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.
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TODAY
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BY DAY
Monday, January 17 2011
Essay Fiesta @ The Book Cellar
Come to The Book Cellar (4736 N. Lincoln) tonight for the January installment of Essay Fiesta, a monthly reading series that supports Howard Brown Health Center. Tonight's readers include Barrel of Monkeys company member Matt Miller, host of Off the Eatin' Path and stand-up comic Monte LaMonte, writer and child psychologist Larry Kerns, playwright and poet Martha Reeves, and 2nd Story performer and writer Andrew Reilly. As always, the show will be hosted by the effervescent Alison Lyon and Keith Ecker, and there will be a raffle with fantastic prizes, all proceeds benefiting Howard Brown Health Center. Show starts at 7pm, and is free. For more information visit Essay Fiesta.
Dr. King Day Celebration @ DuSable Museum
The DuSable Museum of African American History (740 E. 56th Pl.) presents "Dr. King Day Celebration," today from 10am-5pm. This family-friendly, event-filled tribute to the late Civil Rights leader features a full program with film, spoken word, children's storytelling and theatrical and dance performances from the Chocolate Chips Theatre Company, the Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre and more. Admission is $10 adults, $5 for children age 12 and under. For more information, call (773) 947-0600.
CAASE Benefit @ 1130 W. Adams
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) presents a free wine and chocolate tasting, a silent art auction, and a presentation by author Julian Sher. Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children. Rachel Durchslag, executive director of the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, calls Somebody's Daughter "a brutally honest look into the hidden world of prostituted children in the United States. A compelling book that will touch hearts and minds and inspire people to take action." Norma Ramos, executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking of Women, calls the book "masterful, absorbing...to date the most definitive account of sex trafficking of children in the United States and the culture that supports it." All the evening's proceeds will benefit work to help victims of sexual exploitation in Chicago. Free. 1130 W. Adams, 6pm-9pm.
