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- Comedic Storytelling by Clay Cox (Video & Pics)
- Live “Comedic Storytelling” Broadcast Coming
- Cambridge Coffee Video
- Summer 2008 Favorite Coffee Shop Winner!
- The Gnu’s Letter
- A Letter to AC from Opelika’s Newest Coffee Shop
- Summer is Over…
- The Gnu’s letter - July 2008
- It’s Coming Soon
- Coffee for Summer
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Comedic Storytelling by Clay Cox (Video & Pics)
Did you miss our live video broadcast event? Well if you did or if you just want to watch it again here it is. This is an unedited video and since we started recording the event early for the benefit of our live viewers the actual program doesn’t start until 3 minutes in. You can start from the beginning or skip to 3 minutes in if you want. Enjoy!
Auburn local Clay Cox performed at AK’s Coffee on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 7:30pm. It was broadcast live on AuburnCoffee.com and this is the video that everyone watched online! This was Clay’s debut performance that will also be used for demo purposes.
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?
The Gnu’s letter - July 2008
The Gnu’s letter
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, July 11th at 7:00 p.m. our guest speaker will be Roma Davis. Roma is the owner of Aromatherapy and Massage Center in Auburn (AMC). She graduated from the Academy of Somatic Healing, and specializes in a combination of Swedish massage and neuromuscular massage. In 2006, AMC added a very powerful modality called Orthobionomy to their menu of services. Roma will be speaking about the health benefits to be gained from her areas of expertise, and will entertain questions from the audience.
Words Café Live!
In addition to the poets, storytellers and spoken word artists normally in attendance, this month’s event features the band, “Park Street.” They will be performing an acoustic set, which will be professionally recorded. Copies of the recording will be made available for later purchase at The Gnu’s Room. The event begins at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 12th.
JULY GNU BREW
Please join us on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. as Marian Carcache visits the store. Marian’s short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in Shenandoah, Chattahoochee Review, Southern Humanities Review, Bronte Society Transactions and other journals. Her work has been anthologized in Due South, Belles Lettres, Crossroads: Stories of the Southern Literary Fantastic, and most recently, Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers. Under the Arbor, an opera made from her short story and for which she wrote the libretto, appeared on PBS stations nationwide, was nominated for a regional Emmy, and was a finalist in the New York Festivals. She is recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’ 2003-2004 Fellowship Award for fiction.
Marian grew up in rural Russell County, Alabama and now lives in Auburn with her five dogs and her son nearby. She is studying homeopathy. Marian is also our Artist of the Month. Many of her photographs on display were taken in black and white in rural Russell and Lee counties and hand-tinted using photo oils.
BOOK SIGNING
On Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 4:00 p.m., we are pleased to welcome local author, Gina Lancaster. Gina is a 1986 graduate of Auburn University in Fine Arts. While at Auburn, she worked with the Biology Department illustrating textbooks, which are still in current use. As an artist and designer, Gina won many awards, including the prestigious ADDY award for creative excellence in advertising. In 1989, a rising star in the art world, she had an important show coming up, but the joy and excitement of that event was marred by the sudden death of her beloved brother. The show was a huge success for Gina, but the loss of her brother left her questioning her existence, and would eventually change the course of her life. Her next 20 years were spent discovering truths of generations past, and unearthing healing practices that are just as viable today as they were thousands of years ago.
Gina accumulated years of experience in making herbal remedies, and while studying for her Naturopathic Doctorate Degree, earned certificates in various healing fields including Hands on Healing, Acupressure, Homeopathic Medicine, Herbal Medicine, and Flower Remedies. The culmination of Gina’s research, experience, and training has been the recent publication of her book, In Search of a Cure: While Living Off a Dime. The book details over 1,200 simple and cost conscious remedies. Gina will discuss her book and sign copies.
THIS MONTH IN BOOKS
July 2, 1877 German novelist Hermann Hesse, who will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946 for his novel The Glass Bead Game (aka Magister Ludi), is born in a small town in the Black Forest.
July 4, 1981 On the 155th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s death, Dumas Malone, aged 89 and nearly blind, publishes The Sage of Monticello, the sixth and final volume of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jefferson.
July 8, 1915 H. G. Wells writes Henry James: “To you literature like painting has an end, to me literature like architecture is a means, it has a use.”
July 9, 1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and four other Jews in the Amsterdam warehouse behind her father’s business.
July 12, 1817 Henry David Thoreau is born in Concord, Massachusetts. He will publish only two books in his lifetime: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, and Walden, or Life in the Woods.
July 16, 1951 Little, Brown publishes J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
July 17, 1889 Attorney and author Erle Stanley Gardner is born in Madden, Massachusetts. Many of his more than 100 novels (written under his own name and the pen name A. A. Fair) will feature lawyer Perry Mason.
July 23, 1880 Mystery writer Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely; The Big Sleep) is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will be educated in England, France, and Germany, and travel widely before settling in California, which forms the background for his novels.
July 24, 1880 Alexandre Dumas (The Man in the Iron Mask) is born in Villers-Cotterets, France. Since he uses ghostwriters for his formula novels, it will be said: “nobody has read everything of Dumas, not even Dumas himself.”
July 29, 1805 Statesman and writer Alexis de Tocqueville is born in Paris. After a two-year stay in the United States, he will publish Democracy in America (1835–40).
“If I could I would work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
- Emily Bronte
It’s Coming Soon
We’re going to name ‘Auburn’s Favorite Coffee Shop’ as voted by Auburn Coffee visitors before the end of this month. If you have not voted yet please do on the left side of this page. If you have a favorite coffee shop that’s not winning be sure to pass the word to your friends to come vote. This is our summer competition and we will give the award before starting our fall competition in early August.
Coffee for Summer
Well, unfortunately it is almost the end of June. Summer is flying by and for some is already half way over. As I ponder this I sip my cookies and creme milkshake I picked up from AK’s. I’m probably going to check out the “Frozen Hot Chocolate Peanut Butter” drink from Toomer’s some time next week. It was highly recommended by a friend and the oxymoron has me intreaged. I’ll probably make the rounds to a few other shops and try come more coffee related summer treats during July and into the fall. So, that being said, what are you cooling down with & where are you getting it?
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