Category Archives: History

The Western Front: Bellingham has chosen: BBJ readers’ choice awards include Black Drop

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Scot Casey

Bellingham School of Comics at the Black Drop
From an article in the Western Front by Kevin Kenney:
The Bellingham Business Journal released its 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards on Feb. 11. Several hundred Bellingham Business Journal readers selected 15 local businesses from a variety of categories, said Evan Marczynski, a Western Washington University graduate and reporter for [...]

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The Black Drop is awarded Best Place for Free Wi-Fi by the Bellingham Business Journal

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Scot Casey

Thanks to Bellingham Business Journal and its readers for voting the Black Drop as Best Place for Free WiFi (insert interrobang here). I am assuming this also includes “and also drink beautiful coffee.” Also, kudos to Cafe Adagio for the latte win. Cheers!
Bellingham Business Journal’s 2013 Reader’s Choice Awards
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A Paen to the Black Drop in a Parody of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Scot Casey

My sister, Shannon, teaches at Sehome. For one of her classes, she asked her students to write a parody of the poem Chicago by Carl Sandburg. One of her students, Forrest Meyer, a very clever and intelligent student in my opinion, chose to write his poem about The Black Drop. It is beautiful. Thanks, Forrest. Give [...]

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Ten Years of Amazing Coffee at the Black Drop

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Scot Casey

[ November 25, 2012; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ]

The Black Drop Coffee House is celebrating 10 years of amazing coffee. To show our thanks for the support of the Bellingham community, we are having an Open House on Sunday, November 25th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m..

All day long we will have free cups of our award winning coffee, always freshly roasted at [...]

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Good Time Girls Tickets Available at the Black Drop

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Scot Casey

Just a reminder that we have tickets for the Good Time Girls Sin and Gin tour. $20 cash or check. This weekend, with with weather looking beautiful, would be an excellent time to take an enlightening stroll into Bellingham’s fascinating and prurient past with two of the loveliest of the lovely ladies of our town.

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Black Drop Wins Best Coffeehouse and Best Barista in Cascadia Weekly Best of Bellingham!

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Scot Casey

From the Cascadia Weekly:
With ample (and growing) competition, Black Drop continues to rank as our readers’ favorite place to sip coffee while they read or chat. If anything, allegience to the cozy kaffeeklatsch has grown even more dear since employees bought the business in 2009. Great people serve the great coffee, [...]

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From The Black Drop Archives: Videos from Peepfest 2009

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Scot Casey

Just discovered these via livejournal. Thanks to Robert. Fair warning: there is the vomiting of peeps involved.

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In an effort to win the Gross-Out award, Ryan taunts other PeepFest contestants by eating his own Peep vomit from his bucket.
AND THERE IS ALSO THIS:

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After winning PeepFest by eating 101 Peeps, Martin hoarks them back up [...]

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