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Vinyl Countdown andGoodbye Abbey Road, with No Privilege, Talking Jimmy, Greene Text Envy, Dad Jeans, Bone2Pick, Primeridian, Modern Marcie and Don't Bite the Apple

Friday, June 9, and Saturday, June 10

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Wright Locke Farm, just over the Arlington border in Winchester, near St. Eulalia, dates from the 17th century and is preserved to be a fun nonprofit tovisit and get involved. 

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UPDATED May 22: Come shop our fair-trade Salvadoran crafts and shade-grown coffee from 9 to 3:30 Sunday, June 11, in the lot at Kickstand Cafe, 594 Mass. Ave, Arlington.

Each purchase funds scholarships and community development in Teosinte.

Grab a treat from Kickstand, buy great stuff, and support the Arlington-Teosinte Sister City Project.

Adults and high school students are invited to sign up for a shift. No experience needed. Sign up with a friend, or with your kid.

Naira Babayan

Christina Gullans

UPDATED June 2: Treasures of Armenian Classical Music will be featured at a concert sponsored by the Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF), co-sponsored by the Amaras Art Alliance, on Sunday, June 11, at 4 p.m., 441 Mystic St., Arlington.  

Pianist Naira Babayan and cellist Christina Cullens plan to perform works by Koharik Ghazarossian, Sayat-Nova, Gagik Hovounts, Avet Terteryan, Komitas Vartapet, Edvard Baghdasaryan, and Alexander Harutyunyan.

The concert is part of ACF’s Mirak Chamber Music Series, established in 2017 in memory of John P. Mirak (1907-2000), entrepreneur, philanthropist, community leader, benefactor for decades and late president of the Armenian Cultural Foundation.

The Mirak Chamber Music Series aims to place the world’s finest classical music at the center of the cultural life of the Boston Armenian community in general and Arlington in particular. 

Mystic Brass Ensemble, Arlington’s community brass ensemble, plans to close its season with full wind ensemble works and a soprano soloist on Sunday, June 11, at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 819 Mass. Ave., Arlington.

The program, titled "The Art of Ensemble," features several different configurations of brass choir and guest artists. Soprano Janet Ross will sing selections by Richard Strauss.

TheArlington Farmers' Market, managed by Patsy Kraemer, has been approved to operate for the 26th year at 29 Mystic St., Russell Common lot, from June 14 to Oct. 25, from 2 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. 

In approving the market for another year, the Select Board on March 6 learned that the effort to provide farm-grown produce is merging with Arlington EATS.

UPDATED June 5: Arlington Friends of the Drama is turning 100 this year, and it has planned the bash of the century.

Put on your party clothes, your dancing shoes and join us on Saturday, June 17, from 8 to 11 p.m., at Arlington Town Hall.

Tickets are $35 after Wednesday, May 24.

Cake, DJ, dancing, hot hors d'oeuvres by Beaujolais Catering, entertainment, cash bar.

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Jeffrey Alexander, who for many years has organized Astronomy Nights at Robbins Farm Park, recently scheduled four free public events, going through the end of September. However, the first one, which was to have been at 8 p.m. tonight, Saturday, May 20, had to be canceled at the last minute due to rain. The next event is Janue 24

The roughly monthly events are informal and fun for all ages, he said in a recent news release.

At each, Alexander plans to have at least one telescope out to view objects in the night sky. The best planets for viewing aren't up until close to the fall, but, nonetheless, viewers will have plenty to look at before then, he said.

On May 20, attendees who arrived slightly early would have had a chance to try to spot the thinnest crescent of the one-day-old waxing new moon. As the sun and then the moon sink below the horizon, the group would have moved focus to Venus and maybe Mars. Venus is showing a phase (about half full), and, with some knowledge of the solar system, the group would have been able to tell where Venus is in its orbit compared to Earth.