By Sue Treiman– Few people associate Vernon Jordan, Cab Calloway, Roy Campanella, “Moms” Mabley and Gordon Parks with Westchester County and Greenburgh Township. That’s about to change. A new African-American History Museum is planning for a Martin Luther King... More »
Secure Your Seat Now! Sherlock Holmes: The Brook Street Mysteries November 15 – December 8, 2024 Double the mystery, double the fun! Join Holmes and Watson as they confront two perplexing cases at the same Brook Street address. Th... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— The Bulldog Walking Gallery, this summer’s beloved public sculpture installation in the Village of Irvington, is now up for auction. Throughout the summer, 27 specially decorated fiberglass bulldog statues—representing Irvington’s trusty masc... More »
SHOW & TELL: The secret life of objects By Krista Madsen– TIME FOR A GOOD DEATH So many of us became begrudging Zoomers during the pandemic. I loved it. This habit of FaceTiming through whichever software instead of calling or texting has stuck for me as a ha... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor is kicking off its 20th anniversary on Friday the 13th. The Blaze, which features thousands of intricately carved Jack O’Lanterns in dozens of creative displays, will light up the historic... More »
By W.B. King– As a kid, Jon Anderson did not have designs on becoming a musician. A tried-and-true supporter of the Accrington Stanley F.C., he wanted to be a football player–so much so that he served as the team’s mascot and ballboy for a spell. Some years la... More »
By Kris DiLorenzo– The “jewel of a theater on the Hudson,” as The New York Times once dubbed the Irvington Theater, is on track to reopen in October. The 432-seat theater, built in 1902 inside the village’s Town Hall and modeled after Ford’s Theatre in Washing... More »
by Lilly Sayenga– Dobbs Ferry has been given a spooky mythos in Headhunters, a new novel by Luis Paredes. The novel, Paredes’s sophomore effort after his 2023 debut Out On A Limb, owes its setting to the author’s two-decade-long residency in the town. In an in... More »
TRUTH SOCIAL? The world wrapped in words By Krista Madsen– Last week I concocted a word salad of swears with Monty Python + Shakespeare + whatever-the-f* emerged from the Insult Generator. This week, I’ll let artist Jenny Holzer have at the word generation gam... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Patrons of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) and its summer series of plays—many of them delightfully campy takes on The Bard’s classic works—were delighted with the news that construction of the non-profit’s permanent hilltop ho... More »
FOR F*’s SAKE: The ancient, cathartic art of the insult By Krista Madsen– RUDE WORDS While we celebrate the potential passing of the Presidential torch from an older to younger generation, I’m happy to admit that several of the most engaging topics I’ve explor... More »
By Kris DiLorenzo– Street dining returns to Dobbs Ferry on Saturday, August 3 (rain date Aug. 4), when the Village holds one of its signature events, facilitated by the Downtown Committee. From 4-10 p.m., Cedar Street and Main Street (as far as Chestnut Street... More »
By W.B. King– Reflecting on Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success, Daniel Donato agrees that over the years there have been “hots spots” and “goldmines” of creativity that occur in certain regions or age subsets. As a student of musical history... More »
By W.B. King– On the heels of a nearly five-year run with the proto-punk band the Modern Lovers that penned seminal songs like “Roadrunner,” Jerry Harrison was invited to jam with the Talking Heads in 1976. The Harvard University graduate kept an open mind as ... More »
BRAINSTORM: Turning myself Inside Out twice By Krista Madsen– I’ve lost my marbles. The thought pinballed my mind as my daughters and I—45 minutes early—settled into our reclining theater seats for Inside Out 2 this week, in our favorite row, just behind the h... More »
The production combined the old and the new, challenging audiences while enveloping them in a dreamlike atmosphere by Lilly Sayenga– On Saturday, July 6th, a group of nymphs led a synthesizer-backed interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at ... More »
THE RINGS OF HELL: With a map and art for when words fail us By Krista Madsen– The Inferno is the most entertaining first third of Dante’s Divine Comedy—if you have enough schadenfreude to find the interminable suffering of the fallen multitudes amusing. As I ... More »
By W.B. King– While attending an ABBA concert in the late 1970s, Justin Hayward was seated next to Bob Geldof. The two musicians had never met before, but the frontman of the Irish rock band, Boomtown Rats, relayed an inference that struck a chord. “At the end... More »
By Barrett Seaman– There are rock bands with names designed to shock (all in good humor, of course): Helloween, Cannibal Corpse, Black Sabbath. But when the band calling itself N.E.D takes the stage at the Pleasantville Music Festival on July 13, the message i... More »
