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Minneapolis-based “Cloud Cult” brings its music to the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Summer Solstice celebration June 18. Details here.

Don Farrell of “Actors Theatre of Indiana” heads south to headline the Indiana Festival Theatre production of “Damn Yankees” in Bloomington June 13-24. Details here. 

 Norah Jones performs at the Murat Theatre June 20. Details here. 

June 14

Indiana History Center

 Concerts on the Canal, sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society, are nothing new. But this year, the “Museum Nights on the Canal” program expands those offerings to include free IHC admission, hands-on activities and additional entertainment leading up to the show. For this week’s offering, the pre-concert activities include a chance to hear stories from Billy Yank, a Union Soldier fresh from battle. The headliner for the concert is Blair Clark. Upcoming Museum Nights include tango lessons, storytelling, Cole Porter tunes and more. Details here. 

June 15 to July 14

Theatre on the Square

 Last August, Theater on the Square presented “Dearest: The Mommy Musical” at the Indy Fringe Festival. I deliberately didn’t go, not because I didn’t want to see and hear it—I did. But I opted to wait until TOTS staged a full production of the new show. Well, I didn’t have to wait long. Less than a year after that workshop production, the show about Joan Crawford (based on her daughter’s scandalous tell-all), has been deemed ready for its close-up. Written and directed by TOTS Artistic Director Ron Spencer, it promises such songs as “Box Office Poison (Bring Me the Ax)” and “I Am Not One of Your Fans.” Details here.   

June 15-16

Service Center

 Artists create work in 8 ft. x 20 ft. x 8 ft. storage containers and visitors stroll the parking lot at the Lafayette Square area parking lot to check them out in this annual event created by Primary Colours. Artists represented this year include Brandy Graham, David Yosha and Chad Sines. There’s live music, too, along with food and beverage sales. Details here.  

June 16

Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site

The Harrison Home’s highly competitive annual white-clad event has added activity this year. There’s a “Kids Croquet with Alice” event paring adult and child teams in a playful trip through Victorian sports and literature … including a chance to play with the Queen of Hearts. After the afternoon 40-team tournament, the Harrisonians host a “Swing is King” mixer with casual croquet play in and around dinner. Beginners welcome. Details here. 

Beech Grove police are looking for a woman they said used a stolen credit card while dressed in a security guard uniform. The card was in a purse taken in a vehicle break-in last month in the 3200 block of South Emerson Avenue. The day after the theft, police said, surveillance cameras inside the Speedway Gas Station at 105 W. Churchman Ave. captured images of a female suspect wearing a security guard uniform while using it. The woman is wanted for fraud.

Indianapolis arson investigators are looking into four fires that broke out in quick succession Tuesday morning on the city’s near-east side. The first two blazes, reported at 4:38 a.m., were located in the 200 block and 300 block of North Beville Avenue, near the intersection of North Keystone Avenue and East New York Street. At 4:56 a.m., crews were called to a trash fire near a residence in the 500 block of Keystone. And at 4:59 a.m., a building at the corner of New York and North Walcott Street caught fire—apparently after it was struck by a burning object, said Indianapolis Fire Department spokesman Lt. James McNair.