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City inks long-term deal with motorsports show

An agreement with the International Motorsports Industry Show will keep it in the city indefinitely. Attendance for the three-day
December convention is expected to top 20,000.

Also this week

Debra Mullins performs “Can’t Live Without It,” a cabaret mix of standards, blues and
jazz, July 22 at the Indiana History Center as part of its Concerts on the Canal series. Details here.

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents “Church Basement Ladies,” July 22-Sept. 3 Details
here.

Chicago and The Doobie Brothers perform, July 22 at Verizon Wireless Music Center. Details
here.

Jack Johnson takes the stage, July 23 at Verizon Wireless Music Center. Details here.

Angela Brown premieres her show “Opera from A Sistah’s Point of View,” July 30 at IU Musical
Arts Center. Details here.

Dance Kaleidoscope offers a free performance as part of the Family Art Series, July 23-24 at White River
State Park. Details here.

Summer Stock Stage presents “Ragtime,’ July 22-25 with a local teen cast, at Park Tudor School.
Details here.

The Artists’ Studio presents a youth production of “Hair,” through July 24. Details here.

Singer/songwriter Brandi Carlisle teams up with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, July
23-24 at Conner Prairie Amphitheatre. Details here.

The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art presents a free screening of “Building for Meaning: The Architecture
of Evans Woollen,” July 23 at the Murphy Arts Center in Fountain Square. Details here.
 

Vintage Movie Night

July 24
Garfield Park

The night starts early at this month’s installment, with an 1880s baseball game featuring the Indianapolis Hoosiers.
What does that have to do with movies? Well, the evening’s cinematic entertainment includes Buster Keaton’s “One
Run Elmer,” concerning a business rivalry that leads to a baseball game climax.

Also on the bill: Keaton’s “The Three Ages,” which will be accompanied by an original score by the Indianapolis
band Tonos Triad. Details here.
 

Devo

July 26
The Vogue

Once upon a time, in the 1970s, disco ruled the airwaves. Which meant that, when you went to a dance at your school, the
majority of students stuck to the walls while a few Travolta-wannabees went out and did their thing. It was fun for the few,
but a boring time for those along the wall.

Then came Devo, with songs like “Whip It” and a flipped-out cover of “Satisfaction.” And suddenly,
skill didn’t matter. The dance floor welcomed those who could do no more than bounce around.

A problem came along, and Devo whipped it.

Details on the concert, which includes four of the five core members of the band, here.
 

Ensemble Viscera

June 26
Indiana History Center

The Indianapolis Early Music Festival presents a free outdoor concert with Ensemble Viscera. The family-friendly show focuses
on music that Henry VIII and Elizabeth I would have grooved to. Details here.
 

Indianapolis International Film Festival winners

July 25
Indianapolis Museum of Art

The final day of the Indianapolis International Film Festival is reserved for a screening of each of the features and shorts
in the Documentary, World Cinema and American Spectrum categories picked by their respective juries as the best in its category.
The Audience Award winners, too, will be screened.
What are those films? I’m sworn to secrecy (but I’ll tell you that the winners I know about will make for a terrific
day of moviegoing).

The winners will be announced at the Saturday Eve. party, at Creation Café. For IBJ’s reviews of this year’s
films,click here.
For details on the festival and the final day of screenings, click here.
 

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”

July 22-Aug. 7
Athenaeum

I could sit at the typewriter for a year without coming up with a better description of the musical “A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum” than the one contained in its own opening number. In “Comedy Tonight,”
the cast sings “No Trojan horse. No royal curse. And a happy ending of course.”
It also says “Bring on the liars, lovers and clowns.”

And “Morals tomorrow, comedy tonight.”

The show, subtitled, “A scenario for vaudevillians,” contains arguably the funniest musical book ever (co-written
by Larry Gelbart, of “Tootsie” and TV’s “M*A*S*H) and a remarkably playful score by Stephen Sondheim.

Here, in the role made famous by Nathan Lane, will be actress Claire Wilcher. This won’t be the first time a woman
has played the role of Pseudolus, the enterprising slave who sets the ancient-Roman-by-way-of-vaudeville plot in motion in
“Forum.” Whoopi Goldberg inherited the part from Nathan Lane in the most recent Broadway incarnation. Wilcher
leads a cast that includes familiar locals Scot Greenwell and Karlton D. Turner. Details here.
 

Critics vs. Filmmakers

The Indianapolis International Film Festival is pitting us against each other. What am I in for?

Indiana accused of cutting aid to food stamp users

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration attorneys do not believe federal law was broken when officials balanced
food stamp
payments against a state-run supplemental aid program.

Company news

It may be the health care world’s version of a popularity contest, but it’s still fairly prestigious. It’s
the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of hospitals. Eleven clinical programs at Clarian Health
and the Indiana University School of Medicine were ranked among the top 50 programs nationally. The rankings
focus on high-volume hospitals and are driven in large part by reputation surveys. No other Indiana-based hospitals were named
to the list. Clarian placed 13th for urology; 14th in gastroenterology; 25th in both geriatrics and ear, nose and throat;
29th in orthopedics; 32nd in lungs; 38th in kidneys; 40th in neurology and cancer; 48th in diabetes; and 49th in cardiology.

In the latest online matchmaking service, Bloomington-based Cook Medical and Indiana University
have created an online portal where medical inventors and health care entrepreneurs can find each other. The website, i2iconnect.org,
allows users to search a database of medical companies by keywords or disease categories. i2iconnect is partly supported by
a stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, which
is based in Indianapolis. In 2008, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. tried to start a similar portal for entrepreneurs
of all kinds.

Indianapolis-based BioCrossroads, a life sciences business development group, received a $1.25 million grant
from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, also based in Indianapolis. Fairbanks gave BioCrossroads $2.5 million to fund various
educational and public health efforts.

Eli Lilly and Co. told employees July 15 that it’s cutting 340 information technology positions in
Indiana as part of its march toward 5,500 job cuts by the end of 2011. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker eliminated 140 IT
jobs in June through retirements, resignations and some cuts. Another 115 cuts will be made this month, and the remainder
by the end of the year, according to an e-mail from Janice Chavers, a Lilly spokeswoman. All displaced workers will get a
few months to find another job within Lilly, although those opportunities are few. Workers who leave Lilly will receive severance
based on their pay grade and time served with the company. Lilly employs about 1,250 IT workers in the United States.

Three Indianapolis hospital systems were named “most Wired” hospitals by Hospital & Health Networks
magazine. Clarian Health, Community Health Network and the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center
all made the list of the top 100 hospital systems in the country using information technology to boost quality, customer service,
safety and business operations.

People

Hendricks Nephrology Associates opened recently in a medical office building on the Danville campus of Hendricks Regional
Health. Dr. Robert Fialkow and his son, Dr. Jared Fialkow, will treat patients with kidney
problems.

Batesville-based Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. hired Martha Goldberg Aronson as president of its North American
division. Aronson, who will start Aug. 2 at the maker of hospital beds and furniture, most recently headed business units
at Minnesota-based Medtronic Inc.

Hill-Rom also hired Perry Stuckey as chief human resources officer. He was most recently vice president
of human resources at Wisconsin-based Rockwell Automation. Stuckey also starts Aug. 2.

CEO Jim Bickel and his fellow executives at Columbus Regional Hospital were named the top leadership team
for community and midsize hospitals by Massachusetts-based HealthLeaders Media, which publishes a magazine for health care
executives.