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Dec. 5
Indiana History Center

Whether it’s an episode guide to “South Park,”
a soup cookbook, or a photographic history of Burger Chef, it’s difficult to predict what you’ll find at the Indiana
History Center’s annual author fair. This year, more than 80 select authors will be in attendance, available from noon
to 4 to answer questions and sell their wares. The bestselling writer there will be historical fiction specialist James Alexander
Thom, with his latest, “St. Patrick’s Battalion.”

Speakers in the Basile Theater throughout the day
include Dick Wolfsie (“Mornings with Barney”), photographer Terry Border (creator of the odd, inspired “Bent
Objects”), travel writer Jane Fortune (“To Florence, Con Amore”), and yours truly. Details here.
 

Dec. 4
ArtBox Gallery

Twenty artists have each been asked to create a singe piece of art based
on the theme “Toys.” Their creations should make the Artbox Gallery at the Stutz II building a great place to
launch a journey through the December edition of the monthly First Friday downtown gallery tour.

Other potentially
interesting stops: Dean Johnson Gallery features three designers approaching the vase, the urn and furniture; the Harrison
Center for the Arts hosts the color-themed “Black and White and Read All Over;” and G.C. Lucas Gallery, for its
final opening on Mass Ave., features “Exploring New Ways,” which includes paintings and solar-plate etchings by
Montana artists Nicholas Oberling and Jennifer Li.

Details on “Toys” here. For a full First Friday rundown, click here.

Dec. 4-23
Hilbert Circle Theatre

Maureen McGovern, the hostess of this year’s “Yuletide
Celebration,” is no stranger to Hilbert Circle Theatre, having joined the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra there earlier
in the season for a pops concert.

Best known for her pop hits “The Morning After,” “We May Never
Love Like This Again,” and “Can You Read My Mind” (featured in, respectively, “The Poseidon Adventure,”
“The Towering Inferno,” and “Superman,”) McGovern evolved into a well-respected cabaret artist with
a string of Great-American-Songbook recordings, high-profile nightclub gigs and Broadway appearances. 

Like Santa’s
pouch, “Yuletide Celebration” is always a very mixed bag. Joining McGovern in this annual mix of the sacred and
the playful will be a Liberace impersonator, a dog act, and the Yuletide debut of the ISO’s new Wurlitzer pipe organ.
Details here.

Cutting out insurance middleman a factor in St. Vincent’s partnership with on-site clinic company. http://www.ibj.com/st-vincent-partners-with-novia-to-start-clinics/PARAMS/article/14785

A new study shows the drug-resistant infection MRSA is increasingly being tracked into inpatient hospitals by visitors to their outpatient centers. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172102.php?nfid=52235

<p><strong>Dr. Denise L. Johnson Miller</strong> has been named director of the St. Francis Breast Surgery Program, effective
                     Dec.1. Miller comes from Stanford University Medical Center in California, where she directed cancer outreach and melanoma
                     surgery programs.<br /><br /><strong>Jeff Smulyan</strong>, CEO of Emmis Communications                      Corp., has been
                     named co-chairman of Hoosiers Work for Health, an industry-funded group promoting awareness of social and               
                     economic impacts of the health care industry. Smulyan replaces former Indianapolis mayor <strong>Bart Peterson</strong>,
                     who took a job as a senior vice president at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. The group’s other co-chairman is <strong>Jim
                     Morris</strong>,                      president of Pacers Sports and Entertainment.</p><p><strong>Dr. Anh-Danh Phan</strong>
                     has joined the Eugene and Marilyn                       Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department
                     of Ophthalmology as a visiting assistant clinical                      professor of ophthalmology. Phan received her medical
                     degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.</p>
                 

An Indianapolis man is behind bars after a cocaine bust near a popular Carmel shopping mall. The Hamilton-Boone County Drug
Task Force arrested 27-year-old Jaime Agustin. They say he was selling cocaine near Clay Terrace. The drug task force said
18 grams of the drug were confiscated during a three-month investigation.

The Humane Society of Indianapolis has euthanized 65 cats over the past 10 days after a common feline virus mutated out of
control. The director of operations for the Humane Society said the organization has never had a virus outbreak this extensive.
Cat adoptions have been put on hold until next month. The agency also is not accepting any new cats. Dog adoptions are continuing
as normal.

A woman says she was attacked about 3 a.m. Tuesday near State Road 38 and Hague Road in Noblesville by a man she thought was
a police officer. The woman told police she pulled over after she noticed a silver car with a red light behind her. A man
impersonating an officer asked her for her registration. When she reached to get it, the man got inside the vehicle and held
a weapon to her neck. The woman said she was able to scare the attacker off with a knife she had in the car. FOX59 will have
more at 4 p.m.