Category: cafe

New Biden CAFE Standards May Be an Existential Threat to US Automakers

Earlier this month, the Biden administration issued revised Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that dictate fuel mileage standards for passenger cars and light trucks in the United States. The new CAFE standards require 49 miles per gallon (mpg) on U.S. vehicles by model year 2026. In making the announcement, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said,…


Explosion in Russian Cafe Kills Prominent Military Blogger

An explosion tore through a cafe in Russia’s second-largest city Sunday, killing a prominent military blogger. Russian news reports said blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in the explosion at the Street Food Bar No. 1 cafe in St. Petersburg. Twenty-five people were wounded, and 19 of them were hospitalized, according to the regional governor, Alexander…


Russia Cafe Blaze Kills at Least 13 People, Injures 5

MOSCOW—A fire in a cafe in the Russian city of Kostroma killed at least 13 people and injured five others on Saturday, local authorities said. The governor of the Kostroma region, Sergei Sitnikov, said 13 people died in the fire and five more were slightly injured. Russian news agency Interfax cited local emergency officials as…


Mr. Reckless (1948)

Oil field worker William Eythe returns to his hometown to discover his former girlfriend is going to marry an older cafe owner. Despite his best efforts to stay away, he is continually involved with the couple with tragic results. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films:…


Coffee Shop Manager Features 7 Awesome Hooters at ‘Owl House’ Café—Where Patrons and Feathered Friends Can Play

A Moscow-based owl café is going viral for the adorable hijinks of its seven resident hooting hombres. Between playing with their toys, grooming customers’ hair, and watching their manager at work, the owls rule the roost in this quirky coffeehouse-cum-sanctuary for feathered friends. Alexey Pshenitsyn, 28, manages the Owl House, an owl-centric café founded in…


97-Year-Old Marine Who Survived Iwo Jima Walks Into Cafe, Tells His Stories—So They Give Him His Own Table

The Cafe Republic on North Beach Street in Fort Worth holds a special place for someone who once prayed on a beach during the Battle of Iwo Jima. That someone is Don Graves, 97, who joined the Marine Corps in 1942 at age 17, before shipping off to fight alongside 335 other Marines, of whom…


Starbucks Links With Amazon Go for First Cashier-Less Cafe

NEW YORK—Starbucks Corp.’s newest cafe lacks one element most customers are used to seeing: cashiers. The global coffee chain on Thursday opened its first ever location in partnership with Amazon Go, the e-commerce giant’s brick-and-mortar convenience store, where customers can sit at a table with a latte or grab a sandwich from a shelf and…


Brisbane Coffee Boss Won’t Comply With Rules to ‘Discriminate’ Against Unvaccinated

An award-winning Brisbane cafe owner has said that he won’t comply with the Queensland government’s new rules that ban unvaccinated people from cafes and almost every kind of business except essential services like supermarkets from Dec. 17. “What has this world come to?” Phillip Di Bella said in a video posted on LinkedIn. “Is it something that…