What To Do: November

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November

Local! Annual Mt. Kisco Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast: This year’s pancake breakfast is moved up from mid-November to Halloween morning. It will be held at the regular venue – the Holiday Inn in Mt. Kisco. Sat, 10/31: 8am-11am. www.mountkiscorotary.org

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week: Foodies of the world unite! During HVRW you can lunch for just $20.95 or dinner for $29.95 at many local restaurants in & around Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua and beyond. This year HVRW will run from Monday, November 2 to Sunday, November 15. Okay, that’s two weeks but who’s counting. Check back for updates when the participating restaurants are announced. We’ll give you all the locals and some carefully selected eateries that are worth the trip. www.hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com

Local! John Jay Founders Lecture: Joseph Ellis discusses his new book, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789, the story of how the young United States abandoned the Articles of Confederation in favor of a new Constitution. Ellis arguing that the change was as Events_johnjay_founders lecture joeseph ellis consequential as the Declaration of Independence – a true second Revolution. He depicts his “Quartet” – Washington, Hamilton, Madison and Jay – as acting in sympathy and concert for years, to design and implement a true national government. Joseph Ellis is one of the country’s leading scholars of American history. The author of eight books, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation and the National Book Award for American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. He currently teaches in the Leadership Studies program at Williams College. Tues, 11/3: check time. (John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay St., Katonah; www.johnjayhomestead.org)

Harvest Hoedown for Open Door Foundation at Brynwood Country Club: The Open Door Foundation’s Harvest Hoedown benefit comes to Armonk. This event, honoring former Foundation Board member Joyce Rheingold, and chaired by Sue Green Fuirst of Chappaqua features a special harvest menu, square dancing and bluegrass music by Love Canon. Love Canon’s eclectic bluegrass repertoire ranges from traditional mountain tunes like “Hide Head Blues”, and “Talkin’ In Your Sleep” to Appalachian interpretations of New Wave classics like Tears For Fears’ Events_opendoorharvesthoedown_love.canon5 “Everybody Wants To Rule the World” and The Police’s “Every Little Thing She Does”. For more than 40 years, The Open Door Foundation has provided top quality medical, dental and behavioral health care to low-income people in Westchester and Putnam counties. Fri., 11/6: 7-11pm. (Brynwood Country Club, 568 Bedford Rd., Armonk; www.opendoormedical.org)

Local! Bedford Village Chowder & Marching Club Fall Dinner Dance: It’s the event of the season for BVC&M. Enjoy dinner, dancing and cocktails with the people who have raised over $750,000 since 1956 for local youth programs in arts and music, club and school sports, scouts, youth outreach, scholarships and community services. Sat, 11/7: 7-11pm. (Venue: TBA: www.bedfordchowderandmarching.org)

Chappaqua Craft & Gift Fair: 31st annual craft fair featuring over 85 vendors presenting handcrafted jewelry, designer clothing, handbags and accessories, original artwork, tableware and furniture, bath and beauty products, children’s gifts, floral designs, gourmet foods and more. Plus raffles, kids creations and donation alley. This event produced by the Bell Middle School PTA benefits the Bell Middle School. Sat, 11/7: 10am-4pm. (Robert E. Bell Middle School, 50 Senter St., Chappaqua; www.chappaquacraftfair.com)

Speak Out Against Hunger Gala, Hillside Food Outreach: NY Yankee legend and jazz musician Bernie Williams hosts this charity event with special musical guest Paul Shaffer and Friends. Hillside Food Outreach delivers groceries to over 2,500 men women and children in need throughout Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York and Fairfield County in CT. Sat., 11/7: 6pm. (Matrix Conference & Banquet Center, Danbury CT; www.hillsidefoodoutrech.org)

Neuberger Museum: Liza Lou: Color Field and Solid Gray: Liza Lou challenges traditional definitions of painting, sculpture and Neuberger Museum lou 2 craft in her dazzling installations made entirely of glass beads. Color Field, (pictured here) the artist’s largest sculpture to date at approximately 1,800 square feet, carpets nearly the entire floor of Neuberger’s largest gallery in a shimmering field of color. Originally made in South Africa with a team of 30 Zulu women artisans, the work was re-created by Lou on site at the museum. The exhibition also includes Solid Gray and Color/White canvases, a series of woven beaded works in various hues. Tues-Sun: 12-5pm. 11/8-2/21/16. www.neuberger.org

Local! Harlem Wizards for the Byram Hills Education Foundation: Professional trick hoops and alley oops team takes on the Bobcat Bruisers (BHHS faculty.) Since 1994 the BHEF has raised over $3.5 million in grants for state of the art programs and technologies at all of the district’s schools. They recently announced ten new grants totaling $154,000. Fri, 11/13: 7pm. (Byram Hills H. S., 12 Tripp Lane, Armonk; www.byramhillsfoundation.org)

Local! A Taste of Westchester: It’s a continuing education class. It’s a private cooking demonstration. It’s a tasting dinner. And it’s coming to a restaurant near you. The events_emptybowls_psilakis Westchester Community College of Continuing Education’s A Taste of Westchester offers cooking classes (and tastings) with top chefs at local restaurants. Beginning October it’s coming to Armonk, Bedford, Brewster, Mt. Kisco, North Salem, South Salem and Yorktown Heights. Read more here.

