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Feature
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Community organizers connect politics with plant care.
- by Maya Dukmasova
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Tags: Feature, Urban farming, urban farms, community gardens, community gardeners, 360 Nation, W.D. Floyd, Sumner Elementary School, West Garfield Park, North Lawndale, environmental justice, soil remediation, food justice, Vivi Moreno, Little Village, Village Environmental Justice Organization, LVEJO, Semillas de Justicia community garden, Semillas de Justicia, Page May, Assata’s Daughters, abolition, black feminism, Alderman Willie Cochran, Willie Cochran, 20th Ward, Black Earth Youth Farm, R.T.W. Veterans Center, Washington Park, Woodlawn, Vernon Park Gardens, Chicago Eco House, Joi Hampton, Alderman Michael Scott Jr., 24th Ward, University of Chicago, Neighbor Space, Healthy Food Hub, Winifred Curran, DePaul University, gentrification, eco-gentrification
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Feature
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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.
- by Sarah Beckett
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Tags: Feature, plants, houseplants
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Feature
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The Chicago Botanic Garden is one of several local organizations that encourages horticultural therapy.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Feature, horticultural therapy, Chicago Botanic Garden, Buehler Enabling Garden, Alicia Green, horticultural therapy, American Horticultural Therapy Association, Benjamin Rush, Roger Ulrich, Rush Medical Center, Growing Solutions Farm
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Feature
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Brighton Park prodigy Damiane Nickles has the goods. And the microgreens …
- by Ryan Edmund
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Tags: Feature, Photography, Damiane Nickles, Brighton Park, Plant Issue, Plant Chicago, Sol Cafe, Found and Barn, Closed Loop Farms, the Plant, Whiner Beer, Four Letter Word Coffee
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Book Swap
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The current book obsessions of Reader deputy editor Kate Schmidt and Super Tasty producer-host Karen Yates
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Book Swap, Book Swap, Kate Schmidt, Karen Yates, Super Tasty, A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel, Voltaire in Love, Nancy Mitford, My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite, The Smart Girl’s Guide to Polyamory, Dedeker Winston, The Gender Book, Mel Reiff Hill, Jay Mays, When Someone You Love is Kinky, Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the 21st Century, Barbara Carellas
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Performing Arts Feature
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Lyric Opera’s outreach arm presents a contemporary chamber opera that grew out of two true stories.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, An American Dream, Lyric Opera, Lyric Unlimited, Japanese-American internment, Jack Perla, Jessica Murphy Moo, Matthew Ozawa, So Young Park, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Ao Li, Catherine Martin, Christopher Magiera, Daniela Candillari
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Theater Review
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Maybe you don't have to go to Mars to make your life matter.
- by Dmitry Samarov
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Tags: Theater Review, How to Live on Earth, Chimera Ensemble, MJ Kaufman, Hannah Larson, Arif Yampolsky, Katlynn Yost, Brian Sheridan, Gwendolyn Weigold, Mars, Recommended
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Theater Review
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Still, Mercury Theater's production hits all the right notes.
- by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
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Tags: Theater Review, Little Shop of Horrors, Mercury Theater, Chris Kale Jones, Tommy Novak, Dana Tretta, David Sajewich, Serena Sandoval, Martin P. Robinson, Christopher Chase Carter, carnivorous plants
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Movie Feature
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This year’s selections look at revolutionary politics, the relationships between people and their environments, and the experiences of women and other underrepresented groups.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Feature, Onion City Film Festival 2019, Emily Eddy, Melika Bass, Creature Companion, Wilhelm Reich, Deborah Stratman, Vever (for Barbara), Barbara Hammer, Nazli Dinçel, Instructions on How to Make a Film, Cauleen Smith, Sojourner, Cecelia Condit, We Were Hardly More Than Children, Diane Messinger, Kym McDaniel, Exit Strategy #4, Cecilia Dougherty, Joe, Joe Westmoreland, In Conversation With Venus, Octavia Xitlalli Sixta-Tari, Lyndale, Oli Rodriguez, Victoria Stob, Saif Alsaegh, 1991, Joshua Gen Solondz, (tourism studies), Bill Witherspoon’s Thoughts on Light and Electricity, Philip Rabalais, Electric Fogs, Samir Nahas, Zachary Epcar, Life After Love, I Don’t Know When the Armageddon Is, Casey Puccini, Elder Abuse, Drew Durepos, Michael Gitlin, Eastern District Terminal, Grace Mitchell, Magic Bath, Sky Hopinka, Fainting Spells, A Small Place, Greta Snider, Kera Mackenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Stones for Thunder
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Movie Feature
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There was also an emphasis on intersectionality and deeply personal filmmaking.
