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Melissa L. Caldwell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the founder of the UCSC Design Anthropology Fab Lab, and past editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies. A fieldworking ethnographer, her research examines how and why people help one another and how ordinary acts of compassion turn into forms of social activism that respond to pressing social and political issues. She has been conducting ethnographic research in Russia and postsocialist Europe since the early 1990s, and has recently begun research in Hong Kong and the United State...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — State and local officials are mobilizing efforts to stave off the negative impact of Koffee Kup’s decision to shutter its Vermont operations, including the closure of its Brattleboro subsidiary, Vermont Bread Company, that eliminated more than 90 local jobs. The closures were announced suddenly on Monday. According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in “turnaround management and acquisitions,” Koffee Kup had been struggling to make ends meet for the past four years. “For...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — Koffee Kup and its subsidiary in Brattleboro, Vermont Bread Company, were shuttered Monday morning, resulting in a loss of more than 90 local jobs. According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in “turnaround management and acquisitions,” Koffee Kup had been struggling to make ends meet for the past four years. “For each of the last four years Koffee Kup has suffered substantial financial losses and was unable to find a way out of their troubles,” states the news release,...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — State and local officials are mobilizing efforts to stave off the negative impact of Koffee Kup’s decision to shutter its Vermont operations, including the closure of its Brattleboro subsidiary, Vermont Bread Company, that eliminated more than 90 local jobs. The closures were announced suddenly on Monday. According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in “turnaround management and acquisitions,” Koffee Kup had been struggling to make ends meet for the past four years. “For...

click to enlarge Margrit Wenzel Despite their .cafe domain extension, the new Stone Ridge establishment Black Dot resists classification. “We don’t really like to put ourselves in a box,” says co-owner Salvatore Carbone (Sal for short). “So we just called it Black Dot. Not Black Dot Cafe, not Black Dot Coffee Shop.” It’s just Black Dot, period. They do serve coffee, but that’s just part of it. The Black Dot ex...