In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Blindfold Jam, the Ukrainian folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha, “The Madman in the White House” (it’s not whom you think), Sohla El-Waylly and Michael Pollan, a choral Anime themes concern by candlelight and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop history, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and an Anarchist Woodstock, MIThenge, a cozy mystery and fall by a fireside, lessons from a baby owl and the science of “Eat, Poop, Die.”

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is back in Somerville on Halloween as a screen-and-stage experience and in Cambridge through November as musical theater – and in some ways the show has been here since 1984.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Illuminated Block Party, “Rocky Horror,” a Poetry Brothel and lots of other Halloween fun, Roxane Gay and Dallas Goldtooth, the Thrill Kill Kult and the exhibit “Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, plant a Miyawaki Forest in Somerville, take in a “Dark Exhalation” of sci-fi opera or Sleeping Weazel’s Experimental Cabaret, celebrate Yuck Fest, eat a foraged banquet, hear the “Confessions of a Candy Snatcher” and gasp at Cirque of the Dead.

Homer’s epic includes a cyclops, alluring but deadly sirens and a sea monster, but Kate Hamill’s adaptation roots out themes of war, trauma and forgiveness.

Does the American Revolution matter? What, if anything, can it teach us today? Who and what has been left out of previous commemorations, and how can we ensure that we tell a more complete version for all of Cambridge?

The cast and crew of “We Were Here” saw an opportunity to go beyond the written record to explore the lives and experiences of these women – as workers, but also as mothers, daughters, sisters and friends.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Honk! festival of activist street bands and Oktoberfest in Harvard Square, Devendra Banhart and Eugene Mirman, Kristen Emack talking about her “Cousins” photos and the arrival of “Sweeney Todd” in a new theater.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Cambridge Science Festival doings, the annual Fluff festival, clown class, Black Biz, roller disco and John Coltrane from the Cambridge Jazz Foundation.