Why weekly Starbucks Watch and not weekly Tully’s Watch? We have no idea, really. We don’t even go there that often [this is being typed from Solstice]. It just started one day and refuses to die.
This week is all about features!

1. Remember when you used to joke with friends about the utter lameness of U-Village when they added a second Starbucks? Those were the days … But, here we are reporting innovation from yuppieville. In this town of scarce twenty-four hour options, the U-Village Starbucks breaks new ground by making one of it’s stores open all night. Evidently, proximity to frequent professional all-hours studiers at the UW prompted the change.

   The second fascinating part of this story is that the U-Village Starbucks is that the world’s second busiest. Maybe Husky dedication to scholarship will allow Seattle to claim the title from Tokyo. [uwdaily]

2. We’d been passing the sidewalk advertisements without having any idea that Seattle was a test market for the new Hear Music CD burning stations until we read about it in last month’s Esquire. So we, along with spiritual brethren Austinites, are among the first in the world to see how we like the experience of pairing cozy furniture with high-tech gadgetry to facilitate custom coffee mix-CD making. Has anyone tried it?

   Maybe I’ll check it out on my walk home from work one of these days. We’ve always been a little afraid of the Olive Way Starbucks (how can it continue to exist in the shadow of so many great indies?), but the lure of newness and LCDs could draw us inside, in the name of scientific exploration.

3. The Starbucks-produced Ray Charles album, Genius Loves Company took home eight grammophones at last weekend’s Academy of Recording Artists Awards. Has Tully’s produced a Grammy Award winning album? We didn’t think so.

Yes, there was an item three in that ____ watch feature. Just because we love you.

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