Word: mugging
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...LATE SEPTEMBER the abduction of Mug'n' Muffin by the latest bank in the Square didn't alarm me. The growing infestation of mercantile marauders stirred in me no more than a vague feeling of camaraderie with the old men that wander shopping malls shaking their heads at VCRs and two-dollar loaves of bread...
Whatever happened to the bottomless mug of coffee? Another True American Tradition is dying in the midst of our decade's backwards swirling vortex of Republican nostalgia and Classic Hits radio...
Some efficiency-minded troglodyte out there with no appreciation of the true nature of the Bottomless Mug is sure to point out that there is always the day-and-night free coffee in the dining halls. But the Bottomless Mug is more than free caffeine. It's an atmosphere...
...Friday edition of his late-night talk show does not air until Monday. Then a viewer has to outlast an ABC Monday-night football game that usually wraps up after midnight, a half-hour local newscast, Nightline with Ted Koppel and Nightlife with David Brenner before Breslin's mug finally appears on the screen, somewhere around 2 a.m. The graveyard shift has so annoyed Breslin that he complained about it in a New York Daily News column, implying that he will give up the show at the end of his 13-week contract. "I do not intend," he said...
...Pain may be enjoying a boost in business since the departure this summer of the Square's Mug and Muffin. Kane said the cafe has enjoyed slightly better business since Mug and Muffin's closing...