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The grand paucity of Mainstream Media specialty coffee coverage just got a bit more precious: Melissa Allison’s “Coffee City” blog has shut its digital doors at the Seattle Times. From Mel Al’s last post: And that’s the last bit…

From eastern side of Washington State, the South of the Northwest, we bring you this sad tale of incongruous disappointment, transient frustration, and car-bumper jumping. Ahh, the Tri-Cities… where Blue Collar America meets Frasier Crane (to give him a…

The following is an entirely true story taking place in, around and underneath Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the back patio of Roberta’s (a Borough unto itself). 10:15 AM on the Q train from Flatbush (Parkside Station) to Union Square, and all around…

Welcome to “Yelp, I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Shut Up”, a new weekly series on Sprudge.com where we’ll call on our readers to send us the best, worst, dumbest, most hilariously amazing Yelp reviews from around the world! A…

Everyone at the office decided it was best to not run a holiday buying guide this year. Why? Because the only things you should be giving your coffee loving special someone is a Dogs of Coffee calendar, a nice…

Jordan is in New York! There’s more where this came from over the next few days on Sprudge.com! Off the G line train at the Greenpoint station, past blocks of Polish bakeries and “Pyza” joints, across the wide-lane hustle…

The views expressed in this editorial are not those of Sprudge.com or its subsidiaries. Your Sprudge.com editorial team would like to take this chance to implore the Whole Foods Corporation: please do not ban us from your stores. Your…

Last week we ran a leaked email from the founder of the Good Food Awards. The Good Food Awards are proud to celebrate the 22 Finalist coffees that stood out amongst 161 peers in the first annual Good Food…

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…

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…

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…

Back again from the brink of tragedy! This very special, long-overdue installment of our Asprological Sprudgoscopes concludes your celestial readings of the grounds for 2010. Sit back, enjoy, don’t get mad if we’re mean to you, and we’ll see…

CoffeeFest has come and gone, and we’re recovering to the best our abilities – this means working on Sprudge while driving from Seattle to San Francisco. With that in mind, we’re proud to bring you this edition of Sprudge.com…

In the wake of Seattle CoffeeFest 2010, we’ve got some latte art shenanigans to drop a little ink on… First up is the Millrock Latte Art Competition at the CoffeeFest skybridge. Sponsored by some fine folks, including Barista Magazine…

Day one of Seattle CoffeeFest is behind us. We rocked the Hario booth, we took a lot of notes, and Gabi Campanario (Seattle Times / UrbanSketchers.com) created the greatest illustration of us known to man. The whole thing was…