Are they open? Does anybody go there? Is it hot? Not? Does Armonk really need another Italian restaurant? Wait, is it even Italian? When we were there ... 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.

We've had a lot of fun and good eating at A Taste of Westchester, Westchester Community College's pop-up cooking classes and tastings. In April they're coming to Pour Cafe and Wine Bar, Cafe of Love and Via Vanti! in Mt. Kisco, The Beehive in Armonk, Crabrtree's Kittle House in Chappaqua and One-Twenty-One in North Salem. Check out our post for the dates and menus that include a mint ravioli with goat cheese, Western Ross Island Scottish Salmon, a Cinco de Mayo feast and chamomile pots de creme. More Yum Here.

Stealing Fire: Memoir Of A Boyhood In The Shadow Of Atomic Espionage, that serves both as a scholarly history of a society nearly paralyzed by fear of Russia and the bomb and a poignant memoir of his dysfunctional immigrant family and his father who passed atomic secrets to America's enemy. Friday night at the Chappaqua Library. On Wednesday the library will screen Michael Apted's Agatha, a fictional account of the real life, never explained 1926 disappearance of murder mystery writer Agatha Christie. Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman. 

Yun-Chin Zhou, winner of Julliard's prestigious Anna Bechauer International Piano Competition, will perform with Bedford Chamber Concerts on Wednesday night. Also this week pianist Jeremy Denk joins the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at PAC and Edward Arron & Friends perform at Caramoor, More music.

Virtuoso cellist Edward Arron is joined by alums of Caramoor's Rising Star mentoring program for an evening of Mozart, Brahms and Dohanyi quintets. Sat, 3/28 at Caramoor's Rosen House. Read more.

More PAC for Spring.

This week at the music halls: WTD Fave Rave Cassandra Wilson pays homage to Billie Holiday at The Ridgefield Playhouse. The Outlaws also take the stage there this weekend. More local music includes Blood Sweat and Tears at the Paramount Hudson Valley and Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzman's band, Billy & The Kids play the Dead's Europe 72 album at the Capitol Theatre. In the big box arenas there's Miranda Lambert at MSG and Neil Diamond at Barclays. Cellist Edward Arron & Friends are at Caramoor and pianist Jeremy Denk performs with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at PAC. Spring Music Guide.

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.

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.)

Wear boots and bring a bag to North Castle Recreation's annual egg hunt for boys and girls pre-K through grade 5. Sat, 3/28: 10:30am SHARP! (Community Park Track Field, 205 Business Park Dr., Armonk) Sat 3/28: 12:30pm SHARP!. (North Castle Community Center Fields, 10 Clove Road, N.W. Plains) More kids stuff.

Off Broadway's improvised, interactive, musical pirate adventure filled with Monty Python-esque laughs for kids (ages 4-14) and grown-ups! The show was nominated as "Best Family Show 2014" by the Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. This week at WPPAC. Read more.

Join Muscoot's naturalist for a hike to the vernal pools at Muscoot Farm. Discover wood frogs, salamanders and fairy shrimp. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes. This week at Muscoot Farm.

Bookmark this for more stuff to do with the kids this spring.

In this new star show at the Hudson River Museum Planetarium, Big Bird, Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu take a trip from Sesame Street to the moon. They discover that planets are different from one another but people on Earth are often the same - they love to fly kites! Children can't fly a kite on the moon because there is no wind but on Earth they can! More learning, too, about the Big Dipper, the North Star, the sun, and the moon. Produced by Sesame Workshop, the Beijing Planetarium, Chicago's Adler Planetarium, and Liberty Science Center with major funding provided by the National Science Foundation. Read more.

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 to the Castles of New Castle House Tour. Foodies, townies, culture vultures and locavores update your Outlook here.

The Hudson Stage Company, Whippoorwill Hall's new Artists-in-Residence at the North Castle Public Library, presents Johhn Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar for its second main stage production. The NYT's called Outside Mullingar, Patrick Shanley's best since Doubt. Shanley also wrote the screenplay for the hit film Moonstruck.

More and more theatre, dance & comedy for spring right here.

Jacob Burns' Westchester Jewish Film Festival presents 38 films and live programming celebrating the grand sweep of the Jewish experience. The lineup includes everything from forbidden footage from Nazi propaganda films to Hitchcockian thrillers of concentration camp survivors searching for lost loved ones in post-war Berlin. Zero Motivation, following a sold out run at the Film Forum,

offers a humorous take on women in the Israeli military and has been called a M.A.S.H. in the Negev. Plus documentaries like Famous Nathan (pictured here) of the legendary Coney Island eatery, Touchdown Israel (yep an Israeli football league) and The Outrageous Sophie Tucker. Mazel Tov.

Our Spring Music Guide has 113 concerts from Bedford to Barclays Center. Including Willie Watson (pictured here) who will perform as part of Caramoor's American Roots series. Plus, Ed Sheeran, The Who, the Chappaqua Orchestra, Patty Lupone,  a pair of Steves (Winwood and Wonder), Judy Collins, Eric Church, and the best Beatles, Dead and Zeppelin tribute bands. Bookmark for spring!