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Bronx Events: Caribbean Garden Exhibit at the NYBG

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Tired of this cold, miserable winter weather? Escape to the Botanical Garden, now through Feb. 27, for its Caribbean exhibit, featuring the garden’s most tropical selection of flora. A lush display of banana and mango trees and exotic plants like the butterfly orchid will help you forget, even temporarily, that you have to go home afterwards and shovel your car out of a snow bank.Tickets are half off for a limited time only, meaning $10 for adults, $9 for students and seniors and just $4 for the little ones. The Garden will also being hosting a visitor photo contest of the exhibit starting this week; more details here.Check out this and other events in our community calendar, below.Editor’s note: What did we miss?

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One Title Lost, Two Found For Down But Not Out Boxer

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By David GreeneLike the roller-coaster life he has lived until now, former middleweight boxing champion Iran “The Blade” Barkley, who recently regained one lost title belt, has now learned he will be getting a second belt-19 years after defeating Thomas “The Hit-Man” Hearns.Barkley, 50, lost his first belt, the WBC Middleweight Championship belt he’d won from Hearns with Ring Magazine’s “Upset of The Year” performance in 1988, back in October when a relative changed the locks to the family home at the Patterson Houses on Third Avenue.The fighter would get a box of his possessions, minus the coveted belt. Barkley recalled, “I had it where I kept it.” He reported the theft of the missing belt on October 28, and the NYPD released a photo of the belt to media outlets on December 8.Barkley’s Middleweight belt was recovered recently after it was