FILM: A tribute to Jean Genet on film begins tonight at BAM. The focus will be on films inspired by the French writer, as well as Genet's own Un Chant D'Amour. BAM describes the festival further: A writer, criminal, homosexual, activist, and self-styled renegade, Jean Genet creates incendiary work that offers dreamlike evocations of moral ambiguity in a repressed society, and is rife with homosexuality, outlandish fantasies of submission, and acts of violence. This series......

Mo-mo-mo Momofuku! David Chang and company is moving the Noodle Bar into bigger digs down the street to make room for the new Momofuku Ko. Eater's got the details. And now, says Chang, "just shut up and eat." Brooklyn Record visits Peru via Mancora on Smith Street and found "a delicious and hearty feast, extremely friendly service, and drinks that left us thirsty for more." The Amateur Gourmet visits Stand. In a word? Forgettable. Remember......

With all the craziness going on in South Brooklyn recently -- Jason Neroni leaving Porchetta (law suits, arrests, excitement!), and with recent news that the Brooklyn Inn may be closing (converting into a bistro?) -- it'd be easy to miss the little slip about Vegas. During a short message on the Brooklyn Record, a commentator "confirmed" that the rumors about the Brooklyn Inn were true and then added that "Vegas, on Smith st. is also......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A shooting in Brooklyn, a power outage in Queens, and scaffolding that fell on the 5 tracks - subway service on the 2 and 5 is messed up! A Bronx man pleaded guilty to terror plotting; Tarik Shah will serve no more than 15 years for offering to teach Al Qaeda operatives "how to wage jihad with hand-to-hand combat" New lawsuit to stop the Atlantic Yards lawsuit, on the......

- The good folks at Gawker run a witty IM conversation between Choire, Emily and Balk mercilessly dissecting Bruni’s Room Service roundup last week in Dining In/Out. - Augie revisits L’Impero. - Chowhound sets up an interview between Jim Leff and one of his long-time board moderators. - Timed for this past Saturday’s green tinged festivities, here is a glimpse inside corned beef. (via Serious Eats) - Kiri Tannenbaum, for the NY Post, looks in......

We got an email from Northsix owner Jeff Steinhauser today, regarding the post we had written about the venue (or rather, the future venue Music Hall of Williamsburg). The post was pointing to an article on Brooklyn Record (who took down their post), which was referring to a Brooklyn Star article. The Brooklyn Star article was apparently vastly unresearched and for the most part, untrue (expect a retraction from them). Steinhauser has provided us with......

The Brooklyn Record points us to an article in the Brooklyn Downtown Star reporting there may be some hiccups in getting this whole Music Hall of Williamsburg thing off the ground: "Combined with the Galapagos Art Space next door, which also serves alcohol to guests, the two venues would offer roughly 12,000 square feet of bar on a block zoned for residential as well as commercial use. The Music Hall of Williamsburg - 8,000 square......

On the Gothamist Newsmap today: A naked EDP on East 14th Street in Manhattan, a van into a building on Cromwell Avenue in Staten Island, and an illegal factory in Brooklyn Stupid China! A stock sell-off in the most populous country caused the Dow to drop 416 points The Brooklyn Record looks at Con Ed's green power option Bottle rockets + turkeys = animal cruelty and disturbing wildlife charges for a Staten Island man......

The hullabaloo surrounding the Park Slope Barnes & Noble's request for parents to park strollers upstairs in a designated area is exactly the kind of tempest in a neighborhood that brings out the haves (having children) and have nots (having no children). But what's fascinating is the dialog created on both the part of the parents who want to wield their strollers and those who want to be free of strollers while writing their......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: possible jumper on the Queensboro Bridge, falling debris in Union Square, and a DOA removal on Lexington. Well, that's disturbing. Brooklyn Record says the scariest bar in Brooklyn is the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge. Our opinion? We're much more frightened of the taxidermy-ing bocce-ball hipster fiends at Union Hall. Lex visited the Graving Dock at the New York Shipyard in Red Hook, and snapped a nice picture. That's the......

