Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The patron called Snake gestures toward the blue-felt pool table in the coffeepot-shaped bar in Tacoma. “I call it the ‘pool ghost ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the gritty underbelly of crisscrossing highways, Tacoma’s coffee pot-shaped dive bar has lost its color — temporarily — as the ...

Bob’s Java Jive, Tacoma’s beloved coffeepot-shaped bar, temporarily closed Tuesday following a visit from the local health department. The Jive’s owner, Richard Walden, told The News Tribune that ...

TACOMA, Wash. — “I'm going to be brutally honest with you right now and this is hard for me to say: As we sit now the Jive is broke. If we don't meet our goal we will not be able to open our doors ...

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 ...

A California judge ruled on Thursday that all coffee sold in the state must come with a cancer warning. Journalists, as a class, tend to favor regulation, but journalists also tend to favor coffee ...

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 ...