Top 10 Alternative Dates Valentines Week In Syracuse, NY

Love is in the air. So is precipitation, but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty going on in Syracuse, Ny this week. Forget the flowers and chocolates and do something fun together this year! Be inspired by our list - eat, drink enjoy art, listen to live music, watch local theater or even play pinball together. This is the Top 10 alternative dates that you'll won't want to miss. So open your calendar app or day planner, turn on Marvin Gaye and let's get it on. Happy Valentines from your guides on all things #local NOexcuses Tours, Inc. - Created by Michael John Heagerty

10. Invade their CommonSpace - Thurs Feb 12th 4-8pm

Amanda Jeanne Spear / Via Facebook: commonspacecrafts

2/14/15 is coming up and CommonSpace Crafts wants to help you celebrate! Valentine's Day is not just a romantic holiday--let's share the love with our friends, family, four footed companions, community, co-workers, and any one/thing/place you can think of! Stop in to mingle, enjoy a snack, participate in their open mic, make your own Valentine, and do all your last minute gift shopping you need. Brighten up your February with our newest pop-up shop full of arts & crafts!

9. Intimate private concert Sun Feb 15 6-9pm

Amanda Rogers / Via Facebook: SubRosaSessions

Subcat Studios Presents: The Sub Rosa Sessions.

A unique concert experience in a world-class recording studio setting so the music is heard as the artist intended! Hosted every 3rd Sunday of the month by Amanda Rogers For $20per person you get: a live acoustic concert, professionally recorded,mixed, and limited pressed CD of the concert as you walk out the door, Meet & Greet with artists and Wine and Refreshments immediately following concert! Unless it's sold out that is...

“Bringing a favorite local and the best ‘under the radar’ music from around the world for an intimate (30 capacity) concert experience.” -Sub Rosa

8. Nothing says loving like Pinball Tues Feb 10 4:30-9pm

Dave Cohen / Via Facebook: cnypinball

Start the week off right by beating your date in a friendly pinball toureny. CNY Pinball is proud to announce a small gathering of local pinball fans. Join them on the 2nd Tuesday of each and every month from 430pm-830pm at Al's Wine & Whiskey. Located at 321 S Clinton St, Syracuse, NY, Al’s will be our gracious host for this NEW monthly meet & greet, and pinball tournament. ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME. Unlimited qualifying, where best 6 games count (3 on each machine.) Top 4 players after 830pm games go to the FINALS. And if you lose early on, enjoy cocktails by some of the best bartenders in town and some panninis made with love.

7. Love puppies? Visit Bull N' Bear Wed Feb 11 5:30-7:30pm

Helping Hounds Dog Rescue / Via Facebook: Helping-Hounds-Dog-Rescue

Syracuse Crunch Celebrity Bartenders will be behind the bar at Bull N' Bear Pub in Hanover Square from 5:30pm – 7:00pm, donating all tips to Helping Hounds Dog Rescue! Enjoy drinks and snacks and meet the Crunch! Tip your Syracuse Crunch bartenders generously as proceeds go to charity.

6. Food Lovers Unite - LOFO Valentines weekend

Lofo / Via Facebook: lofosyracuse

Dinner, Lunch, Brunch, Live tunes and a cozy atmosphere at the Local Food Lovers hot spot for Valentines. You'll need reservations for one of the 3 seatings (Friday: 5:30 PM or 8PM or Saturday 6:30PM) of the 5-course V-Day Dinner that includes...

t=traditional a=alternative af= advanced foodie

COURSE 1: AMUSE (Choose One)

(t) local cheese plate, charcuterie, fig salumi, pickled egg

(a) cashew ricotta dollop, fig salumi, kale chia chip, barley bacon (gf/ vegan)

apple cider ginger shooter pre-dinner digestif (each guest)

COURSE 2: TEASE (Choose One)

(t) Sweet onion kohlrabi soup with flute of marrow and crostini

(a) Bouquet of greens, watermelon radish, carrot, ribbons, two kid goat cheese, sumac vinaigrette (gf, vegan optional)

COURSE 3: LUST (Choose One)

(t) Skaneateles perch and turf with tenderloin purple potato and horseradish mash lemon confit and cider bacon bernaise (paleo, gf)

(a) Eggplant escargot with black garlic, zucchini and turmeric linguine and a fennel cashew cream (vegan, gf optional)

(af) Seared cow heart, lapsang poached duck egg, bruleed shallot, and broccolini

COURSE 4: LOVE (Choose One)

(t) chocolate trifle - a triple layer of chocolate and hazelnut

(a) Kombucha ginger float with coconut basil ice cream, candied pear and beet ash (vegan/ gf)

~Coffee or Tea Upon Request ~

COURSE 5: ROMANCE (everyone)Champagne toast and Tiny Take Home Truffle

Call 315. 422. 6200 to make reservations!

