whats_open_now

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What is actually open in an East End town at this moment, and until when — computed from verified opening hours against the East End's own clock (America/New_York), not yours and not UTC. Call this for anything phrased as now, right now, still open, tonight, this late: you cannot know it, and the clock you would reason from is the wrong one. Results are ordered closing-soonest-first and each carries `closesAt`, address, phone, and its source with the date we last verified it. Covers restaurants, breakfast, nightlife, wine, wellness, ice cream, farm stands and oyster farms. `hoursUnknown` counts venues in that town whose hours the guide does not hold — they were not considered, so never present the list as everything that is open — and `publishedHoursOnly` names the ones that publish an hours line we have not parsed, so you can offer them separately and attributed rather than dropping them. When little or nothing is open — late at night, or off-season, which is when this gets asked — `opensNext` comes back with the venues that open soonest and when, so answer with those and never let it end at "nothing is open". From November to April read `seasonalClosureRisk` before you answer: venues verified as NOT year-round are held OUT of the open list, because the hours they leave published are the summer table and computing an open-now verdict from it in February is how an assistant sends someone to a shut clam shack. They are not claimed closed either — the guide holds no closing date — so name them as seasonal, say we cannot confirm they are trading this month, and give the phone. It is also why a winter answer is short: most of what a July answer would list is in that array, not absent. Returns up to 10. `townScope.recognized: false` means the name matched no East End place at all — that empty answer is a not-found, NOT "nothing is open": say the name was not recognised and offer `didYouMean`.