(I wouldn’t normally promote something about a specific business like this, but Langdon Street Cafe is kind of special.  I totally get the decision to close, but it’s always been one of my favorite place to eat, drink coffee, and websurf in between other events in our capital city.   – promoted by JulieWaters)

…so says the Burlington Free Press. The Cafe will shut its doors at the end of the month. It’s a significant loss for the central Vermont cultural scene; throughout its seven years of existence, the Cafe had maintained a ridiculously ambitious concert schedule. And while it attracted good crowds, it was never profitable. Freeps:

“The under-story is we never made money,” said Ben T. Matchstick, the cafe’s impresario whose partner, Meg Hammond, is the owner of the business. He and Hammond have an 18-month-old son and Matchstick said they can’t afford to go further into debt.

Perfectly understandable, and still sad. Best wishes to Ben and Meg; they’d done yeoman’s work on the Cafe, and I hope their next venture will be both creative and lucrative.