Thursday, July 10th
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High-schoolers from Long Island sneak out of second-floor suburban bedrooms—ker-PLUNK!—and buy 40s with fake IDs before heading to Radio City Music Hall on the LIRR to see the Steve Miller Band (we know this because we were once a high-schooler from Long Island). Once there, they run into their dads. Meanwhile, Manhattan’s helicopter fleet heads East, shuttling freshly plumped lips and designer dresses to the gala for the
ArtHamptons International Fine Art Fair (can’t we be left alone with our beach reads in the summer instead of having to pretend to care about art?), featuring art from the 1880s to the present. We hear attendees may include troubled divorcees Alec Baldwin and Christie Brinkley (hey, they kind of look like each other’s exes!), not to mention Kelsey Grammer and wild man Rudy Giuliani. Partygoers will sip wines from Robert Entenmann’s Martha Clara Vineyards (Mr. Entenmann sold his chocolate donut business and now busies himself making vino; we understand, having made a similar trade-off years ago …) and the revelry will benefit the American Heart Association. Meanwhile, 97-year-old artist Will Barnet will be honored with the first Hamptons Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts. It seems if a fella makes it to 97, he should get his own Hamptons named after him.
[Steve Miller Band at Radio City Music Hall, Sixth Avenue between 50th and 51st streets, 7:30 p.m., www.ticketmaster.com; ArtHamptons Opening Gala, Bridgehampton Historical Society Grounds, 2368 Montauk Highway, 6 p.m., invite only]
mbryan@observer.com
