The annual HeARTS Against AIDS Benefit is reminiscent of a general admission concert—people pushing through crowds, juggling water bottles and cameras, and hoping not to find their hands in accidental contact with personal parts of strangers’ bodies. While wineglasses and gourmet-food platters replaced water bottles and cameras at Hal & Mal’s on Saturday night, those at the benefit fell under the spell of some of Jackson’s most eclectic musicians.
