Sam Spillman News Today

Recap: Henry Clay and Tates Creek girls, Lexington Christian boys to play for district crowns.

Home Grounds surveyed the finalists and semifinalists in the United States Barista Championship from 2022 and 2023 and highlighted 24 baristas.

The coffee roasting company, Caffe Vita, is set to open its first store front in Arizona. The Seattle based business has moved into the former ‘Easley's Fun Shop’ in Phoenix.

Seattle’s leading independent coffee roaster, Caffe Vita, will toast to the Downtown Phoenix community when it opens its doors on July 30.

Caffe Vita’s Sam Spillman and Gray Kauffman share all the rad science they learned in the secret (to us) world of coffee.

Veronica Grimm and her nonprofit Glitter Cat Barista are on a quest to make competitive coffee more inclusive

Starbucks CEO has his first good idea. When 25-year-old barista and union organizer Madison Hall asked about unionizing efforts during an internal Q&A at Starbucks, CEO Howard Schultz reportedly responded, “If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?” Now that’s leadership! In related news, Starbucks just fired a union organizer in North Carolina after a sink fell on her — they claim she pulled the sink off the wall like some...

Welp, so much for the concrete strike: More than 300 concrete truck drivers said they'll return to work without a contract after striking for more than three months under the boot of stingy-ass, intractable bosses. Judging by the report in the Seattle Times, among other reasons it looks like the firing of workers in other industries dependent on the flow of that sweet, sweet concrete pressured the union members to hop back into their trucks....

Returning champ Sam Spillman and new challenger Gray Kauffman, both of Caffe Vita, will be repping Seattle in the Olympics of Coffee starting on Friday.

From the return of the three-day Upstate Art Weekend to a Here are some standout shows and exhibitions coming to the Hudson Valley in Summer 2021.