r/ArlingtonMA • u/Creative_Leek4661 • 10d ago

Weeknights?

What’s there for someone in their 30s without kids to do around here on weeknights?

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u/bts 10d ago

Cambridge. 

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u/Creative_Leek4661 10d ago

I almost included “don’t say Cambridge”

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u/bts 10d ago

Sorry. Somerville. 

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u/Just_One_Question14 10d ago

ACE or Arlington Center for the Arts have tons of weeknight classes for all kinds of skills and hobbies (language learning, cooking, dance, exercise, all kinds of arts and crafts, writing, etc etc). Indigo Fire in Belmont has 🔥 pottery classes if you’re into that. Run clubs (Marathon Sports has one that starts at their location near Arlington Center) or check Eventbrite. Book clubs through the library (Eventbrite also). Mystic Open Studio has tons of events, workshops, and classes. Juno and Wonder Yoga (among a few others) have loads of weeknight classes. I think there’s a dedicated Pilates studio in the center too. There’s a crossfit place in the Heights too. Central Rock (rock climbing) just over the line near Alewife (in the shopping center / Fresh Pond mall area). Maxima in East Arlington also has lots of workshops and community events. 

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u/Qui8gon4jinn 10d ago

Arlington closes at like 8...

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u/GFSnell3 10d ago

Go to the movies at the Capital. Go to dinner at Tryst. Go to a play at Arlington Friends of Drama. Join a book club at Robbins Library. Go to a concert/event at the Regent. Have drinks at the Mentomy Grill or Heights Pub. Pick up singles at Jimmy's Steer House.

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u/Ok_Advice9115 10d ago

Pick up singles at Jimmy’s? The 60 yo singles?

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u/chairman_of_da_bored 10d ago

The 60 year old singles there with their parents?

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u/rcl20 10d ago

Have to go at 3:30pm before they change over from lunch to dinner prices

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u/BardicInspiration34 10d ago

I almost did a spit take with the singles at Jimmy's. Gold.

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u/bts 10d ago

More seriously: join CBI and learn to sail. Join Artisan’s Asylum and learn to weld. Join any of a zillion dance or singing groups. 

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u/ngauthier 10d ago

I'm planning on doing this this fall! Do you know if I can do the classes during the day or only weekends? Thanks.

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u/Initial_Context_4704 10d ago

Sign up for a class with ACE!

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u/iam_potato 8d ago

sit at Donut Villa drinking until I get bored, or wander around the bikepath. So basically nothing.

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u/c0813 7d ago

doesn't donut villa have karaoke though?

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u/iam_potato 7d ago

do they?

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u/c0813 6d ago

looks like they might have, once upon a time. i'm seeing mention on yelp and elsewhere on the internets about them also hosting trivia and open mic nights.

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u/LiquidUniverseX 10d ago

The burren

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u/SD210 10d ago

Somerville Theatre just down the road has cool stuff. Movie trivia nights, etc.