Hudson Valley Restaurant Week runs through Sun, 3/22. You can lunch for just $20.95 or dinner for $29.95 at 118 Westchester restaurants and more throughout the Hudson Valley. It's a great excuse to duck your head into your favorite local eateries. If you are feeling ambitious or itching to get out of town, we carefully screened the list and came up with seven HVRW participants that have no blackout dates (or exclusions we can live with) where you will save big and that are worth the trip. Read more.

We know what you are thinking. "How is Amore only one year old? They've been an Armonk icon for 18 years." We're talking about the new Amore Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria at One Kent Place, that after a recent move and renovation is bigger, better and way more locavore friendly than ever before. To find out how to enter our drawing for a $175 gift certificate to Amore Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria read more here.

Over ninety local spring events you won't want to miss. From the Orchid Show at NYBG to Gentleman's Poker Night at the Bedford Historical Society and the Chappaqua House Tour. Foodies, townies, culture vultures and locavores fill up your Outlook calendars here.

Now online, the best sixty-two spring what to dos for tots to teens, like this Sound of Music Sing-A-Long at the Performing Arts Center. We cover the farms, the planetariums, the County Center and even Madison Square Garden. Find out where to fish, bike, hunt for eggs, ride the rip cord and more. From Thomas Jefferson to Big Bird. 

Our Spring Music Guide has 113 concerts from Bedford to Barclays Center, Caramoor to PAC. Including Miranda Lambert, Ed Sheeran, The Who, the Chappaqua Orchestra, Patty Lupone, Natalie Merchant, Bedford Chamber Concerts, a pair of Steves (Winwood and Wonder), Judy Collins and Eric Church. Plus the best tribute bands covering the Beatles, the Dead and Zeppelin. Bookmark this for spring!

Here's the best local comedy line-up in recent memory. You can see these headliners perform stand-up without ever paying a toll: Carol Burnett, Jay Leno, Bob Newhart, Paul Reiser, our fave rave Steven Wright, Robert Klein, Lewis Black, Wanda Sykes, Lisa Lampanelli, Whitney Cummings and John Mulaney, the rising star from Fox's new comedy, Mulaney. More theatre, dance comedy.

Joan Osborne plays the Emelin Theatre this week. Phil Lesh is at The Capitol Theatre. Also at The Capitol, The Moody Blues. Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky are in Tarrytown. The Eagles's Don Felder is at the Ridgefield Playhouse. Chamber music fans can see the Calidore Quartet at Caramoor. Natalie Merchant plays with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra at PAC on Friday night and on Sunday PAC hosts the "Jewish roots" band, The Klezmatics. Check out all this and more on our Spring Music Guide.

Chappaqua's own Yulia Omelich, certified fashionista and proprietor of the Couture Dossier on King Street, offers up a lecture and demonstration on A History of Hermes Scarves & How To Tie Them for the New Castle Historical Society. Wed, 3/18: 7pm at the Horace Greeley House in Chappaqua. There's more guest lectures and author talks in Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua on our What To Do: Spring Events Guide. Including a special guest appearance at the Chappaqua Library from NYT's Frank Bruni, who will talk about how to survive the college admissions process. Read more.

Rolling Stone called them "the Sistine Chapel of popular music." They have sold over 70 million albums with hits like "Nights In White Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon", "Ride My See Saw", "The Story In Your Eyes", "Isn't Life Strange", "Question", "I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)", "Your Wildest Dreams", and "I Know You're Out There Somewhere". They're at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester for two nights this week. Read more.

The ever eclectic Lagond Spotlight series, at the new performance space The Haven, continues with bluegrass legend Tony Trischka on Saturday night. Also at The Haven is a tribute to Herbie Hancock, The Blue Note Years on Sunday. All performances at The Haven benefit the Lagond Music School. Jazz icon Charlie Lagond appears regularly at the North Castle Public Library.  More on this and over 100 spring concerts here.

Yes, Westchester has its own Opera company. Dan Montez, Director of The Taconic Opera, presents Giuseppe Verdi's classic about Violetta, the restless courtesan who is reunited with the one great love she found in Alfredo for a final moment before her death. You can see them in White Plains at The Play Group Theater on Sunday, March 22. 

More theatre, dance & comedy here.

Camp Armonk Open House, Sat, March 28

The Armonk Tennis Club will host an Open House on Sat, 3/28: 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.)

Look for the first signs of spring: skunk cabbage unfurling, spicebush in bloom, frogs calling from vernal pools and bluebirds flitting in the fields on this moderate hike with some steep sections from Teatown to Bald Mountain and back. Team up with Teatown guides on Sunday March 29. Get outdoors this spring on the farms, the ponds, trails and community road races on our Spring Events Guide.

The March music scene concludes next week with Yun-Chin Zhou, who will perform with Bedford Chamber Concerts. More March music includes the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at PAC, Edward Arron & Friends at Caramoor, The Outlaws, Cassandra Wilson, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Billy & The Kids (Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzman) perform Europe 72 at The Capitol. More music.