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What To Do: Summer Survival Checklist
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Pleasantville Farmers' Market home delivery
 The Pleasantville Farmers' Market now provides same-day home delivery of fresh produce, organic meats, baked goods and prepared foods from its vendors through Fresh Nation. Fresh Nation is the online farmers market that offers home delivery from your favorite farmers' market vendors. Like a Peapod for locavores, Fresh Nation offers spot-buying or subscription services bringing naturally raised and organic foods directly to your door. Read more here. |
Organic Deck Farming with Tower Garden
 If you really want to decrease your carbon footprint you can go green Iike Lauren Bernard did) in your own backyard with the Tower Garden, an aeroponic, vertical gardening system from Future Growing. The system has been in the news since chef John Mooney installed a Tower Garden rooftop farm above his restaurant Bell Book & Candle in NYC. O'Hare Airport soon followed up with their own airport farm. The Tower Garden system is now available to home owners in our area thanks to Armonk resident Lauren Bernard. Read more. |
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What To Do: In and Around Town
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Caramoor at KMA
 The 2nd Annual Caramoor at KMA music series kicks off this week with the Brooklyn American roots band Cricket Tell the Weather. These outdoor music performances in the Katonah Museum of Art's sculpture garden are picnic friendly events and feature the impeccable roots, chamber music and jazz programming of the Caramoor artistic team. To hear some of the music in this series and for dates and times on all three events click here. |
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
 With its breathtaking views of the Hudson River, Boscobel is the perfect setting for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's summer season. For over 25 years, the Festival has been the only resident Shakespeare Company in the Hudson Valley. This year they will present Othello, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Liar by David Ivie. Bring a picnic and your favorite quaff and take in the scenery before the show. Tues-Sat, 6/10- 8/31. More. |
The Armonk Players Play On
The Armonk Player's take on Rick Abbott's comedy about a community theatre group's trials (without tribulations) of producing a script, Murder Most Foul, from one of it's members . Play On! presents Murder Most Foul in rehearsal, in dress rehearsal and then as an opening night production. It changes every step of the way ... but it only gets worse with each rewrite. And we mean that in a good way. Directed by Mark Pierce. Thur-Sat, 6/612-14. More on this and more local theatre here.
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Robert Duvall's Assassination Tango at NCPL
 Robert Duvall directs and stars in Assassination Tango, a romantic thriller about a hit man who discovers the passion, culture and romance of the Tango. Presented by LIU Professor Valerie Franco who knows how to find critically acclaimed independent and foreign films you might have missed. Fri, 6/13: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library) More summer events. |
New Castle Historical Society Spring Sale
This special Spring Sale offers one-of-a-kind antique and collectible furniture and furnishings from NCHS's Gold In the Attic collection from the annual Chappaqua Antiques Show. Including chairs, lamps, tables, artwork and a Bargain Table. Fri-Sat, 6/13-14: 10am-5pm. (Horace Greeley House, 100 King St. Chappaqua, 914.238.4666; Link) |
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What To Do: Father's Day Celebrations
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Around the World in 18 Wineries
 A two day ticket allows you to visit 14 wineries on the Shawangunk Wine Trail. Sample tapas from 14 countries at the wineries - all paired with regionally crafted wines. Or buy a Father's Day ticket. The wine trail begins just over the Bear Mountain Bridge and continues up to New Paltz. Sat-Sun, 6/14-15: 10am-6pm. You can link to the trail map and addresses of the participating wineries ... and more summer events right here. |
Father's Day Hike at Hilltop Hanover Farm
 Join naturalist Wilson Chang for a guided hike around the property. Learn all about Westchester's local flora and fauna on this two-hour walk through the woods. Free event. Plus, farm stand. Sat, 6/14: 10am-12pm. (1271 Hanover St., Yorktown Heights; More Father's Day/summer events here. |
Burgers, Beers & Brahms ... & bluegrass
 The Westchester Philharmonic winds up its 2013-14 season with a Father's Day celebration. Conductor Ryan McAdams leads the Phil with special guest Tai Murray (violin) for a performance of Mendelssohn, Ligeti, and Brahms Serenade No. 1. Meet the artists after the concert at a BBQ with bluegrass music by the Tim Kahn Trio and beer by Captain Lawrence Brewery. Sun, 6/15: 3pm. BBQ at 5pm. (Performing Arts Center, Purchase College; www.westchesterphil.org) |
