This International Tea Day 🍵

Come taste @9tea3leafstyle and enjoy an experience worth savoring.
On April 21st, stop by Strugglebeard Bakery to sample the full collection and take home the blend you love most.

Here’s what’s waiting for you:

🖤 Nuthin But A Tea Thing — Black
☕ You Can Chai Chai Chai — Chai
💋 French Kiss — French Earl Gray
🍃 Thinking Of A Master Plan — Green
🌺 I Used To Love Herbal — Hibiscus
🫚 93 InfiniTea — Ginger Blend
🌸 Just One Of Those Days — Menstrual Tea

And because they couldn’t let good tea go without a proper companion — they’re debuting a special cookie pairing made exclusively for the event. 🍪
📍 5221 S Harper Court
🗓 April 21st | 12:30 – 5:30 PM
Come find your cup.

Recycled Modern in Harper Court is now the flagship boutique headquarters for Memoir Fragrances.

This day also marks the launch of Sanktuary, our newest expression. A sacred layer added to the library. And if that’s not enough, it’s Terrance Pratt’s birthday, founder of Memoir.

Join us for scents, sounds, & spirits!

About Memoir Fragrances:

Memoir Fragrances is the scented autobiography of creative director and founder Terrance Pratt, who developed the brand as an homage to Chicago, the city where he discovered his personal story.

Memoir was created as both a call to action and a reminder that there’s a story in everyone that is waiting to be told. Each scent that we create is named after a lived cultural experience. In kind, we encourage you to live fearlessly and share your stories with the world.  

“Great stories shouldn’t be bottled up!”

It’s been a WHOLE year since I’ve popped up in the city and baby… we are not sliding back in quietly. Strugglebeard is celebrating Women’s History Month the only way he knows how — with women-owned businesses, good vibes, sweet treats, karaoke, and a lil razzle dazzle.

Location: Strugglebeard Bakery

Time: Noon – 5PM

Karaoke + Drinks flowing

When I say we’re doing it BIG… I’m bringing the entire Kissed By A Bee Organics line. Yes. The whole farm-to-skin apothecary is pulling up. Body oils, butters, washes, deodorant, the works. If you’ve been waiting to smell it, try it, stock up on it — this is your moment. Quantities will be limited!

But wait… it gets better.

• Scent of Serenity By Iesha will be in the building with her candles, room sprays, and incense to set the mood properly.
• Big & Purty Customs is bringing those jaw-dropping Ankara kimonos that make you feel like royalty when you walk into a room.

Strugglebeard Bakery? Oh he didn’t come to play. He’ll be serving baked goods made with my home-grown botanicals and honey. Farm-to-skin meets farm-to-oven. Don’t play with it.

This is community and sister hood and brother hood, and grown.

Pull up. Bring your friends. Wear something cute. Sing karaoke. Shop Black women. Eat good. Smell divine. Leave moisturized.

Chicago… let’s make it a movie.

Everyone looks forward to the Hyde Park Garden Fair, now scheduled for the weekend of May 16-17, 2026, in Kimbark Plaza.

The Hyde Park Garden Fair is Chicago’s oldest community garden sale. We host two annual garden sales and foster neighborhood gardening projects throughout the South Side.

Check out the types of plants and flowers that will be available HERE.

This month, we’re love-bombing Call and Response Books in Hyde Park, and the timing is intentional.
There’s a big box bookstore opening in HP this month, and we’re diverting the attention from them back to the neighborhood bookstores we love.
Join us on February 22nd for CIRCULATE, Chicago’s Small Shop Rent Party, and spread the word to all the book lovers you know!

CIRCULATE
Call and Response Books
1390 E 51st St. (entrance on Dorchester)
Feb. 22 from 2 to 4 pm

Vintage clothing is living history. Each piece carries a past — stories stitched into every seam — and when it finds a new home, it begins again.

Join us on March 14th at the Arts Incubator for the Forever Fly Vintage Market and celebrate vintage as living history: fashion that keeps moving, shifting and showing up fresh. Discover incredible South Side vintage sellers with curated selections that will remind us all that great style is sustainable, and built to last.The best fashion never really leaves — it comes back around.

Featured Vendors:

Gilda Designer Thrift Boutique

Ruby | Fine Hibiscus Tea

Christopher’s Attic

HML

DJ Tess

Harper Studio Vintage

Miyagi Record Shop

Thrift LLC

Aplomb Creative Salon

Thick Chick Vintage

Gaudy & Luxe Consignment

With music by Kida Darling

Hyde Park Farmers Market Holiday Makers Market

On Saturday, December 20, 2025, Chicago’s Hyde Park Farmers Market (HPFM) will host a day of shopping at The Promontory (5311 S. Lake Park Avenue West), offering a festive indoor experience from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Shop locally this season and explore a range of unique holiday gifts, including packaged goods, original art, jewelry, wellness products, holiday stationery, and custom gift baskets—perfect for seasonal shopping.

The HPFM Holiday Makers Market will also feature raffles and special performances, adding an extra layer of excitement to the holiday shopping experience. Raffles are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Must be present to win.

Two Raffles • Live Performances • Seasonal Shopping

Packaged goods, unique art, jewelry, wellness products, holiday stationery, custom gift baskets, and more.

Kick off the holiday season with this fabulous bazaar, featuring baked goods, jewelry, handmade items, vintage treasures, a silent auction, and a raffle of gift certificates to local restaurants, stores, and events. You never know what you’ll find or who you’ll see! All proceeds go to our carefully chosen charities, most of which are in or near Hyde Park.