Cupid

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff Greg Escovedo took his girlfriend Melissa Cheek to Fenway Park this weekend. They're both from Fort Worth, but he's a Rangers fan and she's a Sox fan. Greg arranged for them to get on the field for batting practice and once there, he proposed to Melissa. David Ortiz got wind of the plans and was standing there to take the scene in. He congratulated the couple then led a round of applause from the fans around the dugout. "Give it up, people," he said.

(Image courtesy Save the Harbor/Save the Bay) Last year's plungers. By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent Residents from across the Bay State will be taking a plunge this week to benefit Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. The second annual Cupid Splash, will take place March 24 at eight beaches along the Greater Boston coast, with the main event in South Boston at the Curley Community Center. "We expect that this year's splash will be better than ever," said Bruce Berman, spokesperson for Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. "Our region...

ANNA WEBSTER > 23 Web content coordinator WHY SHE'S A CATCH > I like going out on adventures, camping, but also like to class it up and go out for drinks. WHEN SHE'S HAPPIEST > When I can dig my toes in the sand. MIKE IANNOTTI > 27 Recruiter ON A DESERT ISLAND, HE'D WANT > My iPod, a boogie board, and a lighter. WHEN HE'S HAPPIEST > Driving into the sun on an empty road with the windows down, blasting Dave Matthews. 7:30 P.M. L'OSTERIA > NORTH END > STEADY AS WE GO ANNA [Before the date]

Q. I have a problem. My mother owns a very nice house in Miami which has a life-size Italian white marble statue of a woman and Cupid which sits in the middle of a small fish pond, also made of marble, and dates from 1900. Here's the problem. Parts of the arms and the face of the woman are discolored and dirty with black and yellow. Other parts of the statue are fine. My mother shoots the hose on it, which achieves nothing. I think the stains have penetrated the marble. Also, she puts a soapy solution in a sprayer, without success.

Celebrating Valentine's Day with your sweetie a couple days early? Hunting down Cupid and giving him a piece of your mind? Whether you love Valentine's Day or loathe it, there are plenty of fun events happening this weekend that are just right for you. Join the chat at 11 a.m. and I'll tell you all about them. Nicole Cammorata chats about events -- Thurs, Feb. 9 at 11 a.m.

Ryan Weggler, 29 Restaurant manager What his exes say He can be nuts, but with that comes great energy. His interests He's been to twentysomething countries and hopes to see more. Melissa Howard, 30 Executive assistant What her exes say She's a planner and likes things to be in their place. Her interests Adventure – roller coasters, sky diving NOON, THE BEEHIVE, SOUTH END RISE AND SHINE MELISSA I got up, ate breakfast, watched TV, and got ready to go. RYAN [I]

Q. I have a problem. My mother owns a very nice house in Miami which has a life-size Italian white marble statue of a woman and Cupid which sits in the middle of a small fish pond, also made of marble, and dates from 1900. Here's the problem. Parts of the arms and the face of the woman are discolored and dirty with black and yellow. Other parts of the statue are fine. My mother shoots the hose on it, which achieves nothing. I think the stains have penetrated the marble. Also, she puts a soapy solution in a sprayer, without success.

Pity the poor boy: stripped naked, tied up, blindfolded, made to kneel, prodded by the horns of beasts, beaten, and roundly abused. Then again, we are told he deserved no better: "An ill-tempered soul," was how the Greek poet Moschus described Eros: "A voice of honey, but a heart of gall; boorish, deceitful, an inveterate liar, fond of childish pranks and cruel practical jokes. " Is it just me, or is this a case of too much protesting? Eros - or Cupid, the Roman version of the god - was, after all, pretty cute.

WILLIAMSTOWN - The French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard is best known for the frothy scenes of wink-wink-nudge-nudge erotic intrigue with which he made his name. But as the exhibit "Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love" at the Clark Art Institute shows, in his later work hedonistic shenanigans were out and grand, mythic love was in. "Consuming Passion," organized by Los Angeles's Getty Museum in association with the Clark, explores this often overlooked work of Fragonard's middle age through a small, slight exhibition of 26 works; just 16 are...

Part of me wants to tell you that ABC's new "Cupid" is breezy, romantic fun. Part of me wants to encourage you to stop thinking so much and enjoy Bobby Cannavale's mania as a man who believes he's Cupid and who leads a ward of psychiatric patients through a joyous "All You Need Is Love. " Part of me wants to forbid myself the use of the word that rhymes with "Cupid" and begins with "st. " But that's a very small part of me. Most of me is wondering who at ABC really thought that a remake of the failed 1998 series "Cupid" was even close to a good idea.

