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Where to buy a pound of coffee?
- rworange Nov 30, 2011 09:55 AM
My favorite and nearest coffee joint is having some issues as the owner just had a baby and the staff is loopy alone. Can't even get a hold of the owner about the situation.
So I need coffee. Don't want Peets, Ritual or Coles unless there is some decent recent roast/bean that would be worth exploring. Blue Bottle under no circumstances unless they will finally grind the beans.
Any roast/bean is fine. My tastes seem to be changed and ruined after a year in Guatemala drinking instant coffee. As God is my witness I will never drink Nescafe again.
Anyway, I'm interested in particular roasts rather than just beoing pointed to a shop. I guess I'm leaning toward Flying Goat type undetermined, but if there is anything new and great out there, I'd be interested ... or any old reliable ... anything ... that sample of TJ's gingerbread coffee was tasting good ... save me.
I dont remember where you are in the North Bay but if you're near Sonoma my husband who is coffee drinker in our house and is fussy loves The Barking Dog - just opposite Mission Inn or also beside Whole Foods in Sonoma. They roast their own beans so you could always check with them what days they roast too
re: sonomajom
I have had mixed results with Barking Dog. Could you recommend one type that is good. I might be in Sonoma this weekend, but don't want to throw money at a guess. Seriously, BD has been so uneven that I don't even want to buy a cup to check out if it is something I like. IIRC, they do a holiday roast. Has your husband tried that? If not, maybe sure, I'll throw a few bucks at the holiday roast to give it a test drive.
re: rworange
Barking Dog makes great coffee. I would not say they have mixed results. Your experience might be due to date of roast. They roast on certain days. The roasting facility is at Barking Dog in Boyes Springs California...a few miles from the marketplace shop. The marketplace shop is under new management but still carries barking dog roasts.
For best beans go direct to barking dog. If you like darker roasts I recommend a blend of french roast and black lab. A 50/50 is always good.
Barking dog makes fine coffee. I think it's pretty darn good. The Italian style roast is the best if you like darker full bodied stuff.
Check out Church Street Grocerteria. They work with a local coffee distributor to create their own blends. They are all excellent but the Rocket Fuel is the best and the one that smells oh-so-good. They sell out frequently and usually have to order more. I think their custom-filled bags are a bit fresher but they do have pre-sealed 1-pounders in the store as well. Nice guys there.
Update.. forgot to add the link: http://g.co/maps/sx7xu
re: billraymond
Cool. Thanks. I'm going to be in SF this week. Rocket Fuel sounds like it might be what I'm looking for. At one time a strong brew was my choice, but it seems lating I like milder coffees equally,.
re: rworange
Great and FYI my brain is not firing too well today (maybe need some caffiene :-) but I just looked in the cabinet and it's Jet Fuel. You would likely have figured that out though. Enjoy!
re: ernie in berkeley
Do you have any you like and buy regularily.
I'm not looking for recs about where to buy coffee, but specific types of brews people like to drink.
For examle, I detest the atmosphere of Cole's on my one visit there. Didn't think much of whatever cup of coffee it was. However, maybe there is something actually good there that I missed.
One of my favorite coffees is Graffeo Dark Roast, but suprisingly a recent purchase left me underwhelmed. However, I never bought it at the San Rafael store before and maybe I need to get it in SF
BTW, the Starbucks Christmas blend is beyond god awful ... unless the inspiration is the coal in Santa's stocking. The Anniversary blens was actually good, but not so good that I'd buy a pound of the beans. Just so no one misunderstands ... I'm not a Starbucks fan. However very early in the morning it is usually that or McDonald's.
re: rworange
My taste in coffee isn't very nuanced, so I'm happy with the 3-pound bags of Guatemalan beans at Costco, about $12 as I recall. No grinder there, I think.
re: ernie in berkeley
Costco has DIY grinders.
re: ernie in berkeley
I'm a major league snob, but we are using Costco in the office and I rather like it. I'm beyond shocked.
re: bbulkow
I get the SF Bay brand French Roast and EVERYONE loves it. I serve it to guests and they have no idea I'm spending only about $5.50/lb and at Costco to boot.
I have tried 'most all the artisanal brands and always come back to this. I especially hate waiting in line at the farmers' market for Blue Bottle--something I have to do sometimes if shopping with someone. It's always less flavorful than the Costco stuff.
It is all 3 lb bags, far as I can see. But I keep it airtight in a snap-on container and it lasts. I have not tried anything but French.
re: rccola
I just tried the Ecco coffee for the first time, and it is better - but what a cost difference!
re: bbulkow
Cost difference compared to what? Seems to me that other high quality specialty coffees are in the same price range.
re: scarmoza
Compared to the Costco beans at work which really aren't that bad, or compared to peets / philz. I think the steps are $8, $11, $20 per pound.
I agree that BB, FB, Ecco, ... are all in the same league, price wise, that shift to the 12oz bags was good for them, I go through a bag at home pretty quick.
Flying Goat is now our go to coffee. Right now we are drinking and enjoying El Salvador Siberia. They will grind for a French Press.
We buy ours at Acre Coffee in Petaluma and they get the grind perfect, as does the Flying Goat location in downtown Santa Rosa.
Graffeo on upper Columbus in North Beach is where I go. Don't expect a lot of choices. They just sell Graffeo coffee. I get the dark roast; I'm not sure what else they have.
While you're in the neighborhood, drop into Caffè Roma back down Columbus a little way on the East side. They have a few choices if you want some variety.
BTW, Graffeo has a San Rafael location.
re: GH1618
Graffeo also has a light roast, organic coffee and decaf. They will blend any mix of beans on request.
The Graffeo Dark Roast has been my favorite for years. However I just went to the San Rafael location for the first time and it just wasn't the same, so I'll buy some in SF next time I'm there and see if it is just a ma tter of location.
It has been years since I've been to Cafe Roma. I've liked the coffee in the past. I don't remember which bean I liked the best though and need a rec if someone has a favorite there.
re: rworange
I like the Graffeo dark roast as well (I live just a few blocks from their SF store).
I know it's not a local roaster, but I like the Cost Plus World Market Kenya AA (described as Dark Roast, Light/Medium body, Bright Flavor with Earthy nuances). http://www.worldmarket.com/product/in...
There are grinders you can use in the store. If you join their club, you get a few bag ever ten bags, and on Wednesday you get 2 for 1 credit. Occasionally, they have a buy one bag get one bag free deal too.
I switched over to the cost plus coffee for cost cutting reasons.
We have Verve, Four Barrel, Blue bottle beans at work...I don't like any of them..though at this point, I am incline to think it's the machine that is the problem. I think the water is too hot.
re: gnomatic
If it is the machine, more than likely the water is not hot enough. However, since you pre grind the beans at the store, your coffee is being brewed with stale beans and will not taste any good under any circumstances
re: poser
I buy whole beans, as I grind them at home.
