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July 29th, 2007
Posted by Alex Payson at 1:49 pm
We are proud to announce the opening of our first retail store!
You can find us at 300 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02906, or call us at (401) 383-8393.
Stop in for some freshly baked goodies from 7 Stars Bakery, and of course our great coffee and espresso drinks.
We also have free WI-FI, so look us up next time you swing through Providence!
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July 19th, 2007
Posted by Alex Payson at 6:25 pm
We have been a little quiet as of late on our blog, due to the high level of activity required in setting up our first retail store.
We should be open in just over a week at 300 Thayer Street in Providence, RI!
We will let you know as soon as we are officially open, in the meantime here is an interior shot of our close-to-finished shop (note the beautiful La Marzocco espresso machine!)
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July 10th, 2007
Posted by Alex Payson at 6:22 pm
I think the title really says it all.
Those of you who are familiar with the Darwin Awards may have heard of something similar a few years ago when someone flew their lawn chair into the flight path of LAX, evidently it still holds an appeal to some…
Kent Couch decided to go flying last weekend. In his lawn chair.
Read the article here.
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July 10th, 2007
Posted by Bridie at 12:05 pm
Just got back from an incredible trip to Greece, and besides feeling generally recharged (wish Americans could embrace the concept of siestas!), it was fascinating to walk through the ancient agora in Athens and think for a moment about what it must have been like to participate in politics back then. How revolutionary this concept of giving citizens a direct vote on every issue and piece of legislation must have been. (Of course, their definition of “citizenship” would have excluded me and many… but for the time, it was revolutionarily inclusive).
Can we even imagine that level of civic involvement? Of course, direct democracy could never work on our massive scale, but I found it inspiring to think that voters were that involved in and impassioned about their own governance.
Sure puts our voter turnout to shame.
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July 6th, 2007
Posted by Drew at 1:06 pm
Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts will take place tomorrow, 7/7/07. Live Earth is a “24-hour, 7-continent concert series” that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
Live Earth will stage official concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London; Aussie Stadium in Sydney; Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; the Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg; Makuhari Messe in Tokyo; the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai; and HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg.
You can watch the Live Earth concerts live at www.LiveEarth.MSN.com.
Visit the project’s official website to learn more.
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July 4th, 2007
Posted by Drew at 5:42 pm
Happy Independence Day, from all of us at Blue State Coffee. On this day, 231 years ago, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, promising to all Americans “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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July 1st, 2007
Posted by Drew at 2:58 pm
This is the most any Democratic candidate has ever raised in a quarter. Anyone who says the senator is “unelectable” has just been proven wrong, I think.
However, according to the six most recent polls, he still trails Hillary by at least 10% for the Democratic nomination. Hillary’s campaign expects to have raised about $27 million this quarter.
Both Hillary and Obama are beating Giuliani, the Republican front-runner, by several percentage points.
Read more analysis of Obama’s fundraising success here.
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