Rockers aren’t the only ones pitching in for The One Fund. Chefs Ming Tsai and Ken Oringer are organizing an event at Fenway that they hope will raise $1 million for victims of the Marathon bombings. Boston Bites Back, featuring foods prepared by 100 of Boston’s best chefs, takes place at the ballpark May 15. Tsai and Oringer both attended Friday’s press conference at the House of Blues and promised an epic epicurean party. “We share the same DNA,” Tsai said, referring to Boston’s music community. “We want to show the world how resilient we are.” Added Oringer: “Nothing speaks more to our collective resolve than an evening of hospitality, unity and hometown pride in one of the most iconic venues in Boston.”

Perkins School for the Blind held its annual spring fund-raiser this week, and used the opportunity to honor Watertown Police Chief Ed Deveau and Fire Chief Mario Orangio for their efforts in the aftermath of the Marathon bombings. The crowd included gala co-chairs Kevin Bright, the Emmy-winning TV producer and Emerson professor, the Boston Foundation’s Paul Grogan, Perkins Trust chair Corinne Grousbeck and husband, Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck, team co-owner Steve Pagliuca, and Boston boldfacers Tom and Elena Matlack, Joe O’Donnell, Ted and Simone Winston, Tom Stemberg and Katherine Chapman, Sweet owner Courtney Forrester, and actor and comedian Lenny Clarke.

A star-studded rock n’ roll fund-raiser on behalf of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings is shaping up to be a cause for serious celebration. The event, dubbed “Boston Strong: An Evening of Support and Celebration,” is set for May 30 at the TD Garden, and will include four hours of music and comedy from some of the biggest names in Boston (and beyond), including Aerosmith, Boston, New Kids on the Block, James Taylor and Carole King, the J. Geils Band, Jimmy Buffett, Dane Cook, and Steven Wright. Tickets, which will be priced from $35 to $285 — with no surcharges or fees — go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. at www.ticketmaster.com. Net proceeds from the show will benefit The One Fund.

Dennis Lehane pulled off a literary upset Thursday night at the 2013 Edgar Awards, when the Boston author’s “Live by Night” won novel of the year, beating Gillian Flynn’s best-selling “Gone Girl,” a book that seemingly the entire planet has read. “It’s a cool honor to win one of these, particularly because it’s the first novel of mine in 18 years to even be nominated,” Lehane wrote in an e-mail to the Globe. “It’s good to know that apparently I’m finally doing something right.” He’s done plenty right, in truth. From “Shutter Island” to “Mystic River” to “The Given Day,” Lehane’s suspenseful writing has established him as far more than a Boston crime writer.

Crittenton Women’s Union, a local organization that helps low-income women out of poverty, had its annual benefit on Wednesday night at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The night honored Merck Pharmaceutical heir Albert Merck and his wife Katharine, who are big Crittenton supporters. Guests included Newton Mayor Setti Warren, Tufts University Senior VP and Crittenton board member Mary Jeka, Crittenton CEO Elisabeth Babcock, and Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of “All Souls: A Family Story from Southie.” MacDonald read from his book during the event.

Peter Berg is now directing two HBO pilots with ties to Boston. As we previously reported, Berg is attached to direct the pilot for “The Leftovers,” based on the novel by Belmont author Tom Perrotta. Now, Berg has signed on to direct a pilot produced by Dorchester’s Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. The Hollywood Reporter says Wahlberg’s show, which will star Johnson, is a dramedy about retired athletes living in Miami. Not coincidentally perhaps, Johnson and Wahlberg costar in the new movie “Pain & Gain.”

A few boldfacers from Boston’s literary community gathered Thursday at the Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street for a fund-raiser for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. Among those expected to read at the benefit for The One Fund were former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, novelist Sue Miller, fiction writer Fanny Howe, AGNI editor Sven Birkerts, and poet Jill McDonough.

Celebrated chef Susur Lee was at Empire Asian Restaurant & Lounge this week, where he whipped up a several-course meal for a crowd that included Empire owners Ed and Joe Kane and Randy Greenstein, Raptor Capital’s Alex Zecca, chef Ming Tsai, Sox vice chairman David Ginsberg, J. Geils singer Peter Wolf, and Bruins forward Shawn Thornton, who stopped by after the B’s trounced the Maple Leafs in Game 1 of their playoff series. The pony-tailed Lee, who wowed the judges on “Top Chef Masters” a few years ago, owns restaurants in Toronto, New York, and Singapore.

