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What To Eat: Double Foodie Alert!
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Fattoria Armonk: Char Hounds eat here!
Fattoria Dinner House quietly opened in Armonk last fall and if you put your ear to the ground you can hear the quiet buzz. The cast iron grill churning out grilled meats, fish and veggies with a char that celebrates in the end zone is a big reason why. Read more.
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A Taste Of Westchester is coming to town!
 It's a continuing education class. It's a private cooking demonstration. It's a tasting dinner. And it's coming to a restaurant near you. The Westchester Community College of Continuing Education's A Taste of Westchester offers cooking classes (and tastings) with top chefs at local restaurants. More! |
Liz Rappaport of Chappaqua is going to La Cremaillere
 If you think you know that face you may have seen her on CNBC where she squares off with the bulls and the bears about personal finance from her perch as the editor of the Wall Street Journal's Personal Journal section. Locally she earned her 15 minutes of fame by winning our drawing for a dinner for two at La Cremaillere. Enter our next drawing for a valuable prize from local sponsors by liking us on Facebook. Read more. |
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What To Do: In & Around Town
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42nd Annual Bedford Art Show
 The Bedford Art Show kicks off with a preview party on Fri, 1/23 and continues on Sat. & Sun. featuring art, sculpture and photography. Plus, this study of a painting by Stephen Hannock, titled "Northern City Renaissance: Newcastle, England", that was commissioned by the musician Sting. Read more. |
David Pendleton in Stamford
 "Anything can talk", says ventriloquist David Pendleton. Watch him make his cast of comedic characters do just that. Including: the 94 year old spinster Aunt Tilly; the quick-witted trouble maker, Mack Elroy; hound dog Buford; and the misguided albino vulture, Vern. Audience participation alert! David Pendleton may make you talk, too. Fri, 1/23 at The Stamford Palace.
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Phenomenal Organist Cameron Carpenter at PAC
 "Not your grandma's organist," wrote the Wall Street Journal. Noting his "shirt covered in Swarovski crystals," The New York Times all but called him the Elton John of Baroque music. His flamboyant style is just the subtext to his musical innovations. He built his own digital church organ for touring. Equally unconventional are his Bach interpretations and his adaptations of Chopin piano music for the organ. He even transcribed Duke Ellington's "Solitude" for the organ - making him the world's first "church organ" jazz crossover artist. Sat, 1/24: 8pm. (Performing Arts Center; PAC.) |
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Harlem Wizards vs. The Chappaqua Challengers
 Chappaqua school district teachers and administrators take on the Harlem Wizards in an afternoon of basketball and comedy. This event is sponsored by the Chappaqua School Foundation and benefits all Chappaqua schools. In 2014 the Chappaqua School Foundation raised over $150,000 and made 12 grants to the High School, Middle and Elementary Schools for physics and visual arts lab equipment, SMART boards and E-Readers, fitness center technology, compost tumblers and more. Sun, 1/25: 1:30pm. (Horace Greeley HS Gym) More Winter Events |
Friday Night Movies with Professor Valerie Franco
 Wings of Desire: Wim Wenders' 1989 classic about two well-meaning angels who try to provide comfort for the people of war-torn Berlin scored a 98 on Rotten Tomatoes Critics Tomato-meter. Fri, 1/23: 7pm. Seven Up Plus: Paul Almond's film follows the lives of a group of English children every seven years from childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood. Fri, 1/30: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library) Read more. |
Where To See: Museums
 What To Do's Winter Museums Guide is up with new exhibitions at the Katonah Art Museum, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, the Neuberger in Purchase and the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. An absolute Winter Must See is the full room installation Imperial Texture by David Scanavino (pictured here) and the Cary Smith exhibit at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield. Get your art on here. Where To See: Museums |
The Machine Performs Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac ...
 This week Fleetwood Mac is at MSG, the Latin Jazz harpist Edmar Castaneda is at The Haven, and The Ridgefield Playhouse hosts Sarah Lee Guthrie and The Machine Performs Pink Floyd. Elsewhere Cameron Carpenter is at PAC, The Hudson Chorale is in Irvington, the Westchester Symphonic Winds are in Tarrytown REBEL Ensemble for Baroque Music is in White Plains and Linkin Park takes the stage at The Barclays Center. More Music. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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A silky red for NAPA Geeks! 
This week's Wine Geeks Wine of the Week is the Sean Minor Cabernet Sauvignon from California's Napa Valley. This silky red shows notes of black cherry, plum and cassis with nuances of violets, cocoa powder and cedar. Normally twenty-two bucks, with this week's discount it's only $18.69 a bottle! Buy it by the case and receive an even deeper 20% discount off of the original price! Use discount code NAPAGEEK to purchase. Through Sun, 1/25. (Wine Geeks Armonk, 559 Main St., Armonk, 914.273.946
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The Harvey School Hosts Drop In Day
 The Harvey School will host a Drop-In Day Wed, 1/28 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. for families exploring educational options for 2015 or 2016 enrollment. Visitors will meet Admissions Director William Porter, Upper School Head Phil Lazzaro and Middle School Head Brendan Byrne, who will speak to the school's academic programs. There will be a tour of the school while classes are in session. Located on a 125-acre campus in Katonah, The Harvey School is a coeducational college-preparatory school for students in grades six through 12. For more information, call 914-232-3161, ext. 138 or click here. |
Camp Armonk Open House, Sat, January 24
 The Armonk Tennis Club will host an Open House on Sat, 1/24: 11am-2pm for Camp Armonk, a premier summer sports and enrichment experience for children entering grades K-5. Camp Armonk also offers a Mad Science program that adds educational elements to the athletic activities, and The Armonk International Tennis Academy Summer program that tailors training programs for players of all levels. Armonk Tennis Club, 546 Bedford Rd., Armonk, 914.273.8124; Camp Armonk. |
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Summer Camp Guide
 Summer Camp Shopping begins with the New Year. You will find over 100 local summer camp options including sports, nature, science, theatre and arts camps in What To Do's Summer Camps Guide. Including, Kiwi Country Day Camp pictured here. Shop by category or key word search. Summer Camp Guide. |
How to hit a tennis ball and keep your chin up while learning
 Bob Bull is the Director of Tennis at the Saw Mill Club in Mt. Kisco where he directs a team of 13 USPTA tennis instructors. He was a walk-on tennis player at Fordham University who became a scholarship player and team MVP. He is an 11 time USTA Eastern number 1 player in the 40s, 45s, and 50s brackets. We asked him how to teach a child to hit a tennis ball, how to use the game to build confidence and how to overcome the frustrations of learning the game. Read more. |
Click! Clack! Moo!
 Theatreworks USA presents a new musical based on the Caldecott Honor Book Click! Clack! Moo! by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin where the cows type and the hens go on strike when Farmer Brown declares the farm a "tech free zone." Sat, 1/24. Emelin Theatre. More Stuff to do with the kids. |
Jim Henson's Sid the Science Kid Live: Let's Play
 Sid, Gabriela, Gerald and May take a journey through the five senses and discover a very special sixth sense! Teacher Susie leads them and the kids in the audience through an interactive musical adventure packed with special sensory effects that fill the theatre with sight, smell, sound and more! Fri, 2/6. (Palace Theatre, Stamford) More Kids Stuff here. |
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Free for Kids! Westchester Philharmonic Family Program
Before the concert, get up close and personal with some cellos at the Westchester Phil's instrument "petting zoo." Teaching artists from the Philharmonic will be on hand to guide young listeners as they explore violins, trumpets, drums and more. Then Ted Sperling conducts special guest Anne-Marie McDermott, piano, and the Westchester Phil in a family friendly program of Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute; Grieg: Piano Concerto and Beethoven: Symphony No. 2. Ages 17 & under go free with a paid adult ticket. Sun, 2/8: 3pm. (Performing Arts Center, Purchase) More Kids.
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The B52s, Jack White, Bela Fleck & The Rascals
 More January music features Jack White playing the Garden. The B 52s rock the Capitol Theatre and Bela Flek and The Knights will perform at PAC. The Ridgefield Playhouse hosts The Rascals and Alan Parsons Project. And Stephen Sondheim and Steve Reich perform their milestone works at The Appell Room at Lincoln Center. There's more music through March. Read more here. |
Bela Flek and The Knights at PAC
 Virtuoso banjoist Béla Fleck has received Grammy nominations in more categories (bluegrass, country, pop, jazz, Latin, classical crossover and world music) than any other artist. He has won 15 Grammies with his band The Flecktones, and in collaborations with Asleep At The Wheel, Joshua Bell, Chick Corea, and West African artists on Throw Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions. He joins the chamber orchestra, The Knights, whose music fuses baroque, classical, jazz, pop, klezmer, and indie rock. Sat, 1/31. Performing Arts Center) More. |
David Mamet's A Life In The Theatre at PAC
 Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre On Tour presents Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre. TheNew York Yorker called Mamet's laugh-filled, behind-the-scenes look at backstage ego trips, feuds, fears, and acting tips, "a love letter to the theatre." The play was first produced at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in February 1977 and opened off-Broadway later that year. Memorable productions have starred the likes of Joe Montegna, F. Murray Abrahman and Patrick Stewart. Tues, 2/3: 8pm. (Performing Arts Center, Purchase College) More PAC. |
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