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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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Melody Sanchez tries to comfort her daughter Kayla, 11, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell. Kayla lost her best friend, Leandra Rosado, also 11, in upper West Side crash

As her little angel lay upstairs in a blue hospital gown, battered, bruised and bloodied from the same drunken driving accident that took another girl’s life, Melody Sanchez seethed.

“I’m just shocked at what she did,” Sanchez said of the drunken Bronx mom who cops said got behind the wheel with seven girls in her car.

“How dare you!” she raged into the cold, windless night.

“This is my daughter’s life!”

The daughter, Kayla Fernandez, 11, recalls how utterly reckless Carmen Huertas was as she took off from a party in Chelsea with the girls in tow, headed for a slumber party at her house in The Bronx. Read more..

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A group of Hispanic males have shouted anti-Mexican slurs in three bias-related attacks in the same Bronx neighborhood in as many days, police said.

All three assaults occurred in Tremont and were perpetrated by at least four men who are believed to be Dominican, police said.

In each attack, the crew pelted their victims with anti-Mexican invective and then roughed them up - stabbing one victim.

On Monday, the group pounced on a 47-year-old man at 4:50 a.m. in front of a building on E. 181 St., police said.

On Sunday, the crew stabbed a 53-year-old man at 4 a.m. at 182nd St. and Walton Ave.

On Satuday, the group attacked two 24-year-old men at 182nd St. and the Grand Concourse.

No arrests have been made.

Cops ask anyone with information on the bias attacks to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS or log on to www.nypd-crimestoppers.com. Read more..

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The FBI has charged a Bronx mailman in a massive tax refund scam run out of the Dominican Republic that’s already cost taxpayers $40 million.

Lacy Bethea, 51, was nabbed Monday after he left his Jerome Ave. post office with a stash of 75 bogus refund checks planted by the feds that he planned to hand off to two of his cohorts.

“I pulled the plastic bag from Bethea’s left jacket pocket, after which Bethea gasped loudly,” FBI Special Agent Seamus Clarke reveals in a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

In the Dominican Republic, authorities rounded up 19 people and seized more than a dozen computers. Read more..

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What a great year. What a rotten year.

Okay, so maybe somewhere in between, even with the economy sliding into 2009.

It was that kind of year for the Bronx, with the highs hopefully edging out the lows. And let’s wish for it to be onward and upward in 2009.

Economy: Boom and bust

# On the upside, there was the new Yankee Stadium going full steam ahead - steamrolling over the local community in the process with a big loss of centrally located parkland - and the new Gateway Center mall to its south, both due to open in 2009. And the city finally chose a developer to turn the giant Kingsbridge Armory into a mall.

# The downside: the Bronx had the highest jobless rate in the state, registering 7.7% in October, while continuing to be the poorest urban county in the nation.
It was reflected in growing lines - with many turned away - at struggling local food pantries.

# A report in September by the Center for an Urban Future titled “Attack of the Chains?” found the Bronx has the fewest chain stores of any borough, with many not in the Bronx at all. Read more..

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