A showdown in India over coffee is creating new opportunities. It is also demonstrating how the country is changing, with rising incomes in some places and great disparities in others. Finding the right place to...
"Introduction For much of the last 50 years, since the modern fashion industry developed, cities like New York, Paris, London, and Milan have all been centers of new trends, fashions, and brands that have...
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Paris has been known as the refuge for real and wannabe artists over time, be it jazz musicians, poets, painters, writers and others.Isobel Scott covers some New Cafés Littéraires for Globespotters.Amongst them Tea and Tattered Pages "with its second hand English books from...
Remember when Starbucks was considered innovative and actually kind of cool? There was a time in the 90s, believe it or not, when coffee culture was just getting its footing and a quirky little shop from Seattle...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2116 views | 22 recommendations | 13 comments
A new law passed today by the Netherlands is threatening coffee shop owners, devestating cigarette smokers, and increasing the potency of marijuana joints, all in one fell legislative swoop."Dutch coffee shops,...
created by julianw | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 421 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
No, seriously. Apparently the only way to beat the new Netherlands smoking ban is by puffing on pure cannabis. Hey, it wasn't my idea."In July, the Dutch government will introduce a nationwide smoking ban in bars,...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 693 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
"USA Today reported today that Starbucks will be offering a free WiFi service for it’s US customers. As part of their ‘Rewards’, a program a loyalty card which gives customers various free or...
created by 98dmalcolm | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 748 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
T-Mobile USA is suing Starbucks, accusing the coffee behemoth of a breach of contract by allowing AT&T to provide customers with free Wi-Fi access in its cafes.In a complaint filed Thursday in New York State...
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A judge has given some Starbucks baristas an extraordinary tip of his own"A court in California awarded baristas at Starbucks cafes in California $105 million on Thursday, ruling that the company had wrongly...
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is returning to the company in an attempt to restore the premium coffee chain to its former glory.Since flooding the North American market with more than 10,000 of its cafes,...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 756 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
Cigarettes, Jazz Musicians, Writers, Movies, France, throw all these elements in a blender and you might still find a whiff of sexiness attached to smoking in my native land. With À la recherche de la cigarette interdite ('In search of the forbidden cigarette', French...
Forget about their pathway to nukes....we should be way more worried about their joining China in the 'destroy web access' club. Bastards."ranian police have closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee...
created by Leonard Brody | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1342 views | 29 recommendations | 10 comments
""It is a very beautiful night for Paris because of sports and the art of White Night," Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe told AFP as he attended a concert in the city's 13th arrondissement.
Crowds of people, many with their faces painted in the French tricolour, took advantage of...
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J.K. Rowling's neighbour says his wife spotted the Harry Potter author in an Edinburgh cafe writing a crime detective novel, of all things. Although the report which appeared on the Sunday Times has not been...
created by Victoria Revay | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 730 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
"England is now by law a smoke-free zone after the introduction of a smoking ban making it illegal to light up in enclosed public places came into force today.Virtually all enclosed public places are now...
created by infomatique | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 745 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments