The walls are adorned with local art, and a small stairway leads to a back room that doubles as a sound studio for local musicians, including Michael Huntley, who made national news on December 19, 2023, as the winner of Season 24 on NBC’s “The Voice.”
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Top 5 Coffee Shops in FXBG INSPIRE | by ZACH CHAMP COFFEE IN THE BURG There is no shortage of Coffee in Downtown Fredericksburg! Did you know that the residents of the City of Fredericksburg have enjoyed coffee from local shops since at least 1730 when the first ‘London-style’ coffee house was opened near Sophia Street where
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Stafford psychologist pens book for children on managing anxiety FREE LANCE-STAR | by ADELE UPHAUS-CONNER In her work for the past 20 years, psychologist Arezoo Khanzadeh has asked her patients three questions about the problem they’re dealing with: “Is this solvable?” “Do I have the means to solve it?” “Is the timing right to solve it?” She
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THE TALON | by ANNE JOHNAKIN, EMILY IMES, AYNSLEIGH ESCHER Overall rating: The drink ordered was an almond milk latte with vanilla syrup. The three of us can’t have dairy, which is why we used almond milk. We chose to drink a vanilla latte because, in the grand scheme of corporate coffee, a very popular
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POTOMAC LOCAL | by SUSIE WEBB FREDERICKSBURG — Behind the glass windows of Katora Coffee lies much more than a cup of coffee and hot tea. Within its graffitied walls are two co-owners who risen above countless obstacles to create a community-oriented space. April and Christian Zammas opened Katora Coffee at 615 Caroline St. on Dec. 11,
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FREE LANCE-STAR | by ADELE UPHAUS-CONNER For upwards of four years, Christian Zammas and his family were homeless, living in hotels across the country. Zammas, who owns Katora Coffee in downtown Fredericksburg, is a professional chef and cooked in restaurants in St. Louis, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Manhattan and Raleigh, N.C. But in the hotel rooms where he,
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MANAGING YOUR DOCTOR | by DR. PATRICK NEUSTATTER I’m tempted to lead with some bad joke, like Christian Zammas is exchanging hard drugs for soft. It is true. He has gone from using hard drugs to peddling soft one(s) – caffeine. All brought about by a sort of epiphany that has motivated him to gather
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THE FREE LANCE–STAR | by EMILY JENNINGS Christian Zammas held out his arms. Scars covered both, but his left arm looked especially harrowing, with an angry patch of red from wrist to elbow. “They told me if I’d waited any longer to come in that they would have had to amputate my arm,” Zammas said.