Those healthy Starbucks employees

We’ve never really understood where he finds the time, but Jim Romenesko, the Poynter media-blog guru, continues to operate a pair of groovy side-blogs: The Obscure Store and Reading Room, which celebrates weird news, and Starbucks Gossip (tagline: “Monitoring America’s favorite drug dealer”). On the latter this week is an interesting link to a Chicago magazine piece about why artists in the Windy City are eager to work at Starbucks—primarily, for the healthcare insurance. Tapping the artist community is a good move, too, as Starbucks looks for smart and personable employees.