Hamptons Benefit Picks

There are still benefits going on in the Hamptons, but here's one you haven't seen covered year after year. WordTheatre, an L.A.-based version of the Moth, celebrating the art of oral storytelling only with more celebrities and less spontaneous material, is coming to Guild Hall tonight (Saturday the 27th) for an evening of readings to benefit the esteemed Pushcart Prize. It all sounds fresh to us, a little more downtown lit culture scene than we typically see on the East End. Who's on deck? Amber Tamblyn, Amy Irving, Sean Young, John Heard, Lynn Whitfield, and several others, reading stories by Ian Frazier, Ellen Wilbur, Marvin Cohen, Pamela Painter, and Naomi Shihab Nye, among others. Premium tickets are $100 and include a pre-party and after-party; general admission is $25 and $45. Details at http://www.wordtheatre.com and https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/659655.

Meanwhile, we're grooving on Martha Stewart's blog, where we learned today she's making a purple basil mojito at the New York Botanical Garden (she's designed a new herb garden there, one of the attractions of the "Edible Garden" exhibit opening today). And Martha is also her own social columnist. Here's a write-up of a gala for the Ross School last weekend, where she was the honoree.