At work we have burr grinders, and we only grind what we used. They supposedly calibrated them to the proper grind & amount for our machines. Due to the amount of people on my floor, beans are replenished almost daily.
Having said that, I tried Blue Bottle (at their Ferry terminal building outlet and the MoMA location) a few times, didn't care for it. I tried the four barrel beans making it myself on the work machine, and the barista (including a rep from four barrel who was in to check on things)...again..not great.
re: gnomatic
The grind fineness (ie calibration) and less so the temperature have tweaked on a daily (and sometimes hourly) basis. 1 degree Celsius makes a very pronounced change in the coffee. And that is with great and fresh beans and a great grinder. That is why most coffee shops are horrendous.
re: rworange
My wife and I visit SF yearly, start every morning at Cafe Roma........order
6 to 10 lbs of their Sicilian Gold maybe 4 times a year. Real dark...love it!
re: salmotrutta79
Thanks. It has been so long since I've been to Cafe Roma, I forgot what I used to order there and the thought of going through all their coffee again was overwhelming. Will give that one a try.
re: rworange
I had an espresso from Cafe Roma last week, and it was better than decent. But the beans I bought to take home: a half pound of Blue Bottle's roman espresso roast.
I like Ether and Ambrossia from Philz. They are available too at whole foods, albeit as whole beans only.
re: M_and_H
I like the Ambrosia from Philz too, and just bought a pound. I regretted it, however, because I also bought a cup of coffee made with the Silken Splendor and fell in love with that immediately. Wish I'd bought a pound of that instead.
The SS is a medium roast, but what's incredible about it is that it has a definite melon aftertaste. Really very interesting, because it starts off as a perfectly respectable cup of joe, but the fresh clean fruity aftertaste goes on and on..
re: Pei
Philz describes their "Ether" coffee as such:
"Among the darkest blends available at Philz. Appropriately named, this blend is not for the faint of heart. The ether blend is dark, oily, with charcoal tones and a strong clean finish. One of the strongest tasting blends at Philz."
I can't believe a food supplier would proudly describe their offerings as having a "charcoal" taste. What would your reaction be if you opened a menu at a steak house that read "We proudly burn our filets into a carbonized mess nearly indistinguishable in taste and texture from 10 year old charcoal soaked in lighter fluid." 'nuff said.
re: 12172003
i'm sure they forego the lighter fluid and use a charcoal chimney ;-)
re: 12172003
I think they probably meant that slightly sweet wisp of burning wood charcoal that is slowly heating up permeating your nose as you eagerly stand next to it with your tongs tightly gripping the marinated flank steak.
re: 12172003
Strangely, there are a lot of people in the Bay Area who favor this profile. I believe many consumers (wrongly) equate the darkest roasts with high caffeine - because the words bold and strong are often used in the description. They don't know that the longer the coffee is roasted, the more the caffeine is burned off during the roast and that lighter roasts have a higher caffeine content than darker roasts.
re: scarmoza
I think the inverse ratio between roast darkness and caffeine is pretty well known.
It's not at all strange that people here like dark roasts. Peet's started here in 1966 and Graffeo has been around since 1935.
re: Robert Lauriston
"I think the inverse ratio between roast darkness and caffeine is pretty well known"
I didn't know that.
Thank you sensai.
re: Robert Lauriston
I think that the (former?) fascination with dark roast might have been a response to the watered down flavors of mid America that many people grew up with. Similarly for dark beer and big red wines. We're finally getting over this in recent years.
Ten years ago, I became friendly with a new immigrant from Ireland to San Francisco. He had lots of questions about America for me. One was, "Why do Americans like dark beer so much." He thought Guinness was fine on occasion, but not every day. As I recall, his favorite local brew was Sierra Navada Pale Ale.
re: scarmoza
Not only that, but espresso has a lower proportion of caffeine compared to other brewing methods.
re: GH1618
How do you measure that? Based on amount of beans? Volume of resulting beverage? Something else?
As a percent of volume of beverage, I've always seen that espresso is much higher. But, you drink fewer ounces, so it's less caffeine overall. Probably more correct to compare the amount of beans used.
Here is one reference:
re: GH1618
What's on the opposite side of the ratio from caffeine in your proportion?
Actually, I had to look up proportion. Mathematically, it's two ratios equal to each other. Not sure that is how it's used in conversation. One still needs two parts to a ratio. In this case, caffeine to something (water, beans, brewed coffee, etc.).
I'm also not sure that I understand what you mean by "no units". I guess that's true if both sides of the ratio have the same dimension. Otherwise, one would still need units.
re: jman1
The units are arbitrary. Whatever they are, they cancel out when you divide. For a particular coffee brewed in a high-pressure espresso machine vs. brewed in a common drip coffeemaker, the alkaloids will be lower in proportion to the esters. This is true however you choose to measure the quantity of the alkaloids and esters. That is the principle of espresso. The esters, which are the flavor components, dissolve more readily in water than the alkaloids (caffeine). By brewing quickly under pressure, you get the flavor of the easily soluble esters with proportionately less of the caffeine.
That is also why percolation is the worst brewing method of all. You put the water through the coffee grounds long enough to extract all the alkaloids.
My source for this is the Probat roasting course, which I took a few years ago.
re: josquared
Check that address. I drove by several times, tough corner. Entrance on Curtola Parkway.
11 Sixth Street Vallejo, CA 94590
re: josquared
No, I haven't been to Moschetti's yet. The first time I knowingly had it was at Dillon Bread in June. I'll have to check it out. Thanks.
re: rworange
Even if you don't buy coffee from them, at the very least you can sample all the varietals and blends they have at their Saturday events as something of a way to get those tastebuds back in order.
You can also if you're knowledgeable pull your own cup of espresso from their machine or have Fabrice (who is pretty friendly and seems to know his stuff about roasting beans, etc.) do it for you.
re: chuckl
Which type of Four Barrel do you usually buy?
re: rworange
I make espresso, so generally whatever espresso beans they have.
re: Robert Lauriston
ditto on JP's organic Fogbuster. I also liked the breakfast blend. I took a chance on the prepacked Pick of the Harvest - organic Vilcabamba and like that too. $7.99 for a whole pound - what a deal. As a point of reference I use to drink Berk Bowl's organic French roast but wanted a lighter cup so tried out these others. Oh, and 10+ years ago I was an avid Graffeo drinker - dark and a half/half blend.
re: mochimunchie
Is teh Vilcabamba whole bean or ground? I couldn't tell feeling the bag and unlike the other's it didn't have the "ground" tag on it.
I was going to open it to see if I needed to grind it, but it was so hermatically sealed I couldn't get the bag open.
