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 13
Slowdown
BY DAY
Thursday, June 02 2005
Nightclubbing: Greatest Hits @ Film Center
The Siskel Film Center presents Nightclubbing: Greatest Hits, a 60-minute documentary taken from the "Nightclubbing" New York cable TV show of the 1970s, containing the best footage from the "Nightclubbing" programs that have been shown all this past month. Expect to see Blondie, Talking Heads, the Dead Kennedys, DNA, Iggy Pop, The Cramps, Pylon, and many more. The doc is preceded by excerpts from the film Looking For A Thrill, produced by local label Thrill Jockey. Ths event is part of a month-long program of excerpts from Nightclubbing, and is part of the Film Center's Music Movies series. The film screens tonight at 8:30 PM. Tickets: $9, $5 for Film Center members, and $4 for SAIC students. Film Center: 164 N. State. (312) 846-2600.
"Representing Invisible Labor"
This evening at the Washington Library's Pritzker Auditorium, The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance present "Representing Invisible Labor: How Art Speaks the Language of Labor." The multi-media event will look at ways that artists represent the sometimes unnoticed activity that goes on around us. Jon Langford of the Mekons will be among the guests, and the panel will be moderated by Emily Udell and Aaron Sarver, co-producers of the progressive radio program Fire on the Prairie. The event takes place from 6-8pm and is free and open to the public. Please call 312/422-5580 to make a reservation.
Sam Fuller's White Dog @ Block Museum of Art
Sam Fuller's 1982 film White Dog, a unique look at racism (the dog of the title has been trained to attack black people) that has hardly been seen in this country (except through less-than-official channels), screens tonight at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art at 6:00 PM. Tickets are $6, or $4 for students; see the Museum's Website for details. Block Museum of Art: 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. (847) 491-4000.
