5 Things To Know Today: Friday, Jan. 27

• 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! Crunch Rock performs at the at 9 p.m.; The Walter Lewis Trio plays at the starting at 9:15 p.m.; and Trag takes the stage at the at 9 p.m.

• The Joel Barlow High School basketball teams take on Stratford tonight. The boys are on the road while the girls are at home. Both games start at 7 p.m.

• On this day in 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C.

• Happy 57th birthday to Chief Justice John Roberts.