The sun will be shining this weekend and temperatures are expected to be in the mid-30s so we can finally enjoy some local shopping and dining again. First though, start of the weekend with some music at the Armory in Somerville from 7:30-9:30pm where the new trio of Eric Hofbauer, Aaron Darrell, and Curt Newton will bring together three distinctive voices from Boston’s vital jazz and improvised music scene.

On Saturday from noon-4pm, The Great Boston Chili Bowl will bring local Boston and Cambridge restaurants and breweries together to showcase their variations of chili and beer. All funds raised by this event will advance research toward effective treatments at the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI), the world’s largest drug development organization dedicated to ending ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease.

After filling up on local chili and beer, head over to the Somerville Theatre to watch the world-renowned Alloy Orchestra, a three man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films, present the Boston premiere of its live musical score to the 1926 classic silent film The Son of the Sheik, directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, and George Fawcett.

Finally, for all the museum lovers out there, cap off the weekend at the Harvard Semitic Museum to see the rich assortment of antiquities collected by museum founder David Gordon Lyon (1852-1935). See Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, ancient Palestinian pottery, Egyptian funerary art, and ethnographic treasures, along with Lyon’s own excavation photographs this Sunday between 1-4pm.