“So Many Women, Only One Pi,” or so the saying goes. This $50 gift certificate to Pi Restaurant and Bar (one visit) is the perfect way for you and your partner to celebrate the sweetest day of the year. Friday and Saturday drink specials $4 for Stoli, Absolut, Cap’n & Bacardi, $2 for Domestic Bottles. What are you waiting for? Bid!

These gift baskets from Cities 97 are chock-full of local music goodies. Bid on one or take 'em both!

It’s the Minnesota Timberwolves vs. the New Orleans Hornets, and you (and three friends) are totally going to be there to watch every last minute of it. Four spectacular seats; one unforgettable night. You know you want this.

Where do you find dance, music, film, theater, exhibitions, lectures, design, and more? The Walker Art Center. This dual 1-year membership comes with four tickets to any upcoming performance, a Walker tote bag and more little gifties than you can shake a stick at.

It’s everything you’ve always wanted to see: Check out the RollerGirls at our Love Rox Twister Game, and bid on four tickets to a home bout this season. You’ll have the time of your life. We promise.

Don’t miss this year’s Political Theatre Festival, the annual festival of Latin-American politics and performance. Running from February 14 to March 2, these two tickets are good for any night of the festival.

Real Women Have Curves is a play written by Josefina Lopez and is a microcosm of the Latina immigrant experience. It was turned into an HBO film starting America Ferrera (from Ugly Betty) and won the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. The play celebrates real women's bodies, the power of women, and the incredible bond that happens when women work together. The performance runs May 9-30, 2008.

Spend an evening with Stages Theatre Company, the award-winning mainstay of Hopkins Center for the arts. Your whole family will enjoy the small-town feel of this picturesque community.

Join MMAA Curator Theresa Downing for a behind the scenes tour for you and a guest during the installation of one of three new 2008 exhibitions. After, enjoy one complimentary MMAA membership and two complimentary tickets to the exhibit’s opening night! A truly unique experience.

A creative date or couples outing. The kind of birthday teens only dream of. Experience hands-on art creation with the twin cities’ top aerosol artists. Now you have the chance to experience this or give someone you love the opportunity. Four hours of private aerosol art class for four people.

You are cordially invited to La Dolce Vita! Pull up a chair at a candle-lit cabaret table and watch your memories, dreams, fantasies, and desires manifest behind the Ritz Theater's velvet curtain. Signorina, let your blouse fall off your shoulders. Signore, don your gold medallions. Leave the world outside. When you are here, life is sweet.

It's all up to you at this 11-day flurry of artistic adventure featuring theater, dance, performance art, movement, spoken word, puppetry and visual art. Over 100 local, national and international groups present hundreds of performances July 31-Aug 10, 2008. Bid now and you can go to any one of ‘em.

What more can we say? You want tickets? You got ‘em.

This is your chance to work in a professional recording studio. Fuzzy Slippers is a premier recording studio in Saint Paul, MN, which offers quality recording, mixing and mastering services. What a great place for a teenage birthday party, or for you and your friends to finally lay down that track you've been talking about forever. Or, if you've already got a band…… Fuzzy Slippers' sound is known for its combination of warmth and quality. Five hours of free studio time with Fuzzy Slippers Studio. Professional sound engineer included.

Sweet E. Domestic is a Twin cities based muralist. Whether you are looking for your business, your building, your bar, your kitchen or your kid’s bedroom, the artist will work with you to create a unique mural to fit your space.

When you want a real hamburger, this is the place. Ike's is no theme restaurant. That Forties atmosphere is for real. So are the meatloaf sandwiches and hand-carved turkey plates. Nothing retro. They’ve been on the menu since Ike’s opened. Four $25 certificates for a chance to be where wooden booths have always been in style.

The Latin Quarter, Jacque Briel, stumbling across a great little bistro under the shadow of Sacré Coeur. Enjoy the ambience, the flavors and the plaisirs gastriques for 4-6 people prepared in your home or the home of Intermedia Arts Board member Jim Farstad.

Intermedia Arts Board member Robin Possis offers you a deal too good to pass up. Your choose one of her delightful dinner menus for your next gathering, or double your winning bid and have all three menus prepared! In your home or hers.

Celebrate your sweetie every month of the year with handmade chocolates delivered to your home. This delicious treat will melt in your mouth (and your lover will melt in your arms). It’s a win-win all around.

• February - Cherry Cordials
• March - Chocolate Covered Pretzels
• April - Mint Cups
• May - Turtles
• June - Raspberry Filled Heart
• July - Coconut Patties
• August - S'mores
• September - Butter Creams
• October - Chocolate Covered Caramels
• November - Peanut Butter Cups
• December - Holiday Bark
• January - Malt Balls

Beginning chocolate making classes for four people. Select 3-4 varieties of chocolate from Robin’s list. Great for friends or family to do as a group, mothers and daughters, lovers and hopefuls. Great for a party or a bonding experience. Date and time set by mutual agreement. To find out what Robin can teach you, check out her Chocolate Of The Month donation.

The lovely pendant on display is made by former Intermedia Arts board member Debra Maertens. You can choose between the necklace shown or a custom made piece. Deb will work with you to find just the right agate, piece of jasper or malachite (shown above) to create the perfect pendant in filled gold or sterling silver. Double your winning bid and get both the necklace displayed, and custom piece!

Shall we dance? What could be more romantic than to glide across the floor with your valentine? Meeting your soul mate at a dance party? Bid on a package of one private lesson, one group lesson and a dance party for a couple or individual at The Dancers Studio in St. Paul. No expiration date.

Located in the in the old IDS Center in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, the Marquette is one of the premier boutique hotels in the Twin Cities. Known for its elegance, the Marquette is a perfect weekend retreat. Close to shopping and theaters, it is also the home of Basil's, the restaurant of Mary Tyler Moore fame, Marq VII Lounge and Windows on Minnesota.

Two tickets to "The Fortunes of King Croesus", March 1-9, 2008

This 297 year-old tale tells of love in the court of Croesus and Lydia, as the Persian army is about to descend. This masterpiece, filled with twists and turns "reminds us that money cannot buy happiness.” (It can win you opera tickets though). A perfect Valentine’s gift.

Platanos maduros, tostones, yuca. Sin embargos, sin problemas. It's 1959. Owner Nikki Stavrou greets you and your friends as you walk in the door with a “refresco” the flavor of a Havana smile. You're family tonight at Victor's 1959 cafe. With Nikki by your side, you learn first hand about Cuban cooking like “su madre” would have taught you. Bid on the intoxication of revolutionary Cuban cooking. Dinner for 4.

This dark ruby colored wine has a gorgeous red wine nose of cassis, red plums, elderberries, with a hint of blond tobacco and cardamom spice. The palate is very round and fleshy, giving this wine a personality of "Red berries and cream". Cuvée M Red is the perfect accompaniment to your favorite BBQ and sweet potato gratin, or picture it with Brie and a Bing Cherry chutney.

Two tickets to the opening night performance of “Ways To Be Hold”, the newest work from Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre.

Join the Current’s Mark Wheat for a chat over tea, a tour of the studios and a peek behind the scenes at The Current. See the massive music library, our state-of-the-art broadcast and recording facilities, and find out what hot new artists you should be on the lookout for.

MCBA’s artistic vision is to preserve the traditional crafts of bookmaking, advance the book as a vital contemporary art form, and interpret the book in its aesthetic, historic and cultural context.

Declare yourself an arts advocate when the big “A” comes to you! Keep the “A” for two days; keep the T-shirt-goodie-pack for always.

Escape the winter doldrums with a romantic evening getaway at the Berwood Hill Inn near scenic Lanesboro. An authentic 1879 country house just a few miles out of town, Berwood Hill is a Bed & Breakfast destination. Enjoy one night’s stay in the Inn’s signature suite, THE OWL’S NEST and, in the morning, their famously tantalizing breakfast.

Two tickets to “TV Men”, an original play presented by Nimbus. Set to run at Intermedia Arts May 9-25, 2008 the tickets can be redeemed any night but opening night. The performance will be at Intermedia Arts. Nimbus has produced interesting, experimental, and challenging theatre in the Twin Cities since 2001.

