MOVIE: Tonight the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series delivers two very different films. First up is The French Riviera, described as "a road documentary that follows a truck driver on a mission to earn enough money selling ice cream in the Icelandic countryside to go on a vacation on a French beach." Next up is About A Son, the "intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25......

READING: The wonderful Paragraph, a downtown writers' haven, is hosting a roof deck reading, which is a pretty sweet way to get a good view and some good stories at the same time. The reading, which features Mohammed Naseeu Ali (The Prophet of Zongo Street) and poet Wyn Cooper (Stories From the Interior), will actually be held on the roof deck at Clay, the spa next door to Paragraph on 14th street. Wine and cheese......

All Wear Bowlers playing downtown at Here Arts Center in Soho served as a real reminder to us about the greatness of living in New York and having the ability to seeing something really special in a tiny venue. This is the same venue where Symphonie Fantastique and The Vagina Monologues premiered, and in all wear bowlers, we really wouldn't be surprised if they are cultivating another show destined for bigger things in larger venues.......

- The Williamsburg Bank goes condo - A bloggy love triangle - Dangerous pedestrian crossing in Chelsea - Eating In makes Cuban Pork with Mojo - Eli Manning will step up for the Giants - Dinosaur BBQ comes to NYC - The movie version of the NY musical Rent will be filmed mostly in SF - Is the Apple Store's singles scene any good? - An interview with Eve Ensler, of The Good Body......

Eve Ensler, Playwright and Activist...

"There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying." Gothamist has been looking forward to Robert Evans' animated show, Kid Notorious, coming this fall on Comedy Central, but this Page Six description seals the deal: Sharon Stone calls Evans to tell him she's dropping out of his latest project to do a version of "The Vagina Monologues" called "Sharon Stone's Vagina." Evans tells the audience,......