The Ethiopian community’s celebration of the 128th Adwa Victory in March recalled a beacon of pride and history for black people, including second-generation African.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Sri Lankan cooking, Susanna Kaysen and “Girl Interrupted” a “Little Prince” opera, a Patriots Day colonial fair, Space Week, Grolier Poetry history, a bluegrass festival and a Flat Top Johnny’s reopening pool party.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Jason Mantzoukas does improv comedy, Angélique Kidjo performs, there’s an archaeology fair, advice on how to run the Boston Marathon, the answer to “Can we grow buildings?” and an all-clarinet band.

Somerville school enrollment workers say cutbacks and changes at the Cambridge Health Alliance have made it more difficult for newcomers such as migrants and refugees to get help with subsidized insurance and into appointments.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s poet Nikki Giovanni, sex revolutionary Candida Royalle, joke fests and mystery comedy, new plays and folk metal, “Dope Science,” a tribute to Lana Del Rey and “Essays in Praise of Excess.” 

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the tiny-piano-using Chromic Duo and Cambridge Symphony Orchestra; robots, AI and eclipse prep; Joie de Vivre, horrors of the sea, edible insects and more; and Brexit and tech writer Kara Swisher.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s St. Patrick’s Day and Prince, choreography by Crispr DNA editing, the North Cambridge Family Opera, a Danehy Park documentary and fascination with fungi.

Limited overnight hours had caused problems for residents of the overflow shelter at the Registry building, particularly families with kids newly enrolled in Cambridge schools, whose children could not go to the shelter after school.

City officials and legislators have been trying unsuccessfully for weeks to persuade the state to keep Cambridge’s overflow temporary shelter for migrant families open around the clock instead of closing during daytime hours.

Children in migrant and other families staying at the temporary overnight shelter at the Registry of Deeds building in East Cambridge will be able to enroll in Cambridge Public Schools starting this week.