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Barista Orion Jenkins prepares a Brazilian blend coffee to go.  Photo by Benjamin Lozovsky

Become a CUP-aholic

As fast as the world turns these days, that first coffee in the morning can be a calm in the storm, an almost pious way to begin the day. For many people, our first interaction of the day is with a local barista.

Photo by Ashley Corbin-Teich

Co-Working at The Yard

The Yard is already the workday home for a number of local entrepreneurs, writers, graphic designs and start-up ventures including Wanderfly, a personalized travel recommendation site, as well as the music aggregator The Hype Machine.

Co-Op 87 co-owner Mike Catalano is something of a music maharishi. Photos by William Hereford

Co-Op 87 Putting a Good Spin on Vinyl

The sidewalk outside the entrance to Co-Op 87, covered with crates and boxes of $1 records, feels like your old college buddy’s apartment: stockpiles of stuff that live where it lands. But inside there’s a sense of cozy calm, like a warm library. That is, if libraries played loud post-punk albums.


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