Yesterday, Barista Magazine’s editor, Sarah, was contacted by the Guardian and asked to write an opinion piece on today’s Starbucks closure for employee training. If you want to check it out, here it is: Coffee clash
(I.e., Sarah will save her stories about Coffee Fest Washington D.C. for the April/May issue of Barista Mag)
Thank mercy for Clover in the morning…
Nick and Heather co-MCing? Michelle looks nervous…
Nick and his murkies did a bang-up job with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Barista Competition, securing some of the coolest trophies in the history of FOREVER, an […]
Thanks to one of the bestest bands ever, Magnetic Fields, I had the song “Washington, D.C.” (from the record, 69 Love Songs, Volume 2) spinning in my head for all of last weekend, as we traipsed around Coffee Fest D.C., the Millrock Latte Art Championship, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Barista Competition. (Thanks, Stephin Merritt!)
The weekend […]
Last week, the editor of the Sunday Op-Ed section of Newsday contacted Sarah and asked her to write an editorial on the recent shakeup at Starbucks — you know, when Howard Schultz replaced Jim Donald as Starbucks’ CEO with hopes of returning the company to its original mission (and no, that actually doesn’t mean taking […]
Oh, how I would love to be reporting that Barista Magazine bought the Portland Trailblazers from Paul Allen, especially after the Blazers edged the Bulls last night in double overtime 115-109.
But our real news is pretty killer, too: Beginning today, Barista Magazine will be available in its entirety online. Now, nothing has changed here — […]
I always knew I wanted to be a writer, ever since I won a contest for my story, “Rebecca The Little Field Mouse” when I was six and was presented with an award at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, Calif. (along with, I didn’t know til I got there, about 25 other kids). So I studied […]
Well here we are the year 2008! Unbelievable. So many things happened for specialty coffee and for Barista Magazine in 2007, and we can’t wait to see what the new year has in store.
When we went to the Nordic Barista Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden, the theme was the future café. Surprisingly, the future did not […]
Well, it’s been a big week here in Portland, the mighty Portland Trail Blazers have won six games in a row! The first time that’s happened since 2002. Here’s Brandon Roy, 2007 Rookie of the Year and Washington Husky, scoring two of his 29 points last night.
And now for news that bridges the two: […]
We always like to think we’ll get to slow down and breathe in December, given Coffee Fest Seattle is behind us and we don’t have another coffee event to travel to until January. But for some reason, it never works out that way. Not that we’re complaining however: the coffee stuff we’ve got planned for […]
I just came across this amazing article in The Economist about our pals at The Coffee Equipment Company and their baby genius, the Clover 1s.
Ken and I have been pals with the folks at Clover since the get-go. The whole crew came to our wedding a few weeks ago (except Anastasia, who was at the […]
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