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What To Eat: Worth the trip?
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Manhattan's Rye House comes to Port Chester
 Here's another big city transport that has come to Westchester. In mid-January Rye House NYC, the hit American craft bistro and bar in Manhattan's Flatiron district opened in Port Chester. Is it worth the trip for dedicated foodies (and quaffers) in Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua? When we were there ... |
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What To Do: Hot Ticket Alert
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Harvey Presents Harvey Fierstein
 Emmy Award-winning film and theatre critic Pat Collins will interview Harvey Fierstein, the four- time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright at The Harvey School as part of their Harvey Presents series on March 13. Tickets won't last. Read more here. |
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What To Do: In & Around Town This Week
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Mary Cassatt in France at the Chappaqua Library
 Susan Courtney lectures about Mary Cassatt's journey to become an artist in France and her struggles to balance family obligations against her fight to gain fame and fortune in a male-dominated business. Susan is a theatre professor and playwright who has written Girl in Blue Armchair which is about Mary's life. This weekend at the Chappaqua Library. Read more. |
Friday Night Movies at NCPL with Professor Valerie Franco
Elegy: Isabel Croixet takes on Philip Roth's novel about a May-December romance in this film with Ben Kinglsey, Penelope Cruz and Dennis Hopper. Fri, 2/20: 7pm. Twenty One Up: Michael Apted's follows up his documentary of fourteen British seven year old children every 7 years for 49 years. This installment catches them at 21. Fri, 2/27: 7pm. Run Lola Run: Lola, Tom Twyker's heroine, has twenty minutes to come up with 100,000 deutschmarks to save her boyfriend. A 93% critic's rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Fri, 3/6: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library) Read more,
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The Best of Looney Tunes at Jacob Burns
 The Best of Looney Tunes at Jacob Burns this weekend features nine restored cartoons from the 40s and 50s. You can see all your favorite characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester in these classic cartoons: One Froggy Evening (1955), Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944), Mouse Wreckers (1949), Back Alley Oproar (1948), The Big Snooze (1946), Feed the Kitty (1952), Birds Anonymous (1957), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (1953). These DCP restorations look amazing on the big screen! Read more. |
French-American Musical Exchange in Chappaqua
 The Chappaqua Orchestra's Chamber Series presents this French-American musical exchange that brings French saxophonists Nicolas Prost and Anne Lecapelain to the United States for a collaboration with American saxophonist Christopher Brellochs and pianist Cynthia Peterson. They will perform a program of music from Debussy, Ibert, and Milhaud. Sun, 2/22: 3pm. (Chappaqua Library) More music. |
Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney
 This fascinating exhibit, at the Stanford Museum & Nature Center, features 59 original oil paintings from the New York Times best-selling Dinotopia book series by author and artist James Gurney. Dinotopia, the setting of the books, is a fictional island utopia inhabited by humans and dinosaurs who have created a complex, interdependent society. Read more. |
Big music weekend
 This weekend's music includes Buckwheat Zydeco, Foreigner, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, The Pink Floyd Experience, Lonestar, and the Chappaqua Orchestra. More Music. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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Discover your Whisk(e)y Palate with Heather Greene 
Join Wine Geeks in welcoming back spirits sommelier and author of
WHISK(E)Y DISTILLED: A POPULIST GUIDE TO THE WATER OF LIFE,
Heather Greene! This rockstar of the whisky world will be your guide as you discover your new favorite brown spirit while she breaks down the differences between all the different styles in a fun and informative way. $35 per person. BOOK NOW! CALL FOR DETAILS. Reservations required as seating is limited. Spirits Class: Sat, 2/21: 7-8:30pm. (Wine Geeks Armonk, 559 Main St., Armonk, 914-273-WINE (9463) www.winegeeksarmonk.com
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The Harvey School Hosts Drop In Day
 The Harvey School will host a Drop-In Day Wed, 2/25 from 9 to 11am 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. |
Kiwi Country Day Camp Tours
 Call today to reserve your tour for Sun, 2/22 & Sat, 2/28 at Kiwi Country Day Camp. Kiwi offers programs for kids 3-13 in arts & crafts, music, sports, wilderness adventure, aquatics, video production and summer theatre. With door to door transportation and extended care programs.Call 914.276.CAMP. Camp Kiwi. |
