Gapers Block has ceased publication.

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.
 Thank you for your readership and contributions. 

TODAY

Friday, March 29

Gapers Block
Search

Gapers Block on Facebook Gapers Block on Flickr Gapers Block on Twitter The Gapers Block Tumblr


Merge

Literary critic and Palestinian political activist Edward Said died recently to the dismay of scholars and activists world wide. Israeli Daniel Barenboim, grand maestro of the CSO was a close friend of Said and they worked together to examine how art could overcome the Palestinian-Israeli divide. This weekend Barenboim will lead an orchestra of Arab and Palestinian musicians in a free concert in honor of Said in Hyde Park. This unique event will be musically and emotionally extraordinary. Definitely my pick of the month.

 
GB store

Archives

GB store

GB Store

GB Buttons $1.50

GB T-Shirt $12

I ✶ Chi T-Shirts $15