In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera ends “The Cutlass Crew,” a Rock & Roll Rumble gets started, there’s a “Sims”-themed art exhibit and poetry from ancient Greek and Latin to John Keene and Carl Phillips reading and giving a Dark Room Collective oral history.

Harvard Library curatorial assistants are working to inventory objects and materials in a collection for the first time, all the way back to the 19th century.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera brings its “Cutlass Crew” to port, Ramadan fasts break, spring arrives at Fresh Pond, there’s lots to offer at museums and libraries (including a celebrity memoir book club) and The Residents play in Harvard Square.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” reading, Nick Zaino’s 100 Years of Boston Comedy, Urbanity’s “Of the Ether” dance and a “DM Mayhem” show of horrifying texts from men.

Public meetings this week look at new life-science building designs, a mixed-use development near the Twin Cities mall, relationship status protections, a cannabis store on Broadway and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Eleanor Catton visits from “Birnam Wood” and Margaret Atwood tells of “Old Babes in the Wood”; there’s music, comedy, a Maple Syrup Boil Down and queer wrestling, an end to “Bittersweet” art and the “Podcast But Outside” guys set up in Davis Square.

CambridgeSide has a Cheesecake Factory, Food Locker and, starting in late 2024, an entire floor of SmartLabs, a provider of coworking lab space.

Public meetings this week look at electrifying the city and its fleet, a two-block zoning proposal for North Cambridge, tree canopy update, city-line voter challenge, teen health survey results, plans in Porter Square, a Crumbl cookie shop for Central Square and look at Section 8 voucher changes.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, MIT has a three-session course on deepfakes; we meet “Davos Man”; party at the Time Traveler’s Ball; and enjoy readings and poetry slams; and the start of The Foundry Family Festival with “A Story Beyond.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s fairy tale opera, Beethoven and Schubert as well as “Heather, the Musical” and “Waiting for Godot,” plenty of readings, a “Bittersweet” art exhibit, reproductive justice and one-woman dance and Bitch, the musician, performing her “Bitchcraft.”