Barnes & Noble will open a new flagship store in downtown Seattle on May 6 as part of a massive expansion that will add 60 new locations across the U.S. in 2026. The store’s grand opening will feature ...

The celebrations hadn’t even begun yet for Andrew Barnes’ new position as chairman of the Poynter Institute in 1988 when he received a phone call that threatened to ruin everything. On the phone was a ...

SEATTLE — A new Barnes & Noble store is set to open Wednesday, May 6, marking the bookseller’s return to downtown Seattle after several years away. The two-level store will span more than 17,000 ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Apr 6, 2026 at 7:44 pm April 16, 2026 at 11:27 am ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes is preparing for his 31st NCAA Tournament appearance. Barnes has been a head coach for 39 years and has one Final Four appearance from 2003 with Texas. He has ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Counter-Strike is getting one of its biggest gameplay shakeups in years, with a change to ammo management that will force players to be more mindful ...

Barnes & Noble was once the avatar for sinister big-box stores on the march against independent businesses. In 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks plays an executive at Foxbooks, a thinly disguised ...

One of the Bay Area’s last Barnes and Noble bookstores, located inside a fading mall, is closing after over two decades in operation, leaving just a handful of stores left throughout the region. “It ...

Julian Barnes, author of 14 previous novels, ten volumes of nonfiction, and three collections of short stories under his own name, plus four crime novels under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh, has ...

In Departure(s), Julian Barnes' playful new novel about several of his lifelong obsessions — mortality, memory, and time — the author announces that after publishing 27 books over the past 44 years, ...

In 1984, a shooting on a New York City subway thrust Bernie Goetz into the center of the national spotlight. After opening fire on four Black teenagers he said were trying to rob him, Goetz was hailed ...