Give the kids some free Halloween fun. Hear The Interrobang go out with a regular if glorious bang. Take to the ice costumed at LGBT Halloween Skate Night. Experience top storytellers with 1st Person, Plural. Take in free classical in your choice of instrument and time.

A flea market on Saturday and juried art salon on Sunday. Frank Black in Harvard Square. The Walsh brothers in Davis Square. A free showing of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” at MIT. A free flute concert at Tufts. This weekend is all about choices.

Still on a bumpy road toward financial health, Cambridge Health Alliance continues to lose millions of dollars on its core health care business, its latest financial report shows.

Watch the future arrive at a hackathon, enjoy musical theater even musical theater haters enjoy with “Urinetown” and ”The Drowsy Chaperone,” find out who’s the best a cappella group and calzone chef and catch “Boston’s premier 80s pop saxophone duo” and best comics.

For a symphony orchestra’s formal fundraising gala, “Anything But Classical” is an unexpected theme — but it’s the theme nonetheless of a Friday event benefiting the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra.

Every Thursday, from the beginning of February until the end of May, each member of the senior class at Community Charter School of Cambridge goes not to school, but to work, as part of the CCSC Senior Internship Program.

One of the most educated cities on the planet is hosting a conference Saturday looking at what happens when there is no education — namely in Africa, where some nations in conflict for decades have produced generations who have never been to school.

December was the last month at the Maria L. Baldwin School for Design Hive, the fashion and crafts fair run by Cambridge resident and business owner Valerie Fox. This is bad for Cambridge, its schools and its students.

It’s either not big news or Lesley University has an ineffective public relations department, but the local press seems not to have noticed there’s a new school in town: Lesley’s School of Integrative and Experiential Studies. It merges Lesley’s Adult …

Reading Dawn Powell’s “The Locusts Have No King,” specifically the section in which she describes Rubberleg Square, provoked jealousy. So lively. Such a personality this square has, such powerful memories it would compel from its visitors. A roaring, j …