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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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Tuesday, August 09 2005
Outdoor Film Festival: Night of the Hunter
The 6th annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival continues tonight at sunset with a screening of the chilling Robert Mitchum classic Night of the Hunter. The screening will be at Butler Field in Grant Park (Lake Shore Drive & Monroe), and admission is free. See the City of Chicago Website for a complete schedule of the festival, which runs every Tuesday night through August 23.
Camp Green Drinks
Camp Green Drinks happens tonight at 2023 W. Evergreen (Cost: $4). Tonight will feature a screening of the documentary "Taken for a Ride: Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways?". Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets. For more information, email greendrinks{at}foresightdesign.org, (312) 670-7812.
