HEART BURNS: Valentine’s Day lasts a little...

HEART BURNS: Valentine’s Day lasts a little longer for florist John Glebocki. . . . More than 60 frenzied men ordered flowers from Glebocki’s Sherman Oaks shop on Wednesday, the day after Valentine’s Day. “Usually, it’s guys who are getting out of the doghouse,” said Glebocki. “The wife doesn’t get anything (for Valentine’s Day), but the mistress did. Kind of tells you where the priorities are.”

STUDIO CITY STORY: Dinky was a cat with the mopes. Samantha was an irrepressible dog. Dinky belonged to a reclusive rock star, the Greta Garbo of her neighborhood. Then the earth shook, the rocker quailed, the baby fell in love with the dog and all their lives changed in a drama of love, fear, death and triumph on the quiet streets of the Studio City hills. . . . The tale is told in Around the Valley (B5).

BEHIND THE BUNCH: For several weeks last summer, John and Penny Herbst, above, were living in the shadow of “The Brady Bunch”--literally. Surrounded by a replica of the Brady home built for a movie based on the 1969-74 television show, their Encino house sat shrouded in darkness. . . . “It was kind of like living in a tomb,” Penny Herbst said. . . . “The Brady Bunch Movie” opens Friday.

PARKING SPOT: Got a problem with your parking ticket? City officials plan to open a complaint center in the San Fernando Valley. . . . An experimental center has been operating in West Los Angeles for a year. The most common ticket complaint: A $330 citation for parking in a handicap zone at the Woodland Hills Kaiser Permanente Medical Center (B1).

MAIL FRAUD: Did you hear the one about the mail order insect killer that was merely a rolled-up newspaper? Stacia L. Crane has. . . . As consumer affairs manager for the U. S. Postal Service’s Van Nuys District, Crane warns the public about mail fraud, from the solar-powered clothes dryer to a universal coat hanger (B2).