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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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TODAY
Monday, April 29
Slowdown
BY DAY
Monday, July 30 2012
DMK/Hinterland Beer Dinner
DMK Burger Bar and Green Bay's Hinterland Beer team up for two four-course beer dinners tonight at 6pm and 8:30pm at Fish Bar, 2956 N. Sheffield Ave. Tickets are $35 per person; email mshort@dmkrestaurants.com to reserve. All proceeds will go to help send Make-A-Wish Foundation beneficiary Andres, a 16-year-old Chicagoan with spinal muscular atrophy, to Disney World.
Downtown Sound: SMOD & M.A.K.U. Soundsystem
SMOD and M.A.K.U. Soundsystem perform at 6:30pm in the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park for the final show in the Downtown Sound free concert series. Details here.
Music Box Summer Music Film Festival
The Music Box Theatre and Sound Opinions present four evenings of music films starting tonight, with the double feature Monterey Pop and Gimme Shelter. The other films that will be shown are the Paul Simon documentary Under African Skies, the Andrew Bird documentary Fever Year, and the LCD Soundsystem doc Shut Up and Play The Hits. See the Music Box Website for a complete schedule and to purchase tickets in advance. Music Box: 3733 N. Southport. (773) 871-6604.
Impress These Apes
Comedy competition Impress These Apes continues tonight at ComedySportz, 929 W. Belmont Ave., at 8pm. Watch as eight contestants vie for the approval of a panel hyperintelligent apes (and the audience) through a series of challenges. Tickets are $10.
