It's Valentine's Day!
2. Listen to great live music
Stay in one place and get into a swinging mood with a performance by Rene Marie ($80, 7:30 and 10 p.m.) at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The jazz vocalist's set will be accompanied by a four-course meal served from the kitchen of Dizzy's Club Coca-Col
3. See 'The Vow' —Starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. This truly romantic film--based on a true story--proves love and marriage can last a lifetime, come what may.
4. Share a meaningful Message
Words from the bottom of your heart are priceless, so write love letters expressing how you feel, or even listing "10 Reasons Why I Love You" makes for a very sweet present.
5. Hire a private chef! The luxury of having a gourmet meal prepared in the privacy of your own home (by anyone else other than yourself!) Is sure to be an impressive welcomed treat for your mate. Hint! Specially for that hard working mom. To make arrangements anywhere in the U.S visit HireAChef.com
Download this!
David Crowder*Band delivers their final album, an epic, triumphant
collection of songs that poetically illustrates that in death something
new is reborn.
The album showcases the band’s unique music style and touches on
worship, pop, rock, bluegrass and electronic genres. Features the
first single "Let Me Feel You Shine".
The band is currently headlining their final tour - the “7” tour - with
25 shows already sold out. The band will play their final show at the
Passion 2012 Conference in January 2012. itunes>
Christian hip hop is making a difference for African students in the
Congo this winter. Premier music web site Rapzilla.com in conjunction
with Syntax Distribution releases the compilation album King Kulture
on January 31st. Proceeds from the album benefit Ecole de la Borne,
a school in the Congo started by Christian missionaries.
King Kulture is a two-year project in the making. It features never
before heard tracks from Lecrae, KJ-52, GRITS, Braille and more.
“You're going to get an album that's amazing with all the artists you
love and all these songs you can't get anywhere else,” RapZilla.com
founder Philip Rood says. “It's a must-have for any Christian hip hop
fan, but also what you're putting into is helping others.” itunes>
Fred Hammond has been a trailblazer throughout his 30-year career.
He founded the legendary band Commissioned that brought freshly
funky air to the traditional Gospel world in the 1980s. Then, in the
`90, he ushered in the urban praise and worship music movement
with his Radical For Christ ensemble. With God, Love & Romance,
Hammond continues to break new ground for the Gospel genre.
Disc One is a suite of love songs touching on the topics of courtship,
romance and even lost love while Disc Two gives us the soul stirring
Gospel songs we've grown accustomed to from Hammond. itunes>
3 must see films
Act of Valor
An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor
stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary
global anti-terrorism. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat
sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion
for the ultimate action adventure. Act of Valor takes audiences deep into the
secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern
world. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a
deadly terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide
manhunt. As the valiant men of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack
that could kill and wound thousands of American civilians, they must balance their
commitment to country, team and their families back home. Each time they
accomplish their mission, a new piece of intelligence reveals another shocking twist
to the deadly terror plot, which stretches from Chechnya to the Philippinesand from
Ukraine to Somalia. The widening operation sends the SEALs across the globe as
they track the terrorist ring to the U.S.-Mexico border, where they engage in an
epic firefight with an outcome that has potentially unimaginable consequences
for the future of America.
Good Deeds
A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done
what's expected of him, whether it's assuming the helm of his father's company,
tolerating his brother's misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful
but restless fiancee, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But Wesley is jolted out of his
predictable routine when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a down-on-her-luck
single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building. When he offers
to help her get back on her feet, the chance encounter with someone so far outside
his usual circle ignites something in Wesley. This one good deed may finally spark
his courage to exchange the life that's expected of him for the life he's always really
wanted. A moving, uplifting drama about coincidence, courage, and the defining
choices we make on our paths to happiness, TYLER PERRY'S GOOD DEEDS is written,
produced and directed by Tyler Perry, and stars Perry, Thandie Newton, Brian White,
Rebecca Romijn, Jamie Kennedy, Eddie Cibrian, Jordenn Thompson, Beverly Johnson,
with Phylicia Rashad, and Gabrielle Union.
Salmon Fishing In the Yemen
From the director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning(R) screenwriter of Slumdog
Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When
Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant
(Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheikh's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport
of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and
unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin
Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it
all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove
the impossible, possible.
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The real challenge was crafting a very realistic angry teen while
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