Finally, a gift for our many friends who are huge Brooklyn boosters AND huge fans of alternative erotica. Marty Markowitz, we're looking at you! Presenting the I Heart Brooklyn Girls Calendar: Each month of the 2007 I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar, a real live queer femme from our neighborhood re-vamps a decade of classic pinup, from 1900's Gibson Girls to 1940's Varga Girls to 2000's Suicide Girls...and beyond. The soapy, shapely tush of our......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: white powder found at the U.N., a bank robbery on Bowery, and a jumper up on 45th and 10th. The Post has followup on the New Jersey legislature's decision to legalize civil unions: "among the benefits gay couples would get under New Jersey's civil union bill are adoption rights, hospital visitation privileges and inheritance rights." The governor hasn't said when he'll sign the bill. Sheldon Silver and George Pataki......

You may recall the story of Brooklyn's Kent Avenue Orthodox synagogue-- it was built last month in only two weeks, at a cost of more than two million dollars. The city authorities slapped a stop-work order on the site after a worker was injured, but the Satmars ignored it, and finished the build on their own timeline. The papers said that the interior was going to take another month to finish, but if you......

+ Looks like Hevesi could be in big trouble for not reimbursing the state for his wife's chauffeur. + Via the Gothamist Newsmap: a worker was killed when he fell off a scaffold on the Queensboro Bridge. The Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd was closed for an hour after an EDP made a bomb-threat. + Curbed has the story of that huge, mysterious building on the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue......

Oh damn! The beautiful and strange Broken Angel building in Clinton Hill seems to be on fire! Brooklyn Record has the first shot-- is anyone in the area available to snap a few pictures of the damage? The building is on the corner of Downing and Quincy-- we're not going to be able to bike down there for at least a few hours. Update: according to the Gothamist Newsmap, it's an all-hands call for......

We'll be keeping a running list of nominees for this year's most inappropriate morning coverage of the fifth anniversary of 9/11-- around noon we'll crown a winner. 1. In a devious bit of counter-programming, Gawker kicks off their day's coverage with a club-kid party crash, featuring a girl named "Baby Sinead" getting a vodka shower and showing some boob. Nice! 2. The Post decides that today is the perfect time to advertise its new......

-- This week's New Yorker has two covers-- on the outside, a tightrope walker reminiscent of Phillipe Petit is shown walking over a white void-- on the inside cover, he's shown hanging in space over the footprints of the twin towers. -- Speaking of the WTC, 70% of first responders have experienced lung problems. -- Only ten bucks from Boston to New York? Maybe you are better off paying a bit more. -- Brooklyn......

-- Good news: a New York judge stayed the possible demolition of St. Brigid's Church in the East Village until after Labor Day. -- It's funny because it's true: "Sometimes I Feel Like I'm The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood." -- Charlie Todd organized an astounding 215 people to conduct his latest prank: "Slow-Mo Home Depot." Deliciously pointless! -- In related news, Time Out NY devoted their entire issue this week to......

That putrid smell coming from Eastern Parkway and Prospect Park? It might just be the Amorphophallus titanum blooming at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The titan arum, aka the "corpse flower," is one of the world's largest flowers, and the BBG has been carefully cultivating its own for the past ten years. The plant, named "Baby," is set to bloom sometime this week - it seems that the flowery part (the "spathe") will unfurl for......

Yah! Yesterday the NYC Landmarks Preservation Committee announced their official ruling on the Pippen Building. That's the cute little structure on the corner of Third Avenue and Third Street in Gowanus in Brooklyn-- the one that sits at the edge of the new Whole Foods site. The announcement is an interesting read, complete with some history on the building: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission today unanimously voted to landmark the former New......

- AMNY looks ahead by 24 years at NYC's future - cue the "In the Year 2030" music - A glimpse into the Diamond District from The Morning News - Rikers Island geese control measures work, but what to do with the dead geese? - Governor Pataki tries to give his friends sweet jobs in the state government before the door hits him on his way out - A toddler drowned in a Queens......