Meet & Greet: Concrete Botany

May 27th, 2026 from 3 – 5:30 PM!
Concrete Botany is part ecological narrative and part call-to-arms from botany’s bad-boy scientist, Joey Santore of Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t. Meet Santore and get his book signed at Front Street Books!!!
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t is a “Low-Brow, crass approach to plant ecology & evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian.” They use their platform to share light-hearted education on plants through the lens of ecology and evolution—Joey Santore is the writer, director, producer, editor, and talent behind the brand’s many videos, podcasts, and written missives. Santore is into botany, taxonomy, evolution, and toilet humor.