In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Fresh Pond nature walk and Nature in the City Festival, “Cinema Strange” and free screenings of new Pixar classics, classes in augmented reality and a “Yart Sale” – a citywide yard sale for art.

The City Council urged Eversource to place a high-voltage electrical line away from homes, where there’s concern at the prospect of heavy construction and health effects.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are family bike rides and game nights, a smut slam, comedy with Kathe Farris and a book reading with Imbolo Mbue, as well as music from Mia Asano, John Powhida, Fabiola Mendez and the Bridgeside Cypher crew.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Bollywood Night in Central Square, a drag queen competition and book clubs from a brewery, free films, readings poetic and political, a Taste of Carnival, a day of roller skating, a live edition of the podcast “Yo, Is This Racist?” and much more.

Changes to three East Cambridge bus routes serving lower-income people and seniors are adding to concerns over a wholesale redesign of the MBTA bus system.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Frederick Douglass Community Reading but also a Smut Slam (and male dance revue), a Family Game Night but also a look at “True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks,” lots of music and poetry, a free screening of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and historical tours.

We’re seeing more reckless development in East Cambridge in which high quality and permanence don’t seem to matter any longer and climate problems and income disparity are exacerbated. A conservation district can be a step in the right direction in counteracting the incessant destruction.

Public meetings this week say goodbye to a city manager, chief operating officer, attorney and auditor with a combined 152 years of service; granting $4.5 million to improve an 1868 city building in The Port; MBTA bus network redesign; Alewife zoning and park planning processes; and more.

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.

While the Foundry 101 building opens to the public in September, major construction is finished and residents were allowed to walk through the first floor of the refurbished building Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting, visiting spaces within where creation will take place.