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Friday, March 29
This month's meeting of the Gapers Block Book Club takes place tonight at The Book Cellar at 4736-8 N. Lincoln Ave., where we will be discussing Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. The meeting begins at 7:30pm, and new members are always welcome! Hope to see you there. Visit the official book club blog for more information.
Annie Clark, who does business as St. Vincent, wrote much of her new album, "Actor," by drawing, not playing. Mainly a guitarist, Clark began the album in a French hotel room in December of 2007, using GarageBand software and a pair of headphones, "drawing notes one by one, until they sounded how they should sound." Opening for her is Chicago-based Mexican-American three piece Allá. This concert is part of Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays--a unique series bringing some the freshest "news making" artists and groundbreaking rock veterans to the world renowned Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Concert starts at 6:30pm.