Caramoor's Summer Festival opens on June 20 when Peter Oundjian conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke's. The festival features 31 concerts 

through August 2. There's a Jazz Festival, an American Roots Festival and a host of family friendly events. Check out the full festival calendar here.

It's a music festival, an environmental festival and a day on the river. Take a sloop or schooner ride, enjoy the food, art, crafts, jugglers, clowns, puppet show, petting zoo, and  70 musical acts including David Crosby, Bela Flek, Neko Case, Citizen Cope Band, Guster, The Mavericks, Angelique Kudjo, Los Lobos, Ani DiFranco, Shelby Lynne, Blind Boys of Alabama, the B52s Kate Pierson, The Lone Bellow, Bettye Lavette, and more. Read more.

Food author and film buff, Carol Durst presents Chef, the 2014 Indie hit by Jon Favreau, about a chef who opens up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, and save his estranged family. With an all star cast including Favreau, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, and Sofia Vergara. In Armonk, Professor Valerie Franco screens the seventh and final segment of Michael Apted's groundbreaking documentary, the Up series, that revisits the lives of a group of British schoolchildren every seven years from the age of 7. The series concludes with 56 Up as its subjects approach retirement age. More on this and more summer movies highlights right here.

The Bedford Historical Society's Summer Solstice Party takes on a seventies theme this year with Donna Summer Sizzle cocktails and a "You Make Me Feel Like Dancin'" DJ. Read more.

Direct from Broadway, Chazz Palminteri performs his one-man stage version of the hit movie A Bronx Tale at Tarrytown Music Hall. Based on his childhood growing up with working men and gangsters, Palminteri originally performed his stage script in Los Angeles. He later moved the production to New York, where it earned him Outer Critics Circle Awards for both acting and writing.

Tom Kramer takes on the role of Charlotte, a transvestite antiques dealer living in Nazi Germany, in Doug Wright's Pulitzer Prize winning one-man play, I Am My Own Wife this week in Katonah. Read more.

Local resident, Paul Shaffer makes a special appearance at Moms & Dads Rock for the Northern Westchester Hospital at The Harvey School in Katonah. Our Where To Hear: Summer Music guide has more hyper-local music including the Chappaqua-Millwood Summer Music Concert series, Bedford Recreation's Summer Music Concert in Katonah Memorial Park, Summer Music at Lasdon Park and Caramoor@KMA's music series in the Katonah Museum of Art's sculpture garden. Bookmark this for 114 summer concerts in & around town.

If you think summer means doing the downward facing dog al fresco, here's a couple down-dog-opps for you. The Katonah Village Improvement Society will be "doin' the dog" at the John Jay Homestead this Saturday. If your dog needs a river view, and you're on a long leash, walk-ins are welcome every Monday summer at Boscobel Mansion on the Hudson. Read more.

The King of Queens (aka Paul Blart: Mall Cop) brings his stand-up routines to the Palace Theatre in Stamford on Saturday, June 20. We just want to ride that Segway around The Westchester for a while. Next stop Louis Vuitton! There's more stand-up on our summer guide to the performing arts including, Eddie Izzard, Colin Quinn, Sinbad, Mark Maron, Nick Di Paolo, Frank Caliendo, and the Aussie bi-lingual comedy sensation (Italian and English ... go figure) Joe Iovati. 

Rolling Stone's David Fricke called them "the greatest Beatles cover band without the wigs." Here they perform note by note covers of the Beatles' Rubber Soul and Psychedelic Era hits with extra vocalists to achieve a double-tacked effect. There's more great local music in June with former Eagle J.D. Souther at The Ridgefield Playhouse. The Tarrytown Music Hall features Melissa Etheridge, The Bacon Brothers and Felix Cavaliere and The Rascal. The best local music here.

Our Summer Music Guide features 114 concerts from the Recreation Field in Chappaqua to the best bands at Jones Beach Theater. You can see everyone from Train to Neil Young, Brian Wilson and Idina Menzel at Jones Beach; Keb Mo, David Crosby and Pat Benatar at the Ridgefield Playhouse; Imagine Dragons and Bette Midler at the Barclays Center; Randy Newman and Buddy Guy at the Capitol Theatre; The Marshall Tucker Band and The Music of ABBA at the Paramount Hudson Valley; Suzanne Vega and Lucinda Williams at Caramoor and U2 at Madison Square Garden. More great summer music.

U.S. remodeling spending is set to hit record highs this year. And kitchen and bath remodeling are leading the way. We sat down with Armonk resident Rob Stonbely, V.P. of KBS / Kitchen & Bath Source in North White Plains, to talk kitchen design. Here's what's hot and what's not: Read more.

Here's a great Father's Day Gift for dad. Cherylyn Salon is offering over 30% off a special chill-out session/mini-makeover for dad. The package includes a 60 minute massage, foot scrub and reflexology session. Plus a mini scalp treatment, aroma hot towel and men's haircut. Regularly $265, it's just $175 if you call before Father's Day. (While you're at it ... he couldn't complain if you ordered a massage, facial and blow-out for yourself too - could he? Call 914.273.7900. (Cherylyn Salon and Berner Touch Spa, 430 Bedford Road, Armonk, 914.273.7900; www.cherylynsalon.com)

The Chappaqua Millwood Chamber of Commerce's Movies in Millwood park series continues this week with Disney's 2010 animated tale of the story of Rapunzel. Talk about a bad hair day ... More kids stuff.

Here's a special event for young farmers. Join Stone Barns for a festive evening of live music, seasonal food and family-friendly fun that includes: hands-on farm activities, square dancing, a bonfire, flower mandala-making, evening field tours and story time as they put the hens to bed. More.

Here's a special Father's Day weekend treat for dad and the kids. The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, a "living" museum of antique aviation, offers one of the largest collections of early aero planes (1909 to 1939) in the world plus weekend airshows, and bi-plane rides. Read more.

Here's another Father's Day getaway for the whole family. Cruise to Sheffield Island on the Long Island Sound aboard the 45-foot C.J. Toth catamaran. Tour the lighthouse, hike through Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, enjoy a picnic and other beach-front activities. More kids stuff. 

Lucinda Williams headlines an all-day family friendly festival of American roots music featuring eight bands performing in three venues on the Caramoor gardens and grounds and under the big tent. The rich variety of music that ranges from folk and country to blues and bluegrass, string band, gospel and early jazz provides a road map of American music from Mississippi to Appalachia, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. More Caramoor.

There's more June music coming up with The Garcia Project and Keb Mo at The Ridgefield Playhouse. The Marshall Tucker Band plays Paramount Hudson Valley. Mike Gordon of Phish brings secret synthetic mad scientist gadgetry to Port Chester's Capitol Theatre. Jim Brickman plays 20 years of his adult contemporary hits at the White Plains Performing Arts Center and the Turtles' Happy Together Tour, with The Association, The Grass Roots, The Buckinghams ("Kind of a Drag") and The Cowsills hits the Tarrytown Music Hall. Up for a trip? See Imagine Dragons and Bette Midler at Barclays Center and Brian Wilson with Rodriguez at the Jones Beach Theatre. More.

Enjoy a Tuscan themed dinner and wine pairing under the stars prepared by Vincent Nicolosi, who will also share his home made cheeses. After dinner, stroll the grounds and do some stargazing with members of the Westchester Astronomy Club as your astral guides. All proceeds benefit Lasdon's Glass House Conservatory. Seating is limited. More foodie fun here.