P.L.A.C.E. Multicultural Festival - Oct. 2

P.L.A.C.E. Children's Museum and Creative Arts Center will be holding its 4th Annual Multicultural Festival at Hamden Town Center park on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 10-4. Activities will include multicultural performances, art projects, a moonbounce, costume characters, food and more. Music, dance, art, play and fun for all ages. Admission is free. Rain location is Hamden Middle School.

And don't forgot, the Miller Library will be open 10-5:30 on Saturday, so don't forget to stop by after you've visted the festival!

All Things Victorian

The Victorian Lady, Kandie Carle, will visit on Monday, September 27, 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the Senior Center Social Hall. In honor of her visit, we have put together a display of books on Victorian topics.

Open Yale Courses

Open Yale Courses provides free access to a courses taught by distinguished scholars of Yale University. Courseare offered in a number of disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.


Each course includes a syllabus, class lectures in video, audio-only formats or print transcipts, and suggested readings.

And don't forget that you can still check out Great Courses right here at the Hamden Library. We have dozens of course lectures from The Teaching Company available in audio and video formats.

Man Booker Prize Shortlist

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a leading literary British award. On September 7, 2010 a shortlist of six authors was announced from a longlist of 13 authors. The winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction will be announced on Tuesday, October 12. The selections for the shortlist 2010 are:

Australian author Peter Carey for Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)

Irish author Emma Donoghue for Room (Picador - Pan Macmillan)

South African author Damon Galgut for In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books - Grove Atlantic)

Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

Andrea Levy for The Long Song (Headline Review - Headline Publishing Group)

Tom McCarthy for C (Jonathan Cape - Random House)

Previous winners of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Design of Kitchens

"Counter Space" is the title of a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York which showcases the influence of modern design on the kitchen.

Slideshow of "Counter Space" exhibit (from the New York Times)

Pictures of the 1926 "Frankfurt Kitchen" (from Better Homes and Gardens)

"Counter Space" exhibit website

Kitchen Design Books

Hamden Restaurant Week, September 20-26

The Hamden Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Hamden are pleased to announce the first Hamden Restaurant Week, Monday, September 20th through Sunday, September 26th. Local restaurants are offering a variety of discount options, including $12 prix fixe lunches, $20 prix fixe dinners, or buy one get one free specials. Participating locations include:

AUNT CHILADA'S

CAFÉ AMICI

DI MATTEO’S PIZZA & RESTAURANT

ELI'S ON WHITNEY

IBIZA TAPAS & WINE BAR

LE PETIT GOURMET

MICKEY'S RESTAURANT & BAR

PARK CENTRAL TAVERN

SBC RESTAURANT & BREWERY

SONO BANA JAPANESE RESTAURANT

THE PLAYWRIGHT IRISH PUB RESTAURANT & BANQUET FACILITY

THE TERRACE SAVORY THAI CUISINE.

And don't forget to visit THE SOUP GIRL, who will have her truck parked at the Miller Library parking lot daily from 4:30 -7:30.

Visit the Hamden Restaurant Week web site for more information, including menus and discounts.

Top 100 Thrillers

The audience of National Public Radio recently voted for the Top 100 Killer Thrillers.
600 novels were nominated, more than 17,000 ballots cast.

The book "Thrillers: 100 Must Reads" by David Morrell & Hank Wagner
has also suggestions. It was published in 2010.
And thank you, Nancy, for alerting me to this list.