By Daniel D'Addario 8/29/12 8:00am

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Rita Wilson (Getty Images)

To Do Wednesday: Wilson!

Tom Hanks’s son Chester, who goes by “Chet Haze” and is attempting a career as a rapper (truly!) isn’t the only musically gifted Hanks. Wife-of-Forrest Gump Rita Wilson has put aside her occasional acting career in favor of the life of the pop chanteuse, and is performing tonight at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. Don’t fret, Katy Perry and Rihanna, as Ms. Wilson’s not gunning for you: she’s singing pop music from the 1960s and ’70s. No AutoTune required! Over/under on the proportion of attendees tonight secretly hoping just to catch a glimpse of the Big guy: 45 percent. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/24/12 10:00am

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Beaumarchais

To Do Sunday: Bright Lights, Small Town

Having journeyed all the way out to Amagansett, we’re looking to stay closer to home base today—we spend enough time sitting in traffic in the city in the cold seasons! Conveniently for those in East Hampton who are feeling both spendy and charitable, the Bright Lights Foundation is hosting a silent auction to benefit its international health-services efforts. It’s to sate our hunger for both philanthropy and proteins after our vegan venture last night—it’s at the restaurant Beaumarchais, and we’ve been promised piles of seafood. (Sorry, Alec!) Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/24/12 9:00am

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Alec Baldwin (Getty Images)

To Do Saturday: Veggie Lovers

We kid noted memoirist Alec Baldwin because we love him—not least because he’s such a philanthropist! The soon-to-be-unemployed 30 Rock star is raising money for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that promotes veganism and an end to animal testing. We can agree with the latter, though, boy, will we miss the usual crab-cake-and-carpaccio hors d’oeuvres tonight! (Summer’s coming to an end, and we’re ready to indulge in food once more.) But then again, if Mr. Baldwin has been able to slim down thanks to veganism, perhaps there’s something to it. Bring us all your white-bean-and-kale mini-faux-quiches, Amagansett! Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/24/12 8:00am

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vanna

To Do Friday: Memoirs of a Gala

We’ve been Out East for a couple of weeks (we’re “working remotely”—checking emails at 1 p.m. and segueing into cocktail hour!), and wouldn’t you know it, all of our trashy beach reads are depleted. We’re especially craving a new memoir by someone like Paris Hilton (Confessions of an Heiress was way too long ago!), and “Celebrity Autobiography,” a reading at Guild Hall, will likely scratch that itch, as the likes of Alec Baldwin, Christie Brinkley and Tovah Feldshuh read from the literary works of Vanna White, Sylvester Stallone and the Jonas Brothers. Don’t make too much fun, Alec—we haven’t forgotten that book you put out about the Kim Basinger years! Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/22/12 1:55pm

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Matthew Reeve (Getty Images)

To Do Wednesday: Super Cause

Late summer brings one of the year’s most poignant evenings, a celebration of the work done by Christopher and Dana Reeve. Though the cause—finding a cure for spinal-cord injuries and paralysis—is serious, there’s still room for celebration, with music by society DJ Harley Viera-Newton and guests including super-stylist Mary Alice Stephenson and married actors Odette and Dave Annable (she was in Cloverfield, he’s on a new soap about a haunted Park Avenue co-op). Matthew Reeve, the son of the late Superman star and activist, is to play host and continue his father’s legacy. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/08/12 8:00am

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To Do Wednesday: Universal Appeal

It’s a summer double feature courtesy of the “Universal 100” retrospective, in which Universal Studios shows just how broad its backlist is. Apparently, their appetites were catholic enough to allow for Spike Lee’s groundbreaking examination of race in America, Do the Right Thing, and Amy Heckerling’s dopey teen comedy, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (written Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/07/12 8:00am

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Dabney Mercer

To Do Tuesday: Special Occasion

If you can tear yourself away from the televised Olympics all across the NBC networks—tough stuff, given that today brings both the men’s triathlon and the women’s duet synchronized swimming finals, and do not get us started on table tennis!—you can celebrate everyone’s right to join in the Games at a benefit for Special Olympics Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/06/12 8:00am

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darlene love

To Do Monday: Christmas in August

We usually wait until December for Darlene Love to re-enter our lives. With her belted standard, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” she’s probably made more of a name for herself off of Dec. 25 than any musician since Irving Berlin, or at least Mariah Carey. But Ms. Love has a wider repertoire than her yearly Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/03/12 10:00am

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kites

To Do Sunday: Kites and Concertos

Tonight brings one of the final weekends in the Hamptons. Celebrate a summer well spent (or, at least, amusingly spent) with your chosen people at a cocktail reception hosted by Chabad of the Hamptons. The religious organization, of seven years’ vintage Out East, is raising funds with an evening soirée, with music provided by the Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/03/12 9:00am

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Chuck Scarborough

To Do Saturday: Euro Zone

It’s a night in Monaco—but don’t worry, you don’t need to call in a favor to get on someone’s flight from Teterboro. It’s “Monaco” in the sense that your high school prom was “a night at the Oscars”: a fantastically themed occasion requiring you to step not a foot outside your comfort zone (the Hamptons, Read More