Sunday, February 5, 2012
Approximately 500 people gathered to welcome the year of the dragon at the Westchester Association of Chinese Americans' 23nd annual Chinese New Year program at New Rochelle High School on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Hui Huang of Croton-on-Hudson and Erqian Na of Yonkers hand-rolled, filled and steamed dumplings for an eager crowd of children in the cafeteria at New Rochelle High School on Saturday. "You like them, yes?" Huang asked Brian Chin, 5, of Mamaroneck as he and his brother Ethan, 8, took turns crimping the doughy edges of the dumplings. "Be careful, it's hot," she warned Katie Yacoub, 11, of Eastchester. Nearby, Eileen Wang of Valhalla played a modified game of peekaboo with her 3-year-old daughter Emma who was trying on an elaborate, child-sized lion mask at the dance workshop. Although the Westchester Association of Chinese Americans hosts the event, the gathering is a combined effort bringing together sponsors TD Bank and PepsiCo as well …
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
The latest Live-in-HD-Met-Opera is a tempestuous dream (Shakes.).
Catch the encore of this delightful Opera in HD on Feb. 8 at 6:30 PM at City Center 15 in White Plains and NewRoc 18 in New Rochelle. A delightfully entertaining surprise: the Movie World-Premiere of The Enchanted Island, the newest opera in the Live-at-the-Met-in-HD series that took place on Jan. 21 locally and in more than 1,600 movie houses around the globe. Surprising also in that there was quite a huge audience despite the debilitating snowstorm raging at matinee time. It proves again that we have a vast number of truly dedicated opera lovers in Westchester. The Enchanted Island is a pastiche of arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and several lesser-known Baroque composers. All are offered to us (in English,) via a clever libretto …
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
ArtsWestchester is to award 39 Arts Alive and Arts Partners Challenge Grants to Westchester-based arts organizations and artists.
The arts are alive and well in Westchester and, thanks to the Arts Alive awards, it’ll stay that way. According to a press release, on Friday, Feb. 3 members of the New York State Legislative delegation will gather with ArtsWestchester’s Board of Trustees to award more than $39,000 in ArtsWestchester’s Arts Alive Grants and $11,100 in Arts Partners Challenge Grants to more than 39 local arts organizations, artists and special projects. The variety of Arts Alive projects that will receive funding this year range from outdoor heritage festivals and concerts in parks, to painting workshops, to community theater productions and fully-staged operas, to a presentation of Gospel Choirs. Tarrytown area recipients include Greenburgh Arts and …
A limited-run feature, biweekly reviewing the movies – major, minor, indie, cult, classic – with scenes filmed in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow.
Child's Play was a Movie Made Here that turned what had been a girl's school in real life into a creepy school for boys and only boys. Narry a girl was present in that film, save for a brief glimpse of a nurse. And the boys were not interested at all in girls, only in terrorizing each other. Step into the picture perfect world Mona Lisa Smile's setting of Wellesley College and you have quite a different world. Here's a girls' school 100% fixated on men. This is the early 1950s after all and despite being the top school in the country for smart women, female intelligence was something of a ruse to win a husband. These girls were here only to bide their time before marriage. Into this one-step-forwards, two-steps-back landscape comes the…
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Knickerbocker Ice Festival draws large crowds despite warmer temperatures.
Several large ice sculptures began to show the effects of the unseasonably mild temperatures Saturday afternoon at the annual Knickerbocker Ice Festival at Rockland Lake State Park. Still, people were amazed as they walked past the incredible works of art carved from blocks of ice which included a wolf, an octopus and a horse-drawn wagon. Many people took to hiking around the lake while learning some of the park's history from signs posted along the trail. Nearby, children climbed on large piles of snow in the event's Igloo Village while others formed blocks out of the snow and built their own. There were sponsor tents shaped like an ice cave, an art show and many games available for families during the event which also runs tomorrow …
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Historic Hudson Valley showcases a Sleepy Hollow exhibition and its first app at the Winter Antiques Show in New York City.
