5 Things You Need To Know Today: April 13 [VIDEO]

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation

1. Play Ball! Baseball returns to Fenway Park - 100 year old Fenway - today. It is the Red Sox home opener today.

2. is holding is annual at 6 p.m. tonight.

3. Four authors from 3 countries will visit 12 cities in 1 bus, and tour will stop in Framingham tonight at 7 at in Shoppers World.  In a grassroots effort to support local booksellers, bring attention to books and connect some of its bestselling authors with their readers, with New York Times bestselling author John Connolly (The Burning Soul), critically acclaimed writer William Kent Krueger (Northwest Angle), Scandinavia’s most successful female crime writer, Liza Marklund (Last Will) and internationally bestselling author, M.J. Rose (The Book of Lost Fragrances).

4. will hold its annual variety show tonight at 7 at

5. See , the film that won 5 Oscars tonight at the at 7.  Hugo is about an orphaned boy secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station and looks after the clocks. He gets caught up in a mystery adventure when he attempts to repair a mechanical man. By the way, this is National Library Week.