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Live “Comedic Storytelling” Broadcast Coming
We will be broadcasting a live performance of “Comedic Storytelling” next week right here on Auburn Coffee. We are planning on capturing the live video performance of a local guy at a local coffee shop and broadcasting it on the front page of AuburnCoffee.com. We wanted to go ahead and give you a heads up so that you could plan to watch.
Right now it is tentatively scheduled for:
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
7:30pm
We will fill you in on more of the details closer to the event. Thanks for stopping by and we hope you can tune in to see this great upcoming event!
Cambridge Coffee Video
I stopped by Cambridge for a Cafe Americano, which was great by the way, and talked the girls behind the counter into doing a quick video for you guys here on AuburnCoffee.com! It’s the first video we’ve shot to publish on a website and we did put the girls on the spot but we think they did a great job! It was shot on an iPhone so we’ll work on sound and quality later. I hope you enjoy this video from Mama Sarah & Lacey from Cabmridge Coffee on College St. across from campus and next to J&M Bookstore.
Cambridge Coffee is open from 7a-10p M-Sa & 8a-8p on Sunday.
If you work at another coffee shop in town and want us to come by and do a video for you please contact us using our contact page and leave a phone number so we can arrange a time. Thanks!
Summer 2008 Favorite Coffee Shop Winner!
We have a winner for our summer 2008 favorite coffee shop poll which had a total of 205 votes. Toomer’s Coffee has officially become “AuburnCoffee.com’s Summer 2008 Favorite Coffee Shop Award Winner” which also makes them our first official winner. We have given them the online award and look forward now to our Fall poll.
For records sake, Toomer’s Coffee Came in first place, AK’s Coffee came in second and Dog & Pony Coffee in the Gnu’s Room came in third. We thank everyone for participating in our summer poll and we encourage you to vote in our recently launched Fall 2008 poll. This is a brand new poll that could have a brand new winner. Everyone shop is still eligable to win and all of our guest get a new chance to vote.Make sure to promote our site and your favorite shop to give them a shot at winning our next contest!
Again, congratulations to Toomer’s Coffee for being out Summer 2008 winner!
The Gnu’s Letter
August 2008
The Gnu’s Room Bookstore & Coffee house
Summer Hours of Operation:
Monday—Closed Tue through Sat—9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sunday—Closed
Science Café Auburn
On Friday August 8th at 7:00 p.m. our guest speaker will be Dr. Robert Meadows, Sr. DC, CCEP of Meadows Family Chiropractic. Dr. Meadows is a National Upper Cervical Doctor (NUCCA) and a Certified Chiropractic Extremities Practitioner (CCEP).
Book Signing
Larry Williamson, author of the novel Tallapoosa and Over the River, Long Ago, a collection of short stories, will be speaking and signing copies of his books at The Gnu’s Room on Saturday, August 9th at 4:00 p.m. Larry spent his youth playing, exploring and working on the banks of the Tallapoosa River, which splits his hometown of Tallassee, Alabama. He developed a lifelong fascination and love of the river and its rich heritage. A graduate of Auburn University in engineering, Larry has taught high school math and coached football and track for more than thirty years.
AUGUST GNU BREW
Please join us on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. as the Auburn Area Community Theatre (AACT) makes its second annual appearance at The Gnu’s Room. Each year AACT hosts Summer Stages, an acting and directing workshop, open to the public and free of charge. Some of the short scenes performed during Summer Stages will be performed again The Gnu’s Room. Last year’s event was a huge success enjoyed by both the entertainers and the entertained. Come a bit early for the best seats!
Auburn Area Community Theatre is a non-profit corporation that exists to serve the Auburn/Opelika Community. Its purpose is to: present a quality, entertaining and thought-provoking theatre experience to the community, provide a venue for artists and artisans to collaborate and create theatrical presentations of great value to the community, to offer to the people of the Auburn/Opelika Area an opportunity for education and participation in the world of theatre, offer the youth of the Auburn/Opelika Area an outstanding chance to explore a fascinating world where fantasy comes alive, and grow and develop with the community. Auburn Area Community Theatre is a member of the Auburn Arts Association.
THIS MONTH IN BOOKS
Aug 4, 1873 The author of 168 fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, dies in
Copenhagen at the age of 68.
Aug 8, 1896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is born in Washington, D.C. Her novel, The Yearling, will win the Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
Aug 11, 1937 Ernest Hemingway rips open his shirt to display his chest hair and punches Max Eastman in the nose in Maxwell Perkins’ office.
Aug 16, 1949 Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind), 48, dies in Atlanta shortly after being struck down by a taxi.
Aug 18, 1782 Poet William Blake, 24, marries Catherine Sophia Boucher, an illiterate whom he will teach to share his love of literature.
Aug 20, 1831 Nikolai Gogol visits the printers to oversee the production of Evenings on a Farm, finds the typesetters greatly amused by the proofs, and concludes that he will be “an author entirely to the taste of the common people.”
Aug 23, 1851 Honore de Balzac’s most successful play, Mercadet le Faiseur, opens at the Gymnase in Paris, one year and five days after his death.
Aug 27, 1660 Because of John Milton’s attacks on King Charles II, books written by the poet are burned in London.
Aug 31, 1946 Hiroshima by John Hersey appears complete in The New Yorker.
The Gnu’s Room Bookstore
& Coffee House
414 S Gay St
Auburn, AL
Phone: 334-821-5550
Fax: 334-821-5550
Email: tina@thegnusroom.com
Good books…Great Coffee
A Letter to AC from Opelika’s Newest Coffee Shop
This is an email we received from Red Door June owner Rick Lanier that we thought we’d post for you. We always enjoy and desire as much interaction as we can get from our local coffee shops and this is an example of some great open communication.
To Auburn Coffee:
Just wanted to drop a post to say thanks for mentioning our soft opening on AC and to let everyone know that both the coffee and floral sides of the house are operating at full capacity and doing well “by the tracks” in Opelika.
Also, I would like to personally invite AC and everyone visiting this great site back to rdj for another visit and for a great cup of coffee and pastry.
Thanks again and I look forward to seeing you at red door june coffee and floral soon.
Sincerely,
Rick Lanier
Owner
Summer is Over…
Well at least my obsession with cold coffee has burnt out. Almost all summer I am sure that I’ve only had about two or three hot coffees at the shops. I still have them at home but the local coffee shop had turned into the smoothie, milkshake & iced coffee shop. Well, for about a week now I have been back on the Hot stuff. I mean the burn your tongue and like it kinda stuff. I know what it is that pushes us to the cold stuff in long Alabama summers but now that I’ve given back over to all hot drinks it’s like you don’t know what your missing until it’s gone.
It’s like I’ve never had a Cafe Americano or Creme Brulee. I can’t get enough and unlike I usually am I’m not even trying new stuff right now. I pretty much get the same two things every trip.
So, enough about me. Am I in the majority here in being worn out on cold drinks are is everyone going to ride the wave ’til winter?
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