Sarah Silverman at the Ridgefield
An Emmy nominee for her role, as herself, in the Comedy Central series The Sarah Silverman Project and author of the NYT's Bestseller The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee, (you can't make this stuff up)  Silverman brings her stand-up routines to the Ridgefield Playhouse this weekend. For more about Sarah and for a complete schedule of stand-up comedy coming to our area this autumn check out WTD's Fall Theater, Dance & Comedy Guide here.

One Night in the Hotel California in Tarrytown
Former Eagles lead guitarist Don Felder brings his signature licks to Tarrytown this weekend. Felder, a  Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,  co-wrote the Eagles hit song "Hotel California." His lyrical guitar work on songs like "Life in the Fast Lane," "One of These Nights,", and "New Kid in Town" are instantly recognizable. Sun, 9/15: 7pm. Also this week, Alfio, The Voice from Oz, takes his powerful tenor on a sentimental journey of pop standards. Australia's hottest export, Alfio has been compared to Andrea Bocelli and Michael Buble. Sat, 9/14: 8pm (Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main St., Tarrytown) www.tarrytownmusichall.org

Movies for Kids (and adults) at J. Burns
Sky High, a 2005 Disney release, takes place in a high school for teen super heroes.  The story centers around Will Stronghold, the son of two celebrity superheroes, The Commander (Kurt Russell) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston), who has ... alas ... no super powers himself. Destined to be nothing more than a superhero sidekick he is forced to take a curriculum in Hero Support until (you guessed it) he discovers his powers ... just in time to save the day. Sat-Sun, 9/14-15: 12pm. (Jacob Burns Film Center, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville)  burnsfilmcenter.org

Bicycle Sundays on Bronx River Parkway
Bicycle Sundays returns in September on Bronx River Parkway. A six and a half mile stretch of the parkway will be closed for the exclusive use of bicyclists, joggers, scooters and strollers. Park your car at the County Center lot and bike from the County Center to Scarsdale Road in Yonkers. Round trip 13.1 miles. Sun, 15, 22, 29: 10am-2pm. Bicycle Sundays is sponsored by Con Edison and Friends of Westchester County Parks. More family stuff to do this fall here.

Music at Ridgefield's Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Music, the new exhibit at the  Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum offers 5 separate collections that explore the linkages between art and music in photography, sculpture, new media and installation. What you will find: John Blackmore's Three Soundworks features "Weather Guitar", a flamenco guitar that interfaces with meteorological instruments to "create" music to changing weather conditions. James Morrison's Disciples offers seven
13 foot long photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones, Merle Haggard, P. Diddy, Bob Dylan and more. And Xaviera Simmons' Underscore presents a photographic slide show installation plus two large scale photos from her Untitled (Cape) series. One is pictured here. For more on this exhibition and for a complete line-up of new exhibits opening this autumn (you guessed it) check out WTD's Museum Guide Fall 2013.

Mendel 'Lunta' Malbec: black cherry, plum & dusty cocoa
This week's Wine of the Week from Wine Geeks Armonk is the Mendel 'Lunta' Malbec 2011 from Mendoza, Argentina. This elegant single-vineyard Malbec shows supple notes of black cherry and plum with hints of dusty cocoa and black tea. Normally $20.99 a bottle, with this week's discount it is only $17.64 a bottle. Buy it by the case for an even deeper 20% discount. Please use discount code MalbecGeek when ordering. Through Sun, 9/15. (Wine Geeks Armonk, 559 Main St., Armonk; 914.273.9463)  www.winegeeksarmonk.com

Small Town Theatre Company present The Last Flapper
William Luce's one-woman play is based on the letters and stories of Zelda Fitzgerald. In the play, Zelda speaks from an insane asylum about her life as a rebellious southern belle and her destructive marriage with The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Directed by Robert D'Amato with Tina D'Amato as Zelda. Fri-Sat, 9/20-21: 8pm (Katonah Library, 26 Bedford Rd., Katonah) & Fri-Sat, 10/4-5: 8pm. (Hergenhan Center, 15 Bedford Rd., Armonk; www.smalltowntheatre.com

Swimming Pig Races at John Jay Barn Dance
The Friends of the John Jay Homestead's Annual Barn Dance is the place to see and be seen in Katonah. Go there for bbq, ice cream sundaes, and local bands, including the ever popular Bad Dog. But even the most ambitious of social climbers will tell you that nothing beats the Swimming Pig Races (5:30 & 7:15pm sharp.) New this year ... racing dachsunds. They know how to put on a barn dance at John Jay. Sat, 9/21: 5-9pm. (John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay St., Rt. 22, Katonah; www.johnjayhomestead.org

