By: Frank Solano, Bookmans Outside Buy Coordinator. Bookmans has acquired a significant collection of paintings by lauded Arizona artist Sid Cedargreen. Sid Cedargreen was a mid-century painter who’s art beautifully depicted the desert southwest. In 1958, Mr. Cedargreen was part of an art collective that transformed…
Our Bookmans Tucson stores kicked off the first week of Summer Kids Events with a puppet show from local puppet theater, Puppets Amongus. The show was a rousing success with a puppet rendition of the classic children’s tale The Silk Princess by Charles Santore. The Silk Princess…
Do you love to paint? Maybe you like to draw, make music, or even whittle wood. Personally, I love paper crafts. I’m a stationery hoarder by nature and anything made of paper that looks remotely cute, creative or artsy is something I’m interested in. After…
Years back, when I was a Bookmans Mesa customer an unorthodox violin named Viper had caught my eye. Shaped like a contoured Flying V guitar with almost no resemblance to a normal violin, Viper was intriguing to say the least. Where traditional violins have four strings, Viper…
Change your tune this June to a more melodic state, hang with your main pitches and carouse with those rowdy treble makers. With an orchestra of fun music-filled events at Bookmans locations across the state, even the most tone-deaf individual can find his/her jam. Sit…
Bells rang and classes dismissed. Parents are left entertaining young ones for nearly three hot, exhausting months. We love our kids. Their smiles intoxicate us as they cuddle in our arms. Little is as satisfying as watching children as they get that “aha” moment. Even…
We take pride in being Arizona’s go-to shop for all the things you geek out about. Even better than selling geek-worthy merchandise is being surrounded by it for 40 hours a week! Bookmans attracts the freaks and geeks and we take pride in that. Customers…
By Kaitlin Hooker, Bookmans Editorial Assistant Intern I sat in the library until midnight one Friday night in late October because at midnight the cashiers who work the parking garages at the U of A campus go home. There’s no automatic payment system for parking, so…
By Kaitlin Hooker, Bookmans Editorial Assistant Intern I sat in the library until midnight one Friday night in late October because at midnight the cashiers who work the parking garages at the U of A campus go home. There’s no automatic payment system for parking, so…
By Kaitlin Hooker, Bookmans Editorial Assistant Intern The Follett letters make up a set of correspondence between a politician named Oran and his fiancee Eliza. The letters chronicle the year 1832, from March to October, while Oran lived in Buffalo, NY and Eliza was in Rochester,…
By Kaitlin Hooker, Bookmans Editorial Assistant Intern and UofA Student When the Bookmans Flagstaff roof collapsed, locals visited us in a temporary tent that we set up. They brought us their used books, music and movies for us to buy and trade, and–in the process–refill our depleted…
Posted by Kaitlin Hooker, Bookmans Editorial Assistant Intern and UofA Student When the Bookmans Flagstaff roof collapsed in 2010, we were left with only a small stock of salvageable items. To rebuild our inventory, we set up temporary tents for locals to sell us their used…
The people of Bookmans never shy away from our passions. We also understand why you are excited by your favorite things. Geeking out with you over our shared fandoms is not just what we do, it’s part of who we are. Many of us choose…
So much cool stuff happens in May! The weather warms, we celebrate our mothers and Bookmans gets pumped for all things geeky. Bookmans loves to party and not just in our stores. With Phoenix Comicon right around the corner, what better time than now to…
This Saturday nerds and comic book readers once again take to the streets in an all out celebration of geek camaraderie. What joyous occasion sparks such action? What geekish event has us jazzed? What could occur that causes respectable members of society to squeeze into…
The semester is almost over, everyone! Gone (for a moment) will be the days, nights and weekends spent in a musty library. Take a deep breath. Gone are the assignments, exams, and rigors of academic life, but what inevitably remains? Those heavy, unwanted textbooks cluttering your…
Calling all intergalactic bounty hunters, Storm Troopers and Cantina players: The Force is strong in you. If you have a valid opinion on who shoots first or if you can successfully explain what Han means when he says the Falcon made the Kessel Run in…
It’s Bookmans’ good fortune to have so many talented coworkers and that includes Donivan Berube at Bookmans Flagstaff. Donivan and his collaborator/wife, Jacquelyn Beaupré, make up the alterna-folk band Blessed Feathers. This March and April, the duo took their magical sounds to Denmark for a 2-week tour. Donivan and Jacqulyn…
After three years at Bookmans Flag, I, Caity Evans, Events Liaison and lover of Flagstaff, move on to new and thrilling adventures. Before you start rioting/dancing in the streets, know that, though I leave this beautiful mountain town, I do not leave Bookmans. As if…
Hi guys, I’m Paul Lee. Wow, here I am working for one of my favorite stores in the country! As the new Events Liaison for Bookmans Flagstaff, I will continue the great work of Caity Evans, who is moving up in the organization, and add…