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Summer Camp Guide
 You can find over 100 summer day camps from all-around camps to camps specializing in sports, nature, science, theatre and the arts in What To Do's Camps Guide. Including, Breezemont Day Camp in Armonk pictured here. Summer Camp Guide. |
Sugaring Sundays at the farm and the lake
 See the process of making maple sugar from tapping maple trees to witnessing the boiling process and sampling the final product. For the next three weeks your kids can get a maple sugar lesson that will last a lifetime at Muscoot Farm and at Teatown Lake Reservation. (Pictured here is Warren's Sugar Shack at Teatown) Read more. |
Cashore Marionettes
 Award winning artist Joseph Cashore creates and manipulates lifelike marionettes. This one-of-a-kind performance at Westchester Community College features scenes from everyday life set to music by Beethoven, Vivaldi, Strauss and Copland. These vignettes include: a schoolgirl distracted from her homework, a spiritual yogi's contemplations, a mother rocking her baby, and an elephant in mourning. (Suitable for 8 years and up!) Read more. |
Humpback Whales in IMAX
 The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk joins in the national release of the new IMAX movie Humpback Whales. Shot with IMAX 3D cameras off the shores of Alaska, Hawaii and the Kingdom of Tonga, it offers a close-up look at how these humpback whales communicate, sing, feed, play, care for their young and migrate 6,000 miles each year. You know that's a long strange trip.
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Harvey School Children's Carnival
 The Harvey School campus is transformed on Sat, 2/28 into a family fun center. Expect bouncy castles, carnival games and other amusements in Harvey's new gym. Plus nail and hair salons, photo ops, popcorn, cotton candy, hot dogs, chili, chips and baked goods. All of the proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders and the All Stars Project. More kids stuff. |
Last call for the circus
 Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus kicks off a 10 day run at the Barclays Center. Winter Circus. |
More February Music
 Next up on the music scene: You can see Musical Box perform Genesis' Selling England by the Pound, the Keb Mo Band, and the British Invasion 50th Anniversary Tour with Chad & Jeremy, Billy J. Kramer and more in Tarrytown. In Ridgefield you can see One Night Of Queen and Rick Springfield. Plus the afro-beat sound of Emefe at LaGond's Spotlight Series, Wynton Marsalis and Ars Antiqua in Chappaqua. More Feburary Music here. |
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in Armonk
 We have our tickets for this one. The Small Town Theatre Company takes on Christopher Durang's 2012 Tony-winner for Best Play. VSM&S, a comedic mash-up of Chekhov themes and characters, peaks into the sclerotic lives of siblings Vanya (gay) and Sonia (adopted) who live in quiet retreat in their parents Bucks County home until actress/sister Masha and her boyfriend Spike drop in to upset The Cherry Orchard. Fri-Sat, 2/27-28: 8pm. (Hergenhan Center, 40 Maple Ave., Armonk) Read more. |
Ars-Antiqua in Chappaqua
 Mark Kramer (of Susan Lawrence Gourmet Foods) and his Baroque chamber ensemble presents House of Cards, Paris In the Age of Revolution. This special evening of music and pastries features special guest Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque violin) and a program of Philidor, Guillemain and Telemann. Sat, 2/28: 8pm. (Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Chappaqua) More Chappaqua music. |
The Oscars come to Katonah
View the 2014 Oscar nominated short films and stay for refreshments and film chat, courtesy of the Katonah Village Improvement Society. Documentary Short Films: Sat, 2/28: 7:30pm. (Katonah Village Library) More on this & more events. |
Paul Taylor Dance at PAC
 Paul Taylor's choreography is known for its great wit and penchant for genre studies that re-imagine historical eras like the Middle Ages, the 60s, the Depression, and World War II. Taylor danced with Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and George Balanchine before launching his own troupe. He, in turn, has launched the careers of such choreographers as Twyla Tharp, David Parson, Laura Dean and many others. In 2011 PAC was the site of the world premiere of his critically acclaimed Gossamer Gallants, a colorful and witty exploration of the mating rituals of the housefly. More PAC here. |
Paula Poundstone stand-up
 Poundstone is recognized as one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time and has won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic. In 2010, Poundstone was voted into the Comedy Hall of Fame. As a member of NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me, she is heard in 5 million homes across the country as she matches wits with some of the country's leading pundits. More Comedy |
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