In case you don't have a calendar, cell phone or computer or you've been out of the known universe this week, it's Valentine's Day. If you haven't bought your honey a gift, or if you haven't decided where to eat yet, you'd better get going.

Here are some suggestions:

• Gluten Free Valentine's Day Chocolate Truffles
• Valentine's Day Gifts
• Celebrate Valentine's Day Near Long Island, NY
• Valentine's Day on Long Island
• Romantic Restaurants on Long Island

And check out these two new restaurant reviews:

• Laverne of Great Neck, which offers a great prix fixe for tonight, and
• Sacramone's Restaurant Review where the food will bring out the Italian lover in you.

If this wintry weather is getting you down, there's a simple way to jazz up your weekends. The MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is offering specials on your ride to Long Island Wine Country, where local wines will be offered with a side of live jazz.

Jazz on the Vine, the 2012 Long Island Winterfest, kicked off on Saturday, February 11, 2011. It was the first of six weekends of jazz performances in the tasting room at the Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard in Calverton.

The other dates are: Sunday, February 19, Saturday, February 25, Sunday, March 4, Sunday, March 11 and Saturday, March 17, 2012.

The LIRR is offering a special package that includes round-trip rail fare to Ronkonkoma Station discounted up to 50 per cent, two one-way bus vouchers for the North Shore Express to Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard and a Jazz on the Vine winery admission coupon, which includes one complimentary glass of wine.

For more detailed information on this and other LIRR specials, please go to www.mta.info/lirr/getaways.com.

Suggested Reading:

• Long Island Wine Country Weddings
• Affordable Long Island Wines
• What's Your Favorite Long Island Wine?

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The Great Neck Arts Center is partnering with Great Neck Synagogue to offer a new Jewish Film Series. It will present independent, art, classic, and foreign films, highlighting films with Jewish themes and/or featuring Jewish artists and filmmakers. All films will be followed by a discussion by a speaker who will provide insight into the film and its subject matter.

The series will be held on five monthly Monday nights: February 13, March 5, April 16, May 14, and June 4, 2012. The series starts on Monday, February 13, 2012 with the film Musical Chairs, a romantic tale about two New Yorkers and their love of ballroom dancing. After the screening, there will be a discussion with the film's director Susan Seidelman, whose previous work includes Desperately Seeking Susan and the first television episodes of Sex and the City.

Musical Chairs will be presented as part of the ReelAbilities Film Festival, the largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities.

For the full schedule and details on each film, please visit www.greatneckarts.org/Film.htm.

All films in the Great Neck Synagogue Jewish Film Series will be screened on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at Clearview Cinemas Great Neck Squire Theater, 115 Middle Neck Road. Entry is at 7 p.m. for subscribers and 7:15 p.m. for ticket holders. Each screening has a question and answer period with a notable filmmaker or personality after the film.

Subscriptions to the series are $75 ($65 for seniors and Great Neck Synagogue members) and individual tickets are $15 ($10 for students, $20 at the door subject to availability). For more information, call the Great Neck Arts Center at (516) 829-2570 or www.greatneckarts.org/Film.htm.