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Music by Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky are featured in a Symphony on the Prairie program featuring violinist Barnabas Kelemen Aug. 10-11. Details here.

The Indy Hostel Folk Festival, Aug. 11 at 49th and Winthrop streets, features music by the Spud Puppies, Old Truck Revival, and more. Details here. 

Carol Woods, whose credits include Broadway’s “Chicago” and “Smokey Joe’s Café,” performs Aug. 10-11 at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club. Details here. 

Kool & The Gang and The Commodores are the daily double on stage Aug. 11 at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. Details here. 

WTTS celebrates its 20th anniversary with The Last Summer on Earth Tour, featuring Barenaked Ladies, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, and Cracker on Aug. 12 on the Lawn at White River State Park. Details here.

Jackson Browne plays the Murat on Aug. 14. Details here.

Michael Koryta signs copies of his new novel “The Prophet” at Big Hat Books on Aug. 9. Details here. 

 Jake Johannsen headlines at Morty’s Comedy Joint Aug. 9-11. Details here.

Aug. 10

IndianapolisArt Center

 Enough with signs that say, “You break it, you bought it.” At the Indianapolis Art Center, the ongoing mantra is, “You make it, you take it.” And while the center features art classes throughout the year, here’s a chance to try your hand at any or all of the arts. Need something to aspire to? The Art Center also opens its annual faculty exhibition on the same evening. Details here. 

Aug. 10

IndianapolisMuseumof Art

 You think edgy crime thrillers are something new? The great Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson have been keeping audiences on edge since 1944. That’s when Billy Wilder and co-writer Raymond Chandler taught the world what film noir was all about in their adaptation of James M. Cain’s seedy classic about an insurance man who lets a seductive married woman talk him into murder. It’s being screened large behind the IMA as part of the Summer Nights film series (which continues in a dark vein for the next two weeks with “Batman” and “Pulp Fiction” before lightening up for the season-closing “The Sound of Music.”) Details here. 

Aug. 9-11

Lucas Oil Stadium

The eyes of America—well, at least the eyes of hard-core marching band practitioners and fans—will be on Indianapolis Aug. 11. That’s because the top bands in the country will be competing not just for attendees at Lucas Oil Stadium but also for those watching in movie theaters across the country. If you can’t make it to the finals, there are plenty of preliminary competitions. There’s also the Celebrate Indy Arts! Parade on Aug. 11, taking off south from Pennsylvania and North streets, then following New York Street west to Meridian Street and north to the American Legion Mall. Details on all DCI events here. 

This summer’s heat wave is creating an increase in homeless men, woman and children seeking services, according to the Wheeler Mission. The occupancy at Wheeler's Center for Women & Children has been on par with numbers usually seen during the winter months. The center usually sees an average of 66 women and children each July. This July's average was 83.

Most of the hogs in the swine barn at the Indiana State Fair were sent home Monday, a day early, after six pigs in a 4-H show developed high fevers. The precautionary step was taken after the Indiana Department of Health confirmed 11 statewide cases of humans contracting the flu from hogs. State fair officials said the cause of the fevers in the pigs at the state fair is not yet known.

Indianapolis police are searching for a 56-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy Sunday night in their east-side neighborhood. Glenn Beard, 56, is believed to have shot Jarrell Tucker in the head and thigh after an altercation in the 100 block of North Denny Street. Beard, a former felon with a long criminal history, fled the scene in his truck. He was released from prison less than a year ago after serving time on a firearms charge.

The average rate for 30-year mortgages rose from 3.75 percent to 3.77 percent n the week ended Aug. 1, according to Bankrate.com. The rate for 15-year mortgages fell from 3.00 percent to 2.99 percent.