Oyez Review Event

Published on March 4, 2009 0 Comments
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7:00 pm

This is a reading/launch party for Oyez Review. Oyez Review is an award-winning literary magazine published annually by Roosevelt University’s Creative Writing Program. It features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and a portfolio of artwork.

Some of the editors as well as a couple of the contributors of Oyez review will be reading poems and excepts from stories.

more info at www.roosevelt.edu/oyezreview

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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of Feb 22nd – Feb 28th, 2009

Published on March 2, 2009 0 Comments

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1.    Butt #25 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2.    Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #6 $17.00
3.    Roy Orbison in Clingfilm by Ulrich Haarburste $10.00
4.    I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections by Julia Wertz (Three Rivers Press) $12.95
5.    Public Phenomena (Temporary Services) $15.00
6.    Roctober #46 $4.00
7.    Giant Robot #58 $4.99
8.    McSweeney’s #30 $15.00
9.    Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches To Landscape Cartography and Urbanism by Nato Thompson (Melville) $29.95
10.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99

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New Stuff 2/28/09

Published on February 28, 2009 0 Comments

Well February is done. Tonight we’ll be at an off site event for the Nation Guide to the Nation. So come say “Hi” if you’re in the North side area.

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Quimby’s History Made: A Marriage Proposal!

Published on February 25, 2009 0 Comments

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Saturday, February 21st sure was a memorable evening here at Quimby’s. Living Proof zinester Andrew Mall asked his girlfriend to marry him during his reading! And she said yes! Thanks to Aaron Cynic of Diatribe Media and Billy Da Bunny Roberts of Loop Distro for organizing and hosting a good ol’ fashioned Old School Zine Reading featuring Matt Fagan (Meniscus), ReyRey (Stream of Consciousness) and more!

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Not at Quimby’s, But Cool Anyway and You Should Totally Go: Comic Art Battle hosted by Ezra Clayton Daniels

Published on February 24, 2009 0 Comments

Here’s Ezra’s announcement about this FREE event he’s hosting this Thursday (2/26) at Pistol Bazaar Vintage — if you have any questions beyond this, his site is here:

Free entertainment is becoming a more highly valued commodity, and as free entertainment goes, this week’s Comic Art Battle will surely be hard to beat!

Featuring:
Richard Lee – www.loftysofty.com
Steve Krakow – www.plasticcrimewave.com
Nate Beaty – www.natebeaty.com
Grant Reynolds – www.myspace.com/grantreynolds
Aaron Renier – www.aaronrenier.com

And probably some special guests!

Thursday (it might rain, but it’s supposed to be warm!), February 26th
@ Pistol Bazaar Vintage, 1717 W. Chicago Ave.
Doors at 6pm, Battle starts 7pm Complimentary cocktails and munchies.
All vintage will be 20% off.

FREE!

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