Patchogue Arts Biennial at Briarcliffe

WHAT Patchogue Arts Biennial 2011 opens Saturday at Briarcliffe College's spacious exhibition hall, featuring works by 41 artists who make their home anywhere from Brooklyn to the Hamptons. The art is spread out over six galleries displaying a sampling of media and subject matter in late-20th century and early-21st century styles. Among the best-known artists in the show are Mel Pekarsky, chair emeritus of Stony Brook University's art department, whose paintings and prints have been exhibited in Harvard's Fogg Museum, Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and other prestigious art centers; and Winn Rea, a C.W. Post art professor whose "Reed Topo" installation is currently part of the "Earth Matters" exhibition at Huntington's Heckscher Museum of Art. The biennial is curated by John Cino, Beth Giacummo and Lori Devlin. Meanwhile, the fourth annual Patchogue Arts Festival, with poetry readings, Live in the Lobby music and art walking tours, will be held Sunday.

WHEN | WHERE Biennial opens Saturday: noon to 5 p.m. weekends, noon to 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, through Nov. 13, reception 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 29, Briarcliffe College, 225 W. Main St., Patchogue; festival, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Patchogue Theatre, 71 E. Main St.

INFO Free admission; patchogueartsbiennial.com, 631-207-1313

MUSIC: Ray Anderson Prohibition party

WHAT Prohibition is all the rage since Ken Burns' PBS documentary series. So jazz great Ray Anderson and his four-piece band headline a Roaring '20s party -- speakeasy-style, since wine will be served. Named best jazz trombonist five straight years by Down Beat magazine, Anderson, who's taught at Stony Brook University since 2003, will likely play his signature tune, "If I Ever Had a Home, It Was a Slide Trombone." (Actually, he has a home in Setauket.) Prohibition-themed dinners precede the party at Stony Brook's Pentimento's, Country House and Three Village Inn -- your choice. Come as you are or in flapper retro, in keeping with the era. The party includes dessert, coffee, wine and, of course, jazz.

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Saturday, Ward Melville Heritage Organization's Educational & Cultural Center, Stony Brook Village Center, Main Street

INFO $45 (not including dinner); wmho.org, 631-689-5888

THEATER: 'My Fair Lady' -- for lunch

WHAT Dinner theater, yes, but how about lunch theater? Plaza Theatrical Productions offers the classic musical "My Fair Lady," starring Scott Hofer as Henry Higgins and Carrie Hefferman as Eliza Doolittle. This delightful elocution-before-love story is preceded by your choice of chicken portofino, salmon classico or farfalle primavera and accompaniments. Tea, of course. But if you insist on being Yankee about it, there's coffee or soft drinks. Plus a cash bar.

WHEN | WHERE Noon Oct. 26 and Nov. 9 (showtime 1:15), Westbury Manor, 1100 Jericho Tpke., Westbury

INFO $43.50; reservations, 516-599-6870

'My Three Angels'

WHAT Christmas comes early to the Hamptons with Sam and Bella Spewack's "My Three Angels." Best known for the 1955 movie, retitled "We're No Angels," starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray and Joan Bennett, it's the tale of an escaped-convict trio who rescue a damsel in distress on Christmas Day.

WHEN | WHERE Thursday nights at 7, Friday and Saturday nights at 8, Sundays at 2:30 p.m., through Nov. 6, Hampton Theatre Company at Quogue Community Hall, 125 Jessup Ave.

INFO $25, $23 seniors, $10 students except Saturdays; hamptontheatre.org, 631-653-8955