By Helene Smith
Welcome to Chicago.
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Posted on August 18, 2017
Fish Unboxing
By PlantedDiscusFishTank
“I waited all summer to get another discus order in and this time I ordered mature adults so I can restart breeding discus. I hope you are as excited as I am to receive these beautiful fish and hopefully get them to spawn soon!”
Posted on August 16, 2017
Chicagoetry: Ozymandias In High Definition
By J.J. Tindall
Ozymandias in High Definition
Yul Brynner in a black skirt
As Rameses II, Prince of Egypt, literally
And figuratively leaning into Edward G. Robinson,
Proffering a ring of gold from the tip of a spear
For some solid intelligence
On the slaves’ Deliverer:
Posted on August 15, 2017
Black Food
By Yasmeen Scott/Free Spirit Media
“Through interviewing Chicago residents and black professionals within the food industry, FSM News Reporter Yasmeen Scott explores the history of black food and how it’s celebrated within the black community of Chicago.”
Posted on August 14, 2017
Beachwood Photo Booth: The Classy Oogle Queen
(Illinois Photographer’s Work Is Now Forever
By The United States Postal Service
Hi,
I’m with the Postal Service and wanted to give you a heads up that Illinois photographer Justin Fowler beat the odds by having his photo appear on a Forever stamp.
The Postal Service receives about 40,000 suggestions for stamp ideas each year, but only about 20 to 25 topics make the cut.
To have your work immortalized on a stamp is quite rare. In this case it’s Fowler’s photo of a Monarch and a goldenrod. Please feel free to reach out to Justin. He’s a great interview.
Posted on August 8, 2017
Chicagoetry: Bike On A Tightrope
By J.J. Tindall
Bike on a Tightrope
Mid-summer sun almost directly
overhead makes a shadow
of telephone lines, like
a black tightrope,
right down the center
of a neighborhood alley.
Posted on August 7, 2017
Beachwood Photo Booth: Sal’s Barber Shop
By Helene Smith
He came to Chicago in 1955. He was 17.
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Posted on August 4, 2017
Efforts To Boost Marten Numbers In Wisconsin Meet Ongoing Failure
By Eric Freedman/WisContext
We hear about the success stories of transplanting – translocating in technical talk – animals to protect endangered species, improve genetic variability and reestablish populations in areas where they’ve disappeared. Among those successes: moose reintroduced into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from Ontario in the 1980s and the Florida panther.
The process is called augmentation, and the goal is for translocated individuals to deepen the gene pool and produce abundant offspring. It’s been labeled a valuable tool for conservation biologists.
We also hear about translocation controversies, including whether the National Park Service should reintroduce wolves onto Isle Royale now that virtually all the national park’s wolf population has died.
We don’t hear much about the failures.
Now a study published in the March/April 2017 issue of the journal Conservation Letters has examined one such project that fell short of the hopes of conservation biologists — the translocation of American martens (Martes americana) into Wisconsin’s Chequamegon National Forest.
Posted on August 3, 2017
