Tonight we’re checking out an Ohio indie rocker from our college days. Let Joey Hebdo hypnotize you with his vocals at Spike Hill, 184 Bedford Ave. (at N. 7th St.), Brooklyn, 718-218-9737; 8, Free.Read more

If the incredible views of Downtown, Midtown and Jersey City aren’t enough to look at, The Standard Hotel is offering something else for its guests to take a look at: The StandART Channel. As of March 5, the Meatpacking District hotel will show the channel, which features work from 10 celebrated video artists and was created in a partnership with the public art fanatics at Creative Time. Read more

Jesus loves the little children; just not the little children of lesbians. At least that's the message one Catholic school in Colorado is sending after banning two children from re-enrolling in its classrooms because their mothers are gay.Read more

Punk-rock perennial Michael 'Fat Mike' Burkett is headed to Park Slope and it's not for a black-market babysitter. The NOFX frontman is opening a new restaurant, Thistle Hill Tavern, in the old Olive Vine space at 7th Avenue and 15th Street reports The Village Voice. Old hardcore dudes who have moved to the Slope to raise children, rejoice.Read more

French Kissers: Riad Sattouf’s tale of adolescent sexual incompetence is a highlight of the Film Society at Lincoln Center (FSLC)’s annual “Rendezouvs with French Cinema” program, which will be held this year at the IFC Center and FSLC’s Walter Reade theater. Sattouf will appear on Saturday at the Bam Cinemathek’s special screening of French Kissers for a post-screening Q&A session. Read my brief round-up of it and other “Rendezvous” titles for CityArts here. Read more

If the incredible views of Downtown, Midtown and Jersey City aren’t enough to look at, The Standard Hotel is offering something else for its guests to take a look at: The StandART Channel. As of March 5, the Meatpacking District hotel will show the channel, which features work from 10 celebrated video artists and was created in a partnership with the public art fanatics at Creative Time. Read more

Jesus loves the little children; just not the little children of lesbians. At least that's the message one Catholic school in Colorado is sending after banning two children from re-enrolling in its classrooms because their mothers are gay.Read more

Punk-rock perennial Michael 'Fat Mike' Burkett is headed to Park Slope and it's not for a black-market babysitter. The NOFX frontman is opening a new restaurant, Thistle Hill Tavern, in the old Olive Vine space at 7th Avenue and 15th Street reports The Village Voice. Old hardcore dudes who have moved to the Slope to raise children, rejoice.Read more

Because Greenpoint looks so much like a pre-deluge destroyed Ninth Ward in New Orleans, it makes perfect sense that HBO would choose the Brooklyn nabe to film scenes for an upcoming film. And I guess I can agree with HBO's observation if I squint my eyes real tight and cock my head to the side. HBO plans on transforming "parts of Meserole Avenue, Jewel and Moultrie Streets into Nola's Ninth this weekend, when they'll film scenes for Treme, a story of Ninth Ward residents' attempting to rebuild their lives after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina." According to a sign in the area, the filming will take place Friday to Saturday, from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m., and will involve characters walking and talking on the streets," Gothamist reports.Read more

In a bit of politics/public speaking 101, Fight Back NY is doing what makes sense: Get a famous person to speak slowly and persuasively to explain politics and raise awareness. The organization is using famous lady Cynthia Nixon, who lots of women (and their gay friends) see as their smart, confident, successful, older gal pal due to Sex and the City, and having her explain how her own personal rights and freedoms are being subverted by New York State lawmakers. 

French Kissers: Riad Sattouf’s tale of adolescent sexual incompetence is a highlight of the Film Society at Lincoln Center (FSLC)’s annual “Rendezouvs with French Cinema” program, which will be held this year at the IFC Center and FSLC’s Walter Reade theater. Sattouf will appear on Saturday at the Bam Cinemathek’s special screening of French Kissers for a post-screening Q&A session. Read my brief round-up of it and other “Rendezvous” titles for CityArts here. Read more

We knew that Dakota Fanning would be playing Cherie Curie in the feature film about The Runaways. We just weren't quite prepared for this.

Considering how frequently First Lieutenant Mike Scotti interrupts the footage he shot during the preliminary days of the US invasion of Iraq in 2004 in Severe Clear with narration, it’s hard to think of him as the film’s subject and not its author. Scotti prefaces each of these interruptions, journal entries he made while he was in Kuwait and Baghdad, with “Notes for Book,” reminding us that he plans on using this footage to put his name on the map. Thankfully, these entries are used by director Kristian Fraga to arrange Scotti’s footage to show his emotional progress and not to give the world the unmediated “truth” that Scotti tells us media coverage of the war can’t provide. Fraga is smart enough to use BBC News updates to give the viewer an idea of where Scotti is and why it matters, making him the film’s star, not its lens. Read more

Corey Haim, the adorable Canadian scamp who starred in classics like License To Drive and Dream A Little Dream, is dead at 38. And the world turns once again to Corey Feldman for comfort. Read more

The Film Society at Lincoln Center’s annual surveys of contemporary international cinema (mostly) provide attendants with the cinematic equivalent of comfort food. The majority of the highlighted films in this year’s slate of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, taking place March 11-21, recall the domestic strife of home with only a moderate amount of the bite that’s typically excised from such nostalgia. Read more

Tonight we’re checking out an Ohio indie rocker from our college days. Let Joey Hebdo hypnotize you with his vocals at Spike Hill, 184 Bedford Ave. (at N. 7th St.), Brooklyn, 718-218-9737; 8, Free.Read more

Shilpa Ray incites all sorts of responses from fans, but none screaming of unrequited love as much as this open invitation on Craigslist posted in the Missed Connections section. Read more

Tonight's hot ticket is Suckers, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St. (betw. Thompson & Sullivan Sts.), 212-228-4854; 10; $8. Read more

The schedule for this summer's Pool Parties hasn't been released yet, but the Williamsburg Waterfront first announced concert is something else. Grunge relic Faith No More is playing a July 5 benefit concert for the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn at the East River adjacent space. Though despite what the wardrobe of the park's neighbors might suggest, no time machine has become available to take us back to when we cared about Faith No More. Read more

Digital Hardcore fans are beside themselves today as it has been announced that seminal electro-punk band Atari Teenage Riot is reuniting. The band has so far announced one show to be played in London in May, but since we know how these things go, we can expect a 15th-anniversary tour for Delete Yourself to find its way to New York some time soon. Read more