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  AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER FOR CAFÉ SOCIETY  July 3, 2009 PDT
 

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image Coffehouse Builds A New Way To Rule The Road
By John A. Rippo


image 8-Year Old Selected For SD Youth Symphony

image New Condom Campaigns for '09 Runs From Merely Tasteless to Truly Bizarre
By David Laszlo


image Cafe Futo's Goulash Kicks Off New Tactic for Coffeehouses Facing Tough Times
By John A. Rippo


image As Starbucks Loses, Indies Gain
By John A. Rippo


image Texas Death Row Inmate Gives His Body to Art—and Fish
By David Laslo


image Truth Was First Casualty in South Ossetia
By John A. Rippo


image Last Landing At The Corner of North Park and Hell

Listening to Happy Ron will make you Terribly Happy
Local songman's CD is a must have!


Even as murderers go, Mark Elder was An Uncommonly Vile Bastard
27-year old Janet Moore was stabbed to death in her crummy East Village apartment in 1988. It took 18 years to bring her killer, Mark Elder, to justice. Ex-cop Tom Basinski's new book, Cross Country Evil, recounts the long, ugly saga of Elder's life of rape and murder and his eventual conviction for a shocking and brutal crime.  


Issues in Theatre
Of Shakes, Mold, Shell Games and Off-Stage Wars



Heard in the Houses

Blonde at Calabria can't speak Italian...Twiggs Biscuits...Freak at GV...Whiffy at Living Room...Circumsized at Bassam's?


I Dine Alone




Mistress of Rhetoric Presents...

Controlling your preoccupation...with control


News Notes




Shenanigans

Focusing on the task at hand ? it's the secret to success, if?

We the People Need a Bailout, Too
Franklin Roosevelt thought that the people were an asset, not a liability.


Gay Marriage meets the 14th Amendment
History echoes the dark excesses of the Jim Crow South. It's a civil rights issue, not a religious one.


We Want Answers Mr Aguirre
Jacob Faust was shot to death by SDPD Officers Keaton and Holliday on April 4, after a traffic stop downtown. The cops allege that Faust, 25, reached for what was later described as a fake gun and this resulted in his death.


 
Better Coffee in Des Moines? New Book is Eye-Opening Artisan’s Guide
CONQUERING THE ORDINARY: Michael Turback shows imagination, taste and creativity of baristi who make outstanding coffee concoctions unlike anything here.  It’s a swift kick for complacent café caretakers who think the status quo is A-OK. 


 

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