Seniors Maile Hamilton (Antigone) and Matt Haas (Creon)
March 5, 2010
by Lori Sachare

The Horace Greeley High School Theater Company presents Jean Anouilh’s Antigone on  Friday, March 5 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, March 6 at 8 p.m. in the HGHS auditorium, 70 Roaring Brook Road, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Tickets are $10, and can be pre-ordered by emailing Mr. Christopher Schraufnagel at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Tickets will also be available at the door, and will go on sale one hour before the show begins. For any additional information, please call the Theatre Office at 861-9425.

February 26, 2010
by Susie Pender

Put on your bellbottoms and shades and rock out this Sunday night, February 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Pulse Theatre in Katonah where the students of Kilroy Productions, the Ossining-based music school, will present The Psychedelic 60’s Benefit Concert for Cherish Our Children International. 

December 25, 2009

A little present from the editors of NCNOW, the Christmas video that’s been racing through emails this season, “Silent Monks Singing Halleluia,” a deft performance of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” with straightforward visual aids.

December 18, 2009
by Susie Pender

Acclaimed actor and author Michael Tucker, known for his work on the stage, in films and on television (“L.A. Law”), was born into a large, closely-connected Jewish family. According to his recently published memoir, “Family Meals: Coming Together to Care for an Aging Parent,” his parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins were a constant presence when he was growing up. Life very much revolved around this extended family. 

December 18, 2009
by Susie Pender

The Greeley Chorus, the Madrigal Choir and the Women’s Ensemble will all be performing tonight in the Horace Greeley Auditorium in the annual Greeley Winter Concert starting at 7:30 p.m.

Eric Drucker
November 13, 2009
by Marjorie Perlin

The Chappaqua Chamber Series has been bringing high quality performances to the Chappaqua Library for nearly a decade. Clarinetist Eric Drucker has just been named artistic director of the series, and he will kick off the season on Sunday, November 15 at 2:00 p.m. with a colorful program inspired by jazz. Composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Morton Gould and George Gershwin will be featured. The program will also explore the work of local composer David Amram, who is likely to be in attendance.

October 16, 2009
by Deborah Molodofsky

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

            - William Shakespeare, The Tempest 

In the movie A Walk in the Clouds, about a Mexican family and their “Las Nubes” vineyard in Napa, California, there is a scene where a flash fire destroys the entire vineyard and with it the family’s fortunes. When the original root, which was planted a distance away, is discovered to have survived the fire, Anthony Quinn, the head of the family, joyfully announces “Las Nubes lives!” 

with world-renowned jazz guitarist John Scofield, Saturday, September 26

September 25, 2009
by Emily Tabin

World-renowned and multi-Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano calls the Westchester Jazz Orchestra “one of the hippest bands on the scene today.”  This extraordinary group will begin their 2009-10 season with a special guest, world-renowned guitarist John Scofield, at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, N.Y. A pre-concert talk with Mr. Scofield will begin at 7:15. Gary Walker, music director and morning show host at WBGO-FM, will host the concert.

September 11, 2009
by Susie Pender

“We were at the breakfast table and he said, ‘I think you should call an ambulance,’” recalled Bira Rabushka. “I offered to drive him, but he said, ‘I can’t even get up.’” Her 79-year-old husband, Joseph Rabushka, was raced from Goldens Bridge to Northern Westchester Hospital where emergency room doctors and nurses “surrounded him and realized right away how sick he was,” she recalled. He was promptly placed in the Intensive Care Unit under the care of Dr. Harlan Weinberg of Millwood and Dr. Alan Coffino of Chappaqua. 

August 7, 2009
by Michall Jeffers

If you love “Dancing With The Stars” as much as I do, you’ll be clicking your heels in the air, metaphorically speaking, for “Burn The Floor.”. I can’t remember the last time I saw a Broadway show that was so much flat-out great entertainment. Oh wait, I can. It was “Movin’ Out,” which closed over two years ago.

Tyler Ramsey
July 28, 2009

Opening act for Wednesday night’s last of the Parks & Recreation Department’s gazebo concerts will be Help Wanted,  a rock band from Horace Greeley High School with funk and electronic influences. They begin at 6:45 p.m. HG High School is rain location; hotline number: 238-2540.

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May 29, 2009
by Christine Yeres

Don Dupont, Sr. has always had various jazz band irons in the fire; he couldn’t live without them. Kids and their parents know him for the jazz bands he made happen through New Castle’s Recreation Department. About ten years ago he decided to put out the call to local grownups who had retired their instruments but might want to make a comeback. 

May 15, 2009
by C.J. Ehrlich

Even though, yes, we had a TV, I watched loads of silent movies when I was a kid. Some were masterpieces; others not worth the nickel admission charged at their premieres, which at the time bought you a newsreel, cartoons, two feature films, popcorn and some dinner plates. But I digress. One day I realized I should share silent movies with my kids, maybe even get them to know and love some of the comedians and artistes from cinema’s infancy. 

10K Race Sunday, May 17 starts at town hall at 9:00

May 1, 2009
by Susie Pender

“Festival de Primavera,” the annual spring fundraiser for Mt. Kisco’s Neighbors Link, will take place tomorrow, Saturday evening, May 2, at the Westchester Country Club, 99 Biltmore Avenue, Rye, New York, at 7:00 p.m.