Five Things You Need to Know Today: Valentine Songs, Artist Lectures and Board of Education Meetings

1)   Happy Valentine’s Day! Today’s age-old festivities are getting a “Glee”-ful makeover at Scarsdale High School, where the student-based a capella choir “For Good Measure” will be delivering melodic messages of love and friendship. Last week, students purchased sing-a-grams, or requests for the choir to burst into classrooms and sing a love song to a fellow student. Considering that over 200 sing-a-grams were commissioned last week, there’s going to be a lot of blushing students – and a couple of very sore throats – this Valentine’s Day!

2)   The Board of Education will be holding a Budget Study Session prior to the 8 p.m. meeting in Room 170 -172 in Scarsdale High School.  The meeting is open to the public, and will run from 6:30 – 8 p.m.

3)  Cupid, or angel? Despite not being a Valentine’s Day-specific tale, “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” with its quest to identify the origin of a mysterious carved angel figurine at the Metropolitan Museum of art, is a fitting tale for tonight’s Scarsdale Library’s Junior Book Club – mostly because the book’s 12-year-old protagonist, Claudia, hilariously distinguishes cupids from angels by saying, “Angels wear clothes and wings and are Christian. Cupids wear bows and arrows; they are naked and pagan. “ Bring your 4th grader to the book club to discuss this Newberry Award-winning classic at 7 p.m.

4)  Tonight, eco-artists Helen and Netwton Harrison will be visiting Sarah Lawrence College to discuss a subject dear to their hearts – their latest project, “The Force Majeure,” which is currently on view at the Ronald Feldman Gallery. The talk begins at 5 p.m., and will be held in Donnelly Lecture Hall in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center. Learn more about the Harrison’s work at their website, and visit the Sarah Lawrence College homepage for more information on their visit. The lecture is free to the public.

5) Has Valentine’s Day made you think about how you want to communicate more effectively with your spouse? Later this afternoon, check out an article by local therapist Tamera Schreur that gives tips and tricks on how to make your relationship as sweet and satisfying as all that chocolate you’ll be eating today… without the accompanying nausea, that is.