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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…

A number of Starbucks partners protested in Seattle yesterday, organizing against the company for their 2008 decision to remove sick day benefits for all of its US retail employees – save for those employed at Starbucks stores within the…

*Update: Tonx.org is now completely sold out of coffee. Follow @tonx on Twitter for the next round of availability. Breaking today, the first public offering is now shipping from Tonx.org, the work of longtime industry stalwart and “well known…

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 –…

Aaron Blanco of Brown Coffee Company removed the apology from his website yesterday and posted this on his company blog today: For a while Tuesday I considered closing the cafe for a day or a week to let this…

Actually, I found “Four Continent” coffee, Five, and even Six too. I think this burning topic needs to be addressed at next years SCAA Symposium. Whats a region? Whats a continent? Hell, Whats a Micro-region? How many regions are…

Earlier today we sent out an email to owner Aaron Blanco and published it here on Sprudge.com. A few moments ago, Aaron Blanco responded on The Brown Coffee Company’s official website: We at the Brown Coffee Company would like…

BREAKING: We’ve received a reliable tip this morning that a reputable Ethiopian-based “producer and developer of coffees of specific variety, locality and process” had an entire container – worth over $350,000 – of coffee stolen whilst in transit in…

June 24th, 2011: New York becomes the 6th state in the USA to allow same-sex couples the right to marry. At 11:55PM, Brown Coffee Company, a San Antonio-based coffee roaster with accounts across North America, posts this message to Twitter. RBC…

This came out back in March, but we’re just now getting the word on this coffee from Solberg & Hansen out of Norway: Inspired by the True Norwegian Black Metal culture and the expression “Black Coffee” Solberg & Hansen…

The staff at Sprudge.com Hayes Valley HQ is beyond enamored with the Handsome Coffee Roaster coffees that keep showing up to our door. It’s like Christmas on our doorstep, but with Mike Phillips instead of Santa. The green coffee…

Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea has historically taken part in the annual pride events in Chicago. Today they provided iced coffee as they marched down the parade. This year they launched a beautiful t-shirt to celebrate LGBT equality. Stephen Vick…

Here’s a fun regional blog worth your eyes today – “It’s A Great Day For Coffee”, a classy, unpretentious cafe guide for all things coffee in the Twin Cities. We’ve yet to take a coffee tour of Minneapolis and…