FILM: BAM features the work of Al Santana tonight. The Brooklyn filmmaker "has been a fixture on the independent film and video scene for years and his work ranges from documentaries about the transatlantic slave trade to coping with 9/11." Santana will be on hand for a Q&A tonight as well. 7pm // BAM Rose Cinemas [30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn] // $11 THEATER: The New York Press deems “pastiche” performance artist Taylor Mac “one the......

June 14-16: Food Film Festival, Part 1 This weekend is the official kickoff of the first annual NYC Food Film Festival at Water Taxi Beach. This weekend features regional american burgers and asparagus, with Hamburger America (for those of you who missed our QBQ Burger Bash last year), Asparagus! A Stalk-Umentary, and more, including your chance to taste the famed green chile cheeseburger. Drool. You can find the full schedule here. June 14, 19:......

The past couple weeks have been a little slower than usual in Theatreland, with fewer openings, numerous closings, and performances on limited schedules. This week, as we all get back up to speed, there’s already quite a lot to choose from. Two unusual and intriguing festivals start on Thursday. Untitled Theater Company #61 is presenting the NEUROfest, which has theatre artists of all stripes performing pieces that revolve around neurological conditions like Tourette’s Syndrome (Welcome......

There's a great article about the wonderful retail space, Emerge NYC, at 65 Bleecker Street, in the NY Times. While Gothamist has taken into wandering into Emerge NYC during our lunch hour, ooh-ing and aah-ing over hot messenger bags, delicate earrings and cool clothes from young designers. Started by Nicholas Petrou, who created The Market NYC, which is at 268 Mulberry Street and most people call "The Young Designers' Market," it allows new talent to......

Sisters are doing it for themselves. And when they're as beautiful and fascinating as Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorl�ac, who's going to complain? In their continuing series devoted to the iconic French actresses and sisters, the French Institute screens this evening Agn�s Varda's The Young Girls Turn 25, a tribute to The Young Girls of Rochefort made to celebrate the film's silver anniversary in 1993. Like the '60s pop musical fantasia the Umbrellas of Cherbourg,......

Lots of news at Casa de Gothamist this week, so let's just jump into it: 1. Andrew Krucoff has filed a petition to break the indefinite, involuntary servitude contract we signed him to at the beginning of the year, and for humanitarian reasons, we have seen fit to grant his request. Krucoff has made a tremendous contribution to Gothamist - his 100+ interviews will stand as a testament to his wit, intelligence, and kind-heartedness for......