This year’s Red Cross Book Fair will be held September 27th through October 2nd at the Monroe County Fairgrounds. Over 100,000 gently used books, CDs, DVDs, videos, cassettes, games, puzzles and more will be on sale at bargain prices. For the best selection, plan to attend opening day on Thursday, September 27th, when admission is $10. Admission is free during the rest of the book fair. On Friday and Saturday we’ll be giving “book bucks” good for $1 off any merchandise purchase to anyone who brings non-perishable food to help Hoosier Hills Food Bank. On Sunday we celebrate military families, and all books are half price & military families get free goodie bags. Monday is our popular bag-it day. Attendees will enjoy our extended days and hours, a large clearance section, and concessions. Visit our website at www.monroe-redcross.org for more information. Every book purchase supports disaster relief, service to military families, and emergency services in Monroe and Owen Counties.

Times are as follows: Thurs., Sept. 27, 9 am-7 pm; Friday, Sept. 28: 9 am-7 pm; Saturday, Sept. 29: 9 am-6 pm; Sunday, Sept. 30: 9 am-6 pm; Monday, October 1: 9 am-6 pm; Tuesday, October 2: 9 am-12 pm Community Day; Books & media left are free. Donations are encouraged.

Ulrike Heberlein of the Janelia Farm Research Campus will discuss the relationship between sexual experience and alcohol preference in Drosophila.

This installation, running from September 11 to December 31, will focus on three photographers Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, and Harry Callahan, who used their romantic partners as their subjects. Whether portraits or nude studies, these images reveal a sensitivity that comes from the artists and sitters’ close personal relationships.

This installation is presented in conjunction it the special exhibition “A Place Aside: Artists and their Partners,” on view at the Kinsey Institute Gallery, September 28–December 20.

Artists working in Paris and Lorraine during the Baroque period developed distinctive styles—which focused on the vibrancy of the line—that differed markedly from their Italian and Dutch contemporaries. The two print kiosks in the early part of the gallery feature French works by Jacques Bellange, Claude Lorrain, Jacques Callot, and Claude Mellan, whose engraving is a tour de force of printmaking that creates the face of Christ using a single line.

Guoping Feng of Massachusetts Institute of Technology discusses recent human genetic and genomic studies that have identified a large number of candidate genes for obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia, many of which encode postsynaptic scaffolding proteins including MAGUK, SAPAP and SHANK families of proteins.

The Grunwald Gallery of Art is pleased to announce “Samenwerken,” an exhibition of interdisciplinary collaborative multi-media works. This exhibition will open to the public with a reception Friday, September 21, 6- 10 pm. The opening reception will include live DJ’s and experimental music from IU and Bloomington musicians. The exhibition will be on view through Thursday, October 11.

Taken from the Dutch word meaning “teamwork,” “Samenwerken” will feature ambitious interdisciplinary collaborative works focusing on the combination of new and traditional media that change the dynamic of the space and challenge the perception of the viewer. The collaborative groups are comprised of current Indiana University students, alumni and faculty from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts as well as collaborators from outside of Indiana University.

This exhibit, “A Place Aside: Artists and Their Partners,” is on display at the Kinsey Institute Gallery and will run from September 28 to December 20.

Since the invention of photography, the camera has been turned towards loved ones to document birthdays, vacations, graduations, and other significant events. For each of the couples included in this exhibition, however, photography is not a method of simply recording events but a means of exploring their partnership through the creation of art. While the photographs serve as documents of a couple’s life together, they also reveal the trust and respect that each partner has for the other.

The Kinsey Institute Gallery is open to the public Monday-Friday, 1:30 pm-5 pm.

Craig Montell of Johns Hopkins University will describe recent work from his laboratory demonstrating how Drosophila TRP channels affect animal behavior and decision making, including the ability to sense very small differences in temperature in the comfortable range.

Hugo Bellen of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Baylor College of Medicine discusses neurodegenerative disorders and how they cause a progressive decline in function and morphology of neurons.

We’ll serve Chef Fred Manion’s revered Octoberfest specials Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, October 2-4, after 4 pm. Join us for Manion’s mouth-watering menu and enjoy German-inspired menu items like

Smoked Trout Spread
House-smoked trout, goat cheese and capers on toasted rye bread with pickled onions and cucumber salad.

Kartoffelpuffer (Potato Cakes)
Served with spiced apples and sour cream.

Smoked Sausage & Kraut
Housemade sausage, kraut and brown mustard on a poppyseed bun.

Die Haus-Wurst Platte
Knackwurst made in-house with mildly seasoned and lightly smoked Fischer Farms pork and beef.

Jägerschnitzel
A breaded, panfried pork loin cutlet in a rich brown sauce of onion, bacon, mushrooms and sour cream.

Sauerbraten
Red wine marinated Fischer Farms rounds of beef in a rich sauce.

Regenbogenforelle
Pan-seared ruby trout fillet with dill and lemon butter with creamy horseradish sauce.

Meine Mutter’s Apfelkuchen
Spiced apple cake with a streusel topping with vanilla bean ice cream.