Morning Brief: April 14

It's a great week for a film festival

The Tribeca File Festival starts tomorrow, and Robert De Niro's annual cinema extravaganza promises to be everything you could hope for, whether you're a movie buff or not. So head on down.

NEED TO KNOW

Blackwater Guards Given Lengthy Prison Sentences [New York Times]

Congress Set to Defy Obama on Iran [Washington Post]

De Blasio Plans to Shrink Riker's Population [New York Times]

Sheldon Silver's Son-in-Law Arrested for Fraud [New York Times]

Comptroller Says Minimum Wage Boost Would Help City [NY Daily News]

WEATHER

Cloudy and 60 degrees [Full Report]

SPORTS

Yesterday

Knicks beat Atlanta, 112-108

Nets fell to Chicago, 113-86

Yankees beat Baltimore, 6-5

Mets beat Philadelphia, 2-0

Today

The Yankees take on Baltimore at 7:05

The Mets play Philadelphia at 7:10

ON STAGE TONIGHT

Stevie Wonder @ the Prudential Center

Eric Krasno, Marco Benevento and others (with Sophistafunk) @ Brooklyn Bowl

Alberta Cross @ Rockwood Music Hall

Leo Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite @ Rockwood Music Hall

WFUV PRESENTS: “On Your Radar” hosted by John Platt, featuring Cariad Harmon, Bluebirds Of

Paradise (featuring Ari Hest And Chrissi Poland) and Robert Sarazin Blake @ Rockwood Music

Hall

TODAY IN HISTORY

Today in 1981, the first Space Shuttle, Columbia, completes its first flight.

Morning Brief: April 14

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