City management has to change its agenda from being wasteful, redundant and destructive to repairing and maintaining the parks that we have.

Levels of contamination at the empty former Rite-Way Dry Cleaners are “high” and nearly unprecedented in their complexity in the experience of a 28-year environmental expert hired by the property owner.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Paul Giamatti’s “Chinwag” podcast, The Bread and Puppet Theater, Record Store Day, “Secret Sounds of Ponds” and other Earth-related events, cake decorating and Shakespeare’s 460th Birthday.

Bagelsaurus will add an additional 500 square feet to its store next month, which means more room for needed refrigerator units to prepare more bagels.

The egg and cheese sandwich gets a makeover with a genius schmear of mustard butter at Cambridge’s Bagelsaurus.

You can find old-school Italian comfort food on this side of the river, including satisfying basics: chicken Parm, lobster fra diavolo and veal scallopini.

Graham & Parks is in crisis. Some School Committee members have been responsive, but all are asked to act with the urgency the moment demands.

Owner Ayham Haddad aims to combine his native Jordanian flavors with Western baking methods in a bricks-and-mortar shop near Porter Square.

Public meetings this week look at how the Cambridge Public Schools community feels about the district; what Massachusetts Avenue will look like in 2040; a way to add green space in a Kendall Square park; and a new unarmed crisis response team.

During the Covid pandemic, filmmaker and educator Federico Muchnik had his own crisis unfold within the global one. He found his way back by filming community at Cambridge‘s Danehy Park with footage that became a documentary, “Open Space.”