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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
Friday, April 26
Slowdown
BY DAY
Monday, November 09 2015
À La Carte Chicago
Try contemporary French cuisine and say "Oo la la!" Join many Chicago residents for this weeklong endeavor (until November 19) at restaurants around the city such as Kiki's Bistro, Bistro Campagne, Bistro Voltaire and more. See the whole list with menus here. Make sure you check into taking a cooking class, going to a tasting, watching a screening or one of the other events around the city.
Chicago Nerds Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club @ Filter Cafe
The Chicago Nerd Social Club hosts their monthly science fiction & fantasy book club tonight from 6:30pm to 7:30pm at Filter Cafe (1373-75 N. Milwaukee). The book being discussed this evening is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Full details on the event at the Chicago Nerds site.
The Look of Silence @ Northwestern
The Equality Development and Globalization Studies organization at Northwestern presents a screening of The Look of Silence, a sequel of sorts to The Act of Killing focusing on the relatives of Indonesian massacre victims confronting the perpetrators, tonight at 6:30pm at Tech Ryan Auditorium, 2145 Sheridan Rd. in Evanston. Filmmaker and MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Joshua Oppenheimer will give a lecture after the film. Admission is free; RSVP on Facebook.
Is This a Thing? @ O'Shaughnessy's
Storytelling show Is This a Thing? is back at O'Shaughnessy's, 4557 N. Ravenswood Ave., tonight at 7pm. The show will feature Lauren Huffman, Nick Johne, Mare Swallow, Judith Scholes, Isabelle Libmann, Claire Muller and Suzy Weinberg; Damian Raszewski hosts. Free, 21+
