Dumb Starbucks made a smash debut in Los Angeles over the weekend, until it was shut down by the county health department for its undocumented (permit) status. A tangle of legal issues persists.

After a small brewery owner got a letter from a law firm representing Starbucks, he saw a chance to draw distinctions between the two businesses — and to be funny. Accessibility links.

"It's funny that this person is really an evil, vindictive person," Purcell says of his imagined barista. The video is not affiliated with Starbucks and was shot in a coffee shop that looks like a ...

While it's usually the customer who enjoys the pick-me-up in the form of caffeine or a cake pop, in this case, it's the ...