BROOKLYN WEATHER:  A sunny day – what a concept.The temp starts out at 36 degrees but will ZOOM up to a practically balmy 46 degrees. Go wild, have a picnic in the Park, promenade up and down Fifth Avenue.

BIG NEWS: A New York State judge in Manhattan ruled that denying gay couples marriage licenses violates the State Constitution. Read all about it.

DAILY DISC: Laura Nyro’s "Gonna Take a Miracle"

SILVER SCREEN: "Nobody Knows" a new Japanese film that is NOT playing in Brooklyn. Go anyway.

GOOD EATIN’:   Chestnut. 271 Smith Street near DeGraw. Fresh organic ingredients, unusual food, nice room, great wines by the glass, attentive service, unbelievably good foccacia and pickles…

TONIGHT: Come as Marilyn Monroe to the Brooklyn Museum or don’t. Samba til you’re sore. 6:30 until…

HEAD UPS: "Angela Ashes" author Frank McCourt is reading as a fundraiser at MS 51 on 2/9. 7 p.m. A meet-the-author reception follows at the Old Stone House in the Third Street and Fifth Avenue park.

HEAR/SAY:   "Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better, but it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn.  Serene was the only word for it. Especially on a Saturday in summer." – Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn