“When is the ‘Taste of Space’ Adults-Only Event at the Adler Planetarium?” by S.M. O’Connor

Adler After Dark: Taste of Space will be at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum on Thursday, August 15, 2019 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. This event is for adults (twenty-one-years-of-age-and-over.) DJ catieo will spin an eclectic mix of “Anatolian psychedelic rock, disco, French Boogie, space rock, electronic, minimal wave, and soul.”

The Adler Planetarium stated, “Hydroponics and closed-loop food production are evolving technologies and will be vital on future manned missions throughout the Solar System.” The “Taste of Space” event is an opportunity to learn about aquaponics and sustainable food production methods with Plant Chicago, sample hydroponically-grown micro-greens grown at Closed Loop Farms, learn about “space foods” astronauts consume aboard the International Space Station, and learn how different places in outer space may smell. Chat about all things space-related with Astronomy on Tap. Guests can challenge each other in a “no-holds-barred team trivia game hosted by AoT where astronomy meets… gastronomy!” Try a special brew from Empirical Brewery.

Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscience professor at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona; a N.A.S.A. Solar System Ambassador; and aspiring astronaut will discuss “food strategies for long-duration spaceflight and how eating like a Martian can help us in creating sustainable food economies here on Earth.” On the first season of the Science Channel show Strange Evidence, she was the science demonstration expert. Dr. Proctor has taught at the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum and N.A.S.A.’s Kennedy Space Center and Goddard Spaceflight Center. She was a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A.) 2017 Teacher at Sea.

Figure 1 Credit: The Adler Planetarium Caption: This is the logo for Adler After Dark.

Adler After Dark events occur every third Thursday of the month. During Summer Hours (May-August), these events occur from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The rest of the year, Adler After Dark events occur from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. There is a different theme every month. Click here to read the Cosplay & Costuming Weapons Policy.

Tickets are $20 for the general public and $10 for Members. Click here to purchase tickets online in advance. If any tickets remain unsold, they will be sold at the door at a cost of $25 for the general public and $15 for Members. For a group of fifteen or more or for corporate booking, e-mail groups@adlerplanetarium.org.

Tours of the Doane Observatory are $8 for the general public and Members alike. Please note that the observatory program may be altered or canceled due to weather conditions at the discretion of observatory staff.

The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum is located at the northeastern corner of Northerly Island, which is really a peninsula. It is the only island from a chain of artificial islands Daniel Hudson Burnham, Senior (1846-1912) and Edward H. Bennett (1874-1954) called for in the Plan of Chicago. Northerly Island is part of the Chicago Park District’s Burnham Park. The Field Museum of Natural History, the John G. Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum comprise the Museum Campus at the northern end of Burnham Park, east of Grant Park in downtown Chicago. Soldier Field and the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place are immediately south of the Museum Campus. The Arie Crown Theater is inside the Lakeside Center.

The address is 1300 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605. The phone number is (312) 922-7827. The Website U.R.L. is https://www.adlerplanetarium.org.

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The Field Museum of Natural History in March, 2018

The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis. The two porticos (porches) are each reached by two successive flights of stairs.

Both porticos of The Field Museum of Natural History are flanked by two small porches, which each have two caryatids (columns in the shape of maidens). On the facade, the wings are adorned with a colonnade of attached fluted Ionic columns. The building’s fluted Ionic columns have volutes (spiral-scroll-shaped crowns).

Each portico of The Field Museum is tetrastyle in antis with double-ranked fluted Ionic columns capped by volutes. An entablature crowned by a pediment rests atop the columns. The continuous frieze in each case is relatively plain. The wave-themed acroteria that crown the pediments are borrowed from the Palace of a Fine Arts, which housed The Field Museum until 1920 and now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Field Museum of Natural History isn’t “just” a museum. Visitors can watch scientists at work through windows at the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center’s Pritzker Laboratory.

Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. They represent every race, nation, and tribe in the human family (more or less). On January 9, 1933, the first group, Unity of Man, went on display.

In addition to the four figures Henry Hering (1874-1949) made for the corners of Stanley Field Hall, he also made the twelve plaster round lion head shield escutcheons that line it. These are replicas of the marble round lion head shield escutcheon he made for the pediment of the facade of The Field Museum of Natural History.

Christmas at Chicago’s Union Station

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a POLAR EXPRESS display in the Great Hall of Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a closeup of the THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is the headlamp of THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Union Station Company rail car loaded with super-size gifts is part of THE POLAR EXPRESS mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Union Station in downtown Chicago has emblems of Amtrak, Metra, and historic railroad companies whose routes they now operate like Burlington.

Cinemas sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) Helped Design

This is the Pickwick Theatre Building, an Art Deco movie palace and office building erected in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois in 1928.

The architects were Roscoe Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey. Sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, who also worked on the Adler Planetarium, contributed to this building.

In recent years, the Vlahakis family, who’ve owned the building for 50 years, have been able to turn the building into a multiplex by adding smaller theaters around the original auditorium. The latest one, with a screen four times the size of the one in the auditorium, will open in time to screen INFINITY WARS in May, if all goes well.

The Catlow Movie Theater is a cinema that opened in downtown Barrington, Illinois in 1927. The Tudor Revival style of architecture is not confined to the facade of the cinema. As with the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois, sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) played a role in the design and decoration of The Catlow Movie Theater.