Archive for September, 2006



Child Molester Lurks in Boston Bookstore

Published on September 8, 2006

If you can’t be safe in a bookstore, then where CAN you be safe? Well, you can’t be safe in bookstores anymore, judging from an ongoing crime wave in the Boston area. Today police are “looking for a man who allegedly assaulted a young girl in the children’s section of a popular bookstore,” according to [...]


New Biography Irks Nicole Kidman

Published on September 6, 2006

Authored by noted film scholar David Thomson, the brand-new bio Nicole Kidman is being described as “explosive” as it portrays the actress “as a power-hungry fame seeker who used her 10-year marriage to Tom Cruise to hit the Hollywood big time,” according to Sydney Confidential. Kidman never even met Thomson, according to her agent Wendy [...]


Cody’s in Berkeley Bought by Japanese Company

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Cody’s Books, whose Telegraph Avenue store closed earlier this summer, has just been acquired by Yohan, Inc., a major Japanese bookseller. I had heard rumors these past few weeks that “some Japanese company” had bought the business from Andy Ross. Apparently this is the company. The press release sent to Dibs! moments ago says: “Hiroshi [...]