SUZY STUMP: SATELLITE COFFEE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY >>>

The brain trust behind Satellite Coffee will chat you up for hours on the science behind making the perfect cup of coffee. I can’t follow their code-speak. They are smart. And they know their beans.

If you have yet to visit this tiny, elevated coffee house that opened November 2007, drop by Saturday, Nov. 1, during its one-year anniversary party held below at its neighbor Supernova Hair and Tattoo, which will be celebrating a grand re-opening after a remodel. I guarantee you’ll learn a thing or two, drink delicious Stumptown Coffee and hear live music from Eddie Spaghetti and Rontrose Heathman (Satellite co-owner) of The Supersuckers, and Bob Wayne & The Outlaw Carnies.

Yes, those are the same two bands that rocked Satellite’s grand opening party March 21, 2008 â€" a party held months after it originally opened. If you were there that night you know it was packed, it rocked and French press coffee flowed freely, which will happen again Nov. 1.

The show is free. It’s a must see event.

[Satellite Coffee, 817 Division Ave., Tacoma]