A hiss of steam, the soft clink of ceramic, the scratch of a pencil on a sketchbook - in Baltimore, the coffee and tea scene doubles as a low-key arts venue. You feel it in the mismatched chairs, the poster-covered bulletin boards advertising zine fairs an

Steam curls up from your mug, the hiss of the espresso machine cuts through lo-fi beats, and at the next table someones sketching out a mural idea between sips of cold brew. This is Baltimore coffee tea culture as an arts scene laptops and lyric notebooks