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What To Do: Heart Health Month
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February is Hear Health Month
 Our Winter Survival Checklist offers important new guidelines from the American Heart Association on maintaining a heart-healthy lifestyle to improve your cardiovascular health and the quality of your life. Plus health coach Amy Diamond and personal trainer Pete Hug of The Gym offer their heart health tips that include dark chocolate, red wine, green tea and pumping iron. Read more here. |
Women and Heart Disease at Armonk Indoor Sports
 Dr. Sandy Lithgow, an internist at Glenville Medical Associates in Greenwich, will discuss lifestyle interventions that women can take to prevent heart disease in Women and Heart Disease: Living Toward Optimal Health. Her focus will be on nutrition, exercise, managing stress, and ways to improve sleep. This seminar at Armonk Indoor Sports Center is free to the public. Tues, 2/11: 7pm. (205 Business Park Drive, Armonk) |
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What To Do: In and Around Town
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Local Basketball: Sectionals begin this Week
 Official playoff brackets for Section 1 boy's varsity basketball will be released later today with opening round games scheduled for Friday. All local teams qualified with Fox Lane and Byram Hills earning opening round home games. Fox Lane, led by All Section Conference 3 seniors James Morales and Andrew Redhead, is currently the 3 seed in Class AA. They finished at 16-2 earning Coach of the Year honors for Chris Violante. The 12-5 Byram Hills Bobcats, with All Section Conference 3 junior center Andrew Groll, are the 8 seed in Class A. Horace Greeley is ranked 18 in Class AA with a 5-13 record. Junior Cameron Ciero earned All Section honors. John Jay at 9-9 earned the 13 seed in Class A. For more information on this week's games click here. Or visit us on Facebook for updates. |
 Bedford 2020 Forest Talk
Join Bedford 2020 and guest speakers Troy Weldy from the Nature Conservancy and Rod Christy, Executive Director of the Mianus River Gorge, in a "how to" on preserving our forests and clean water. Topics include, Forest Regeneration: Impact of Deer Browsing and Invasive Species and Strategies for Homeowners and Sanctuaries. Thurs, 2/13: 7pm. (John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay St., Katonah; Bedford2020.org) |
Menus in the Movies in Chappaqua
 This 2010 documentary from Lutz Hachmeister offers behind the scenes footage and interviews with nine Michelin Star chefs as they cook, shop and hunt for rare edible plants along rough coastlines in Europe. Including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Yannick Alleno, and Olivier Roellinger. With discussion and homemade desserts from food author and film buff Carol Durst. Fri, 2/14: 7pm. (Chappaqua Library, 195 S. Greeley Ave., Chappaqua.) More winter events here. |
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring at NCPL
This 2003 fable from Korean Director Ki-Duk received a 95% critics rating and a 93% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (That's what we call nose-bleed ratings.) The movie follows the education of a young boy across five seasons at the hands of a Buddhist monk in his one-room floating monastery. As the seasons pass they are visited for guidance by a sick woman and a man who has murdered his wife. Presented by LIU Professor Valeria Franco. Fri, 2/14: 7pm. (19 Whippoorwill Rd. East, Armonk; More local events here.)
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Around the World in 18 Films at J. Burns
This Jacob Burns film series continues with stops in Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Casablanca, London, Winnipeg and Nashville. Your tour guides will be Roberto Rossellini, John Landis, Peter Weir and Robert Altman among others. And you will be traveling (if you have your letters of transit) with Bogey and Bergman out of Casablanca, through Nazi occupied Rome and bohemian Paris. with Soviet spies in Cold War Berlin, and the werewolves of London. From 2/7-26. Read More.
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A Valentine's Date at NYBG
 Take a champagne and chocolate (and other plant based aphro-disiacs) tour of Tropical Paradise, a showcase of the Enid A. Haupt permanent collection, at the New York Botanical Gardens. Your wife will forgive you for forgetting the roses when she sees the orange yellow crotons, fuchsia bromeliads, and rosy-red hibiscus. (In your dreams.) Fri, 2/14: 6:30-8:30pm, Sat, 2/15: 5-7pm. (2900 Southern Parkway, Bronx; nybg.org) |
Dr. John at PAC
 It's Mardi Gras time when 6 time Grammy winner Dr. John, the Night Tripper, takes the stage at PAC. Best known for his hit song "Right Place, Wrong Time," his 1968 swamp funk album Gris-gris blends New Orleans R&B with voodoo chants, and is listed #143 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of all time. His 1972 album, Dr. John's Gumbo, that covers New Orleans R&B standards like "Iko Iko," is #402 on the Rolling Stone Top Album list. Mamaroneck's Johnson Truck will offer up Cajun Creole in honor of this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Sat, 2/15: 8pm. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org) |
 The Art of Video Games
This new exhibit at the Hudson River Museum is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40 year evolution of video games as an artistic medium. Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, it presents a multi-media look at the art and artists who created over 80 games and game consoles. And you can even play 5 featured games in the gallery. Opens 2/16. More on this plus more winter art museum exhibits here. |
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Feb Music Highlights
The February music scene continues with a Valentine's Day performance at The Ridgefield Playhouse. Also on tap this weekend is Robert Randolph at The Ridgefield, Beth Orton and Diane Reeve at Lincoln Center, a 70's Soul Jam at the Beacon, and They Called It Rock (a dance performance to the music of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, The Who and more) at The Tarrytown Music Hall. More February music highlights include Justin Timberlake, Foreigner, Bob Weir and more music events here. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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Valentines Day at ROCKS By Jolie B. Ray
 Sometimes roses and chocolates are not enough to express your love. (Wink. Wink. Nudge. Nudge.) If your wife spells love b-a-u-b-l-e you can find the perfect Valentines gift at ROCKS in Armonk. Like this ring by Dana Rebecca Designs. Plus, a wide assortment of heart necklaces starting at $25. Or shop their signature collections of 18K textured gold rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets with precious or semi-precious stones and designer collections by Alex Woo, SeidenGang, Fern Freeman, Lika Behar and more. (ROCKS by Jolie B. Ray, 378 Main St., Armonk, ROCKS) |
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Harlem Globetrotters at the County Center
 The most storied franchise in sports history comes to the County Center on Tues, 2/11 to take on ... does it really matter. The Globetrotters have entertained basketball fans since 1929 suffering only rare losses. According to Globe-trotter lore, they possess the longest win streak in all sports history that lasted from 1971 to 1995. More on this & more stuff to do with the kids here. |
Grandma the Clown at the County Center
The Royal Hanneford Circus, with Grandma the Clown, comes to town just in time for President's Day weekend. (Nice planning.) Plus motor cycle acts, tigers, bears, camels and ... house cats. Read more here, plus 35 Winter Events for Kids.
