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Hot date for Valentine’s
Day? Cuddle up with a
winner of our Movies for
Grownups® Best Grownup
Love Story Award: Julie
& Julia (2009), Last
Chance Harvey (2008),
Hairspray (2007), The Last
Kiss (2006), The Family
Stone (2005), The Notebook
(2004), or Something’s
Gotta Give (2003).
SEE A FILM,
FALL IN LOVE
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Meet the Beatles!
The Fab Four are back in New York—until January 9.
That’s when the gold standard of Fab Four tribute
bands, Rain, wraps up a 12-week run at the Neil Simon
Theatre. The show opens with a spot-on re-creation of
the Beatles’ 1964 Ed Sullivan Show debut and traces the
lads’ looks and sounds through 1970’s Let It Be.
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The deadline’s coming to sign up for spring community college classes: Last year Northern Virginia Community College offered “Turbocharge Your Memory” and Richland College in Dallas cheduled“Eldercare Planning.” Lots of other colleges feature tech, art, and exercise classes geared for the 50-plus crowd.
BUY A BIKE
Bicycling is great for aerobic
health—and with new bikes
arriving in March, last year’s
sell for up to 20 percent off
in February. Plus, says Adam
Sullivan of Caster’s Bicycles
and Fitness in Warwick,
Rhode Island, “we can spend
hours with a customer
then, because it’s slow!”
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1. ILLUSTRATION B Y SAMUEL RHODES; 2. ILLUS TRATION B Y LESLE Y Q. PALMER; 3. PHOTO-COMPOSI TE B Y CHRIS O’RILE Y
(PHOTO: MICHAEL LE WIS); 4. ROBERT GEORGE YOUNG/GE T T Y IMAGES; 5. COURTESY OF CIT TA DEL VATICANO
If you’re in Florida, marvel
at 200 artworks and
artifacts in the “Vatican
Splendors” exhibit,
making its last stop at
the Museum of Art Fort
Lauderdale January 29
through April 24. ;
Get Religion
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RAINY DAZE
Meet the lads of Rain—and find videos of Pink Floyd,
Queen, and Glenn Miller tribute bands—at
aarp.org/bands.
