Spending the night together
This is normally a quiet time in Boston, but more than a few folks changed their plans to make sure they were in town for the opening night of the Rolling Stones' world tour, ''A Bigger Bang," last night at Fenway Park. Those on the list to see Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the rest of the gang were: Steven Tyler, who hugged Carly Simon out in front of a dugout; Whoopi Goldberg; former Massachusetts governor (and huge Stones fan) Bill Weld; ''Rescue Me" creator and star Denis Leary and his buddy funnyman Lenny Clarke; and Patriots QB Doug Flutie. Also scoring tickets for last night's show were: Fidelity's Peter Lynch; auto magnate Ernie Boch Jr.; UHY Advisors' mucky muck Bill Earon; hotelier Bob Sage; Commonwealth Hotel managing partner Tim Kirwan; Davio's owner Steve DeFillippo; Anthony's Pier 4's Anthony Athanas Jr.; Venezia Waterfront chef Peter Palumbo; ERA Real Estate Boston prez Mike Carucci; and Suffolk Superior Court clerk-magistrate John Nucci. Red Sox owner John W. Henry worked the crowd and Sox president Larry Lucchino and his wife, Stacey, were on the field. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used the night to raise some dough, hosting a pre-concert party for heavy hitters in one of Fenway Park's restaurants. And if there was any doubt about which way the demographics for last night's concerts skewed, PR guy George Regan took his 80-something mom, Ann, who had asked to go to the concert as her birthday present.
Wolf rolls with the Stones
Peter Wolf's been on the prowl with the Rolling Stones, even stopping by sound check yesterday. The frontman of J. Geils, who's known for keeping late hours, was out the last four nights with Mick Jagger & Co. Wolf dined Thursday and Friday night with Jagger at Via Matta, for a special dinner cooked by chef-owner Michael Schlow, who was spied entering Fenway just in time for last night's concert. The gang was out again on Saturday night at Radius, the downtown eatery owned by Schlow and Christopher Myers. As for the others, Keith Richards has been keeping a lower profile, and Ron Wood has been using his downtime for the opening of a show of his art at the Newbury Fine Arts gallery at 29 Newbury St.
Watts goes low key
After the sound check/rehearsal on Friday night, Rolling Stones drummer and jazz aficionado Charlie Watts caught the late set of guitarist Bill Frisell at Scullers Jazz Club on Soldiers Field Road. Arriving with Stones touring saxophonist Tim Ries (a friend of Frisell's) and just one security guard, Watts made it to the club shortly after Frisell's set started and hung out with the band and the club staff after the show. The club's management said that Watts went ''relatively unnoticed by the sell-out crowd, who filed out right past him."
Star power
The only hint that it wasn't an event in the Fenway was that it was hosted by ''Desperate Housewives" star James Denton and attended by Denton's onscreen love interest, the amazing Teri Hatcher (below). But for Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo's CD release party Saturday night, it was all Red Sox on deck and more than a few celebs walking the red carpet outside Sonny McLean's, the Boston sports-themed Irish pub and restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif.
Sox chairman Tom Werner came to the event, as did Sox players Johnny Damon, Mike Timlin, Lenny DiNardo, Wade Miller, and Mike Remlinger. Alice in Chains guitarist Mike Inez joined Denton by sitting in for Arroyo's set. Also spied in the crowd was ''Yes, Dear" funnyman Mike O'Malley, who never misses a chance to support his hometown teams. Arroyo used the road trip to play the fund-raiser, which benefited the Jimmy Fund and the Red Sox Foundation. Owned by Fran and Jim Connors, a Foxborough native who was featured in the Sox documentary ''Still We Believe," Sonny McLean's is a regular stop for anyone with Boston ties.
Steve Morse of the Globe staff contributed. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253. 
