Month Archives: July 2025

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Starbucks’ biggest threat just came to the U.S. Luckin Coffee opens two NYC locations

In potentially the biggest threat to Starbucks since other companies figured out that they, too, could market pumpkin-spice flavored treats, Luckin Coffee, China’s biggest coffee chain, opened its first US stores yesterday with two outposts in New York City. If you haven’t...

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Belly Dancing, Sol Bloom & the Middle East

In 1867 nineteen-year-old Brooklyn-born painter Edwin Blashfield traveled to Paris to study with Léon Bonnat whose studio attracted French and foreign students (John Singer Sargent was another American attendee).The young painter enjoyed his apprenticeship and spent a considerable time exploring...

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