Bowled over by the White Stripes

Scenesters, keep your eyes peeled for the White Stripes. Jack and Meg White, who're in residence tonight, tomorrow, and Thursday at the Opera House, wandered into the Milky Way Lounge & Lanes in Jamaica Plain on Sunday night and bowled a few frames with friends. (Their entourage included members of Cincinnati-based garage rockers the Greenhorns, but not White's wife, flame-haired supermodel Karen Elson.) Coincidentally, Mayor Tom Menino was also at the Milky Way Sunday, but he'd left before Jack and Meg arrived. Hizzoner, we're told, was not there to bowl, but for a fund-raiser to help rebuild El Oriental de Cuba, the JP restaurant that was firebombed in July. Told about the benefit, Jack and Meg made a generous donation. Of course.

Horror film scares up real fear

The early word on Eli Roth's new film is ''Ugh!," and the Newton native couldn't be happier. A screening in Toronto of the blood-and-guts extravaganza called ''Hostel" went so well there were two medical emergencies. ''One guy walked out so upset and dizzy he fainted and fell down the escalator," Roth told us gleefully. ''I was so happy. He would have been safer just staying in the theater." Paramedics were still on the scene when a woman announced she was having a heart attack. (Thankfully, it was a false alarm.) ''People who think 'Emily Rose' is a horror film are in for a surprise," said Roth, whose last movie, ''Cabin Fever," was also creepy. The movie, whose executive producer is Quentin Tarantino, isn't finished, but even the early version seemed to please hard-core horror fans.

New Kids act like old friends

Leave it to Sean McDonough to get two former New Kids on the Block in the same room. Donnie Wahlberg and Joey McIntyre showed up Sunday for a party benefiting the broadcaster's charitable foundation. Guess who bid top dollar to sit courtside with Wahlberg at a Celtics game? Yep, McIntyre. . . . Denis Leary made it back from the Emmy Awards in time for his golf tournament yesterday. The ''Rescue Me" star was joined in Mashpee by comedian Lenny Clarke and sports stars John Havlicek and Bobby Orr.

Celtic Ricky Davis gave away season tickets yesterday to 15 of his most ardent fans. The winners were chosen from a crew of Davis devotees at the C's training facility in Waltham. One kid said he sold his prom ticket last year to attend a Celtics playoff game, and another drove from Syracuse to audition.

And the winners are . . .

If novelist William Martin is ever looking for a new career, he might consider PR. The Cambridge native sent us a press release announcing he'd won a 2005 New England Book Award. The author of seven books, Martin won for fiction. In the interest of equal time: Marc Simont won for children's lit and Jane Brox walked away with the award for nonfiction.

Dramatic turn

Folks at the American Repertory Theatre were tickled Sunday night when Emmy winner Felicity Huffman thanked David Mamet for casting her in his plays. Why would that make Robert Woodruff smile? Because some of those plays premiered at the ART, including ''The Cryptogram" and ''Boston Marriage." By the way, Huffman's husband, William H. Macy, also graced the ART stage in the world premiere of Mamet's ''Oleanna."

Lovable 'enemy'

NPR Commentator Daniel Schorr cracks wise tonight at the Fletcher School at Tufts, delivering a talk entitled ''Forgive Us Our Press Passes." One of the last surviving members of Edward R. Murrow's merry band of reporters known as ''Murrow's Boys," Schorr, 89, won our undying affection in the '70s when he showed up on President Nixon's ''Enemies List." Edward R. Murrow's real boy, his only son, Casey, will be in the audience tonight.

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