around town today
thru 2/28: the 18th annual city bakery hot chocolate festival features a different flavor every day this month. being served this week: lemon, chili pepper, chinese cinnamon, espresso, ginger, banana peel, caramel >>
6-9pm: learn about volunteer opportunities abroad from 20+ organizations at the idealist.org global volunteering fair, barnard college, free >>
6:30pm: author mary norman woods discusses new york's women photographers of the 1890s-1940s (berenice abbot, louise dahl-wolfe, helen levitt, more). nypl mid manhattan, free >>
8pm: 'tap dancing bears, kung fu juggling, trained rats, clown bands' + more: bindlestiff's open variety stage show @ galapagos, $5 >>
8pm: the coney island circus sideshow presents the premiere of the girlie freakshow, feat. angelica, serpenina, kryssy kocktail and bearded lady jennifer miller. b.b. king's, $12 >>
9pm: mercury bar east offers hosts free movie night mondays with open bar 9-10pm. tonight: 'pulp fiction' (1994). >>
9pm: until 2.0 comes out at the end of this year, we'll satisfy ourselves with the original 'tron' (1982) at huckleberry bar, free >>
coming up
2/2 7pm: aziz ansari ('parks and recreation') stops by the soho apple store to discuss his comedy special, 'intimate moments for a sensual evening.' free >>
2/4 8pm: the hirsute and admirers thereof have plenty to celebrate at the 2010 beard ball. proceeds from drink specials and raffles benefit rightrrides.org. matchless, $5. >>
2/6 11am-4pm: play in the snow (made specially for this event), learn how to ski and snowboard at central park's winter jam. free. >>
2/6 12-5pm: trade your unwanted art books at moma's art book swap. free >>
4/9 8pm: tickets for florence and the machine's performance at terminal 5 will sell out. get them now. $25 >>
sales, deals, freebies
7am-6pm (thru 2/2): belgian chocolate purveyor leonidas is giving out free coffee and chocolate at their renovated store at 3 hanover square (via email) >>
reminder: save 45% on tickets to see 'time stands still,' starring eric bogosian, brain d'arcy james, laura linney and alicia silverstone. valid thru 2/14. $38-58 with code 'ssman36' (reg $57-111) >>
groupon alert! get a spa manicure and total indulgence pedicure at jeniette day spa for $30 (reg $60) >>
get $20 worth of credit at chocolate.com for $10 (deal is on groupon san diego site, but is valid nationwide) >>
now on hulu: 'st. elmo's fire', 'what's eating gilbert grape', 'like water for chocolate'
free mp3: twin shadow 'castles in the snow' + 'yellow balloon' >>
free mp3: she + him 'in the sun' >>
free mp3s: 3-track kate walsh 'acoustic' ep >>
