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
Thursday, April 25
Merge
Tickets for the Chicago Humanities Festival (10/29 to 11/13) go on sale to the public tomorrow (they’ve been available to CHF members since August 30). This year’s theme is “Home and Away,” and notable events include Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Robert Venturi discussing Mies van der Rohe (in Mies’ own Crown Hall at IIT), novelist Salman Rushdie talking about the “Scattered Concept of Home,” and a documentary about families about to relocate from a Robert Taylor Homes high-rise. The entire schedule (pdf)is available online.
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:
