Beth, Brooke, Al, Howard, Johhny Quartet and Abi!

Welcome to The Flying Saucer. We are an independent coffee shop located in the fairmount section of Philadelphia. We feature live jazz  a very eclectic blend of music and an eclectic mix of regulars. We offer outdoor seating, a few bike racks a big dog bowl for the pups and easy access to Septa bus routes 48, 32 and 7

The Flying Saucer features La Colombe coffee, traditionally pulled espresso and iced blended coffee, hot toasted bagels, muffins, scones and other delicious bakery items.

We are on the corner of 26th & Brown St! Just a few locks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the historic Boathouse Row.

If you’re planning on attending any events on the parkway stop by and grab something beforehand!

We LOVE our latte!

26th & Brown…

Brown is between Fairmount Ave & Girard Ave!

If you’re walking ,take Pennsylvania Ave. to 26th St., hook a right up the hill and walk two blocks!

If you’re on a bike be a little more adventurous!

Dear Flying Saucer... I'm writing this at Starbucks!!!

Mail a postcard to us and we’ll buy you a coffee! Really! But it has to be mailed, no forgetting to mail it and then bringing it in.

Address it to: 2545 Brown St. Philadelphia, PA 19130

… If it’s a realy good one (and by good we mean bad) you may get 2 fee coffees!!!!

Come join us at The Flying Saucer for an in depth, analysis of what’s happening over the skies of our great city!

The  ‘After UFO Conference’ Party

October 2 - Local UFO Reports
Introduction to Pop Culture UFOlogy
What happened at Roswell? What’s happening now?
Halloween Orb Presentation in Photos

November 8 - Local UFO Reports
Final Night of the Mayan Calendar!
Explaining Mayan Calendar and the End of Time
Extraterrestrials and the ‘Sun God’ cultures

December 13 - Local UFO Reports
Crop Formations
August 14, 2001 Extraterrestrial REPLY
to the Arecibo Radio Telescope Signal of 1974

Featured Lecture is presented in the first hour
‘Sign-up’ Open Forum in the second hour
[Have something to add? We want to hear it.]

They Sit for Hours and Don’t Spend Much; Getting the Bum’s Rush in the Big Apple

By ERICA ALINI

A sign at Naidre’s, a small neighborhood coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., begins warmly: “Dear customers, we are absolutely thrilled that you like us so much that you want to spend the day…”

But, it continues, “…people gotta eat, and to eat they gotta sit.” At Naidre’s in Park Slope and its second location in nearby Carroll Gardens, Wi-Fi is free. But since the spring of 2008, no laptops have been allowed between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekends, unless the customer is eating and typing at the same time.

Amid the economic downturn, there are fewer places in New York to plug in computers. As idle workers fill coffee-shop tables — nursing a single cup, if that, and surfing the Web for hours — and as shop owners struggle to stay in business, a decade-old love affair between coffee shops and laptop-wielding customers is fading. In some places, customers just get cold looks, but in a growing number of small coffee shops, firm restrictions on laptop use have been imposed and electric outlets have been locked. The laptop backlash may predate the recession, but the recession clearly has accelerated it.

The Wall Street Journal

Laptop policy at Naidre’ cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

“You don’t want to discourage it, it’s a wonderful tradition,” says Naidre’s owner Janice Pullicino, 53 years old. A former partner in a computer-graphics business, Ms. Pullicino insists she loves technology and hates to limit its use. But when she realized that people with laptops were taking up seats and driving away the more lucrative lunch crowd, she put up the sign. Last fall, she covered up some of the outlets, describing that as a “cost-cutting measure” to save electricity.

So far, this appears to be largely a New York phenomenon, though San Francisco’s Coffee Bar does now put out signs when the shop is crowded asking laptop users to share tables and make space for other customers.

Some coffee shops say they still welcome laptop users, if only because they make the stores look busy. For some, the growing number of laptop-carrying customers with time on their hands is reason to expand. “I had to add more outlets and higher speed” in early June, says Sebastian Simsch, 40, the co-owner of Seattle Coffee Works. Starbucks Corp. coffee houses, which in some cases charge for Wi-Fi, and bookstore chain Borders Group Inc., which always charges for Wi-Fi, don’t have any plans to change their treatment of laptop customers. Neither does bookstore giant Barnes & Noble Inc., where the Wi-Fi is complimentary.

But in New York, the trend is accelerating among independents. At Cocoa Bar locations in Brooklyn and on the Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a five-month-old rule forbids laptops after 8 on Friday and Saturday nights. At Espresso 77 in Jackson Heights, Queens, owners covered three of five electric outlets six months ago after its loosely enforced laptop-use restrictions failed to encourage turnover. At two of three Café Grumpy locations — one in Brooklyn and the other in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood — laptops are never welcome.

Laptop backlash poses particular difficulties for people without offices, says Leah Meyerhoff, 29, a film director and free-lancer. She long has used coffee shops to interview cast and crew and to work on pre-production. Now, she says, “it’s a constant search for places with the Internet where I can sit and focus without being frowned upon.”

