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A weekend in pictures…

(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 […]

Washington, D.C., it fits me to a T…

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 […]

Hibernation over!

The team here at Barista Mag is hard at work putting the final pretty touches on our February/March issue—we have a lot of treats in store for you! But one thing we’re REALLY excited about when it comes to February/March is how many regional barista competitions are taking place during those two months. Can you […]

Report from Coffee Fest Seattle

My mom just sent me an email chiding me and Ken for not blogging throughout Coffee Fest Seattle. You know, because we hardly have anything to do besides blog while we’re there. A-hem. We apologize for not blogging while we were away, but it was a 1000-mile-an-hour weekend from start (Thursday, November 8, when we […]

Heading North

Ken is packing the car so we can leave in about half an hour for Seattle. We’ll get there and set up our booth before we hunt down friends we haven’t seen for a while like these two

and

(well, not my mom, but Rhiana, Kyle’s girlfriend)
and this hippie

Coffee Fest Seattle is our biggest show of the […]

Getting excited…

Loads of people took me up on my offer for free passes to Coffee Fest Seattle — I’ve probably mailed between 40 and 50 passes out so far! It makes me so excited for the show, which I think is the best retailer show in the country because it’s cheap, it’s in a great location, […]

Meet Leah

I’ve talked about Leah a lot lately — in my letter from the editor in the August/September issue of Barista Magazine, and here on the blog — but I wanted those of you who don’t already know her to put a face with the name, so here she is, Leah Soenke Ruona, Barista Mag’s new […]

Want to go to Coffee Fest Seattle fer free?

We have a stack of free passes, so let me know if you want one, and I’ll mail it to ya. I love Coffee Fest Seattle — it’s such a great show for small coffee retailers, and this year it will be even better because both the Northwest Regional Barista Competition AND the new and […]