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
Sunday, January 19
Merge
Nov. 22 was the 25th anniversary of the Max Headroom pirating incident broadcast hijackings on WGN and WTTW. Last year a reddit member claimed he knew who did it.
On WGN-TV:
On WTTW-TV:
Media coverage the next day:
A recent overview, with industry sources providing perspective:
Elsewhere on Gapers Block Right Now:
Drive ThruFriday Foodpic: Roasted Corn
by Robyn Nisi
A/CBest Feature Films & Documentaries of 2015
by Steve Prokopy
A/CBye Bye, Gapers Block from the A/C Team
by Nancy Bishop
MechanicsWhere are the Peace Candidates?
by Jeff Smith
Drive ThruThe State of Food Writing
by Brandy Gonsoulin
TransmissionOur Final Transmission Days
by Sarah Brooks
Book ClubFillet of Solo Takes Rogers Park in January
by Emma Terhaar
MechanicsOn Gapers Block and Chicago
by Phil Huckelberry
A/CAt the MCA: Pop Art Design Gives Us a Refresher Course on the '60s and '70s
by Nancy Bishop
A/CThe Hateful Eight, Concussion, Joy, Carol, Hitchcock/Truffaut & Man Up
by Steve Prokopy