Since you are in Marin at least some times, you might want to try Equator Coffee. They import and roast many coffees from all over including some they grow. They have a number of blends and if you check their website you may find something that sounds like what you would enjoy. (Although coffee descriptors are getting as odd and arcane as with wine.) They blend for many restaurants including Azrimendi bakeries, Jardiniere, Redd and all the Thomas Keller enterprises.
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson:
No, Sir, when a man is tired of Coles Coffee, he is tired of life; for there is in Coles Coffee all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
"For example, I detest the atmosphere of Cole's on my one visit there."
Whats not to like in the old funky Cole's Coffee bean store behind the hipster Cole's that fronts College Ave?
re: Mission
So, what do you recommend there?
I sent a friend in who was really into coffee to see if he could find anything decent and he said the coffee was ok, but he much preferred Peets.
What's not to like. Everything you said.
My oh my, I really did a yelp on this report
.Fear and Loathing in Oakland – Starbucks has better baristas than Cole Coffee
re: rworange
You admit you have never really visited Cole's Coffee bean shop?
And yet you you hate it?
That might be the problem?
The yelp post concerns the front store...not the bean selling shop!
re: Mission
I gave a link to a 10,000 word or more report on my visit to Cole's.
This is not being helpful. If you have no recommendations let's just end this here because I don't see the point.
I went to Cole's once. I hated it. I then sent a friend their to see if maybe I was missing the point. Despite its mediocrity, I'm willing to be open if someone has a terrefic reccomendation. If you do, it would be appreciated. If not, what's your point in posting?
Just because something has been there forever doesn't make it good.
re: rworange
'Where to buy a pound of coffee?'
you can only buy coffee beans in the other store,not the place you visited.
re: Mission
She visited both ends of Cole's.
"I walked into the separate coffee shop next door prepared to bring some beans home and was met with the same indifferent staff attitude and just had enough and walked out. If you buy a pound of beans, you get a free cup of coffee which is brewed in the coffee shop rather than the café. "
re: Mission
I tried Cole's once. It was OK.
re: Robert Lauriston
Yeah, that is what my coffee-knowledgable friend thought.
Tom and Dave'Has some Indonesian Blue Dragon that is great. Also Mclaughlin's Sumatran, the lighter of the 2 roasts that they do
re: rworange
I think you mean bitter or harsh..not acidic. Acidic in coffee means something entirely different - something that McLaughlin coffees do not offer.
My own personal description of acidic is a slight sour note that opens up to bright fruit, floral, and herbal notes. I know the sour part doesn't sound appealing and it's definitely not for everyone - but for some of us, it sets off the pleasure trigger in our brains because of the bright fruit that follows.
Here's a well written and brief article on the subject with more info: http://www.examiner.com/coffee-in-den...
re: scarmoza
Nice article. Thanks. Yes, that is exactly it "Some people aren't able to drink coffee because it bothers their stomach"
Not bitter. I guess you could say harsh but that's not really it. A really mild coffee can produce what I imagine what it is like swallowing sulfuric acid ... coffee that needs a chaser of Pepto Bismol.
Ecco Caffe is in Santa Rosa. They are considered one of the top 5 in the world. Very balanced flavors (so never exaggerated acidity, etc. that is all too common). Not sure if they will ship ground coffee because of the rule of 15.....ie, the coffee is stale 15 minutes after ground or 15 days after roast. Maybe they'll do it if you pick it up at their roasting facilities. Just about all of their beans are incredible. I just got 3 pounds of it today and it was roasted less than 24 hours ago.
If you want good coffee, get a good burr grinder. They start at $200 and go up to $3000 (220V Mazzer Robur).
I dont' have too much experience with Equator but remember them being worth checking out. Same goes for de la Paz in SF. Much of the Verve coffees are very good.
re: 12172003
Thanks. I'll be in Santa Rosa over the necxt few weeks. Any particular bean you like there?
re: rworange
I prefer Ecco Caffe to Blue Bottle or Verve, fuller and more complex flavor. I usually drink it black, whereas I usually add a spot of cream or a little sugar to balance a cup anywhere else.
I didn't know that it was possible to pick up from Ecco's Santa Rosa facility. If you want to taste the coffee, try to stop by Gaga Cafe stand at the Saturday morning Santa Rosa farmers market or on Sundays at Stonestown in San Francisco. Usually brings two types to the market. Ecco tastes better here than at other cafes. And though I'm not a regular coffee drinker, this is a treat and I'll usually get a cup if the line's not too long. I believe that you can also buy beans from him though you might need to make prior arrangements.
Ecco Caffe
90 Timothy Rd, Santa Rosa, CA
Gaga Cafe
Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, CA
re: Melanie Wong
Their Santa Rosa facility is literally an industrial workshop since it is only for roasting....and if a customer is local. Don't expect a "coffee shop." I think you can select "customer pickup" if ordering from their website. Their prices are per pound (as opposed to many places at 12 ounces). Their shipping is high but it ships the same day it is roasted and is well worth it.
As for which coffees I like of theirs. It depends how I'm brewing it. I like their non-organic Espresso. For regular coffee made in a chemex, I like their Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. I've also had one of their SO coffees from Guatemala that was insanely good pulled as an espresso. All pulled using a Baratza Vario grinder and La Spaziale Vivaldi. In general, check their descriptions or call them up and describe what kind of coffee flavors you like.
re: 12172003
Thanks, that's good to know. Not that I'm a buyer of beans since I only drink coffee three or four times a month. Gaga does a pour-over individual drip coffee with Ecco. I don't think there's any that I haven't liked.
Here's SF Weekly's interview with Andrew Barnett of Ecco.
re: 12172003
ECCO ships their coffee and sells by the pound. You can buy it online through their website. Their online prices include shipping. I'm looking forward to the day they finally open up shop in San Francisco.
re: scarmoza
Have you been to Gaga Cafe at the Stonestown farmers market? It's there on Sundays, year-round.
re: Melanie Wong
Sure have. I'm not sure if he's still doing the e-mail requests for whole beans but I'm guessing he still does.
re: scarmoza
Regarding Ecco, i have good news and bad news. The good news is they have been roasting beans at their new facility in S.F. for two weeks now. the bad news is, they are a roasting plant only. And since they roast per order, there is no walk up sales available. Internet only!
re: scarmoza
This story just broke on Intelligentsia's rebranding of Ecco. There will be a coffee bar. But this piece says the roasting production in SF is not operational yet, whereas an earlier post here said it started in the spring.
re: poser
Do you detect any difference in the Ecco beans post-move?
In the past, I've noticed Gaga Cafe selling bags of Ecco beans at the farmers market (Sunday at Stonestown and Saturday in Santa Rosa). Since I've not purchased them, I don't know how the price compares to buying direct from Ecco.
re: Melanie Wong
I couldn't give you a great answer on the difference as I buy just about all my coffee beans from Redbird coffee out of Bozeman, Montana. they roast to order and ship the same day as they roast. An added bonus is they pay the shipping if you purchase 5lb.
But back to Ecco. I really can't see what difference the move from Santa Rosa to S.f. would make.
If they still have it at the Oakland GO do yourself a favor and pickup a can of the D'Aquino expresso. $4 for a full pound, preground and the closest thing I've found to Graffeo Dark. TJ's used to carry this but discontinued it.
re: chuckl
Ditto, Other Avenues has high quality beans in the bulk section for low prices.
I suspect the problem is a lot of people who work in restaurants can't do math (or don't know how many ounces are in a pound). Of course none of my friends can figure out a tip without doubling the tax either.
I know you probably meant to buy locally, but you might consider to mail order from intelligentsia. They have many interesting single origin coffees, and their black cat espresso blend is definitely delicious.
re: M_and_H
I turned into one of those posters that sometimes annoy me ... gets a million suggestions and go off and do their own thing. Sometimes that is good ... in this case ... not so much.
I was out of coffee and will be doing more coffee shopping this weekend in the North Bay based on the great suggestions in this post. Actually I'm looking forward to trying a lot of these over the next year.
No only did I not buy any of the suggested beans, I didn't buy local.
First I looked at the Berkeley Grocery Outlet for that espresso ... I'm not one to pass up a recommended $4 bag of coffee. Nope. Not there. Will check the Oakland store next time I'm there.
I was going to buy the Fogbuster.Berkeley Bowl didn't have it. I couldn't tell if the Vilcabamba was whole bean or ground. tried to open the bag ... it wouldn't open. Was going to settle for the Breakfast Blend.
Then ... the siren call of a bright yellow label announcing "new item" along with some creative ad copy sucked me in ... Tony's Coffee of Bellingham, Washington. It has been in business since 1971
Café Carmelita - Incredibly smooth with sweet cocoa and caramel notes. Heavy syrupy body. Medium Roast.
Espresso Noir - Velvety crema, good presence in milk, rich vanilla, brown sugar finish. Dark Roast.
French Royale - Thick and bittersweet, very full finish. Dark Roast
Songbird Blend - Complex and aromatic with milk chocolate undertones. Blend of Light and Dark Roasts.
Sophia's Blend - Very bold and spicy, supported by a thick rich body. Medium Roast
In retrospect I should have went with the French Royale which might be more to my taste, but I got sucked in by the ad copy for the songbird.
No it is not complex. If milk choloate background means bland, well, ok.
It is not an offensive cup of coffee or harsh.It is very smooth. It is just not very interesting.or flavorful.
re: rworange
The original Berkeley Bowl has Fogbuster, in fact they have two bins of the regular and two bins of the organic. I'm not sure the west Bowl had Jeremiah's Pick at all.
re: Robert Lauriston
Yeah, BBW had Nearly a dozen types, just not the Fogbuster.
re: M_and_H
I noticed yesterday that Specialty's brews Intelligentsia. Not sure if they sell the beans too but they seemed to be selling everything else (cookie batter!).
I thought you liked some of Catahoula's blends. I'd like to keep him in business, brewing up Lola for me.
Catahoula Coffee Co
12472 San Pablo Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
101 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA
re: Windy
Um, yeah... the good news is that the owner and his wife just had a baby. The bad news is that is who I was talking about in the OP.
It is just a minor service glitch and I'm going to check back next week to see if Timber returnd and take it up with him. I realized later the guy working there currently is just someone who it is difficult to get info from ... just his style.
Actually Catahoula seems to be doing great. There's always a crowd in there now and there are three people usually working the shop.
Also, Catahoula gets better and better. The Three Amigos blend is my current favoirte. It is mild but not too and has lots of flavor. There was actually an El Salvador coffee I liked a lot as welll.
And besides all that, Timber is just a flat out nice guy. He supports local small businesses. The breakfast sandwiches are from Angel restaurant across the street. He gives a lot of people a lot of breaks. It is great to have someone like this as part of the community putting out a quality product.
re: rworange
Ah, that makes sense now. Cautionary tale for nice owners.
I've never been there but have a regular customer who supplies me. I noticed Cafe Taboo on York & 18th has a Catahoula sign in the window. I should check if they sell beans too.
Will look for the Three Amigos blend. I had a bag of dark roasted Sumatra that I've been adding to the milder roasts.
re: Windy
This afternoon (maybe 1-2) Catahoula will haven Malabar Gold. I had a taste this morning and it is a beautiful thing. Unfortunately they didn't have any to sell by the pound and will be roasting more this morning. More about Malobar Gold from India
The Peru is very good as well. It is a milder roast but there is some complexity to it and it smells wonderful.
Jamaica Blue just sold out and I'm not sure if more will be in.
Keep an eye on their site. They are planning a tasting of Kopi luwak
All is well between me and Catahoula. The guy I felt blew me off is really quite knowledgable about coffee and the owner made me laugh as he is probably one of the few people who can listen to me kvetch and basically tell me to chill out and says it in a way that I think is funny. I chilled out.
re: rworange
Malabar Gold is a really interesting espresso blend created by an Indian coffee importer named Joseph John, who was trained as a nuclear physicist but is incredibly passionate and opinionated on the subject of espresso. All of the coffees in Malabar Gold are from India, which is not a country one normally thinks of as a coffee growing region. Check out his espresso philosophy here:
But rworange, you never answered my question about your apparent insistence on buying preground coffee. If that is indeed what you are saying, I would compare this approach to insisting on frozen fish over fresh. Ground coffee starts to go stale the instant it is ground.
Compare coffee made from two-day-old preground coffee with coffee ground immediately before brewing with a $20 blade grinder, and you will taste the difference.
re: TopoTail
My taste just isn't advanced enough to care about grinding for each cup. Maybe someday. There is only so far I can go with the whole coffee thing and then it gets too much for me.
re: rworange
A coffee roaster friend calls coffee the poor step child of the gourmet food world. I just don't understand why people who examine every ingredient in their dinner with a microscope so often take the attitude that coffee is just coffee. Restaurant critics go on and on about wine lists, but how often is the coffee even mentioned?
Thomas Keller used Illy pods for espresso drinks for years, and now uses super automatic machines rather than training a barista to prepare espresso the right way, and the critics never blink. I just don't get it.
The new Highwire Coffee (where Peabody's coffee used to be, in Market Hall on College) is great -- really friendly staff and owners, and their beans make excellent coffee at home too. My mom had some over Thanksgiving, and it was both delicious and easy on the stomach. I can't wait to finish the beans that I have at home so that I can buy some. My mom had their Yirg, I'm pretty sure.
re: JasmineG
Many thanks for the tip. I noticed the recent remodel but didn't realize that Peaberry's (coffee mediocre, to my taste) had been replaced. Do they roast their own beans or get them from one of the usual suspects?
re: dordogne
They roast their own, the whole thing has changed. Agree that Peaberry's was mediocre, and I'm liking Highwire a lot. They also have excellent pastries (Starter Bakery and other small local bakeries).
re: JasmineG
really like their beans. had the sumatra and it is aromatic, chocolaty, and balanced. i kind of think there's a tad more caffeine in it somehow compared to roasts of similar color. i found it equal in taste and superior in aroma (and much less expensive) than my regular favorite: blue bottle. and in case you're trying to callibrate your tastes with my text, i'm not a fan of four barrel or sightglass beans which I find has a sour aftertaste AND oh-so expensive.
Aha, that explains why there hasn't been a Catahouligan Expresso edition for a couple of months. He's busy-busy with baby.
I was in Oakland yesterday and the Boucherie Markeplace Pop-Up event was going on at La Borinquena Mex-icatessen on 7th Street. We popped our heads in and there were several vendors selling locally made jams, pickles, tamales. In the mix was Tutmak Coffee. Before yesterday I had never heard of them. They are located in the East Bay (Berkeley, I believe). We ordered a cup of coffee and watched as they ground the beans and primed the filter. The aroma of freshly ground coffee perked me up and lulled me into a state of bliss at the same time.
The particular bean they had at the pop-up event was from one of co-founder's father's coffee farm in Panama. Now, I usually take my coffee with a splash half 'n' half, but I tried it unadulterated and the brew was a rich, mellow roast, smooth with no bitterness.
Tutmak Coffee's roots are in Bali, Indonesia, and have brought their product to America. They are located in the East Bay and sell online. Per their website, they offer "a variety of whole bean coffees from worldwide regions with an emphasis on Fair Trade, Sustainable and Organic sourcing". Their coffee is never shelved and "must reach the consumer within forty-eight hours of roasting".
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I'm not going to say I've read this entire thread, rworange, but are you saying you refuse to buy coffee unless the store is willing to grind it for you? And can you tell us how you prepare your coffee? I gather you don't do espresso. Do you use a filter setup, French press, Aeropress?
Gold Coast Coffee & Bakery, Duncans Mills west of Santa Rosa/Guerneville has dark roast blend called Cyclops that they roast. Very tasty and they will grind.
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their kona coffees are very good and they also have a maui mokka bean which i like
I'm not sure if Bicycle Coffee is convenient for you to find, but I was real impressed with their beans.
Another alternative for darker beans is the "Oscillations" espresso blend from De La Paz.
If you buy at Rainbow or Other Avenues, you have the option of grinding in the store. Unless it's an airtight bag, I wouldn't buy preground.
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I just discovered Bicycle a couple of months ago. My taste for dark, thick, nearly burnt coffee seemed to have disappeared and I was having trouble finding something I liked that wasn't too green (for lack of a better word) tasting. Now I'm a convert to Bicycle. Granted, this is very subjective, and three months ago I think I would have found it neither dark nor rich enough. The only downside for me is that it's sold in 12 oz. bags--I want my full pound!
I buy it at Mollie Stone's on Portola, where they told me that the Bicycle folks really do deliver by bicycle.
Sweet Maria's in Oakland is a long-established importer of top quality coffee beans from all over the planet. They now offer fresh roasted coffee and will ship it to you promptly. Great selection and excellent stuff. I've been getting my green coffee beans from them for over 10 years.
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Oasis Market on Telegraph in Oakland has assorted self serve and grind bulk Coffee for $10/LB
I just tried some last week... it was great!
I made my own special Major Mission's ® blend.
(Moca java and what ever else looked good)
For a paper filter I would go for the finest grind on their machine.
My current Friday morning destination is De La Paz Coffee Roasters at 1081 Mission Street @ 7th Street in San Francisco - 8 am to 1 pm Friday only - while they finish their build-out coffee bar in February 2012. I've savored pour overs of Buena Vista (Colombia), San Sebastian (Colombia), and Nueva Granada (El Salvador)
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I looked up the latest on coffee ratings and discovered the lovely Brown Owl Coffee house and Heath Roastery on Taraval near 22nd Ave, close to SFSU.
Cozy, organic, coffee from Ethiopia and India (Arabica beans from bushes planted 100 years ago by a Scotsman in the Blue Mountains), minimum of pretension. And lots of owls. You'll like it.
Cafe prices typical, beans a little pricier, depending on what you buy.
In Palo Alto there is Zombie Runner. It's a running store but has a very good espresso bar inside. Very good coffee and espresso drinks using coffee from Moksha in Mountain View. Many of Moksha coffees are low in acidity and chocolate bombs. Not the most complex but excellent. They also happen to be _very_ forgiving as far as dose, temperature, length of pull for espresso and number of days after roast which is good for home usage. You can get their coffees at Zombie Runner or call them up and arrange to pick it up at their roasting site in Mountain View. They are the smallest of the local roasters.
I got a pound of beans ($12.95) at Coffee Bazaar in Guerneville and was surprised at how good they were. Some of the best coffee I've had. If they were closer to home that would be my regular.
They only have three or four blends including decaf. These were just labeled "dark roast."


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But if Pippa does take the plunge and decide to move across the pond, there are a few things about being a New Yorker that she'll have to get used to. Because NYC is much different than London, even though they're both bustling cities.
I'm not exactly an expert on British real estate, but something tells me the "flats" in NYC are a bit smaller than what Pippa is used to living in over in London. Granted, she probably won't be lounging around at home very much as a single gal in the city, but I'm sure she'll want to have enough room to put up her famous sister and brother-in-law when they visit. Somehow I just can't see Prince William & Kate crashing on a pull-out couch in the living room. Hopefully Pippa's wallet is padded enough to rent a big place.
And while she may blend into the crowd a bit better in New York than in London, there are still paparazzi here who will be anxious to get shots of her enjoying city life -- and then there's the not quite as in your face but equally as annoying group of people in NYC -- better known as tourists. Can you imagine what will happen if a high school group from Connecticut catches a Pippa sighting while on their way to the Guggenheim? I really hope she's prepared for incessant giggling and high-pitched squeals.
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But on the upside, I guess if she gets really homesick and needs some companionship after her big move, she can always give Tim Tebow a call. Hmm. Two people who are completely out of their element may just be a match made in heaven.
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While developing Ceeq, I had to include a Map to our application, this is how I achieved the feat.To add a Map we first have to fulfill few requirements1. Get the Play Services library in your project2. Get the API key.3. Add the permissions.4. Add a map fragment to your activity or fragment layout5. Install play services on device to test.6. Run your app.
