In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s MayFair and PorchFest, “Poop for Breakfast” and afternoon tea, meta-Shakespeare and a thrilling escape from mortal danger in Afghanistan, along with a choose-your-own-adventure day of music and stop-ins by Andrew McCarthy and Andy Cohen.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, NewTowne Morris dancers greet May at 5:30 a.m. and Mayfair hits Harvard Square, libraries teach ’zines, bento boxes and pupusas, it’s Half-O-Ween, Jennifer Regan’s “Stitched Narratives” arrive and we hear “The Songs of Dolly Parton” and psychedelic folk of Damon & Naomi.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s music and dance galore, including “Ink in Motion” at The Foundry and “This Love Unbound” at Arts at the Armory, as well as Arbor Week events, nature challenges, a Hypnothesis music experience and “Hand Me Down” art exhibit.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are Patriots’ Day celebrations, school vacation fun, things to do for Earth Day but also “Weeding Out the Stoned,” a touring game show in which audiences find the narc among the stoned.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Rock & Roll Rumble preliminaries continue and the Down Home Up Here music festival is back at Club Passim, the MIT Museum looks at the science of comedy and there are plenty of dances to see and poems and literary readings to be heard.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera ends “The Cutlass Crew,” a Rock & Roll Rumble gets started, there’s a “Sims”-themed art exhibit and poetry from ancient Greek and Latin to John Keene and Carl Phillips reading and giving a Dark Room Collective oral history.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera brings its “Cutlass Crew” to port, Ramadan fasts break, spring arrives at Fresh Pond, there’s lots to offer at museums and libraries (including a celebrity memoir book club) and The Residents play in Harvard Square.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” reading, Nick Zaino’s 100 Years of Boston Comedy, Urbanity’s “Of the Ether” dance and a “DM Mayhem” show of horrifying texts from men.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Pi Day arrives (one event starts at 3:14 p.m.), there are nature walks and seed plantings, board game nights and cozy teas, sacred songs and the scoring of a silent film, St. Patrick’s Day, a “Cherry Orchard” staging and the chance to break a world record.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Eleanor Catton visits from “Birnam Wood” and Margaret Atwood tells of “Old Babes in the Wood”; there’s music, comedy, a Maple Syrup Boil Down and queer wrestling, an end to “Bittersweet” art and the “Podcast But Outside” guys set up in Davis Square.