Nantucket-based historian Nathaniel Philbrick, author of “Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution,” kicked off his book tour on Wednesday night with a Brookline Booksmith reading at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Philbrick chatted with us just before the event and said he’s thrilled that a “Bunker Hill” movie based on his book is already in development. Ben Affleck and Warner Bros. secured the rights to the property last month. Philbrick said he doesn’t have any opinions about which actors should play the historical characters in his book (“I’m really bad with names,” he admitted), but he said he is a big fan of the movies, in general.

Brian Evans, the Haverhill-bred crooner whose song paying tribute to Fenway Park has been viewed over 3.7 million times on YouTube, is back with another Red Sox-related project. And, like the song, this one’s a little odd. Evans sent out a press release this week announcing plans to write a book about the making of the video, and what it was like dealing with Red Sox management. The book, which Evans says will give fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Sox brass, will be titled “The Green Monsters — A Fan’s Perspective of Red Sox Management.” (Not to be confused with Seth Mnookin’s “Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top.”) Is Evans calling Sox owners John Henry and Tom Werner “Green Monsters”?

Ellen DeGeneres keeps us guessing. On Wednesday she tweeted that she’d have special surprises for Boston on Thursday. But on Thursday afternoon, she tweeted, “I was hoping to go live from Boston today, but now we’re gonna do it next week. I couldn’t find pahking in havahd yahd.”

As we reported first, a blockbuster concert benefiting the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings will be held May 30 at TD Garden. Live Nation’s Don Law, one of the event’s organizers, will announce the lineup Friday at a press conference at the House of Blues. We’d heard the benefit for The One Fund would include some of the biggest names in Boston music, and, apparently, we heard right. According to people privy to the planning, among the acts expected to perform are Boston, the J. Geils Band, James Taylor and Carole King, New Kids on the Block, and Jimmy Buffett.

As everyone knows by now, NBA player Jason Collins this week became the first active athlete in one of the four major sports to acknowledge he’s gay. And no one was happier than Joan Parker. The mother of two gay sons (and the widow of late great mystery writer Robert B. Parker), Parker told us she’s proud of Collins and pleased with the public’s response. “Every time [Collins’s] name is mentioned on a talk show, there’s a roar of applause,” said Parker.

The Cambridge-based American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced its latest batch of boldfaced members. Adding to an always eclectic group, this year’s list of artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and assorted other academics, business people, and performing artists includes Medford’s own Paul Theroux, author of “The Great Railway Bazaar,” as well as writer Martin Amis, The New Yorker’s Roz Chast, Oscar-winning actors Robert De Niro and Sally Field, and rocker Bruce Springsteen. The 198 new members will be inducted during a ceremony at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre next fall. If you’re wondering if the Boss might perform, there is a precedent. In 2011, Paul Simon was inducted and surprised the audience by playing “American Tune” from his 1973 LP “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.”

Patriots Dane Fletcher and Shane Vereen joined Winston DeLeon, Diamantino “D” Araujo, Manny Canuto, and Jenn Penton, of the Donnie Wahlberg-produced TNT reality show “Boston’s Finest,” for a $20-a-ticket benefit for the family of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old who died in the Boston Marathon bombings (Richard’s mother and sister were also injured). The event took place at Bond at the Langham. Other guests included star Kevin Alston of the New England Revolution and Sydney Leroux of the Boston Breakers. An auction with signed sports memorabilia raised some extra money for the cause.

Canton native Chuck Hogan, whose novel “Prince of Thieves” became a fine film thanks to Ben Affleck — it was called “The Town” on the big screen — may be getting back into the movie business. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joe Carnahan is in talks to direct an adaptation of Hogan’s novel “Devils in Exile.” (It would be called “Sugar Bandits.”) Hogan has written a screenplay for the book, which is about an Iraq war veteran who, facing a bleak future in Boston, gets involved in a criminal underworld of drugs and violence. Hogan’s other writing credits include “The Strain,” “The Fall,” and “The Night Eternal,” all co-written with Guillermo del Toro. Carnahan has directed thrillers such as “Narc” and “Smokin’ Aces.”

Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams will probably score the next “Star Wars,” says director J.J. Abrams. “Again, for ‘Star Wars,’ it’s very early days, but I believe that, going forward, John Williams will be doing that film because he was there long before I was,” Abrams said during a press conference in Germany for his new “Star Trek” movie. Williams, who’s responsible for all previous “Star Wars” scores, conducts the Pops’ “Film Night” in June.

Comedian-actor Bobcat Goldthwait, who’s made a name for himself as a director, premiered his new film, “Willow Creek,” at the Independent Film Festival Boston Monday night. The movie, which screened at the Somerville Theatre, is about a couple hunting for Bigfoot. On Tuesday, Lake Bell was in town to show her Sundance Film Festival hit “In a World . . . ,” a comedy about a woman in the movie trailer voice-over industry. Bell, who wrote, directed, and stars in the picture, told us before heading out of town Wednesday that her Boston audience (which was technically in Brookline at the Coolidge Corner Theatre) was one of her liveliest. She had just screened the film in England where crowds are a bit more . . . subdued.

There were a few familiar faces at New England Baptist Hospital’s annual gala, held the other night at the Intercontinental Hotel, none more recognizable than three-time Super Bowl champ Tedy Bruschi and former Celtic Walter McCarty. . . . Kelly Clarkson, who’s in town to perform Thursday with Keith Lockhart and the Pops at Northeastern, did a meet-and-greet with a few MIX 104.1 listeners Wednesday. Though the singer celebrated her 31st birthday last week, DJs Gregg Daniels, Fast Freddy, and Sue Brady threw Clarkson a little party that included an impressive cake. . . . Actor Michael J. Fox and cosmetics company magnate Leonard Lauder were among 400 who attended Wednesday’s funeral in Portland for philanthropist Al Glickman.

Thursday is a good day to start following Ellen DeGeneres on Twitter. The talk show host tweeted on Wednesday, “I’m sending love and a lot of giveaways to Boston. Follow my tweets tomorrow to find out where and how.” We hear she’ll be taping a segment here, so keep your eyes peeled, too.

Tom Brady was back in town Tuesday, if only briefly, to announce that a portion of the proceeds from this summer’s Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port is being earmarked for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. Brady is again the honorary chairman of the 100-mile charity ride and walk benefiting Best Buddies International, the nonprofit devoted to helping people with intellectual disabilities. During an appearance at the Seaport Hotel, the Pats QB said money raised by the event’s kickoff festivities – the Tom Brady Football Challenge and Guy Fieri Celebrity Chef Tailgate – will help those affected by the bombings. Brady was joined Tuesday by Best Buddies founder Anthony Shriver. The Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port takes place June 1.

ABC Family has picked up “Chasing Life” (formerly known as “Terminales”), the pilot that was shot around Boston last fall. Sadly, the television show won’t be filmed here. The network confirmed this week that it’s given a green light to the drama but that production will now take place in Santa Clarita, Calif., near Los Angeles. According to the network’s description of the show, it will still take place in Boston. “Chasing Life” is about a young Boston newspaper reporter (played by Italia Ricci) who is diagnosed with a terminal illness. The pilot was shot all over town, including at the Globe. (We’re pretty sure that some of our sports editors made it into the background of some scenes.)

Heart surgeon Dr. Cary Akins was honored at Boston Health Care for the Homeless’s “Medicine That Matters” gala at the Sheraton. And two of Akins’s star patients — former General Electric CEO Jack Welch and MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle — were there to applaud him. (Akins, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, opened up Welch in 1995 and Barnicle in 1998.) Also honored for their work in the community were the Red Sox, represented at the event by team brass John Henry and Larry Lucchino.

Mark Wahlberg made a surprise appearance at a pep rally for the Boston Scholar Athletes program at Agganis Arena Tuesday. The Dorchester-bred actor was met with exuberant applause as he walked out in a BSA jacket — with his name on it, no less — to shake hands with Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish, the chairman of the event, as well as Mayor Tom Menino. Always a lively time, the pep rally was especially spirited in the aftermath of the Marathon bombings, as several hundred Boston Scholar Athletes joined business and civic leaders in cheering their support for Boston. The BSA program, created in 2009, seeks to improve academic achievement through athletics in the Boston public high schools.

