BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Quimblog BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quimby’s Presents Our First 24-Hour Zine Challenge Jan 14th-Jan 1 5th URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/zines/quimby%e2%80%99s-presents-o ur-first-24-hour-zine-challenge-jan-14th-jan-15th/ SEQUENCE:11 UID:863-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/zines/quimby%e2%80%99s-presents-our-fir st-24-hour-zine-challenge-jan-14th-jan-15th/ DESCRIPTION: \; Perhaps you were not able to participate in the 2011 Re venge of Print Challenge by getting your zine or comic out. Or perhaps you need some encouragement. Do you work well under deadlines? Perhaps you’re addicted to the adrenal rush of zine crafting? Well\, you’re in luck. Th e 24-Hour Zine Challenge is for you. [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120116T010000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DB Burkeman and Martha Cooper at The Maxwell Colette Gallery For &# 8220\;STUCK UP”\; URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/art/db-burkeman-and-martha-cooper -at-maxwell-colette-gallery/ SEQUENCE:3 UID:877-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/art/db-burkeman-and-martha-cooper-at-ma xwell-colette-gallery/ DESCRIPTION:Maxwell Colette Gallery invites you Saturday\, January 21st fro m 1pm – 3pm for a special book-signing event with DB Burkeman and Martha Cooper. This event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition STUCK U P: A Selected History of Alternative &\; Pop Culture Told Through Sticke rs. This museum-quality traveling exhibition comes from Burkeman’s extens ive personal [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T210000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Zine Challenge Reading Here on 1/28 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/zines/zine-challenge-reading/ SEQUENCE:5 UID:875-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/zines/zine-challenge-reading/ DESCRIPTION:Readers From Our First Quimby’s 24-Hour Zine Challenge Show O ff What They Made 1/28 The folks who participated in our first 24-Hour Zine Challenge Jan 14th &\; 15th will show off what they made. Please note t hat spaces for the 14th and 15th are full\, but we do encourage you to come in and hang [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T010000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Martha Bayne Discusses The Soup &\; Bread Cookbook 2/9 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/martha-bayne-discuss es-the-soup-bread-cookbook-29/ SEQUENCE:2 UID:879-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/martha-bayne-discusses-the -soup-bread-cookbook-29/ DESCRIPTION:Everybody loves soup. But why?  \; Sure\, it’\;s nutri tious\, affordable\, and infinitely variable. Soup can be a rustic meal in a bowl or a dainty palate cleanser. It can showcase the pure flavors of fre sh spring peas or provide a last-ditch use for tired celery and the stalest bread. From borscht to pozole to udon\, [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120210T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120210T020000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Vittorio Carli Reads A Passion For Apathy\, with Friends 2/11 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/vittorio-carli-reads -a-passion-for-apathy-with-friends-211/ SEQUENCE:2 UID:881-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/vittorio-carli-reads-a-pas sion-for-apathy-with-friends-211/ DESCRIPTION:Vittorio Carli Reads A Passion For Apathy\, with Vince Bruckert \, Dave Gecic\,  Lynn Fitzgerald\, Bradley Lastname\, and other special gu ests In A Passion For Apathy\, (published by Press of the Third Mind)\, Vit torio Carli experiments with many types of genres\, and his poems were prim arily influenced and informed by beat writings\, dada\, children’s litera ture\, formalist [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T020000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advance pre-print event: Graham Rae Reads Soundproof Future Scotlan d 2/17 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/graham-rae-reads-sou ndproof-future-scotland/ SEQUENCE:6 UID:869-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/graham-rae-reads-soundproo f-future-scotland/ DESCRIPTION:SOUNDPROOF FUTURE SCOTLAND is a linguistically deranged trip in to a dead-end\, techno-punk future that lies firmly within our sight. Scots man Graham Rae’s new book Soundproof Future Scotland (Creation Books) is a sort-of futuristic meditation on his old home country. Welcome to the end of the known world. Set in the 22nd century in an independent [...] [by: l iz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120218T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120218T020000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Caseen Gaines Presents Inside Pee-Wee’\;s Playhouse 2/24 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/caseen-gaines-presen ts-inside-pee-wees-playhouse/ SEQUENCE:8 UID:865-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/caseen-gaines-presents-ins ide-pee-wees-playhouse/ DESCRIPTION:Calling all Pee-wee Herman fans! Caseen Gaines\, author of the one-and-only book about the entire Pee-wee Herman phenomenon\, will be at Q uimby’s Bookstore to discuss and sign copies of his brand-new book\, Insi de Pee-wee’\;s Playhouse! Inside Pee-wee’\;s Playhouse is the fir st and only behind-the-scenes look behind the hit Emmy Award-winning TV sho w starring the pop [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120225T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120225T020000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joyland Magazine and Dzanc Books present The Fiction Feed: AWP Edit ion 3/1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/books/joyland-magazine-and-dzanc- books-present-the-fiction-feed-awp-edition/ SEQUENCE:4 UID:871-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/books/joyland-magazine-and-dzanc-books- present-the-fiction-feed-awp-edition/ DESCRIPTION:Joyland Magazine and Dzanc Books present The Fiction Feed: AWP Edition Joyland Magazine and Dzanc Books are two innovative publishers push ing fiction with great writing and new means of print and digital distribut ion. Join us for an evening with four writers\, hailing from Chicago\, New York and Vancouver. Hosted by Joyland co-founder Brian Joseph Davis [...] [ by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120302T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120302T020000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Poetry by Mitchell L.H. Douglas\, Jessica Farquhar\, Laura A. Lione llo\, Al Maginnes\, and Brett Eugene Ralph 3/3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/brett-eugene-ralph-f riends/ SEQUENCE:5 UID:873-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/brett-eugene-ralph-friends / DESCRIPTION:Escaping the comfortable confines of the Associated Writing Pro grams’ annual meeting\, five American poets go rogue to read their work i n the more sharply stimulating environs of Quimby’s.  Collectively\, the se writers represent a truly American mosaic of sensibility and sentiment p erfectly suited to the tough streets of Chicago. Mitchell L. H. Douglas is an Assistant [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120304T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120304T020000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:3rd Annual Chicago Zine Fest to Take Place March 9th and 10th URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/zines/3rd-annual-chicago-zine-fes t-to-take-place-march-9th-and-10th/ SEQUENCE:2 UID:885-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/zines/3rd-annual-chicago-zine-fest-to-t ake-place-march-9th-and-10th/ DESCRIPTION:And we’\;re a sponsor! Events in various places around the city\, including here at Quimby’\;s! On March 9th and 10th\, Chicago will celebrate self-publishing at the 3rd Annual Chicago Zine Fest. Events kick off Friday\, 1pm at Columbia’s Conaway Center with a Silver Tongue R eading Series all-female reading followed by Gender\, Race and Sexuality: A [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120309T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120310T190000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dan Clowes Signs The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist 5/17 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.quimbys.com/blog/comics/dan-clowes-signs-the-art-o f-daniel-clowes-modern-cartoonist-517/ SEQUENCE:1 UID:883-http://www.quimbys.com/blog/comics/dan-clowes-signs-the-art-of-dani el-clowes-modern-cartoonist-517/ DESCRIPTION:The First Monograph on the Celebrated Cartoonist: The Art of Da niel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist  Edited by Alvin Buenaventura Designed by J onathan Bennett Interview by Kristine McKenna Introduction by George Meyer Essays by Chip Kidd\, Susan Miller\, Ken Parille\,  Ray Pride\, and Chris Ware “Clowes has explored the tedium and mystery of contemporary American life with [...] [by: liz] TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR