Category: Off-site event

  • Off-site Event: Indie Lit Roadshow: The Last Annual Midwest Pop-Up Bookshop

    At The Green Lantern Gallery/The Paper Cave, 2542 W. Chicago Ave., Storefront

    This is not at Quimby’s, but Quimby’s will be tabling at this curatorial pop-up bookshop at the Green Lantern Gallery. Besides book shopping, this event will feature sporadic performances, some of which will be in Artifice Magazine’s papier-mâché cave, you can crawl into to hear some of the best in Chicago readings. Lots of different types of book stores, presses and magazines will be present besides Quimby’s, including Featherproof Books, Knee-Jerk Magazine, The Book Cellar, Another Chicago Magazine, Rose Metal Press, THE2NDHAND, Dzanc, Make Magazine, The Show ‘n Tell Show, Other Voices Books, The Encyclopedia Show, Sara Ranchouse Publishing, Vouched Books, Switchback Books, PANK Magazine, Golden Age, Stop Smiling Books and more!

    The weekend of December 10-12 is the The Indie Lit Roadshow, a cross-country celebration of the best in independent literature. It represents a coming-together of independent bookstores, presses, journals, magazines, reading series and pop-up bookshops, all rooted in the home-grown literary scenes blossoming in the following places besides Chicago including Austin, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Brooklyn, Portland, Seattle and more!

    For more info:

    http://roadshow.ampcommunity.com

    http://thegreenlantern.org

    http://www.thepapercave.com

  • SOUVENIR Button-O-matic Opening at Busy Beaver Button Co

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    Busy Beaver Button Co. celebrates fifteen years of making custom buttons for bands, artists and organizations with the Grand Opening of a pop culture Button Museum and a new Button-O-matic series for vending machines across the country appropriately themed “SOUVENIR.”

    The SOUVENIR collection is curated by participating Button-O-matic locations, including Cody Hudson for the Empty Bottle, Tae Won Yu for Land, Angela Finny-Hoffman for Post 27, Edie Fake for Quimby’s, Supercorn for Fly Bird, Joe Lauer for Penelope’s, Chris Corbalis for Strange Cargo, Jason Hammel for Lula Café, Russell Etchen for Domy, Melissa Grubbs for Reckless Records, Soo Choi for Little Branch Cafe, Mei Stewart for Art Supply Warehouse, Alicia Hermanny for Uncle Fun, and Brett Manning for Busy Beaver Button Co.

    Join Busy Beaver to celebrate at an opening party with the world’s largest Button-O-matic vending machine filled with 10,000 souvenir buttons, and a showcase of treats from Busy Beaver Button Co. customers like Nice Cream, the Pepperoni King, and Upton’s Naturals.

    What:   SOUVENIR Button-O-matic Opening
    When:  Friday, September 10 from 7-10PM
    Where: Busy Beaver Button Co., 3279 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647

    For more info: http://www.busybeaver.net/

  • Neon Marshmallow Fest Starts Tonight!

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    Tonight the Neon Marshmallow Fest starts at The Viaduct Theater 3111 N. Western Ave.  Chicago, in the heart of Roscoe Village. Don’t miss this weekend’s festivities there, featuring a wide array of experiental noise music. See neonmarshmallowfest.com for details.

  • Off-Site Event! Quimby's Co-Sponsors Clockwork Vaudeville at Exit!


    Clockwork Vaudeville is Chicago’s Premiere Steampunk Dance party, this month featuring among other things, a magician, dancers, the DJ group The Chaotic Good and even a hypnotist!  Also, fashion and invention contests, with prizes! And Quimby’s will be there with swag! For more info: steampunkchicago.com/

    This is an off-Site Event, not at Quimby’s. It will be at Exit Chicago Punk & Rock Club, 1513 W. North Ave, 773-395-2700.

  • Quimby’s Co-Sponsors Dating for Nerds Singles Trivia Night at the Holiday Club!

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    Think the brain really is the sexiest organ? Find out with other unattached smarties during a singles trivia night featuring a video quiz by local filmmaker and critic Collin Souter (“Breakup Date” and “Meet the Monkeys”), an audio quiz by staff from Record Breakers music store and guest rounds by staff from Quimby’s Bookstore, American Science and Surplus, G-Mart Comics and Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.

    How it works: Singles mingle over moderate-level trivia questions in a variety of general interest categories, including books, music and movies, with a different round dedicated to each subject. Each round, the winners score prizes and all attendees get the chance to win a themed giveaway inspired by the topic. Singles meet by rotating tables and forming new teams every round. Includes a cocktail.

