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.

The co-founder of the New England Jewish Poetry Festival and online magazine Soul-Lit prepares for an April appearance in Cambridge for Poetry Month.

For nearly six months, librarians were unsure if a no-filming policy could change despite worries of campaigns by anti-LGBTQIA hate groups and white nationalists.