In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera brings its “Cutlass Crew” to port, Ramadan fasts break, spring arrives at Fresh Pond, there’s lots to offer at museums and libraries (including a celebrity memoir book club) and The Residents play in Harvard Square.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” reading, Nick Zaino’s 100 Years of Boston Comedy, Urbanity’s “Of the Ether” dance and a “DM Mayhem” show of horrifying texts from men.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Pi Day arrives (one event starts at 3:14 p.m.), there are nature walks and seed plantings, board game nights and cozy teas, sacred songs and the scoring of a silent film, St. Patrick’s Day, a “Cherry Orchard” staging and the chance to break a world record.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the entertainment goes from “Murder Your Employer” to The Moth storytelling, with lots of poetry, music and film, as well as readings that include female desire and Catherine J. Turco’s “Harvard Square: A Love Story.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, MIT has a three-session course on deepfakes; we meet “Davos Man”; party at the Time Traveler’s Ball; and enjoy readings and poetry slams; and the start of The Foundry Family Festival with “A Story Beyond.”

Public meetings this week look at budgeting for Cambridge Public Schools and capital projects, Brattle Street improvements, East Cambridge developments, the voices of Indigenous people and a landmarking for the circa-1912 Gas Light Co. Building in Central Square.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Cambridge Black History Project Black Trailblazers event and exhibit, “Life is a Cabernet” show, plenty of readings, comedy and music, a Moth story slam and an intro to Mastodon, the Twitter alternative.

Public meetings this week look at police department protocols, processes and training that might have led to a resident’s death; cannabis sellers; the Volpe parcel in Kendall Square; public school art; charter changes around budgeting; and more.

West Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital has shared an image of the first baby born there in the new year, arriving at 12:50 a.m. Sunday.

Public meetings this week look at a small proposed rezoning in North Cambridge; an idea about limiting lab locations; Garden Street traffic changes; and an analysis of MBTA plans to extend silver line commuter rail service to Everett and surrounding communities.