Your Complete Guide to the Caramoor Music Festival
The Caramoor 68th Summer Music Festival opens on June 22 with its first ever Broadway Production, She Loves Me. In addition to its first venture in musical theatre the festival presents more than fifty-five acts over 29 nights from classical music and opera to jazz, cabaret, Caribbean and American roots music. Featured artists range from the opera soprano Angela Meade, and cabaret superstar Audra McDonald to folk-pop icon Suzanne Vega. Hot tickets include Read More

June Hot Ticket Alert: Steve Martin, A Night On Fire ... Are you a planner? (Don't you know that God laughs at those who plan?) Can't help yourself? Click through here to get our hot ticket alert for June. Check out what's playing at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Don't miss out on tickets for Historic Hudson Valley's newest family event, A Night on Fire. See where you can find Steve Martin in June. www.whattododigital,com

What To Do's Summer Camp Guide
Here's everything you need to know about over 200 area camps offered by 89 camp organizations. Browse our camp listings in alpha order. Search by category: sports; nature; arts, dance, music and theater; and all around camps. Or search by keyword like tennis, swimming, photography or chess. Developed over five years in What To Do: Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua magazine, our camp guides are now available online.  Link

Dee Lee Promotions presents "Fight Night" an evening of world championship boxing. Featuring the super featherweight title fight: Ronica Jeffrey vs. Olivia Gerula. Plus, Tommy "The Razor" Rainone, Ahmed "Prince of Egypt" Samir, and Dorsett "The Bullet" Barnwell. Fri, 5/24: 7pm (Westchester County Center, 198 Central Ave., White Plains)  www.countycenter.biz

Garden Conservancy's Open Gardens
Take a self guided tour of local private gardens on the Garden Conservancy's Open Gardens Program. This week's open gardens include: Shobha Vanchiswar and Murali Mani's award winning cottage garden featuring rose arbors, window boxes and Anduze pots. Sat: 5/25: 10am-4pm. (76 Castle Rd., Chappaqua); William & Henriette Suhr's woodland gardens with tree peonies and a primrose bordered brook. Sat: 5/25: 2-6pm: (Old Roaring Brook Rd., Mt. Kisco) On Sunday stroll across the seven acres of perennial borders, water, fern, wildflower and marsh gardens and formal croquet court of Phillis Warden. (Pictured here.) Sun, 5/26: 10am-4pm. (531 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford Hills) No reservations required. www.gardenconservancy.org

Lasdon Memorial Day Antiques Fair and Plant Sale
Cord Show's 28th annual Memorial Day Antiques Fair offers up to 85 booths of authentic Audubon prints, antique maps, folk art, European advertising posters, French Enamelware, Stangl pottery, American art pottery, furniture, silver, jewelry, British Coronation collectibles, art glass, Oriental carpets and more. Music by Gary Dillon, food, kettle corn, and a plant sale by Friends of Lasdon. Mon, 5/27: 10am-5pm. (Lasdon Park & Arboretum, Rt. 35, Katonah) www.cordshows.com

Jacob Burns: Movie for Kids (and adults) 
"There's no crying in baseball." When Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel wrote that line for A League of Their Own, had they ever been to a little league game? (Just asking.) The Jacob Burns Movies For Kids baseball series continues with Penny Marshall's classic about the all-women's baseball league that filled America's baseball diamonds when the men were off to war during WWII. With Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell at third base. Sat-Mon: 5/25-27: 12pm. (Jacob Burns Center, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville) www.burnsfilmcenter.org

Meet Tebow at Muscoot Farm
Meet Tebow, Muscoot Farm's first Toggenberg goat; Raspberry's second calf, Rose; Olivia's ten piglets, the new black and white Southdown lambs, and all the baby animals at Muscoot's annual Memorial Day weekend coming out party. Pick up some early season veggies at the farmer's market. Sun, 5/26: 1-3pm. (Muscoot Farm, Rt. 100, Somers) www.muscootfarm.org

A silky Monterey County Pinot Noir at a great price
This week's Wine Geeks Wine of the Week is the Heron Pinot Noir from Monterey County in California. It shows soft notes of silky cherry and raspberry with hints of cocoa powder and wildflowers. Normally, a bargain for Pinot Noir at $19.99, with this week's discount it is only $16.99 a bottle. Buy it by the case for an even steeper 20% discount. Through Sun, 5/26. (Wine Geeks Armonk, 559 Main St., Armonk; 914.273.WINE)  www.winegeeksarmonk.com

