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Feb 20 2012
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The Starbucks Trenta Is Real…And It’s Coming

It was over a year ago (Jan 11, 2011) when we learned that Starbucks would be introducing their new “Trenta” – a cup that holds 31 fluid ounces. Trenta was supposed to be hitting stores May 3, 2011 but Seattle locations never saw it. I assumed that maybe the corporation was just not going forward with the idea, but it turns out the cup was released in just a few states at first. Come March 6th – the Trenta is ours here in Seattle! Get ready to have your favorite cold drink fill a cup that holds more liquid than the average human stomach. I guess that means you’ll have to plan your bathroom trips accordingly…

I can’t wait to take a picture of this cup next to my head…bout to be ridiculous.

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Jan 03 2012
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Starbucks Shop Made of Recycled Shipping Containers

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In Seattle, you will never run into the problem of not being able to find a Starbucks. It’s everywhere just like it is in every other city! Even when you’re not in Seattle, you can’t escape the coffee shop because they have branded themselves so well that even before you become a coffee drinker you already know everything about the company or at least the most important facts anyways. What I love about Starbucks is that they never stop surprising their customers and are continually taking their appearances to the next level. The newer logo is a little bit on the minimalistic side, sure, but in the Capitol Hill neighborhood the aesthetic of the shops differ from each other pretty drastically.

The Starbucks shop across the street from Seattle University recently went through a makeover in the last year or two and has adopted a more industrialized feel. For some time, one Starbucks shop was a shop in disguise with the same menu items under a different name instead of Starbucks. Another Starbucks location on the hill serves wine! It’s a little different, but that is what sets them apart from everyone else.

Now, if you find yourself in Tukwila, Washington, you must stop by the newest Starbucks location constructed entirely out of four recycled shipping containers. Not only is it resourceful and up to LEED green building standards, but check out those angles! I am digging the sharpness of it.

Check out more pictures and how this design came about here.

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Oct 16 2011
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In the News…

Fashion

- Look at this random editorial with Chloe Moretz and Keanu Reeves for Harper’s Bazaar. [Source]

- Miranda Kerr will model a $2.5m bejeweled bra at next month’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show. [Source]

- Karl Lagerfeld shot Elizabeth Olsen in an exclusive photoshoot that will be featured in a new coffee table book. [Source]

- The Gap will close 189 locations by the end of 2013. I don’t like the sound of this… [Source]

-Adam Levine and model girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna have gone nude for Russian Vogue’s November 2011 cover. There’s some weird Photoshop done to Adam Levine’s torso though…see for yourself! [Source]

Music

- Rick Ross suffered multiple seizures today while flying. [Source]

- Taylor Swift has already recorded 25 songs for her next album. [Source]

- Fans of Justin Bieber reacted negatively after hearing how he kissed another girl while filming his new music video “Mistletoe.” Oh hmm I thought music videos were real life. [Source]

- Google is planning to open a music store. It is highly doubtful that it will be something better than iTunes, but who cares anyways because I just use Spotify. [Source]

- Pitchfork will introduce a new music festival to New York this February and will be run by Bowery. This will be the first festival, I believe, to kick off all other spring music festivals. [Source]

Television

- ABC has cancelled Charlie’s Angels. I always wanted to catch an episode – guess I never will now! [Source]

- Casey Anthony will be the next person to be highlighted in E!’s True Hollywood Story. Since when was she considered Hollywood? [Source]

- The cast of the new season for Celebrity Apprentice has just been announced. [Source]

- HBO will be developing a one-hour long television series based on “The Kids Are All Right.” [Source]

- Beginning January 2012, Netflix will begin streaming CW shows. [Source]

Movies

- Plot details have been revealed for Taken 2. [Source]

- Harry Potter’s “Crabbe” is a mean guy in real life! [Source]

- Cam’ron and Queen Latifah are collaborating on a new film company. [Source]

Seattle

- To celebrate University Village’s new Microsoft store opening, they are hosting a special event for the first 200 people to visit their store on Thursday, October 20th. Those 200 people will have the option of choosing a private performance from either The Black Keys or One Republic on Friday or Saturday respectively. [Source]

- Rumor has it that Starbucks will be unveiling a new line of cold pressed juices to sell in their stores. Um wut is a cold pressed juice. [Source]

- The incident of the tip stiffing that went down last weekend at Cha Cha’s has spiraled out of control. Turns out the guy that did it has a common name and everyone with his name is just getting the blame for it. The attempt at making one person look bad has actually backfired. [Source]

- 97 new restaurants have opened in Seattle in the last couple of weeks. The majority of them are on Capitol Hill. YES! [Source]

Other

- Former Disney actress Brenda Song and former Metro Station frontman and Miley Cyrus’s brother Trace Cyrus are engaged. Spawn child here we come! [Source]

- Maxim names Paula Deen as the ‘Hottest Female TV Chef’ [Source]

- Hollywood homes have hit the market. [Source]

- Hilary Duff is having a baby boy. Even though she’s 24, she’ll always be Lizzie McGuire to me. [Source]

- Lindsay Lohan reportedly wants to have a baby by the end of next year. Yeah I don’t think things happen like that… [Source]