    Venue: Holiday Club

    Address: 4000 North Sheridan Road, Chicago

    Date: 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 13

    Price: $20 advance/$25 door

    Registration: nerdsatheart.com <http://nerdsatheart.com> or 312-265-6085

    For more info: http://nerdsatheart.com>

    NOT AT QUIMBY’S!

    IT’S AT HOLIDAY CLUB

    4000 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60613-2005 – (773) 348-9600, www.holidayclubchicago.com

  • Check Out New York's Art House Co-op and the Sketchbook Project at Home Gallery

    No, this event is not at Quimby’s, but it is awesome and you should totally go to tonight’s opening reception at the Home Gallery, an ongoing experimental exhibition space run by Laura Shaeffer out of her home in Hyde Park, on Chicago’s South Side.

    The Sketchbook Project and Artists’ Books,
    featuring Anders Nilsen, Michael Brehm, Amanda Vähämäki, Michelangelo Setola, and Doug Shaeffer
    PRESENTED BY: Home Gallery 1407 E. 54th Place, Chicago, IL
    Opening reception: Saturda,y May 8t, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

    Home Gallery is proud to host Brooklyn, New York’s Art House Co-op and the Sketchbook Project, a library of sketchbooks collected from artists around the world. In addition, Home Gallery will be featuring drawings, sketchbooks, and artist’s books from Anders Nilsen (Big Questions, Dogs and Water), Michael Brehm, Amanda Vähämäki & Michelangelo Setola (Souvlaki Circus), and Doug Shaeffer. For more info: and  http://thelarch.org

    The Op Shop
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    And then also, check out the Op Shop. The Opportunity Shop, that is. It’s a transitory, experimental project space for contemporary art in Hyde Park, and they’ve got stuff goin’ on, extended for the next few weeks. For more info: http://www.theopshop.org/about.php

  • Props to Time Out Chicago!

    That’s right! Time Out Chicago did a feature with Neil Brideau, our comics sommelier, in their March 11-17th issue, about zines and the Zine Fest, which is this weekend, Fri 3/12 and Sat 3/13 at various places around Chicago. Click here to read the full article in Time Out Chicago. Click here for more info about this year’s Chicago Zine Fest.

    Zines Fer Sale!
    Zines Fer Sale!

  • Off-Site Event! Dystopias vs. Enchanted Forests at the MCA!

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    Dystopias vs. Enchanted Forests
    at     Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
    220 E. Chicago Ave, in Puck’s Cafe
    Quimby’s and the MCA present a night of the Cabinet of Curiosities series, offered the third Tuesday of the month. It’s a curated grab bag of “un-lectures” about a myriad of topics that create a variety show-like evening of artist presentations curated by different groups from around Chicago. Our theme? Dystopias vs. Enchanted Forests.  Artists/performers that we’re featuring include Ed Marszewski (Lumpen, Proximity, Co-Prosperity Sphere), Kate Sheehy (puppeteer), Joe Mason (pop culture specialist), Oscar Arriola (street art archiver and documentarian), Jon Resh (Viper Press, Amped) and more!

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  • Off-Site Event: COME IN THE NAME OF CRUMB! at the STOP SMILING Space

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    Quimby’s and STOP SMILING present an evening with R. Crumb (or, rather, the documentary about R. Crumb, CRUMB!).*

    The new issue of STOP SMILING features an in-depth cover-story interview with the legendary comic-artist provocateur, who rarely speaks to the press. Crumb and Celia Farber, who made her name as an investigative journalist covering AIDS research, discuss her area of expertise as well as his, which makes for a lively and telling dialog.

    The Crumb! documentary is a cinematic portrait of the artist as a weird man, and explores Crumb’s traumatized family, his strange sexual tastes, and allusions of racism and sexism that some find rampant and disturbing in his work. From his childhood home to the San Francisco streets where he started Zap Comix, the film sets Crumb in a panoply of settings, all of which come across as somehow unsettling.

    Copies of the new issue of STOP SMILING with the R. Crumb cover, as well as an array of R. Crumb merchandise from Quimby’s, will be on hand.

    WHEN: April 2, 2009, 7 p.m.
    WHERE: The STOP SMILING Storefront (1371 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago)

    Free drinks will be provided (21+)
    To attend, email rsvp@stopsmilingonline.com (subject: Crumb)

    *R. Crumb, the actual person, will not be at this event

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

    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!