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		<title>Joe Janes and Friends Read from  50 Plays 10/1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ October 1, 2011; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] 

50 Plays by Joe Janes is the follow-up to the remarkable and insane 365 Sketches of 2010.  

Joe Janes spent months working with fifty local directors and their chosen casts to write a ten-minute(ish) play for each one.

A “Best of” presentation of pieces at Donny’s Skybox at Second City in August was hailed by the Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off-Site Event: The Return of the Geek @ Words That Kill 6/16</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 16, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Every year Words That Kill celebrates everything nerdy and geeky through literary, visual and performance arts. In the past, this meant love letters to Mr. Spock, comedy sketches about surviving zombie apocalypse, and poetry about inner Jedi and addiction to video games, amongst others.

This month the Geek is back once again and he has planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling All Nerdy Sluts &amp; Slutty Nerds:  Shappy Seasholtz &amp; Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz Read at Quimbys</title>
		<link>http://www.quimbys.com/blog/books/calling-all-nerdy-sluts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ April 16, 2011; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] 

Poets Shappy Seasholtz and Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz have had a pretty incredible last few months. In August, they left New York City (their home for the eight years) to move to Philadelphia, where Aptowicz had been awarded the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residency at the University of Pennsylvania– the first time that the honor had been given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Sacks Reads from  Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason 3/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 10, 2011; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]  

Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks’ unique humor pieces—Craigslist ads, lesser-known tantric positions, letters to famous authors, Shaft living in the suburbs, a classic-rock DJ suffering a nervous breakdown, the occasional list—into one handsome, convenient volume. Originally published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and McSweeney’s, among other venerable publications, Sacks’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike White Reads From Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection 12/4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ December 4, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] 

Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit—Paris of the Midwest—came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture.

This book collects the best articles from the fifteen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountains of New Stuff!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been pretty busy as of late, but wanted to make sure you knew what new things we&#8217;ve been getting in lately, so here&#8217;s our list of  139 things you simply can not live without (that we conveniently have in our store):

(Funny (Not Funny))
Artsy Fartsy Books
Mythical Beasts of Japan From Evil Creatures to Sacred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chunklet #20 Is Here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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Now in stock for the awesomest price ever of $9.99 for 134 pages of the usual tiny font, the 20th issue of Chunklet (20 issues, 15 years!). Don&#8217;t miss Whirlyball with such bands as Arcade Fire, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie and countless others. Laugh-out-loud funny Rock Sniglets, Music Journalist Application Form, Zine Fair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louder Than Your Mom Karaoke Tournament Fundraiser</title>
		<link>http://www.quimbys.com/blog/uncategorized/louder-than-your-mom-karaoke-tournament-fundraiser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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Our friends at Co-op Image Youth are holding a Karaoke Tournament Fundraiser at Ronny&#8217;s. If you&#8217;re in Chicago this Friday (June 27th) you should come, even if you&#8217;re not singing; karaoke singers need an audience! Here&#8217;s their details:
Be the Karaoke King/Queen you always knew you could be! Or just be mercilessly entertained! On Friday, June [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical Salvation?</title>
		<link>http://www.quimbys.com/blog/high-wierdness/chemical-salvation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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A full on Albert Hoffman LSD parody of  Chick Tracts, found via the endlessly entertaining vaults of Erowid.
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		<title>Personal best.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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Guess that weed goal hasn&#8217;t worked out so hot. More after le jump.
Found journal, circa six months ago. I&#8217;m sure everyone at Quimby&#8217;s will agree that it it is importante keep appointment/diary/journal/sketchbooks, and it&#8217;s key to use well-built books for the purpose, like a Moleskine.  Just remember not to lose it. Especially not at [...]]]></description>
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