Restoration work at St. Augustine’s, a Cambridgeport church dating back to 1886, could see a boost from the Historical Commission’s unanimous vote Feb. 4 to recommend landmark status and likely approval Feb. 22 by the City Council.

The choice of a construction manager means renovations can begin on Central Square’s First Baptist Church of Cambridge, a landmark structure standing at River and Magazine streets since 1881 and now officially home to a new organization called Central Square Church.

If it was surprising for poet, author, playwright, performance artist Jade Sylvan to attend Harvard Divinity School, it might be less surprising to hear how Sylvan is wrapping up their time there: writing and staging a musical called “Beloved King,” presenting the ”gay AF” story of the Biblical David.

Work began this month restoring St. Augustine’s African Orthodox Church, a Cambridgeport structure that played a role in the work of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movement leader who helped inspire the Nation of Islam and Rastafarianism.

The Boston Jewish Film Festival, playing this week and last in Cambridge and Somerville, ends Sunday with the third documentary feature by Gerald Peary: “The Rabbi Goes West,” a tale of a religious mission that encounters hate in the hills of Montana.

The First Baptist Church has shaped the intersection of River and Magazine streets in Central Square since 1881, but attendance is at a handful and the building itself is sealed up, in need of repairs. The answer may lie in the help of a congregation down the street.

Documentarian Penny Lane has delved into found footage of Richard Nixon and an eccentric doctor who treated impotency in the early 1900s with goat testicle implants. In her latest foray into the strange and off-center, she tackles some sympathetic devil worshipers.

A vigil decrying last week’s terrorist violence that killed 50 in New Zealand is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall. “It’s yet another time we’re gathering not in celebration, but to mourn,” Mayor Marc McGovern said.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a CatVideoFest, opera drawn from an Anglo-Saxon epic fragment, the “Darker Joys” art reception, a panel discussion about various Ms. Marvels and Captain Marvels and much, much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are readings from novelist, Marlon James, a performance of Adrienne Truscott’s ever-changing “This,” dating PowerPoints, the reasoned discussion of “Pick a Side, Stupid!” and much more.