Category — Laura Dinkins-White

A select listing of notable events around the city in the next week, culled from local publications:

Feb. 8
Devil and Ms. Milveaux book reading/signing- Author Margaret Milveaux reads from her locally best-selling book, 7:30 pm, Woldman Heights branch library. Free.

Feb.9
SCAMUG - The Society for Creative Anachronism Macintosh Users Group, 6 pm, Java (the) Hutt. Free.

Same Time, Next Year- President Heights Friends School 8th grade production of an edited version of the Neil Simon classic, 8 pm, President Heights Friends School’s Millard Fillmore Auditorium. $15.

Feb.10
Bruce Hornsby- 8 pm, Cranston Auditorium. $15-$50.

Comedy Killerz - Every Saturday, 8 pm, Zanies Komedy Kafe. Safe, fun improv for everyone! No swears allowed! $8.

Feb.11
The Range- 3 pm, Cranston Auditorium. $10.

Mabel Tripp Gardens winter tour- Park personnel take visitors on a five-hour trek around one of our city’s natural botanical marvels, during a time when everything is dead/hibernating, 11 am, $10.

Feb.12
ALASUMMIT- Representatives of local chapters of Alanon, Alano, Alateen, Alafam, Alaelderly and Alakidz gather to negotiate an end to the bitter and violent rivalries amongst these groups over the last two years. 6 pm, Constitution Hall, City Hall Annex. Free.

Feb.13
City Orchestra - Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and “La Mer,” Schubert’s “Symphony in C Major” and selections from James Horner’s score for Ransom. Orchestra Hall, 8 pm. $37.50-$125.

Feb.14
Single Methodists who Enjoy Lost- Discussion group, mixer and viewing of new episode, 8 pm, McCann Methodist Church, 1265 McCann Ave. $2.

Valentine’s Day Blood-O-Rama- Blood drive, Carson Drive Armory, 6 am-8 pm. Free

“Love Is S**t” - Special Valentine’s Day open mic poetry night, 8 pm, Coffee (Art Of), 876 South Archibald. Free.
- R. White, L. Dinkins-White

:: Thanksgiving dinners served by St. Lauren’s shelter in 2005: 351

:: Thanksgiving dinners served by the Oak Room at the Ritz-Carlton in 2005: 138

:: Where both establishments have purchased their turkeys for the last 85 years: DiNardi’s Meats

:: Number of lights used in the Mabel Tripp Gardens annual Festival of Lights holiday event: 2.5 million

:: Total hours the lights will be lit November 19 - January 1, 6 pm to midnight: 258

:: Volunteer hours needed to hang the lights: 1200 (50 volunteers x 3 eight hour workdays)

:: Number of people who have portrayed Santa Claus in the city’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade: 8

:: Number of these who actually claimed that they were, in fact, the real Santa Claus: 2

:: Number of women who have portrayed Santa in the parade: 1, longtime New York city councilwoman, Bella Abzug, in 1977, promoting a traveling exhibit of her hats at the Ragnot Museum of Art.

:: Number of calls in 2005 to the Community College home ec department’s “Thanksgiving Emergency Help-Line”: 22

:: Only subject in the city school system officially referred to by a British name: Maths
- R. White, C. Messick, L. Dinkins-White