After the all-virtual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo demanded by 2020’s raging pandemic, the free event returns Saturday and Sunday in a new form defined by a more confusing Covid moment: as a Mini-MICE with room to breathe inside the open-air Starlight Square entertainment complex.

These reviews of what’s in theaters and streaming now look at Steven Soderbergh’s HBO Max neo-noir “No Sudden Move,” a weak “Tomorrow War” and “Boss Baby” and a raft of intriguing pop culture documentaries on Lydia Lunch, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, and more

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong comes to the Cambridge Public Library on Monday – online – for a conversation with Harvard’s Courtney Sato about her “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.”

Who knew Cambridge had so many places to donate books? Well, New York-based In the Book did. It built a map to prove it.

Bestselling author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will speak with radio personality Callie Crossley to launch a monthly series called Voices for Justice that explores racial and social justice through the words of authors and activists of color.

In April 1775, as shots rang out at Lexington and Concord and the Massachusetts countryside blazed with the outbreak of the American Revolution, 33-year-old Mercy Scollay of Boston took shelter miles from the tumult, accompanied by four young children – not her own.

A project called Poetry of Science is looking for Cambridge poets of color who will be paired with local scientists of color to create poetry based on their work, motivations and history.

Your evening’s entertainment has been announced as part of the Cambridge Community Foundation’s virtual and free We are Cambridge spring gathering. And there’s more to look forward to May 5 as part of a (pricier) Mount Auburn Hospital fundraiser.

How did enslaved people create community in 18th century Cambridge? How did unfreedom persist despite the legal end of chattel slavery in Massachusetts? Though there’s tremendous research to build on, current residents can also offer tips, leads or ideas to follow up.

After years of relative obscurity, Pauline Hopkins is hailed today as one of the most influential African-American writers of the early 20th century, a pioneer in her literary work and social thought.