Lets get in details of each step,
1. Get the Play Services to your project
a) Open the SDK Manager Eclipse > Window > SDK manager > Extras > Google Play Services ✓ Install the Google Play Services
b) The play service are downloaded to your sdk folder
sdk > /extras/google/google_play_services/c) Import the google_play_services to your project
Eclipse > File > Import… > Android > Existing Android Code into Workspace,
Click Next
Click Browse and browse to the sdk > /extras/google/google_play_services/ directoryand click Okay
Untick the samples\ and click Finish.If all goes okay you will see google-play-services_lib in the package explorer of eclipse, now we will import it to our project.To import it to your project right click your project and open properties Your_Project > Right Click > Properties or Simply press ALT + ENTER in your project to open its properties.
In the Android tab, in Library click on Add
If you have successfully imported the Google play Services to your workspace, then Select google-play-services_lib and press Okay
Click Apply and Click OK.Thats all you have successfully imported Google Play Services to your project.
2.Let's get the api key now
a) Login to your google account and open https://code.google.com/apis/console/
b) Now create a new project and you will be at your dashboard as
c) Click on Services TabIn the list of provided services, scroll down to Google Maps Android API v2
and switch it ON
d) Click on API Access Tab
Click on Create New Android Key…
A dialog box opens up asking for the SHA1 key,
Now, open your Windows explorer and open your user folder, there you have the .android folder which has the debug.keystore file.
You may see this directory has a debug.keystore fileCTRL + SHIFT + Right Click and open CMD window here, or simply open a Command Window(CMD) and navigate to this directory.Type in you command prompt
keytool -list -v -keystore debug.keystore > key.txtit will ask for a password, type android and hit Enter.Now, you will see a key.txt file has been generated in the os_drive:\Users\User.android directory. Open this file and Copy the SHA1 signature (i.e the code after SHA1:), and paste it
put a semi-colon (;) after the SHA1 code and write your package name and click Create.You have now successfully generated your API key, which shows on your dashboard, copy the API key and put it in you manifest file as:
<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY" android:value="API_KEY"/>
3. Changes to manifest file and adding the Permissions
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/><uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES"/><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
Add the uses-feature
<uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00020000" android:required="true"/>
4. Adding a map fragment to your activity layout/ fragment layout
If you are supporting backward compatibility and importing an activity or fragment activity, or for projects targeting below API14import android.support.v4.app.*then you need to include a SupportMapFragment to your layout
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/map" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"/>
Or else if you are not supporting backward compatibility and for projects targeting API 14+, we need to add a MapFragment to our layout
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/map" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"/>
You can get the map fragment in your onCreate() or method (incase you using fragments in onCreateView( ) ) as
For Support Map Fragment:
SupportFragment mapFragment = ((SupportMapFragment) this.getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map));
For Map Fragment:
MapFragment mapFragment = ((MapFragment) this.getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map));
5. Add play services to your emulator or device
The application is ready to test on a real device, if you have play services on it but for testing on emulator, we need google play services on it too,So, again open the SDK Manager, Click on your relative API [mine is Android 4.3 (API 18)] and download the Google APIs. Create a new AVD with Google APIs as the platform.Remember only Google APIs higher than 4.2.2 include play services.You can also manually install Play Services to your virtual device via adb.First download the files from herecom.google.android.gms_20130908.apkcom.android.vending_20130908.apkAfter that create an AVD/emulator, any platform, and then install the downloaded files via adb as
adb install com.android.vending-20130716.apk
adb install com.google.android.gms-20130716.apk
if you are updating, or want to un install
adb uninstall com.android.vending
adb uninstall com.google.android.gms
So, if you now have an emulator AVD with latest Google Play Services, or you have an AVD with latest Google Play Services,Your application is ready to run.— Update —
For updated Play Services version 13 you need to add
android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />
to your manifest file so to avoid application crash.
Possible errors:Error in Authentication this error is primary due to missing API key, missing play services, or if you have changed the API key.Solution 1. Remove your app, wipe data of emulator/AVD, reinstall your app. 2. Check and cross check the permissions.3. Recheck you have enabled the Android map services from the Google APIs Console, if not enabled, Enable it, regenerate a new key, add it to your manifest, remove the application from AVD/Emulator/real device, and run your project.
Google Play Service missing this error is due to missing play services either in your test device/emulator or in the project.Solution1. Install the latest updated Google Play Services to the test device.2. Recheck you have added the play services library to your project.
Error in inflating class SupportMapFragmentSolution1. Check you have play services added to your project.2. Try using a MapFragment if your project is for API14 and above.No Map shown, only Zoom buttons shown1. Remove your app, wipe data of emulator/AVD, reinstall your app. 2. Check and cross check the permissions.3. Recheck you have enabled the Android map services from the Google APIs Console4. Re check you have include API key in manifest, and you have generated it via command prompt only.References:https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/startwww.stackoverflow.com
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John-David has a degree in finance from University of Louisiana. Back in 2010, he got married to Alyson Watson. She is adorable and the two look happy together. In older pictures, he doesn't have a beard at all and is really clean cute. They are still married and she is supporting him on the show. She went to Twitter last night saying, "The secret is out! Never thought I would be laughing at my husband on TV! So very proud of him!"
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Also, make sure to register soon for the August 21 School of Shimmy class at the CSC — Choreography with Alotta Boutte!
Also, make sure to register soon for the August 21 School of Shimmy class at the CSC — Choreography with Alotta Boutte!
Red Hots Burlesque's School of Shimmy class —
Bringing Sexy Back: Sensuality and Performance with Kristina Nekyia
Tuesday, August 7, 7-9PM
Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission St. SF
$30/School of Shimmy class
email firstname.lastname@example.com or 415-672-4735 for reservations
What does it mean to be sexy? How do we use our bodies on stage to convey all the many nuanced flavors of our own sexuality? Apply your ideas about sexiness to a fun, sensual burlesque choreography. This is a dance class for burlesquers of any background, with simple movements that provide an opportunity to explore the sexy in you.
About this teacher: Kristina Nekyia is a showgrrrl, belly dancer, circus contortionist, burlesque queen, pin up nymph, actress, fire eater, director, and writer based in Hollywood, California. Kristina was the 2010 First Runner-Up for the title of Queen of Burlesque at the Burlesque Hall of Fame competition in Las Vegas, and in 2005 she was the Hips of Fury Belly Dance Ultimate Soloist. Her dedication to the art of Mongolian contortion led her to study with the Mongolian Circus in Ulaanbaatar, and develop the first ever belly dance contortion fire duet with world-famous contortionist Serchmaa Byamba. Kristina teaches flexibility classes in Hollywood, and this fall she will release her first instructional DVD, "Get Bent: Circus Style Flexibility".