5. Be My ANTI-Valentine at Singer's Fri Feb 13

Singer's facebook / Via singerskaraokeclub.com

You can celebrate Valentine's Day anywhere....but where else can you recognize Anti-Valentine's Day? It's Friday the 13th and you're “unlucky” in love? Come let off some of your heartbreak & angst with some LIVE BAND PERFORMANCES at Singers for a change plus tasty drink specials and karaoke!

Performances by....

My So-Called Band
Local 90's cover band playing all your favorite hits from the 1990's. Rock, pop, dance, rap, you name it! And featuring Singers' own DJ Streets (Nick Streeter) on drums & vocals!

FuzzBoxx

Singers' own “house band” featuring bar owner Holly Berlin on vocals plus THREE of our DJs: DJ Chill (Mike Meredith) on guitar, DJ Voltage (Mike Venezia) on bass, Mr. Automatic (Steve Melkanos) on drums, plus Alex Reid on lead guitar!

BOTH bands will perform some songs be-fitting the Anti-Valentine's Day theme!

9pm start time! Karaoke immediately following performances.......

- Hosted By DJ Voltage & DJ Mars -

NO COVER CHARGE!

4. Running is Lovers - Fleet Feet in Clay Sat Feb 14 8:30am

Fleet Feet Sports / Via fleetfeetsyracuse.com

Get your blood pumping with a run that is. Join Fleet Feet for a three mile fun run on February 14 at 8:30 a.m. from the Clay store. Bring $5 and help keep hearts happy and full of love as this is an American Heart Association fundraiser!

3. Kick-Ass Celtic Music at Hoynes Fri Feb 13 9pm

Searson / Via searsonband.com

With talent that remains full of fierce energy, Searson continues to astound their audiences with unguarded sincerity in their vocals, raw fiddling and ferocious step dancing. A rare treat for the Syracuse area, the sisters from the Ottawa Valley return to Kitty Hoynes to give us a helping portion of chills up and down your spine. From Colleen's fierce fiddle playing to the lovely voice of Erin and the rhythm section of Danno O'Shea and Fraser Gauthier will have you bouncing around the bar all night! Never a cover - reservations for dinner required - call 424-1974

2. He wrote the Book on Love - Hamlet Valentines Weekend

Syracuse Shakespeare Festival / Via syrsf.ticketleap.com

Do you hate Shakespeare? Or do you just like the idea of hating Shakespeare?

Bring your anti-Bardolatry to the Empire Theater At the NYState Fairgrounds and give it a "shake."

To Be or Not to Be...that is the question. The Bard's masterwork brings you inside the troubled mind of the Prince of Denmark as he considers how to avenge the death of his father. You will hear some of the best writing ever created in Hamlet's brilliant soliloquies of doubt and action, introspection and evaluation, love and hate and life and death. Directed by Sara Caliva. This is a production that cannot be missed. Starring Daryl Acevedo as Hamlet. Showings Friday 13th, Saturday the 14th at 7:30pm and Sunday the 15th at 2pm tix here.

1. Get your Medicine at Funk 'N Waffles dt Wed Feb 11 8pm

Thunder Body / Via thunderbody.com

Every Wednesday in February THUNDER BODY will play at the downtown Funk N' Waffles location! Simultaneously steeped in simple song and ambient noise, THUNDER BODY is proud to present the next wave in American Roots and Dub. THUNDER BODY is connecting the body of artists, truth seekers, and revolutionaries through uplifting electrified sound. Thunder Body is analog roots reggae, futuristic gospel, and psychedelic madness. Thunder Body is an adventure in sound, a sweet soul experience. There is no other band like Thunder Body. And they want to call Syracuse their home base! Support #localmusicians and come eat up and get down.