Coffeehouse Chatter Grows Across Nation
Dec 21, 2:32 AM (ET)
By MELANTHIA MITCHELL
SEATTLE (AP) - Strangers are doing something radical in Seattle. They're talking to each other.
The old-fashioned salon concept - a meeting of people to talk about issues of common importance - has been reborn through Conversation Cafes. Signs on coffeehouse tables and open invitations to talk draw lawyers, housewives, even the homeless, to discuss anything from safe streets to war in Iraq.