You ever think about what happens when a heart starts beating?
To be a full-fledged organism out of a handful of cells, complete with functioning tissues and organs is one thing. It's a messy yet highly synchronized process that requires every cell to organize precisely together, one that’s especially dramatic in the heart, where cells start beating in perfect unison.
We're thinking about this as the city really starts to activate. This weekend's already revealing a bunch of music festivals and activities that'll light up the night as brightly as last week's Northern Lights, while restaurants and bars all across town are reopening their terrasses. We are BACK, baby.
The blood is pumping throughout the vessels of our streets—read on to find out where it's heading.
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