A daughter asked me to come look at the books from her mother's estate. When I got there, the family was busy cleaning up the house to get it ready for sale.
I met another dead man today. This one was an accomplished attorney in a high-powered Denver law firm. He decompressed from his high-stress work by painting military miniatures -- thousands of them.
FaceMan continues to carve an unusual niche in the Colorado music scene; an americana-flavored indie trio that defies a lot of the standard rules. Here, frontman Steve “FaceMan” Schnepel took some time to chat about the band, some of the…
As the New Year kicks into gear, one of our resolutions is to continue making as much an impact in our communities as possible, and we hope you're of the same mind. Here are three vetted organizations we think you…
Today was a day of lows and highs at Printed Page. A cold wind scoured the street; maybe that's why we didn't have any customers. Toward afternoon, an elderly couple came in wanting to sell some books.
“Because they need it.” – Whitney Tilson Tilson is a multimillionaire hedge fund manager who is a major supporter of education “reform,” particularly the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) chain. “Because they need it,” was Tilson’s unguarded response to a…
I get to know a lot of people after it's too late to meet them. Their books tell me who they were. Go into a stranger's house and look at their books, and you'll come as close as possible to…
No kid in America ever dreams of growing up to be a bookseller, including me. I thought I was set for life with a career in corporate communication when I met a guy connected with one of Denver’s newspapers. We…