A conversation with Seattle
The star of Can’t Buy Me Love is in town to see if he can buy a lifetime supply of lattés instead. Today, Dempsey is bidding in an auction of the now-bankrupt Tully’s Coffee Co. (“Big day tomorrow,” Dempsey tweeted last night. “Hope we can pull it off.”) Continue reading Patrick Dempsey Still Calling Our Ferries “Ferry Boats”
Bloomberg says an SBC kiosk “brews a fresh 12-or 16-ounce cup of java through a press in 1 minute,” and that they’ll offer seven different drinks, including hot chocolate, for $1 to $2. This is not that low-tech machine burbling in the corner of a dilapidated service station–the Seattle’s Best Coffee beans are ground to order. Continue reading Redbox Adds Coffee Kiosks to Boxbot Sector
It’s been three months since the first one, so that means it’s time for the second Starbucks/KEXP/Seattle Theatre Group Little Big Show at the Neptune this Friday night. The SunBreak has a pair of tickets to give away. Enter to win by Wednesday at 9pm PDT! Continue reading SunBreak Giveaway: The Second Little Big Show, This Time with Real Estate and Poor Moon
With Valentine’ Day coming up, Starbucks decided to partner up with KEXP and Seattle Theatre Group to draft their own love letter to the arts community in Seattle. So it is that next Thursday brings the inaugural Little Big Show to the Neptune, with all proceeds going to local non-profit Arts Corps, which provides young people with access to arts education. Continue reading SunBreak Giveaway: Starbucks Puts On a Little Big Show with Pickwick and Fly Moon Royalty
“More than 40 percent of U.S. coffee drinkers–or approximately 54 million customers–prefer a lighter roast coffee,” reads the release hand-out from this morning’s Starbucks (SBUX) announcement.
The lead-time on the introduction of Starbucks Blonde Roast puzzled a local TV reporter, since the product won’t hit Starbucks and grocery stores until January 2012. Continue reading Starbucks Admits Coffee Drinkers Prefer Blondes
App developer Jonathan Stark would like to buy you a cup of coffee. The only catch, perhaps, is that you have to be short of cash and thirsty, and yet also have a working smart phone. What Stark has done is create a screenshot of his Starbucks card app–interested parties are encouraged to download the picture onto their phone, and then “show” it to the Starbucks reader. Continue reading Socialized Coffee, One Smart Phone at a Time
Freelance Whales‘ song “Generator First Floor,” from their debut full-length Weathervanes, is featured in the new Starbucks espresso commercial now … Continue reading Freelance Whales in New Starbucks Ad