The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at NYBG
Halloween starts early at the New York Botanical Garden. Spooky activities begin on 9/21 at their Haunted Pumpkin Garden in the Everett Children's Adventure Garden. The installation showcases over 500 intricately carved pumpkin sculptures of scarecrows, snakes, spiders and more. The pumpkins are carved by  sculptors Ray Villafane and Andy Bergholtz who are regular competitors on the Food Network's "Halloween Wars." You can find more local Halloween events and celebrations in our Fall Events Guide on www.whattododigital.com

Doo Wopp at the Paramount Hudson Valley
Okay, we confess. WTD loves Doo Wopp. And Paramount Hudson Valley's Evening of Doo Wopp has some classic acts. Let's start dropping names. The Drifters: "Under The Boardwalk," "Up on the Roof, ""There Goes My Baby." Jay Siegel's Tokens: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Larry Chance and the Earls - nice boys from the Bronx: "Remember When," "Life is But a Dream." And more. Sat, 9/21: 8pm. (1008 Brown St., Peekskill)  www.paramounthudsonvalley.com

The Rotary Club of Chappaqua's annual downtown meet and greet features over 70 exhibitors presenting information about their organization. Including local merchants, the Chappaqua Library, the Chappaqua Orchestra and the New Castle Historical Society. With rides, food, entertainment and family activities such as the Historical Society's geo-caching History Hunt 2.0. Sat, 9/21: 11am-4pm. (Downtown Chappaqua.) Link

The Mt. Kisco Chamber of Commerce's Sidewalk Sales Days is a family friendly event offering live music, rides, contests with prizes, a food court, and samples and special deals from over 150 local merchants. Sat, 9/21: 10am-5pm & Sun, 9/22: 12-4pm. (Downtown Mt. Kisco;  www.mtkiscochamber.com

Chappaqua Orchestra
The fall music season begins on Sun, 9/22 at the Chappaqua Library with a performance from the Chappaqua Orchestra. Principal clarinetist Eric Drucker and guests will perform the Schubert Octet in F major, D. 803. It is their first of 7 performances for the new season including 3 this fall. In October they perform the works of Stravinsky, Satie, and Honegger to a screening of a Charlie Chaplin film in an evening titled Rive Gauche - Gertrude Stein's Salon. Their November concert features Grammy winners Andy Stein (violin and vocals) and Conal Fowkes (piano.) Conal is the voice/piano of Cole Porter in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. Andy is a 22 year vet on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. More music.

Westchester Phil opens with Ryu Goto
The Westchester Philharmonic predicts fireworks when the acclaimed violinist Ryu Goto teams up with conductor Jorge Mester on the famed Brahms Violin Concerto on opening night of the 2013-14 season. The program also includes Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Bizet's masterpiece Symphony in C, written when he was just 17 years old. (A sobering thought.) Sun, 9/22: 3pm. (The Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase) For over 100 music events this fall check out WTD's Fall Music Guide.

One of four Armonk Outdoor Art Show events, Jamie's Race for the Library takes place a week before the show. This event, sponsored by Friends of the North Castle Library, includes the Petite Picassos 100 yd dash, (ages 2-8 at 10am) the Monet Mile, (10:15am) and Jamie's 5K Run/Walk (11am). Warm ups and stretching sponsored by The Gym in Armonk start at 9:45am. Sun, 9/22: 9:45am. (Wampus Brook Park, 28 Maple Ave., Armonk; www.armonkoutdoorartshow.org

Armonk Outdoor Art Show
The Armonk Outdoor Art Show features over 185 juried artists presenting a wide spectrum of media from oils, drawing, water color, acrylics, photography and print making to paper cutting, sculpture, clay, wood and jewelry. We like this mixed media work from Chris Rom and Geoff Buddie of Binary Project. The show will also offer docent tours, personal shoppers and a children's treasure hunt. The Art Show has become a series of weekend events including a free screening of the 2000 film Pollock with Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden on Fri, 9/27at 7pm, and a free concert from the gypsy jazz group Fishtank Ensemble on Sat, 9/28 at 8pm - both at the North Castle Public Library. Art Show: Sat-Sun, 9/28-9: 10am-5pm. (205 Business Park Dr., Armonk;  www.armonkoutdoorartshow.org

