Tattered & Twisted Lightning Round!

Celebrate Your Independence! We're running a contest on Facebook asking you (our fans and customers) tell us why you support locally-owned, independent businesses, and you'll be entered into a random drawing to win one of two Tattered & Twisted prize packages ($25.00 gift certificates to both businesses). All entries must be received by midnight on Monday, July 5. Winners will be drawn and announced on Tuesday, July 6. (click here to visit the Facebook thread and enter to win!)

Here are some of our favorite entries so far:

Kathleen Schmidt:
"Because what's better than Twist & Shout and Tattered Cover being next door to one another? :D"

J. Michael Carr:
"Locally owned businesses are my friends, neighbors as well as the backbone of what makes a community a community."

Jason Gorbett:
"Cause you rock! You've got more, better books, CD's, vinyl, videos, and posters than any chain could possibly even conceive of. You're real."

April Green:
"It's all about the search, flipping through the racks, oohing & ahhing over the artwork of an LP/CD. There's also nothing like standing in a record store talking music w/ other music geeks. And then there's the going home & listening to my newly purchased treasures while I finish reading the liner notes. Need I say more?!"

Stacy Lynch:
"Locally owned and independent businesses are vital to keeping community together. Sure you can sometimes get some good deals at chain stores, but when was the last time you walked into one and they knew your name, your favorite things, etc? Locals helping locals is what we need more of - it keeps business going."

Sheila McClune:
"Shopping at locally owned independent businesses is just more fun. Tattered Cover and Twist & Shout have been among my favorite places to shop for years, because when you walk in the door, you know it doesn't look like a thousand other stores across the country. And you know you're going to find things that you just wouldn't find at one of those cookie-cutter stores. Plus the staff are always friendly and helpful and not too busy to take a few minutes to chat."

Cup of Sugar: It's the Economy

Welcome to "A Cup Of Sugar". We're borrowing a few reviews from our neighbors at Tattered Cover to make something that we hope everyone will like. So dig in to the treats they've helped us make here; they've come up with some delicious reviews.

Too Big to Fail (Hardcover)
By Andrew Ross Sorkin


An inside look at the really big players. A gripping narrative of how the men and women in the headlines responded to the financial meltdown. Detailed, moment by moment account of one of the most calamitous times in our history.
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy. "We've got to get some foam down on the runway!" a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world's financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing neverdisclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were "too big to fail," it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.