Five Things: Scenes from the SoWa Winter Market

1. Temperatures are expected to reach 73 degrees today.

2. If you’re a fan of the South End’s SoWa Winter Market, you’ll love the above YouTube video. Uploaded by schak301 a month ago, the video slideshow gives a great sense of what to expect at the Sowa Winter Market on a Sunday morning in the South End.

3. Boston Police issued 244 citations for drinking in public and arrested eight people during Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston. See more on the arrests.

4. On the first day of voting in this week’s Best of Patch Readers’ Choice contest, , and rose above the field. However, voting goes until 9 a.m. Friday, March 23, so it’s still anyone’s game. Be sure to write a short one or two sentence review on the salons’ Patch Places pages, as with the votes so close, that’s likely to be the difference.

5. will hold from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 23.