Morning Brief: October 31

Halloween gives everyone an excuse to enjoy some delicious candy and dress up in fun costumes. While New York City may not offer some of the traditional trick-or-treating that suburbs do, there are still great places to go to take the kids for candy. [AM NY]

Weather 

Today, partly cloudy with a high of 58, and tonight, cloudy with a chance of rain late, low of 49. [Full Forecast]

Need to Know

Burkina Faso may announce emergency measures after violent protests. [BBC News]

Maine is in a standoff with nurse over Ebola safeguards. [Yahoo!]

New York offers protections for medical workers joining Ebola fight. [New York Times]

The race is on as runners compete in the New York City Marathon this Sunday. [NY Daily News]

The Obamas head to Connecticut as tight governor's race nears close. [NPR]

Music Minute

TONIGHT (Friday the 31^st):

• Todd Rundgren @ the NYCB Theatre at Westbury
• Primus And The Chocolate Factory @ the Beacon Theatre
• The Tubes @ the Bergen Performing Arts Center
• Los Straitjackets featuring Deke Dickerson and The Fleshtones (with DJ Toddophonic Todd) @ the Bell House
• Lettuce and Soulive (with Branx) @ Terminal 5
• The Battlefield Band @ the Towne Crier Cafe
• The Infamous Stringdusters @ the Highline Ballroom
• The Damned (with Tsol and The Briefs) @ Irving Plaza
• Phil Lesh And Friends @ the Capitol Theatre (Tonight and tomorrow)
• Meat Puppets and Cass McCombs @ Rough Trade NYC (Tonight and tomorrow)
• WFUV PRESENTS: The Mavericks (with Maricahi Oro De Mexico) @ the Tarrytown Music Hall (Tonight and tomorrow)

TOMORROW (Saturday the 1^st):

• Primus And The Chocolate Factory @ State Theatre
• The Steve Forbert Band with Kami Lyle @ the Towne Crier Café
• The Kennedys @ the Folk Music Society of Huntington
• The Fab Faux @ the Klein Memorial Auditorium
• The Dean Ween Group (with The Jack Grace Band) @ Brooklyn Bowl
• Duke Robillard (Band) @ the Turning Point
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited (with The Doug Wahlberg Band) @ the Ridgefield Playhouse
• Johnny A @ SubCulture
• Jay Black “Jay Black’s 76^th Birthday Party” (with Jeff Norris) @ the Bergen Performing Arts Center
• David Bazan And Passenger String Quartet (with David Dondero) @ the Bowery Ballroom
• WFUV PRESENTS: Bobby McFerrin @ the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (Walt Whitman Theatre)
• WFUV PRESENTS: “Rock ‘N’ Roll Never Forgets” with Dennis Elsas @ the Montclair Art Museum

SUNDAY (the 2^nd):

• Justin Hayward The Voice of the Moody Blues with Mike Dawes @ the Tarrytown Music Hall
• Todd Rundgren @ the B.B. King Blues Club and Grill
• Bruce Hornsby @ the Ridgefield Playhouse
• Steve Forbert with Kami Lyle @ City Winery
• Jay Black “Jay Black’s 76^th Birthday Celebration Concert” @ the NYCB Theatre at Westbury
• Tommy Castro And The Painkillers @ the Towne Crier Cafe

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