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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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Friday, March 29

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Soup & Bread @ the Hideout

Soup & Bread, the weekly wintertime soup-eating party benefiting a local food-related charity, is tonight at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave. Volunteer cooks make the soup; you show up between 5:30 and 8pm to eat, enjoy and kick in a few bucks for the cause. Kids welcome with parents.

Leo Kottke @ SPACE

Guitarist Leo Kottke performs solo tonight at 7:30pm at SPACE, 1275 Chicago Ave. in Evanston. Tickets are $30-65. Doors open at 6:30pm.

Ultimate Painting @ Double Door

The Double Door, 1572 N. Milwaukee Ave., is the setting tonight for Ultimate Painting, a speed painting competition in which artists do the best work they can in 20 minutes and the audience judges the winner. Tickets are $8; doors open at 7pm. 21+

Cut Cats Courier Winter Bash @ Empty Bottle

The Cut Cats Courier Winter Bash is tonight at the Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave., at 9pm. The lineup includes Basic Cable, Torture Love, Gula Gila and Earring. Tickets are $5, and proceeds benefit The Center for Workplace Democracy. 21+

 

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