For nearly 17 years, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange has been an important part of Flagstaff’s consumer and cultural landscape. Customers could count on live performances every weekend from musicians who would set up shop on a small stage in the front of the store, where they were surrounded by coffee-sipping patrons seated on big, comfy couches. But last August, the stage was removed. The café, too, was gone. And now, thanks to a lease dispute with their landlord, Flagstaff-based LNN Enterprises, Inc., Bookmans’ presence in Flagstaff has been put in jeopardy

So begins the long tale of woe that's left a hole in the community where our little cafe once stood.