A former employee of Starbucks, William Webster came to Middletown with the idea to create an unusual coffee shop. Javapalooza is what he brought. Open for business at its 330 Main Street location since Oct. 8, Javapalooza is Webster’s take on the familiar coffeehouse concept. “You can get coffee anywhere,” Webster said. “You can get coffee at a Mobil station. But what we want to do is give you a coffee experience, and not that hassle, not that attitude.”
Middletown is an odd place. No no, I mean this in the good way this time. For a small city of 45,000 people, we are blessed with a downtown with an amazing variety of food choices. There’s the standard American pub food at Eli’s and First and Last Tavern, and there’s plenty of great Italian, but there are also two Thai restaurants, Vietnamese, Japanese, Caribbean, Mexican, and on and on.
"Our pussies are under attack, and what are we doing about it? I say we STAND UP!" said Una Osato ’04 in the opening monologue of the "Vagina Monologues." The rest of the monologues, performed Thursday and Friday night at Crowell Concert Hall, did exactly that, discussing the vagina from over 25 different perspectives, raising pride in the vagina and money for the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia.
The Inn at Middletown, a new hotel on Main St. provides an upscale accommodation for those visiting Middletown, especially Wesleyan parents who wish to stay near the campus.