Bookmans Recommends: Fun Out of the Sun with Children’s Nonfiction
110 degrees?! Ugh! That is serious heat and you can’t ignore it. The kids are out of school looking for something to do. Hiking is out. Kickball, soccer, baseball — they aren’t options unless you want a wilting family. Swimming might work — for maybe…
Bookmans Recommends: Fun Out of the Sun with Children's Nonfiction
110 degrees?! Ugh! That is serious heat and you can’t ignore it. The kids are out of school looking for something to do. Hiking is out. Kickball, soccer, baseball — they aren’t options unless you want a wilting family. Swimming might work — for maybe…
Bookmans Recommends: Preacher
With a pilot by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for geek friendly AMC in development, now is the time to pick up a copy of DC’s Vertigo Comics Preacher. Created in 1996 by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, Preacher tells the tale of small town…
Ticket Tuesdays — OTEP at The Rialto Theatre
**CONTEST CLOSED*** You are definitely metal enough for today’s Ticket Tuesday. This is your chance to win a pair of passes to see OTEP with Rejktion and Downfall 2012 on their Art of Fury Tour at 8 p.m. on Monday, June 29 at The Rialto…
Geeking Out Over E3 2015
By C’loni Bailey – Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa Video game developers flocked to this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) to show off their best up and coming video games and technology. Held June 16-18 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the entire conference was…
Make Summer Memories with an Old School Camera
Summer vacationers have all the free time in the world, sitting by the pool, binge watching favorite TV shows and hanging out with friends perfecting our inner goof balls. What do we do while we triumph over these colossal activities? Take loads of pictures. We…
Four Rad Musical Artists Who Are Also Women
Who runs the world? Girls! No one says it better than Queen B herself. In celebration of Bookmans Music Month and all its musical awesomeness we focus on the ladies. These four cool chicks are artists who have released albums in the past couple years…
Garden Guru Talks Plant Placement
We continue our gardening series, Garden Guru, as Poe shares that the best time to plan and work in your garden is when the mood strikes you or, even better, right now. When last we met, we discussed soil. It takes some time to get…
Ticket Tuesdays — Wilco with Dr. Dog
**CONTEST CLOSED**One of our all-time faves, Wilco, will grace Salt River Fields along with opening act Dr. Dog on Independence Day weekend. The show starts at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3 and this is just about as classic American rock ‘n’ roll as concerts…
Dos and Don’ts of Bookmans: The Musical Version
Since our first Dos and Don’ts post went over so well, we decided to do a special edition for Music Month. Our most important DO remains, “express yourself, have fun and love what you love.” And the Don’ts… they keep on coming.
Dos and Don'ts of Bookmans: The Musical Version
Since our first Dos and Don’ts post went over so well, we decided to do a special edition for Music Month. Our most important DO remains, “express yourself, have fun and love what you love.” And the Don’ts… they keep on coming.
Crafty Boxed Summer Boardom Fun
Yeah, it’s summer and all the kids and their friends are home… all day… all night, maybe several nights. We have been busy prepping for finals then for the annual summer road trip and then to make sure we’ve doubled up our grocery shopping to…
Inspiration Superstars
By Dani Byers, Event Liaison for Bookmans Speedway I read a short article by Katy Perry outlining the women who most impacted her life. I like the piece because Perry creates a bridge from the reader to these inspiration superstars, some previously unknown to me….
Flagstaff Celebrates Hullabaloo 2015
The un-official kick off to summer in Flagstaff took place Saturday, June 6 at Wheeler Park. Flagstaffarians and other Arizona inhabitants took to the park, sporting neon colors, feather boas and complete viking attire as the 6th annual Hullabaloo once again celebrated Northern Arizona in all…
Garden Guru Talks Dirt
Longer Days and lots of sunshine gives many in Arizona the gardening bug. Bookmans has a large and varied gardening section to help you get started. We also have our resident Garden Guru at Bookmans Speedway to help you with tips and tricks to guide…
Civic Orchestra of Tucson Brings the Zoo
Our Tucson Bookmans locations hosted the Civic Orchestra of Tucson as part of our Summer Kids Events series. They offer a unique opportunity for kids of all ages to try out real orchestra instruments including horns, trumpets, violins basses and xylophones during their very hands…
Your Third Place
School’s out, summer is here and it’s darn hot out there — but not at your local Bookmans. We love learning new things, we have only one season and it’s called awesome, and we keep the air nice and cool. We have done this long…
Summer Fun with Civic Orchestra of Tucson
Is your summer filled with exciting and fun, not to mention free, events and activities for your entire family? If you shop at Bookmans, your answer is YES! Every summer we roll out the events carpet with creative and original events for you. It is…
Bookmans Ina Geeks Out Over Favorite CDs
When it comes to great tunes, everyone has their favorite CDs. We don’t always agree with one another but since it’s Music Month we have set our differences aside to rave about what gets us going. As you meet Bookmans Ina’s biggest fan consider their…
Behind the Trade Counter: Meet Musical Instrument Supervisor Paul Tiller
Bookmans Ina has a new Musical Instrument Supervisor. Paul Tiller totally rocked our electronics department for the past 3 years, but with his vast knowledge and complete passion for music, it was a no brainer to name him the new head honcho for the instrument…
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