Not since the demise of the passenger pigeon has a species declined so rapidly – and the little brown bat is not a species humans want to lose. One bat alone can eat 600 insects an hour, which means they eat thousands of mosquitoes, moths and night-flying insects each night.

From the opening shots of an Icelandic volcano belching rivulets of lava and the churning north sea, Robert Eggers’ Viking saga “The Northman” casts a foreboding scape that brims with brutal beauty and primal allure.

In this wistful tale of time travel, relationships are elevated to the status of more common movie tropes of going back to save the world or stop a horrendous cataclysm.

With food delivery waning with the pandemic, the acclaimed Season to Taste restaurant is looking to make up for that revenue with more seating, trading up to a 70-seat space being used by another eatery from its current 20 seats, the License Commission heard Thursday.

If you want a lunch that’s relatively healthy and light, fast and easy to eat (no fork or plate, and low mess), to me that’s a falafel wrap with hummus and a lot of veggies, pickles and banana peppers. But not all falafels are the same.

Café Pamplona, which closed in May 2020 after six decades in Harvard Square, is inspiring another business not far away: Faro Café at 5 Arrow St., which owner Henry Hoffstot hopes to have open in late June or early July.

The Cambridge Arts River Festival is canceled for a third year by the coronavirus pandemic. Its replacement for 2022 announced Tuesday is a yearlong series of events presented under the umbrella of a “Ripple Festival.”

North Point will be the new home of Passage to India as of dinnertime Wednesday, owner Narinder Guhania said Tuesday, and its former longtime Porter Square restaurant space will go dark for at least a while.

These looks at what’s on screens in the coming week include “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and more at The Brattle, Harvard Film Archive, The Somerville Theatre and Landmark Kendall Square Cinema, as well as reviews of “Paris, District 13,” “Facing Nolan” and Disney’s “Polar Bear,” streaming in time for Earth Day.

Red-winged blackbirds are omnivores, eating insects, fruit, corn and farmer’s grain, among other things. During breeding season, the territorial males perch up high, ready to mob any intruder no matter the size, dive bombing and pecking hard. It is not too surprising that the birds have acquired enemies.