It takes a lot for us to dare venture outside the borders of the five boroughs and into Westchester towns like Tarrytown. But if any musician is worth a trip up north, it's certainly Randy Newman. Newman brought his acidic wit, self-deprecating humor, and froggy sadness to the historic Tarrytown Music Hall last night for an intimate, solo-piano 34-song performance. Entertaining a nearly sold out crowd filled mostly with retired, suburban hippies, Newman adroitly weaved his way through his back catalog, filled with vignettes of drunks, racists, egotistical world leaders, aging singers and sheepish women. As he put it, "It's called showmanship." more ›