Mixing for a cause
As announcer for the Boston Celtics, Eddie Palladino's voice fills the TD Garden. As a celebrity bartender, along with Paula Gibbs, president of the Beverly Mothers Club, Palladino will pour drinks at Mandrake Bar Bistro on Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at 252 Cabot St. in Beverly. All bar tips will benefit For Jake's Sake, a Beverly nonprofit that helps pay for autism therapies. Call 978-922-0663 or visit www.forjakessake.org.
Nature's engineers
Pike Messenger will lead a "Walk to Where the Beavers Reign," which happens to be in Middleton, on Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. Meet at the junction of Boston Brook and North Liberty Street, where the brook enters Prichard's Pond. Sponsored by Essex County Greenbelt. For more information, call 978-768-7241.
You bet you'll laugh
The Marx Brothers' musical comedy "Animal Crackers" will be staged Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at St. John's Prep's Kaneb Theatre, 72 Spring St., Danvers. Tickets are $15 adults, $10 for seniors/students, at the door. Call 978-774-1050 with questions.
