“If you’re sensing panic, it’s that we’re kind of out of options on the distribution side,” an Eversource executive warned regulators with say over a project.

The huge Eversource project to build an underground electric substation in Cambridge and add more than 8 miles of underground cables is facing unexpected conflict because of last-minute opposition from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to cable routes through its campus.

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.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Hot Girl Cypher, a tour that maps feminist Cambridge, Cara Fitzpatrick discussing “The Death of Public School,” free kayaking on the Charles, a Ifeanyi Menkiti memorial poetry reading, butterfly release party and the play “Forgive Us, Gustavito!”

Lamplighter and Food For Free team up on a beer and a lemonade and host a Thursday picnic; Puritan & Co.’s Julia Child-inspired dinner is waitlisted; and Forage, the bistro outside Harvard Square, goes all the way to Dedham to open a shop.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Cambridge Jazz Festival and Feet Keep the Beat Festival arrive, the Bridgeside Cypher returns and there’s roller disco, a horror-writing workshop, search for butterflies and dragonflies and much more.

Public meetings and events in the coming days include a no-questions-asked gun buyback, a City Council meeting looking at Affordable Housing Overlay changes and climate-change construction, a hearing on drug-overdose prevention sites and a Hampshire Street bike lane open house.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Gallery 263 has a 15th Birthday Bash, there’s the Saint Anthony Feast, a Greek Fest and the 44th annual Boston Dragon Boat Festival, a baguette-baking competition, The Taste of Somerville, readings, screenings and much more.

State Sen. Sal DiDomenico plans virtual office hours June 7 for constituents in his communities of Cambridge, Charlestown, Chelsea and Everett.

Cloud & Spirits, a Korean-infused restaurant in The Port neighborhood, has closed “after an exciting and ambitious two-year adventure” to become an event space, according to its website. Portugalia’s closing April 30 was noticed by the media Monday.