For the second year in a row, Club Passim will take its beloved BCMFest online amid a meteoric rise in reported Covid cases.

Subcentral didn’t get permission to keep its music going until 5 a.m. on the weekends – but the school for DJs, producers and electronic music artists will be able to keep its member events open until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturdays in Central Square.

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, there are holiday shopping markets with art, food, ice skating and workshops; music of the jazz and “chocolate rock” varieties; American Repertory Theater Day of Giving events; and a menorah lighting in Harvard Yard.

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.

An independent nonprofit called 585 Arts has been formed by BioMed Realty and Cambridge-based Global Arts Live to run the creative side of a BioMed’s property in Kendall Square, from its 10-acre Canal District to the 16-story lab building it expects to open in 2025.

Ten arts projects are coming to Cambridge’s Port neighborhood with $90,000 in funding from Cambridge Arts and the City of Cambridge’s Port Neighborhood Grants.

Central Square-based Dance Complex has opened a 4,000-square-foot annex in Kendall Square for artistic experimentation and says it is taking applications from “artists of all kinds” to use it.

New Year’s is bound to be an indoors affair while a pandemic is till raging outside, but there are ways to make the night festive and unique.