The Singles Guide to Valentine's Day
Not having a date doesn't mean you can't have fun on Feb. 14
Whether you're newly broken-hearted or a perennial bachelor, that doesn't mean you have to feel like an outcast on Feb. 14. There are plenty of great ways to enjoy Valentine's Day all by your lonesome. Here are five ideas for how to show yourself some love.
1. Eat Your Feelings
Sure, everyone else in the neighborhood is either vying for low-lit tables or preparing heart-shaped food at home. But you can easily snag a table for one at Il Toscano, Giardino or Mizumi. If interacting with lovebirds doesn’t appeal, get it "to go."
2. Help Others
State Assemblyman Edward Braunstein, D-Bayside, and former Assemblywoman Ann-Margaret Carrozza are hosting a Valentine’s for Vets gift drive. Click here to find out which items to drop off and where. All items will be donated to local Queens veterans.
3. Sing Your Heart Out
This pre-Valentine’s Day weekend, you’ll have two opportunities to belt it out. Tonight, Bayside’s The Creative Stage is hosting a singing workshop, while Queensborough Community College is holding a sing-a-long with the 2006 film “Dreamgirls.”
4. Escape At The Movies
Queens’s sole arthouse theater, Kew Gardens Cinemas, is currently screening Best Picture frontrunner “The Artist” and Best Foreign Film nominee “A Separation” as well as “The Descendants,” “Shame,” “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “Albert Nobbs.”
Douglaston’s Movie World is also showing “The Descendants” as well as sci-fi actioner “Chronicle,” the rerelease of “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” and the new Denzel Washington thriller “Safe House.”
5. Buy Yourself A Gift
The beauty of not having a Valentine is that you have extra cash to spend on yourself at one of Douglaston’s stores, such as clothing at Macy’s, savory treats at Giftalicious or a painting at the National Art League.