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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, September 20 2011
Pearl Jam Twenty Advance Screening @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The Gene Siskel Film Center presents an advance screening of Cameron Crowe's documentary Pearl Jam Twenty, featuring performance footage and interviews with the band and friends. The film screens tonight at 9:30pm in advance of a week-long run at the Film Center starting on Friday, September 30. Advance tickets are available through the Film Center's Website. Film Center: 164 N. State. (312) 846-2600.
Common @ DePaul University Bookstore
Rapper/actor Common not only writes rhymes--he writes books, too. Catch Chicago's hip hop superstar tonight at a free reading and book signing for his new memoir, One Day It'll All Make Sense, at DePaul University Bookstore, 1 E. Jackson, from 6pm-8pm. For more information, call 312-362-8792.
Local Author Conversations at Harold Washington Library
Join Booklist's Donna Seamen moderate a conversation with award winning authors Dominic Smith (Bright and Distant Shores) and Billy Lombardo (The Man with Two Arms and How to Hold a Woman). The event is at 6pm in the Harold Washington Library Center, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium 400 S. State Street.
Two and a Half Cookie Minimum reading
Two and a Half Cookie Minimum will be a pairing of Two Cookie Minimumreading series andHalf Nelson press, a self-published literary journal. Readers will include contributors to Half Nelson issue two alongside Mairead Case (co-conspirator of Dil Pickle Club) and Mason Johnson (host of P. Fanatics reading series). The event begins at 9pm at at the Hungry Brain 2319 West Belmont.
Brinksmen Press reading, Revolutions: The Gamble, part II
The Brinksmen Press reading, Revolutions: The Gamble, part II. will mix story and musical performances. Featured readers include Dan Duffy (editor of The Handshake magazine) and Patricia Ann McNair (author of The Temple of Air) will close the night. This event begins at 7pm, Brando's Speakeasy, 343 S. Dearborn St.
