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A Center Grove mother faces jail time after allegedly writing phony doctor’s notes for her son. According to the Johnson County Prosecutor's Office, Heather Spaw has been charged with a “compulsory school attendance violation,” which can carry a six-month jail sentence. Police say Spaw’s son missed 20 days of school and used 16 forged notes to explain the absences.
 

A Mooresville High School student was hurt in a crash Wednesday morning about 5 a.m. while riding his bicycle on State Road 67 near Mooresville Road in Hendricks County. According to police, 18-year-old Brian Cook of Camby failed to yield to a semi at the intersection and was struck. The high school senior was taken to Wishard Hospital in stable condition with a broken leg, head and internal injuries. Investigators say Cooke may have been listening to an iPod at the time of the crash.
 

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir offer a pops concert featuring “Choruses of Hollywood,” including music from “Avatar,” March 25-27 at Hilbert Circle Theatre. Details here.  

On March 28, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra presents “New France,” featuring music from the mid-1700s, at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. Details here. 

Ensemble Music Society and the Indianapolis Museum of Art present the contemporary music group Eighth Blackbird, March 26. The program includes music by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Stephen Hartke. Details here. 

The improvisational music group Ne(x)tworks String Quartet performs a free concert March 25 at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. Details here. 

International Violin Competition of Indianapolis 2002 bronze medalist Soovin Kim joins the Ronen Chamber Ensemble for a concert featuring music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bartok and others at the Indiana History Center’s Basile Theatre. Details here. 

March 29

Jazz Kitchen

Believe it or not, there are a few lyrics in the Great American Songbook that were not written by Johnny Mercer.

But it might be hard to think of some when you realize that Mercer wrote, among many others, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers, Creepers!,” “Blues in the Night,” “Skylark,” “Hooray for Hollywood,” “I’m Old Fashioned,” “Summer Wind,” “Moon River,” Something’s Gotta Give,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “One for My Baby (and One More For the Road),” “Autumn Leaves,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby,” and “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive.”

 Mercer’s way with words will be celebrated by the Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra as part of a Tuesday night concert, which also highlights the sound of the Maynard Ferguson Big Band of the 1950s and 1960s. Details here. 

March 24

IU Auditorium

If you’ve never heard Sarah Silverman before, well, then maybe you shouldn’t be going to see her when she performs at IU Auditorium. If you have seen her, you realize how difficult it is to quote one of her jokes, out of context, here and still manage to get by your spam filter.

 The author of “The Bedwetter” and star of the concert film “Jesus is Magic” and Comedy Central’s “Sarah Silverman Program,” Silverman specializes in using her faux-naïve persona to get away with outrageous statements (not many comics would even attempt a line about Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech). Of course, it helps, too, that she’s very funny. Details here.