Long before DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion — started becoming a household term, people longed to fit in. They wanted role models who lo…
The terrible images captured on Sept. 11, 2001 will haunt us forever, always reminding us to remember and never forget. But few people saw what happened behind the scenes after 9/11 the way Bill Groner did.
On Sept. 11, 2001, former Scarsdale student and current artist Todd Stone transformed tragedy into art in real time as he stood painting on the roof of his Lower Manhattan apartment, bearing witness to unspeakable horrors.
Julian Pavone, holder of the Guinness World Records title “The Youngest Professional Drummer™” from the time he was 4 years old, began serving up beats in utero.
“I’m in,” you think, as you pick up Sara Arnell’s memoir, “There Will Be Lobster,” assured you’ve been invited to a saucy summer romp of a book. Sunny graphics and ginormous lobster claws on the cover seem to promise glam parties and plenty of A-lister “dish.” But while Arnell — a living leg…
As it wraps up its outdoor summer programming, the Caramoor Center for the Performing Arts has announced its lineup of concerts set to take place in the fall and next spring in the Music Room of the Rosen House.
People of a certain age may remember the notorious Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, as well as the Secretary of State under the first President Bush, Larry Eagleburger. Both were acquaintances of Dr. Fran Murphy, former superintendent of Scarsdale Schools in the early ’90s, when he was di…
It’s not everyday that $5 billion falls into someone’s hands, but as Heathcote resident Sandor Frankel, 77, writes in his memoir, “The Accidental Philanthropist,” that very unlikely scenario became his reality.
When Yonkers-born artist and entrepreneur Jack Stuppin starts painting, he has no idea what the result will look like.
The bees and birds are already flocking to the Greenburgh Nature Center’s newest attraction, an 800-square-foot pollinator garden planted last month across the lawn from the manor house.
“Summertime Blues,” a group exhibition featuring work of 11 artists, is the centerpiece for a summer happy hour on Wednesday, July 28 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art gallery in Scarsdale, where an array of themed photographs and paintings will be on exhibit through Aug. 28.
The Bob Arthurs Jazz Trio will give an outdoor concert next Wednesday, July 28, from 7 to 9 p.m. on the grounds of the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, 37 Drake Road. The funds raised at the performance will support the club’s Music Section programs, some of which are open to the public at no charge.
Scarsdale's Pamela Sklar will be playing at the Dine the ’Dale tent in the village center Saturday, July 24, from noon to 2 p.m. with her band, Intuition Quartet. The bandplays blues, R&B, sambas, originals, light jazz, pop-rock, and co-features Hope Berkeley on harmonica, Sklar on flute…
Richard Haas is known for his illusionist murals on buildings and walls in his home city, Yonkers, as well as in Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Munich, Germany.
If you’ve attended any of your high school reunions, you probably were surprised at the trajectory of some classmates’ lives: the punk who turned into a prizewinning photographer, say, or the star athlete turned paunchy couch potato. Yet few who grew up with Michael Strauss, a former Heathco…
Caramoor is more than concerts — it is an outdoor experience. And it is opening its grounds, free to the public, every Friday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Oct. 10.
With New York opening up again, who can blame us Scarsdalians for heeding Manhattan’s siren call? Its world-famed restaurants, skyscrapers and eclectic stores beckon, a welcome change of scenery from our all-too-familiar (albeit beautiful) surroundings of quarantine.
In his will, George Washington included an order to free his enslaved people upon his wife’s death. Christmas Eve, 1800: George Washington is dead, Martha is battling a wicked fever, and those who have been held in bondage at Mount Vernon wait for the end to come, and the promised hour of li…
Twenty percent of our country’s population identifies as disabled. Yet only 2% of all characters on screen have a disability and, 95% of the time, nondisabled actors play those roles. Behind the screen, the statistics are even more abysmal: less than 1% of the writers penning scripts are disabled.
The robust sounds of trumpets, trombones, clarinets and other band instruments pierced the humid August air, swirling around Scarsdale’s Chase Park like a summer breeze. Local parents, babies, older adults and students all sat nearby, listening to the Westchester Band play lighthearted class…
It’s easy to assume that Scarsdale’s tidy homes and parks have been around for ages. In fact, well established though they are today, many of them didn’t exist as recently as a century ago. Instead, most of this area was rolling farmland, until capitalistic initiative, technological advancem…
Most Scarsdale High School seniors would probably argue that their high school experience was not anything like the 2006 Disney Channel film “High School Musical.” Upon hearing that the film would be adapted for the senior class play, however, more than 50 students eagerly signed up.
There always seems to be one “book of the summer,” a scrumptious page-turner that everyone snaps up, devours, and raves about to friends. By the looks of it, “The Last Thing He Told Me” has easily won the crown this year. The thriller, about a woman whose new husband disappears, is the No. 1…
Midlife crises are the stuff of sitcoms — and, in many cases, reality. People hit their 50s and often panic, wondering where the time has gone, and what to do with the years they hopefully have left. This typically involves much self-reflection and hand-wringing (and perhaps the purchase of …
By day, she produces political stories and breaking news for CNN’s biggest names. By night, she writes Lifetime thrillers that draw viewers in, hooking them until the very end.
For 84 years, Steffi Nossen School of Dance has been known for turning out highly accomplished hoofers. This past pandemic year, however, the school was involved in a different sort of fancy footwork: figuring out how to showcase and celebrate its most accomplished students.
Artists in all fields felt deeply the effects of the pandemic last year. Some had to deal with loss of jobs and opportunities; others felt empty of inspiration and energy to create. Finally, artists like Scarsdale resident Simone Kestelman used their art to bring solace, color and hope to th…
If you happened to visit Ossining last Saturday for the Hudson River Potters Spring Show and Sale, held at the Bethany Arts Community, you may have spotted an outgoing woman displaying remarkable work — streamlined, luminous teapots, mugs and more. You probably knew immediately that you were…
For most of us, 2020 was a year we’d rather forget. Yet we all can admit, albeit reluctantly, there were some aspects of it that do merit reflection. The depth of our resilience became evident, for instance; so did the extent of our ingenuity. And for Scarsdale’s many creatives, the pandemic…
After months of pandemic-related delays, Scarsdale Public Library is finally able to organize events to celebrate the reopening of its renovated building at 54 Olmsted Road, and welcome the community into the new space.
While indoor performances remain on pause at the Irvington Theater, the dates are set for an outdoor production to be staged by the theater’s newest arts partner.
A welcome sign of the community’s gradual “return to normalcy” is the announcement of Caramoor’s summer season, which will feature 35 live, in-person performances in a seven-week festival, followed by two post-season concert series.
In an uncertain era such as the present one, who couldn’t use a few words of wisdom from somebody who’s lived a rich and multifaceted life? Now there’s a way to get almost 100 thought-enlightening adages in one fell swoop: by getting a hold of “The Book of Normanisms,”penned by Quaker Ridge …
A starving artist Jill Krutick isn’t. A graduate of The Wharton School and NYU Stern School of Business, she spent 16 successful years in finance at Citibank and Warner Music before turning a lifelong love of painting into a second-act career.
While Passover is a joyous holiday, the Seders— the two consecutive dinners during which the story of the Jews’ liberation from slavery is retold — have their fair share of somber moments. Jews gather for one or two evenings to eat, drink, pray and read from a Haggadah, a text that guides th…
It takes more than a pandemic to stop some local venues from serving up original entertainment. Even deprived of an actual stage for an entire year, the Irvington Theater, for example, has been seeking out new material, with offerings such as the Arts Incubator Film Series that premiered on …
Local game show fans may have spotted a familiar face on TV last Sunday night — a young woman flying through the air in a harness, and later getting dropped down a chute into a pile of giant foam cubes. The contestant in question was Laura McDonald, an Edgemont High School grad, class of 200…
Some fundraisers strike the perfect note — a local virtual concert, scheduled for next weekend, will certainly fit the bill. On Sunday, March 14, at 6:30 p.m., Emily Hansen, a Fox Meadow resident and mezzo-soprano, will perform “Music That Matters,” a selection of classical and contemporary …
“Border Cantos/Sonic Border,” a multisensory exhibition featuring the collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and sculptor and composer Guillermo Galindo, presents a haunting view of the complex issues along the U.S./Mexico border.
In writing “Westchester: History of an Iconic Suburb,” journalist Robert Marchant of Croton-on-Hudson sought to tell the story of American history in a particular place. “I’m continually fascinated by the way suburbs differentiate themselves from the city … how the wealthy want to be perceiv…
What if a groundbreaking technology designed to gather and channel contemporary insights from the world’s most brilliant leaders — Churchill, Gandhi, Lincoln — took a sharp detour and exposed long buried secrets of its creator and his family? In his debut novel, Scarsdale author Marc Sheinba…
For art aficionados, perhaps no pastime has been harder to forgo during the pandemic than lingering in museums, pouring over new and exciting finds. But local culture vultures can now rejoice: The Scarsdale Youth Art Show (SYAS) 2021 Winter Exhibit is open through Sunday, Feb. 28, and anyone…
The COVID pandemic has, by and large, been a time of sorrow. But Brooke Diamond, a Scarsdale High School 10th grader and Fox Meadow resident, has distilled her experiences over the past year into something extraordinary: a beautiful — and now prizewinning — poem. Her composition, “Movement o…
For many of us, the past 10 months since the pandemic began haven’t exactly been our most productive. But artist Cathy Hull, who grew up in Scarsdale, has bucked the trend. In addition to her usual work — crafting ingenious conceptual art for editorial, advertising, corporate and institution…
In music circles, Rebecca Angel has long been known as a talented singer. But now, the 25-year-old can add “award-winning” to that descriptor: Angel, a former Edgemont resident, recently received a nod from the Independent Music Network (IMN) for New Artist Breakout Single. Her jazzy recordi…
The River’s Edge Theatre Co., founded in August 2019, isn’t letting the COVID-19 pandemic obstruct its mission of using theater “to reflect the human experience, spark conversation, and inspire social change” while raising funds for nonprofit organizations.
Luminaries Steven Spielberg, Barbara Corcoran and Albert Einstein are among the scores of smart, creative, out-of-the-box thinkers who have struggled with dyslexia, a disorder that distorts a person’s perception of letters and numbers, making word recognition and math equations a formidable …
The present, as we know all too well, is a scary time to be living in. But what will the future be like? Gish Jen, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based author and Scarsdale High School distinguished alumnae, Class of ’74, explores the possibilities in her latest novel, “The Resisters.” The paper…
Caramoor has announced two special holiday programs, the latest in the Katonah-based arts center’s ongoing efforts to remain connected with its audience and offer inspiration to the community during the COVID-19 health crisis.
Leslie Kimmelman’s latest book, “The Eight Knights of Hanukkah,” tells the story of a diverse group of children — mounted on steeds and clad in armor — who save the Jewish holiday that marks a miracle: a menorah burning for eight days and nights on a single night’s worth of lamp oil.
Maria Ciampi’s birthday is Dec. 25 so it’s no coincidence, said the Hartsdale resident, that someday she’d write the original book for “Kris Kringle, the Musical,” an off-Broadway show about Christmas.
