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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. |
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What To Do: In and Around Town
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Bicycle Sundays on the Bronx River Parkway
 Over 60,000 people a year break out their bikes to celebrate this Westchester tradition. Sponsored by Con Edison and Friends of Westchester County Parks, a 6.5 mile stretch of the Bronx River Parkway is closed for the use of bicyclists, scooters and strollers. Find out where to park and ride, dates and times 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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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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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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Bring Out Your Dead  The Dark Star Orchestra's Gratgeful Dead tribute concerts 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 this week. Then Phil Lesh and Friends return for their final area appearance until Fall on 5/28-29. More Live Dead and spring music here.
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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 teacher's relationship with her African-American chauffeur through the social changes of 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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The Best of Broadway in Chappaqua
 The West Point Jazz Knights join the Chappaqua Orchestra for The Best of Broadway, including your fave rave songs from Gershwin, Sondheim, Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, and more. Including selections from Oklahoma, Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Side By Side, and Anything Goes. Sun, 5/18: 3pm. (Horace Greeley HS, 70 Roaring Brook Rd., Chappaqua: Read full program here.
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Local Classical Music this week
 The Westchester Symphonic Wind's season finale at The Tarrytown Music Hall concludes with a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Frank Ticheli's Angels in the Architecture, and works by Bernstein, and Bach. The Hudson Chorale performs Haydn and Vaugh Williams at irvington HS. And Music From Copland House performs Copland's El Salon Mexico and other works from Latin and Latin inspired composers in Latin American Sketches in Mt. Kisco. More local concerts here. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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A Chilean white with notes of apple, orange zest and lime  Wine Geek's Wine of the Week from Wine Geeks Armonk's sommelier Derek Todd is the Merino Chardonnay from Chile's Limari Valley. This refreshing white shows crisp notes of apple, lemon and tangerine with subtle hints of orange zest, apple blossoms and lime. Normally $19.99, with this week's discount it's only $16.99 a bottle! Please use Discount Code CHILEGEEK to purchase. Through Sun, 5/18. (Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk; 914.273.9463. www.winegeeksarmonk.com
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Carnival week in Bedford
 The St. Patrick's School Carnival kicks off tonight in Bedford with rides, games, food, and a big-prize raffle. Our Kids Calendar lists this and upcoming carnivals from the Katonah Fire Department and the Armonk Lions Club Fol De Rol that features some new attractions like performing dogs, llamas and more.
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Scooby Doo Live in Tarrytown
 Scooby Doo & the Mystery Gang take center stage in an all-new family musical with everyone's favorite characters from the animated television series. In this production, Scooby and the gang help solve an epic mystery about a trouble-making ghost who is haunting a local theatre. Thurs, 5/15: 3:30 & 6:30pm. More on this and more kids stuff.
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NEW: LIGHTSCAPES from Historic Hudson Valley
 This new event, from the creators of The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, is a night-time garden fantasy of sculpture, light, sound and special effects. It glows with spring iconography like 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. Read more.
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Pinkster Day at Phiipsburg Manor
 This recreation of a 17th century African-American spring celebration is a colonial style festival of music, dance and food. With drumming, traditional African dances and folktales. Philipsburg Manor is the only living museum dedicated to the history of slavery in the north. Sun, 5/18: 10am-5pm. (381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow. More on this and more kids' events right here.
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Meet the Baby Animals at Muscoot Farm
 This annual spring event is a must to-do for kids and baby animal lovers of all ages. Get up close and personal with Muscoot Farm's new arrivals, like this Dorset lamb. Plus pigs, chickens, goats, horses, cows, donkeys and more. Visit their Farmer's Market and their historic buildings. Including the 1880 main house, the dairy barn, blacksmith shop, root cellar, wagon shed, milk house and our favorite, the ice house. Sun, 5/25: 10am-4pm. (Rt. 100, Somers) More kids events.
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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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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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Art Garfunkel, The Spin Doctors and Ringo Starr
There's plenty more music left this spring in & around our towns. Get a heads up on the music scene with our Spring Music Calendar. Find out where to catch Lady Gaga, Ringo Starr, Lucinda Williams, The Spin Doctors, Ottmar Leibert, Hot Tuna, Leon Russell, the Westchester Phil, the Chappaqua Orchestra and the best tribute bands saluting Zeppelin, The Beatles, and The Dead. More music. |
 The Castles of New Castle
Our Spring Events calendar lists 38 local events including the Castles of New Castle House Tour, road races in Armonk, Chappaqua and Katonah, the White Plains Arts Festival, Chappaqua's Strawberry Festival at the Church of St. Mary's, Bicycle Sundays, the Kensico Burger & Beer Blast, local farmers' markets and and a whole lot more.
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Lasdon Park Plant Sale
 The last of the local spring plant sales is one of the best. Shop for perennials, trees, shrubs, vegetables, butterfly attracters, dwarf trees, nut trees, herbs, mushrooms, and berry and fruit plants like goji berry, blueberry and kiwi. Sat, 5/17: 9am-3:30pm. (Lasdon Park, 2610 Rt. 35, Katonah. More spring events.
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Stayin Alive 5K and Fun Run in Armonk
 This new event is organized by the newly formed non-profit Stayin Alive whose mission it is to raise funds for North Castle First Responders. It features a 5K run followed by a fun run for kids. Start point is Armonk's Windmill Club. Lovely. Sat, 5/31: 8am. (The Windmill Club, 10 Maple Way Armonk) More on this and to register click here.
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Armonk Players: Play On!
 The Armonk Players take on the Rick Abbott comedy about a community theatre's (just like them) tumultuous attempt to produce a play, Murder Most Foul!, written by one of its own members who has a penchant for rewrites on the fly. Read about it and the local theatre, dance and comedy scene here.
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