Okay okay okay, maybe this new work by Zio Ziegler isn't going to spring to life and ruin every man, woman, and child walking through that door with his giant paw and gnarly tongue, but we can always hope.

(And be sure to roll over to 24th and Bartlett and check it out for yourself.  The detail on this beast is nothing short of incredible.)

According to a big sign outside, Fayes is turning 14 years old this weekend and celebrating by giving away free coffee and charging a dollar for espressos allll weekend.  Better yet?  They're holding a neighborhood cute cat contest.

You gotta submit your cat photos on their tumblr, and they're announcing their winners on Facebook.  While it's not entirely clear on what you win, you'll presumably be honored for raising such a fine feline with even more free coffee and a few days worth of free cat promotion on their sidewalk.

I guess there's some other big birthday party in town this weekend, but another year passing in the life of Molotov's resident hellhound seems particularly noteworthy.  And we're sad we missed it.

Ever since we brought you breaking coverage of the boar head theft at Four Barrel back in April, we've been carefully monitoring the situation for new developments.  After all, with only three boars, shouldn't the place change their name to Three Boar-el?  No?  What, that was a good pun.  Stop hitting me.

As of this week the cafe's gallery was refreshed with new work by Aaron Rodriguez.  With the new art, the dotted line where the boar head once stood is no longer empty — it's now filled with a whimsical collage.

This, folks, means there is hope. If an artist can use that space, who's to say their art itself cannot be an actual boar head mounted on a wooden shield?  The act of artistic re-boarment would not only restore Four Barrel's rightful fourth boar, but would also make the artist a hero to coffee nerds who make snarky comments about their shitty iPhone photos in local blogs.

Get on it, artists.  We're counting on you.