Düsseldorf Airport has brought back its popular outdoor movie program.
Offered weekends throughout July, “OpenAirport Cinema” has seats for about 500 people and is showing both blockbusters such as “Tomorrowland” with George Clooney to classics, such as “Pulp fiction.”
A giant screen is set up on the outdoor observation terrace and everyone gets wireless headphones so they can hear the dialog and the music.
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You may not be able to use it to see Pluto – just yet – but an OmniGlobe now on loan to Dallas Love Field airport will let you tune in more than 180 different interactive spherical displays depicting everything from the planets to the Earth’s wind current patterns, the land mass movement from 600 million years ago and the image of a Death Star from Star Wars.
Science museums and universities sometimes have OmniGlobes on site, but this is the first time that one of these globes has been placed in an airport.
The exhibition will be up through October in the Art/Travelers Art Gallery located post-security at Dallas Love Field.
Here’s what an OmniGlobe looks like in action:
“Slalom” at Milwaukee’s General Mitchell Int’l Airport
Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport has a new piece of art – a kinetic work by Tim Prentice called Slalom in the baggage claim area.
The piece includes a gently undulating ribbon of reflective kinetic elements that float overhead and weave through the building’s support columns and will create an “ever-changing sequence of varied and unpredictable effects,” said Prentice.
SFO Museum presents: I Love You, California
Red diamond rattlesnake skeleton. Courtesy of Ray Bandar & SFO Museum
At San Francisco International Airport, the SFO Museum is presenting “I Love You, California,” an exhibit exploring the state’s natural history through the collections of the California Academy of Sciences. Look for “invertebrates from abalone to deep sea squid, birds such as acorn woodpeckers and tufted puffins, plant pressings including the state flower, the California poppy, land and marine mammal skulls, fossils, and a myriad of minerals,” illustrating the diversity of the “Golden State.”
The exhibit is in the Departures Level, pre-security, of SFO’s International Terminal through January, 2016, but if you don’t think you’ll be going that way before then you can see a selection of the items displayed here.
Free concerts
And in the Washington, D.C. area, Washington Dulles International Airport and Reagan National Airport are presenting the fifth season of the Summer Jazz Series of free concerts.
At Dulles, the concerts will take place near the East Security Checkpoint on the ticketing level between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. On Thursday July 30th, Two Smooth Duo will offer R&B tunes; on Thursday August 13, Lennard Jack and Fusion will play Caribbean jazz.
At Reagan National, concerts will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. pre-security on the Concourse Level across from Cosi near Terminal C or across from Cibo near Terminal B. The line-up includes the Heart Song Trio on Thursday, July 23, Lennard Jackson and Fusion on Friday, July 31 and the Potomac Jazz Project (classical jazz) on both Thursday, August 6 and Thursday, August 13. More details here.
Just in time for summer, vending machines dispensing a frozen custard famous in St. Louis have been installed on the concourses at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
The machines are filled with custard cups known as concretes – malts or shakes so thick they can be served upside down – from Ted Drewes, a popular family-owned ice-cream shop with two branches in St. Louis.
The vending machines are stocked with six “concrete” flavors: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, Oreo cookie, Heath Bar and chocolate chip. Each 8 ounce cup is $6 and when a purchase is made “the machine opens the fridge door, and arm with a suction picks up the flavor requested and then drops it into the retrieve area,” said airport spokesman Jeff Lea.