Five Things You Need to Know Today: Bachaches, Cartoons and Dancing with the Stars

1) Bellyaching about your backache? Well, hopefully both your complaints and your pain will be assuaged by Dr. Bradley Cash of Spine Options. Cash, who will be offering ideas and exercises to treat back and neck pain today as part of Scarsdale and Edgemont Family Counseling Service's "Vital Aging" series, will look over participants' X-rays, MRI's and other tests before attempting to cure everyone's kinks, cramps, knots, soreness and stiff spine. This event will take place at 1:30 p.m. at the Scarsdale Woman's Club on 37 Drake Road. For more information, call 914-723-3281 or email info@sfcsinc.org. 

2. His art may not be in the Met yet, but it has been on TV -- and so can your child's, perhaps, if you register them for local artist Mike Teator's upcoming drawing class. Teator, who has been featured on the Today Show, will be teaching a cartooning and drawing course through the Scarsdale Recreation Department. Registration is now available for 1st-6th grades on the Rec department's website. 

3. Do you think you can dance? So does Max Kapitannikov, a finalist on Fox's favorite reality dance show, who's now teaching a Latin dance class at Total fitness Center II. Swing by the gym -- conveniently located on 4 Grayrock Road -- every Thursday from 7-7:50 p.m. to shimmy and salsa your way through the cha-cha, samba, rumba and jive. This class starts tonight and is open to all members of the public. Email dancelinkcenter@yahoo.com for additional details. 

4. Become a blogger for Scarsdale Patch. We already have great bloggers, from 19-year-old Carmela Bonito who just started blogging about her battle with Lyme Disease to Louise Kelley and the students at the Colonial Times Newspaper (check out their blogs in our Local Voices section). We want more local people to join our roster of great contributors. If you want to become a Patch blogger, you can sign up here.

5. Soccer's the world's most popular sport, and the Village is allowing elementary and middle school students the chance to discover the fun behind the global frenzy by extending registration for Recreational Soccer until Friday. Grades 3-8 are allowed to register, so fill out those online forms before your children start practicing how to "bend it like Beckham" in your backyard.