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Tickets for Robert Deniro’s lovechild have gone on sale, offering over 150 films, documentaries, a free movie “drive in”, and an outside street fair. While movies range from the highly praised and much hyped Mad Hot Ballroom, be aware that acclaimed home video actress Paris Hilton’s horror opus House of Wax will also debut. So please, don’t drink and buy tickets. Highlights include:

The Village Voice Best of 2003 series at BAM draws to a close tonight with a screening of one of the best independent films of last year, Raising Victor Vargas. Directed by Peter Sollett, the film is an emotive coming-of-age story set in the LES. What makes Vargas work are the performances which Sollett successfully inspired from his virtually unknown cast. He first found these actors while working on his student short, Five Feet High and Rising, which was based on the same premise as Vargas. A Q&A with Sollett will follow tonight's 6:45pm screening.