Coming Up:

* The California Restaurant Assn. Educational Foundation will honor Ted Burke, David Cohn and the State Compensation Insurance Fund at its annual Hall of Fame Gala Dinner Friday at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles. Tickets are $200. Call (310) 937-1893.

* The fifth annual Hogs for Dogs 60-mile motorcycle fund-raiser will be Saturday. Registration is $20. Call (626) 792-7151, Ext. 123.

* The Los Angeles Opera launches its new season under the leadership of Artistic Director Placido Domingo on Sept. 4 with a black-tie gala on the Music Center Plaza after the company’s premier production of Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades.” Tickets are $1,500. Call (213) 972-3027.

* The Foothill Associates of the American Diabetes Assn. hosts “Midnight in the Orient” Sept. 8 at Le Petit Trianon, a private estate in Pasadena. Tickets are $150. Call (323) 966-2890, Ext.7449.

* Tracy and David Murdock are opening their Ventura Farms in Thousand Oaks on Sept. 8 to benefit Ride On of Conejo Valley, which specializes in therapeutic horseback riding for the disabled. Tickets are $150. Call (805) 496-0767.

* Jim Gianopulos, Chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, will be honored at the 27th annual Dinner of Champions to benefit the Southern California Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on Sept. 10 at the Century Plaza Hotel, Century City. Tickets are $500. Call (310) 479-4456.

* Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services sponsors its 14th annual Charity Golf Tournament Sept. 11 at Los Verdes Golf Course, Rancho Palos Verdes. Entry fee is $95. Call (310) 326-9383, Ext. 277.

* AIDS Service Center is hosting “Summer Insanity: A Mad Tea Party” Sept. 9 at the Arboretum of Los Angeles County. Tickets $100. Call (626) 441-8495, Ext. 244.

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Information for Social Circuits can be directed to Patt Diroll in Los Angeles or Ann Conway in Orange County. Diroll is at pattdiroll@earthlink.net; Conway at ann.conway@latimes.com, or (714) 966-5952.