Ashley Rodriguez

The former Kentucky poet laureate and storyteller shares her new book, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts,” as part of the Seven Acre Fall Dinner Series.

At El Centro Cocina food cart, Los Angeles expat Dan Renderos blends his background as a designer with family visits to Sonora.

Civic Media is a network of 20 Wisconsin radio stations purchased over the last two years with the goal of promoting democracy and local news, but there have been missteps along the way.

The new network covering large parts of Wisconsin seeks to challenge conservative talk radio dominance, but there have been missteps.

Halloween festivities started Sunday at Garver Feed Mill, as dozens of costumed kids and their famlies gathered to carve pumpkins and make crafts.

Civic Media, the nascent radio empire built by tech entrepreneur Sage Weil and veteran radio host Mike Crute, now covers nearly half the state, from WBZH in northwestern Wisconsin to WRJN in the southeast.

Fresh Cup has been around for nearly three decades, and throughout the publication’s lifespan, we’ve continually evolved our storytelling to best serve our readers. Sometimes, that means taking a risk on a topic or idea that compels us—but often, that means listening to our writers, and trusting that the topics and people they find interesting will also appeal to our readers.

If you’re making a list—and checking it twice—of people to get gifts for this holiday season, it’s likely you’ll be shopping for at least one coffee lover. But what do you buy for the coffee aficionado who already has everything they could possibly need to stay caffeinated?

Food has always been a passion for Glenda Edwards. Her catering business, Woo’s Food To The Soul, is catching people’s attention.

I love this time of year at Fresh Cup. Being the editor of a publication with a frequent posting cadence (we publish three to four stories per week, all of which I read, hear pitches for, and post directly on the site) means we must move quickly. Sometimes, it’s easy to forget just how extraordinary our writers’ work is—or the fact that they manage to regularly put together some of the industry’s most insightful and carefully considered coffee stories.