Everyone is getting into the news roundup business these days, and Oren’s is merely the latest to hop on the bandwagon.

Whilst searching for a thirst-quenching, heart-stimulating, ice-laden beverage, one Bwogger came across the small coffee chain’s attempt to compete with Google News:

Referring to three recent events, the sign would be unremarkable were it not positioned just above the (conspicuously empty) tips jar.

Finally, a business model that works.

-AB

The perennially generous Oren’s Daily Roast does it again! Or rather, will do it again, in about an hour. Between 4:00 and 7:00, pick up a free 12-ounce coffee at Morningside Heights’ favorite alternative to Starbucks (besides the Hungarian Pastry Shop and every single on-campus establishment that accepts Flex).

Oren’s is calling it a “tax break,” but students are more likely to call it “the only thing that makes attending a 6:10 CC class even remotely possible.” Enjoy.

In which Bwog correspondent CML alights from the stygian sauna that is Woodbridge Residence Hall to nestle himself between the facade of Cardomat and the awning of Oren’s Daily Roast, to document a picaresque evening of rare chess camaraderie.

When you think of chess, you think of bearded Slavs with vodka on their breath, sterile cafeterias filled with five year-olds waiting to go home and play Super Smash Bros., and Garry Kasparov, the Mike Gravel of Russia.  And when you think of chess in New York, what probably comes to mind are a few sepia-toned tableaux from ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’ – bums in Washington Square, tyrannical tutors, kids developing scoliosis from hunching over a board for hours a day, and so on.  

But chess in Morningside Heights?  Read more…

Looks like the baristas over at Oren’s Daily Roast are getting hard up for tips. Bwog is generally skeptical of those who exploit cute animals for monetary gain, but is willing to give them points for originality.