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MUSIC: Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts will be at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets are still on sale! Give a listen, then go experience it live for yourself before the Brooklynite (who has his own museum in DUMBO) heads overseas. Bonus: happy hour drinks from 6 to 9!

8 p.m. // Music Hall of Williamsburg [66 North 6th St, Williamsburg] // $20

READING: New Yorker editor Ben Greenman is having a publication party for his limited edition collection of short stories tonight at the Tenement Museum. "Correspondences is the first limited-edition release from Hotel St. George Press, Akashic Books’ experimental fiction imprint. A nostalgic glimpse at the lost art of letter-writing, the book explores the manner and means by which emotions are conveyed in that form. Each of the seven stories in the collection is itself a letter or a story composed of letters, all of which speak to disintegrating relationships between the letter's author and subject." Arthur Nersesian will also be on hand to read from the second book of his five-part, fictional series on Robert Moses.

6:30 p.m. // Tenement Museum Shop [108 Orchard St] // Free

ART: Church of Craft's DIY Salon comes to the Museum of Arts and Design tonight. "Join MAD and the Church of Craft for a night of hands-on making, music, food, and drink in celebration of the Museum's current exhibition Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary. Local do-it-yourself artists (your fellow Church of Crafters) will demonstrate their personal skills and help guide you in creating your own projects. Techniques will range from making notebooks out of junk mail to making yarn out of old sweaters, among other contemporary twists on classic crafts." There will also be snacks, beer and a deejay to soundtrack your craftiness.

7 to 10 p.m. // Museum of Arts and Design [2 Columbus Circle] // $9

THEATER: The 7th Annual Carnival of Samhain extravaganza takes over HERE Arts Center tonight through Saturday, promising to terrorize unsuspecting New Yorkers with a wide variety of Halloween puppet pieces, dance, magic, burlesque, comedy and live music. Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat will be told with "a devilish hand puppet and overhead magic, Z. Lindsey Briggs shows a new spooky piece, Evolve Company bring you the new black light show Becoming and the Puppet State Players take us to Mothra Memorial Junior High for a special Halloween class election." Also, too: Arial artist Amy Chen will perform "a death-defying dance swinging from the rafters, Nasty Canasta – burlesque superstar – performs Mummy’s Curves." Plus much more! – John Del Signore

7 p.m. // HERE Arts Center [145 Sixth Avenue] // $15

Photo of Joseph Arthur by Danny Clinch.