1. Echoing calls made by local pols such as Councilwoman Letitia James, D-Brooklyn, and District Leader Lincoln Restler, among others, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in his State of the City speech that he would fight for legislation in Albany to increase the state's minimum wage from its current $7.25. "Right now, I believe, we are slightly out of balance. The genius of the free market is not always perfect," Bloomberg said. "Two of our neighbors—Connecticut and Massachusetts—have raised their minimum wage above the Federal standard to address higher costs of living."

2. The Panel for Education Policy will meet on Jan. 18 at 6 a.m. at Brooklyn Tech. Among the items on the agenda will be the proposed co-location of Community Roots Charter School with P.S. 287—the subject of a contentious hearing between parents of both schools on Wednesday.

3. Learn how to support positive transformation and reduce symptoms of all kinds at the Yoga Foundation Center's Introduction to Yoga Therapy today at 4:30 p.m.

4. And we really mean it this time: BAMcafe presents Chanda Rule, a veteran of opening gigs for India.Arie and Amel Larrieux with a voice that "is big yet masterfully controlled," according to BAM.

5. Alternate side parking rules are in effect.