ANNA WEBSTER > 23 Web content coordinator WHY SHE'S A CATCH > I like going out on adventures, camping, but also like to class it up and go out for drinks. WHEN SHE'S HAPPIEST > When I can dig my toes in the sand. MIKE IANNOTTI > 27 Recruiter ON A DESERT ISLAND, HE'D WANT > My iPod, a boogie board, and a lighter. WHEN HE'S HAPPIEST > Driving into the sun on an empty road with the windows down, blasting Dave Matthews. 7:30 P.M. L'OSTERIA > NORTH END > STEADY AS WE GO ANNA [Before the date]

Rhode Islander Daniel Burgoyne was the big winner at the Project Cupid Charity Date Auction at the Estate on Saturday night. His pledge of $5,500 to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight acute myeloid leukemia earned him a trip to a Red Sox game with former NESN sports reporter Heidi Watney - in seats behind home plate. Other Project Cupid participants included Boston-bred sports reporter Jen Royle, who was auctioned off for $600.

Celebrating Valentine's Day with your sweetie a couple days early? Hunting down Cupid and giving him a piece of your mind? Whether you love Valentine's Day or loathe it, there are plenty of fun events happening this weekend that are just right for you. Join the chat at 11 a.m. and I'll tell you all about them. Nicole Cammorata chats about events -- Thurs, Feb. 9 at 11 a.m.

Ryan Weggler, 29 Restaurant manager What his exes say He can be nuts, but with that comes great energy. His interests He's been to twentysomething countries and hopes to see more. Melissa Howard, 30 Executive assistant What her exes say She's a planner and likes things to be in their place. Her interests Adventure – roller coasters, sky diving NOON, THE BEEHIVE, SOUTH END RISE AND SHINE MELISSA I got up, ate breakfast, watched TV, and got ready to go. RYAN [I]

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff Greg Escovedo took his girlfriend Melissa Cheek to Fenway Park this weekend. They're both from Fort Worth, but he's a Rangers fan and she's a Sox fan. Greg arranged for them to get on the field for batting practice and once there, he proposed to Melissa. David Ortiz got wind of the plans and was standing there to take the scene in. He congratulated the couple then led a round of applause from the fans around the dugout. "Give it up, people," he said.

John Pike, 50, freelance writer/editor What makes him a catch: He just lost 250 pounds. And is keeping it off. What he'd need on a desert island: newspapers, ice skates, and ice Tamara Gaydos, 54, manuscript archivist What makes her a catch: She's smart, adventurous, energetic, and fun. What her exes would say: She hates conflict and does anything to avoid it. 7 p.m. at Samuel's, Andover Background material ...

John Pike, 50, freelance writer/editor What makes him a catch: He just lost 250 pounds. And is keeping it off. What he'd need on a desert island: newspapers, ice skates, and ice Tamara Gaydos, 54, manuscript archivist What makes her a catch: She's smart, adventurous, energetic, and fun. What her exes would say: She hates conflict and does anything to avoid it. 7 p.m. at Samuel's, Andover Background material ...

Rhode Islander Daniel Burgoyne was the big winner at the Project Cupid Charity Date Auction at the Estate on Saturday night. His pledge of $5,500 to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight acute myeloid leukemia earned him a trip to a Red Sox game with former NESN sports reporter Heidi Watney - in seats behind home plate. Other Project Cupid participants included Boston-bred sports reporter Jen Royle, who was auctioned off for $600.

CAMBRIDGE - When Claudio Monteverdi came along at the end of the 17th-century, the Italian madrigal was transformed. A decorative, stylized form became something as real and immediate as the prick of a needle. Dissonances, suspensions, shifts from minor to major, the occasional forbidden interval, and an unpredictable form, all served the emotional urgency of the poetry, which was now, Monteverdi declared, “mistress of the harmony.’’ One has only to think of the opening notes of “Lasciatemi morire,’’ the Monteverdi lament that every voice student is assigned to...

Part of me wants to tell you that ABC's new "Cupid" is breezy, romantic fun. Part of me wants to encourage you to stop thinking so much and enjoy Bobby Cannavale's mania as a man who believes he's Cupid and who leads a ward of psychiatric patients through a joyous "All You Need Is Love. " Part of me wants to forbid myself the use of the word that rhymes with "Cupid" and begins with "st. " But that's a very small part of me. Most of me is wondering who at ABC really thought that a remake of the failed 1998 series "Cupid" was even close to a good idea.