Valentine for everyone

Here's a Valentine's gift that's different: Now through noon on Feb. 17, if you buy two tickets to Charlotte's Taste of the Nation event (it's April 11 at the Wells Fargo Atrium uptown), you get one ticket free.
Taste of the Nation raises money toward the goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015, as part of the national group Share Our Strength. Guests get food from top area restaurants, live music, silent and live auctions, and the knowledge that 100 percent of ticket sales stay in this community, going toward Second Harvest Food Bank and Community Culinary School of Charlotte. Tickets are $85 each, so this deal means you get three for $170. Order online here and use the promo code LOVE.