Five Things: Parking Restrictions During Presidential Visit

1. Today's forecast calls for showers with a chance of thunderstorms and patchy fog. Temperatures will reach the upper 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.

2. Parking is prohibited on the following streets from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today due to at the Cyclorama:

• Tremont Street from Berkeley Street to Dartmouth Street
• Clarendon Street from Tremont Street to Appleton Street
• Warren Avenue from Berkeley Street to Dartmouth Street
• Montgomery Street from Clarendon Street to Dartmouth Street

3. Also, Tremont Street will be closed to traffic between Berkeley and West Dedham streets today.

4. Congratulations to The Boston Children's Chorus, which was recognized as a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Finalist by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. The Chorus was one 50 finalists out of 471 nominations from 48 states.

5. Newly elected District 7 Councilor Tito Jackson will be holding his first office hours this Saturday at Grove Hall Public Library, 41 Geneva Avenue, from 9 to 11 a.m.