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
Saturday, September 14
Merge
The third public hearing on plans for affordable high speed internet access across Chicago will be held 6:30pm Thursday, the 11th, in the Solarium Room of the South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Drive. If you've got something to say about proposals for municipally offered wireless, this is your last chance (of the initial round, at least). Get on the schedule or just get more information by contacting Lindy McGuire: 312/744-3021 or lindy[dot]mcguire [at]cityofchicago[dot}org.
Elsewhere on Gapers Block Right Now:
A/C Arts & Culture
- Bye Bye, Gapers Block from the A/C Team
- At the MCA: Pop Art Design Gives Us a Refresher Course on the '60s and '70s
- Black Ensemble Theater's Dynamite Divas: See It for the Music Feature:
- Paul Goldberger Describes the "Pragmatism and Poetry" of Frank Gehry's Architecture in His New Book Steve at the Movies:
- Best Feature Films & Documentaries of 2015
Book Club Books
Drive-Thru Food
Mechanics Politics
- Where are the Peace Candidates?
- On Gapers Block and Chicago
- Recall: What Could Happen Next? Revenge of the Second City:
- Ventra's Parent Company: An International History of Fare Card Glitches Classroom Mechanics:
