In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an outdoors Parka Dance Party, comic book drag, music for St. Patrick’s Day, storytelling and brain science and visits from the Blind Boys of Alabama and Alan Cumming.

The Bon Me chain is expanding, an Italian restaurant is coming to East Cambridge with Charles River views and two eateries are expanding their hours in Cambridge License Commission approvals Thursday.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Domo Genesis and Sofiane Pamart perform, we boil down maple sap, juggle, sing opera about influencers, talk the “American Prometheus” and AI invades and Harvard explores “Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, learn how to make sound effects, see a Glow Show with the MIT Spinning Arts Club, play a board game about Puerto Rico. take part in a pun competition and enjoy music, dance, storytelling and poetry.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a weeklong Foundry Festival with a variety of things to do, astounding art, ice skating, a Ladysmith Black Mambazo performance and a dramatic session exploring “What if AI use goes too far?”

We continue Black History Month with Emory Clark, who dreamed of owning his own pharmacy and made it come true (with a sideline in ice cream), and Charles Lenox, whose quiet work helped build Cambridge business community in the early 1800s.

A relatively new principal whose contract is up for renewal at Cambridge’s Graham & Parks School is being investigated by the school district after community complaints and accounts of a “toxic work environment” at a previous workplace.

Some see changes at the Graham & Parks School as a threat and have been vocal in trying to divert the conversation onto other topics, some parents say.

The first gunfire of the year in Cambridge came Thursday. Like many of the city’s such incidents, no victims were found – only evidence a weapon was fired.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble performs its “Photoplay,” there’s art such as “Poems of Electronic Air,” academic talks on “The Rhetoric of Black Populism: From Malcolm X to the ‘Manosphere’” and the comedy duo Britanik takes the stage.