MC Lyte was at the Strand in Dorchester the other night to speak at the kickoff for Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.’s 71st Northeastern Regional Conference. The rapper is an honorary member of the sorority and also happens to be the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Recording Academy, best known for running the Grammys. Lyte talked to the crowd about mentoring young women in entertainment. Other speakers during the event included Sue Anderson, of USA Swimming’s Diversity and Inclusion Team.

NBC’s Brian Williams wasn’t at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night in Washington because he was in Westwood for the gala to benefit Horizons at Dedham Country Day School, a summer learning program for kids in need. The event was held home of Helena and Steven D’Angelo, who welcomed almost 250 guests who raised about $250,000 for the program. Revelers included Horizons at Dedham Country Day School Executive Director Meredith Laban; Jack Connors; Williams’s wife, Jane Stoddard Williams, who’s the Chair of Horizons’ National Board of Directors; Dominic Moore of the San Jose Sharks; and Horizons at Dedham Country Day School Board Chair Gita Iyer.

The Beastie Boys want it all on the record. The iconic hip-hop group has a deal with Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House Inc., for an illustrated oral history. The currently untitled book is scheduled for fall 2015. Spiegel & Grau says the book will track the band’s rise from its high school years in New York to its induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. The publisher says ‘‘world-famous writers and cultural figures’’ will be interviewed for the project. The book will be organized by surviving band members Michael Diamond (Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) with the help of hip-hop writer and editor Sacha Jenkins. Adam Yauch (MCA) died last year.

Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, who was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night, spent his Sunday in Boston. He visited with staffers and patients (including some who were injured during the Boston Marathon bombings) at the new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown. He also dined with his producing partner Dana Brunetti at Abe & Louie’s on Boylston Street. Spacey and Brunetti produced two films based on books by Boston author Ben Mezrich and are attached to a third, his 2011 release “Sex on the Moon.” No word on whether the producers were here to talk about the project.

Aziz Ansari’s sold-out Sunday-night benefit for Boston at the Wilbur Theatre raised $50,000 for the One Fund and for injured MBTA officer Richard Donohue. The “Parks and Recreation” star was joined during the show by comedian Todd Barry, who Ansari claimed (via Twitter) had to make two bathroom stops on the way from New York to the Boston show. Not that anyone asked.

After nearly 10 years of marriage, Red Sox DH David Ortiz and wife Tiffany are calling it quits.

In an interview Monday with MLB.com, Big Papi confirmed something that had been rumored for several months.

“There are some situations in life that work out for a period of time and at some point they don’t work out anymore and you have to move on,” Ortiz told the Major League Baseball website as well as WEEI.com. “I’m moving on. She’s moving on. Hopefully everybody respects that.”

The couple, who live in Weston, have two daughters, Jessica and Alexandra, and a son, D’Angelo. The Sox slugger said the separation is amicable and he hopes the public will respect his family’s privacy.

It could just be a coincidence, but we doubt it.

Just days after Taylor Swift toured a mammoth oceanfront estate in Watch Hill, R.I., the mansion, which is known to locals as Harkness House, has been sold for $17.75 million.

And the new owner, identified only as Harbor Land Revocable Trust, paid cash for the property, according to a deed filed at Town Hall in Westerly. The 11,000-square-foot “cottage” was sold by Marlene and James Benson, the former CEO of John Hancock Life Insurance, who once described living in the house as “like being on a large ocean liner, only it doesn’t go anywhere.”

If the superstar country singer is, in fact, the new owner, nobody is saying so.

Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops are inviting residents of Watertown to join them for a free performance at Symphony Hall on May 9. The program is “Fantasia in Concert” with music and video from “Fantasia 2000” and the 1940 version of the Disney film. Ticket information is on the BSO website. Proof of residence will be required.

Morgan Dorr and John Keefe, of the Massachusetts pop act Boys Like Girls, provided entertainment at a Sunday fashion show at Neiman Marcus in Natick that benefited the Franciscan Hospital for Children’s music therapy program. “Fashion for Franciscan” was hosted by WHDH’s Adam Williams and was put together by local high school students, including the event’s chairs, Madde Pontin and Valerie Herman.

The Walsh Brothers (Dave and Chris Walsh) — who are much-loved, Boston-bred sibling comedians who moved to Los Angeles a few years ago — performed a benefit at Great Scott on Friday night for the family of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old who was killed during the Boston Marathon bombings. The guys said on their Facebook page that they raised $1,600, all of which will go to the local family. The Walsh Brothers are now making videos for Comedy Central.

