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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: In & Around Town This Week
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Chocolat in Chappaqua
 Food author and film buff Carol Durst presents Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat, about a woman and her daughter who open up an unusual chocolate shop across from a church in a small French town at the beginning of Lent. One by one the townspeople succumb to their sinfully delicious creations causing a deep moral crisis that prompts the Comte de Reynaud, played by Alfred Molina, to attempt to run them out of town. With Juliette Binoche, Judy Dench, Lena Olin, and Johnny Depp. Homemade desserts and discussion follow the film. Friday night at the Chappaqua Library. More on this and more winter events here. |
Friday Night Movies at NCPL with Professor Valerie Franco
Twenty One Up: The third in Michael Apted's documentary series featuring interviews with fourteen British seven year old children from the ages of 7 to 49 years old. This installment catches them at 21. Fri, 2/27: 7pm. Run Lola Run: Lola 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.
Pope Joan: Sonke Wortmann 's 2009 drama starring David Wenham, from
Lord of the Rings, about a mythical female pope who allegedly reigned during the Middle Ages. Fri, 3/13: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library) Read more,
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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 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. |
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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 |
Emefe: Afrobeat at The Haven this week
 Lagond's Spotlight Series continues with Emefe, the eight piece orchestra whose Afro-beat sound, according to allaboutjazz.com, is laced with a touch of Sly Stone, lots of surf rock guitar, and a horn section that resonates with the influences of Gil Evans and Sun Ra. Jazz icon Charlie Lagond's new Spotlight Series, to benefit the Lagond Music School, showcases top roots acts from Columbian harp jazz to Emefe to bluegrass legend Tony Trishka coming on 3/12. Charley regularly performs at the North Castle Public Library. More music. |
The Orchid Show at NYBG
Stroll beneath dozens of suspended designs in the tropical ambience of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden. This year's expanded displa fills the Rain Forest Galleries and beyond with flamboyant color and intoxicating fragrance. The Orchid Show opens this weekend. Read more here. |
Keb Mo, Queen, Rick Springfield, and Emefe at The Haven
This weekend's music includes Keb Mo in Tarrytown, Rick Springfield, One Night Of Queen, the 50th Anniversary of the British Invasion, the Ars-Antiqua period Instrument Orchestra in Chappaqua and the Afro-beat sounds of Emefe - the latest in the Lagond Spotlight series at The Haven in Elmsford. More Music. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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A Cabernet for Cali-Geeks: raspberry, cassis, cocoa 
This week's Wine Geeks Wine of the Week is the Bench Cabernet Sauvignon from California's Alexander Valley. This lush red shows notes of supple cherry, raspberry and cassis with subtle nuances of cedar, cocoa powder and wildflowers. 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 CALIGEEK to purchase. Through Sun, 3/1. (Wine Geeks Armonk, 559 Main St., Armonk, 914-273-WIN (9463)
www.winegeeksarmonk.com
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The Harvey School Hosts Drop In Day
 The Harvey School's Drop-In Day Wed, 2/25 from 9-11am is 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 6 through 12. For information call 914-232-3161, ext. 138 or click here. |
Kiwi Country Day Camp Tours
Call today to reserve your tour for 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. |
Harvey School Children's Carnival
 On Sat, 2/28 the Harvey School campus will be transformed into a family fun center. There you will find bouncy castles, carnival games and other amusements in Harvey's new gym. Plus nail and hair salons, photo ops and treats like popcorn, cotton candy, hot dogs, chili, chips and baked goods. All of the proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders and the All Stars Project. Plus, Mr. Met has just signed on to attend the Harvey School Carnival. He will be joined by the WHUD Fan Van crew who have a host of fun activities in store for the kids. More kids stuff. |
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 two weeks your kids can get a maple sugar lesson that will last a lifetime at Muscoot Farm and at Teatown Lake Reservation. (Pictured here Warren's Sugar Shack at Teatown) Read more. |
The Amazing Max At WPPAC
PBS Kids calls The Amazing Max "an awesome & hilarious live magic show", and the Huffington Post says "his ability to astound is something to see!" The show bursts with striking visual magic, comedy and loads of audience participation. Magician Max Darwin makes objects appear out of thin air, defies the laws of physics and performs miracles inches from spectators' faces! Sat, 2/28 at the White Plains Performing Arts Center. There's more on this and more kids events for the winter on our What To Do: With the Kids guide on our website. Read more.
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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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March Music: Diana Krall, Natalie Merchant, The Moody Blues
Diana Krall, The Moody Blues, Phil Lesh, and John Scofield with Gov't. Mule highlight a great month for music at The Capitol Theatre this March. Natalie Merchant is at the Performing Arts Center in Purchase and Tony Trischka is at The Haven in Elmsford. Locally, everyone is in play: Bedford Chamber Concerts, The Chappaqua Orchestra, REBEL Baroque in Bedford and there's American roots and chamber music at Caramoor. More March Music here. |
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. |
Byram Hills Stage: South Pacific
 The Byram Hills stage company travels to Bali Hai for an enchanted evening with Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque, Lt. Joe Cable and Liat, Bloody Mary and a cast of WWII sailors and nurses drawn from the James Michener classic Tales of the South Pacific. With a score from the inimitable Rodgers and Hammerstein with unforgettable songs like "Some Enchanted Evening", "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair", "There Is Nothing Like A Dame", "I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy", "Younger Than Springtime", and "Bali Hai." Check dates and times here. |
The Schoolhouse Theatre presents Gamma Rays
 The Schoolhouse Theatre presents Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Since its premiere in 1971, this masterful and moving drama about an eccentric widow and her two adolescent daughters has continued to hold its place as a mid-20th century American classic. Fri-Sun, 3/6-29. (Croton Falls) Check dates and times. |
Katonah Sidewalk Sale
 Special bargains and sidewalk sale prices on merchandise from the chain store free network of independent stores in this charming walking town with lots of Victorian gingerbread on Katonah Avenue and the surrounding residential area. Grab a bite at Blue Dolphin, NoKa Joe's, Peppino's, Willie Nicks or Pizza Station. Parking in the commuter lots is free after 12 on Friday and all day Saturday. Fri-Sat, 7/26-7: 10am-5pm. (Katonah Ave., Katonah; Link |
Katonah Sidewalk Sale
Special bargains and sidewalk sale prices on merchandise from the chain store free network of independent stores in this charming walking town with lots of Victorian gingerbread on Katonah Avenue and the surrounding residential area. Grab a bite at Blue Dolphin, NoKa Joe's, Peppino's, Willie Nicks or Pizza Station. Parking in the commuter lots is free after 12 on Friday and all day Saturday. Fri-Sat, 7/26-7: 10am-5pm. (Katonah Ave., Katonah; Link |
Katonah Sidewalk Sale
Special bargains and sidewalk sale prices on merchandise from the chain store free network of independent stores in this charming walking town with lots of Victorian gingerbread on Katonah Avenue and the surrounding residential area. Grab a bite at Blue Dolphin, NoKa Joe's, Peppino's, Willie Nicks or Pizza Station. Parking in the commuter lots is free after 12 on Friday and all day Saturday. Fri-Sat, 7/26-7: 10am-5pm. (Katonah Ave., Katonah; Link |
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