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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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Wednesday, July 07 2010
Veggie Bingo @ Hideout
The fine folks who brought you the weekly fundraiser soup-eating slurp-a-thon Soup and Bread (along with NeighborSpace) have taken their interests to a new activity...bingo. Veggie Bingo runs every Wednesday at the Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia). Event begins at 6pm; cards are $1 each, or 6 for $5. Proceeds benefit Chicago community gardens. Event runs weekly through September 29.
Grant Park Orchestra @ Millennium Park
Tonight as part of the Grant Park Music Festival, Uruguayan author Galeano's Memoria del Fuego is adapted for stage by Goodman Theatre Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez and set to a variety of Latin music. Readings in English and Spanish. This concert launches Goodman Theatre's 2010 Latino Theatre Festival. 6:30pm. Pritzker Pavilion. Free.
Sweet Treat @ Beauty Bar
DJ Shellster is out this week, but DJ White Lightnin' (aka Lisa White) will still be tearing it up in the booth with guest (and fellow Gapers Block staffer) Amy Dittmeier. Old classics, new indie favorites, and a good dose of not so guilty pleasures. Just good music. Tonight at Beauty Bar from 7-10pm. As always, it's free, and don't forget about the $10 martini & manicure special. 1444 W. Chicago.
I Love My Job; I Hate My Job @ Black Rock Bar
The Reconstruction Room reading event is an art, lit, and performance "theme party" that takes place monthly at Black Rock Bar (3614 N. Damen). Starting at 8pm, tonight's theme is all about jobs, and will feature poems, stories, performances (and much more) focusing on what we do to pay our bills. Fortunately, this event is free, so save your hard-earned money for the drinks!
Sam Weller @ The Book Cellar
Tonight The Book Cellar welcomes Sam Weller, reading from his recently released Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews.
Weller's The Bradbury Chronicles was the winner of the Society of Midland Authors award for best biography in 2005. Weller is a local journalist, Columbia College professor and highly sought after lecturer on the life and works of celebrated science fiction author Ray Bradbury. Julia Keller of The Chicago Tribune calls Listen "a book that's feisty and that charges full-speed ahead, a book that practically levitates out of your hands as you turn the pages - there is that much energy in it, that much love for life and for books and for the people who make and read them." Ray Bradbury himself says "Sam Weller knows more about my life than I do." The Book Cellar, 4736 North Lincoln Avenue, (773) 293-2665, 7pm.