Wine Geeks' Carol Todd off-Broadway
Wine Geeks Armonk's Carol Todd will perform with Jill Eikenberry in the off-Broadway debut of Jack Canfora's, Jericho. The New York Times called Jericho "a smart hard-hitting drama filled with biting wit" when it premiered at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre in 2011. The play, about 9/11, Thanksgiving, and being Jewish, explores some of the larger questions of American life with surprising humor. (Carol, who has one of the play's best lines got a nice mention in the review, by the way.) Fri-Sun, 10/4-11/3. (Theatre 59E59, 59 E. 59th St., NYC) You can read more about Carol, link to the review and get a full schedule of fall theater in our area in WTD's Fall Guide to Theater, Dance & Comedy right here

Jazz great Cassandra Wilson to open PAC Season
We've had Cassandra Wilson on our playlist for years. She can go from  Lerner and Lowe to Elmore James without skipping a beat. She's a true genre buster. If you think it's a good thing to go from "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" to "Last Train to Clarksville" than you should buy tickets for Cassandro Wilson today! You can hear her sing Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman" on whattododigital.com right now. Find out more about the new PAC season (from September to May) right here.

An Iliad at PAC 
Tony Award winning actor Dennis O'Hare and co-writer and Director Lisa Peterson present Homer's Trojan War in a performance of 'one classic story, one actor, a stage full of characters." Mr. O'Hare is familiar to television audiences for his appearances on True Blood and American Horror Story. Time Out New York gave the off-Broadway production of An Iliad four stars. The production comes to the Performing Arts Center in Purchase for one night on Sun, 9/29: 3pm. (PAC, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase) More PAC programming here

Any Major Dude 
Steely Dan plays their classic album Aja at the Beacon Theatre on Mon, 9/30. It's the opening show of a 7 night stand that will include The Royal Scam night, Gauchos night, two greatest hits nights and a request night. (Showbiz Kids!) Ian Anderson performs Thick As A Brick at the Beacon on 10/10-11. You'll find these and 97 other musical events including The Chappaqua Orchestra, Michael Buble, Joshua Bell, Amos Lee, Pink, Elvis Costello, Music From Copland House and more on What To Do's Fall Music Guide.

Hot Ticket Alert: Stone Barns Harvest Fest
The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture's 10th annual Harvest Fest sells out early so we're giving you a hot ticket alert now! The event includes hayrides, live music, farm/food demonstrations, a farmer's market and square dance in an incomparable setting at Stone Barns on the Rockefeller Estate. Sat, 10/5: 11am-5pm. (630 Bedford Rd., Pocantico Hills; For more more autumn celebrations for townies & culture vultures bookmark our In & Around Town: Checklist on www.whattododigital.com

Journey of the Heart Bike Tour: Friends of Karen
This three day bike tour to benefit the Friends of Karen takes you over 150 miles of back roads in Litchfield and Berkshire counties. Between and after rides you will dine on some of the best cusine at the areas most popular inns. Including the Wake Robin Inn in northwest CT and the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, MA. Friends of Karen provides support for children with life threatening diseases. Fri-Sun, 9/20-22. To register or to sponsor a rider contact Gwen Salmo at 914.277.4547, or gwensalmo@friendsofkaren.org.

BGCNW Golf Tournament
The Boy's & Girl's Club of Northern Westchester's annual golf tournament at Glen Arbor Country Club in Bedford Hills raises funds to support the club's recreational, educational, social and cultural programs for children in northern Westchester. The club is noted, amongst other things, for its aquatics programs. The club's golf tournament is this year's kickoff (tee off) to an active fall benefit season in our area. Tues, 9/24: 9am. ( 234 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford Hills; www.bgcnw.org)

What To Do's Fall Benefits Guide: Come on "Be Great"
Want to give back to your community? Our Guide to Fall Benefits presents 20 local events that support worthy causes and those in need. You will find dinner dances, antiques and bake sales, and even a basketball game between the Harlem Wizards and the Bobcat Bruisers. Take a 150 mile bike ride, play a round of golf, do some networking, (give LinkedIn a rest) or just bend an elbow to support organizations like the Byram Hills Education Foundation, Northern Westchester Hospital, ArtsWestchester, Pace Women's Justice Center or the Food Bank for Westchester this fall. Learn how to be great here.

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