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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana is asking a judge to hold the state Department of Corrections in contempt for failing to provide four inmates with kosher food. ACLU attorney Ken Falk said the agency isn't complying with a 2010 federal court order requiring it to offer kosher meals to inmates whose religious beliefs require it. Four inmates in Michigan City, Pendleton and Putnamville prisons are asking a judge to order the state to comply with the order. An IDOC spokesman said the agency has a process for reviewing kosher diet requests that it believes complies with the court order.
 

Two pedestrians are in critical condition after being hit by a sport-utility vehicle Tuesday night on the north side of Indianapolis. Police say the pedestrians, a male and a female, were crossing 82nd Street just west of Allisonville Road about 9:20 p.m. when they were struck by an eastbound GMC Envoy. The SUV’s driver, a woman in her 40s, cooperated with officers at the scene. Witnesses said the victims were crossing in a dark area in the middle of a block.
 

An Indianapolis police officer has been placed on indefinite suspension without pay and faces termination after being arrested again for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. David Dinsmore was arrested Tuesday night in Johnson County after crashing his squad car while off duty. An officer at the scene said he found a bottle containing 57 pills stuffed down Dinsmore’s pants. Dinsmore, 45, pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated and fraud in August after a 2010 incident in which he drove his squad car into a mailbox while under the influence of painkillers.

Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s offers “A Nuclear New Year’s Eve” Dec. 31 at the Amber Room at Old National Centre. Details here.

The White Rabbit Cabaret hosts “The New Year’s Eve Big-@!@  Burlesque Bingo Bango Show” on Dec. 31. Details (and full name that won’t get caught in your spam filter) here. 

 “ChaCha 2012 NYE Party” featuring rocker David Correy kicks off the New Year at the Indiana State Museum Dec. 31. Details here.

Dec. 31

Hilbert Circle Theatre

 Dance Kaleidoscope and soprano Grazia Doronzio join the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for a waltz-filled evening that includes a post-show countdown to 2012. Details here. 

Dec. 28-Jan. 8

Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre

 It worked for Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in Broadway’s “Sugar Babies,” so let’s see if it also succeeds for Jack Milo. In a throwback to the old school jokes-and-legs world of burlesque, Beef and Boards is experimenting with an original short-run show with actor Milo and cohorts Doug Stark and Jeff Stockberger providing the funny. Details here. 

Dec. 30-Feb. 4

Theatre on the Square

If a hit musical can be based on a collection of T.S. Eliot poems (“Cats”) or a self-help manual (“How to Succeed…”), why not a 1970s porn film? So goes the thinking behind “Debbie Does Dallas,” the creative choice by Theatre on the Square for a show to stage in the midst of Super Bowl mania. “DDD,” while featuring no actual nudity, promises plenty of innuendo, double entendres and simulated hanky-panky … plus a few songs. The dialogue for this have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too romp comes primarily from the film. At least, that’s what I’ve been told. I mean, I wouldn’t know. Details here.