REMINDER: Time to send a secret valentine to someone you love.
BROOKLYN WEATHER: There’s gonna be clouds. There’s gonna be sun. The temp is maxing out at 39 degrees.
PARKING: Alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations suspended today. See NYCDOT link in BROOKLYN ESSENTIALS on the right sidebar.
BIG NEWS: Lawyer Lynne Stewart, 65, a left-wing activist
known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on
the New York legal scene was convicted Thursday of smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients – a
radical Egyptian sheik – to his terrorist disciples on the outside. Read more about it.
GOOD EATIN’: Surreal Cafe, 79 Fifth Avenue at Prospect Place is a corner eatery with huge windows that let the sun shine in. Easy going and tasty, it has an artsy ambiance with an organic menu and much for the veggies in the crowd.
GRACE NOTES: The Moonlighters, a Hawaiian steel guitar swing band at Barbes on 2/18. 376 Ninth Street. 10 p.m. Plan to be there for mellifluous music.
THIS SOUNDS COOL: At The Whitney Museum, a mid-career retrospective of the artist Tim Hawkinson. "Bring the kids, they’ll have a ball," says Times critic. Michael Kimmelman. "The show is like a mad scientists’ fair of screwball contraptions, sprawling in no
obvious order across the museum’s fourth floor, hopscotches from one
dexterous tour-de-force to the next." Madison Avenue and 76th Street. Just opened.
TONIGHT: As part of PS 321’s Free Friday’s, Rod Rodgers Dance companies performs works inspired by Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Rosa Park, and Harriet Tubman. Seventh Avenue between 1st and 2nd Street. 7 p.m.
THIS WEEKEND: Find out about the 52 new high schools opening this fall at the New Schools Information Fair at the Brooklyn School of the Arts on Dean Street. Friday and Saturday 2/12 – 2/13. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
VALENTINE PHOTO DAY: Be Your Own Valentine. V-Day party and FREE portrait sittings with photographer Hugh Crawford. Have a portrait done of you or someone or something you love at Fou Le Chakra. Seventh Avenue between 13th and 14th Street. Monday 2/14, 6:30 – 9:30.
MORE VALENTINE’S DAY FUN: A Yiddishe Valentine – Lehavdl! with KLEZMER CABARET – This all star Klezmer ensemble mixes up klezmer and greek music with a touch of musette. For this Valentine day, they will delve deep into the Yiddish saudade with songs of libe-shmertsn (heartaches), farshpilte libe (played-out love), & nice Jewish girls gone bad in Buenos Aires – with Jeff Perlman (clarinet), Ben Holmes (trumpet), Reuben Radding (bass) & Jeanette Lewicki (accordion) Pete Rushevsky (tsimbl) & Timothy Quigley (percussion) and Max & Minka with their Accordion Love Act.
HEAR/SAY: "The mark of a city worth living in is that there are never enough places to park." Adam Gopnick in The New Yorker