Onstage  A free hand-crafted shadow figures show presenting Jack and the Beanstalk will be featured as a four-part mini series including short stories, vignettes and songs from children’s literature, traditional puppet theatre, and the puppeteer’s imagination. This presentation takes place at the Mosholu Beacon Youth Center at PS 8, 3010 Briggs Ave., on Feb. 19 at 1 p.m. Please arrive at 12:45 p.m. for seating. For more information, call (718) 329-0595/6.    The Bronx Library Center hosts Flamenco Music and Dance by Gazpacho Adalu, a flamenco fusion band, a blend of Adalusian, Hispanic-American, jazz and North African music, Feb. 9

Read More

For those who knew, loved and worked with the late Dr. Leandro Lozada, the pain from his abrupt and senseless death is still fresh, like a scab that has yet to harden. Just over a year ago, Lozada, the pediatrician who founded and ran Hispanic Pediatrics, a children’s health clinic across the street from Poe Cottage in a rough section of North Fordham, was brutally murdered in his Westchester County home.

Despite the fact overall crime in New York City dropped to record lows in 2007, crime numbers in the northwest Bronx’s 52nd Precinct stayed remarkably unchanged from the year before.

Plus, see a breakdown of crime stats by neighborhood.

Kids file into the auditorium of PS 8, free from classes for the day. They laugh and tease one another playfully before their afternoon snack, as Christopher Villafane registers them in his laptop.

Each day after school, children from PS 8 and surrounding neighborhood schools attend the Beacon Program, a free citywide community-based initiative to serve children after class ends. The program can be found at 80 different locations throughout New York City.

Middle School 80 is asking their students’ parents to "show them some love" through volunteering, in an effort to educate children through a community of learning.

The New York City presidential primaries will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5. To find out if you are registered to vote and where you can cast your vote, call (212) 487-5300 or visit www.vote.nyc.ny.us.

This past month, the League of Humane Voters of New York City released their 2007 City Council Humane Scorecard, which showed the Bronx City Council members in second place for the 2007 calendar year, with an average score of 60 percent (out of 100).

On Jan. 15, the steps of City Hall were bombarded with angry street vendors in opposition of the new legislation, Intro. 665, the "Green Cart Legislation," declaring it insufficient, unfair and claimed it disregards the dire necessities of thousands of street vendors.

This past week, at a public hearing on cable television conducted by the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Councilman Oliver Koppell spoke about complaints he has received from constituents on cable television services.