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A six-week-old girl remains in critical condition at Methodist Hospital after being rescued following a car accident Friday
in Madison County. Morgan Badgley and her mother, Vicky, were traveling on U.S. 36 when they were struck by a truck. Larry
Prichard, a retired state trooper and CPR instructor, saw the accident, stopped and performed several chest compressions,
helping revive the infant. The baby’s parents called Prichard their hero. The parents say Morgan has some bleeding and
swelling on the brain, but they are hopeful of a recovery.
 

Two fires that started about the same time have east-side Indianapolis neighbors suspicious of local vandals. Indianapolis
firefighters were called to a fire in a vacant house in the 200 block of Good Avenue at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday. While responding,
fire crews encountered another blaze a couple of blocks away at a vacant apartment building at Good and Beechwood avenues.
Both fires were put out with no injuries reported. Neighbors told emergency responders that somebody had smashed windows in
seven or eight cars in the same area the prior morning.
 

Five Republican candidates vying for Evan Bayh's seat in the United States Senate took the stage before a statewide TV
audience Tuesday night. Political analysts said the debate showed more about what they have in common than what sets them
apart. The debate was the last, best chance for the GOP candidates to make an impression on voters before the May 4 primary.
Bayh, a Democrat, is not seeking a third term. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
 

 
Actor Crispin Glover (of “Back to the Future” fame) performs a one-hour slide show, screens
his recent boundary-stretching film “It is Fine! Everything is Fine,” and answers audience questions April 24
at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Details here.

April 27-May 16
Indiana Repertory Theatre
When Jules Verne’s novel “Around the World in 80 Days” became a big-budget movie, it featured a who’s
who of big-name stars in parts large and small, including David Niven, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton,
Shirley MacLaine and Noel Coward.

When the Indiana Repertory Theatre opens its stage production of the popular story this week, the actors will be relative
unknowns (many of them first-timers to the IRT stage), and there will be only five of them.

How will the IRT take us around the world on a single stage? That’s part of the anticipated pleasure of seeing this
globe-trotting play, which has been a hit at regional theaters across the country. Details here.

April 23-25
Central Library and IUPUI’s ICTC Complex
 

If you think Indianapolis is a town that tends to look backward rather than forward when it comes to the arts, consider a
visit to Central Library this weekend. There, dancers, musicians, visual artists and artists you’ll have trouble classifying
take part in this festival of next-wave creativity.

The lineup includes composer/performer Pamela Z, whose bag of tricks includes “gesture-activated MDA controllers”;
Bora Yoon, who creates “architectural landscapes from found objects”; Big Robot, a band that mixes live musicians
with “computer and media interactivity”; and MPG: Mobile Performance Group, which attempts to engage using “automobiles,
video projection, cell phones, FM transmission, wireless hotspots, and any other technologies that allow artists to engage
the public.” Forgive me for using so many quotation marks but, in these cases, I find it necessary to accept the performers’
own definitions of what they do.

The ambitious, one-of-a-kind weekend has been honchoed by Festival Director Scott Deal, a professor of music at IUPUI. For
details, and to reserve free tickets, click here.

April 23-24
Stutz Building
 One of the reasons the Stutz Artists Open House is such a fun event is that the wonderful building itself is so difficult
to navigate. You think you’re going one way, you’re really going another. Stairways don’t seem to lead where
you expect them to. And that gallery you visited that you thought was down this corridor really isn’t. Sometimes, it
feels like being trapped in an M.C. Escher drawing.

Why is that good? Because it adds a greater sense of discovery to this annual event, where about 70 artists open their studio
doors to visitors, increasing the chance that you are going to find something you weren’t necessarily looking for.

This year’s event includes food and drink not just from the building’s Bearcats eatery but also from nearby Creation
Café/Euphoria, Judge’s Bar-B-Que and more. Cynthia Laine and others provide the music. And Turner Woodard’s
car collection adds to the unique sense of place. If 10:30 is too early for you to call it a night on Friday, follow the crowd
to the after party at ARTBOX Gallery, conveniently located in the Stutz II Building. Details here.

April 28
Clowes Hall
 The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the Elton John AIDS Foundation present this special event honoring
Ryan White, whose battle with HIV/AIDS helped change perception of the disease. The evening includes a performance by Elton
John—who connected with White after the student was asked to name his favorite celebrity—and appearances by Phil
Donahue; actress Judith Light; and White’s mother, Jeanne White-Gardner. Details here.
 

Ann M. Peraud has joined the health and life sciences practice group at the local law firm of Baker &
Daniels LLP. Peraud earned a master's degree in health administration from the University of Iowa in 2009 after graduating
from the University of Iowa College of Law and the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor of arts degree.

BioCrossroads, an Indiana life sciences advocacy organization, named four new people to its board of directors: Richard
P. Jones II, general manager at Medco Health Solutions in Whitestown; Jan Lundberg, president of
Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis; Jon C. Serbousek, president of Biomet Orthopedics in Warsaw;
and Deborah L. Tanner, president of Central Laboratory of Covance Inc. in Indianapolis.