Lucinda Williams in Tarrytown
 Treat dad "Righteously" with tix to a special Father's Day concert by three-time Grammy-winner Lucinda Williams at the Tarrytown Music Hall. "You don't have to prove your manhood to me constantly, I know you're the man can't you see I love you righteously." More music this week? Cash Is King (Johnny Cash tribute) in Ridgefield, Barbara Cook (Sondheim cabaret) in Tarrytown, Il Volo is in Stamford and Art Garfunkel at the Paramount Hudson Valley. More music here. |
Jonathan Demme, Meryl Streep & Neil Young
 A Tribute to Jonathan Demme with Meryl Streep and Neil Young: Meryl Streep will present the JBFC Vision Award to Jonathan in recognition of his outstanding career as a filmmaker, as well as for his involvement in the JBFC. Neil Young will participate in the program, along other special guests. Read more about this special event here. |
Big Backyard BBQ at NYBG
 The Big Backyard BBQ at the New York Botanical Gardens is a two day celebration with a great lineup of Roots music, a putting green, cooking demos, edible academy tours and a family concert from Three Billy Goats Gruff. Music includes The Lone Bellow, Roosevelt Dime, Miss Tess & The Talk Backs. Sat-Sun, 6/14-15: 11am-5pm. More Summer Events. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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The best cheap summer wines? Here's one ...  This week's Wine Geeks Wine of the Week is the Vera Vinho Verde from the Minho region of Portugal. This lightly-fizzy white shows notes of lemon, lime and peach perfumed with sea air and lemon blossoms. Perfect for picnic or poolside! Normally $10.99, with this week's discount it's only $9.34 a bottle! Buy it by the case and receive an even deeper 20% discount! Use discount code VERDEGEEK to purchase. Through Sun, 6/15. (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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Ghostbusters: Outdoor Movies in Chappaqua
 The Drug Mart Movies in Millwood Park series continues this weekend with an al fresco screening of Ghostbusters, the 1984 supernatural comedy from Ivan Reitman, Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis. Starring Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Ackroyd and Ramis. "I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts." Fri, 6/13: 8pm.
The series continues with Despicable Me 2 on 6/20; and The Lego Movie on 6/27. (200 S. Greeley Ave., (Rt. 100) Millwood) More Kids' Stuff here. |
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Summer Camp Guide
Check out our guide to over 200 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 Shady Lane Farm Summer Camp.)
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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Summer Museum Guide is online!
 Our Summer Museum Guide is now avail on whattododigital.com. Read about KMT, the Neuberger, ArtsWestchester, the Hudson River Museum, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, the Hammond Museum in North Salem, and this exhibit by Michael Joo at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield. Summer Museum Guide online now! |
Where to hear: Summer Music 
Our Summer Music Calendar lists 96 concerts from Wampus Brook Park to Jones Beach, Rigoletto to American Beauty, the Goo Goo Dolls to goo goo goo joob! We've got the Clearwater Festival, the Pleasantville Music Festival, music in the park in Armonk, Bedford and Chappaqua and much more. Find out where to see Norah Jones, Taj Mahal, Patty LuPone, One Republic, Joshua Bell, Aerosmith, Hot Tuna and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Did we mention James Taylor, Steely Dan & Cher?
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Our Summer Theatre & Comedy Calendar is live!
 Need a laugh? Our Summer Theatre & Comedy Guide is live on whattododigital.com. Top comedy talent coming this summer includes Jeff Dunham and his puppet, Achmed the Dead Terrorist. You can see Dana Carvey, Bill Maher, Bob Newhart and more. There's local laughs from the Armonk Players, the Schoolhouse Theatre and the WPPAC. Plus, outdoor Shakespeare on the Sound, the Hudson River and in the woods at Westmoreland Sanctuary. More summer laughs here.
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What To Do: Summer Events: special foodie alert!
 We list over 60 local summer events from sidewalk sales to sailing on the Sound. And there's a foodie hook at just about all of them. We've got clambakes, and BBQs, an Oyster Festival and a strawberry festival. The Cafe of Love is now catering all events at the Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden. And you can take cooking classes at DiCicco's in Armonk, Crabtree's in Chappaqua, or Peter Pratt's Inn with Westchester Community College's A Taste Of Westchester. Read more.
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