Cambridge Community Television has found its third executive director in Jessica Smyser, the leader of an arts and education nonprofit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who before that worked in the Cambridge and Somerville music industry.

Here’s a gift for a time cultural opportunities feel exhausted and the latest Netflix offering feels meaningless: A free, 100-page, sumptuously produced magazine full of voices and images most of us have never heard or considered. It arrives in a surprising way, from a surprising birthplace.

After 32 years at Cambridge Community Television, executive director Susan Fleischmann said she plans to step down in early 2021.

Arts venues such as Harvard Square’s Brattle Theatre have questions about the governor’s four-phase strategy for reopening the state. But with payroll protection for staff, donations and Virtual Screening Room revenue coming in, The Brattle is ready to “bring back the joy” when it’s safe.

The City Council took a 16-minute recess Monday after getting Zoombombed. That is, the official use of the Zoom video conferencing platform was joined by people who jeered, yelled insults and, at around a half-hour in, displayed an X-rated image.

The Harvard Film Archive announced its screen would go dark after the Tuesday screening of “Wendy and Lucy” with director Kelly Reichardt in attendance. That triggers questions about other theaters’ response, while patrons elsewhere plan outings with Clorox wipes.

His name commands respect from anyone in the design world. But typographer Matthew Carter is also a local, and this exhibit entering its final week at the Katherine Small Gallery in Somerville hints at his unique perspective and sense of style.

If you are looking to “stand out in a sea of selfies” and leave online dating behind – maybe by Valentine’s Day – photographer Emily Falcigno has set up in Bow Market to teach how to take better profile pictures, including avoiding cliché selfie pitfalls such as posing in groups, cars or bathrooms.

The human resistance against Skynet has a hangout in the Technoskeptic magazine’s Analog Sunday, coming to the Harvard Square wine bar Shays for a device-free two hours of “good, old-fashioned, face-to-face conversation, without distraction.”

A nearly nine-year archive of conversation and information about Cambridge Public Schools is among the victims of surprise deletions coming this month to Verizon’s Yahoo Groups service – along with the Cambridge Families list and many others.