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This week, you not only can win a pair of tickets to see The Elms at the Vogue. You also can score the band’s new
CD, “The Great American Midrange” and attend a pre-show meet-and-greet.

For more info on the show,
click here.To
hear the band, click here.

Now,
about that contest. All you have to do is fill out the form here. While you’re
entering, state your favorite person, place, movie, TV show, song, restaurant or whatever that includes a tree in the name
(e.g., Birch Bayh, Marla Maples). Your selection won’t help you win, but it will give us something to print next week.

Last week, we asked you for a reason why your life is wonderful. The winners? Danelle Nagel, Stacey Faryna, Andy Waggoner,
Scott Drake, Jason Dean, MeChelle Callen, Erin Beaver, Deb Katterhenry, Tyrone Carney and Todd Hofherr. To read the wonderful
responses, click here.

The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra presents Beethoven’s Ninth, Nov. 7 at the Christel DeHaan Fine Art
Center. Details here.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents
a screening of the classic film “Metropolis,” with live music from Ensemble 48, Nov. 5 at the
Toby Theatre. Details here.

The Writers’ Center of Indianapolis presents A Gathering of Writers and Readers, Nov. 7
at the Indianapolis Art Center. Authors include Alice Friman, Patricia Henley, Norman Minnick, Donald Platt and yours truly.
Details here.

Clint Black, Nov.
6 at Clowes Hall. Details here.

“Historical Fiction: new work by Kyle Ragsdale,” Nov. 6
at the Harrison Center for the Arts. Details here.

Through Nov. 21
Arthur M. Glick JCC
Among the guests at this annual series of lectures, workshops,
signing events and film screenings is memoirist Bob Morris, children’s book author Rabbi Joe Black, novelist Lisa Grunberger,
Sports Illustrated scribe L. Jon Wertheim, Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow and artist Lois Main Templeton. For
details, click here.

Nov. 5-7
Hilbert Circle Theatre
Time for Three, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster
Zach De Pue’s iconoclastic musical trio, performs its first mainstage gig as the ISO’s official ensemble-in-residence.
It’s part of the tie-loosening “Symphonic Hits” series featuring easily accessible music, and pre- and post-show
discussions and parties. For details, click here.

Nov. 11-15
Butler University Theatre
It’s a transitional year for Butler University Theatre,
which has been home to some of the most impressive and original stage work seen in Indy. Rather than coast, though, the school
is bringing in top-notch guest artists from around the world. And rather than confine their work to the classroom, it’s
been programmed into the season.

In this case, Tim Hardy—who has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Co.
and is a faculty member with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts—guides students in a production of Shakespeare’s
lightening rod of a play “The Merchant of Venice.” For details, click here.

Nov. 6-15
Various locations
First, you are forgiven for being confused about what exactly the Spirit & Place Festival is. With a theme that changes each year and with more than 40 events (which often sound like graduate theses, i.e. “An Eye to the World: Photography as Transformation” and “The Geography of the Sacred: How We Sanctify Space”), it’s very easy to be confused.

Combine that with the fact that events are held at dozens of different locations and you’ll understand why an alleged refocusing of the Spirit & Place Festival this year hasn’t helped much in the clarity department.

Still, there are lots of promising events—if you are willing to search for them. Opening weekend includes “Ordinary Space to Sacred Place,” a Nov. 6 discussion of ways to transform your environment, held at St.Luke’s United Methodist Church. Panelists include singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer and former Mayor Bart Peterson. Want something a little more experimental? “Caddy! Caddy! Caddy!” is choreographer/dancer Oguri’s response to the writings of William Faulkner. It’s Nov. 7 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Toby Theatre.

The $3 Bill comedy troupe lightens things up with a.MUSE.ment@theLibrary on Nov. 9 at the Central Library. Also on the 9, bestselling author Bill McKibben visits IUPUI to talk about sustainable communities.

And local city-planner types have high hopes for “Pecha Kucha: The Next Indianapolis,” a Nov. 12 event described as “Fight Club meets PowerPoint.” Presenters will compete for $10,000 grants to pay for projects that turn various Indianapolis locations into more inspiring places. It’s at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

For details on these and other Spirit & Place events, click here.

Today more schools will be handing out consent forms to students in Marion County, seeking permission to give children the
H1N1 vaccine during school hours. But thereâ??s still a major concern: Officials expect 70,000 students will sign up for the
vaccine, but the health department admits it doesn’t have that many doses. Even so, the health department hopes to have all
elementary kids vaccinated before Thanksgiving break.

Friends are mourning the death of 12-year-old Helaina Hawkins after she was struck by a car last night on 10th street near
Country Club Road on the west side. The Chapel Hill Junior High student was heading home after playing with friends when she
was struck crossing the street on roller blades. She died at the scene. Police say there’s no indication the driver, Clarence
Waters, 60, of Waterloo, was impaired or driving at a high rate of speed. Neighbors say the street is poorly lit.

Police are looking for a sport-utility vehicle that witnesses say was damaged when a man drove it into an east-side bar following
a fight early today. The incident occurred at Bar 52 near Sherman Drive and English Avenue. Bystanders said a man left the
bar after a dispute and got into a Dodge Durango, which he rammed into the side of the building several times. No one was
injured.