bipedal who-cares strut that occurs for most of us only when there…

Breaking via the BGA Blogspot, more than a year’s worth of hard work made possible by a joint effort between the BGA Executive Council and the Specialty Coffee Association of America: BGA members now have the opportunity to purchase…

Located in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, the newly opened Astro Coffee has leaped to the top of our list of must-visit new shops in 2011. Currently featuring offerings from Ritual, Intelligentsia and Sightglass Coffee Roasters, with samples from Handsome Coffee…

The tabloids are plotzing themselves over this story, in which UK Prime Minister failed to tip an irate Italian barista. From SkyNews (emphasis ours): Francesca Ariani, 27, failed to recognise the most powerful man in Britain when he walked…

America’s Thursday Night Throwdown scene just got a little more company. Late last night saw the official launch of TNT NYC, a Borough-spanning monthly series of barista events for charity, prizes and glory. Here’s the first two dates: August…

You’ve heard of “planking”, and its meta-lame little cousin, “owling”. Well…there’s a disgusting new barista trend sweeping the nation, sort of like the “Goatse” of latte art. All it needs is a name… Truly…

Over the past few days, Sprudge.com has joined Counter Culture Coffee and La Marzocco USA for the East Coast debut of the Strada EP. Here’s a few notes from the first and second leg of La Marzocco Strada EP…

Our hearts go out to our friends in…

BREAKING: The Barista Guild of America announced today that NWRBC 2012 will be held on September 23, 2011. That means baristas have only two months to find coffees, train, and prepare their routines. It also means they’ll have to…

Opening August 4th at the Cafe Grumpy location in Park Slope, a new art show from sketch artist Steven Weinberg and writer Casey Scieszka, authors of the love story / travelogue / graphic novel “To Timbuktu”. The New York-based…

What could be better than the July 28th #YesEqual event at RBC NYC? How about a simultaneous event at Espresso Parts, in Olympia, Washington! Dream no further, friends: All proceeds from your $5 buy-in will be matched by Espresso…

If you work in coffee, you probably have an ever-growing collection of awesome coffee mugs. But this new collection from Stumptown Coffee and Brooklyn-based artist Wes Lang may very well take your collection’s collective cake. We’re a little late…

Bikini barista stands, going viral across the USA? A 9 month investigation into “illegal activities” at three “Java Juggs” stands in Edmonds, Washington have been featured prominently by the Huffington Post and AOL newswires. In case you were wondering,…

Breaking first via Marginally Yours, then picked up by Mission Mission and SFist.com, there’s a swirl of controversy surrounding a recent short-lived art show at Ritual Coffee’s Mission District location. The art show in question involves photographs that seem…

Carrie Brownstein, of Sleater-Kinney / “Portlandia” fame, was spotted this morning at The Red E cafe in North Portland, filming a video for her new band Wild Flag. The Red E serves coffees from Intelligentsia, Coava, and Heart –…