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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, March 02 2011
So Ends Our Night @ Portage Theater
The Northwest Chicago Film Society presents the 1941 film So Ends Our Night at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave., tonight at 7:30pm. Admission is $5.
1st Annual Whistler Spelling Bee
The Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee Ave., holds its first annual spelling bee tonight at 9pm. Forty contestants (sign up when you arrive -- first-come, first-served) will compete for supremacy, with improv sensations Seth Dodson and Kellen Alexander hosting. Free, 21+.
The Alternative History of Chicago Theater (Abridged) @ Chopin Theater
WBEZ presents a panel of Chicago theater experts for an evening of discussion about Chicago's long theatrical history. Along with the discussion there will be short performances from: Robot vs. Dinosaur; BoyGirlBoyGirl; The Plagiarists; RoShamBo Theater; and Tofu Chitlin' Circuit. The event starts at 7pm at the Chopin Theater (1543 W. Division); tickets and more information are available at the WBEZ Website.
Soup and Bread @ The Hideout
Get your slurp on at this weekly fundraiser for area food-related charities tonight at the Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia, from 5:30-7:30pm. A volunteer team of chefs and bakers donate the soup and bread; you donate the money.
Cheap Time, Zoobombs, Ramma Lamma @ Empty Bottle
Nashville's Cheap Time has a new record, Fantastic Explanations (and Similar Situations), and some new personnel. (Their show here last December was cancelled due to someone leaving the band mid-tour.) The garage rockers are on tour with Japan's Zoobombs - a psych/blues/rock tour de force. Cheap Time headlines the Empty Bottle. Milwaukee's Ramma Lamma opens at 9:30PM. The show's 21+ and $8. The Bottle's at 1035 N Western.
RUI @ Sheffield's
Last month their intrepid plans were foiled by the weather, so tonight is the re-boot of the Reading Under the Influence lineup originally scheduled for February. Featured readers are Christine Sneed, Geoff Hyatt, Scott Miles (editor of The Best Underground Fiction: Volume One), and Sean Rohwedder. The reading is a tribute to Ric Hess, the owner of Sheffield's, who passed away on January 17. There will be readings of his original work and trivia questions centered around the people and things Ric loved. Sheffield's, 3258 N. Sheffield Ave., $3 cover, readings begin at 7:30pm.
