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.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are continuing Juneteenth celebrations, a Harvard Museums Summer Solstice Celebration, visit by the author Ottessa Moshfegh and musician Lou Barlow, Nepal Festival, silent dance party, Pit-A-Palooza, “Medusa Reclaimed” and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events led off by the Inman Eats & Crafts festival, authors Ben McGrath, Robert Kuttner and Elif Batuman come to town, there’s a Moth Story Slam and plenty of music and dance, including an MIT-sponsored International Festival and four days of Campfire. Festival at Club Passim.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, “Intimacies” author Katie Kitamura is in town, “inTENtion” dance gets a two-night stand, the Night in Bloom Gala seeks to raise funds for Somerville’s armory and there’s art, poetry, jazz and a Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival for AAPI Heritage Month.

The skies and streets should be cleared of snow in time for the final weekend of Dance Now, live performances that include excerpts from an all-dance reimagining of “Annie Get Your Gun”; Aysha Upchurch’s dance of persistence; Peter DiMuro’s take on our “stupefying existence” during Covid; and Kristin Wagner’s celebration of meaningless beauty.

Public meetings this week look at a universal pre-kindergarten plan, changed approach to Covid in the school district, the Jefferson Park Federal housing project construction, the next city budget, bike lane projects and parking, the search for a new city manager and more.

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.