SIDETRACK

CROWNING GLOR-Y: Ex-local newsie Jeff Glor is coming to televisions from coast to coast. The former anchor for WHDH-TV Channel 7 in Boston has been named the new anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and he'll be stepping into the role before the year's end. While Glor is going national, he can't escape his ties to the Hub. Fun fact: His wife, Nicole Glor, heads up the Manhattan office of Boston-based Regan Communications Group.

HIT THE BOOKS: Former Gov. Bill Weld; his wife, Leslie Marshall; and Nicco Mele, director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, threw a book party honoring author former Washington Post doyenne Sally Quinn. The party went down at the St. Botolph Club on Commonwealth Ave., with Mintz Levin attorney Mark Robinson, Dem political guru Donna Brazile and writer EJ Dionne also in attendance.

WENT TO THE WOODS:

Add to your social calendar: Recording artist and Walden Woods Project founder Don Henley, along with award-winning documentarian Ken Burns, will be speaking together at Boston College Nov. 8. The duo will chat about the documentary short “Walden,” following its screening at the college's Robsham Theater. The doc, which explores the relationship between Henry David Thoreau's philosophical stances and modern-day environmental and social issues, will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices start at $35, and proceeds will benefit the educational programs of the nonprofit Walden Woods Project.