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

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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 8/28/12 8:00am

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To Do Tuesday: Middle East on Upper West

If your level of understanding of Arab politics is so meager that Vogue has commissioned pieces on geopolitics from you, it may be time to bone up a bit on what’s happening on the other side of the world. We’re dropping in on the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New Arab Cinema festival, featuring films from Palestine, Egypt and Jordan, among other nations. Today brings a screening of Every Day Is a Holiday, about three women’s journey through the Lebanese mountains in order to meet with their imprisoned husbands. (In terms of cheeriness, it’s not exactly Hope Springs!) Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/27/12 8:00am

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To Do Monday: Tennis, Everyone?

Sorry, ladies (and fans of a certain power-oriented variety of tennis), an injured Rafael Nadal is sitting this year out and not dropping by Queens. But the rest of the tennis firmament is descending on Arthur Ashe Stadium as the U.S. Open begins today. Can Roger Federer take advantage of Mr. Nadal’s absence to claim his first New York title since 2008? (It’s true, he hasn’t won the Open since the Bush Presidency!) How will Novak Djokovic hog the spotlight, and how charmed will we be, against our wills? Can Serena Williams keep up her momentum? Is the trip to Queens somehow more irritating even than the Hamptons Jitney? All these questions will be answered in the next fortnight! Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 10:00am

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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 9:00am

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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 8:00am

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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 8/23/12 8:00am

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To Do Wednesday: Charles in Charge

Broadway right now has all manner of past legends reincarnated for our amusement: there’s Judy Garland, emoting her heart out in End of the Rainbow! There are those darn Jersey Boys, still kicking! There’s Ricky Martin, showing how Evita lived “la vida loca”! Add to these nostalgia acts Charlie Chaplin, whose story is to be Read More

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

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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 Laura L. Griffin 8/22/12 8:30am

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To Do Wednesday: Public Offering

Another day, another abbreviated version of a musical for you to enjoy! (These clever event planners know more than an hour and a half in the sun would wreck our base tan, anyway.) The Public Theater hosts a special act-one-only family matinee of Into The Woods (because, despite pulling inspiration for their Tony award-winning musical from fairy tales, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine didn’t write the thing for little Junior’s attention span). But it will still feel like the real thing, with Amy Adams, Jack Broderick, Glenn Close and the rest all singing onstage. Read More

By Laura L. Griffin 8/21/12 8:30am

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To Do Tuesday: French Bread

The concession stand at Village stalwart Film Forum bears a small sign proudly proclaiming that the banana bread sold there was beloved by the late French philosopher (and known lover of baked goods) Jacques Derrida. Double down on Mr. Derrida by purchasing yourself a thick slice and sidling into the theater for a double-feature of his homeland’s cinematic offerings, part of an ongoing French Old Wave series. On view tonight, two gangster films: Pépé Le Moko (a favorite of Graham Greene’s) and Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (the title of which rather hilariously translates to “Don’t touch the loot”—good advice, unless the loot in question is banana bread). Read More