Uptown Sinclair
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Bookseller/Cataloguer, Texan, Anti-Fash, He/Him. Rare Books, Old Movies, Horror, 60s Soul, Photography, History, Travel, etc.
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While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
January 27, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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@jamesfolta.com talks to Minneapolis bookseller Angela Schwesnedl about anti-ICE resistance.
“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance
Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…
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January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
@jamesfolta.com talks to Minneapolis bookseller Angela Schwesnedl about anti-ICE resistance.
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Feel like this is the moment Europe is experiencing right now.
January 20, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Feel like this is the moment Europe is experiencing right now.
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Good Morning! Please Visit Our Booth at The Getman’s First Thursday Book & Paper Marketplace!
Starting Today, Thursday, Jan. 1st 12PM - Saturday, Jan. 3rd 6PM (EST)
Open Now!
#getmansvirtual #bookfairs #FirstThursdays
Starting Today, Thursday, Jan. 1st 12PM - Saturday, Jan. 3rd 6PM (EST)
Open Now!
#getmansvirtual #bookfairs #FirstThursdays
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Good Morning! Please Visit Our Booth at The Getman’s First Thursday Book & Paper Marketplace!
Starting Today, Thursday, Jan. 1st 12PM - Saturday, Jan. 3rd 6PM (EST)
Open Now!
#getmansvirtual #bookfairs #FirstThursdays
Starting Today, Thursday, Jan. 1st 12PM - Saturday, Jan. 3rd 6PM (EST)
Open Now!
#getmansvirtual #bookfairs #FirstThursdays
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December 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Bob Marley Voice: 🎶"Buffalo Book Ends!"🎶
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bob Marley Voice: 🎶"Buffalo Book Ends!"🎶
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SONNY ACE & THE TWISTERS - TAMALES
youtu.be/oNPGeqxWJZg
youtu.be/oNPGeqxWJZg
SONNY ACE & THE TWISTERS - TAMALES
YouTube video by LostOnAgnes
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December 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
SONNY ACE & THE TWISTERS - TAMALES
youtu.be/oNPGeqxWJZg
youtu.be/oNPGeqxWJZg
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Open now! Please join us at our booth at the Getman’s Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Book Fair. See link in comments. #getmansvirtual #bookfairs #holidayfairs 📚 🎄
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Open now! Please join us at our booth at the Getman’s Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Book Fair. See link in comments. #getmansvirtual #bookfairs #holidayfairs 📚 🎄
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“I prefer bread and water with books to the best of eating without them.” From the prison journal of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas. #texas #qotd #bookquotes #stephenfaustin
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“I prefer bread and water with books to the best of eating without them.” From the prison journal of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas. #texas #qotd #bookquotes #stephenfaustin
Deck the beer halls.
Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas by Tommy Hester
YouTube video by bourbonneat
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December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Deck the beer halls.
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Save the date! Come join us at the Getman's Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Gift Fair. Starts next Thursday, Dec. 4 - 6th! Books, Ephemera, Photographs, Prints, and Much, Much More. Link to come. #getmansvirtual, #bookfairs #holidayfairs
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Save the date! Come join us at the Getman's Virtual Bibliophilic Holiday Gift Fair. Starts next Thursday, Dec. 4 - 6th! Books, Ephemera, Photographs, Prints, and Much, Much More. Link to come. #getmansvirtual, #bookfairs #holidayfairs
Happy Birthday to Horror Legend Boris Karloff! Born on this day in 1887. 🎂 🎉 🎥 #BorisKarloff #botd
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Happy Birthday to Horror Legend Boris Karloff! Born on this day in 1887. 🎂 🎉 🎥 #BorisKarloff #botd
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Gonna really need the Big Easy to be the Small Difficult for these pigs comin into town
Please like let's get some catalytic converters stolen, some power outages. Whoops looks like it's float moving day near HQ. We need New Orleans to go full New Orleans for this
Please like let's get some catalytic converters stolen, some power outages. Whoops looks like it's float moving day near HQ. We need New Orleans to go full New Orleans for this
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Gonna really need the Big Easy to be the Small Difficult for these pigs comin into town
Please like let's get some catalytic converters stolen, some power outages. Whoops looks like it's float moving day near HQ. We need New Orleans to go full New Orleans for this
Please like let's get some catalytic converters stolen, some power outages. Whoops looks like it's float moving day near HQ. We need New Orleans to go full New Orleans for this
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“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him, or didn’t like him, things happen."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him, or didn’t like him, things happen."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Jason Reimer has brought both heavy-hitter actors and auteurs including Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone to the Texas Theatre, provided a home for the Oak Cliff Film Festival and sparked the imagination of film fans since 2010.
Now Reimer is going to do it all over again in Denton.
Now Reimer is going to do it all over again in Denton.
Denton movie theater sat vacant for years. Soon it’ll be brought back to life
Fine Arts Theatre is expected to reopen to the public by July 2026.
www.dallasnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Jason Reimer has brought both heavy-hitter actors and auteurs including Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone to the Texas Theatre, provided a home for the Oak Cliff Film Festival and sparked the imagination of film fans since 2010.
Now Reimer is going to do it all over again in Denton.
Now Reimer is going to do it all over again in Denton.
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💀 Get yourself ready for #Halloween by listening to this spooky tune. No lyrics… just lively blues with a xylophone that coffin-nails the "spooky-ooky" effect. 👻
🦇 Listen & open a cabinet of creepy #SpookySeason curiosities ⬇️
archive.org/details/@ste...
🦇 Listen & open a cabinet of creepy #SpookySeason curiosities ⬇️
archive.org/details/@ste...
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
💀 Get yourself ready for #Halloween by listening to this spooky tune. No lyrics… just lively blues with a xylophone that coffin-nails the "spooky-ooky" effect. 👻
🦇 Listen & open a cabinet of creepy #SpookySeason curiosities ⬇️
archive.org/details/@ste...
🦇 Listen & open a cabinet of creepy #SpookySeason curiosities ⬇️
archive.org/details/@ste...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Please Visit Our Booth at Getman’s Virtual Boston Satellite Book Fair! Open Now! Thursday, Oct. 23rd 12PM -Saturday, Oct. 25th 6PM (EST) Link in comments. #getmanvirtual #bookfair
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Please Visit Our Booth at Getman’s Virtual Boston Satellite Book Fair! Open Now! Thursday, Oct. 23rd 12PM -Saturday, Oct. 25th 6PM (EST) Link in comments. #getmanvirtual #bookfair
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October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Happy Birthday Angela Lansbury! Born on this day in 1925 and pictured here in her ideal board game form. 🎂 🎉 #angelalansbury #murdershewrote #botd
October 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Happy Birthday Angela Lansbury! Born on this day in 1925 and pictured here in her ideal board game form. 🎂 🎉 #angelalansbury #murdershewrote #botd
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The Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency recently reopened its bookstore at a new location at 201 N. Commerce St. in downtown Corsicana. And it’s marking the occasion with a special event featuring author and photographer Henry Horenstein.
Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency plans first event at newly reopened bookshop
Author and photographer Henry Horenstein will discuss ‘Miles and Miles of Texas,’ a collection of Lone Star State images.
www.dallasnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency recently reopened its bookstore at a new location at 201 N. Commerce St. in downtown Corsicana. And it’s marking the occasion with a special event featuring author and photographer Henry Horenstein.