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City Life, Public Service Announcement Aug 28, 2020
Mapping out a reader's delight

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, listings, events, livestream, Experimental Sound Studio, Independent Bookstore Day, bookstores, books, maps, bicycles, riding, Motoblot, scooter, motorcycle, Marcie, Peppermint Patty, Quimby's, Bridgeview, art exhibitions, artists, 6018North

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2017
The One-Minute Play Festival, a May the 4th Star Wars party, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Female Chicago Comics Panel, Chiang Mai Thai New Year Celebration, and more happenings from May 1-4.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, The XX, Aragon Ballroom, Damon Krukowski, Quimby's, Crystal Lake Brewing Dinner, Signature Room, Female Chicago Comics Panel, the Whistler, One-Minute Play Festival, Den Theatre, Platformance Anxiety, Annoyance Theatre, Huggable Riot, Jermaine Fowler, Zanies, Malcolm Gladwell, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, Chiang Mai Thai New Year Celebration, Immm Rice & Beyond, May the 4th, Star Wars, Spin Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2017
David Leggett at Shane Campbell Gallery, Kweku Collins, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Scientific Art + Karaoke, MAC & Cheese Cook-Off, and more happenings from March 24-26
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, The Backroom, Scientific Art + Karaoke, Chicago Athletic Association, Yo Complete Me, Fulton Market Kitchen, Closed Sessions, Metro, Kweku Collins, Michael DeForge, Quimby's, Sadie Dupuis, iRiete Guey!, Playground Theater, MAC & Cheese Cook-Off, Midwest Action Coalition, Lavender Menace Occupation Brunch, Empty Bottle, Chicago Zine Fest Bingo, Hamburger Mary's, Their funeral our dance floor, Shane Campbell Gallery, David Leggett

Blogs, Bleader Mar 10, 2017
Avoid Saint Patrick’s Day in Chicago this weekend with works by Larry Clark at the MCA and more things to do

Louder Than a Bomb, the We Watch Wrestling podcast, Claudia Pop-Up dinner, and more happenings from March 10-12
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Too Much Fun Too, Quimby's, Strip Joker, Uptown Underground, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 20th anniversary, Bucket o Blood, Murder and Mayhem in Chicago, Roosevelt University, We Watch Wrestling, Beat Kitchen, Full Circle, Auditorium Theatre, Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Louder Than a Bomb, Metro, Young Chicago Authors, Claudia Pop-Up

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2017
Andersonville Restaurant Week, Ballet de Lorraine, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Black Eye No 3, #BringHer, and more happenings from February 17-19.
- By Jack Ladd
- Tags: Arts, Do This, CLUE: A Drag Extravaganza, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Rest in Power, DuSable Museum of African American History, Sycamore, Center on Halsted, Andersonville Restaurant Week, Lovey Town, Mana Contemporary Chicago, #BringHer, Hyde Park Art Center, NoMI Kitchen, Taste of the Midwest, Ballet de Lorraine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bobby Lee, Improv, Black Eye No 3, Quimby's

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2017
Winter Mix-Off, Chicago Theatre Week, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Deadpool at Cinema Slapdown, the dance party Black Girl Magic, and more happenings from February 6-9
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, We Warm Chicago, Revolution Brewery, Winter Mix-Off, Roof, Tuesday Funk, Hopleaf, Lemuria, Subterranean, The Grelley Duvall, Hideout, Chicago Is Not Broke, Quimby's, Cinema Slapdown, Deadpool, Film Row Cinema, Disco Demolition, Book Cellar, Black Girl Magic, Berlin, Chicago Theatre Week, Men on Boats, Blizzard '67, Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2017
Bill T. Jones, Chicago Restaurant Week, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Young Playwrights Festival, Forward Motion Activist Fundraiser, and more things to do this weekend.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Bill Ayers, David Omotoso Stovall, Seminary Co-Op, Donut Fest, Chop Shop, Zlumber Party, Quimby's, Revival, Barron Trump, Shannon Noll, Young Playwrights Festival, Chinese Lunar New Year, Art Institute, Chicago Restaurant Week, Just Ethos, Chicago Psych Fest, Hideout, Bill T. Jones, Dusable Museum

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 21, 2016
The year in Chicago bookstores

Amazon is coming, but the indies have built a true community for the city’s readers
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, Year in Review 2016, Chicago bookstores, bookselling, Amazon, Amazon Store, Chicagoland Independent Bookstore Alliance, Unabridged Books, Read It & Eat, Curbside Books & Records, Revival Food Hall, Bookworks, Bob Roschke, Ronda Pilon, Seminary Co-op, Jeff Deutsch, 57th Street Books, Alexandra Houston, Suzy Takacs, Book Cellar, Quimby's, Ever Evolving Bastion of Freakdom: A Quimby's Bookstore History in Words and Pictures, Steven Svymbersky, Liz Mason, Keith Helt, Wicker Park and West Town Lit Fest, Women & Children First, You're Being Ridiculous, Jeremy Owens

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2016
Book Fort Fair, Hot Heels Club, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Sub Chroma, and more happenings from November 18-20.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Connect Hyde Park, Hot Heels Club, Chicago Athletic Association, Dance Theater of Harlem, Auditorium Theatre, Inspired By Social Issues, Bridgeport Art Center, Punk Then, Punk Now, Punk Forever, Quimby's, Book Fort Fair, Curbside Books & Records, Late Late Breakfast, Hideout, Sub Chroma, Canvas, Moonlight Studios, Vintage Garage Chicago, the Marrow, the Whistler

Blogs, Bleader Nov 4, 2016
SOFA Chicago, Strange Foods Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Jessica Campbell, Criminal, and more happenings from November 4-6.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, SOFA, Navy Pier, Jessica Campbell, Quimby's, Criminal, Thalia Hall, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Arts of Life, Life Sucks, Lookingglass, Moonlight Studios, Tere O'Connor, Strange Foods Festival, Feed My Starving Children

Arts & Culture, Book Review May 11, 2014
Recommended
Edie Fake's Memory Palaces dazzles

The comic artist reimagines spots from Chicago LGBTQ history in a new book.
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Book Review, Memory Places, Edie Fake, Secret Acres, Quimby's, Chicago's LGBTQ history, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Blazing Star, Gaylord Phoenix, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2014
Call for submissions: The return of the Reader's Comics Issue

Curated by Eric Kirsammer, owner of Chicago Comics and Quimby's, the deadline for submissions is February 6.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Books, Arts, Visual Art, Annual Comics Special, Comics Issue, Eric Kirsammer, Chicago Comics, Quimby's

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2013
Who is the Krampus?

All hail the devil of Christmas.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Foreign, Things I Love, Arts, Gift Guide, Krampus, Monte Beauchamp, Last Gasp, Krampus: The Devil of Christmas, Quimby's, GlitterGuts, Krampusnacht

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 4, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Holiday benefits for homeless women and toyless kids

Plus: A lineup change in Paper Mice, another Leor who's into emo, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Liza Day, One for Courage, Woman Power Holiday Show, Schubas, Diana & the Dishes, Lady Laura, Deborah's Place, Notes & Bolts, Quimby's, Empty Bottle, Sister Crystals, Peekaboos, Coffin Ships, the Iceberg, Paper Mice, Adam McCormack, Burlington, Mines, Ronnie Kuller, Leor Miller, Pretty Angsty, Bad Waves, Mormon Toasterhead, 97% Old

Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2013
Reader's Agenda Tue 7/23: Thai Comic Horrors, Abraham Levitan singing Groupon rock, and the Chicago Sidewalk Sale

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, July 23
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Quimby's, Logan Bay, Abraham Levitan, Hideout, Andrew Mason, Groupon, Chicago Sidewalk Sale, Daley Plaza, fashion

Blogs, Bleader May 7, 2013
Reader's Agenda Tue 5/7: Ian Svenonius, Keith Koeneman and Neil Steinberg in conversation, and Jared Logan

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, May 7.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Ian Svenonius, Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, Quimby's, Kevin Warwick, Keith Koeneman, First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley, Neil Steinberg, You Were Never in Chicago, Steve Edwards, University of Chicago's International House., Standup comedian and Chicago expat Jared Logan (Best Week Ever, John Oliver’s New York Stand-up Show) performs at Zanie's.