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Also, stay tuned for the School of Shimmy's ***Burlesque 101*** class at the CSC on August 14 to learn the absolute essentials!
Receive the touch you love to give…by joining us for another Maximizing M2M Pleasure One-Day Workshop
Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission St., SF
Sunday, August 5th 2012
10am to 5:30pm
Portions of the day will be clothing optional
$150 (sliding scale available); Lunch Included
Facilitated by:
Life Coach and Massage Healer, Mark Hollenstein
And by: Sexologist Dr. Jallen Rix, "The GaySexpert"
Men! Explore your sexuality with other men in a safe and nurturing environment. Participate in sexy group exercises, honest sharing, lively facilitation and a few fun surprises, to more fully experience a rich, satisfying and open-hearted sex life. Break through long-held beliefs that keep you locked in unconscious shame. Learn healing techniques to release negative emotions that hold back your sexual freedom. Experiment with options to fulfill more of your sexual desires. Receive and give intentional, arousing touch with respect for your personal boundaries. Build a stronger "sex-esteem".
Go to www.MaxM2M.com for the 411.
Sex-Positive Parenting with Airial Clark
A series of 4, 90-minute interactive workshops with the overarching title of Sex-Positive Parenting; Strategies and Support for Families.
$25 each, or if you sign up for all 4 it's $75 (buy 3, get 1 free).
Each workshop is stand alone with a specific focus, but taken together are a comprehensive curriculum.
Four workshops spanning August 25 and 26: 10:30am-Noon and 1:00pm-2:30pm, both days at the Center for Sex and Culture
1. Parenting with an alternative sexuality; Ending the silence of non-monogamous, kinky, or queer parents.
2. Coming out as a family; To reveal or not reveal is the question.
3. What to say and When to say it; Strategies for age-appropriate conversations about sexuality and desire.
4. Building Social Support Networks; How to build your sex-positive dream team of peers and professionals.
Airial Clark, M.A is the founder of The Sex-Positive Parent. She has a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State and is also the parent of two tweenage sons. Airial graduated from UC Berkeley in 2007 with a BA in English Literature and Anthropology. At Cal, she was the President of the Student Parent Association. She is a contributing writer for Good Vibrations Magazine, the Sex Positive Photo Project of the SF Bay Area and Shades Magazine. Airial presented her graduate level research on the intersections of race, non-monogamy and parenting at the Open SF conference. She was recently interviewed on the Sexploration with Monika radio show and featured on My Sex Professor.com. Based out of the SF Bay Area, Airial sees the mission of her work to provide strategies and support for sex-positive parenting; specializing in community building for parents with alternative sexualities.
Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets
Diane Torr is an artist, director, writer and educator working in performance, film and installation. She has been making performances in New York for over 25 years. In 2003, Diane re-situated her art practice in Glasgow, where she has a studio at WASPS (Workshop and Studio Provision Scotland) Studios and is a Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art. Her performance work explores notions of gender and the erotic, and focuses on strategies to reinvent the narratives of sex and gender. Her solo drag performances have been seen around New York since 1982. Diane's art performances and installations are presented in galleries, performance venues and festivals throughout N. America, Europe, and Eurasia. She has taught Man for a Day Workshops in over 20 cities, including London, Istanbul, Helsinki, Berlin, Lisbon, Zurich, New York and Chicago. In Feb/March 2006, Diane brought her unique workshop to India for the first time in a residency at Khoj Arts Workshop in New Delhi. In February 2011, Diane taught her first Man for a Day workshop in Brasilia at the Novadanca Festival. Her work has been the subject of profiles on BBC2 Q.E.D., HBO's Reel Sex, in the Washington Post, Village Voice, London Independent, El Pais, German Vogue, etc. She was also one of the protagonists in Gabriel Baur's feature film, Venus Boyz (2002). Diane's book, Sex, Drag and Male Roles; Investigating Gender as Performanceand co-authored by Stephen Bottoms has been released by University of Michigan Press. A feature film on her work, Man for a Day, by Berlin filmmaker, Katarina Peters, premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival on February 10, 2012.
In the 1970s Diane Torr studied and explored new dance and the work of Susan Sontag, Yvonne Rainer, and John Cage, among others. Political analysis and action entwined with her artmaking — working for feminist newspaper Majority Report, she met leading feminist/activists such as Kate Millet, Shere Hite, Susan Brownmiller and Valerie Solanas – and she developed her performance work at the same time. Torr joined all-girl art band, DISBAND, which had a core group of members, Martha Wilson (Director of Franklin Furnace Art Archives), Ingrid Sischy (editor of Interview Magazine), Donna Henes (self-proclaimed urban shaman), Ilona Granet (painter), and others who visited and contributed songs, such as visual artist, Barbara Kruger.
While working as a go-go dancer from 1979-81 Torr created a performance with other go-go dancers called WOW-a-Go-Go, for the WOW (Women of the World) Theatre Festival in New York in 1981, the first time that "exotic dancers" had been seen at a Women's Festival — this caused a certain amount of outrage, especially from Women Against Pornography.
Torr began performance in drag in the early 1980s with a dance commission from Dansspace, New York, working together with visual artist Bradley Wester on a piece called Arousing Reconstructions (1982), in which each cross-dressed. Within the performance, they showed the results of research in developing an androgynous movement vocabulary in the form of a dance tableau which contained the archetypal male and female gestures, such as Rodin's "The Thinker" image, Marilyn Monroe's hand-over-mouth sexy gasp, and so on, aided conceptually by the writings of Deleuze, Guattari and Michel Foucault.
Torr began teaching Drag King Workshops in New York in 1990 with make-up artist and FTM transsexual, Johnny Science. These workshops became very popular and were documented by BBC TV, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, London Independent, der Spiegel, and other publications. Her performance, Drag Kings and Subjects, became her signature piece, shown in venues and festivals throughout the US, Europe, and Brazil. Another popular work dealing with cross-dressing is an installation, Ideal Homo (1999), which is a series of photographs of Torr and Diva editor, Jane Czyzselska, dressed as a gay male couple, accompanied by a text and soundscore. Ideal Homo has been shown in galleries all over the world. In October 2010, her book, Sex, Drag and Male Roles; Investigating Gender as Performance, co-authored by Stephen Bottoms and published by University of Michigan Press, was released. A feature film, Man for a Day, based on Torr's workshop and performance work, premiered at the 62nd Berlinale Film Festival in February 10 this year.
The Center for Sex and Culture is proud to host—
Diane Torr — 25 Years of Sex and Drag
Sunday, May 13, 5pm
At the Center for Sex & Culture – 1349 Mission btw 9th & 10th
$5-25 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF
Annie Sprinkle hosts her old friend Diane Torr, whose history as a performance artist, workshop leader and activist stretches back to the 1970s and through many contexts, from performative to activist, academic to street.
