Talk Bronx New York

TUESDAY 9

FILM: Director Christian Liffers 2007 documentary “Dos patrias: Cuba y la noche,” about gay life in the Caribbean island, screens at Millennium Film Workshop, 66 E. Fourth St., 7:30 p.m. Free, visit www.videotecadelsur.org

READING: Book presentation, “Next Stop” by Ivan Sanchez, at El Museo del Barrio, Fifth Ave. at 104th St., 6:30 p.m. RSVP to lacasaazulbookstore@gmail.com

BOSSA: Bebel Gilberto at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., 9:30 p.m. Tickets $40, call (212) 239-6200. Read more..

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On the heels of her first country album, “Do You Know,” Jessica Simpson is counting the days until she goes on tour with Rascal Flatts in mid-January, she said in an interview at Macy’s State Street on Saturday, where she signed photographs for fans who purchased her new perfume, Fancy.

“I can’t wait to be a part of their show and let everyone know that I do actually sing and I’m not just in tabloids,” she said. The tour hits Campaign Feb. 6 and Madison Feb. 7. Read more..

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  Did you know there are five boroughs in New York City?

That’s right; five. Smug Manhattanites love to pretend that the Big Apple begins and ends with their tiny, bourgeois island, but they’re wrong.

If you head northeast, you’ll wind up in the Bronx, a place that Yuppie parents warn their impressionable children never to go to at night lest they never return.

As it turns out, however, the little borough saddled atop Queens isn’t a bad place to find starry-eyed candidates for one’s blossoming Cabinet, Barack Obama learned, because in a talk at Yale, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. announced that he had been tapped to join the President-elect’s Cabinet.

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