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What To Do: Spring Survival Checklist
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Spring Survival: How to Hit a Baseball
 Former Los Angeles Dodger and ProSwing owner, Dan Gray tells you how to hit a baseball and how to deal with the roller coaster of emotions your child will experience when she tries. A must read for baseball moms and dads for spring. Read more. |
Pleated skirts, heirloom tomatoes and the new SAT
 Our Spring Survival Checklist is your guide to everything from spring fashion and real estate to heirloom tomatoes. We tell you the best days to buy gas and how to hire your own Springsteen, Grateful Dead or Beatles (with or without Sergeant Peppers costumes) tribute band for your next part to the latest in outdoor family room technology. We even tapped into local experts for their take on the SAT/ACT test wars right here. |
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What To Do: In and Around Town
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Sneak Peek: Caramoor Summer Music Festival  Joshua Bell, Patty LuPone, Roseanne Cash, Pat Metheny and Bruce Hornsby are some of the headliners this summer at Caramoor. There's a Jazz Festival, an American Roots Festival, opera, symphonic and chamber music, and dance evenings featuring music from Africa, Scotland and the Balkans. You can find our complete Caramoor calendar of over 30 events right here.
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Classical Music this week
 The Bedford Chamber Concert's season concludes with a performance of Anthony Newman's Symphony #2, An American Classic, Beethoven's Piano concerto #3, and Mozart's Haffner Symphony. The Taghanic Chorale is in Mt. Kisco. And the REBEL Baroque Ensemble is at the Bedford Presbyterian Church on Sunday. 107 local concerts. |
Chappaqua Bargain Barn Sales Days
The First Congregational Church of Chappaqua's 69th Annual Barn Sale concludes this week with its Bargain Barn Sales Days. Following last week's Barn Sale these final two days offer great values on clothing, furniture and other quality consignment items from Chappaqua residents and new merchandise from local merchants. It is the largest single fellowship activity at the Church and all funds support Church programs. Wed, 5/7: 4-8pm, Thurs, 5/8: 9:30am-2pm. (210 Orchard Ridge Rd., Chappaqua: More.
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"Let the Sun Shine In"  This production, updated for 2014 by its creator James Rado, delivers the chart-topping hits ("Aquarius", "Good Morning Starshine", "Easy to Be Hard") of the 1968 Grammy-winning musical with some new twists and the restoration of two songs from the original Broadway show that never made it to the Great White Way. Thurs, 5/8: 8pm. (Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main St., Tarrytown) More theater here.
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Byram Hills Education Foundation 20th Spring Gala Cocktails, dinner, dancing and a silent and online auction at the Braeburn Country Club in Purchase. Fri, 5/9: 7-11pm. Since 1994, the BHEF has awarded 299 grants totalling more than $3.3 million to Byram Hills Schools. More Local events.
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Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
 Southside Johnny emerged from the same Jersey Shore music scene as Bruce Springsteen. His first three albums were produced by band co-founder Steve Van Zandt and featured songs by Van Zandt and Springsteen. Including, Van Zandt's "I Don't Want To Go Home" that became the band's theme song. Southside's album Hearts of Stone was named a Top 100 Album of the 70s & 80s by Rolling Stone. Fri, 5/9: 8pm. (Tarrytown Music Hall) More spring music here. |
Teatown Lake Plant Sale  This annual Mother's Day weekend plant sale offers rare varieties of annuals, perennials, butterfly attractors, deer resistant flowers, and Mother's Day gifts. Get onsite advice from master gardeners and free tours of Wildflower Island. Teatown is an environmental education center with a 1,000 acre nature preserve. First pick: Fri, 5/9: 4-7pm. Sat, 5/10: 9am-2pm. (Teatown Lake Reservation, 1600 Spring Valley Rd., Ossining) More local events.
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Jacob Burns: The Freshman
 Harold Lloyd plays the water boy on the Tate College football team who saves the day in the big game with a highlight film of unintended gridiron consequences that can't be beat. Film critic Dave Kehr said of Lloyd,
"Lloyds's films were prose where Keaton's were poems, but gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time." The film is presented in a new 4K digital transfer from a 1968 restoration. Sat- 5/10: 2:30pm, Sun, 5/11: 12:30pm. ( 364 Manville Rd,Pleasantville;
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Judy Collins and Don McLean in Tarrytown
Judy Collins and Don McLean together this weekend at The Tarrytown Music Hall. Get a heads up on the music scene with our Spring Music Calendar. Find out where to catch Lady Gaga, Melissa Etheridge, The Indigo Girls, Ringo Starr, Lucinda Williams, Kashmir, REBEL Baroque, Ottmar Leibert, Music from Copland House. the Chappaqua Orchestra and over 107 musical events to rock your spring. More music. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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Mom loves her Prosecco  Toast her with a delicious bubbly this week! Wine Geek's Wine of the Week from Wine Geeks Armonk's sommeliere Derek Todd is the Drusian Prosecco from Italy's Veneto region. This pretty sparkler shows notes of quince, apple and citrus perfumed with hints of jasmine and ginger. Normally $15.99, with this week's discount it's only $13.59 a bottle! Please use Discount Code PROSECCOGEEK to purchase. Through Sun, 5/11. (Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk; 914.273.9463. www.winegeeksarmonk.com
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Summer Institute for the Gifted at Rippowam Cisqua  The Summer Institute for the Gifted will offer a 3 week day camp for students ages 5-12 at the Rippowam Cisqua School from July 7 to July 25. Campers choose from courses in the Humanities, Math, Technology, Science, Visual and Performing Arts, Fitness and Recreation. SIG also offers residential programs at colleges such as Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Bryn Mawr and Vassar. Read more in Summer Camp Guide.
