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Five Things You Need to Know Today: Brazilian Martial Arts, Facts about Fat and the Bard Meets Boscobel Restoration
Find out why your weight goes up and down with your stress level, learn capoeira and attend the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's Family Night.
- A good way to make a sleepy, mid-summer morning more exciting is to remember all the historic events that occurred that day in years past. On July 12, a hip-shimmying, shaggy-haired Mick Jagger was introduced to the world after The Rolling Stones performed their first ever concert in 1962, Bill Cosby came into a world that had yet to be taken storm by “The Cosby Show” in 1937 and acclaimed graphic novelist Harvey Pekar died a year ago today, leaving a legacy that included the comic strip “American Splendor” and the best-selling work “Our Cancer Year.” What do you think July 12, 2011 will be famous for in the not-so-distant future?
- Stress causes wrinkles, cardiovascular hardships and gray hairs. Can it also make you fat? Learn more about how stress hormones such as cortisol stimulate your appetite and cause intra-abdominal fat storage at Dr. Karen Wolfe’s lecture tonight Concordia College. Swing by the Feth Administration Hall Room 301 on 171 White Plains Road tonight at 7 p.m. to learn how your belly’s growing along with your workload – and what you can do about it.
- Although the Scarsdale Farmers’ Market is only open on weekends, you can still get farm-fresh produce from local Hudson Valley-area farmers for tonight’s dinner at the Farmers’ Market at PepsiCo in Purchase. The Farmers’ Market is held every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on 800 Anderson Hill Road, east of PepsiCo Headquarters. For more information, call (845) 520-6502 or email fmpepsico@gmail.com.
- Methinks that the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Family Night doth sound like a wondrous revel of conviviality and mirth! In English (well, non-Shakespearean English, of course), the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival will be holding a pre-show workshop both tonight and tomorrow evening at 6 p.m., giving kids the chance to learn more about Shakespeare’s stage and the art of theater. Tonight, prepare to be spooked and spellbound by the classic tragedy “Hamlet.” And if you’re more in the mood for laughter, attend the Wednesday night’s performance of “The Comedy of Errors.” Both plays will be held at Boscobel Restoration (1601 Route 9d, Garrison) at 6 p.m. Pricing is $80 for families of 4 (children ages 5 and over). For more information, visit http://www.hvshakespeare.org.
- Learn the graceful Brazilian martial art-dance form Capoeira at the New Rochelle Library’s Ossie Davis Theater tonight at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m., so make sure to come early, stShretch your limbs and secure a spot. Find out more at http://www.nrpl.org.
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