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'Tis the season for holiday entertaining - the time of year when friends and family gather to indulge in good food, good times, laughter and holiday cheer.

As we mentioned Monday , the second Seattle coffee shop to front Starbucks' experiment in re-branded retail opened in Capitol Hill at 6 a.m. today.

Kristen held up her soggy cardboard sign and jiggled it back and forth as the people walked by.

When people around the world try to explain the American system of entrepreneurship, they often point to venture capital.

Starbucks has also opened 15th Street Coffee & Tea in Seattle. Yesterday, Roy Street Coffee & Tea opened in Seattle.

I visited the Pacific Northwest quite a bit in the early 1990s. Seattle struck me as having a definite coffee hue, just as many other cities have a predominant colour .

The instant coffee war is heating up. A month after Starbucks' Via invaded Nestle's coveted turf, the giant Swiss food maker has mounted a spirited counter offensive, passing out free samples of its Nescafe Taster's Choice instant coffee across several key U.S. cities.

Maveron LLC, a Seattle venture capital firm co-founded by Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz, will announce today that it is opening a San Francisco office, bucking the contraction trend sweeping the sector.

Dog trainer to the stars Mark Stover is missing and presumed dead. Mark Stover built a name for himself in the dog-training world with his alpha-male attitude and ability to turn bad dogs good.

The home of Starbucks and Microsoft has hatched its own approach to the politics of gay marriage.

In the realm of championship trophies, there's the World Cup, the Stanley Cup, and now the K-Cup. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters ' Keurig single-cup brewers -- and the K-Cup portion packs that fuel them -- continue to sell briskly.

As part of a broader effort to reduce the company's energy use 25 percent by the end of 2010, coffee giant Starbucks Coffee Company today announced two major energy-saving initiatives.

Skagit County prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges today against a Kennewick man accused of killing T. Mark Stover, a charismatic dog trainer whose clients included a host of Pacific Northwest celebrities including Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz and Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki.

The Seattle Times reported that several top executives at Starbucks received restricted stock awards this week.

Starbucks Corp.'s Via instant coffee has outperformed expectations in the seven weeks since it was introduced in the U.S., the coffee shop chain's chief executive, Howard Schultz, said Thursday.

Before they went home for Veterans' Day, the General Court finalized a compromise veterans' bill that expands the benefits first put forth in the "Welcome Home" Bill in 2005.

Starbucks' industry-leading design initiatives help reduce environmental footprint of global store operations; collaborations with U.S. Green Building Council and GE produce scalable solutions for a greener retail business.

Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz said McDonald's Corp's McCafe launch earlier this year made the cafe chain better.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, reports its third-quarter earnings on Thursday before the market opens.

Mark Stover was the Pacific Northwest's dog-trainer-to-the-stars. He taught obedience to the pets of Pearl Jam and Nirvana, Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz and Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki.