A new arts space in The Port feels like a reinvention of the freewheeling Out of the Blue and Zeitgeist galleries of Cambridge’s past.

I know people watch movies on their phones and someone will get rich streaming movies on smartwatches, or at least streaming TikTok videos. But after a year of watching movies online I am so looking forward to watching movies in an actual movie house.

The new Formaggio is much bigger and brighter than the old, with more and bigger piles and displays of wonderful things to eat. And radicchio at a price you may have never seen.

At a time most Bostonians are either befuddled or enraged by the development they see and experience, it is worthwhile to review some of the dissenting and cautionary literature. Peter Blake took on the Brutalist Paul Rudolph and Le Corbusier’s “Radiant City.”

The Thistle & Shamrock, like many neighborhood stores, has always been a good place to buy cigarettes and copies of the Boston Herald. You could also get bread and milk, and potato chips. And of course lottery tickets. But it has become more idiosyncratic, and change is a constant.

After the death of Amanda Phillips, the city announced plans to reconstruct an Inman Square intersection with such speed that it sparked a lawsuit. Since the death of Jamesia Dottin, the city didn’t announce much of anything until a plan for an eight-story building.

We’ve lost Cambridge, 1., Sandrine’s Bistro on Holyoke Street with its Alsatian flatbread, Three Aces and a bunch of “Greek” pizzerias, often actually run by Cypriots. But what’s coming looks delicious too.

Overall, planning has been fitful and opaque here, with developers nurturing political connections to city councillors in exchange for approval of projects on an ad hoc basis. What if we leveraged our strengths toward a better approach?

The relationship between a food establishment and a neighborhood can be complex. This weekend you can taste it in three places through Jason Bond’s special croissant from squid ink, a unique sake-flavored sesame paste and some salmon.

I begin by confessing that I have a weakness for Taco Bell, though I don’t understand the menu. I visited one before or after foreign movies at the long-vanished Nickelodeon theater; at Prospect and Hampshire streets; and in North Cambridge, a KFC combination known to locals as “Ken-taco.”