About Town: Weekend Events In and Around Rye

"The gods laugh at those who make plans," goes the ancient Chinese proverb. And between the earthquake earlier in the week and the upcoming hurricane forecasts, the weather gods must really be chuckling. But the local calendar is nonetheless chock-full-of intriguing weekend events on a variety of fronts, hopefully none of them cold.

Friday

It’s a wrap: The latest “The Royal Pains” nearly week-long cable TV series shoot has come and gone from Rye’s . That leaves the main parking lot free for additional parking near the Carriage House aerobics studio for such popular Friday courses as Zumba (9:15 to 10 a.m.), Moderate Yoga (10:30-11:45 a.m.) and senior-oriented Limbercize (1-1:45 p.m.)

That also means it will be easier to get parking spaces for such popular weekend Carriage House classes as Saturday’s Pilates Plus (8-8:45 a.m.), Vinyasa Yoga (9-10 a.m.) and Ashtanga Yoga (10:15-11:30 a.m.) as well as the Sunday morning Yoga doubleheader featuring Vinyasa (9-10 a.m.) and Kundalini (10:30-11:45 a.m.).

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It’s another wrap: The ’s One World, Many Stories” Summer Fun club (for aged five and up) winds down with its film finale -- a movie called “The Perfect Game.”

The flick is based on a true story about a group of boys from Monterey, Mexico, who became the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series. Movie runs from 3-5 p.m.

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And don’t forget the free nearby Rye fireworks show going on at 9:15 p.m. Friday

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Saturday

Race participants in 13th annual 5K Fun/Run Walk starting at 9:30 a.m. at Lyon Park on Putnam Ave. and King St. in nearby Port Chester are urged to raise funds for the Port Chester/Rye Brook Association of Retarded Citizens. Rain date is Sunday (Aug.29).

Hopefully, 13 won’t be unlucky number weather-wise because race is the kick-off event for event-filled 23rd annual Port Chester Day (PCD) scheduled to run from noon to 9 p.m. at the same place.

PCD calendar includes free children rides and activities from 12- 5p.m., an open house at the Bush Homestead (1-3 p.m.) and hands-on clay activity at the nearby Clay Art Center (12-5 p.m.)

Entertainment is scheduled to begin at noon and end at 9 p.m. The lineup includes Billy and the Showmen, and JoBean and the HoWaHs and winds up –hopefully in the best sense of the words without weather connotations -- with music by the Book –Ends playing melodies from the 60s through 80s.

In the best of all possible worlds, the Book-Ends set will have the planned happy ending: fireworks by Grucci sponsored by Tarry Lodge and Tarry Market.

Now all the weather gods have to do is co-operate.

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The , 200 Forest Ave., Rye, will meet at 9 a.m. to discuss the weekly Torah portion, learn interpretations offered by the sages and share their own, reflecting on the ways the text touches their lives. Rabbi Daniel Gropper and Cantor Melanie Cooperman will lead the services. Information: 967-6262; www.comsynrye.org.

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Rye Brook’s Tom Mariam co-hosts (with Bill Meth) award-winning Metro Golf Show for early birds (8-8:30 a.m. on WVOX (1460 AM) WVIP HD-2 and www.wvox.com). Today’s show promises to be of unusual interest because scheduled guests include the winners of the Met Open and Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship; Jim Calhoun, coach of the troubled NCAA basketball champion University of Connecticut (UCONN); CBS Morning Show anchor Chris Wagge, and Barry McLaughlin, executive director of the first Tee of Metropolitan New York.

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Westchester Sandbox Theater in nearby Mamaroneck will hold “Gotta Dance: Dance Master Classes” at various times for various ages today and tomorrow. But workshops will have one thing in common: They are designed for dancers and actors who are planning to audition for the upcoming Mainstage and YPT seasons. Focus will be on fundamental musical theater dance technique and choreography. Information: 630-0804.

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Rye’s own unorthodox soprano Danielle Hager will headline upcoming Small Town Theater’s “An Evening With Rodgers and Hammerstein” tonight and tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at nearby Bedford Village Memorial Park (65 Greenwich Rd., Bedford Village).

 And what makes Danielle unorthodox?  Among other things, she worked as a singing bartender/waitress at Rye’s Town Dock to help pay her way through college and graduate school while also teaching at the Rye Art Center where she just finished a song-dance workshop on the ABCs of auditioning.  Her father is Band Master at Rye Country Day School. And she will soon be off for Colombia to sing various opera roles during the upcoming season in Bogota.

Sunday

Westchester Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence will commemorate the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington with a rally from 3 to 5 p.m. at County Courthouse Plaza, 111 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in nearby White Plains  Rally is scheduled to focus on Dr. King’s insistent call for economic justice. Information: 949-6555.