In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are readings from Alice Hoffman and Gabby Rivera – in conversation with the great Roxane Gay – and a “Community Ritual” dance, the “Concerts for One” continue and much, much more.

There are reportedly some 700,000 active podcasts out there, making for 29 million downloadable episodes – but there’s one launching Wednesday that is about you: Danielle Monroe’s eight-episode fiction series “Republic of Camberville.”

Though a renovation of Harvard Square’s iconic kiosk doesn’t begin until the spring, it will be empty as soon as Oct. 31 as the company behind the Out of Town News opts out of more lease extensions.

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

Max Lewkowicz’s grand, nostalgic love letter to the classic play and movie “Fiddler on the Roof” is an emotionally steeped documentary, slanted as can be, but earnest and from the heart.

“Love, Antosha” celebrates what Anton Yelchin gave to the world and what we lost when his light was extinguished, with fascinating peeks at his process amid some prosaic filmmaking – and then one true revelation.

This is an open call for anyone in and around Cambridge to think now about whether they want to join in the work of watching and learning what’s happening around them, then communicating that to a wider audience by posting on Cambridge Day.

A Harvard University official sparked a viral outcry last summer when she made condescending comments to a neighbor, a young mother tending to her mixed-race toddler. Cambridge spent nearly $14,000 on workshops, but Harvard’s response looks lacking.

What may be Quentin Tarantino’s most personal and intimate film to date mixes fading Hollywood stars with Manson cultists – a gonzo love letter to the movies that soars with a Bad Pitt-Leonardo DiCaprio pairing that’s Newman-Redford good.

As cool as it is that Cambridge has its very own annual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, this year that fall event will be accompanied by something unique: PodTales, a festival of audio drama and fiction podcasting.