PRIVATE STARS: First-baseman Brian Hunter of the...

PRIVATE STARS: First-baseman Brian Hunter of the Cincinnati Reds won’t be playing in tonight’s All-Star game (C1). But he already had other plans. Hunter, who is from Anaheim, and his fiance, Stephanie Rivers, will be married at 4 p.m. at the high-rent, oceanfront gazebo at the posh Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dana Point. . . . Most of his teammates will be there. And yes, they’ll have the game on during the wedding reception.

SPECIAL FAN: The All-Star game will be special for local baseball instructor Randy Kapano. He was Angel outfielder Jim Edmonds’ coach both in Little League and at Diamond Bar High, and they remain close. Kapano wasn’t surprised that the hot-hitting Edmonds, who’ll be 25 later this month, has made the All-Star team in only his second full season. . . . “Jimmie was the kind of kid you knew could make it,” he says. “Once he found his comfort zone, I knew he’d find the holes to hit to.”

NO BLUES HERE: She has played the biggest concert halls in America, but Melissa Manchester (“Midnight Blue”) says she loves playing state or county fairs. Before tonight’s performance at the Orange County Fair, the native New Yorker says she’ll hop on some of the rides with her two children. . . . “We go crazy on Ferris wheels,” she says. “Once I started to tour, I saw how incredible fairs can be. You really get a sense of community--the quilting, the food and the canning. I think it’s a part of the American phenomenon.”

HAPPY ENDING? It’s been seven years since there was a restaurant at the end of the Huntington Beach Pier--when the fierce storms of 1988 knocked out the End-of-the-Pier Cafe. But Monday officials broke ground on a new two-story diner at the pier’s tip. Part of the Ruby’s chain--which has restaurants on the Balboa and Seal Beach piers--it will be called Ruby’s Surf City Diner. . . . One Ruby’s official says it will be “a sentimental tour of the history of California surfing.” It opens next March.