This benefit for the society features items from the 18th and 19th centuries, including furniture, glassware, quilts, ceramics and silver.

"This year's benefit features a larger than usual number of 'new music' artists," Mark Russell, the director of P.S. 122, said the other day.

During the bridge of the song she even makes a point of referencing "Self-Destruction", a 1989 collaborative benefit single for peace featuring a number of that era's hip-hop stars.

The benefit, from 7 P.M. to midnight, will feature performances by Asian dancers and musicians at Bridgewaters in the South Street Seaport.

Because 4,000 people had to be turned away last year, this year's benefit will feature two sessions.

In its first year, the benefit featured table settings of celebrated Washingtonians like Vice President and Mrs. Bush and members of the Cabinet.

A benefit for the school will feature Prof. Peter Schickele and his discoveries of the lost works of P.D.Q. Bach.

Funds were raised by selling advertisements to local businesses in the counter-cultural scene and benefits featuring Brisbane bands including Razar, The Go-Betweens and The Riptides.

Not too many benefits feature a live animal exhibition, but then not too many organizations are as unusual as Helping Hands.

The benefit, which will be on Saturday, will feature a silent auction, live music, poetry readings, an art show and events for children.