5 Things You Should Know This Week

1. This week is the monthly 81st Precinct Community Council Meeting on Tuesday, February 12, 7:00 p.m. at P.S. 309, located at 794 Monroe Street. If you live in the 81st Pct. District, and you have questions or concerns you’d like to raise around crime and policing activity, attend this meeting!

2. This week’s Black History Month programming continues at the Brooklyn Public Library with Charlie Burnham’s Hidden City. On Wednesday, February 13, at 7:00 p.m., Burnham’s Hidden City plays urban folk music drawn from various sources and united by the blues. Burnham is a master violinist who has worked with Cassandra Wilson, James Blood Ulmer and Medeski, Martin & Wood, among many others.

3. Valentine’s Day is Thursday, February 14. If you haven’t purchased and mailed off a card to your significant loved one (lover, mother, sister, grandmother), today and tomorrow are probably the last days you can do so to have your card/gift arrive on time!

4. Also, Bed-Stuy Patch’s infamous “The 2012 Top-14 Sexiest Songs for Valentine's Day” is about to get a re-mix. This post has remained in the Top-5 stories on the site for an entire year, based on the number of overall click-throughs (take a guess which word kept bringing the story up in a national Google search). We’ll be putting out a 2013 list on Thursday to start the whole thing all over again. But we’re taking recommendations from readers this time. If you have a song you’d like to see on the 2013 list, email c.zawadi.morris@patch.com with your recommendation, and it will be strongly tested/considered!

5. The opening reception for eMERGING: Visual Art and Music in a Post-Hip-Hop Era is Thursday, February 14, from 6:00pm – 9:00pm at MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place. eMERGING is a curatorial experiment that places visual art and music side by side, and explores an array of artistic expressions that define this unique emerging merging of cultures and art forms. The exhibition features the works of visual artists and directors Kajahl Benes, Kudzanai Chiurai, Delphine Diallo, Modou Dieng, Hassan Hajjaj, dream hampton, Pieter Hugo, Hycide, Kahlil Joseph, Cinque Olajimi, Storyboard P, Ebony Patterson, and Hank Willis Thomas, and music by Blitz the Ambassador, Flying Lotus, Sue Jorge, Just a Band, Spoek Mathambo, THEESatisfaction, and others.