The Tardigrade's Bookshelf

10/15/2026

🪨🔬📚 Science Book Club is TODAY!
This month we’re discussing Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of a Rock by Marcia Bjornerud. A book that might just have you looking at life from a whole new perspective and probably looking at rocks a little differently, too. 👀🪨
Loved it? Come talk about it.
Bored by it? We want to hear why.
Hated it? Oh, definitely come talk about it.
Didn’t read a single page? Come anyway.
🕕 Discussion starts at 6pm!
Come get nerdy with us. We promise the conversation won’t be taken for granite. 🪨😏

10/14/2026

📚✨ Fantasy readers get ready book club is TONIGHT!

This month we’re discussing The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean, a gothic fantasy that gives us plenty to sink our teeth into from its historical influences to its wonderfully unearthly elements. 👀

Loved it? Hated it? Have theories? Questions? Strong feelings about certain questionable decisions? Bring ’em.

📖 Finished? Welcome.
📖 Unfinished? Also welcome.
📖 Unstarted but intrigued? Get in here.

🕕 Discussion starts at 6pm!

Come get fantastical with us. ✨📚

10/14/2026

♻️ It's International E-Waste Day, and we're celebrating with a market day!

Join us TODAY for an afternoon of sustainability, creativity, community, and giving old stuff a second life!

Our friends at RecycleThatStuff.com are bringing together a fantastic lineup of local vendors, organizations, and activities!

♻️ Vendors & sustainability tables
🌮 Food trucks
🎶 Live music & vinyl spinning
💻 E-waste, recycling & resource information
🎨 Local art and creativity!

Check out some of the fantastic work from Fantasy Horse Films that will be on display!

Come explore, learn something new, support local creatives, and celebrate the wonderfully weird things we can do when we rethink what gets thrown away.

10/13/2026

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Raising the Steaks: A Meat Raffle has been postponed. We’ll announce a new date as soon as it’s confirmed.

Meat, mayhem, drag queens, and questionable amounts of excitement over packaged meat!

Yep, we're doing a meat raffle!

🥩 10–15 rounds with 3 winners each!
🍾 Meat, booze & other fabulous prizes
🎡 Spin-to-Win Wheel
👑 Drag queens running the show!

Proceeds support our local mutual-aid efforts, community essentials, and accessible community programming.

Bring cash, bring friends, tip your queens, and come support a great cause!

10/13/2026

We've got some pretty cool things happening in our event space this week, thanks to some fantastic community partners!

♻️ A Market Day hosted by RecycleThatStuff.com

🎸 A little rock & roll with the Fox Valley Symphony, complete with a b**r and cheese tasting!

🎤 A Karaoke Fundraiser with Volume Up! Sing your heart out for a good cause.

We love seeing our space used by local organizations doing interesting things and bringing people together. Come out, support some great community partners, and enjoy a little bit of everything this week!

10/10/2026

👕♻️ FREE COMMUNITY CLOSET TODAY 12-4pm!

Need some new-to-you clothes? Have some gently used clothing you'd love to see find a new home?

This is a community clothing exchange where everyone is welcome to give what they can and take what they need. No money, no pressure, just neighbors helping neighbors.

💚 You don't need to donate to participate! Come browse, find something you love, and help us keep perfectly good clothing out of landfills.

Community is about sharing resources, looking out for one another, and making sure everyone has a place.

10/10/2026

Tomorrow (Oct 10) is Gilmore Girls Trivia Night!!

Where you lead, we will follow… especially if you’re leading us directly to Luke’s for coffee.

Grab your fellow Gilmore Girls obsessives and join us for a night of Stars Hollow trivia covering Lorelai, Rory, Luke, Emily, Paris, Kirk’s approximately 47,000 jobs, questionable boyfriend decisions, Friday night dinners, town festivals, pop-culture references, and enough coffee to concern a cardiologist.
No cover
Play solo or with a team
Free drink for the winner
A very prestigious “prize” for the fewest correct answers

Reserve your favorite seats! Our trivia nights can fill up, this gets you a cozy spot to be historically enraged.

If you want a sofa or a comfy chair, we have an auction for you here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/gilmore-girls-trivia-night-cozy-seating-auction

10/10/2026

10/09/2026

You have Thanksgiving weekend plans—except for Friday when we all stay home to eat leftovers and avoid the whole Black Friday experience. We've got a popcorn buffet, friends singing, early-bird Bob's Burgers Trivia, and a very exciting show in the hall on Saturday night. For Small Business Saturday, we'll have the most exciting Golden Ticket-type special imaginable. Mark it all on your calendar now, but we'll remind you later too!

10/09/2026

🎶Prepare yourselves for a night of tunes!
Today we’re welcoming Cousin Arthur and Kiersten Berry to Tardigrade’s for a night of live music!
With a wide variety of genres hitting the room, there’ll be a little something for everyone. Come find a new favorite song, sip on something delicious, and settle in for a damn good Friday night. 🎸
🎟️ FREE admission!
Donations are always appreciated if they’re within your means and help us keep bringing live music to our little corner of the world. ❤️🎶
🛋️ Got your eye on that perfect seat?
Skip the strategic hovering and bid on your favorite cozy spot ahead of time. If you win it, it’s yours for the night!
👉 https://bit.ly/4xPFTrT
🚪 Doors open at 6pm
🎵 Music: 7–9pm
Come jam with us, grab something yummy to drink, and start your weekend surrounded by good music and good people. 🍹🎶