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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, January 22 2014
Soup and Bread @ the Hideout
Volunteer chefs serve up soup tonight from 5:30-8pm at the Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia) at this weekly benefit for food pantries/hunger relief organizations in the area (a different one is selected each week). Show up, eat, and donate what you can. Free.
Gary Shteyngart @ Unity Church
Author Aleksandar Hemon talks with author Gary Shteyngart about his latest book, Little Failure tonight at 6pm at First United Methodist Church at The Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington St., as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Tickets are $15. Read our preview in Book Club.
The Encyclopedia Show @ Stage 773
The Encyclopedia Show returns to Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave., tonight at 7:30pm. Writer Natalie Edwards, HBO Def Poet Dan Sullivan, Emcee WreckShop founder Adam Moshe Levin, poet Alison A. Ogunmokun, blogger Berto Saldana, and Louder Than A Bomb's Jasmine Alexandria Barber and Susie Swanton read stories on the theme of "shame"; Ian Belknap hosts. The show is all ages, $9 for adults, $6 for students. Read our preview in Book Club.
Sound Opinions at the Movies
Sound Opinions gos back to the movies tonight at the Music Box Theater, 3733 N. Southport Ave., with a screening of Diner tonight at 7:30pm. Tickets are $10, $9 for WBEZ members.
Valhalla @ Lincoln Hall
Sweetgrass Productionsis showing its fourth feature film, Valhalla, tonight at 8pm at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave. The film tells the tale of a man's search to rediscover the freedom of his youth. Tickets are $10 and for 21+.
