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10 coffee shops with bring-your-own-mug discounts
Maybe we can cut down on these a bit. Sure, there are lots of things that could save you money or time by making coffee at home — your handheld electric grinders or the decidedly non eco-friendly k-cup...
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How to get a loogie in your latte, aka 10 ways to piss off your barista
Scary latte photo courtesy of Examiner.com. Since quitting my museum job a month ago and starting a job at a coffee shop, my life has simplified considerably. No more getting screamed at by crowds of...
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Starbucks gets into the holiday spirit with a buy one, get one free deal
Just don’t overdo it. via Pop Culture Playpen Good news everyone! Today, and through Sunday, each day between 2pm and 5pm, Starbucks has instituted a buy one, get one free policy for their holiday...
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Happy Tax Day! Here are a few freebies to help deal with paying up
No free stuff for these guys! Well, kids, April 15th is almost done! Or, at the very least, it’s very nearly a reasonable time to crack open that bottle of Jim Beam you bought with what little money...
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Now hiring: Neighborhood coffee shop
They’re heeeeere… via The Onion There’s nothing like your neighborhood coffee shop. Even though they all exist to do the same thing, which is to pump legally acceptable speed into your brain, each one...
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Mind chains: Corporate chains using Williamsburg as giant psy-ops campaign
You ever get the feeling…you’re being watched? via Facebook You probably would never have guessed Williamsburg is a stomping ground for the Illuminati, but the bro-heavy neighborhood has taken a turn...
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Williamsburg Starbucks liquor license deemed ‘not in the public interest’ by...
We can’t imagine why Ever since the first Williamsburg Starbucks opened, people have been wondering when there was gonna be a second Williamsburg Starbucks. Keeping to the Illuminati plot to watch...
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Brooklyn has five times as many Dunkin’ Donuts as Starbucks
The just blend right in. via Flickr user Lou Bueno When it comes to chain stores causing us agita, people seem most inclined to freak out when a Starbucks opens in their previously Starbucks-free...
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Prospect-Lefferts Gardens landlord tells Starbucks to go screw
Not coming soon to Prospect-Lefferts Gardens It’s the same old story you read about again and again: local business in “up and coming” neighborhood closes after a rent battle, landlord looks for...
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Starbucks to open in Ridgewood, close in on Bushwick on both fronts
Ridgewood has some lovely views Last year, we all freaked out when Starbucks sprouted in Disneywo Williamsburg. A lot of cafes and circuses and Trash Bars have making the dusty, Steinbeckian, journey...
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Williamsburg’s The West offering coffee discounts if you throw away Starbucks...
It provides artful photography, but these empty coffee cups belong in the trash. via Flickr user Paul Kelly When the first Starbucks in Williamsburg appeared, plenty of people grumlbed about trash...
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Brooklyn has spoken: No one wants to get drunk at a Starbucks
Via @starbucksnorth7th on Instagram. It’s hack to get upset about Starbucks these days since the omnipresent, if not eternally boring, chain has become such a part of the background of NYC, like many...
View ArticlePDA PSA: Where not to make out in Brooklyn
Cuffing season is over. Spring is in the air. Pheromones are fully excreting. Don’t look now, but your libido is showing, and it’s unsettling for the general public. Look, I get it. That liberating...
View ArticleBed-Stuy is getting its first Starbucks
You'd think saying, "There goes the neighborhood" would get old, but it feels relevant every goddamn time. Bed-Stuy, home to Biggie (the man and the mural), home to Do The Right Thing, home to a great...
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