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 ...

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 ...

In July 2005, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based consumer advocacy group, called for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to mandate warning labels on caffeinated soda ...

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 ...

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 ...