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Aug. 3-4

Conner Prairie Amphitheatre

 With some singers, you go into a concert wondering if your favorite song will be sung. When Don McLean joins the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra this weekend, there’s no need to worry. The show is being billed as a celebration of 40 years of “American Pie,” so you can count on the epic’s being included. What else will you be doing besides singing along as a Chevy is being driven to a levy? Listen under the starry, starry (we hope) night sky for McLean’s other familiar song, “Vincent.” Details here. 

Aug. 3

IndianaWar Memorial

 The downtown monuments aren’t known for hosting touring museum exhibitions. Here’s an exception. Items from the National World War I Museum in Kansas City are barnstorming across the country, making a stop this weekend at the Indiana War Memorial. Included are weapons, tools, fight gear, flags, posters, uniforms and more in a walk-through environment. It’s free, but expect a push for donations to the museum. Details here. 

Aug. 3-31

HarrisonCenterfor the Arts

 When I use the term “book art,” I’m not referring to literature but to books as art. And that’s the subject of the newest edition of this fifth-annual show at the Harrison Center. In it, a wide range of artists explore the form. And, in keeping with the theme, the opening event on First Friday not only will include a book donation collection for Indy Reads Books, but also a display of recently acquired artists’ books from the Herron Art Library. Details here. 

Aug. 3-19

Indiana State Fairgrounds

This year’s Indiana State Fair theme is the Year of Dairy Cows, but it might have more accurately been the Year of Recovery after last year’s stage-collapse tragedy. As the fair regains its footing, some things will be different—multi-day admission tickets now will be available, for example, and headliner concerts (including Barry Manilow on Aug. 3 and Train on Aug. 4) will take place at Bankers Life Fieldhouse downtown. Other beloved elements, though, will stay the same—including livestock competitions; midway rides; and gourds, gourds and more gourds. Full concert lineup here. More state fair info here. 

Police have released a description of a man who allegedly broke into a Greenwood apartment over the weekend and sexually assaulted a woman for several hours. The incident took place at the Ashmore Trace apartment complex starting about 4 a.m. Sunday. The victim said the suspect held a knife to her throat and threatened to hurt her and her children if she screamed. The suspect was described as a white male in his 30s with a mustache and goatee. He has tattoos of bricks down one arm and possibly a "tiger tail" tattoo on his lower leg.

A Noblesville mother was arrested Monday afternoon after police say she left her 4-year-old son inside a hot car at a Fishers shopping center. Roni Penn, 34, faces a preliminary charge of neglect of a dependent for leaving the boy in the car outside the SuperTarget near 116th Street and Interstate 69. Penn said she left the boy alone for about 30 minutes because he didn’t want to go inside. Police said the temperature in the car was at least 100 degrees. The child was checked out by paramedics and released to his father.

Police are searching for two suspects who allegedly got away with more than $2,000 in an armed robbery of the Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Indianapolis. Employees say a female in her early 20s entered through the still-open front door about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and opened a locked back door for a male accomplice. The restaurant manager told police the suspect, a young man with a tattoo on his neck, showed a silver handgun and demanded money. Before fleeing the scene, the man ripped a phone off the wall and told the manager to get on the floor.