Not every local discovery needs a drive across town. Atlanta Botanical Garden says tonight's 7 p.m. Frightful Botanical lecture will be livestreamed on its Facebook page, offering a home-viewing route to the same Victorian plant lore.
The topic ranges from poisonous and medicinal plants to the literary imagination that turned orchids and other botanical curiosities into monsters. For someone who likes design and unusual science, it is a better background listen than another generic news roundup.
Action: open the official event page shortly before 7 p.m. and follow its current livestream instructions. If the stream link changes, the organizer page is the authoritative starting point.