Book Review: Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness
by Taylor Birkey Guest reviewer Taylor Birkey takes a look at one of today’s most popular subjects–Guy Guides. These are titles aimed, presumably, at making men more manly. We really shouldn’t judge. Any bookstore offers countless titles aimed at women, purportedly to help them be…
Bookmans Recommends: Vintage Science Fiction
Everyone should experience an out of this world read at least once in their lifetime. Bookmans looks to a past that looked toward the future for the brain bending fun of it. Classic and vintage science fiction offers an entertaining look into the way the…
The Care and Feeding of Your Pet Accordion
Only a handful of trained accordion repair persons exist in the United States. Bookmans has two of them on board in our Musical Instrument Repair Shop. You can trust our highly qualified Musical Instrument Repair Department on the care and feeding of your pet accordian….
Gift Guide: Happy Classic Horror-days
Is holiday cheer creeping into the psyche of your classic horror film loving pal? Need something a bit, hmm, visceral? Bookmans offers alt-holiday entertainment with old-fashioned horror to brighten your spirits. Bookmans has a goretastic collection of cult classic horror films. These high-quality, restored films…
Gift Guide: Dreaming of a White Witch Christmas
Who’s the Whitest Witch of all? Stevie Nicks of course! Nicks has said on multiple occasions that she is not a witch, but she was so convincing in the Coven season of American Horror Story that we know she has a good sense of humor…
Bookmans Speedway Indulges Your Fender Strat Fantasies
Bookmans Speedway has a sweet Fender Stratocaster made in Mexico. Nothing beats a Fender. They are the most versatile guitars and this one is a real beauty. Imagine a 21 fret, maple neck, alder body with a black cherry finish in your hands. This guitar…
Bookmans Recommends: Louis L’Amour
Famous for his western novels, Louis Dearborn L’Amour wrote 105 novels and is one of America’s most beloved authors. L’Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. As a result of financial difficulties, the L’Amours headed south in the winter of 1923. Over the next decade,…
Bookmans Recommends: Louis L'Amour
Famous for his western novels, Louis Dearborn L’Amour wrote 105 novels and is one of America’s most beloved authors. L’Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. As a result of financial difficulties, the L’Amours headed south in the winter of 1923. Over the next decade,…
Bookmans Musical Instrument Repair Shop
Bookmans repairs musical instruments so we can help you be the best musician possible. Not to toot our own horn, but last quarter Bookmans placed over 4,700 musical instruments on our sales floors. Each and every one of them was fully checked out, set up…
Local Businesses Are Catalysts for Social Change
November is Shop Local, Give Local month for Bookmans, which allows me to give a shout out to my favorite local businesses in Tucson. November also marks the 30th anniversary of IBT’s. I recently celebrated Tucson Pride and awaited the release of Stonewall. (Whatever you…
Bookmans Recommends: Mucho Macho Lee Child
Mucho macho writer Lee Child appeals to the Y chromosome set. Child’s main character, Jack Reacher, is a flesh and blood superhero. Reacher has just enough realism to encourage any gunslinger fantasy. At bottom Reacher is an any-man hero–simple, straightforward and unencumbered, thus morally pure.
Spooky Reads: Frightful Fall Recommendations – Bookmans
It’s October and that means its the beginning of Frightful Fall. Full of goblins, ghouls and ghosts, Bookmans rejoices in the chance to celebrate the spooky. The genre of Horror is often underrated. It’s a Bookmans favorite. Rarely are we scared by a book, but it…
Paper Plate Puppet Tutorial
Are your kids looking for a fun craft to do on fall break (or any time)? Bookmans has a great idea and the supplies are probably already in your cabinets. Try making these paper plate puppets for an afternoon of fun and easy crafting. The…
Bookmans Recommends: Money Books
Most of us spend a disproportionate amount of our lives pursuing money–earning it or spending it. How much do we know about how money works? As the analysts like to say, make your money work for you instead of working for your money. Great! Uh,…
The Obsessive Film Genre of Cult Classics
Among movie buffs, cult films have the reputation as the obsessive film genre. While most cult films won’t reach the instant fame and success of a blockbuster, they find their strength in audiences whose sustained appreciation makes these films “classic” and ensures their place in…
Alphabet Craft for Emergent Readers
Spending time with your young child engaging in activities appropriate to their development is one of the best ways to encourage an emergent reader. You already know the alphabet, but you can still enjoy creative playtime with your kids while they learn. This Alphabet Craft…
Protecting Brain Health with Nonfiction
Bookmans promotes literacy in part because we really, really like learning things. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young,” said Henry Ford. New research shows he was right. In an earlier article we explored the…
Escape Your Online Echo Chamber
Freedom of speech encompasses the marketplace of ideas — both free expression and free consumption. This noble ideal comes with some responsibility to listen with an open mind and seek opposing points of view. In our world of personalized news and targeted ads, it is…
Banned Books 101
September is Banned Books month for Bookmans. We talk about free expression all month long, in fact, all year long. When discussing censorship and banned books, music, movies and video games, it might be a good idea to start at the beginning. Most of us have…
Retro and Vintage Equipment for Retro and Vintage Entertainment
Technology is wonderful. We live in a charmed age where information and technology has never been easier to access. This almost magical ability to enjoy a variety of media does not exclude appreciating the good stuff from the past. Vintage and retro machines are still…
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