The 60th anniversary of John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s founding of Sleepy Hollow Restorations, now Historic Hudson Valley, is celebrated this year in a big way. According to Historic Hudson Valley, or HHV, New York City’s prestigious Winter Antiques show is featuring a special exhibition: “Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley at 60: Rockefeller patronage in Sleepy Hollow Country.” The HHV chose to loan pieces to the show which exemplify the multi-generational Rockefeller legacy of research-based collecting, preservation and interpretation of history, including reflections on author Washington Irving, who immortalized Sleepy Hollow and the surrounding Hudson River Valley as “otherworldly places steeped in deep traditions, folklore, magical power, …
Monday, January 23, 2012
The Garden Road Presents Lion Dance By Kwan’s Kung Fu Traditional Chinese New Year Performance Promises Good Fortune
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In celebration of the Chinese New Year, Kwan's Kung Fu Studio of Peekskill will perform the Lion Dance at The Garden Road School on Jan. 20. A good omen, the ornately costumed lion leaps to the beat of drums and gongs, promising good fortune to its audience for the year ahead. The performance was part of an immersive study of World Cultures in process at The Garden Road School, an independent elementary and preschool. If you have photos of your Chinese New Year celebration add them to this article! _______________________________ ABOUT 'LION DANCE' and KWAN'S KUNG FU STUDIO The Lion Dance is a traditionally performed by martial artists to celebrate the Chinese New Year. "The ornately costumed 'Lion' interacts dramatically with the audience…
Friday, January 20, 2012
Celtic rockers Black 47 play Emelin Theatre
"I don't know if we've ever played The Emelin Theatre before. Which would make it unique. There aren't many places we haven't played. But, in any case, I'm delighted about it." If you can imagine those words– enthusiastic, philosophical, a little bit punch-drunk– delivered with the faintest trace of an Irish accent, you'll understand the pleasure of talking to Larry Kirwan, leader of those mad Celtic rockers Black 47. The New York-based band will be at The Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, NY on Saturday at 8 p.m. And this writer can actually testify, that as pleasing as it is to talk to Kirwan, hearing him sing is even more of a rush. After all, most folks don't speak with bass, drums and uilleann pipes accompanying them. Still, Kirwan is a …
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A limited-run feature, biweekly reviewing the movies – major, minor, indie, cult, classic – with scenes filmed in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow.
If you need a mansion for your movie, you go to Newport, RI and…Tarrytown! Perhaps the most popular of our stately homes eager for location-scouting, is the grand estate of Lyndhurst which has figured prominently in one of my Movies Made Here reviews so far, namely, House of Dark Shadows (which is coming again soon with a Tim Burton remake starring Johnny Depp of course). Now we're onto Reversal of Fortune, which I didn't realize until I recognized a man who looked like Alan Dershowitz in it, that it was in fact based on the true story of the von Bulow case whose controversial appeal famed lawyer Dershowitz took on. Unlike many courtroom drama movies whose settings I find a bit drab, this movie more interestingly took the approach of …
Monday, January 16, 2012
Broadway play- The Mountaintop -is a fitting way to celebrate Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s goals and dreams for equality. People from all over the United States have visited New York City to see the critically acclaimed production.
On January 16th, we recognize of one of the greatest men who led our nation. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of peace; a man who had dreams of equality. King has been celebrated through monuments, books, and plays and now in a Broadway production. People waited in line as early as 7 a.m. this past Saturday to purchase tickets. They shared their interest in the production and reflected on what Dr. King’s leadership meant to them. Khrehaan Ebah of Philadelphia said, “I heard really good reviews about it. He was someone who was willing to beat the odds.” “He was definitely one of my heroic figures and the more I learn about Dr. King the more I really appreciate him,” said Chicagoan Edward Rule. Katori Hall’s critcally …
JOSEPH RUSSELL
9:24 am on Sunday, February 5, 2012
It sounds totally wonderful, and I can only regret not having seen it, but we prefer to see opera at the Met and view the entire stage all the time--andere Laender, usw--. However Marlies' fascinating articles make me wonder whether we may be mistaken. Joseph B. Russell more ›