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Where to Celebrate: Halloween
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The Dead. The Undead. And The Grateful Dead! 
Halloween starts this week at Historic Hudson Valley and the Bronx Zoo. WTD's Where To Celebrate: Halloween lists 25 ways to make sure your October is a total boo-fest. There's boo in the woods, boo at the farm, boo at the zoo, and boo on the Long Island Sound. We've got ragamuffin parades, dinner dances, haunted pumpkin gardens, train shows, the headless horseman and Ichabod Crane, Dr. Frank-n-Furter and Brad and Janet ... and a touch of The Grateful Dead. Read more ... if you dare!
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What To Do: In and Around Town This Week
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Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Garden at NYBG  The chrysanthemum, kiku in Japanese, is the most celebrated of all Japanese fall-flowering plants, and hundreds of meticulously trained kiku will be on display in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Beginning Thurs, 10/2. More on this and The Great Outdoors.
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George Lopez, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Schumer  Some big names in comedy come to our area this month beginning with George Lopez this week at the Capitol Theatre. Whoopi Goldberg comes to the intimate Ridgefield Playhouse next week and Amy Schumer, Comedy Central's fastest rising star (Inside Amy Schumer) performs stand up at the Capitol Theatre on October 18 Our complete Fall Comedy listings here.
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Comedy at the Performing Arts Center  October is Comedy month at PAC. This week NPR regular Mike Birbiglia performs stand up. His 2007 album, My Secret Public Journal Live, was named the best Comedy Album of the Decade by Onion AV. On Sun, 1012, best-selling author, NPR humorist and New Yorker contributor David Sedaris sits down for a chat about growing up in Raleigh, NC, drug use and obsessive behaviors. (His... not yours.) More PAC stuff here.
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"I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair .."
 The 1949 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Tales of the South Pacific, won 10 Tony Awards and set the stage for the 1958 film with Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi. The score contains many of Broadway's most recognizable songs, including "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy," and "There Is Nothing Like a Dame." Thurs-Sun: 9/25-11/30. (Westchester Broadway Theatre) More Theatre Dance Comedy. |
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Stone Barns Harvest Fest
 The Fall Harvest Season kicks into high gear this week. Our Fall Events Guide captures the best of the season from the Pound Ridge Harvest Festival to Bedford's Oktoberfest and Muscoot Farm. First up: the Stone Barns Harvest Fest featuring live music, hayrides, hands on farming activities, a farmers market, food crafting and the Farm Olympics. Sat, 10/5: 10am-3pm. (Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills) For our full lineup of Harvest Festivals click here. |
James Van Praagh in Tarrytown
 Clairvoyant and medium James Van Praagh bridges the gap between the living and the dead. His popularity began in the early '90s, on the NBC morning talk show The Other Side and with his #1 NY Times Best- selling book Ghosts Among Us. For five seasons he produced CBS's #1 drama Ghost Whisper starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and has appeared on Oprah, Larry King Live, 20/20, 48 Hours, and A&E Biography. There will be audience participation when he selects people from the audience in the calling of spirits. Wed, 10/8: 8pm. (Tarrytown Music Hall: Tarrytownmusichall.org) |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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Here's one for Napa Geeks!  This week's Wine Geeks Wine of the Week is the Robert Sinskey 'Abraxas' from California's Napa Valley. This aromatic white blend of Alsatian varietals, including Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer, shows luscious notes of peach, pear, citrus and lychee with subtle nuances of white blossoms, almonds, spice and lime. Normally thirty-nine bucks, with this week's discount it's only $33.14 a bottle! Buy it by the case and receive a 20% discount off of the original price! Use discount code NAPAGEEK to purchase. Thru Sun, 10/5. Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk, 914.273.WINE. www.winegeeksarmonk.com)
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Mark Kramer's Farm Table Chef's Dinner in Chappaqua  Here's a great way to try a new dining experience without leaving town. Susan Lawrence Gourmet Foods' Farm Table Chef's Dinners from Chef Mark Kramer are like a pop-up restaurant experience in the confines of their own storefront. On October 18 he will serve a five-course dinner and sommelier wine tasting featuring seasonal inspirations and the local bounty of the Hudson Valley. Full menu here.
