I've never been in a laundromat - until today. The past four years, I have had laundry facilities in my apartment buildings and while I admit I was more of a twice a month laundress, I guess I didn't know how inexpensive they were. My last apartment charged $1.50 for wash and $1 for dry. This laundromat, where my mom and I needed to go to wash her freakin' huge comforter, charged $3.75 per wash and 25 cents for each six minutes of drying. That's pricey, man. Despite that, there was something about the atmosphere that seemed so much less stressful than the laundry areas I have been familiar with. Part of that might have to do my insistence of trying to do laundry at 7 a.m. when I am convinced no one else will be awake and washing, wearing nothing but cut off sweatpants and a huge Sabres T-shirt. Then, I would run into the only football player I was ever friendly with in the elevator and pretend I had already showered and brushed my teeth, though that was not the case.
I don't know how I'm going to be a journalist, seeing as the laundromat musing was supposed to simply lead into my review of the other new coffee joint on Main. Nice tangent. Anyway, it's called Coffee Culture and I believe it's part of a Canadian franchise - though my deduction of this has to do with the Web site on the cup sleeve being .ca, not because I actually asked anyone (my reporting skills are a little rusty, it seems). Atmosphere-wise, the cafe seems a bit slicker than coffee places I choose as daily haunts. There are dark woods and leather couches that matched the suited business men and women seated at the various tables and booths. My estimation of the general clientele would be unfair because I was there around noon and at that time, who else would be there except business people from the Williamsville area getting coffee and mothers with children? Most of the high schools in the area are not out yet and Spot seems to have grabbed the college vote. The prices were reasonable and the coffee quite good. The winning point of the visit - excepting when the waitress recommended something on the Starbucks menu to me - was the blueberry scone. My dad and I are really into scones and this was probably the best I've ever had. So, go to Coffee Culture and get a one!
Funny coincidence I noticed reading the paper yesterday: In one of my recent entries I wrote about my love of "Chess" and how I thought a modern revival would be nice. Seems that a Josh Groban/Idina Menzel concert of it aired on PBS June 17 and I missed it! Looking up some YouTube videos of Menzel in "Chess: In Concert," I have to say I would have liked to see it, but she is no where near as appropriate for that role as when Julia Murney did it with Groban and (you guessed it!) Sutton Fostor. I'm for Menzel as much as any teenage girl with a "Rent" soundtrack and a "Wicked" T-shirt (things I already own), but her voice came out harsh in a number of places and she gave too much in "I Know Him So Well." Kerry Ellis was a nice touch though. One of the best "Someone Else's Story" renditions I've found, and that's one of my favorite theater songs period.
In a similar vein, I think that "Wicked" is becoming the new "Les Miserables" - everyone, it seems, has played Elphaba or Glinda just as for awhile it seemed like every tour bio you read had Eponine in an actress's credits. I suppose that's what happens when a show runs for a number of years but the more I've been looking into it the more surprised I got. I do have one to point out. Annaleigh Ashford was the lamest Glinda possible. She didn't seem to really succeed vocally, she was good but not great, and her version of "Popular" hadn't any pop at all. Then I clicked around and see she also played Elle in "Legally Blonde." Next, I'll see her as Cathy in "The Last Five Years" and realize that audiences love boring performers and decide to write a musical about working at a grocery store.
Unless you think that customers who ask for a half cheese, half pepperoni pizza, "But could you please put the same amount of pepperoni that you would weigh out for a whole pepperoni pizza on that half?" funny, which I do, then maybe Annaleigh has led to my life's calling.
"Double Cheese" A Musical Exploration of One Young Woman's Wish for Pizza Perfection.
That could also be an expose.
This is hilarious:
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