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March Madness 3 on 3 Tournament at BHHS
Form your own team, register it with the North Castle Recreation Department and create your own March Madness. Registration due Fri, 2/21. Tip off on Sun, 3/21: 12pm. (Byram Hills High School, 12 Tripp Ln. Armonk.) More kid stuff here. |
Pinocchio at The Ridgefield Playhouse
 Theatre IV presents the story of Gepeto and Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who comes to life and, after a series of adventures, learns valuable lessons that help him become a real boy. Theatre IV, a division of Virginia Rep, is the second largest touring company for young audiences in the US. Sat., 2/22: 11am & 2pm. (Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield) More kid stuff here. |
Maple Sugar Time at the Farm and bheading
 See the process of making maple sugar from tapping a tree to witnessing the boiling process to sampling the finished product at Muscoot Farm in Somers on Sundays from 2/23 through 3/16. Or enjoy a pancake breakfast with your sugaring demonstration at SugarFest 2014 at Westmoreland Sanctuary on Chestnut Ridge Road, Mt. Kisco on Sat-Sun, 3/8-9. More on this & more kid stuff here. |
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What To Do: Winter Survival Checklist
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President's Week and Spring Break Mini-Camps
Our guide to School Recess Mini-Camps is back! In it you will find over 20 ways to keep the kids engaged over the Winter and Spring school recesses. You will find art, dance, theatre and nature camps, and lots of sports. Including baseball, basketball, and lacrosse. Read More.
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They bring the music lessons to you
 Tired of driving the kids around to music lessons? (And a thousand other activities.) Andante Music of Millwood brings the lessons to you. If you prefer they can even Skype your lessons and you don't even have to be home when your kid is learning to become the next Yo Yo Ma or Eric Clapton. Read more in our Winter Survival Checklist. |
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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Fran Leibowitz at the Ridgefield Playhouse
 Fresh off her role in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, Fran Leibowitz sits for an on-stage interview followed by a sixty-minute audience Q&A. The legendary author and cultural satirist, who has been described as the modern day Dorothy Parker, speaks out on politics, gay rights, gender issues, and pet peeves like NYC tourists and strollers, and personal stories of life in NYC, Andy Warhol and the glory days of Studio 54. Sat., 2/22: 7:30pm. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; More on Fran, theatre, dance & comedy here. |
Improv comes to PAC
 In what may be the comedy event of the season, the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company brings their high wire act of improvisational comedy to the Performing Arts Center in Purchase. This power-house comedy troupe began performing in Chicago in 1990, opened their own theatre in 1996 in Manhattan and had their own series starring Amy Poehler on Comedy Central from 1998-2000. Entertainment Weekly called them "twisted and uproarious." So, Upright is twisted? Think about it. Sat., 2/22:8pm. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase College: artscenter.org) |
Harvey Presents: Art Garfunkel
 Art Garfunkel continues his comeback to the stage with a series of performances in intimate settings with an evening of songs, storytelling and audience interaction. His recent concerts have highlighted his classic songs sung with Paul Simon as well as personal favorites from a wide world of pop standards from Gershwin to Antonio Carlos Jobim. Fri, 3/14: 8pm. (Lasdon Theatre, Walker Center for the Arts, Harvey School, 260 Jay St., Katonah; www.harveyschool.org) |
Kim Kashkashian at PAC
 Imagine the confusion backstage at the 2013 Grammy Awards when they announced that Kim Kashkashian had won a Grammy Award (for Best Classical Music Instrumental Solo.) The twitter-sphere was abuzz about the possibility of a typo. But who knew Kim Kardashian could play the viola? Though Kim and Kim share Armenian roots you won't be seeing the reality series star playing Brahms, Bartok, Vaughn Williams and Benjamin Britten in Purchase anytime soon. But you can see one of the classical music world's rising stars perform in PAC's Chamber Music with Bill McLaughlin series on Sun, 2/23: 3pm. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase College; www.artsenter.org) |
March Music Madness
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Tickets for Bob Weir & Rat Dog on Sat, 3/1 in Port Chester sold out so fast they added a second show on Sun, 3/2. Can't wait that long? Our Where To Hear Pop, Rock, Jazz & Classical Music offers a backup plan in late Feb. Check it out for this and more March music including Sting and Paul Simon, Cowboy Junkies, the Avett Brothers, the Winter brothers, the Chiffons, the Stamford Symphony, Bedford Chamber Concerts, the Chappaqua Orchestra and much more. Click for more music. |
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