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July 24
Garfield Park

The night starts early at this month’s installment, with an 1880s baseball game featuring the Indianapolis Hoosiers.
What does that have to do with movies? Well, the evening’s cinematic entertainment includes Buster Keaton’s “One
Run Elmer,” concerning a business rivalry that leads to a baseball game climax.

Also on the bill: Keaton’s “The Three Ages,” which will be accompanied by an original score by the Indianapolis
band Tonos Triad. Details here.
 

July 26
The Vogue

Once upon a time, in the 1970s, disco ruled the airwaves. Which meant that, when you went to a dance at your school, the
majority of students stuck to the walls while a few Travolta-wannabees went out and did their thing. It was fun for the few,
but a boring time for those along the wall.

Then came Devo, with songs like “Whip It” and a flipped-out cover of “Satisfaction.” And suddenly,
skill didn’t matter. The dance floor welcomed those who could do no more than bounce around.

A problem came along, and Devo whipped it.

Details on the concert, which includes four of the five core members of the band, here.
 

June 26
Indiana History Center

The Indianapolis Early Music Festival presents a free outdoor concert with Ensemble Viscera. The family-friendly show focuses
on music that Henry VIII and Elizabeth I would have grooved to. Details here.
 

July 25
Indianapolis Museum of Art

The final day of the Indianapolis International Film Festival is reserved for a screening of each of the features and shorts
in the Documentary, World Cinema and American Spectrum categories picked by their respective juries as the best in its category.
The Audience Award winners, too, will be screened.
What are those films? I’m sworn to secrecy (but I’ll tell you that the winners I know about will make for a terrific
day of moviegoing).

The winners will be announced at the Saturday Eve. party, at Creation Café. For IBJ’s reviews of this year’s
films,click here.
For details on the festival and the final day of screenings, click here.
 

July 22-Aug. 7
Athenaeum

I could sit at the typewriter for a year without coming up with a better description of the musical “A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum” than the one contained in its own opening number. In “Comedy Tonight,”
the cast sings “No Trojan horse. No royal curse. And a happy ending of course.”
It also says “Bring on the liars, lovers and clowns.”

And “Morals tomorrow, comedy tonight.”

The show, subtitled, “A scenario for vaudevillians,” contains arguably the funniest musical book ever (co-written
by Larry Gelbart, of “Tootsie” and TV’s “M*A*S*H) and a remarkably playful score by Stephen Sondheim.

Here, in the role made famous by Nathan Lane, will be actress Claire Wilcher. This won’t be the first time a woman
has played the role of Pseudolus, the enterprising slave who sets the ancient-Roman-by-way-of-vaudeville plot in motion in
“Forum.” Whoopi Goldberg inherited the part from Nathan Lane in the most recent Broadway incarnation. Wilcher
leads a cast that includes familiar locals Scot Greenwell and Karlton D. Turner. Details here.
 

Hendricks Nephrology Associates opened recently in a medical office building on the Danville campus of Hendricks Regional
Health. Dr. Robert Fialkow and his son, Dr. Jared Fialkow, will treat patients with kidney
problems.

Batesville-based Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. hired Martha Goldberg Aronson as president of its North American
division. Aronson, who will start Aug. 2 at the maker of hospital beds and furniture, most recently headed business units
at Minnesota-based Medtronic Inc.

Hill-Rom also hired Perry Stuckey as chief human resources officer. He was most recently vice president
of human resources at Wisconsin-based Rockwell Automation. Stuckey also starts Aug. 2.

CEO Jim Bickel and his fellow executives at Columbus Regional Hospital were named the top leadership team
for community and midsize hospitals by Massachusetts-based HealthLeaders Media, which publishes a magazine for health care
executives.
 

A teenager accused of shooting nine people downtown Saturday at the height of Indiana Black Expo’s Summer Celebration
is behind bars. A tip brought police to Westpark Apartments in the 7800 block of West 10th Street where Shamus Patton, 17,
was hiding. They took him into custody without incident. Police and community sources indicate that Patton belongs to one
of Indianapolis' most active street gangs, the Rachet Boys, which split off three years ago from a group now identifying
itself as the Grimey Boys. A number of the people wounded Saturday night were wearing Grimey Boys t-shirts.
 

A south-side Indianapolis man was able to break out of his bathroom after getting locked inside by robbers early Tuesday
morning. Two men broke into his home near West Thompson Road and South Missouri Street just after 1 a.m. They roughed up the
homeowner and robbed him at gunpoint and knifepoint before barricading him inside his own bathroom.

A 70-year-old man used his cane to fend off an intruder on the east side of Indianapolis early Tuesday morning. Charles Jenkins
said he was asleep in bed when he heard a loud crash in his front room just before 3 a.m. in the 2700 block of North Gale
Street. He looked into the living room to see a man climbing in through the window. Jenkins grabbed his cane and hit the intruder
in the head. The stunned suspect ran to a truck behind the house and fled the scene. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.