Built in 1927, the owner of the cement-covered, wood-frame haunt on South Tacoma Way has slowly but surely been restoring the ...

The patron called Snake gestures toward the blue-felt pool table in the coffeepot-shaped bar in Tacoma. “I call it the ‘pool ghost.’ Not everyone has seen it,” Snake told The News Tribune on a Monday ...

Bob’s Java Jive is a bar — a dive bar, to be more specific — in the truest sense of the name. Shaped like a big coffee pot, and stained by decades of cheap spilled beer and long nights, the South ...

Greg Olle, owner of the downtown coffeehouse and café, has been evicted after not paying rent since the fall. He said Tuesday would be his last day of business. Olle operated Java Jive at 198 Ezell St ...

Up-and-coming rock stars once came and went from Bob’s Java Jive. Go-go dancers performed on a greased wooden stage, and macaque monkeys lived in the backroom. The monkeys have left, and the ...

University of Alberta students know Java Jive well. The long-standing staple of Edmonton's coffee scene, with three shops on campus — two in HUB Mall and one in SUB — has been powering late-night cram ...

Tom Madden and Chuck Garrett had just returned from Hawaii and were looking work as musicians in the Boston area when they got a call offering them a job. They were drinking coffee at the time, and ...

QS/1 Data Systems has purchased the former home of Java Jive and the JM Smith subsidiary now owns almost the entire block of Ezell Street. The company bought the building at 198 Ezell St., which backs ...