Behold: Brattle Theater projectionist Alex Kittle has an art sideline, and in one project has blended research and illustrations into a charming zine on the sculptor Ruth Asawa.

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.

Rings are the thing at Mobilia, the Huron Village gallery and shop. “The Reverent Ring” features wearables from 50 artists around the world.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s David Boobie Burlesque, holiday markets, a Pee-wee Herman tribute, heavy metal, cooking with the chef of France’s Le Mirazur, Urban Waggle bee stories, “Head Over Heels” at CRLS and “The Slutcracker.”

For an “Open Studios” event there was many a closed door Saturday at the weekendlong Brickbottom and Joy Street art buildings in East Somerville. That made each open door in the labyrinthine postindustrial buildings a delight.

The “Museum of Modern Renaissance” has come a long way since artist-owners Nicholas Shaplyko and Ekaterina Sorokina bought it from Freemasons in 2002.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Blindfold Jam, the Ukrainian folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha, “The Madman in the White House” (it’s not whom you think), Sohla El-Waylly and Michael Pollan, a choral Anime themes concern by candlelight and more.

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.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Illuminated Block Party, “Rocky Horror,” a Poetry Brothel and lots of other Halloween fun, Roxane Gay and Dallas Goldtooth, the Thrill Kill Kult and the exhibit “Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, plant a Miyawaki Forest in Somerville, take in a “Dark Exhalation” of sci-fi opera or Sleeping Weazel’s Experimental Cabaret, celebrate Yuck Fest, eat a foraged banquet, hear the “Confessions of a Candy Snatcher” and gasp at Cirque of the Dead.