LIU Professor Valerie Franco presents the 2010 film Tracker about a guerilla survivor of the South African Boer war in colonial New Zealand who is hired to track a Maori man accused of killing a British soldier. This tense action thriller features many twists and turns in the hunter and the hunted's cat and mouse game including a twist ending. Wed, 8/13: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library.)

As part of her Menus in the Movies series, food author and film buff Carol Durst presents a screening of Daughters of the Dust. This 1991 indie-flick from Julie Dash follows three generations of Gullah women - West African slaves who settled on the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia. The film features a memorable scene of a family picnic and the roots of Creole cooking. It was nominated for The Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and in 1994 was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Saturday. Fri-8/15: 7pm. (Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua) More summer events here.

The Small Town Theatre Company's Summer Concerts in Wampus Brook Park concludes with a performance from The Swingaroos, a NYC jazz group that plays Swing inspired originals and the real golden oldies from Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. This six piece jazz band featuring lead singer Kimberly Hawkey and band (clarinet, trombone, bass, banjo and washboard) has performed at Birdland, Under St. Marks Theatre and Caramoor. Sat, 8/23: 8pm. (Wampus Brook Park, Armonk) More summer music.

Camp season is over. so get out those checkbooks (again) because its time to go shopping for Kids' After School Program for Fall. What To Do's Kids' Programs Guide offers over 100 local suppliers of kids school year activities including, sports, fitness, art, music, theater and dance, martial arts, tutoring and enrichment, aquatics and much more. Check out What To Do"s Kids Programs Guide here.

450 tables, thousands of autographed memorabilia, modern and vintage sports cards, on-site authentication, hobby and wax boxes, and on site autographs including Dwight Gooden, Jose Canseco, Joe Pepitone, Patrick Ewing, Dennis Rodman, Ron Darling, David Tyree, Luis Tiant, Jonny Damon, Sparky Lyle and many more. Thurs, 8/14: 4-8pm, Fri, 8/15: 2-8pm, Sat-Sun, 8/16-17: 10am-4pm. (198 Central Ave., White Plains) More Kids Stuff.

Need one more Ripcord before summer ends? Willing to travel? We found two events nearby for Carnival-crazed locals. There's one in Stamford at 24 Roxbury Rd. on Tues-Sat, 8/26-30. And one at the Norwalk Oyster Festival, Fri-Sun, 9/5-7: What To Do: With the Kids Summer.

The east coast's premier vintage racing and concours event. Three days of on-track racing. More than 300 cars and drivers, racing everything from pre-WWI racers to the best competition machines from the 1920s to the 1970s. How cool is that? Thurs-Mon, 8/28-9/1: check schedule. (60 White Hollow Rd., Lakeville CT) More Kids stuff.

This novel corn festival offers a bounty of corn-centric delicacies, demonstrations and hands-on, corn-related activities. Kids play games like Konk-a-Crow and Ring-a Cob in the CORNival area. There are corn-shucking races, a mini maize-maze, and crafts - make a cornhusk doll. Plus bluegrass and folk music and English country dancing in the barn. For those with the corn munchies there's cornbread, corn salsa and chips, corn chili, popcorn and sweet corn ice cream. Sat-Mon, 8/30-9/1: 10am-5pm. (381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow) More Kids Stuff.

There's lots more summer music coming up including Kings of Leon, Rod Stewart & Santana, Jimmy Buffett, and REO Speedwagon at Jones Beach. Plus Arcade Fire, Travis Tritt, Steely Dan and more on our summer music guide.

Lasdon Park's Music in the Park series concludes with the jazz ensemble Jon Doty & Friends. Bring a blanket or a chair. Beer, wine, hot dogs, pretzels, ice cream and other snacks for sale. Sponsored by the Friends of Lasdon. Gates open at 5:30. Tour the park, take the historic tree walk, check out the Chinese Garden and the Memorial Garden. Fri, 8/22: 6:30pm. (Lasdon Park, 2610 Amawalk, Rt. 35, Katonah; www.lasdonpark.org)

NEA Jazz Master, Grammy-winner and Tony Award-nominee, Branford Marsalis kicks off PAC's 2014-15 season with an evening of saxophone jazz on Sat, 9/27. Marsalis received initial acclaim playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and brother Wynton's quintet. He has performed with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. More jazz on PAC's schedule includes The Preservation Hall Jazz Band with R&B master Allen Toussaint, whose songs have been covered by The Rolling Stones, Jerry Garcia, Glen Campbell, Ernie K. Doe and Leo Dorsey. More PAC music here.

The ladies sing at PAC this season with top stars from cabaret, pop and indie-folk. LuPone brings her latest show, Lady With The Torch, to the PAC stage featuring songs of Harol Arlen, Jule Styne, Cole Porter and the Gershwin's. 10,000 Maniacs front-gal Natalie Merchant performs songs from her new album, Natalie Merchant, with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra. And Suzanne Vega brings her new-wavey folk repertoire ("Luka" and "Tom's Diner") to PAC in November. See our complete PAC calendar from September through May right here.

The Walnut Street Theatre's production of David Mamet's "love letter to the theatre," A Life In The Theatre, headlines PAC's 2014-15 Theatre Series. The series includes: Martha Clarke's

Cheri, an inter-disciplinary work starring Amy Irving, ABT principal dancer Herman Cornejo, and prima ballerina Allessandra Ferri; and Basetrack, a multi-disciplinary performance piece based on the work of Afghan War embedded journalist Teru Kuwayama. Read more.

Mike Birbiglia's 2007 award-winning comedy album My Secret Public Journal Live became an award winning off-Broadway show and movie. He brings his new show Thank God for Jokes to PAC in October. In the show Birbiglia argues with strangers and hosts an awards show for angry celebrities. There's more laughs at PAC in October when NPR humorist, New Yorker contributor, and best-selling author David Sedaris brings his self-deprecating humor about his Greek heritage, growing up in North Carolina, drug use and obsessive behaviors to the PAC stage. More on this and more PAC right here.

PAC's Family Series includes a costume party and sing-along to The Sound of Music. The classically trained hip-hop duo Black Violin kicks off the Family Series in October with the act that made them Showtime at the Apollo Legends, and garnered them an invite to perform at Barack Obama's inauguration. Plus, Mourad Merzouki's hip-hop/bossa nova dance troupe from Rio de Janeiro, Compagnie Kafig, has fun with water and electronic music.(Kids will love it.) More PAC here.