Friday, January 27, 2006
Comcast’s Free OnDemand Movies and Is The Tattered Cover Trying to Break My Heart?
Unemployment and having my desk next to the television have lead me to dip into Comcast’s free OnDemand movies. See, they have all the content that you have to pay for, but then they have a bunch of movies and old stuff that you can play for free--and, neato, it will pause, fast forward, and rewind almost as if you were watching it on your VCR. Of course, most of the stuff is of questionable value, but that doesn’t stop me from watching it.
That’s because I’m not afraid to recognize the good in really bad stuff.
Except Weekend at Bernies 2. Where I’ve been forced to recognize the bad in really bad stuff. It’s made me question whether the first one really was as good as I remember.
Damned, evil Weekend at Bernies 2.
None of which changes the fact that one of Denver’s coolest stores is making a change that may not be for the best. At least, it’s not for my best.
Tattered Cover, which truly and honestly may be the best book store in the world, is shuttering its three story Cherry Creek store (and the restaurant, the Fourth Floor, up top) because it couldn’t afford a new lease with the owner of the building.
That store has been there for about as long as I’ve been alive. I’ve accidentally gone on a date there. I’ve enjoyed the place for both the breadth of its offerings and for the fact that it is my favorite place in the high-cost and slickly-developed Cherry Creek shopping area. Tattered Cover isn’t just a store, it’s an institution.
But, for economic reasons, the store is moving to a new location off of Colfax. How can this be a good thing? I’ll wait to pass my final judgment on the place until I’ve seen it, but I have a hard time imaging that it will match the feeling of the original since, God knows, the downtown store didn’t manage the trick. Not that it will be bad, just that there is something not quite right about the place. To be fair, it might be the lingering aroma of some of the residence-challenged patrons.
If you know what I mean.
Hopefully the move works out well, hopefully the new store is wonderful, and hopefully the owner has made a good decision. The truth is that I’m emotionally attached to the old store in the old building, so it would be hard for me to recognize change as being a good thing.
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How do you accidentally go on a date?
The date wasn’t accidental, but ending up at Tattered Cover was. See, my car broke down and we were literally right across the street--I can’t remember where we were heading, but she started talking about how much she loved Tattered Cover while I was trying to figure out what was wrong with my car.
So we ended up spending a few hours at Tattered Cover, ignoring my dead car, and missing whatever it was that we were supposed to be doing. It was great.
When’s the autobiography due out? You’ve had an extremely interesting life. If it weren’t for the Tattered Cover moving, we’d have never heard that anecdote.
It’s about time you shared with the world. Give it.
The Tattered Cover hasn’t been the same for several years now. I used to like it, but haven’t had any interest in going for quite a while. To understand the depths to which my regard for Tattered Cover has sunk, all you have to know is that it’s now a toss-up whether it’s any better than Borders (and Borders doesn’t hold a candle to Barnes & Noble).
It won’t make any difference to me with the Cherry Creek TC moving up onto Colfax.
I have to take the good ol’ straight-down-Colfax-on-the-Reason-To-Drive Route 15 to get there anyways.
And with very little else in the area to hold my interest, except for a 12 block walk to the Bourbon Grill (bourbon chicken is the ultimate comfort food), I’ll probably keep using the LoDo store for my educational and relaxational needs.
The Colfax location opening and the Cherry Creek location closing are two separate, mostly unrelated events. Joyce Meskis entered into an agreement with a couple of other businesses to save the Lowenstein theater from demolition. The Lowenstein was our performing arts complex before we had the DCPA.
The Cherry Creek location was originally supposed to stay open in addition to the new location. But they are closing the Cherry Creek location due to the cost situation (I think it’s actually cost of parking as opposed to cost of floor space).
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I get back in the country late this evening so I will send you a (slightly lengthy) response email tomorrow, once I have right-proper email again.
Damn, I miss the Tattered Cover…
Michael is correct. That whole strip of Colfax is being re-done. Which is very exciting for me, since it’s a short walk from my house.
but I have a hard time imaging that it will match the feeling of the original
Yeah, just go down to the one in Highlands Ranch. Uuugh.