The French aren’t partying like its 1999 on our Independence Day, so it’s not clear why we use their Bastille Day — the storming of a prison that sparked the French Revolution in 1789 — to dance, dance, dance in in Harvard Square.

Cambridge encourages its residents to walk or ride their bicycles on the last Friday of every month — Walk/Ride Day. This month it’s an all-day celebration culminating in the annual City Dance Party.

The Dante Alighieri Society Hall hosts a night of dinner and dancing Saturday for Lucchesi, their friends and family. But does that include Dante?

Maybe it’s not technically summer, but in the magical world of traditional song and dance known as Revels, Saturday is time for “Midsummer Night Revels: A Summer Solstice Soiree.” The event starts at 8 p.m. near Harvard Square.

Choreographer José Mateo is the ninth recipient of the Boston Dance Alliance’s Dr. Michael Shannon Dance Champion Award, in part for creating Dance for World Community and its upcoming Harvard Square festival.

If 4/20 means anything to you, chances are you’ll want to spend the high holidays at Harvard Square’s Oberon.

Five questions. We just want to ask you five questions — or, rather, get five recommendations of things to read, listen to, watch, eat and buy from people who live, work or otherwise spend time in Cambridge. Here are some from Swati Tiwari, who moved to Prospect Street from Southern California.

We just want to ask you five questions — or, rather, get five recommendations of things to read, listen to, watch, eat and buy. Here are some from Rossen Badakov, who loves Inman Square jazz, Kendall Square cinema and Central Square food and dancing.

The Deborah Mason School of Dance will soon lose its decrepit brick building in North Cambridge, but city officials’ promises to help as they could dried some tears. Now the city or a developer must deliver on the promises.

Somerville’s Zoé Dance Company leads off a trio of new works at Harvard Square’s Oberon this weekend that explore international politics as well as merging rock ’n’ roll and yoga in a piece called “Rock Om.”