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Coming Up: In & Around Town in November
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Your November Bucket List: 32 Local Events  Add these 32 local events to your November Bucket List. We've got everything from Anton Chekhov to Mo Rocca, Sigmund Freud to Zero Mostel, Chief Joe Arpaio to Miss Piggy, the Harlem Wizards to Hava Nagila. There's bingo, karaoke and pancakes (of course) and film festivals at NCPL, the Chappaqua Library and Jacob Burns. We've got the classiest black & white ball in town and NY''s toughest 5K! Did we mention multiple foodie alerts! When the boo-fests end, the party doesn't stop at What To Do because WE ROCK and SO DO YOU! Your November Bucket Lists Starts Here!
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What To Do: In and Around Town This Week
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A Taste of Westchester: Makin' Bacon at Peter Pratt's Inn  Chef Peter Pratt will be makin' bacon at Peter Pratt's Inn this week as A Taste Of Westchester's cooking/tasting classes lands in Yorktown. Learn how to cure organic pork belly and get it ready for smoking. On Saturday check out (almost Chopped Champion) Chef Mogan Anthony's class at Village Social In Mt. Kisco. Get the full tasting menu and more upcoming classes here.
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The God Game: The Hudson Stage Company's Armonk Debut  The God Game from The Hudson Stage Company, North Castle Library's newest Artist-In-Residence continues this week. 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 play will run for eight performances. 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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The Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Allen Toussaint  Jazz meets R&B when Allen Toussaint joins the famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band for an evening of music from New Orleans' French Quarter. Some of the artists who have had hits covering Toussaint's songs include Glen Campbell ("Southern Nights"), Leo Dorsey ("Working in the Coalmine"), Ernie K. Doe ("Mother-in Law"), The Rolling Stones ("Fortune Teller") and Jerry Garcia ("I'll Take a Melody"). Fri, 10/24: 8pm. (Performing Arts Center, Purchase More PAC.
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at PAC 
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's three 2014-15 performances at PAC begin Sat, 10/25. CMS also appears at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Baroque and Winter Music Festivals at Alice Tully Hall and in December they perform Bach's Brandenburg Concertos at Lincoln Center - an event The New York Times calls "a New York holiday staple." More PAC.
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Marshall Tucker, Jay & The Americans, The Tubes & more
 The Marshall Tucker Band is at Tarrytown Music Hall on Fri, 10/24. Also on 10/24: The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is at PAC. Jay & The Americans are at Paramount Hudson Valley, Charlie Daniels is at The Ridgefield Playhouse, there's Cabaret in Stamford with Comstock and Fasano and a full slate of music on Sat-Sun, 10/25-26 with Robin Trower, Music From Copland House, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Caramoor's Evnin' Rising Stars and The Tubes and more. More Fall Music. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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Calling all Barolo Geeks! This one's for you ...  This week's Wine Geeks Wine of the Week is the Azelia Barolo 2005 from the Piedmont region of Italy. 100% Nebbiolo, this gorgeous Barolo shows supple notes of raspberry, cherry and fig perfumed with rose petal, tar and porcini mushroom. Already a steal for Barolo at thirty-seven bucks, with this week's discount it's only $31.44! Buy it by the case this week, and receive an even deeper 20% discount off of the original price! Use discount code BAROLOGEEK to purchase. Thru Sun, 10/26. (Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk, www.winegeeksarmonk.com)
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Kids After School Programs Guide
 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 Guide. |
Stories Through Music from ClassNotes  ClassNotes transforms classical music into a roller-coaster of sounds and emotions at Curiosity Concerts' free shows for kids. Get on board as these young, charismatic teaching musicians take you and your kids (5-adult) on a discovery ride ride through music and stories, with Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Dvořák. Sat, 10/25: 11am-12pm. Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich. RSVP required. More on this and more Kids Stuff here.
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Where to Celebrate: Halloween
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Area 51: Halloween Train Show at Lasdon Park  Lasdon Park's annual train show takes on an alien theme with over 300 feet of track with model trains chugging along past building and desserts filled with aliens, flying saucers, and secret laboratories. More on this and 25 more Halloween Events here.
