Borders is closing their MagMile flagship store here in Chicago
Publishers Weekly had a piece last week about them not paying a lot of their vendors, and all kinds of talk of "restructuring," which seems to be code for possible bankruptcy.
Stop means no. And no means no. So . . . stop.
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jan 07, 2011 10:24:06 am PST #15396 of 30001
Because books.
lisah - Jan 07, 2011 10:26:06 am PST #15397 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
(soapbox) Support your locally-owned bookseller! There are still plenty of independent bookstores in Chicago, for example, plus there's always online. (gettin' off it)
Also I like to call stores "the [whatever]'s" myself, and I'm all northeast.
I do too! Although I'm all mid-atlantic-y.
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2011 10:26:21 am PST #15398 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Here's info on Hubbard's Cave.
brenda m - Jan 07, 2011 10:26:49 am PST #15399 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The Hubbard Cave is downtown--it's the tunnel you go through on the Kennedy southbound on your way into the Loop before you meet up with the Dan Ryan and the Eisenhower.
Oh, okay. I think they just skip that and say to the Loop these days.
-t - Jan 07, 2011 10:26:55 am PST #15400 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't think I put "the" in front of store names or possessives that weren't already there (except Penney's, but as Sophia says, not with the JC). When I lived on St. Mary St. I always called it St. Mary's, though.
sumi - Jan 07, 2011 10:27:00 am PST #15401 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I hope that all the Border's don't go. My local Borders actually does events for local authors and community outreach stuff - where the B&N does not.
brenda m - Jan 07, 2011 10:27:38 am PST #15402 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I did just buy one of the two copies of Barb's book at the State St. Borders today.
-t - Jan 07, 2011 10:29:28 am PST #15403 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not only are there no locally-owned bookstores in my town (or the next town over which is practically my town), people come here from Vallejo to go to B&N (I think that's it) because there are no bookstores at all there. None!
We do have a comic book shop, though, and I patronise the hell out of that place.
Jesse - Jan 07, 2011 10:30:22 am PST #15404 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The only reason I know those stores apart is that Borders lets you do your own computer searches while B&N makes you actually search out and talk to a human.
Not true! At least, the Barnes and Noble('s) I go to most often lets you search yourself.
On reflection, I think I add "the" more than the possessive.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2011 10:31:38 am PST #15405 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Support your locally-owned bookseller!
Find me one! Seriously, in LA, it's so much easier to find an independent cinema than a bookstore.