La Brasa is a rare fine-Mexican restaurant serving an equally rare dish of quail that’s tender and sweet, with a lightly crisp skin from wood-fired roasting.

The Central Square location of the Crumbl cookie chain, which opened this month, has goods worth a try without being exceptional.

Kathy Greeley, who spent 37 years in schools, experienced the fundamental change inspired by the No Child Left Behind law and its ripple effects.

The Curated Fridge may be our smallest art gallery: the front and one side of artist Yorgos Efthymiadis’ kitchen refrigerator in his home in East Somerville.

Legendary rock photographer Charles Daniels, who died Jan. 22, was honored Sunday at an Arts at the Armory memorial service. But his work isn’t done.

There are 220 million pet cats worldwide and even more strays, but that doesn’t mean you know why, how they get into odd places or – brace yourself – the reason street urchins would bring cats to the doors of a Harvard lab in the 1890s.

Amid the endless cigarettes and constant noise of Goran Stolevski’s “Housekeeping for Beginners,” something truly beautiful emerges.

There’s dread and desire in every frame of this time-hopping tale that borrows lightly from Henry James and plenty of cinematic source material.

Some might call this a manipulative stoking of fears, and they’d be right, but the charge is forgotten as Alex Garland stages a phenomenally choreographed siege of Washington, D.C., that’s as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.

The Midwest Grill reopens Tuesday in Cambridge’s Inman Square with Brazilian and Portuguese food, a full bar and – most importantly for the sybarites – a return of its buffet for lunch and meals by the menu for dinner.