In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Bread & Puppet Theater is back and there’s Indonesian Shadow Theater as well, Lindy West is in town to read, the Kendall Square Orchestra performs and the affordable Art Outlet pops up.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a ManRay Reunion, comedy shows – including one that combines comedy and dance – and poetry, and so much Halloween, from frightening films to scary storytelling and $1,000-prize costume parties.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are new rounds of the Honk! festival of activist street bands, Lion’s Jaw dance and the Boston Hassle’s Black Market flea, and the “Savage Love” and No Sleep podcasts come for live shows.

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.

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

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are festivals such as Harvard’s Arts First, MayFair and Taza’s Cinco de Mayo Block Party, as well as Somerville Open Studios, a Floor Lords breakdance battle, a Comix Con and much, much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are five days of Boston Underground Film Festival at The Brattle, three art openings, the New Zineland 2019 zine fest, sixth annual Empty Bowls Project, comedy, theater and much more.

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’s the premiere of “Role Playing Game,” a new opera; the 44th sci-fiction film festival ends with its 24-Hour ’Thon; Longy starts a monthly residency at Lilypad; Jill Abramson reads; and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Jade Wheeler’s “Who Is Eartha Mae?” goes up at the Bridge Rep, Errol Morris brings his Steve Bannon doc to the Harvard Film Archive, Once Somerville re-creates “Twin Peaks” and there’s plenty of chili.