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Home » Vol. 48 No. 23

Tag: Vol. 48 No. 23

Vol. 48, No. 23

Issue of Mar. 14 – 20, 2019

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Posted inCity Life

A primer on wild plants we call weeds

by Nance Klehm March 20, 2019August 18, 2021

As our world greens up this spring, an examination of what lies beneath.

Posted inFilm

The Onion City Film Festival conveys the disorientation of living in an era of great change

by Ben Sachs March 20, 2019August 18, 2021

This year’s selections look at revolutionary politics, the relationships between people and their environments, and the experiences of women and other underrepresented groups.

Posted inCity Life

Growing archive

by Salem Collo-Julin March 19, 2019August 18, 2021

Hyperlocal seed libraries preserve diversity in the food chain.

Posted inCity Life

Field and Florist creates floral arrangements for freshness and sustainability

by Isa Giallorenzo March 19, 2019August 18, 2021

Farm-to-table isn’t just for restaurants anymore.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A tale of two gardens

by Ben Joravsky March 18, 2019August 18, 2021

Woodlawn gets a grocery store and Lincoln Yards gets $1.3 billion in Mayor Rahm’s Chicago.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘We’re still here’

by Natalya Carrico March 18, 2019August 18, 2021

The First Nations Garden in Albany Park aims to heal the community and the environment.

Posted inFood & Drink

Rodrick Markus wants to be your green tea pusher

by Mike Sula March 15, 2019August 18, 2021

Frequent visitors to Rodrick Markus’s lair expect to encounter powerful aromas such as truffle, strawberry, or barrel-aged tea. No one expects it to smell like weed. But that was the unmistakable perfume I inhaled one recent afternoon as we sat at the table in his twilit warehouse-tasting-room/laboratory at Rare Tea Cellar in Ravenswood. Between us […]

Posted inMusic

How did the ‘industry plant’ take root?

by Leor Galil March 15, 2019August 18, 2021

The ‘industry plant’ is hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory, used to discredit breakout successes—and it’s spreading to other genres, where it’s no more plausible.

Posted inArts & Culture

A Prairie Pothole Guide to Spring Wildflowers of Northern Illinois Woodlands

by John Porcellino March 15, 2019August 18, 2021

Credit: John Porcellino

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A note from the editor

by Anne Elizabeth Moore March 15, 2019August 18, 2021

I know a fair amount about plants, and gardening, and the pending environmental disaster that we euphemistically refer to as climate change. In fact, I spent two and a half years as a small-scale organic farmer in Detroit, and could probably have thrown together a good 5,000 words about common household substances that not only […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Violet, Private Eye

by Melissa Mendes March 15, 2019August 18, 2021
Posted inArts & Culture

Prairie Pothole

by John Porcellino March 15, 2019August 18, 2021
Posted inReader

Print issue of March 14, 2019

by Chicago Reader March 14, 2019August 18, 2021

Volume 48, Number 23

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Reckoning with abusers

by Dan Savage March 14, 2019August 18, 2021

Advice on disentangling love from predation

Posted inNews & Politics

Wanna buy a plant?

by Ryan Edmund March 14, 2019August 18, 2021

Brighton Park prodigy Damiane Nickles has the goods. And the microgreens …

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