- The world is also terrified by her teeth. [Source]

- Georgetown University will be offering a new 3-credit course called “Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z.” [Source]

- Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are having a boy. [Source]

- College admission officers are checking the Facebook profiles and other social media pages of their applicants. [Source]

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Oct 05 2011
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Purchase: Water Bottle

My “green-conscious” friends are going to hate for me this post, but I finally purchased my very own water bottle! For the past few weeks, I’ve been getting the h2o at Starbucks out of a plastic cup to bring to school mostly because of convenience, but this morning I decided that enough was enough. The people at Starbucks must think I am crazy and I am just being lazy by not bringing my own water so I purchased a Camelbak Groove .6L in seafoam green! I’d say that I’m really excited to try it out, but I’m not sure how much more exciting this could  be.

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Sep 23 2011
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Timeline of Logos

Stock Logos created an interesting timeline of logos relevant to our culture today that highlight the past, present and future. I would hope that Starbucks’ logo will be more than just a green blob in 2041, but at the rate they’re going at you just never know.

Check out some other popular logos and their timelines here.

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Sep 20 2011
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Starbucks Fashion

CFDA designers Alexander Wang, Billy Reid and Sophie Theallet have recently collaborated with Starbucks to create a line of “fashion-forward” tees for their 40th birthday celebration. I never would have penned the company to dip their feet in the fashion world, but I actually find the collaboration to be kind of cool. One tee in the collection is designed to look as if you have spilled a cup of coffee on yourself and will be sold for $85 both in stores and online. For free, you could spill your own coffee on yourself and get the same look. Would you pay $85 for this t-shirt?

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Sep 11 2011
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2011 Bumbershoot Recap

Well, I’m officially the last person to write a Bumbershoot recap/review post, but here it is! Better late than never, right? I had so much fun at this year’s 2011 Bumbershoot music festival at Seattle Center. After skipping it last year, I felt right at home returning to the music fest I  grew up loving. Thank you to everyone at One Reel for putting all of their hard work into making this year’s festival one great event.

Bands I saw:

Saturday:

  • Campfire OK
  • Craft Spells
  • Champagne Champagne
  • Natasha Kmeto
  • Emancipator
  • Pickwick
  • Little Dragon
  • STRFKR
  • Minus the Bear

Sunday

  • Mad Rad
  • Broken Social Scene
  • Tennis
  • Warpaint
  • Macklemore
  • Toro y Moi
  • The Kills

Monday

  • Head Like a Kite
  • Big Boi
  • Lemolo
  • Charles Bradley
  • Sharon Van Etten
  • Phantogram

Oh yes, it was a long and exhausting weekend, but I would do it all over again. While there were many incredible acts every day of the festival, I think my favorite would have to be Saturday. I was extremely proud of coffeehaus alums – Campfire OK and Champagne Champagne who just gave it their all on stage that day. Below are my reviews for my top six acts from last weekend:

Campfire OK

There was no better way to kick off my Bumbershoot weekend than with a set by local band Campfire OK. At noon, I found myself front row at the Fountain Lawn Stage bracing myself for the high-energy packed performance that the band is notorious for putting on. Campfire OK is a band with an immense amount of passion, talent and potential for growth. I don’t know about most people, but it is a rare sight to catch me dancing at noon. Only a band like Campfire OK can make me do something that crazy, but it turns out I wasn’t the only one this weekend, because everyone around me was groovin’ along to their songs. Campfire OK’s lasting impression on me came from the fact that the band enjoyed performing for us as much as I enjoyed watching them. If the crowd was dancing, the band members on stage were dancing much harder. Lead singer Mychal pounced on the keys of his piano in a manner of organized chaos while the lovely Melodie Knight engaged the crowd in hand claps. Anytime I heard a solo coming from the band’s magnificent trumpet player, I, along with everyone else, was instantly mesmerized. Believe me when I say that this is only the beginning for Campfire OK, because I am predicting great things for their future, including an upcoming album!

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Aug 18 2011
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Who Will Get the Pumpkin Spice Latte First?

Starting next week, Starbucks will introduce a new challenge to their fans on Facebook revolving around their popular seasonal drink, the Pumpkin Spice Latte. Fans will compete to show how badly they want the drink to be released first in their city for the season and the winning city will receive the drink one week earlier than the rest of the world!

[The Facebook application] will include three different points-based activities. Beverage fans can earn points for city shout-outs, solving a daily challenge or making a daily creation.

A daily challenge might task a Facebook user to watch a video and answer trivia questions, Wheeler says. A daily creation, for instance, would have a user create and share a postcard for his or her city. “We’re providing the tools for users to create art and promote it,” Wheeler adds.

The contest will run from August 22nd-26th and the winning cities will receive the drink on August 30th.

