Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Launch of Spring Events

Virtual concert “Uplift” features RTA members in prison, alumni and acclaimed actors including star of The Wire, Michael K. Williams   Short Film “Unlocked” to raise awareness about prison reform […] Read more »

Wins for the Wishing Wall, Tarrytown Jazz and Photography

The Village of Sleepy Hollow Wishing Wall, photographer Elijah Goodwin and the Jazz Forum Arts: Jitterbugs Program were all named 2021 Arts Award Honorees by ArtsWestchester at their annual Arts Awards Celebration, held virtually on April 7.  They were […] Read more »

National Poetry Month – The Power of Poetry

April is National Poetry Month, a time to honor the legacy and achievements of so many extraordinary poets as well celebrate our first Westchester Poet Laureate, B.K. Fischer. This April […] Read more »

Seventy Years on Point – The Westchester Ballet Company Set to Soar Again

For 70 years, Ossining-based Westchester Ballet Company (WBC), one of the longest-running regional non-profit youth ballet companies in the United States, has served our county. WBC, made up of 100 young […] Read more »

Meg Griffin Remembers WRNW FM, Rock’s ‘Glorious Playhouse’ in Briarcliff Manor

From 1973 to 1981, a shabby building off the main drag in Briarcliff Manor was home to one of the metro area’s most progressive and unconventional FM rock stations, WRNW […] Read more »

Rock to Rubble: Howard Stern’s One-Time Studio Faces Wrecker’s Ball

A rundown shack on a dusty Briarcliff Manor street where “The King of All Media” launched his career may soon be reduced to rubble. The two-story building on Woodside Avenue […] Read more »

Irvington UFSD Students Earn Multiple Awards for Poems, Fiction  

Irvington High School juniors Brooke Dunefsky and Alex Lee and Irvington Middle School eighth grader Tane Kim were recognized with awards at the prestigious 2021 Hudson-to-Housatonic Writing Region Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition.    Dunefsky earned an honorable mention award for […] Read more »

Four New Plays from Irvington Theater Streaming On-Demand

Brevity is the soul of Irvington Theater’s inaugural Arts Incubator Short Play Fest, streaming on demand March 26-28. Celebrating short, new plays and the playwrights behind them, this virtual festival […] Read more »

Museum Seeks to Fund its Future by Celebrating Peekskill’s Past 

The Peekskill Museum commemorates its 75th anniversary in 2021, and it is asking the people of Peekskill for help.  The Herrick House, 124 Union Ave., Peekskill, is an authentic 146–year–old Victorian that, since 1946, has been home to the Museum.    The […] Read more »

Jacob Burns Announces Reopening Plan

Theater to Open on April 30th. Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) announced that they will open the Theater doors on Friday, April 30, and welcome the community back to the JBFC. The […] Read more »