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Friday the 13th, Fashion Week and Valentine's Day—it's already a packed weekend! If you need last minute reservations for tomorrow night, give these restaurants a shot, and here are some more ideas to help make it romantic. Less romantic suggestions follow...

MOVIE: The Met centers their chatter around Hitchcock and their cutting-edge exhibition Reality Check tonight. "Acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson (a Brooklyn native best known for his intricately staged scenes of American life) and Senior Research Associate (Department of Photographs) Mia Fineman, who organized the Met's exhibition, will discuss contemporary photography, cinematic influence and the history of illusion in the medium." A screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic Vertigo (pictured) will follow.

Friday // 6:30 p.m. // The Met, Grace Rainey Auditorium [1000 5th Ave at 82nd St] // Free

EVENT: Are you "Single And Loving It"? Or at the very least, single and not wanting to see He's Just Not That Into You? Then head to powerHouse Arena tonight, they invite you "to join them for a special pre-Valentine’s Day reading, discussion, and book signing with editor Jenni Ferrari-Adler and contributor Amanda Hesser of Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, and editor Ben Karlin and contributor Andy Selsberg of Things I've Learned from the Women Who've Dumped Me." Related?: Doree Shafrir has a must-read over at the Observer on boyfriends after the break-up.

Friday // 7 to 9 p.m. // powerHouse Arena [37 Main St, DUMBO] // Free

MUSIC/ART: Secret Project Robot is recovering just fine from that fire, and tonight they're hosting an event "curated by Brooklyn/Chicago band These Are Powers for the concurrent release of their album All Aboard Future. Artists were asked to interpret the concept for All Aboard Future in a medium of their choosing...the result is a diverse and exciting showing of emerging talent from around the world. Works featured in the artwork for the recorded album will be on display in addition to a larger body of contemporary pieces commissioned for the show."

Friday // 8 p.m. // Secret Project Robot [210 Kent Ave, Williamsburg] // Free

THEATER: Axis Company, the lush and inviting little West Village theater that's one of our favorite spaces in town, is presenting an encore performance of East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House, a play by and about "legendary" downtown theater performer Edgar Oliver. A fixture of the East Village performance art scene for decades, Oliver's autobiographical show chronicles his life in the strange tenement he's inhabited since he first moved to New York, where his neighbors include a dwarf Cabalist, a possible Nazi, and the landlord's former wet nurse "who apparently lives in a nest of rags." "East 10th Street" was a hit when it originally premiered at Axis last year (Backstage said it had the "atmosphere of séance"), and Oliver could soon make it big with a role in Jared Hess's film Gentlemen Broncos, opposite Sam Rockwell. — John Del Signore

Saturday // 8 p.m. // Axis Theatre Company [1 Sheridan Square] // $60

ART: Newmindspace, who brought you the public pillow fights and bubble-blowing events, have something secret up their sleeves this weeked called Higher Love. ''A beautiful, massive outdoor art installation along the main strip of our favorite neighborhood in Manhattan. Sign up to get all the details.

Saturday // Time and location TBA

THEATER: A post-Apocolyptic Brooklyn is the setting for Soul Samurai, the latest kung fu romp from the Ma-Yi Theater Company and Vampire Cowboys, whose Fight Girl Battle World was good low-fi fun. The star of this Warriors-esque adventure is Dewdrop, who has to fight her way back to the LES from Coney Island, where she's just avenged her lover's murder. A mix of hip-hop, blaxploitation, and martial arts, Soul Samurai "dials it back old school," with spectacular swordplay and elaborate stage combat. — John Del Signore

Sunday // 4 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. // HERE Arts Center [38 Commerce St] // $25

FOOD: Babeland is hosting a Post-Valentine’s Day Erotic Wine & Chocolate Tasting this weekend. "Sample erotic wines from Naked Winery paired with sensuous Roni Sue truffles while enjoying the talents of singer/songwriter Brown Rane. Win couples-themed Babeland goodies and wine and chocolates in the raffles and get a 10% discount on all purchases."

Sunday // 8 to 10 p.m. // Babeland SoHo [43 Mercer St] // $40

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