Diane Torr weekend workshop – Man for a Day
Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, 10am-6pm
$300 – RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com
(We will be able to take credit cards for this one!)
About DIANE TORR'S MAN FOR A DAY WORKSHOP
The Man for a Day Workshop is a unique experience. Diane has been teaching it since 1990 in a variety of venues throughout N. America, Europe and Asia. Since its inception, the workshop gathered much media attention, and brought Diane's work into the public eye. The workshop also pioneered a drag king performance culture in theaters and clubs in several of the cities in which it was taught. Women have taken it for many reasons, according to their situation.
Maybe during a lifetime of observing men in your neighborhood, on the subway, in the office, in cars, in your home, etc., you have a curiosity about how men "get away" with certain behaviors that would be considered undesirable or socially unacceptable in women. You might want to experience the transformation from female to male as a way to intercept your so-called "normal" behavior as a woman, and discover new responses. Other women have attended the workshop and then met with a lover (male or female) for a night of role-play thrills. Some participants are actresses and opera singers who had "trouser" roles and wanted to make their characters more authentic. Occasionally, a woman has attended the workshop who wanted to explore a desire to become a man permanently, and then the workshop was a catalyst for making that decision.
For most participants, the reason to commit to being a man for a day was to have fun, to be outrageous. By exploring familiar situations, like going to a bar or restaurant and interacting with others in a new identity, there's a chance to play with ideas that are taken seriously on a daily basis. Of course, women have cross-dressed throughout history and used the guise to their advantage. An important distinction to the workshop is that the intention is not to "pass", but rather to question what is considered a given. In the course of constructing another identity, one instantly sees other possibilities of being. In becoming a man you learn how to "walk the walk" and "talk the talk" without having to wear a testosterone patch! This is a chance to escape for one day from the social construction of the identity of "woman" and to literally discover a new YOU!!
During the workshop, either Diane or a make-up artist will give each person an individual makeover and will provide facial hair, 5 o'clock shadow, etc. Each person is responsible for the male clothes they will need for their male identity. Please also bring: a wide elasticised bandage (6inches minimum) to bind breasts, and a fake penis (condom stuffed with cotton wool, for example). We will learn how to take up space, walk, eat, drink, pick up objects, smile, etc. as men. We will interact with each other, in scene studies and in character development exercises, and create our new identities. Then we will make a visit to a public place such as café, restaurant, bar, strip club, pool hall, dance club, where we will test out our new identities.
The beginning of the following day is spent in a feedback session and then each participant learns to do their make-up by themselves. We continue to develop our characters and we have the opportunity to go out to a new location. We each take from the workshop what is useful to us, but we all leave with the shared experience (and the kick) of going beyond our "regular" selves and expanding our gender repertoire. The workshop culminates in a feedback session.
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(Reuters) - The surprise departure of Stryker Corp's (SYK.N) chief executive officer, amid an ambitious effort to diversify the orthopedics device maker, sent its shares lower on Thursday.
Stryker said late on Wednesday that CEO Stephen MacMillan had resigned for family reasons. The company did not elaborate on the circumstances behind his departure.
Chief Financial Officer Curt Hartman will be the interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement.
"I like moves (management has) made and the acquisitions that diversified the company," said David Heupel, portfolio manager at Thrivent Investment Management. "(MacMillan) was fairly well-regarded, so to have something like this happen out of the blue is just disappointing."
MacMillan, who joined Stryker nine years ago as president and chief operating officer, was promoted to CEO in 2005. Under his leadership, Stryker diversified its holdings into new areas through a series of acquisitions, reducing its exposure to a sharp slowdown in orthopedics sales as Americans hold off on medical procedures in a weak economy.
In 2011, Stryker acquired a Boston Scientific (BSX.N) business that makes coils, guidewires and stents to treat neurovascular disease. It also acquired Orthovita Inc, an orthopedics biologics maker, and Concentric Medical, a maker of stroke treatment devices.
MacMillan is leaving at a crucial time for the company, said Heupel, whose fund does not own a significant number of Stryker shares.
"He deserves credit for that diversification," Heupel said, adding that if the board brings in an outsider as CEO, they may be less likely to follow MacMillan's strategy.
"Last year, they were aggressive about buying businesses," he said. "This is the year of integrating all the stuff ... That's execution, and the comfort level is greater when the CEO is around. I'm sure the CFO will do fine, but it's not ideal."
The company declined to comment further on the reason for MacMillan's departure.
Morningstar analyst Julie Stralow said she was surprised and disappointed by the news.
"I liked where the management team was headed," she said. "They were forward-thinking. My overall take is that this adds a layer of uncertainty over the short term, but over the long term, this is a quality business."
She said Stryker shares were "attractively valued," but she would not be a buyer unless the stock hits the mid-$40s. The shares were down 1.2 percent at $54.09 in afternoon trading.
JPMorgan analyst Michael Weinstein advised his clients to buy Stryker shares on any weakness.
"We can state with confidence that this (resignation) is for personal reasons and is not a reflection of any new fundamental or strategic issues or of a change of direction at Stryker," he wrote in a research note.
Weinstein said MacMillan's departure should not affect the company's 2012 performance and outlook.
(Reporting By Debra Sherman; Editing by Michele Gershberg, Derek Caney and Lisa Von Ahn)


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Always nice to rememember those that came before us. It may have been just another Saturday afternoon on the baseball field, but players at Jenkins High took a moment to honor a man they never played for.
Saturday was Terry Webb day at Jenkins. Webb was a legendary head coach in the area having coached at Windsor Forest for over a decade. Then later at Jenkins for 17 years. Saturday afternoon coach Webb was invited back to throw out the first pitch before the Warriors game against Ware County. He was honored to do so. He says it seemed like old times.
"I was a little bit nervous to throw out that first pitch" he said. "But the smell, the grass, the players. Baseball is baseball, it never changes." "I was here when we built this field. It was just a nice feeling to know somebody still knows you."
Chris Heldon singled in the first scoring Jenkins only run of the game. 11-1 Ware County wins.
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Rare Carte de Visite of a Federal Soldier and a Boy
This image is unique in that it is virtually unknown in period portraits (Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, or CDVs) to have a subject sitting on the floor. Almost always they were photographed in chairs or standing.
Actually a Federal enlisted man, likely Western theater with knee high boots, black slouch hat on his lap and smoking a clap pipe. Wears enlisted nine button frock coat. Seated on the floor at his side , with his head leaning against the soldier's shoulder is a boy no more than 8-10 years old. Wears forage cap with rain cover and the visor turned up, four button blouse with sleeves rolled up. Light colored trousers and one foot visible wearing what appears to be a standard Jefferson bootee.
Original image found on Heritage Auctions. Image Credit: Historical Boy's Clothing


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