The theme for Saturday night’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Gala was “Vintage Vegas,” which means the Mandarin Oriental was packed with VIPs in feathers, fedoras, and a few Rat Pack-inspired ensembles. Guests at the benefit included Martha Mason,Snappy Dance Theater cofounder; founding artistic director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Steven Maler; Cadmus Group Chief Operating Officer Chris Hitchcock; chief executive of the American Red Cross of Eastern Massachusetts Jarrett Barrios, former Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, salon boss Tony Liquori, and Jurgen Weiss of The Brattle Group.

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart threw out the first pitch at the Sox game on Friday night. Other VIPs at Fenway Park over the weekend included Boston “Baywatch” star Traci Bingham, former Gov. Bill Weld, and J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert of the Knicks.

Actress Glenn Close, who has campaigned to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness, was the special guest at a Sunday-afternoon fund-raiser for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts. The party took place at casual Canary Square in Jamaica Plain. Close walked over to the event with Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Margot Botsford , whom the six-time Oscar-nominee introduced as her high school roommate. Close, who lives in Maine, said she enjoys using her celebrity to advocate for mental health organizations, including Bring Change 2 Mind, which she co-founded after dealing with mental illness in her own family. Close’s sister has bipolar disorder and her nephew lives with schizoaffective disorder.

Governor Deval Patrick and his wife, Diane, were front and center in the Somerville Theatre audience during the world premiere of the documentary “Best Kept Secret” at the Independent Film Festival Boston on Saturday night. Patrick wasn’t the only politician in the house for the film, which follows Newark teacher Janet Mino as she prepares students with autism for life after high school. City Councilor Mike Ross and state Sen. Karen Spilka also came out for the screening, which featured a Q&A with Mino, director Samantha Buck, and producer Danielle DiGiacomo. Also in the audience were Boston’s own Paul Bernon, of Burn Later Productions, and Sean Curran, who served as executive producers on the film.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is known as the “Nerd Prom,” but all the cool kids were at the party in Washington D.C. on Saturday night. Brookline legend Conan O’Brien hosted the affair and kept reporters and A-listers laughing with jokes about Bob Woodward, Vice President Joe Biden, and CNN’s reporting mistakes. On a more serious note, O’Brien also thanked President Barack Obama for visiting Boston after the Marathon bombings. The late-night comedian added, “If you’re going to pick a city to mess with, don’t choose one where nine out of 10 people are related to a cop.” The only person funnier than O’Brien during the night was Obama, who riffed on First Lady Michelle Obama’s bangs and Jay-Z’s recent trip to Cuba.

No, Steve Carell wasn’t there, or Sam Rockwell or Toni Collette or Amanda Peet or Maya Rudolph or Rob Corddry. But a few of the folks who helped work on “The Way Way Back,” which was filmed last summer in and around Marshfield, did show up at a screening at the Somerville Theatre as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston. The comedy, co-written and co-directed by Manchester-by-the-Sea native Nat Faxon, is something of a love letter to Water Wizz, the popular water park in East Wareham which is the setting for several scenes. It comes out in theaters in July.

The cast list for this summer’s Williamstown Theatre Festival continues to grow with faces we know. Boston-bred actress Ari Graynor, who just filmed a pilot for the sitcom “Bad Teacher” and is at the Tribeca Film Festival this week as a juror, will star in the world premiere of Bess Wohl’s play about sandwich makers, “American Hero,” with Erin Wilhelmi, who just played one of Emma Watson’s pals in the movie “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” (She was Alice, the one who shoplifts jeans.) Meanwhile, Heather Lind, who starred with Al Pacino in “The Merchant of Venice,” will appear opposite Robert Sean Leonard in “Pygmalion.” Lind plays Katy on “Boardwalk Empire.”

“Argo” is a very entertaining film, and for that it was awarded the Academy Award for best picture. But the movie directed by Ben Affleck is not truthful, says former Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor, who was in town this week delivering a speech to the New England-Canada Business Council. We chatted with Taylor after his talk at the Harvard Club, and his irritation with “Argo” was apparent. “Canada was the lead player but the movie has it as the CIA,” said Taylor, who’s played by actor Victor Garber in the film. “The story could have been made compelling without exaggeration or giving all the credit to the CIA.”

