Englewood rapper Heavy Crownz blends art and community organizing.
Tag: plants
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Plants love DeBarge on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist and educator Nicole Marroquin.
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Plantasia celebrates the music of Mort Garson—and plants
On his 1976 album Mother Earth’s Plantasia, composer Mort Garson captures some of the most inventive sounds and most radical notions of the mid-70s. Specifically, he made his goofy and endearing compositions solely on the relatively new Moog synthesizer, and he intended that they be played for plants to help them grow. Inspired by his […]
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Glass house people
The Leider family and an estimated 200,000 Chicagoans trace their heritage to settlers from the tiny nation of Luxembourg.
Posted inCity Life
Eat a tomato, thank the bumblebee
A bee brain is vastly more efficient than a human brain.
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A primer on wild plants we call weeds
As our world greens up this spring, an examination of what lies beneath.
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‘We’re still here’
The First Nations Garden in Albany Park aims to heal the community and the environment.
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Epic houseplant fails
For every plantshelfie on Instagram and beautifully styled ‘it plant’ of the moment (pink princess, anyone?), there exist several pet-chewed, brown-fried-leaf, dying-dead failures.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Rosita Arvigo, master herbalist
This week’s Chicagoan is Rosita Arvigo, a master herbalist.
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A chat with Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist
The author discusses her new book, about the relationship between plants and booze.
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Where Has All the Flora Gone?
The Effort to Catalog and Protect Illinois’ Endangered Plants