Tag: Tattered Cover
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How Tattered Cover plans to survive
The new webpage gets straight to the point. “Tattered Cover is NOT going out of business!” Yes, some locations are closing, but the ones remaining open are business as usual. Events are being rescheduled, locations at the Denver International Airport are humming along, and new inventory is flowing in again. When news broke that the…
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Die-hard customers visit Tattered Cover during bookstore’s final hour
On Saturday evening in downtown Colorado Springs, as music blared from bars and clubs and nighttime revelers walked the streets, about a dozen customers perused the shelves at a bookstore that would close its doors for good in less than an hour. The Tattered Cover’s Colorado Springs location spent its brief life at 112 Tejon…
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Tattered Cover bookstore chain files for bankruptcy
The bankruptcy filing on Monday said Tattered Cover owes its creditors, numbering in the hundreds, between $1 million and $10 million
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Cancerland: A place of joy and vitality in the shadow of death | John Moore
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Former Westword journalist Juliet Wittman reads from ‘Again & Again’ Monday at the Tattered Cover
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Kwame Spearman leaves CEO Tattered Cover position; explores Denver school board run
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kwame Spearman announced Wednesday that participating in the Denver mayoral election this year gave him “the bug” – a calling to public service and participating in community discourse. So he stepping down as CEO of the Tattered Cover and will be exploring a candidacy in the…
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Tattered Cover CEO Kwame Spearman joins packed Denver mayoral race
Kwame Spearman, Tattered Cover CEO and longtime Colorado resident, has filed to join Denver’s packed mayoral race. Spearman’s name is listed on the Denver Campaign Finance Dashboard, where mayoral candidate names appear. Spearman joins a long list of more than two dozen candidates vying for the important city position, including State Rep. Leslie Herod, former…
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Joyce Meskis, longtime owner of the Tattered Cover and ‘literary lioness,’ dies
Joyce Meskis is a name every Denverite knows — or should know. The longtime CEO of the Tattered Cover Bookstore, well known for her First Amendment advocacy, died late Thursday at her home. Online records and published reports indicated she was 80 years old but The Denver Gazette could not confirm her age. The bookstore…
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Tattered Cover, with bar, to open in Westminster
The next chapter in the story of Tattered Cover, Colorado’s largest independent bookseller, begins next week when its new location opens in Westminster. Fans of the storied retailer will surely celebrate the plot twist in store for them: Adult beverages at the Best Sellers Bar. It’s the chain’s fifth full-sized store, continuing an expansion that…
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Tattered Cover bookstore expanding to Colorado Springs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tattered Cover, the state’s largest independent bookstore and an iconic retail name in Colorado for a half century, will open a location next year in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs. An 8,400-square-foot Tattered Cover will open in early 2022, likely between Feb. 15 and…
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The new owners of Denver’s beloved Tattered Cover bookstores talk the next 50 years
Last week, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Denver’s famous Tattered Cover bookstores to change ownership for the second time since the retirement of longtime owner Joyce Meskis in 2017. The independent bookstores were purchased by Colorado investors, Denver natives and long-time friends Kwame Spearman and David Back, founding partners of Bended Page, LLC. Spearman and Back…