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.
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TODAY
Wednesday, April 24
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Snowpocalypse, Snowmageddon, snOMG... Whatever you called it, a year ago today, you were preparing for a lot of snow. We wouldn't know until 24 hours later that it was the third biggest snowfall Chicago had ever seen. Here's a look back at some of the sights and sounds from the blizzard.
Thundersnow!
Stuck in a car on Lake Shore Drive for 10 hours:
The aftermath on Lake Shore Drive:
Associated Press story on Feb. 2, 2011:
An amazing story from Baratunde Thurston, who happened to be in town during the blizzard, of going to LSD to help get people's cars unstuck: "I'm just a man from Brooklyn with a shovel. My epic tale from Chicago's Lake Shore Drive."
Photos and video I took in West Ridge:
South Lake Shore Drive, photographed by David Schalliol:
Up on the El tracks, photographed by Michael Patrick Perry:
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:
