TACOMA, Wash. — “I'm going to be brutally honest with you right now and this is hard for me to say: As we sit now the Jive is broke. If we don't meet our goal we will not be able to open our doors ...

Bob’s Java Jive is Tacoma. But in 1927, who could have known that the Coffee Pot (the Jive’s original name) would become such an icon to locals? Then again, a coffee pot-shaped building is bound to ...

Iconic breakfast restaurant Java Jive is set to close next month after 30 years on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The Dec. 22 closure was announced in a post on the restaurant’s Instagram account: “We can’t ...

The patron called Snake gestures toward the blue-felt pool table in the coffeepot-shaped bar in Tacoma. “I call it the ‘pool ghost.’ Not everyone has seen it,” Snake told The News Tribune on a Monday ...

FALCON HEIGHTS (WCCO) --Last week in Mike's Mix, I had an ice cream float made with alcoholic root beer. But the audience couldn't have samples, because you can't hand out beer. This week, it's a ...

A wonderfully eccentric Poncey-Highland stalwart since 1994, Java Jive serves a side of droll irony with its eggs and coffee. The decor may be pure midcentury-modern kitsch—Formica dinette sets, ...