In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are holiday traditions on stage at The Comedy Studio and Christmas Revels ands among vendors’ stalls, a Covid-19 Remembrance and the return – for real – of The Chicken Slacks to The Cantab Lounge.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, The Cantab Lounge reopens in Central Square with the Chicken Slacks on stage, there’s a Christmas tree lighting in Porter Square and plenty of holiday shopping opportunities loaded with music, skating, workshops and other fun – even a petting zoo.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Niki Luparelli’s David Boobie burlesque returns for its 10th year, there’s gift buying at an East Somerville Holiday Market and Cambridge Arts’ Holiday Art Market, music, film and dance.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a swing dance Savoy Night at the Somerville Theatre’s new Crystal Ballroom, songs from Jade Sylvan’s “Beloved King: A Queer Bible Musical,” an MIT water summit, holiday market and plenty of music.