In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the two-day Record Fest returns along with a three-day Harvard Square community chess blitz, the Rock & Roll Rumble finals arrive and there’s plenty of poetry and free classical music to be had.

Lesley University has chosen Amy Green Deines to be dean of its College of Art and Design, Provost Margaret Everett announced Thursday. Deines will start work in July, succeeding Richard Zauft, who is retiring at the end of the academic year.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera’s “Space Opera” returns and so does the Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses, and there’s “Art and Activism,” a new look at “The Trial of Lizzie Borden” and much more.

Winners have been selected in a city contest that means empty storefronts citywide could soon become filled with images of a snowbound People’s Republik bar, oppressive edifices or street-level windows, lush beachfront or abstractly rendered autumn leaves. 

A Norwood man has been charged in the hit-and-run that killed Allison Donovan, 40, a Somerville resident who was born in Cambridge and attended Lesley University.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a free arcade of all-cardboard games to play, a human-size, musical 3D spiderweb at MIT, the annual Bugs Bunny Film Festival for school vacation week and an art fashion show in Union Square.

Public meetings this week look at a “relocation assistance ordinance,” an extended educational day and issues of race and class, and there’s organization by a Medicare for All group and a call for protests for potential third-part presidential candidate Howard Schulz.

ChoCho’s reopened last month after being closed since a May electrical fire. With 16 years in Porter Square, the return of its Korean classics and even a new bulgogi taco, the restaurant has no reason to struggle regrowing its clientele.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, One Night Band returns, Cambridge Community Television holds its first “Comedy Underground” Taping and there’s a Co-Incidence Festival of experimental composer-performers.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are some interesting options for New Year’s Eve ranging from free to $85, New Year’s Day options of music, comedy and film, and a week full of events from Boston Dance Theater to book readings.