Five Things: Should Residents Barrel their Trash?

Today is Thursday, October 6. Here are five things you need to know today:

1. More sun today with highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.

2.Celebrate Hearth's 20th anniversary tonight at a at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. Sample food from , the Buttery and paired with complimentary beer and wine and enjoy comedic entertainment by Jimmy Tingle. Tickets for the event are $150 and can still be purchased here. 

3. MC Slim JB's review of The Gallows in Stuff Magazine makes us want to have a burger.

4. Protesters are still camping out in Dewey Square as part of the OccupyBoston movement. Check out our video from yesterday's rally with hundreds of nurses and Princeton Professor Cornel West. If you want to support the movement, click here for a list of supplies needed by the protesters.

5. District 1 Councilor Sal LaMattina is co-sponsoring a hearing this afternoon on the all-important topic of trash. LaMattina supports requiring residents to put out trash in metal or durable pastic barrels as opposed to "flimsy plastic bags that sometimes sit on the curb all night, subject to the elements and hungry wildlife - including rodents." The hearing will begin at 2 p.m. in the City Hall Chambers. Residents and business owners are welcome to attend and provide testimony.