Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Thursday, April 25
If you're in the market for a bicycle, the Working Bikes cooperative on Western is a wicked-cool place to get one. They salvage bikes, fix 'em up and sell 'em cheap. Everything is volunteer-run, and the proceeds go towards paying to ship loads of bikes as humanitarian aid to Ghana, Nicaragua, and other needy countries. Check it out.