Public meetings this week memorialize transgender deaths and traffic fatalities, and debate property tax rates after a City Council swearing-in caucus.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, including ThanksLIVING, Cranksgiving, THANGsgiving, the Gobble, Gobble, Gobble run, Falcons vs. Highlanders football, Brickbottom’s open studios, “Something Strange” and David Boobie and the Onyeagoros and their “Neo & Nubia.”

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Brattle screenings from the Wicked Queer Film Festival, a Tupac Shakur three-fer and “Lost in Alphaville: Noir & Technology,” and there’s Lanthimos and Nicolas Cage in “Dream Scenario” in Kendall Square and more great works in town.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Blindfold Jam, the Ukrainian folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha, “The Madman in the White House” (it’s not whom you think), Sohla El-Waylly and Michael Pollan, a choral Anime themes concern by candlelight and more.

We can be proud of Cambridge’s status as an innovation leader while demanding that more resources go toward those who have been most deeply affected by the city’s recent transformation and by broader systemic racism, classism and ableism.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop history, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and an Anarchist Woodstock, MIThenge, a cozy mystery and fall by a fireside, lessons from a baby owl and the science of “Eat, Poop, Die.”

Finding someone funny is hard enough, but discovering someone who is able to convey a distinct sense of self through humor is even more rare.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, plant a Miyawaki Forest in Somerville, take in a “Dark Exhalation” of sci-fi opera or Sleeping Weazel’s Experimental Cabaret, celebrate Yuck Fest, eat a foraged banquet, hear the “Confessions of a Candy Snatcher” and gasp at Cirque of the Dead.

Cambridge public notices about tower restoration project bids at the Central Square Church Building

Cambridge public notices about hen keeping, special permits for 249 Third St. and 195 Binney St., Human Rights Commission and Fair Housing law changes around domestic partnerships and in city code about “Historical Buildings and Landmarks.”