Local! Chappaqua Cares Empty Bowls with Chef Michael Psilakis: Tickets are now on sale for the Empty Bowls Westchester event with celebrity Chef Michael Psilakis. The event, produced by Chappaqua Cares, will be held on Sunday, November 15 at The Whippoorwill Club at 50 Whippoorwill Rd. in Armonk. This event is a benefit to help raise awareness and funds to combat hunger. For more information, please read our previous post about this event here.

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: Painting in Four Takes: Solo exhibitions by four museums_Aldrich_root contemporary painters who span generations, methods and intentions: Steve DiBenedetto focuses on the unpredictable flux of the Post-Modern world, utilizing leitmotifs including the helicopter, octopus, wheel and glass office tower. Hayal Pozanti debuts a new series of paintings and digital animations based on the unique 31-character “alphabet” of shapes she invented. Julia Rommel uses a laborious choreography of cutting, sanding, wiping, expunging and overlaying to give her oil paintings an expression not unlike a life cycle. Ruth Root combines hand-painted Plexiglas with colorful fabric patterns she designs digitally (Ruth Root, Unitled, 2014 shown here) . Mon, Wed-Sat: 10am-5pm. Sun: 12-5pm. 11/15-4/3/16. Opening reception: Sun, 11/15: 2-5 pm. www.aldrichart.org

Warren Miller’s Chasing Shadows: Warren Miller Entertainment‘s 66th snow sports film, Chasing Shadows follows snow sports stars JT Holmes, Seth Wescott, Caroline Gleich, events_stamfordpalace_warrenmillers_chasing shadows Steven Nyman, Marcus Caston and more up and down the mountains of dreams: Chamonix, Alaska’s Chugach, the Chilean Andes, Utah’s Wasatch and the mightiest range of them all: the Himalaya. Warren Miller once said, “A pair of skis are the ultimate transportation to freedom.” Sat, 11/21: 6 & 9pm. (Stamford Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford; www.palacestamford.org)

Local! Ice Skating at The Harvey School: In cooperation with The Harvey School, Jim Whiting and his staff at Bedford Recreation offers two hours of public skating for all ages at The Harvey School ice rink on the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas. There will be a DJ spinning fave tunes and requests. Admission is just $5 and you must provide your own skates and no hockey playing. Fri, 11/27: 12:45-2:45pm & Mon, 12/26: 12:45-2:45pm. For more info call Bedford Recreation at 914.666.7004 or check you Fall Brochure. (The Harvey School, 260 Jay St., Katonah;www.bedfordny.gov)

Local! Bedford Turkey Trot: 7th annual 5K run and 2-mile walk. It’s billed as the hardest 5K in New York. Events Bedford turkey trot Raises funds for Bedford Community Table/Pantry. The course begins on Court Road at Bedford Village Elementary School in historic Bedford Village, NY. The halfway point is just past the top of Indian Hill Road – not for the faint of heart. Finish: at Bedford Village Memorial Park. Pre-registration required. Sat, 11/28: 7am for sign-in. Walkers start at 8am, runners at 8:20 am. (Bedford Village Elementary School, Court St., Bedford; www.bedfordturkeytrot.org)

Theatre & Dance

Call Mr. Robeson: A Life with Songs – Paramount Hudson Valley: Straight from Carnegie Hall, this performance, starring Tayo Aliuko with piano accompaniment, explores the world of African-American actor and singer Paul Robeson’s remarkable life, highlighting his pioneering and heroic political activism. It features “Ol’ Man River” and other famous songs, much fiery oratory, a defiant testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Performing Arts Center Purchase National Theatre Live Hamlet his in local history at the center of the Peekskill riots in 1949. Sat, 11/7: 7pm. (Paramount Hudson Valley, 1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)

National Theatre Live: Hamlet – The Center: Benedict Cumberbatch, the Sherlock star and Oscar nominee for The Imitation Game tackles the role of Hamlet in this production, directed by Lyndsey Turner, that was so highly-anticipated that its two and a half month run at the National Theatre was completely sold out weeks before its first scheduled performance. Thurs, 11/12: 7pm. (PepsiCo Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Mothers and Sons – Armonk Players: At turns funny and powerful, Mothers and Sons is a play by four-time Tony-winning playwright, Terrence McNally. Twenty years after her son’s death, a mother pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of his former partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. There, she is forced to come to terms with how much society has changed without her, and the full life her son might have been able to enjoy. The play ran on Broadway in 2014 and was nominated for two Tony Awards including Best Play. Fri-Sat, 11/13-14: 8pm, Sun, 11/15: 4pm, Thrus-Sat, 11/19-21: 8pm. (Whippoorwill Hall, North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Rd. E., Armonk; www.armonkplayers.org)