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Kids After School Programs for Fall
 There's still time to sign up for Fall After School programs at over 100 local venues. What To Do's Kids' Programs Directory lists them all from lacrosse to guitar lessons, art, dance and musical theatre, nature and science, martial arts and gymnastics, tennis, swimming, horse back riding, soccer, tutoring and enrichment classes, and private schools. Search by category or key words like chess or fencing. We connect you with local libraries and rec centers, too. What To Do"s Kids Programs Directory. |
Sesame Street Live at the County Center
 Elmo does the robot, Cookie teaches "all feets to dance," Abby plays a rhyming game, and Ernie gets into the act taking the lead on "Shake Your Head One Time". Everything gets real interactive when "favorite friends" get on the dance floor with the audience. Time to order tix for Sesame Street Live: Let's Dance coming to the County Center: Fri-Sun, 10/10-12: More Kids Stuff here. |
Big Apple Circus  Alas, Grandma the Clown is gone but there is no substitute for the Big Apple Circus - the biggest little circus ever, where no one sits more than 50 feet from the stage (and you're out of there in under 2 hours.) Their new show, Metamorphosis, features the Flying Trapeze, the Rolla-Bolla, juggling, contortionists, clowns, camels, horses, playful pooches and more. Opening Fri, 10/17. (Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, NY) More Kids Stuff here.
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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Michael Feinstein, Bryan Ferry & Pat Benatar
 Bryan Ferry, America, REBEL Baroque, The Marshall Tucker Band, Fleetwood Mac, the Cab Calloway Orchestra, Clint Black, Pat Benatar ("We're not worthy!") and Neil Giraldo, Michael Feinstein, Martin Sexton, Kansas, Natalie Cole, The Westchester Philharmonic, Rufus Wainwright, Jay and The Americans, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Allen Toussaint, Charlie Daniels, The Allman Brothers Band, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Tubes, Demi Lovato, The Mavericks, Ian Anderson and Phil Lesh. Just to name a few. More Fall Music. |
Foodie Alert: A Taste of Westchester kicks off this week
 A Taste of Westchester offers cooking classes (and tastings) with top chefs at local restaurants. Classes kick off this week at The Burger Barn in Somers. Sign up now for events upcoming classes at The Iron Horse, Decicco's Armonk, The Beehive, Fortina, Cafe of Love, Via Vanti, Village Social, Pour Cafe, Peter Pratt's Inn, and The Haymont House. Full list & menus here. |
Small Town Theatre Company: I Do! I Do!
 This 1966 musical from Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantastics) follows the trials and tribulations of Mary and Michael Snow's marriage from 1895 to 1945. The original production, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion with Mary Martin and Robert Preston, ran on Broadway for 560 shows. Preston won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical. Fri-Sat, 10/10-11: 8pm. (Hergenhan Center, 40 Maple Ave., Armonk: More Theatre Dance Comedy. |
An Evening in Good Taste  The annual An Evening in Good Taste To End Childhood Hunger benefit supports the Food Bank for Westchester. Sample gourmet delights and specialty cocktails from Westchester's finest chefs. Last year the Food Bank raised over $200,000 to help fight hunger in Westchester. This event will benefit their Kids Café and Backpack programs. Thurs, 10/16: 6-9pm. (1133 Westchester Ave., White Plains) Other October benefits include the Community Center for Northern Westchester's Annual Benefit and Cocktail Party, the Making a Difference Benefit Dinner for the Pace Women's Justice Center and the Bedford Village Chowder and Marching Club's Annual Dinner Dance Halloween Bash. More on this and more Fall Benefits.
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The God Game: The Hudson Stage Company's Armonk Debut  Tickets are now on sale for The God Game, The Hudson Stage Company's debut production at the North Castle Library. This new play from Suzanne Bradbeer taps into the spirit of the political season when the game of politics becomes a "God game" for a vice-presidential candidate. The first of eight performances begins on Fri, Oct. 10. For more about The Hudson Stage Company's big move to Armonk click here. For more on The God Game and our full Theatre, Dance & Comedy Fall listings click here.
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Apple Picking, Facebook, Organic Wines & planting bulbs
Our Fall Survival Checklist is now online. Find out where to pick apples, how to manage data usage on your mobile devices, when to see meteor showers, how to avoid wine headaches and plant bulbs for spring and when to celebrate Connie Francis' birthday. We kid you not! And much more. Fall Survival Checklist. |
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