Public meetings this week look at getting tougher on Airbnb violations, ensuring the Cambridge Carnival takes place, giving the arts their own council committee, hearing what universities have planned for the year, school district budgeting, and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Bread & Puppet Theater is back and there’s Indonesian Shadow Theater as well, Lindy West is in town to read, the Kendall Square Orchestra performs and the affordable Art Outlet pops up.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are a couple of dance festivals, musical events, readings of poetry and other works, a free summer solstice event and much more.

Alumni of Lesley University, including members of the Class of 1969 on campus for a 50th reunion, got a surprise during the weekend’s awards ceremony: U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley made a surprise visit and speech in honor of her chief of staff, alum Sarah Groh.

Following a nationwide search, Lesley University has selected Janet L. Steinmayer as the university’s seventh president. Steinmayer, a Lesley board member, is now president of Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut.

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.