“Good luck staying open when you’re turning half your clientele out on a Friday night,” Hannah Moots, 23, wrote about Cocoa Bar on Yelp, a Web site where customers rate retailers. When Ms. Moots, who aspires to be an archaeologist, met her boyfriend at the coffee shop after 8 p.m. on a Friday to work on graduate-school applications, she was ushered out, she says, even though the place was almost empty.

“We had to power down or leave instantly,” Ms. Moots wrote in her blog. She left and went to a different cafe, where she later expressed her dismay on the Web. Masoud Soltani, a Cocoa Bar owner, confirms that he sent her a Yelp message: “I remember you very well…I would not think you would write such bad stuff about us.” Mr. Soltani says she is no longer welcome in his store.

Customers’ frugality has reached extremes in the recession, the 40-year-old Mr. Soltani says. Some patrons show up with a tea bag for a free hot-water refill or quietly unwrap homemade sandwiches, he says. The Soltani brothers tried to adapt by adding sandwiches to their assortment of pastries and chocolates two months ago. And they want to be able to change the atmosphere after dark. “We lower the light, and it’s chocolate, wine and couples holding hands,” says Masoud’s brother Bahman. “What’s the guy with the laptop doing here?”

Some customers are sympathetic. Norm Elrod was “devastated,” he wrote on his blog — called “Jobless and Less” — when he spotted “little plastic covers on the electrical outlets, secured with little padlocks” at Espresso 77. “But I knew why they had done it,” the 37-year-old unemployed marketing manager says.

“I used to be one of the abusers,” Mr. Elrod confesses on his blog, “sipping a two-dollar cup of coffee in a to-go cup for hours.” But, he says in an interview, now he practices what he considers better coffee-shop etiquette, lingering over his laptop during off-hours and spending more money.

At Café Grumpy in Chelsea, Ty-Lör Boring, a 32-year-old chef, says he often uses his laptop at coffee shops, but loves it when there are none around because, then, people talk to one another.

“You can isolate yourself behind a laptop,” he says, “but look at this place: Almost everyone is having a conversation.”

Write to Erica Alini at Erica.Alini@wsj.com

mmmm... YUMMY!

Philadelphia,PA(Spring ,2001)- Seven years ago, Northeast resident, Roz Bratt could be found in Olde City’s Mellon bank-as its coporate teller. Today, instead of counting money, she counts cookies-and other delicacies-as owner/baker of Homemade Goodies at 510 South 5th Street–just off South Street.

Roz’s baking hobby turned pro when she sold a Jewish Apple Cake to an Olde City restaurant. Now she supplies “homemade goodies”to many cafe’s, restaurants, & caters in the Phila. area.

Besides filling orders for local businesses, Roz also caters to the local residents by fashioning her shop after her grandmother’s kitchen of the 1940’s &1950’s. Antique kitchen utensils, an assortment of tea pots and old-fashioned table and chair sets fill the bakery.

“I want the neighbors to use my bakery as their home away from home,” said Roz. “Whether they are stopping in for coffee, tea, picking up a birthday cake, they can use my place to sit and relax.”

Homemade Goodies is located at 510 South 5th Street and is open daily Tuesdays through Saturdays. On Saturday mornings- from 10am to 2pm-breakfast is served.

Boy Girl Girl, OLYMPIA, WA–Marissa Quirk, 21, that girl from the coffee shop, was spotted Monday at McCoy’s Tavern with Greg Clarke, 23, the good-looking hipster guy from the record store. “I go into Crazee Espresso and Rainy Day Records a lot, so when I saw them at McCoy’s together, I was like, ‘It figures they know each other,’” said Dan Duckett, 22, who has long harbored a crush on Quirk. “It reminded me of that time I saw the guy from the vintage-clothing store with the cute girl who always announces the bands in the student union.”

BLURBALICIOUS: Described by Doug Wallen (Philadelphia Weekly) as “sultry yet versatile” and by Dena Marchiony (Philadelphia Songwriters Project) as “a wonderful new songwriter with great lyrics and catchy, interesting musical hooks”, Alexandra Day is a neighborhood girl gone good. She will be playing a set of original material from her CD “No Castles No Moats,” as well as debuting some of the new tunes she’s writing every day.

“No Castles No Moats” was released in April 2008, and greeted by an enthusiastic crowd at The Mighty North Star Bar CD Release party, at other venues around Philadelphia, up and down the East Coast, and internationally. The CD was reviewed on the front page of the music section in the Philadelphia Weekly, and received blurbs and mentions in the Citypaper and other local publications.

“No Castles No Moats” features ten original songs that demonstrate a convergence of classical training and pop sensibility. The album’s crown is Day’s voice, which soars through the musical landscape with ease, authenticity, and a wide palette of stylistic tools. Performing live, she frames her songwriting with stories and jokes that will make you want to videotape her talking and post it on youtube.

Originally from Gaithersburg, MD, Alexandra Day is classically trained in both piano and voice, experienced as a pop singer and a jazz chanteuse, and thrilled to return to her first love: writing and performing her own compositions.

For more information, a complete bio, and sound clips, please visit www.myspace.com/alexandraday. Downloads of “No Castles No Moats” are available on Itunes, and actual CDs are available for purchase at www.cdbaby.com/alexandraday.