Indie Publisher As Coffee Entrepreneur?

By Neal 

BrooklynPapers.com has a story up about Vox Pop, “a stridently anti-corporate Ditmas Park coffeehouse” with plans to build itself up into a rival to Starbucks. Oddly enough, although the interview with CEO Sander Hicks mentions that he was in a band once, it doesn’t mention his history as the former leader of Soft Skull Press and current publisher at, well, Vox Pop, where he’s put out books about how Paul Wellstone’s death might have been murder and the Bush administration is covering up the facts about 9/11. It’s a curious omission, considering that the books are all readily found on Vox Pop’s online store, and presumably in the actual coffeehouse as well…