Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• March 29, 2023
IKEA may stand for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnayrd, but in my eyes, it stands for IKEA Keeps Everything Amazing. Every piece of furniture that I have bought and assembled from IKEA has been an amazing...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• March 15, 2023
Located directly next to PPG Plaza, the recently opened Downtown Media Hub is a wonderful resource for communications students. The Hub houses six different media outlets in the area and is open to students...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Editor-in-Chief
• February 15, 2023
There is no greater place on Point Park’s campus than the library. I love the library. It is a beautiful building that offers an atmosphere incredibly unique to both Point Park University and a typical...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Editor-in-Chief
• February 1, 2023
Stop saying that you proudly serve Starbucks Coffee. You don’t. Almost anytime I get coffee from a coffee shop that “proudly” serves Starbucks coffee, it is just a worse version of Starbucks. This...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Editor-in-Chief
• January 18, 2023
One thing that I find incredibly frustrating about many coffee shops is volume. Many coffee shops, especially coffee shops that double as eateries, are entirely too loud. A coffee shop should be chill,...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• November 10, 2022
Recently, I ate breakfast. I eat breakfast every day, but what I mean is that recently I ate breakfast. Typically my breakfasts consist of either an oatmeal, some eggs, or bowl of the greatest cereal of...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• October 19, 2022
Fall brings many things. The leaves change colors, people start wearing sweaters, seasonal depression starts, and the Pumpkin Spice Latte returns. I already revisited Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte this...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• October 12, 2022
Oxford Dictionary defines yinz as “(in western Pennsylvania) you (used to refer to more than one person).” It gives the example of “how yinz guys doing?”
I identify as a Pittsburgher. I was...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• October 5, 2022
Whole Foods is a company that is owned by Amazon. I do not like Amazon. I do not think that very many people my age like Amazon. I think that Jeff Bezos is one of the worst people alive, and that in a...
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• September 28, 2022
Two years ago, I wrote that “Point Perk’s coffee is so awful that it wouldn’t surprise me if it emerged as a frontrunner in the 2024 Republican primaries.” At the time of reviewing Point Perk, our university’s coffee shop, my one star out of five review was one of the most scathing reviews I had ever written.
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• September 14, 2022
Few things are as inescapable as time. No matter how hard you fight it, no matter how hard you deny it, time is going to pass. People will grow older, presidents will be replaced, new blockbuster film franchises will overtake old ones. The leaves will always change with the seasons and then fall. The roaring cold of winter will always overtake the brisk autumn, only to be replaced by the breath of springtime and the radiance of summer.
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Coffee Columnist
• April 20, 2022
As is tradition for this column at the end of a semester, I will be taking this space to offer reflections on the past semester as opposed to reviewing a coffee shop. I am, however, still writing this in a coffee shop (Delanie’s on Carson Street, for those curious), so it does still count.
