When the B. Dalton bookstore shuts in January, Laredo readers will have to travel 150 miles to San Antonio to find the nearest bookseller. The border town will be the largest U.S. city without a bookstore, industry experts believe.
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Sideshow: Two Lil Wayne buses fail sniff test
A li'l weed was - once again! - found on a Lil Wayne tour bus. About 3 a.m. Friday (12-18), U.S. Border Patrol officers made a routine stop of LW's two buses, on their way to a concert in Laredo, Texas. But K-9 dog detectives sniffed some dank on both buses! Dank indeed was found, and LW and 12 of his entourage were detained. The concert had to be kicked to last night. LW and homies were released. But on Feb. 9, he'll be in NYC to be sentenced (possibly for up to a year) for illegal weapons possession stemming from a bus-related 2007 bust, and then there's controlled-substance badness over his head from several places. Bicycle, LW - hitchhike, pogo stick, space shuttle, do anything but get on that bus. . . . In further Lil Wayne news, Amazon.com mistakenly shipped out 500 copies of his much-delayed, much-anticipated album Rebirth, scheduled for a Feb. 1 release. Leaks are a tradition with LW albums, but this is a true Amazon mess-up.
--Tirdad Derakhshani/Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer