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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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Sunday, September 14

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Hypocrisy Now! @ Hamburger Mary's

Democracy Burlesque and Mayoral Tutorial precent Hypocrisy Now! at Mary's Attic (5400 N. Clark) tonight at 8:30pm. An evening of comedy, politics, and a pop quiz. $15 general admission (cash only at the door), doors open at 7:10pm, and all proceeds go to benefit Chicago Independent Radio Project. RSVP to Democracy Burlesque at tickets (at) democracyburlesque (dot) com.

A.A. Bondy with Gold Leaves @ Lincoln Hall

Mountain folkster A.A. Bondy with support from Gold Leaves at Lincoln Hall. Tickets are still available. $14. 21+ 8PM. Lincoln Hall is located at 2424 N Lincoln.

This Much is True @ Hopleaf

Come back to the Hopleaf for the November installment of This Much Is True. This month's installment features stories by: Keith Ecker, JW Basilo, and Jen Bosworth, MT Cozolla, Dina Walters, and hosts Deanna Moffitt and Scott Whitehair. The Hopleaf is located at 5148 N. Clark, show starts at 7:30pm, and is free. A word to the wise: get there early for a seat, and bring cash - credit cards are not accepted in the upstairs bar. For more info visit This Much is True or Hopleaf.

A Century of the Chicago Manual of Style

As part of Chicago Public Media's Off-Air series, WBEZ's Alison Cuddy will moderate a panel discussion tonight in honor of the recent release of the famed style manual's 16th edition. The focus will be the role of The Chicago Manual of Style, which has been published since 1906, in an era of quick communication — tweets, texts, emails have encouraged expediency over accuracy.

Panelists include Anita Samen, Managing Editor books division, University of Chicago Press; Carol Saller, Senior Manuscript Editor, University of Chicago Press and editor of the Chicago Style Q+A; Jason Riggle, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Chicago Language Modeling Lab; and Ben Zimmer, Former writer of the New York Times Magazine's "On Language" column and Executive Producer of Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com.

Details:

Tonight at 7pm
University of Chicago International House
1414 East 59th Street

$15 general admission
$12 WBEZ members
$10 students
Tickets may be purchased here.

Re-thinking Soup @ Jane Addams Hull House

At this week's Re-thinking Soup event at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum,800 S. Halsted St., Soup and Bread's Martha Bayne will discuss the cultural history of soup and bread and their contemporary uses in building community and fostering social justice. Noon to 1pm. Free.

Connecting The Beats panel discussion @ DePaul

Free and open to the public, attend a panel discussion on music journalism featuring bloggers and editors from Pitchfork, Daytrotter, Gapers Block (including our own Anne Holub), Fake Shore Drive, Chicago Mixtape, and Crowd Noize. The event is hosted by the DePaul Music Business Organization (DMBO) in DePaul's School of Music Recital Hall tonight at 7:30pm. There will be an opportunity to meet the panelists afterwards in the lobby. The discussion takes place at School of Music Recital Hall, DePaul University, 804 West Belden Ave., Chicago, IL. RSVP and get more info on Facebook.

 

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