In "This Is England," which graced many top-ten lists last year, Shane Meadows told his own life story of growing up in a working class neighborhood in the north of England, where skinhead culture appealed to wayward youth looking for a community.

In "Somers Town," Meadows takes on a contemporary story, set in the forgotten neighborhood of Somers Town in London, best known as the place between two train stations. The story again stars Thomas ("Tomo") Turgoose, who charmed audiences in "This Is England," in a tale of two fifteen-year-old boys who obsess over the same older woman. Newcomer Piotr Jagiello plays Marek, a Polish boy who is new to England, and makes friends with Tommo (Turgoose), who has run away from a foster home.

Meadows said that he was interested in the story because it focused on immigrants, providing a counter-argument to "This Is England," which portrayed characters who were fiercely anti-immigrants.

"It's almost showing us the flip sideof what the characters (in "This Is England") are worrying about," he said at an interview at Tribeca. "Thething I liked about this family (Jagiello and Ireneusz Czop, who plays his father),is that they’d come there (to London) because he split up with hiswife and wanted to make a new start. People assume they’re desperate. The poles are the hardest working people I’ve ever comeacross. The people that don’t want them there, are some of the laziest."

"Somers Town" plays at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday, April 28 at 9:45 p.m.; Thursday, May 1 at 4:15 p.m., and Saturday, May 3 at 3:15 p.m.

Steven Hanson of B.R.Guest Restaurant Group is throwing his hat into the BBQ ring. His Wildwood restaurant opened last night with Big Lou Elrose at the pit's helm. Those who have a cue clue, know Lou from the competing circuits where he has won countless awards. And everyone knows him from standing beside Adam Perry Lang at Daisy May's BBQ and most recently beside Robby Richter at Hill Country - by far one of the City's most successful new cue joints. Well get ready for more competition, because Wilwood is serving up four kinds of ribs (dubbed dry and wet), pork briskert, pulled pig and Big Lou's signature smoked chicken and kielbasa that have garnished nothign but finger lickin reviews from friends and family visits. And the cute shirts on the waitstaff only help the equation (gals gone wildwood, if you mess with me you mess with the whole trailerpark). Good think Robby Richter parted ways with Hill Country. Cause it would have been a saucy fight otherwise. Photo from NY Times. - Fabiana Santana