5 Things To Know Today: Friday, Dec. 16

• It's Follow Friday on Twitter! Follow Weston-Redding-Easton Patch by clicking here. While you're at it 'Like' us on Facebook as well!

• Check out some live music in Redding tonight! Fundimensionals perform at the starting at 8 p.m. and The Motherboards take the stage at the at 9:15 p.m.

• On this day in 1773, protestors dumped taxed tea into the Boston Harbor, and event which became known as the Boston Tea Party.

• Today would have been comedian Bill Hicks' 50th birthday. Hicks died in 1994.

• Happy 70th birthday to journalist Lesley Stahl.