In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Wayne Newton, Zadie Smith and Naomi Klein, the Cambridge Carnival, Boston Fuzzstival and Somerville Toy Camera Festival, close-up magic and MIT games, arepas and beer, basketball gods and Kristen Emack photography.

A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Passim’s Campfire Weekend to large walking puppets to Wayne Newton at the 98th Annual Italian Feast of Saints.

The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band is gearing up for a celebratory transformation, changing its name ahead of the next Honk! festival.

If you travel regularly along Brattle Street west of Harvard Square, you may have asked yourself in recent weeks, “Where are the blue bottle trees?”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Gallery 263 has a 15th Birthday Bash, there’s the Saint Anthony Feast, a Greek Fest and the 44th annual Boston Dragon Boat Festival, a baguette-baking competition, The Taste of Somerville, readings, screenings and much more.

This multifunctional space might have a yoga class, talk or foraged banquet in addition to art, and its building has served a variety of purposes since the 1890s.

Public meetings this week look at problems with rats and a change in preschool hours, missing a May 1 deadline on bike lane construction, turning a vacant lot in The Port into affordable homes, special education policies, an energy-use disclosure law, Alewife-area lab moratorium, city manager search, law against wage theft and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the return or the ever-growing ArtBeat festival, weeklong free showings of the Short Film Festival, the year’s Air Guitar championships, a midnight showing of “Pink Floyd The Wall” and more.