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Kiwi Country Day Camp Open House: Sat, May 10  Kiwi Country Day Camp will hold an Open House this week. The camp offers programs for kids ages 2-13. Programs include arts & crafts, music, aquatics, sports, wilderness adventure, video production and theater. Special features include heated pools, boating, zipline, mini-golf, and batting cages. Door to door transportation is offered plus express bus service from WeeZee World in Chappaqua. Sat, 5/10: 10am-4pm. (Camp Kiwi, 826 Union Valley Rd. Carmel) Read more.
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Carnival Season Is Here!
 You know the school year is almost over when the carnival rolls into town. Our Kids Calendar lists upcoming events, including the 39th St. Patrick's School Carnival in Bedford that opens next Tuesday and the 40th Armonk Lions Club Fol De Rol that isn't far behind. Read more.
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We're Going on a Bear Hunt  Michael Rosen's award winning children's book is brought to the stage in Sally Cookson's adaptation set to the score of Benji Bower's score. Join the intrepid bear hunters as they wade through the gigantic swishy-swashy grass, the splish-splashy river and the oozy-squelchy mud. Sat, 5/10: 11am & 1;30pm. (The Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck) More kids stuff.
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Sheep Shearing at Muscoot Farm  Every Mother's Day, Muscoot Farm shears its adult sheep and the public is invited to watch. Mother's Day also marks the opening of the Muscoot Farmers' Market. The market is open every Sunday through October. Check out our guide to Farmers' Markets on whattododigital.com. And don't forget to hit King Kone on the corner of Rt. 35 and Rt. 100 on the way home. Sun, 5/11: 10am-12pm. (Muscoot Farm, Route 100, Somers) More kids events here.
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Summer Camp Guide
Check out our guide to over 200 area day camps. Search categories for All Around Camps, Sports, Art, Dance, Music and Theatre, Martial Arts, Nature and Specialty Camps. Or search by keyword like chess, computers, filmmaking. Read More. (Photo courtesy of MVP Basketball Amadeus Camp.)
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NEW: LIGHTSCAPES from Historic Hudson Valley
 This new spring event from the creators of The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze is a night-time garden fantasy of sculpture, light, sound and special effects. With glowing mushrooms, floating fairies, a giant praying mantis a garden maze and a crawl through caterpillar. With thousands of state of the art illuminations at Van Cortland Manor. Fri-Sat in May.
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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 The Castles of New Castle
Our Spring Events calendar lists 38 local events from the Byram Hills Education Foundation's Gala to the Castles of New Castle. Find where to run the best road races, and where to golf, dance and party for charity, We list local lectures, farmers market openings, arts festivals and a whole lot more.
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Lucinda Williams, Hot Tuna, Leon Russell and more  Okay. We love Lucinda Williams and if you do too you can see her in Tarrytown in June. Our Spring music calendar continues with over 100 music events including Ringo Starr, Electric Hot Tuna and Leon Russell on the same bill, Blue Oyster Cult, local classical music and Led Zeppelin, The Band, Johnny Cash, and The Beatles tribute bands. More music here.
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Cultural Katonah: The Mind and Music of George Gershwin  The Cultural Katonah series concludes with a Caramoor presentation of Dr. Richard Kogan's lecture on George Gershwin. Dr. Kogan is a concert pianist and a Clinical Doctor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center. This presentation is one of a series of lectures he has developed that explores the role of music in healing and the influence of psychological factors and psychiatric and other medical illnesses on the creative work of famous composers. Tues, 5/13: 8pm. (Caramoor) More local events.
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Chappaqua Library Foreign Policy Discussion Group  Baruch College Professor Benedetto Fontana discusses Political Philosophy and East/West Differences on Foreign Policy on Monday 5/12: 10am. David Speedle, Director of the Carnegie Council's program on US Global Engagement speaks on Russian Foreign Policy: the Middle East & the Former Soviet Republics. Mon, 5/19: 10am. Chappaqua Library. Chappaqualibrary.org
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Bring Out Your Dead  The Dark Star Orchestra's tribute performances to The Grateful Dead are so good that Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzman have all sat in with them. They play The Capitol Theater in Port Chester Fri-Sat, 5/16-17. Then Phil Lesh and Friends return for their final area appearance until Fall on Thurs-Fri, 5/28-29. More Live Dead and other spring music here.
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ArtsWestchester Arts Bash Party for the arts to support ArtsWestchester. Featuring ArtsWestchester's exhibition Ste(A)m, that exploes the intersection of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Meet the artists, sample fine wine and taste the signature dishes of some of Westchester's top chefs. Fri, 5/16: 6:30-9pm. (ArtsWestchester) Read more.
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The Spencers Theatre of Illusion  The Spencers have been named Performing Arts Entertainers of the Year for six consecutive years for their mastery of the art of hocus focus. Eschewing the traditional trickery of Las Vegas style entertainment, their show traffics in the cerebral aspects of magic providing spectacle, drama, and danger. Sat, 5/17: 8pm. (Academic Arts Building, Westchester Community College, 75 Grasslands Rd., Valhalla) More theatre, dance and comedy here.
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Small Town Theatre: Driving Miss Daisy  The Small Town Theatre Company presents Alfred Uhry's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winner about a Southern Jewish school teacher's relationship with her African-American chauffeur through the social changes brought on by the civil rights movement. Fri-Sat, 5/16-17. (Katonah Library) Read more.
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New Castle 10K Road Race and Fun RunThe 27th running of the New Castle 10K Road Race starts at Town Hall and takes you on a challenging course through some of the most scenic landscapes of Chappaqua. Run with a police escort, water stations and a sag wagon. Plus a Kids Fun Run. Sun, 5/18: 8am. More information here.
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