Friday 1/29 – Thursday 2/4
Physicist Stephen Hawking has done some amazing things: he discovered that black holes emit radiation, wrote a best-seller (A Brief History of Time), and got to appear on Star Trek. Hawking will explain it all (the universe stuff, that is) tonight at 9 at “The Universe in a Nutshell,” the first installment of the Adler Planetarium’s new lecture series, “Our Expanding Universe.” It’s at the Arie Crown Theatre at McCormick Place, 2300 S. Lake Shore Drive. Tickets are $30, $10 for children; call 312-559-1212.
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2 TUESDAY Unlike baby boomers, who “rely on the media to provide them with images of a multiethnic America,” today’s fifteen-to-twentysomethings are “already living in it,” writes author and journalist Farai Chideya in her new book, The Color of Our Future. Those she interviewed include Berkeley graduate LaShunda Prescott, who dropped out twice to deal with family issues before finishing school, and Prescott’s schoolmate, Middle Eastern immigrant and College Republicans vice president Steve Mohebi, who defends race-based recruiting in fraternities. Chideya, who also penned 1995’s Don’t Believe the Hype: Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans, will discuss and sign her latest tonight at 6 in the Harold Washington Library Center auditorium, 400 S. State (312-747-4050). It’s free.
