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Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan sold the store to Bended Page LLC, an investment group led by Back and Spearman.  “The impact of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic made it clear that Tattered Cover was going to need not only new management, but an infusion of capital,” Vlahos and Gilligan wrote on the store’s website. “The difficult sales environment has not kept pace with the business’ mounting debt.”  In addition to the impact of the pandemic, the owners had to issue a public apology in June after stating the store would not be taking a public stance on the Black Live...

Andy Cross / Denver Post via Getty Images Originally published on December 10, 2020 6:47 pm Denver's beloved local chain — founded in 1971 — has been having a rough year. Several of its locations had to close temporarily because of the pandemic, making a massive dent in sales. So this week, owners Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan announced the sale of the store to Bended Page LLC, a group of investors led by businessmen David Back and Kwame Spearman. Spearman, who is Black, will serve as CEO, making the Tattered Cover the country's largest Black-owned independent bookstore. They'll b...

Friends, editors, and readers offer remembrances of fiction writer Anthony Veasna So December 11, 2020 Anthony Veasna So. Photo: Chris Sackes Friends, editors, and readers mourn the unexpected loss of fiction writer Anthony Veasna So, who died this week at age twenty-eight. So had published stories in Afterparties, is forthcoming this summer. At The Nation, Billie Allen writes about his friend Brandon Bernard, the ninth inmate to be executed since the Justice Department ended a seventeen-year moratorium on capit...

Colorado's Tattered Cover bookstore sold to local investors | 2020-12-10 05:32:38

>> and tomi is hitting the nail on the head for the visual that we see. part of the complication though for democrats is their party is bifurcated like that. so you -- it's walking such a thin line. republicans with step in there and do what? >> i'm having a hard time with what i heard from marie going back to the messaging. if you have -- if you've got republicans, you know, in control and you all of a sudden come up in the mid-terms and you have this message of a strong economy, millions of new jobs, unemployment rate that has been sinking to multi-decade lows, what is the -- i haven't heard...