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Local police investigators have arrested 24-year-old Geoffrey Collins in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed one man and injured another late Sunday night. Collins was tracked down Tuesday after police received a tip. He admitted to driving the Ford Ranger truck that hit and killed David Smith and critically injured Jason Pedigo, who  were pushing a shopping cart on West Morris Street about 11:45 p.m. on their way to get beer. Collins faces several felony charges.

April’s heavy rains and this week’s warmer temperatures are creating perfect breeding conditions for mosquitoes. Officials at the Marion County Health Department predict an early season for the blood-sucking pests. The department is using a new tool called the Vector Control Management System, which it believes will lead to a faster data-gathering process and more efficient mosquito control.

Indianapolis firefighters responded to another suspicious house fire near downtown Indianapolis on Wednesday morning, a day after the city was struck by 10 other fires, including seven confirmed as arson. Wednesday morning’s blaze heavily damaged a vacant home in the Fountain Square area about 6:35 a.m. Investigators suspect arson. Officials say they believe at least three of Tuesday’s fires were set by the same person. Police say they have identified at least two "persons of interest." A woman was killed and her son critically injured in one of the fires.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra plays “The Four Seasons,” May 12-14. Details here.

Hill Harper, from “CSI: NY” speaks at the Madame Walker Theatre on May 13. Details here. 

The Academy Award-nominated documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is screened at the Central Library on May 15. Art collector Brain Presnell will do the presenting. Details here.

May 14

The Jazz Kitchen

Forget the hit song “One Night in Bangkok,” Indy-rooted jazz vocalist Cherryl Hayes (yes, there are two Rs) has spent about 15 years there, using it as a base from which to play through Thailand as well as China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and more. She’ll be coming home for a one-night-only show at The Jazz Kitchen, supported by the Steve Allee Trio. For more on Hayes, click here.

May 14

Basile Theater, Indiana History Center

It’s never too late for a tribute to Mom. Kevin Kling, a staple on the storytelling circuit (and on NPR’s “All Things Considered”), comes back to town, this time with singer-accordionist Simone Perrin in tow. Details here.

May 13-14

Cabaret at the Columbia Club

Often, when Billy Stritch is onstage, the spotlight is elsewhere. That’s because he’s the go-to pianist/musical director for the likes of Linda Lavin, Lucie Arnaz and Christine Ebersole. Indy audiences may remember his terrific duet with Liza Minnelli on “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” when he joined her with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra back in January.

But even when offering his own set, Stritch doesn’t mind sharing the focus. For his appearance here at the Cabaret, he’ll be celebrating the music of Mel Torme, the legendary crooner Stritch shared the stage with at Carnegie Hall in 1988. Details here.

May 13, 15

Clowes Hall

You have to admire Giuseppe Verdi for having the guts to create the casting conundrum he created with “La Traviata.” A variation on Alexander Dumas’ “La dame aux camellias” (aka “Camile”), the opera concerns a young courtesan dying of consumption—a withering illness that requires a major suspension of disbelief to buy when the sufferer is a hefty opera diva.

No worries about that in Indianapolis Opera’s production, in which the believably proportioned Maureen O’Flynn—fresh from the Metropolitan Opera’s latest “La Boheme”—plays the consumptive Violetta. Details here.