5 Things You Need to Know Today: Jan. 30

Our weekday morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations.

1. Come to tonight for the screening of Film Screening: Finding Kind, at 7 p.m., 45 Oak St. Tickets are $5.

2. On this day in 1948, Ghandi was killed in New Delhi. Pick up a book about the nonviolent activist at the .

3. Make sure you have caller i.d. today because it's National Inane Answering Machine Day, which honors those crazy messages or prank calls that are sometimes left on your answering machine. Looking to buy an answering machine? Stop by on Route 9.

4. Before you head out to work, check out our traffic and cheapest gas feature, which runs 24 hours a day.

5. Take our poll about your favorite New England Super Bowl recipes. We'd love to hear what you've got cooking.