Friday, February 12, 2010

I Love Presidents in the Year of the Tiger Continued!

Saturday February 13, 2010
Pre-Valentine's Party
10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
David Shapiro hosts this love it or hate it pre-V-day party complete with pool, foos ball, and ping pong complete with complimentary appetizers, and 2for1 drink specials from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Cheap Chick Info: $10 cover with RSVP here, otherwise $15 w/o RSVP. Be aware that "proper attire is required" and there is a discretionary door policy.
Location Info: Slate, 54 W. 21st bet. Fifth and Sixth
Subway: N,R,W to 23rd St.

Le Bingo
6:30 p.m.
Murray Hill and Linda Simpson prove that Bingo is not just for church groups and retirement homes. The drag duo puts their own spin on the game with tater tot specials and crazy prizes.
Cheap Chick Info: Free-but the Cheap Chick has been to LPR before and they are sneaky about requiring drink and food minimums, so be on the alert!
Location Info: Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St.
Subway: A,C,E,F,D to West 4th St.

The American Magic Lantern Theater
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Galapagos describes this event as a "fun-filled combination of projected images, live drama, and live music that led to the movies." Love is the theme today natch, so come see the spectacle for yourselves...
Cheap Chick Info: $15 for adults, $5 for kids
Location Info: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St.
Subway: F to York St., A,C to High St.

Saturday Feb. 13 and Sunday Feb. 14th
Romantic Greenwich Village History and Dessert Tour
2 p.m.
Discovery Walking Tours hosts a romantic stroll to sites associated with romance in literature and history, with dessert stops along the way to take in sweets. Sites include Grove Court, which inspired O. Henry setting in The Last Leaf'; the Victorian townhouse where Woodrow Wilson proposed to First Lady Edith Galt; and the site of the first presidential wedding.
Cheap Chick Info: $22 (includes sweets.)
Location Info: Call 212-465-3331 for reservation and meeting time.
Subway: See above.

There is also a Pre-Valentine's Fest at the Brooklyn Knitting Factory, a lecture on Valentine's With Robots at Bluestockings, and a comedy show riffed off The Dating Game at the People's Improv Theater.

Sunday February 14, 2010
The Rejection Show's Valentine's Day Heartbreak Haven
8 p.m.
Live version of the cult-status show with performers including Adam Wade, Big Terrific host and AV Club contributor Max Silvestri, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writer and Rejection Show creator Jon Friedman.
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: The Bell House, 149 Seventh St.
Subway: F,M,R to 4th Ave. and 9th St.

Valentine's Day Dinner and a Movie: It Happened One Night
6 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.
I wonder if it happened again another night? I guess we'll never know, but check out what happened one night in this screwball romantic comedy with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Tell me do they talk as fast as they do on Gilmore Girls?
Cheap Chick Info: It's part of a dinner and a movie night, if you can splurge on the $64 dinner, but the movie itself is only $12.
Location Info: BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette, Brooklyn
Subway: G to Fulton, F to Lafayette

Love in the Parlors: A Valentine in Concert
5:30 p.m.
From the website: "A 70-minute program of romantic songs and arias by 19th-century composers performed in the Museum’s Greek Revival double parlors by members of the Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society."
Cheap Chick Info: $20
Location Info: Merchant's House Museum, 29 E. Fourth St.
Subway: 6 to Astor Place

Wife of Bath Valentine's Festival of Erotic Poetry
8 p.m.
Just a guess here, but I'm guessing (er, hoping...) that Chaucer is involved.
Cheap Chick Info: $8
Location Info: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
Subway: 6 to Bleecker St.

Annual Valentine's Day Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour
1 p.m.
Sample foods from the Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, China, Italy, and more as you walk around the LES, Chinatown, and Little Italy.
Cheap Chick Info: $20, reservations required, call (212) 439-1090
Location Info: Southeast corner of Delancey and Essex Streets, in front of the Olympic Diner
Subway: F to Delancey, JMZ to Essex

Valentine's Chocolate Walking Tour
11 a.m.
Indulge the chocolate lover inside and see if you can resist "the dark master" at four chocolate shops Mariebelle, Kee's, Vosges, and a surprise final location!
Cheap Chick Info: $5 donation to fight hunger, plus purchase of chocolates
Location Info: Meet at MarieBelle Chocolates 484 Broome St. (West Broadway)
Subway: C,E to Spring St.

See if you can actually melt a heart of ice with a heart-shaped sculpture on display at Times Square, check out a free exhibition of love poetry at Poet's House (thru Mar. 13, 2010), learn about 19th century courtship at the Mount Vernon "Tokens of Love" exhibit (through March 14, 2010), take a Romantic Ghosts of New York walking tour, and take a Poetry-inspired hike through Central Park-meet at 11 a.m. at Belvedere Castle.

Roar in the Year of the Tiger With...
Saturday February 13, 2010
Preparing for the new year in Chinatown Walking Tour
1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
See how the neighborhood is preparing for the upcoming holiday and discover the traditions and customs associated with the new year. Sponsored by the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas.
Cheap Chick Info: Tickets range from $8-$15, reserve tkts here.
Location Info: Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, 215 Centre St.
Subway: N, R, Q, W, J, M, Z, and 6 trains to Canal Street

Big Onion Chinatown Walking Tour
1 p.m.
From the website, "Learn about Chinese immigration as our tour could stop at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the Church of the Transfiguration, the Lee Family Association, outdoor markets and the Lin Zeju and Confucius statues."
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Meet at the southeast corner of Grand & Chrystie Street, at Roosevelt Park
Subway: B,D to Grand St.

Chinese Paper Cutting
2 p.m.
Hopefully this is easier than cutting out paper snowflakes! 2-D and 3-D crafts options are available for experimentation.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle
Subway: 1,A,C,D to 59th St./Columbus Circle

President's Day
Revoluntionary New York Walking Tour
1 p.m.
Find out about NYC's connections to the Revolutionary War. Stops may include Fraunces Tavern, the graves of Alexander Hamilton and General Richard Montgomery, Federal Hall, and sites associated with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay and Albert Gallatin.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Intersection of Broadway and Murray Street, at gated entrance to City Hall Park
Subway: 2,3 to Park Place, 4,5,6 to Brooklyn Bridge, R, W to City Hall

Don't forget that the Met is open today! Pay-what-you-wish is a beautiful thing, a $1 will do! The New York Historical Society is waiving the admission fee through Feb. 21st, 2010-a great excuse to view their Abraham Lincoln exhibit! You can also test your knowledge of that high-ranking office with presidential limericks at the Big Quiz Thing.

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