Public meetings this week look at resolving conflicts in Ball and Magoun squares and South Medford where parcels split at city lines and zoning districts; the future of the Armory arts building; a Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination backlog; and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the tiny-piano-using Chromic Duo and Cambridge Symphony Orchestra; robots, AI and eclipse prep; Joie de Vivre, horrors of the sea, edible insects and more; and Brexit and tech writer Kara Swisher.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s St. Patrick’s Day and Prince, choreography by Crispr DNA editing, the North Cambridge Family Opera, a Danehy Park documentary and fascination with fungi.

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.”

With a brief uptick in the temperature for the next week or so, now is the time to seize the day, along with a clutch of LPs, CDs and tapes, at your favorite local record shops. We also look at upcoming shows and Makaya McCraven’s jazz at the Crystal Ballroom on Tuesday.

A hearing on racial and gender disparities in how Cambridge awards contracts could be held before April, after a report found that minority-owned professional-services firms accounted for 1.3 percent of vendors.

It seems there’s always been reasons for bicycling to be controversial in Cambridge, starting in the late 19th century when cycling gained popularity in Cambridge – and the nation as a whole – as a form of exercise and opportunity for social connection.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, learn how to make sound effects, see a Glow Show with the MIT Spinning Arts Club, play a board game about Puerto Rico. take part in a pun competition and enjoy music, dance, storytelling and poetry.

There’s a certain point in the life cycle of a local band when the itch to tangle with the Music Industry arrives and they start to eye the “industry fest” circuit.

In a final installment of Black Cambridge trailblazers for 2024, meet men who excelled as athletes and went on to work with youth and in expanding college multiculturalism and as an award-winning producer and director in documentary television.