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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TODAY
Friday, April 26
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BY DAY
Tuesday, September 01 2015
First Tuesdays w/Mick & Ben @ Hideout
Political journalists Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky host First Tuesdays with Mick & Ben tonight at 6:30pm at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave. Their guests this month will be first-time congressmen Will Guzzardi and Pamela Harris. Tickets are $5. 21+
Tuesday Funk @ Hopleaf
Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St., for Tuesday Funk, Chicago's eclectic monthly reading series. This month's readers are Brian Heath, Amanda Buckley, Jill Howe, Paul Dailing and David Daskal. Doors open at 7pm -- and no earlier, seriously -- and the show begins at 7:30pm. RSVP on Facebook. Free, 21+
Pecha Kucha @ Martyrs'
Pecha Kucha, an event where presenters give a talk or tell a story in 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each, returns to Martyrs', 3855 N. Lincoln Ave., tonight at 8pm. This show will be "20x20x20" -- all the presenters will be 20 years old. Presenters include Anastasia Skolnik, Lissette Martinez, Ethan Krupp, Claire Montana Jencks, Erica Brooks, Elee Egz, Aquiles Dairon-Alcantara, Rachel Kimpton, Sara Muzammil Aziz and Devin Kidner. Doors open at 8pm. Tickets are $10.
