Expect new machines and a deep clean – and maybe a pickup and drop-off service – when it reopens, but longtime Oxford Laundry customers will find many of the features they enjoyed at a business recognizable from its Hollywood moment.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are talks on “Much Ado About Mushrooms” and “The Hijacking of Rights in America”; a story slam and poetry; a drag night with local queens Coleslaw and Severity Stone and drag king Travis Tí; dance and music; “Moana” and “School of Rock” for free; and July Fourth comedy and fireworks.

Lesley University has agreed to sell a historic building at 1627 Massachusetts Ave. to Homeowners Rehabilitation Inc., a nonprofit builder of affordable housing in Cambridge. The nonprofit plans to buy the property with funding from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust.

With these subfreezing temps upon us, hot meals matter. One place to get your internal warmth in yummy fashion is ChoCho’s, the Korean eatery with its boiling crocks of soondubu tofu soup into which you drop a raw egg and let cook – like your own Sterno stove to warm your hands over.

The Boston Poetry Slam is aiming to return Jan. 19 to Central Square, its new curator confirmed this week. “We’re really hoping we get that energy back,” Cassandra de Alba said. “I’m really trying to create a welcome-back kind of environment.”

Dear Annie is a tapas bar with an accent on fish, but don’t miss the mushroom panini, filled with an assortment of what tastes like just-picked fungi cooked al dente so you can taste their fresh, feral nature.

Amazon – the logistics expert the world has come to rely on for everything from groceries to furniture – abandoned an entire cart of packages meant for delivery to Forest Street in a Fernald Drive lobby on Wednesday. Amazon did not come back to redeliver them.

As Lesley University prepares to sell property to pay for part of a campus renovation, one interested group has already stepped forward: the City Council.

Lesley University plans to remake its three Cambridge campuses over the next five years, selling property and renovating buildings with a team of architects, designers and real estate professionals after meeting with community groups. 

A look today at Sacramento Field in the Baldwin neighborhood would show no hint of a pool – let alone of the grape-arbored reservoir for the Middlesex Bleachery, stocked with fish for anglers, that occupied the site some 70 years ago