I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change—which had a wildly successful turn Off-Broadway before opening last week at the Westchester Broadway Theatre—is a light, loose production. The topic is broad: love. The show is a musical revue, allowing the characters to switch personalities and relationships as the need arises. The sets (mostly an assortment of tables and chairs, easily removed and replaced)...

Is it just me, or do you keep running into people who want to talk about The Hangover? Box-office numbers seem to support my theory, since it's held up considerably well for the three weeks it's been out, raking in $153 million so far. Movies don't stay at the top of the box office like that without good word-of-mouth, and I feel as if I've been overhearing these word-of-mouth recommendations for almost a month.

Sure, I've seen it, too. I've been told I have to just get over its raging misogyny because it's a "dude movie," and, I suppose if I ignore that, I can say that there are...

Over the next couple weeks, a bunch of summer blockbuster films—namely Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince—are being released into IMAX theaters. But buyer beware: Before you plunk down close to 20 bucks for the larger format, keep in mind that a lot of these so-called IMAX auditoriums don't have the gigantic, awe-inspiring screens that you're used to.

I know what you think when you hear the word IMAX: a towering screen, between six and eight stories tall, that makes you go "oh, wow!" as soon as the movie starts. And, until...

Being so close to Broadway, it's no surprise that so many local residents work every day on the Great White Way. We usually see a huge roster of them come Tony time. This year, the number of nominated neighbors was pretty small—but overall, they did very well.

Next to Normal was obviously our horse in the race. The musical, which has a typically Westchester theme about a suburban family dealing with personal crises, was produced by Mamaroneck resident Patrick Catullo. Catullo should be proud, because the production piled up 11 nominations and scored three wins. One of those statues went to Armonk resident Tom Kitt, who won a Tony for Best Original Score. Another Westchester native, White Plains's Jennifer Damiano, was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a...

I get e-mails from local musicians all the time. They tell me about gigs, new artists, new albums, whatever. They're a vocal, passionate, fun bunch of people, and their stuff is worth checking out. Here are a few from the most recent crop of releases to cross my inbox.

Jack Doyle
Hometown: Bronxville
Genre: Jazz and Standards
Bio: Doyle is a Broadway vet, with credits that include The Music Man, Young Frankenstein, and The Will Rogers Follies.
What's New: He's fresh off a stint at Manhattan's Triad Theater, where he launched the release of his new album, This...

Sick of all the songs on your iPod? I have a cure for the iTunes blues.

First, think back to some of your favorite songs. How did you discover them? Sure, the radio and music videos played a part, but, if you're anything like me, chances are you discovered your favorite tunes from those one or two friends who were always just a bit ahead of the curve on these things. Their mix tapes were legendary, they always heard the best stuff first, and they were always pushing you to listen to that new song that they'd been playing over and over on their own stereos.

Well, mix tapes may be dead (though I admit...

Of all the upcoming summer movies, Taking Woodstock hits closest to home. Rather than taking place far out in space or way into the future, the film, about the creation of the famed music festival based on a book authored by Woodstock behind-the-scenester Elliot Tiber, takes place throughout—and was filmed in—the Hudson Valley. Helming the production is Larchmont resident Ang Lee.

Since the movie feels so local, I've been following its progress closely. (The fact that it stars Demetri Martin, one of my fictional boyfriends, didn't hurt, either.) I was excited for its debut at...

Before you took the time to honor your mother this past Sunday, chances are you snuck out on Friday—or even Thursday—to take a peek at the new Star Trek picture. The sci-fi film took in a more-than-respectable $76.5 million dollars at the box office.

I admit that 11 of those dollars were mine. Though I'm not a trekkie by any stretch of the imagination—up until a week ago, I couldn't tell a Romulan from a tribble—I did find the new adventures of Kirk, Spock, and the rest thoroughly enjoyable. Yet, as I watched them hurtle through space on another Earth-saving mission, something looked oddly familiar.

It was the spaceship, the USS Enterprise. To me, the iconic starship resembles a building that can be seen from 287, close to the junction for...

With the exception of our vice president, everyone agrees that there's no reason to panic about swine flu right now—even though it's now hit as close to home as Rye Country Day School, which is shutting down for two weeks. Even so, a majority of the cases in the United States haven't shown any more muscle than the regular, non-porcine variety of flu. Still, have you noticed people lingering a little bit longer while washing their hands, or busting out the Purell a little more often? (In our offices, a couple of new hand-sanitizer dispensers have mysteriously appeared in our hallways.)

While...

Before everyone was panicked over swine flu, it seemed that the world was freaking out over Scarsdale resident Madlyn Primoff. As you've no doubt read all over the Internet, Primoff is the Westchester parent who kicked her 12-year-old and her 10-year-old out of her car, eventually leaving the 10-year-old alone on the streets of White Plains.

Now, everyone agrees that Primoff was wrong to abandon her kid. But, really, how wrong was she? When the story broke, half the world jumped on the Primoff-bashing bandwagon, and her name was right up there with Joan Crawford's in the Scary Moms in Pop...