As our world greens up this spring, an examination of what lies beneath.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 23
Issue of Mar. 14 – 20, 2019
Posted inFilm
The Onion City Film Festival conveys the disorientation of living in an era of great change
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
Field and Florist creates floral arrangements for freshness and sustainability
Farm-to-table isn’t just for restaurants anymore.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A tale of two gardens
Woodlawn gets a grocery store and Lincoln Yards gets $1.3 billion in Mayor Rahm’s Chicago.
Posted inNews & Politics
‘We’re still here’
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
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?
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
Credit: John Porcellino
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A note from the editor
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 inNews & Politics
Wanna buy a plant?
Brighton Park prodigy Damiane Nickles has the goods. And the microgreens …