Wicked Local Arlington reports that Sheriff's deputies closed the Mill Street Brigham's on Friday the 13th after its owner, Deal Metrics LLC of Baltimore, failed to pay rent. The restaurant adjoined the company's now-closed ice cream factory.

Three days earlier, the High Street Brigham's in downtown Boston was closed in a similarly abrupt fashion.

Meredith was on a walk along the Minuteman Bike Path when she found herself tensing as she approached a gaggle of male Arlington High students congregating after school. With good reason, it seems:

... "She's listening to the Backstreet Boys," one brazen youth announced (which I clearly heard because, in fact, I was not listening to the Backstreet Boys. I was still listening to instructional French language podcasts on low volume so I would not get a headache from the farcical French enunciations.)

Hot rage flooded through my body as I plowed ahead on the path. The Backstreet Boys! ...

Wicked Local Arlington reports that the man Arlington police thought dressed up like a woman to rob a bank this morning was, in fact, a woman - more specifically, a skinny woman, about 5'6" wearing a wig.

A “Voter Choice” initiative petition turned in to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on Wednesday would give Massachusetts voters a chance to change to a voting system that lets voters rank their choices instead of voting for only one candidate. The change would apply to key races, including for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary and treasurer, among others, starting after January 2012.

The T reports delays out of Alewife due to a broken train. Al Stevens tweets:

Alewife full of people. No trains.

Larabair tweets:

stranded in non-ventilated Harvard for 30'. I would have been 20' early, now i'm late.

Andrew Kimpton tweets that trains getting to Park Street were discharging all their passengers, " forcing hundreds of passengers to wait on the platform." Jeff Dunns adds T workers at Park Street gently encouraged riders to get off the trains by swearing at them.

Of course, every cloud has a silver lining, right? Rebecca Ferrell tweets:

Completed BOTH sudokus AND the crossword in the Metro on my way in to work this morning -- thanks, massive red line delays!

Well, I wanted to give a great big thank you to Robbins Farm Park (and the Friends Of organization), the Arlington Center for the Arts, and the residents of the city of Arlington and surrounding towns for coming out en masse yesterday to see Rebel Shakespeare do "Hamlet." We estimated about 500 people were there. Our kids were thrilled with the crowd, the venue, the enthusiasm for outdoor theatre, and had the time of their lives. Thank you bunkosquad and friends for coming out -- wish I'd had more time to chat with you.

Dan Dunn, who lives in Arlington, is not at all happy with his state rep, Jay Kaufman, because Kaufman didn't just vote to make Sal DiMasi house speaker, he did so with relish - and then defended him when the Globe first started asking questions about Cognos:

... End of questions about his integrity, Jay? Really? A grand jury still has some questions. So do I. And they're questions about you.

Lauren Hefferon reports she and other bike-backing parents finally got school officials to give the idea a try, several years after the school superintendent banned bikes. Only problem: The school doesn't want to install a bike rack.

Via Green Streets Initiative.

Arlington Town Meeting last night voted to let residents keep up to six hens in their backyards, YourArlington.com reports.

Around 5:30 this morning at Mass. Ave. and Teel Street, YourArlington.com reports.