In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Paul Giamatti’s “Chinwag” podcast, The Bread and Puppet Theater, Record Store Day, “Secret Sounds of Ponds” and other Earth-related events, cake decorating and Shakespeare’s 460th Birthday.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Sri Lankan cooking, Susanna Kaysen and “Girl Interrupted” a “Little Prince” opera, a Patriots Day colonial fair, Space Week, Grolier Poetry history, a bluegrass festival and a Flat Top Johnny’s reopening pool party.

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.

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.”

Fashion became a communal celebration at Streets & Avenues, a hip-hop event at an unlikely location – MIT’s Music and Theater Arts Department – hosted by McKersin Previlus, a lecturer and artist-in-residence at the school.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop dance, Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year and Black History celebrations, operatic ballet not seen since the 1700s, “How to Steal a Presidential Election” and the arts of writing love poetry and sex scenes.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, from “Underground Magic,” poetry with Tracy K. Smith and an Oompa concert to the return of the Harvard Plaza WinterFest, a farewell to ImprovBoston and examination of the darker sides of politics and social media.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s “The Slutcracker,” Stephanie Vecellio’s “Scenes from Somerville,” the end of a literary journal, a Sweet Exchange, bake-off and cookie swap, “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,” dark comedy and the author of “The Fabulist” about noted liar George Santos.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, including ThanksLIVING, Cranksgiving, THANGsgiving, the Gobble, Gobble, Gobble run, Falcons vs. Highlanders football, Brickbottom’s open studios, “Something Strange” and David Boobie and the Onyeagoros and their “Neo & Nubia.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop history, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and an Anarchist Woodstock, MIThenge, a cozy mystery and fall by a fireside, lessons from a baby owl and the science of “Eat, Poop, Die.”