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Area 51 Alien Costume Party for Adults 
Our area's most unique benefit, Lasdon Park's adult costume party takes on an 'Area 51' theme this year with the house, grounds and heated party tent decked out with an assortment of aliens, flying saucers and more. With live music by the Gerard Carelli Band, a dance floor, food, beer, wine and prizes for the best overall costume, best alien and best duo. Fri, 10/24. Lasdon Park, Katonah. More on this & more Halloween Events.
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The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, Boo at the Zoo & more  "Pumpkin Art" takes center stage at Van Cortland Manor with over 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins at The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze. You can see more master pumpkin sculptors work at The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the New York Botanical Garden and at Boo at the Zoo at the Bronx Zoo. With musical entertainment from the Broadway cast of Cinderella. Read more.
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Let's do the Time Warp again 
Get the full Rocky Horror Picture Show experience at The Tarrytown Music Hall with this late night screening of the cult classic with Brad and Janet, Dr. Frank-n-Furter, Riff-Raff, Columbia & Magenta, Rocky, Dr. Scott and Meatloaf as Eddy. With a live floor show from the 8th St. Playhouse cast and an audience participation kit. "But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insa-a-a-a-ane, Let's do the Time Warp again!" Sat, 10/25: 11pm. More Halloween Events for the whole family here.
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Bedford Village Chowder & Marching Club Halloween Bash  Dinner, dancing and cocktails Halloween style at the Bedford Village Golf & Tennis Club to benefit the Bedford Village Chowder & Marching Club. BVC&M has raised over $750,000 since 1956 for local youth programs in arts and music, club and school sports, scouts, youth outreach, scholarships and community services. Their recent project, a state of the art basketball court at at the Bedford Village Memorial Park opens soon. Sat, 10/25: 7-11pm. More Hallween Events here.
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Howl & Prowl Pet Costume Party 
The seventh annual Howl & Prowl pet costume party benefits Adopt-A-Dog in Armonk. The event features dogs in novelty outfits, a pet costume contest with prizes from event sponsor Pet Pantry Warehouse, free refreshments, free photos with pet photographer Geoffrey Tischman and free pet caricatures from local artist Bill Hernandez. Sun, 10/26: 1-4pm. Greenwich Common Park, 290 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich. More info or to register your dog.
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Spooky Tales at Caramoor  This interactive event offers children (3-8) spooky (but not scary) stories of goblins, ghosts, and happy witches in the Rosen House Music Room from the award-winning storyteller Laura Simms. Plus hot cider and cookies in the summer dining room and prizes for best costumes. Thurs, 10/30: 3:30pm. (Caramoor, Rosen House, Katonah; More on this & more Halloween Events.
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More boo for you!  There's more boo on our Where To Celebrate Halloween Guide. Including The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the NYBG (pictured here). There's Boo at Muscoot and Hilltop Hanover Farms, at North Castle Recreation's Halloween Spooktacular and the Byram Hills Preschool Association's Halloween Ball. There's boo for teens at The Haunt at Rocky Ledge, Rye Playland & Horseman's Hollow at Philipsburg Manor. More Boo for Kids & Teen!
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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Demi, Bedford Chamber Concerts, Ian Anderson & Phil Lesh  Coming up on the local music scene next week: Demo Lovato is at Barclays Center, Il Giardino d'Amore performs Bach and Handel at Bedford's Chamber Concerts, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame is at The Ridgefield Playhouse, The Mavericks are in Tarrytown and Phil Lesh & Friends kick off a 12 show show run at The Capitol Theatre on Halloween. More music here.
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46th Annual Chappaqua Antiques Show 
The Chappaqua Antiques Show offers merchandise from 50 dealers, an on-site appraiser, design consultant, gourmet café, homemade desserts, and raffles. The show supports the Horace Greeley House Museum and its events for students, adults and researchers. Sat-Sun, 11/1-2: 10am-5pm. (West Orchard School, Chappaqua. www.newcastlehs.org)
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Chappaqua Crafts & Gifts Fair  30th annual craft fair featuring over 85 vendors presenting handcrafted clothing, designer clothing, handbags and accessories, original artwork, tableware and furniture, bath and beauty products, floral designs, gourmet foods and more. Plus raffles, kids creations and donation alley. This event produced by the Bell Middle School PTA benefits the Bell Middle School. Sat, 11/8: 10am-4pm. (Robert E. Bell Middle School, 50 Senter St., Chappaqua. Read more.
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