- by Andrea Thompson
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Tags: Movie Feature
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Movie Tuesday
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These five capsules celebrate the often overlooked work of women directors.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Tuesday, Captain Marvel, Brie Larson, Christopher Strong, Dorothy Arzner, Shayna Connelly, Lois Weber, Ida Lupino, Stephanie Rothman, Kathleen Collins, Maya Deren, Video
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Gig Poster of the Week
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This week's featured gig poster was designed by Chicago-based artist Dmitry Samarov for the release party of this book Music to My Eyes.
- by Salem Collo-Julin
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Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, Dmitry Samarov, Music to My Eyes, book release, Hideout, Azita, Kelly Hogan, Tijuana Hercules, Mute Duo, Matthew Lux, gig poster, gig poster of the week
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: The rejuvenated Skin Graft Records drops a Chicago vs. New York compilation, and the Chili-Synthesizer Cook-Off returns for its ninth year of hearty weirdness.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Katinka Kleijn, Lia Kohl, International Contemporary Ensemble, CSO, Mocrep, CabinFever, Eckhart Park, Water on the Bridge, Daniel DeHaan, Skin Graft Records, Post Now: Round One: Chicago vs. New York, Cheer-Accident, Tijuana Hercules, Lovely Little Girls, Bobby Conn, Flying Luttenbachers, Weasel Walter, Empty Bottle, Chili-Synthesizer Cook-Off, Whitney Johnson, Matchess, Nick Ciontea, Brownshoesonly, Alexei Khokhlov, Alex Beam
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Music Feature
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You can’t count on a Jonas Brothers reunion every week—and in the meantime, this Chicago group brings nostalgic boy-band favorites to life onstage all over the midwest.
- by Rachel Fernandez
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Tags: Music Feature, Boy Band Review, boy bands, cover band, ’N Sync, Backstreet Boys, Jonas Brothers, nostalgia, junior high, teenagers, Hot Sauce Committee, Brian Bender, Jan Torres, 98 Degrees, LFO, One Direction, Nick Jonas, New Kids on the Block, Joe Jonas, DNCE, Sucker, Zachary Krugman, Vance Martinez, Lucas “Luca” DiCatta, Jordan Dismuke, Dave Long, House of Blues, Valentine’s Day, Summer Girls, No Diggity, Video
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Music Feature
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Hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory is now used to discredit breakout successes in other genres—and it’s no more plausible there.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music Feature, industry plant, rap, hip-hop, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, DJ Akademiks, Alex Jones, Complex, Everyday Struggle, Russ, Exposed, XXL, Columbia, There’s Really a Wolf, Clairo, Pretty Girl, Fake Shore Drive, Andrew Barber, Blueface, the Coli, IGN, Trinidad James, Def Jam, Chance the Rapper, Raury, Freshman Class, Shins, New Slang, McDonald’s, Avery Springer, Retirement Party, Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Lorde, Dua Lipa, Halsey, In Sight Out, Ric Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Trippie Red, Baby Goth, Bria Bueno, Republic, A Love Letter to You 3, No Jumper, Video
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Music Feature
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This summer's Highland Park highlights include Queen Latifah, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan, Kesha, T.I., Buddy Guy, Jennifer Hudson, and Lyle Lovett.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music Feature, Music, Queen Latifah, Common, T.I., Sting, Steely Dan, Beach Boys, Morrissey, Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland, Blues Traveler, Nickelback, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Kesha, Michael McDonald, Chaka Khan, Leonard Bernstein, Stonewall 50, Ravinia, Ravinia Festival, Ravinia schedule, Pavilion, Bennett-Gordon Hall, Martin Theatre
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Singer and pianist Georgia White made dozens of classic records for Decca from 1935 to 1941, then fell off the map in the 1970s.
- by Steve Krakow
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Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Winter Blues, blues, Georgia White, Georgia Lawson, vocalist, singer, pianist, Sandersville, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Noone, Apex Club Orchestra, Vocalion, When You're Smiling (the Whole World Smiles With You), Lonnie Johnson, Ikey “Banjo” Robinson, Les Paul, Trouble in Mind, Black Rider, I’ll Keep Sitting on It, Was I Drunk?, Alley Boogie, Bumble Bee Slim, Laughing Trio, Downers Grove, Blue Pub, Irving Park, Love Soup, Video
