The Women's Expressive Theater is having a big fundraiser tonight for their outreach program, Risk-Taker Film Series. The Risk-Taker Film Series screens one film a month to adolescent girls and "mentors" lead discussion groups about issues in the film. Plus a guest speaker associated with the film comes to speak - last month, WET screened The Breakfast Club and Ally Sheedy spoke! Tonight's fundraiser is at Select, 49 West 24th Street, starting at 7PM. Tickets......

Gothamist was intrigued when we read that high school students who had been disciplined for fighting and other problems would be tutoring third graders who failed this past year, because at first blush, it sounds like bad idea jeans. Luckily, we continued reading the Post article, which had Department of Education youth services director explain "the program is geared toward students who've admitted their mistakes and performed well academically while on suspension, and want to......