Byram Hills Education Foundation's Spring Gala
The BHEF's Gala at Brynwood Golf & Country Club offers cocktails, dinner, dancing and a silent and online auction with new interactive bidding. The auction includes a Yankee Box for 23, a membership at the Hermitage Club at Haystack Mountain, VT, and your message on the Times Square Billboard. Enter a raffle for a chance to win diamond earrings worth $10,200. BHEF recently awarded Byram Hills Schools 5 grants totaling $263,243. Since 1994 BHEF has awarded 299 grants worth over $3.3 million. Fri, 5/31: 7-11pm. (Brynwood Country Club, 568 Bedford Rd., Armonk)  www.byramhillsfoundation.org

Peter and the Wolf in Stamford
The Ballet School of Stamford presents two family friendly ballets: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, based on a a popular Russian children's story about a boy's adventure to capture a dangerous wolf and a one-act suite of Don Quixote, based on Miguel de Cervantes epic masterpiece. Choreography by Alex Brady , who has worked with the Joffrey Ballet, and Twyla Tharp Dance. Fri, 5/31: 7pm. (The Palace, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford) www.stamfordcenterforthearts.org

The Armonk Players present Parallel Lives
In this play by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy, based on The Kathy and Mo Show, two angels go back in time to give us a feminist view of the creation of the world that answers questions like why is childbirth so painful and why do men have such big egos. Followed by a series of skits showing men and women struggling through the rituals of modern life: teenagers on a date, a man and woman at a country-western bar, and sisters at their grandmother's funeral. Fri-Sat, 5/31-6/1 & 6/6-7: 8pm; & Sun, 6/2 & 6/8: 3pm. (Whippoorwill Hall, 19 Whippoorwill Rd., E., Armonk) www.armonkplayers.org

White Plains Outdoor Arts Festival

Music From Copland House at Merestead
The acclaimed chamber ensemble Music From Copland House pays tribute to the great Walt Whitman in I Hear America Singing: The World of Walt Whitman. The program features From Noon to Starry Night by 2006 Copland House Artist in Residence Russell Platt, plus works on Whitman texts by Leonard Bernstein, Ned Rorem and Tom Cipullo (CH resident 2006.) With pianist Alan Darling and the Mirror Visions Ensemble (soprano Vira Slywotzky, tenor Scott Murphree, and baritone Jesse Blumber.) Sun, 6/2: 3pm. (Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Rd., Mt. Kisco) www.coplandhouse.org

Six Degrees of The Bacon Brothers
If we are all linked by six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. And his brother (film and television composer) Michael, has a network half as wide as Kevin's: how many degrees of separation are we from The Bacon Brothers? (You do the math. And show your work) The Bacon Brothers have performed together since 1995, have released six albums, and have gained their own notoriety on the country-folk scene. Sun, 6/2: 8pm. (Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, DT) www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org

Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers
The Schoolhouse Theater presents Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Watch the nebbishy Barney Cashman try to catch up with the sexual revolution of the sixties and strike out three times - with a whiskey swilling sexpot, a mad actress, and his wife's best friend. The play premiered on Broadway with James Coco and Linda Lavin on 12/28/69 and closed on 9/4/71 after over 700 performances. It was adapted for the screen in 1972 starring Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman and Paula Prentiss. Thurs-Sat: 6/6-30: 8pm. 3pm on Sundays.  (Schoolhouse Theater, 3 Owens Rd., Croton Falls) www.schoolhousetheater.org

Armonk Lions Club Fol de Rol
Ride the Rip Cord, Tornado, and the Tilt-A-Whirl. Visit the Fun House. You know the school year is almost over when the Armonk Lions Club Fol De Rol comes to town. With carnival games, pony rides, music, food and carnival prizes. (You can never have enough stuffed animals.) Just buy the kids a $20 wrist band, good for unlimited rides, and let them run wild. There's even a crafts fair for adults whose rip cord days have passed them by. Thurs-Sun, 6/6-9:  Check for times:  (Wampus Brook Park, Armonk)

The Rose Room in Mt. Kisco

The Rose Room in Mt. Kisco, which opened in February in the former F.A.B. space, earned a "Good" rating from the New York Times. They called this new upscale Italian "a place of hits and misses." They noted the "festive," "citified" vibe and the disco ball over the bar. Owners, Lisa and Michael Lubic, who also own Traditions 118 in Granite Springs, planned The Rose Room as a tribute to Mama Rose and her time honored  Sicilian recipes. But the menu exhibited a hint of contemporary New American Bistro, too. When we were there ,,, 

Kensico Burger & Beer Bash
The Friends of Westchester Parks' Burger & Beer Bash is the county's ultimate block party. It elevates the iconic patty to an art form with top chefs presenting new takes on classic American fare. Enjoy live music, a lively crowd, and the best burgers on this side of the Hudson as you dig in and vote for the best burger in town. Thurs, 6/6: 6-10pm. (Kensico Dam Plaza, Valhalla)  www.friendsofwestchesterparks.com

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