Yesterday we were hanging out at the Stumptown Coffee at 12th & Madison-ish when this guy circulates around the cafe, telling people that there's a coffee cupping at 3pm. It'd been almost a year since our last cupping at Victrola, so we perked up and headed downstairs for the show. Stumptown does cuppings (i.e., coffee tastings) daily at 3pm at its 12th Ave location; Victrola, every Wednesday at 11am at its Pike St branch. In......

We were just about to lean into a nice Sunday morning, working on our NaNoWriMo effort, when we opened the New York Times Web site just to see if any disaster had befallen us overnight that may take precedence over our literary venture. What we saw, buried toward the end of the day's headlines, was this: "Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Is Dead." We gasped, choked, looked around the empty basement of Stumptown......

Over the weekend, we made three trips to the new Stumptown Coffee on 12th Ave (next to Cafe Presse). We're not actually coffee geeks, it just worked out that way. (These people are coffee geeks.) We're more of a cafe geek. If you aren't familiar, Stumptown Coffee is based in Portland, and this is their big move into the Seattle market. (Edmonds' ZuKafe claims to have been their first Puget Sound wholesale account.) Here's Seattle......

Yes, it's the return of Stalk of the Town where Seattlest lets you in on our weekend plans. Got something going on we should know about? Drop a note in the comments. Seth's watching Saturday's Husky night game with the usual suspects, but at a new place: Teddy's on Roosevelt. After some Friday night theater, MvB is off to see what's the deal with the new Stumptown Coffee on 12th Ave. Dan's going to The......

As if you don't know, this weekend was the Northwest Regional Barista Competition, presented by the Specialty Coffee Association of America, and hosted by Hines Public Market Coffee and Stumptown Coffee Roasters. Seattlest was there, live, reporting away like a real reporter, just without the expense account. (Actually we had to leave to go find a hotspot. But we typed part of this post live and it was thrilling. We were standing *that* close......