Morning Brief: May 12

Morning Brief: May 12

We know WFUV listeners are music fans, so maybe you might want to check out the Queens New Music Festival. It's a chance to see some new acts and maybe even do a little musician discovery. Sounds like a good time. 

NEED TO KNOW

Another Earthquake in Nepal  [New York Times]

Verizon to Buy AOL  [Washington Post

NY Senate Leader Dean Skelos Leaves Post  [New York Times]

Cuomo Calls for Better Sexual Assault Prevention  [New York Times]

NYC Public Schools Fund Needs More Donations  [New York Times

WEATHER

Partly Cloudy and highs around 88 degrees

SPORTS

Yankees play the Rays at 7:10

The Mets take on the Cubs at 8:05

ON STAGE TONIGHT 

Crosby, Stills And Nash @ State Theatre

Todd Rundgren @ the Ridgefield Playhouse
 
Judy Collins @ Café Carlyle
 
Bruce Cockburn @ Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne
 
Laura Cantrell (with a Russell Scholl film presentation) @ Union Hall
 
 “On Your Radar”, hosted by John Platt featuring Sleeping Bee, Meg Braun and (Fred) Gillen And 
(Matt) Turk @ Rockwood Music Hall
 
Otis Taylor @ Iridium
 
TODAY IN HISTORY
 
Today in 1965, the Soviet Spacecraft Luna 5 crashes into the moon. 

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