The Bronx International Film Festival kicks off today (we’re one of the festival sponsors). We’ve been posting trailers for some of the films being screened, so check back here later. And click here for more info, or to reserve tickets.

An off-duty Bridges and Tunnels cop fired his gun at a group of attackers during a road rage scuffle following an accident on the Major Deegan.

Gothamist showcases a collection of striking photographs from the LIFE image archive of the South Bronx during the early 1950s dubbed the “Bronx Slums.”

Make sure you buy a ticket-and keep your recceipt-before boarding the Bx12 bus. Transit officials are cracking down on fare-beaters who’ve been taking advantage of the MTA’s “pay at the curb” option, where tickets are purchased before riders board the bus.

The owners of a Westchester building that was the source of an oil spill in the Bronx River on June 2nd will be footing the bill for its cleanup.

The Huffington Post profiles Edda Lopez, a University Heights resident who is taking on Bank of America in a foreclosure battle (the Norwood News ran a story on Lopez earlier this month, as did this blog. Read here and here.)

The Huffington Post also chronicles, through photos, one blogger’s trip to a Bronx recycling facility.

Paul DeRienzo, a South Bronx elementary school teacher, writes that charter schools-largely concentrated in the South Bronx and Harlem-could be making our school system more racially segregated.

Police are investigating two fatal stabbings that happened yesterday.