But this week, the fellows behind Saturdays Surf NYC, a hybrid brand that acts as a surf shop, bookshop, coffee bar and men's-wear boutique, release the second issue of their biannual publication called Saturdays Magazine.
The lobby, faced in glass on three sides, with a burnished Venetian plaster ceiling above a polished concrete floor, will contain a bookshop, coffee bar and a small windowless gallery.
The centre also provided office space for gay organisations – bookshops, coffee shops, theatre groups – enabling them to grow and prosper.
We work hard every day to convince people that have grown up in the broadcast/mass market era paradigm that independent music--not a term that I love by the way--belongs on their stages, video games, toys, bookshops, coffee shops, college festivals, podcasts, TV shows, magazines, clubs, restaurants, house concerts, retail stores, marketing campaigns, etc.
It's a post from Tita Larasati about a trip she took last week to the Reading Lights bookshop and coffee corner in (appropriately enough) West Java.
More than Berlin, people are moving there after being priced out of Hackney and Greenwich, because it's by the sea and it has that Dreamland place and enough young people live there now for there to be minimum one cool bookshop, some coffee places and a few decent spots to do Instagram in.
Posh bookshop chains with coffee bars were still thriving.
There's a vegetarian cafe (Musicker) that sells guitars and books, and a bookshop that sells coffee (Print Point, West Princes Street), as well as old-style pubs and ice-cream makers.
Out to brunch The cool crowd gathers at Piazza Bellini (21), and here, at number 70, the Café Intra Moenia (00 39 081 290 720; daily 10am-2am) is a relaxed, literary café (it has a small bookshop) serving great coffee and an all-day menu that includes bruschetta (€3/£2.30), and ham and cheese omelette (€7/£5.40).
It's a city that cares about the little things, such as bookshops, delicatessens, decent coffee and croissants; the provenance of goods, and the importance of heritage.
Bookshops are adding coffee and scones too, from which the margins are rather healthier than for the average paperback these days.
