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.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.