Category: news

  • Gives a new meaning to catfish

    Holy shit this is awesome! And real! This kitty takes the bus to the fish’n’chips shop!Kitty Cat!

    http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,21538005-5002700,00.html

  • New Stuff 5/5/07

    Wow Spring time fiction has just dropped! Plus Dishwasher Pete’s long overdue book and a new Walking Dead graphic novel collection! We got something for everybody

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  • The first pictures our Photobooth took

    Hi folks,

    We thought it appropriate that the first trial run photos in our new booth would have Steven, the original owner of Quimby’s. I (Liz) posed with him here:

    L&S

  • Quimby's OG on the early days

    Steven Syvembersky, Quimby’s founder and OG, discusses the start of Quimby’s, zine culture, and other juicy bits on Boom Chicago‘s weekly podcast, A Slice of The Shiny. Listen to it with iTunes or on the web.

  • Last night we got Hustled’ and Screwed’

    Prisoner of XI Goldstein

    Wow, Last night was one hell of an event as Allan MacDonell and Josh Alan Friedman joined us to talk about their new books and their respective years spent at Hustler and Screw. Besides a surprise blues performance by Josh-who performed two songs live on acoustic guitar; the night was capped off by the most amazing story ever told in Quimby’s about a video sex tape featuring Ted Turner and Jane Fonda plus a friend, ….and a strap on!!! Pics and more after the jump!

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  • Last night we got Hustled' and Screwed'

    Prisoner of XI Goldstein

    Wow, Last night was one hell of an event as Allan MacDonell and Josh Alan Friedman joined us to talk about their new books and their respective years spent at Hustler and Screw. Besides a surprise blues performance by Josh-who performed two songs live on acoustic guitar; the night was capped off by the most amazing story ever told in Quimby’s about a video sex tape featuring Ted Turner and Jane Fonda plus a friend, ….and a strap on!!! Pics and more after the jump!

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  • Our Photobooth is here!

    The long anticipated day is finally here! Our Photobooth is here, and it was quite a project. Photobooth

    It took a few hours for the booth techs to get the Photobooth all positioned and working. Check out its innards:

    Innards!

    More innards!

    Also, Steven Svymbersky, the original owner of Quimby’s is here to visit! We put him to work:

    Steven dusting!

    We also like that Dan Kelly, one of Quimby’s longtime customers stopped by to coordinate plaid shirts:

    Steven and Dan

  • New Stuff 4/28/07

    Holy Cow the shop is blowin up today, our founder Steven is up in the spot, dudes are setting up the new photo booth and the weather is so nice, people are just walking in all warm and smiley!!!!!
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  • New Stuff 4/21/07

    New Stuff to Hit Our Shelves on the Week ending 4/21/07

    This post is for the RSS challenged, but if you know about RSS Brian has some new Kung-Fu so you can keep up with items on our website as they are posted. Good for those of you out of Chicago that might see something on these weekly lists and wonder when it will be available on-line.
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  • Momma, what's an RSS feed?

    Calling all geeks, nerds and “power users”, we’ve added an RSS feed of the last two weeks’ ten days worth of new stuff on quimbys.com. Check it out at https://www.quimbys.com/quimbys.xml