What's your house worth? How long will it take you to sell it? What percent of your asking price will you be able to bank on? We asked Ted Holmes of Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Chappaqua and Michael Levy of Grand Lux Realty in Armonk to report in on the local real estate market. Here's what they told us. Read more.

There's good eating at Westchester Community College's pop-up cooking classes and tastings. They're coming to One-Twenty-One in North Salem on Mon, 4/13, and Crabtree's Kittle House in Chappaqua on Wed, 4/15. Check out our post for the full menus that include a mint ravioli with goat cheese, Western Ross Island Scottish Salmon, and a chamomile pots de creme. Full menus here.

Jacob Burns' Westchester Jewish Film Festival opens this week with 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, aka M.A.S.H. in the Negev, offers a humorous take on women in the Israeli military. 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.

No, this is not an image of a (yet another) new Armonk restaurant. It is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting A Peasant Wedding. Learn more about this and Northern Renaissance Art at Professor Valerie Franco's Art History lectures at NCPL in April. Read more. 

Rising star Cyrille Aimee's stylings are influenced by the guitar jazz of Django Rheinhardt and the Brazilian guitar rhythms of the samba and the bossa nova. See her at The Palace in Stamford on Friday. The Midtown Men, four stars from The Jersey Boys, bring their new show, Sixties with a Modern Twist, to the Tarrytown Music Hall on Thursday. And The Broadway Dolls, straight from the cast of Chicago, Rock of Ages, Mama Mia and Grease sing and dance to everyone from Lady Gaga to Frank Sinatra at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday.  More on this big music weekend here.

The Chappaqua Library presents an author talk with NY Times bestselling history novelist Allison Pataki who will discuss her new book, The Accidental Empress. The Accidental Empress tells the tumultuous love story of Sisi, the Austro-Hungarian Empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph. The book, which

follows up her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Traitors Wife, about the wife of Benedict Arnold, debuted at no. 7 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Allison, the daughter of former NY State Governor George Pataki, has also written for The Huffington Post. Read more.

The Bedford Spring Antiques Show at The Harvey School is the primary fundraising event for St. Matthews Church in Bedford each year. The show kicks off with a Champagne Preview Party and Dinner at The Harvey School on Friday night at 6pm. This fundraising event continues throughout the weekend with shopping open to the public at The Harvey School in Katonah on Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 11am-5pm. (The Harvey School, 260 Jay St., Katonah;  More on this and more local events in April here.

Meet at the Bedford Hills Metro North Train Station for the 6th Annual Bedford Hills Neighborhood Association's 5K Run for the Hills. This race for young and old is a fundraiser for the BHNA. On site registration begins at 7:30am and closes by 8am. The race begins at 8:30am. Or sign up online. Sat, 4/11: 8:30 am. (48 Depot Plaza, Bedford Hills) Read more. 

Acclaimed cover band Dead On Live celebrate 50 years of The Grateful Dead in an evening titled All the Years Combine at The Capitol Theatre this week. Meanwhile, at The Paramount Hudson Valley, Zeppelin tribute band, Kashmir rocks Peekskill. Both this Saturday night.

Bookmark this for more April music right here!

NCHS's annual meeting features a presentation by New Castle Town Historian Gray Williams who will discuss the joint effort by NCHS and the Town of New Castle to restore and maintain the town's many historic graveyards. Mr. Williams will give an illustrated talk on the history of these cemeteries and take guests on a brief walking tour of the historic Quaker Graveyard. Sun, 4/12: 2:30pm. (Quaker Meeting House, 420 Quaker Rd., Chappaqua; 914-238-4666; newcastlehs.org)

If you like Leadbelly or Roy Orbison you'll love Willie Watson. Formerly of Old Crow Medicine Show, Watson's first solo album, Folk Singer Vol. 1, covers American roots standards like "Mexican Cowboy"; "Memphis Slim's 12-bar-blues "Mother Earth",  and St, Louis bluesman Louis Jordan's "Keep It Clean". He will be joined by the hot indie-string band Cricket Tell the Weather in an evening of roots music at Caramoor this weekend. More April Music here.

Purchase College, SUNY will host an Open House on Sat, 4/18: 10am-12pm. for their Youth and Precollege Programs in the Arts, a premier summer arts enrichment experience for children entering grades 4-12. Learn about the programs, take a tour, and meet the instructors of the Visual Arts, Acting, Shakespeare, Musical Theatre, Filmmaking, Photography, Song-writing, A Capella, Vocal Intensive, Percussion, Journalism, Fashion Design, Video Game & App Creation, Minecraft, Architecture, Comic Books, and Creative Writing programs. (SUNY Purchase, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Music Building, Room 0078, Purchase, 914.251.6500; www.purchase.edu/youth)

The Harvey Cavalier Summer Camp will hold an open house, Sat, April 11 at The Harvey School, 260 Jay Street, Katonah from 10am-2pm. The camp, which features fine arts, crafts, theater, dance, gymnastics, swimming, sports and ice skating, is a limited enrollment, elective program for children entering pre-K through ninth grade. Open house visitors will meet the directors and tour the facilities on the 125-acre campus of The Harvey School. For more information, call (914) 232-0581 or visit: www.harveyschool.org)

Fill up your Outlook calendars with these 15 kids events for April. From Thomas Jefferson to the Amazing Max and Pinkalicious, fishing derbies, sheep shearing, The Sound of Music and even some Shakespeare for the kids. What To Do: With the Kids in April

Breezemont opens up its camp for an indoor shopping spree to fight lyme disease and tick born illnesses. Cruise the 29 vendors including 2 Friends, Beauty Counter, Chintz Giraffe, Covert Closet, Eden Max Home, Excessorize, Eye Candy, Funky Tykes, Lilly Jade, Love Tennis, Meryl Roesch Sunglasses, Michelle Vale Handbags, Peaceable Hill Paperie, Sew Scrumptious,  Simply Hip,  So Sweet Jewels, True Lipz and more. All proceeds benefit  TBDA/LRA research fund. More April Events.

The Armonk Chamber of Commerce has named Sam Morell its 2015 Citizen of the Year. The Chamber will honor Sam at a golf outing, followed by cocktails and dinner at the Whippoorwill Club on Tuesday, May 12. Sam is the founder of the Small Town Theatre Company that performs at Hergenhan Hall. The company also produces a Summer Music Series at Wampus Brook Park. The event is chaired by Jason Rosenzweig of Castle Cab. For more information and to sign up for the event see our Spring Events.

The Hudson Stage Company, Whippoorwill Hall's new Artists-in-Residence at the North Castle Public Library, presents John 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 film Moonstruck. 

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