In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a tribute to Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey, Poets vs. Rappers, a “Call of Cthulhu” role-playing game for adults, kayaking the Charles, cooking Korean, fashion shows, family games, dancing and theater.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Nature in the City Festival, Italian Bel Canto Opera concert and Summer Boston Celtic Music Fest, “Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet” podcast recording, silent headphone party and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, R.F. Kuang reads from “Yellowface,” Club Passim brings back its Campfire. Festival, there’s a “Fire Walk With Me” after-party and the MIT Museum offers a chance to quiz astronauts aboard the International Space Station, live.

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 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, author Eleanor Catton visits from “Birnam Wood” and Margaret Atwood tells of “Old Babes in the Wood”; there’s music, comedy, a Maple Syrup Boil Down and queer wrestling, an end to “Bittersweet” art and the “Podcast But Outside” guys set up in Davis Square.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the entertainment goes from “Murder Your Employer” to The Moth storytelling, with lots of poetry, music and film, as well as readings that include female desire and Catherine J. Turco’s “Harvard Square: A Love Story.”

The language of the South gets a look saying by saying in a podcast from the Rev. Manikka Bowman, a former Cambridge School Committee member, and Aisha Francis of the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology in Boston.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Valentine’s Day comes out swinging with an R&B concert and cypher, The Hasty Pudding Theatricals premieres its 174th show, there’s cabaret and drag, readings of novels and poetry, an Après Cambridge outdoor party and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, The Comedy Studio holds an all-star fundraiser, magician John Vale promises to read minds in Inman Square, the Boston Opera Collaborative brings back its commissioned “Opera Bites” and there are readings, music, games and crafting to enjoy.