By his own admission, it wasn’t Jim Braude’s finest moment. The host of “Broadside With Jim Braude” had just finished his show on NECN when NBC cut in to share with its national audience NECN’s coverage of the apparent capture in Watertown of suspected marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. But Braude had not removed his microphone, so just as the network picked up the NECN feed, Braude, who was then sitting at his desk, could be heard saying, “Oh, you’re not listening? Well, I don’t know [expletive].”

Foodie shop the Bee’s Knees Supply Co., which is near Flour in Fort Point, had an opening party on Wednesday night. Guests included chef Ming Tsai, whose Blue Dragon restaurant is just down the street. . . . James DiSabatino, of the local food truck Roxy’s Grilled Cheese, says he’s signed a lease for a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Allston. He says he expects to open this fall. Roxy’s has two trucks on the road right now. . . .

Actress Glenn Close is expected to visit Canary Square in Jamaica Plain Sunday as part of a benefit for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts. Based on what we see online, the suggested donation is $150. . . . And Artists For Humanity are hosting another of their off-the-hook parties Saturday at EpiCenter in South Boston. Tickets to the event honoring Mayor Tom Menino and Pat Brandes, the executive director of the Barr Foundation, are available at www.afhboston.org/gpoe. . . .

Patriots lineman Vince Wilfork and his wife, Bianca, hosted their annual Vince Wilfork Foundation Draft Day Fundraiser at PiNZ Entertainment in Medford this week. The event, which is a benefit for the Joslin Diabetes Center, was attended by several of Wilfork’s teammates, including Jerod Mayo, Aqib Talib, Dont’a Hightower, Marquice Cole, and Ras-I Dowling, as well as Antico Forno owner Carla Gomes, whose son, David, has been a patient at Joslin for 22 years. . . . Over at the Pats’ draft party at Gillette Stadium. team owner Robert Kraft honored 25 Boston police officers for their work in the aftermath of the marathon bombings. Kraft gave the officers “1 Boston” Pats jerseys, and they got a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the stadium.

We’re guessing Harvard won’t make a habit of honoring dropouts, but the school made an exception Thursday for Matt Damon.

The actor, who has somehow managed to do all right without ever graduating from the World’s Greatest University — he attended from 1988-1992 — was presented with the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal during an entertaining ceremony at Sanders Theatre.

The Cambridge-bred star of more than three dozen films, including “Good Will Hunting,” the blockbuster “Bourne” franchise, and the forthcoming Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra,” was relaxed and without pretense as he chatted on stage with fellow actor — and actual Harvard grad — John Lithgow.

The Independent Film Festival Boston opened at the Somerville Theatre Wednesday night with a screening of the drama “The Spectacular Now” based on the young adult novel by Tim Tharp. Director James Ponsoldt was in town to talk about his movie, which stars “The Descendants” actress Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller of the recent reboot of “Footloose.” Joining Ponsoldt on stage for a Q&A after the film was screenwriter Michael Weber, who, with writing partner Scott Neustadter, is also adapting the popular John Green young adult novel “The Fault in Our Stars.” (That movie will star Woodley, too.) The night drew a number of local film fans including Cambridge’s own C asey Affleck, who serves as creative advisor of the film festival this year...

Local “Design Squad Nation” website hosts Nate Ball and Deysi Melgar were at the White House Science Fair this week. Also there was Bill Nye the Science Guy, who has a fan in Patriot Dane Fletcher. The linebacker tweeted, randomly, on Thursday, “The only thing I learned in science class was from Bill Nye, so if its not from Bill Nye.. I don’t know it #FACT.”

By Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

John Tiffany’s “The Glass Menagerie,” starring Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield, is going to Broadway. With its original cast, it will begin previews Sept. 5 and open Sept. 26 at an as-yet-unspecified Shubert Theatre for a 17-week limited engagement, produced by Jeffrey Richards and John N. Hart in association with the American Repertory Theater. As she did this season at the ART, Jones will play mother to Zachary Quinto (“Star Trek”) as Tom and Celia Keenan-Bolger as Laura, and hostess to Brian J. Smith as the Gentleman Caller. The production, a hot ticket at the ART, has been buzzed about as Broadway fare since even before it opened in Cambridge in February.