The Fireside Sessions with Nancy Atlas are back at Bay Street on Saturday, along with Verdi’s “Nabucco” from The Met: Live in HD.

Bill Evans, WLNG’s Emmy-winning meteorologist, is up next in The Church’s Knowledge Friday series, a Tom Petty tribute band will rock the Suffolk in Riverhead, the Cherry Bombs will bring '80s music to Manhattan, and winter gardens are the subject at the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons.

Paul Pavia remembered at Ashawagh Hall, East End artists featured in the city, and Leiber's outside artists come in at Markel.

Brave souls will descend en masse on Main Beach on New Year's Day for the annual Polar Bear Plunge, a bracing event the $40 entry fee of which benefits the East Hampton Food Pantry. There's another plunge, too, off Beach Lane in Wainscott.