In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s St. Patrick’s Day and Prince, choreography by Crispr DNA editing, the North Cambridge Family Opera, a Danehy Park documentary and fascination with fungi.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include six from Kore-eda Hirokazu, with the filmmaker giving Q&As and collecting a Chlotrudis Film Society award, and classics including “Jaws” at Kendall and noir greats in Davis Square.

“Love Lies Bleeding,” a delightfully audacious lesbian crime noir from Rose Glass, is edgy, free of tropes and seared tight by a kind of angry authenticity.

Hi-Rise Bread Co.’s new sweet shop doesn’t hit it out of the park with its Oreo analog, though the cakes and pies demand a serious tasting.

Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.

A famous brunch lives on at its sister restaurant, State Park, every Saturday and Sunday, and the Vincent’s space gets a new concept in spring.

St. Patrick’s Day brings special menus and live music to Cambridge and Somerville. We also offer a good way to skip the festivities if it’s not your thing.

During the Covid pandemic, filmmaker and educator Federico Muchnik had his own crisis unfold within the global one. He found his way back by filming community at Cambridge‘s Danehy Park with footage that became a documentary, “Open Space.”

Somerville’s Charlie Dov Schön’s “I’ve been trying to reach you” is ethereal and bittersweet, a testament to grief and the desire to connect with others. 

As recently as the 1970s, hunters killed 1.5 million woodcock yearly, and to this day hunters and archers throughout Massachusetts hunt woodcock during its hunting season from early October through late November.