Morning Brief: August 13

Morning Brief: August 13

Staten Island has a new national museum with a very specific mission: shedding light on the history of lighthouses. The National Lighthouse Museum officially opened its 22,000-square-foot educational resource center this weekend. It aims to remind visitors of the important role lighthouses have played in the US for hundreds of years.

NEED TO KNOW

In Efforts to Sway Iran Debate, Big-Money Donors Are Heard [New York Times]

Former President Jimmy Carter Has Advanced Cancer [NBC]

EPA Chief Attempts Damage Control After Spill of Toxic Waste into Colorado River [Washington Post]

More Students Are Opting Out of New York State Standardized Tests [NY Mag]

The Perseid Meteor Shower Is About To Peak. Here's How To Watch [NPR]

WEATHER

Mostly sunny and 84 degrees [Full Forecast]

SPORTS

Yesterday
The Yankees lost to the Indians 2 to 1
The Mets fell to the Rockies 3 to 0

Tonight
The Yankees face the Blue Jays at 7:07
The Mets take on the Rockies at 12:10

ON STAGE TONIGHT

JJ Grey And Mofro, G. Love And Special Sauce and Big Head Todd And The Monsters @ the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

Galactic (with Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 and Naughty Professor) @ Brooklyn Bowl

Charlie Musselwhite with Mark Naftalin @ the Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne

Jefferson Starship and Jazz Is Dead plus Quicksilver Happy Trails, Tom Constanten and Dan Healy @ the Ridgefield Playhouse

Nettwork featuring Stanley Jordan and Charnett Moffett @ Iridium

Tuck And Patti @ the Blue Note

Donavon Frankenreiter @ the Stone Pony

“A Lone Star Café Reunion Party!” featuring Kinky Friedman, Robert Gordon, Commander Cody, Larry Campbell And Teresa Williams, Aztec Two-Step, Corky Laing, Popa Chubby and many, many more  @ the B.B. King Blues Club and Grill

The Selwyn Birchwood Band @ the Turning Point

Rob Thomas with Plain White T’s @ the Bergen Performing Arts Center

Van Halen with The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1942, Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

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