MOVIE: Delve into the mind and life of H.L. “Doc” Humes (pictured) in a documentary by his daughter. Titled Doc, the 96-minute film focuses in on the counterculture icon. "In the 1950s and early '60s, Doc co-founded The Paris Review, wrote two acclaimed novels, and was a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London and New York. Doc was a 1950s NYC intellectual, a 60s free speech militant, and a 70s visionary crazy......

It's Only A Movie: Horror Films From the 1970s and Today Museum of the Moving Image, Queens Boo! It's time to hide your eyes and scream with delight over at the Museum of the Moving Image, as they'll be showing six weeks worth of old and new horror films starting tonight. You could say that scary stories are always about what metaphorical bogey men society fears most, but that became particularly evident in the horror......

EVENT: Talking Head David Bryne joins Elizabeth Diller, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, for a talk about new tendencies and relationships between architecture and music. Christopher Janney moderates. More information here. Friday // 7 to 9pm // Center for Architecture [536 LaGuardia Place] // $15 THEATER: The 3 Legged Dog Art and Technology Center (3LD) saw its headquarters at 30 West Broadway destroyed on 9/11. They’ve since rebuilt a fantastic new space, which......

EVENT: Housing works is opening their new store in Brooklyn today. With great events and thrifty finds and a way to support the HIV-positive homeless community, it's nice to see the store is expanding. 11am to 7pm // Housing Works Thrift Store [122 Montague St, Brooklyn Heights] ART: Photographer Haik Kocharian’s solo show at Robin Rice Gallery is “Isild Le Besco: the Early Years”. Fans of French cinema know Le Besco for her mercurial screen......

THEATER: Perhaps even more challenging than producing a play in 24 hours, as in the well-known series mentioned yesterday, is writing a good play that lasts only 8 minutes. Maybe that's why Turtle Shell Productions calls their challenges to playwrights from around the country to do just that "8 Minute Madness." Plays are performed in groups of nine and judged by both audience members and a panel of theater people, and are advancing now toward......

The police are saying that a box cutting attack on three Asian men may have been racially motivated. The NY Times reports that three men were heading into the Gramercy Restaurant at 184 Third Avenue (at 17th Street) around 4:30AM when they were greeted with the racial slur for Chinese people (we assume "chink") as well as "mock karate moves" by two Hispanic men on the sidewalk. Then, when the Asian men left the restaurant......

This Saturday will mark the start of the third annual Tribeca Film Festival. There's a democratic mix of high (Hector Barbenco's Carandiru) and crowdpleasing low (New York Minute with the Olsen Twins) brow (as well as the gossip-worthy, like Stage Beauty, the film that Billy Crudup and Claire Danes met on) films, and tickets are still available for many screenings. It's a great week and a half of movies, panels, and other events that energize......

Janet Jackson gets her Lil Kim on at the Super Bowl, with Justin Timberlake, alleged former paramour, ripping off one of her leather breast cups to expose a star shapped pastied right breast. Vivid Blurry has more photos and whatevs dubs CBS the "Tittany Network." CBS is apologizing, saying, "CBS deeply regrets the incident," while Justin says, "I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance of the......