Little Shop of Horrors – WPPAC: It all started with Roger Corman’s low budget black comedy film from 1960. Then Alan Menken and Howard Ashman added some music and it played at the Orpheum Theatre on Broadway for five years, returned to the silver screen in a 1986 TDcomedy_littleshop_wppac movie musical from Frank Oz starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene and Steve Martin … and now it’s coming to White Plains. See it at WPPAC in White Plains. “There’s plastic on the furniture to keep it neat and clean, In the Pine-Sol scented air somewhere that’s green.” Fri-Sat, 11/13-14: 8pm & Sun, 11/15: 2pm. (White Plains Performing Arts Center; www.wppac.com)

Local! The Wizard of Oz – Bedford Community Theatre: The Bedford Community Theatre, a program of the Town of Bedford Department of Recreation and Parks, presents The Wizard of Oz for their fall show. Fri-Sat, 11/13-14 & 20-21: 7pm, Sat-Sun, 11/14-15 & 21-22: 2pm. (Bedford Hills Community House, 74 Main St., Bedford Hills; www.bedfordcommunitytheatre.org)

Local! How I Learned to Drive – Smalltown Theatre Company: STC’s 2015-16 season kicks off in November with a staged reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Vogel, How I Learned to Drive. The play that is both disturbing and redemptive, deals with issues of pedophilia and incest in the relationship that developed between Li’l Bit and her war veteran and recovering alcoholic Uncle Peck when he gave her driving lessons. Li’l Bit who was played by Mary Louise Parker at the Vineyard Theatre in 1997 narrates the play. Molly Ringwald later replaced her in the role. Fri-Sat, 11/20-21: 8pm. (Hergenhan Center, 40 Maple Ave., Armonk; www.smalltowntheatre.com)

Jessica Lang Dance– The Center: The New York Times was rhapsodic when Jessica Lang’s new work had its premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last December: “If a Romantic poet were moved to praise the virtues of Jessica Lang’s The Wanderer, he would have many to list. The production, which translates Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin into dance, is a work of high craftsmanship. With great ingenuity, Ms. Lang’s fine dancers shape it into myriad forms as they tell the story.” Ms. Lang, a former dancer with Twyla Tharp, and her young company will also perform The Calling a piece featuring one dancer and a 20-foot-long white skirt. Sun, 11/22: 3pm. (PepsiCo Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother’s FBI Files – Emelin Theatre: This musical documentary from Eve Sicular is based on the real FOIA files she obtained detailing the FBI’s surveillance of her grandmother, Dr. Adele Sicular, a pianist, psychiatrist and activist, during the McCarthy era. There’s a song (from klezmer to boogie woogie) about each twist and turn in the DOJ’s bizarre investigation. Sat, 12/5: 8pm. (Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Ln., Mamaroneck; www.emelin.org)

Comedy

Capitol Steps – Ridgefield Playhouse: Started by a group of Senate staffers in 1981, the Capitol Steps have honed their sharp political humor set to popular music while performing for five presidents, recording 30 albums and appearing on TV shows from Good Morning America to Nightline to Entertainment Tonight. Their new show, Mock the Vote 2015, promises possible guest appearances from a gaggle of presidential candidates and others in the news for all the wrong reasons. Thurs, 11/5: 8pm. (Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Uptown Showdown – Stamford Palace: Straight from their regular gig at Symphony Space in NYC, top-tiered comics and comedy writers square off in silly debates about today’s hottest topics and some others that are completely off the radar screen. Like: The Internet Vs. Real Life, Super Heroes as Villains and Old New York Vs. New New York. Fri, 11/6: 8pm. (The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford; www.palacestamford.org)

Jackie Mason: Ready To Rumble – Tarrytown Music Hall: The prototypical borscht belt comedian, Jackie Mason blends self-deprecating humility with abrasive arrogance to acutely dissect the differences between Jewish and Gentile culture. His new show, Ready to Rumble, features all new political material. Sat, 11/7: 8pm. (Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Artie Lang – Paramount Hudson Valley: Currently Co-host of Fox Radio’s The Artie Lange Show, Lange was a regular on The Howard Stern Show for five years and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Too Fat To Fish and Crash and Burn, published in 2013. His first TV stand-up hour special, The Stench of Failure, premiered on Comedy Central last year. Fri, 11/13: 8pm. (Paramount Hudson Valley, 1008 Brown St., Peekskill, NY; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)

Bo Burnham – Capitol Theatre: The youngest person to ever record a half-hour Comedy Central special (at the age of 18) Bo Burnham has released two hour-long specials since then: Words, Words, Words in 2010 and what. in 2013 that has received over 8 million views on YouTube alone. Bo recently created and starred in the MTV series Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous and wrote a book of poetry, EGGHEAD that became a New York Times Bestseller. He’s currently performing all over North America on his new Make Happy Tour. Fri, 12/11: 7 & 9:30pm. (Capitol Theatre, 149 Westchester Ave., Port Chester; www.thecapitoltheatre.com)