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Aug 14 2011
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Starbucks Wedding Proposal

If I could feature all of my favorite weddings, engagement parties, and proposals on Yow Yow! they would cover the entire front page of this website! Three hours – maybe more than three hours – have gone by and I am still perusing the pages of Green Wedding Shoes making sure that I haven’t skipped any posts since I last read it on June 18th. I’ve already gone through 25 pages! There were several weddings that I wanted to show to you all today, but the one that I will be featuring today is an absolutely adorable Starbucks themed proposal. Shane and Mikaela had their first date at Starbucks and when he proposed to her, he wanted to make sure that she remembered where they started. He created a Starbucks set up in the middle of the woods making sure that everything was perfect to the last detail. I cannot handle things like this. Almost every post that I have read has made me squeal with joy and shake with giggles. I’ve never described giggling in that way before, but that’s exactly what happened.

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Jul 12 2011
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Starbucks’ Bistro Boxes

Today, Starbucks unveiled a new line of meals each under 500 calories. To be honest, I was surprised to find that this was new because I thought they were already a part of the brand. I mean, let’s be real, they’ve got all of their bases covered. I actually am pretty excited about these new bistro boxes though because I think they’d be perfect meals for when I’m on the go. So which one will I try first…the sesame noodles or the tuna salad? Who knows?

For now, check out the rest of the boxes here or try them out at your local Starbucks.

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Jul 12 2011
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Starbucks Spelling

You can’t give great service without misspelling a few names!

Can you blame those baristas? They are making your coffee and toasting your Hawaiian bagels within mere minutes so what does it matter that they totally and completely butcher your name? Oh yeah – because the misspelling makes you worried that your barista may have missed elementary school or the year in which you were supposed to learn the alphabet.

[Winnie]

To view all of the poor misspellings, click here.

 

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Jul 10 2011
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A Collection Part 25

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May 20 2011
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In the News…

Fashion

- Miss Hailee Steinfeld is officially the new face of Miu Miu. [Source]

- Justin Bieber is launching a fragrance for his fans called “Someday.” [Source]

Music

- People sometimes forget that riders exist for bands and musicians. Fulfilling Katy Perry’s sounds a little bit like a nightmare. [Source]

- Selena Gomez’s new album cover is somewhat questionable. [Source]

- Lady Gaga and Starbucks are collaborating on a scavenger hunt together! (Not sure what this means because I’m too lazy to read all the text and this is also the most random pairing ever, but here you go!) [Source]

- Friendly Fires released their new album “Pala” yesterday. [Source]

- Lady Gaga was named Forbes’ top celebrity. [Source]

- Glee’s Matthew Morrison will join The Backstreet Boys and The New Kids on the Block on their tour this summer. [Source]

Television

- Kat Dennings makes her return to television in her new CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls. [Source]

- The judges from the current season of NBC’s The Voice will return for season two. [Source]

- Saturday Night Live promo Justin Timberlake

- Who’s getting excited for the return of Pretty Little Liars?! Summer TELEVISION, you are mine.

Seattle

- Starting today, you can now dine at Capitol Hill’s newest restaurant Skillet Diner and purchase your Capitol Hill Block Party tickets!

- This Saturday is Seattle University’s Quadstock, but as I’m sure you already know… it is for students only! Lucky us!

- Since you can’t make it to Quadstock, you should head on over to Cal Anderson for the first ever four-on-four dodge ball tournament. Sounds brutal. [Source]

oh Capitol Hill Seattle – you really are one of my favorite blogs!

Other

- Model Lily Aldridge married Kings of Leon front man Caleb Followill last week in a custom-made Vera Wang wedding gown. [Source]

- Vogue Editor-in-Chief’ Anna Wintour’s daughter Bee Shaffer has fled to LA to work alongside Glee’s head honcho Ryan Murphy. While Bee is not working with Glee specifically, she is assisting him with his many projects that may or may not include Glee’s 3-d movie. [Source]

- Essie’s Summer 2011 Brazilliant collection is on my must-have list. [Source]

- James Franco has graduated from New York University. Which school will he end up at next? Correct answer – University of Houston in the fall. [Source]

- Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Patrick is trying to drop his father’s name to take his mother’s. [Source]

- Kia Grasty describes what it is like to clean up after “privileged” college students who are the sons and daughters of well-known people in the industry for a living with a $140,000 salary. [Source]

- A Hello Kitty theme park will debut in China in 2014. OH MY GOODNESS! [Source]

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Apr 22 2011
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Flavorpill Seattle Launch

On a typical day, my schedule kind of looks like this:

  • Work
  • School
  • Work
  • Homework
  • (Blog)

Yeah, sometimes blogging gets the shaft, but c’mon I’m a full time student! If I’m lucky and have a small amount of commitments during the week, I can attempt at reading just a few of my 25 daily reads that I am supposed to check every day. HOBviously, I don’t ever get that far. We’ve established that Thursdays are good evenings for us.

Well, I just decided to add another daily read because one of my favorite culture blogs, Flavorwire, will be launching their focus blog on my lovely hometown called Flavorpill Seattle sponsored by Starbucks. Stay tuned for details by visiting Flavorwire here.

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Apr 21 2011
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Starbucks Celebrates Earth Day!

Hi readers!

Don’t forget to participate in Earth Day tomorrow by bringing your reusable mug or tumbler to Starbucks for free brewed coffee or tea. You can get it either hot or iced – personally – I would go with iced since I hear it’s supposed to be a nice day in Seattle tomorrow.

Enjoy!

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