Got something to say? Got something you want to hear? Want the present of a lifetime for a teen or tween, a wife, a lover or someone you’re pining for? An original song, two verses with a refrain, to be struck up on the topic of your choice, in the key of our choice, for the occasion of your choice, such as a birthday, anniversary, wedding, proposal, graduation, roast, toast or moving to the coast. Work with the Heiruspecs a hip hop group from St. Paul and be part of their creative process as subject and active witness. Check them out at www.heiruspecs.com and on MySpace to hear cuts from their albums Small Steps and Tiger Dance. Must be redeemed in 2008 at a time mutually agreed upon with artists.

One of America's few floating B&Bs, the Covington Inn is a restored towboat, permanently moored on the banks of the Mississippi against St. Paul's skyline at Harriet Island. Each room is decorated with furnishings from the Covington's work era. The Riverview Suite features a full-sized bed and private, double shower bath, deck access, a working fireplace. Breakfast from the boat's galley, served in the salon, is just the right touch of gourmet needed to send you on your way. A perfect setting for love and romance, for a getaway to get acquainted or reacquainted.

Lynn Gordon opened French Meadow Bakery in 1985. They are the longest continuously certified organic bakery in the country. Their breads and bagels are the stuff of legend in this area, their restaurant a south Minneapolis icon, with a loyal following of customers and friends. Now you have the chance to bid on their Perfect Vanilla Cheesecake. A perfect vanilla ending to a valentine date or an attention getting end to a great dinner party.

Lynn Gordon opened French Meadow Bakery in 1985. They are the longest continuously certified organic bakery in the country. Their breads and bagels are the stuff of legend in this area, their restaurant a south Minneapolis icon, with a loyal following of customers and friends. Now you have the chance to bid on their Killer Chocolate Cake. A few rose, some strawberries and whip cream. Skip right to the end of a Valentine evening.

Want to show a movie? Bond as a group? Celebrate? Create? Rehearse? Use of Intermedia Arts gallery and theater for a company retreat or brainstorming session, a reception or dinner.

Katrina Knutson is a Twin cities based muralist. Whether you are looking for your business, your building, your bar, your kitchen or your kid’s bedroom, Katrina will work with you to create a unique mural to fit your space.

A 30-minute spoken word with poet Ibé Kaba.

A radical and raunchy evening of provocative expression featuring performances by some of the best Queer artists the Twin Cities has to offer (June 27-29, 2008).

A pair of tickets to any Pangea World Theater production through June 30, 2008 (including Strange Voyage April 3-6, 2008 and Ramble-Ations: A One D’Lo Show April 17-19, 2008.)

A pair of tickets to any Pangea World Theater production through June 30, 2008 (including Strange Voyage April 3-6, 2008 and Ramble-Ations: A One D’Lo Show April 17-19, 2008.)

The Moxie makeover will be good for a haircut and color with Stephen Adams, owner of Moxie Salon. Product package will be given at time of service (shampoo and conditioner that is right for your hair type).

This 35” x45” digital poster of Refugee Nation is part of interdisciplinary/multi-media collaboration that explores the impact of war, refugees, global politics and U.S. citizenship through oral history, ensemble performance, community art installations and interactive visual centers.

Enjoy dinner out at any D’Amico restaurant including Café Lurcat, D’Amico Cucina, Masa, Campiello and D’Amico and Sons.

Color photos by local photographer Michele Spaise capturing four local women artists Isis, Sarah White, Indigo, and Ida feautured in this year’s B-Girl Be exhibit.

"Erotic drawings are a great entertainment for me, which I love to share with others. These begin as scribbles on a page, elaborated with ink - led by my imagination and often laughing while I work. The results are a mix of humor and transgression." -Jim Grafsgaard

A 30-minute spoken word with Poet/MC isis.

"Le Boudoir d’Madame Erzulie was created for a Valentine's-themed print exchange organized by Bikini International. Madame Erzulie is the Haitian loa—a voudou deity—in control of love and lust. The designs on the wall are one of her veve—the pattern drawn on the ground with flour during ceremonies to call her forth. If the blanket looks like a tongue, the bed like a mouth or labia, it's because I was creating an image of her boudoir and wanted to give back to the traditional heart symbol a bit of its lusty earthiness." --Brian Hartley Sago

Create your own poetry library with nine poetry books from local and national writers, courtesy of Coffee House Press.