Alex Bloom
World News Beat
January 30, 2017By: Alex Bloom, and Mathew Fong USA – US-Mexico border wall to be built and higher security in the US refugee program to be implemented President Donald Trump’s early campaign promise to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border has been placed in an order and signed to follow through with the plan. Trump has also devised a plan to strengthen border security and to act in the removal of the approximate 11 million undocumented immigrants. Per the executive order, there would be an immediate increase in the investigative process of deeming a refugee’s status as valid, as well…
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Coffee, Tragedy, History: Joe’s Cafe: cappuccino and conversation
October 6, 2014The self proclaimed purveyor of the “best cappuccino in town,” Joe’s is an ancient inhabitant of Commercial Drive. Opened about 40 years ago, Joe’s has remained unchanged. It’s a reminder of another time, when coffee was not just a drink…
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Coffee, Tragedy, History: Forty Ninth Parallel
July 21, 2014Coffee and a good donut: A beautiful combination. The only problem with this pairing, however, is that so many of the places that make great donuts don’t make very good coffee and vice versa. Forty Ninth Parallel is the solution…
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Coffee, Tragedy, History: Café Deux Soleils
July 7, 2014Hip-hop plays over the loudspeakers, the smell of garlic, onions, and coffee hangs heavy in the air, and a mustachioed chef dances as he cooks. Café Deux Soleils has been a fixture on Commercial Drive for as long as I…
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Coffee, Tragedy, History: Musette
June 9, 2014It started like all good things do: from something vague I heard in passing. I heard from my friend that my other friend’s dad mentioned some cyclist café in an alley somewhere — the thought stuck in my head.…
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Coffee, Tragedy, History: Blaq Sheep Coffee
May 20, 2014You may be scratching your head as you read the title of this new column: Coffee, Tragedy, History? This, dear reader, is (I hope) the first in a series of articles in which I will evaluate cafés and restaurants based…
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Poet’s Corner: Coffee house
November 18, 2013Pound down the pavement Rain is falling, on me, on my hair, on my face, on my back, all of me I’m soaked It’s miserable out It’s beautiful out Open the glass door to coffee house Door to another world…
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Vegan hospitalized after potential ingestion of trace amounts of egg
October 15, 2013VANCOUVER — A distraught vegan was submitted to Vancouver General Hospital last week claiming to be “tainted.” Zach Whitney, a 27-year-old vegan man, checked himself into the hospital Saturday at approximately 3pm, telling emergency staff that he had ingested some…
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