First, tomorrow today (Thursday, July 28th) there’s an amazing event happening in New York. RBC NYC (71 Worth Street) will be hosting the #YesEqual Manual Brewdown – you can learn all about it here. All proceeds from the event go to benefit Equality Texas, and there’s an amazing group of coffee companies sponsoring the event, including Counter Culture Coffee,  MadCap, Ritual, Barismo, and Coava. This event is sponsored by Sprudge.com, and 1/2 of of us will be in attendance to write down funny things you say and drink beer with you. Event starts at 7:15!

Second, tomorrow today (Thursday, July 28th) there’s an #YesEqually amazing event happening in Olympia, Washington. Espresso Parts (600 4th Avenue East) is hosting an epic Thursday Night Throwdown, with all proceeds to benefit Stonewall Youth, an Olympia-based organization that promotes equality and provides a myriad of youth resources. This event is graciously sponsored by Espresso Parts, Batdorf and Bronson, Victrola, Dillanos, and Sunshine Dairy. Event sign-up starts at 6:30PM!

We’re beyond thrilled to be sponsoring and supporting these events, and we thank you all in advance for getting out there in person and making your voice heard. We are all #YesEqual, and we love you all.

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1. What they’re drinking in videos like this (and the one we posted last week on the late-50s London coffee scene) would almost certainly be considered brackish slime water by today’s high standards.

2. Coffee house culture – the folk music, the style, the suburban leftist post-pubescent political pattycake, the cigarettes, the haircuts – used to be much, much, much cooler.

Back in the 1960s, the scene in Racine, Wisconsin was happenin’, man, with no fewer than three basement shops: The Pit, The Ship’s Wheel, and The Provincial Club. Meanwhile, at Brandeis University, the American Mocha is .20 cents, the Espresso Mocha is .25 cents, and “if you consider yourself swingin’, you just have to go to the coffee house.” Right on? Right on.

“There’s really something unique and inspiring about a coffee house…”

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Video sourced by Alex Bernson and Espwesso Wesleyan

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