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 5/5: Sprocket Hole/Speaker Box, Bodies in Motion, and Pete Jordan

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 5.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Sprocket Hole/Speaker Box's Wordy Show, Township, Advance Base, Beau Golwitze, Caitlin Bergh, Next Theatre Company, Bodies in Motion, Pete Jordan, Dishwasher, In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist, Quimby's

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2013
Gilbert Hernandez talks about comics, childhood, and Marble Season

The graphic novelist appears at Quimby's on Thursday.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Arts, Gilbert Hernandez, Marble Season, Love and Rockets, comics, Quimby's, graphic novels, Los Bros Hernandez

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 3/15: The Good Food Fest, Hair Lit, Vol. 1, and "Performing the Night Sky"

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, March 15, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Trade, School Food, and Food Policy Day, Good Food Fest, local food, organic food, UIC Forum, the 80s and 90s, Hair Lit, Vol. 1, Poison, Twisted Sister, Warrant, Nick Ostdick, Orange Alert Press, Matt Rowan, Lindsay Hunter, Mike Joyce, Quimby's, Terri Kapsalis, School of the Art Institute, Theater Oobleck, Artemis Willis, Performing the Night Sky: Heavenly Bodies, Microcosms and the Moving Image, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Mar 1, 2013
Recommended
Be seen on the zine scene

Chicago Zine Fest presents a ton of exhibitors and a heap of how-tos.
- By Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Lit Feature, Chicago Zine Fest, 826CHI, Kerri Radley, Maranda Elizabeth, Dave Roche, Conway Center Columbia College, Quimby's, Zine, Lose, or Draw!, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, Neil Brideau, Zine Exhibition, Quimby's Bookstore, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jan 25, 2013
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Grime Time, Actors Training Center, and The Talent Code
- By Katie Kather, Janey Lee, and Meg Pier
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Dave Mata, Grime Time, outsider art, zine, Quimby's, Chaz Boriquez, National Museum of Mexican Art, Howard Street Gallery, Evanston, Hugh Iglarsh, Actors Training Center, Wilmette, Cliff Colnot, DePaul University, The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle, New York City, Quimby's Bookstore

Blogs, Bleader Oct 28, 2012
Best readings for Halloween week: Dame Darcy, Simon Winchester, and the Naked Girls

A handbook for hot witches, a book on skulls, and the ever popular Naked Girls
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Arts, Dame Darcy, Meat Cake, Handbook for Hot Witches, Quimby's, Bert Green Fine Art, Henry Holt, Simon Winchester, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Skulls, Alan Dudley, Naked Girls Reading, Halloween, Naked Ghouls, Everleigh Social Club, Patty Templeton, Woolly Mammoth Antiques & Oddities

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Tue 10/23

What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, October 23, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Bloomington, Indiana, Sleeping Bag, Joyful Noise, The Burlington, Logan Square, Sheriff Scabs, Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas?, Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, Quimby's, Wicker Park, Grimes, Visions, Elite Gymnastics, Myths

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Sep 29, 2011
Culture Vultures: 80s music nostalgia and novels, graphic and otherwise

In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they're watching, reading, and seeing
- By Asher Klein
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Eric Kirsammer, Quimby's, Chicago Comics, Habibi, Craig Thompson, Zachary CahillThe Orphanage Project, Quiet Riot, Psychedelic Furs, Jan Verwoert, Jason Knade, This is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2011
Britney Spears 101 at the Hungry Brain

Britney Spears 101, a panel discussion tonight at the Hungry Brain.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Music, Free Shit, Other Stuff, Apropos of Nothing, Swag, Britney Spears, Britney Spears 101, the Hungry Brain, Homeroom, Christopher Smit, the A.V. Club, Marah Eakin, Liz Mason, Quimby's, Caboose #7: Britney Spears 101, Calvin College, Stages: Three Days in Mexico, The Exile of Britney Spears: A Tale of 21st Century Consumption, Judy Hoffman, University of Chicago

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