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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Tuesday, May 01 2012
Two Cookie Minimum Presents Industry Night
Two Cooke Minimum is back on Tuesday May 1. Join industry professionals from all areas of the literary and publishing community for a night of reading.
Readers include Rob Duffer, Ben Tanzer, , Wly Villacres, Sarah Dodson, Daniel Majid, and Naomi Huffman. Hosted by Johnny Misfit.
This series is the first Tuesday of the month at the Hungry Brain 2319 W. Belmont, 9pm. And always, there will be free cookies!
The Unstable Object @ Film Center
The Gene Siskel Film Center presents a one-time screening of the 2010 documentary The Unstable Object, an look at unusual production models (including a German Volkswagen plant, a Chicago clock factory staffed by blind workers, and a Turkish cymbal factory). The director, Daniel Eisenberg, is scheduled to appear at the screening tonight at 6pm. See the Film Center Website for a full description and to purchase advance tickets. Film Center: 164 N. State Street. (312) 846-2600.
Tuesday Funk @ Hopleaf
Come down to Hopleaf to listen to the latest in fiction, poetry, and essays. Reading tonight will be B.C. Bell, Susanna Lang, Chris Mendius, Julie Rosenthal, and Tom Underberg. Tuesday Funk will be at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St. @ 7:30pm, 21+, Free.
CERN: What's It All About?
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology presents "CERN: What's it all about?," a talk by Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab and a professor of physics at UofC, about CERN and FermiLab, subatomic particles and the Higgs boson, at the Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren St., tonight at 6pm. A reception precedes the talk at 5pm. Admission is $10 in advance, $15 at the door; students get in for $5.
Red Rock West @ Music Box
After failing to Outguess Ebert, The Music Box (3733 N. Southport Ave) has agreed to let Roger screen the film of his choice tonight. He's picked the 1994 cult classic Red Rock West, which will show at 7:40pm, with tickets at just $3.
