Valentine's Day Alternatives for the Alt Lovers
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<strong>Anti-Valentine's Day Dinner: </strong><a href="http://www.nycparamount.com">The Paramount Hotel</a>âs gorgeous Library Bar is serving an Anti-Valentineâs Day Menu full of items you might not dare eat on a date (garlic-y, sticky, messy, etc). The prix fix menu, with glass of champagne, is priced at $50, and includes options such as Roasted Garlic and Spinach Ravioli (with "angry" tomato sauce and roasted garlic olive oil), and BBQ Spare Ribs (with sticky gooey bbq sauce, and extremely hot mustard). A Molten Chocolate Cake with sour cherries and black pepper vanilla ice cream tops off the three course meal. And beyond the bubbly, there is also a special cocktail: Cupidâs Aphrodisiac, a blend of rich chocolate Godiva liquor, Double Cross Vodka, White Crème de Cacao, & a splash of milk.<p></p><em>235 West 46th Street; Call 212.764.5500 for reservations.</em>
<em>Jessi Bautista</em><p></p><strong>Sex and Taboo: A Valentine's Day Massacre:</strong> <a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com">Le Poisson Rouge</a> is the place to be for some transgressive V-Day fun. <a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/artist/2844">The club promises entertainment</a> from the ultimate gender-bender performance artist, <a href="http://missrosewood.com/">Miss Rose Wood</a>, ribald gyrations from theatrical dance company <a href="http://www.desertsin.com/">Desert Sin</a>, Cassandra "the Courtney Love of theremin", and lot of other strange stuff we don't understand and are afraid to inquire about! The first 25 guests to arrive will receive a sexy gift bag from Babeland, so get there early; it's a "first-come, first-served seated event." <p></p><em>158 Bleecker Street, 10 p.m. <a href="https://secure.gigmaven.com/events/4176/orders/new">Tickets</a> are $10.</em>
<strong>New York Transit Museum:</strong> Helping people find their "missed connections" on Valentine's Day could have been the MTA's best strategy ever to get out of <a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/01/25/next_mta_fare_hike_could_dwarf_last.php">debt</a> if they had decided to charge people for it. Instead, you can gather with other singletons and listen to NY Times Metro writer Alan Feue read selections from his column âPoetic Connections,â where he chooses posts from the Missed Connections section of Craigslist, and publishes them verbatim, titled with their subject headings. FOR FREE! There will be music by some of the talent Music Under New York performers, beverages provided by the Brooklyn Brewery, and cheese and chocolate from <a href="http://www.5thavenuechocolatiere.com/">5th Avenue Chocolatiere. </a><p></p><em>130 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, (718) 694-1600, Free, with RSVP to [email protected]</em>