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
Readers of a certain vintage might remember these classic TV ads for Encyclopaedia Brittanica that aired in the early '90s.
The kid in the commercial is Donavan Freberg, who's now a photographer in LA and has his own YouTube channel. He is the son of TV, animation, music and advertising legend Stan Freberg, who is still active in the industry 70 years after he got started; that's Stan doing the voiceover). The series was so well-known that Seattle's local TV show "Almost Live" did a great parody: Oliver Stone's World Book Encyclopedia. In fact, Brittanica even mocked itself:
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:
