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FORUM: “The Young Lords Party: 40 Years Later” with panelists Augustín Lao-Montes, Marta Moreno-Vega, Johanna Fernández, Darnell Enck-Wanzer and Andrés Torres, at Hunter College’s Faculty Dining Room, 8th floor, West Bldg., 6 p.m. Free.

FILM: “El Círculo,” a documentary about Dr. Henry Engler, a former Uruguayan guerrilla leader who was imprisoned for 13 years during his country’s military dictatorship, premieres at El Café at El Museo del Barrio, 6:30 p.m. Free, RSVP to www.elmuseo.org.

CLASSIC: Acclaimed Bolivian guitarist Piraí Vaca at Americas Society, 680 Park Ave., 7 p.m. Free.

THURSDAY 3

FLAMENCO: Chano Domínguez Quintet, a flamenco/jazz combo, presents new interpretation of the 1959 Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” at Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th St., 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. shows. Cover $30. Through Sunday.

“Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo” at BAAD!

THEATER: Charles Rice-González’s “Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo,” a gay-themed Christmas comedy, returns to BAAD!, 841 Barretto St., in the Bronx. Through Saturday and Nov. 10-12. Tickets $20.

“¡Viva Pinocho!” at Pregones Theater.

 SALSA: Cita Rodríguez and her orchestra perform tribute to her late father, Pete (El Conde) Rodríguez, at Latin Tinge Thursdays, Brooklyn Crossroads Supper Club, 402 Third Ave. at Sixth St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, 6 p.m. Tickets $5-$10, ladies free until 8 p.m. Read more..

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Chazz Palminteri retraces his long, tough road home

If Chazz Palminteri had never met Irving “Swifty” Lazar, none of it might have happened.

The encounter between the actor and the late career-making talent agent took place in Los Angeles in the late 1980s. Palminteri, a native New Yorker, had recently moved to California and landed small parts in Hill Street Blues, Dallas, Matlock and several other television series. Lazar was a powerful force who could boost him to the next level.

As it happened, the two did not convene in an office or over lunch on some sun-splashed Beverly Hills terrace. Instead they crossed paths outside a Los Angeles nightclub, where Palminteri, whose luck had gone south, was working as a doorman. Not recognizing Lazar, he barred the agent from entering.

“He said on the spot he would get me fired,” Palminteri recalled recently, “and he was true to his word. I left and went home to my apartment in North Hollywood and sat on the edge of my bed. ‘What the hell,’” he wondered, “‘am I going to do?’” He had $187 to his name at the time. Read more..

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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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