DON’T B MY VALENTINE: If you’re spending...

DON’T B MY VALENTINE: If you’re spending Valentine’s Day alone, and really down in the dumps about it, you might consider the Elks Lodge in Santa Ana on Tuesday night. . . . KROQ-FM’s morning show team is holding a Valentine’s bash there for “the dateless and undesirable.” But KROQ warns: You have to be a bona fide loser: No personality, no future. . . . KROQ deejays Kevin and Bean will emcee. Air Supply will do the music. Producer Frank Murphy says the response has been tremendous: “We didn’t think anyone would want to go.”

FUN IN SESSION: In recent years the renovated Old County Courthouse has been the scene for weddings, several movie locations and even an occasional real trial. But here comes a first: light opera from Gilbert & Sullivan. . . . It’s one of two back-to-back one-act operettas the Orange County Light Opera Co. will put on in the historic building’s restored courtroom--Friday and Saturday nights through March 4. . . . And which Gilbert & Sullivan? What else: “Trial by Jury.”

NEW WARRIOR: Ever since her highly acclaimed book “Woman Warrior” in 1976, UC Berkeley writing professor Maxine Hong Kingston has been in demand on college campuses. On Tuesday night, she’ll speak at Chapman University, which has named her its 1995 Distinguished Writer. . . . Says Tony Garcia, Chapman’s English department chair: “Her works are frequently used by our faculty. And our students respond enthusiastically to her writing.”

STILL FLYING: The gnatcatcher, the tiny songbird now the nemesis of local developers, is the cover picture of this month’s Audubon magazine. Included is a 15-page piece on the controversy between developers and environmentalists who want to protect the bird’s habitat. . . . But the magazine recognizes the problem of answering its own question: “Will (the gnatcatcher) be evicted? Or can it survive among the sprawl of new subdivisions?”