Wanting to see a big game on a big screen in a festive setting, I sauntered over to Olde Magoun’s Saloon with a degree of trepidation it would be too crowded, and your typical cap-on-backward bro-ness would reign. I was pleasantly surprised on a number of levels.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Serena Zabin reveals the family secrets behind the Boston Massacre; the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra tells “Tales of Kings and Queens”; there’s a Mosaic concert; maple syrup boil-down; “Two Truths and a Lie”; and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy comes for a talk, The Griots of Cultural Sound pay tribute to Stevie Wonder, it’s Love vs. Death at the Boston Poetry Slam, there’s a Kids’ Italian Carnevale, and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Jonathan Katz and other local comedy greats perform a fundraiser for MS research, the Songs of 1980 play at Club Passim, you can make your own video Valentine, Gish Jen reads, there’s free music, cheap poetry and much more.

A look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events brings the Once in Valhalla 10-course feast, followed Sunday by free chili cook-offs in both cities, as well as an evening with Sutton Foster in Sanders Theatre, the return of “Medusa: Reclaiming the Myth” and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the dystopian dance musical “iTMRW” and “Das Kapital” play performance, opera with “Aida” and more, and “Somerville Night Live.” It all starts with an MLK flash mob dance on the Monday holiday.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Club Passim celebrates Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and other Celtic music, Patricia Marx and Roz Chast bring their “Rules For Couples,” Callie Crossley kicks off Atwood’s Interviews, The Human Variety Hour premieres and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Passim celebrates The Songs of 1970, the One Night Band and Giving@First 24-Hour Play challenges return, Co-Incidence Fest is heard again and there’s plenty of poetry and comedy coming.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are talks with “xkcd” creator Randall Munroe and among Dissent magazine staff, the Somerville Dog Festival and 94th Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian, comic Neil Hamburger and much more

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Jade Wheeler’s “Who Is Eartha Mae?” goes up at the Bridge Rep, Errol Morris brings his Steve Bannon doc to the Harvard Film Archive, Once Somerville re-creates “Twin Peaks” and there’s plenty of chili.