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Cheap marijuana seeds sound great in theory, but you must be careful where you get them from. Some stores selling cheap weed seeds will be shipping low-quality product that is hard to grow with unimpressive yields. We want cheap seeds, not bad weed. Still, there are many cannabis seed banks online that sell cheap cannabis seeds at very reasonable prices without sacrificing plant quality. Here we discuss the best marijuana seeds to buy in terms of seed type and the most trusted brands....

“After tasting it more times than I wanted,” Arnett-Graham says, “I figured that the herbaceousness of gin mixed with the toasty notes of port and citrus components of Cointreau would work really well with the bitterness of grapefruit.” How the flavor of the royal jelly fit into the drink was difficult to describe, but it didn’t disappear the way it did in the cocktail with egg white. 2 slices grapefruit.5 oz Cointreau2 oz Bombay Dry Gin1 oz tawny port....

Peter Gannushkin Dave Rempis Over the past couple of years, Logan Square late-night spot the Owl has been booking an eclectic and exciting program of music in its back room. Talent buyer Aaron Dexter has kept the acts constant and diverse, ranging from local punk and garage to hugely influential noise acts like Wolf Eyes and Pharmakon to legends like Silver Apples, so it only makes sense that he’s now entering the jazz realm....

There’s plenty to do this week to get back into the swing of things after the long weekend. Here’s some of what we recommend: Wed 9/7: Local stand-up C.J. Sullivan does a live album recording at Timothy O’Toole’s (622 N. Fairbanks) during his final two shows before moving to LA. 7:30 and 9:30 PMWed 9/7: Brian Costello’s Enthralling Cavalcade of Remarkable Anybodies, Special Somebodies, and Incredible Everybodies is a new monthly show at the Empty Bottle (1035 N....

As I prepare my list of favorite Chicago releases of 2017, I’ve been looking at lists that other critics have started posting online. I’ve yet to find one that mentions Azazel Jacobs’s The Lovers, which was one of the highlights of my moviegoing year. (If you missed the film in theaters, it’s now available on DVD.) The Lovers exudes generosity and a delight in filmmaking in every scene—watching it just makes me feel good....

UPDATE: as of Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 2 PM this concert has been postponed, with the new date to be determined in the future. Refunds available at point of purchase. Dev Hynes, who makes pop and R&B as Blood Orange, has a gift for synthesis that’s made him a favorite collaborator of many cross-genre stars in the past decade, including Mac Miller, Solange, and FKA Twigs. The London-born, New York-based auteur has visited Chicago multiple times in recent years, notably appearing at the Pitchfork festival in 2018 and opening for Florence & the Machine at Northerly Island the following summer, but while Hynes and his ensemble sound great in sunlit venues, a theater might suit the intimacy of his music better....

Two members of local band Clearance, guitarist Kevin Fairbairn and bassist Greg Obis, launched Born Yesterday Records in 2018, but it wasn’t till 2020 that the label really established a strong foothold. Born Yesterday works with artists from Chicago, of course, but also looks for talent further from home: this past fall, it released a hypnotic EP from Los Angeles rockers Dummy and an anxious LP by Massachusetts punks Landowner. Where the label really showed its colors, though, was with a terrific streak of local rock releases that began in April with Change Is Bad, a rangy, weather-beaten postpunk LP from Obis’s new band Stuck....

The University of Chicago’s concert series has distinguished itself with a season-long celebration of Hungarian composer György Ligeti, one of the most formidable voices of 20th-century music. That series concludes this weekend with a solo recital by French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard—one of the greatest exponents of Ligeti’s music—performing all three books of his Etudes for Piano. Ligeti wrote these pieces late in his career, reviving a form that had largely been banished by modernists when he published his first group of them in 1985....

In 1885, the Pittsburgh Dispatch ran an op-ed under the byline “The Quiet Observer” entitled “What Girls Are Good For.” In the view of Erasmus Wilson (owner of the pseudonym), the short answer was essentially staying home and making babies, where they could “play the part of angel.” “I can pinpoint the exact moment. I was reading an article in April of 2016 in the Atlantic that was about how there were more female action stars in Hollywood a hundred years ago than there are today....

Thick beige-and-brown colored fabrics pad the walls of Ukrainian Village storefront space Fernwey. They’re not decorative—these four six-foot-tall quilts, which look more like topographic maps than bed coverings, are the abstract textile works featured in local artist Christalena Hughmanick‘s exhibition “The Fish Don’t Talk About the Water.” Ikebana artist Yuko Inoue Darcy’s floral arrangement in the far right corner of the gallery is a direct response to the metaphorical earth found in Hughmanick’s quilts and foam displays....

Dark Matter Coffee Colectivo Coffee Finalists: Groundswell Coffee Roasters, The Stockyard Coffeehouse, Yolk

Women & Children First The Book Cellar Finalists: Quimby’s Bookstore, Unabridged Bookstore

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Over the past 60 years the Holocaust has been discussed and dissected and interpreted and reinterpreted so many times, it’s hard to imagine there’s anything left to say. The tiny Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, however, continues to find new stories to tell. In addition to a permanent exhibit recounting the Holocaust through the perspective of Illinois residents who either experienced it or witnessed it as American GIs, it hosts just two shows every year, but its curatorial staff chooses them wisely....

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Courtesy of Tom Van Eynde Gabriel Sierra, installation view, 2015 Gabriel Sierra’s first solo show in the United States, currently at the Renaissance Society, is a site-specific installation that comprises 14 pieces with corresponding instructions that encourage audience interaction. The exhibition, which holds no static title, changes names each hour of the day that it is open. This constant change gives the audience a chance to view the exhibition through several different lenses and stay with the work longer than the typical ten-minute glance over....

Bless Maryland Deathfest for providing planet earth with one of its preeminent annual showcases for dark and abrasive music. By reputation alone, its organizers are able to attract obscure but revered metal acts from distant corners of the globe to Baltimore, Maryland, where the festival takes place each Memorial Day weekend. For some bands the fest is a one-off occasion, but others take the opportunity to tour; maybe just a few days around the east coast, maybe a monthlong trek....

Chicago is a noise-rock city. It’s a gritty, working-class town built out of iron, glass, and dirt. It’s the home of Steve Albini, Touch and Go Records, and the Jesus Lizard. It’s never a surprise when a local band that embraces loud, grimy abrasion puts out a good album–it’s just what we do around here. But A Thread of Light, the debut full-length by Chicago four-piece Bruges, isn’t just a striking noise-rock record—it’s a mind-bending masterpiece....

Gossip Wolf would like to congratulate our longtime pals (including frequent Reader contributor Jake Austen) at cable-­access all-ages dance show Chic-a-Go-Go for reaching a major milestone. On Sun 1/18, Miss Mia, Ratso, and the gang will tape their 1,000th episode at the Promontory in Hyde Park! Admission is $5 for adults, free for kids. The Promontory will add nonalcoholic kiddie cocktails to its bar menu for the occasion, and Miss Mia says folks who come out should expect “free commemorative mementos and amazing surprise guests....