The Life Alive Organic Cafe in Central Square and Down Under School of Yoga, which has a site in Porter Square, have combined and will open a 100-seat cafe and yoga studio in Harvard Square early next year.

The Out of the Blue Art Gallery is being pressured to leave Somerville’s Armory building by a city campaign of “intimidation and harassment,” including an incident in which police were called under false pretenses, its co-owner said. City officials say the gallery is holding events that violate zoning laws.

The closing of Harvard Square’s last Starbucks on Nov. 21 took many by surprise but gives visitors a chance to discover or rediscover the square’s many other locations for coffee, snacks, first dates, late-night check-ins and study binges.

The $900,000-per-unit cost of rebuilding Jefferson Park public housing stems partly from extraordinary factors such as bidding and wage requirements for public agencies, the large number of family-sized units, deteriorated utilities and hazardous materials at the site an analysis shows.

The grand opening date of the revamped Cantab Lounge in Central Square has been moved to Dec. 9, an extra week from the expected Dec. 2 reopening date, to accommodate “much-needed updates and repairs,” a manager said.

The organized shoplifting and extreme smash-and-grab robberies of Northern California, Seattle and New Mexico have no analogues here, according to police data.

Black Friday and its trek to Covid-clogged big-box stores is a hassle, but Small Business Saturday will be unmasked and easy in Central Square, where the square’s business improvement district organization plans to gather some 50 small, local sellers of holiday gifts from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thanksgiving meal deliveries have begun in Cambridge Housing Authority buildings. On Friday, Manning Apartment residents got food dropped off from The Port’s Cafe Luna.

Tucked away in the wilds of Cambridge – near Alewife – lies what is essentially the local ninja training center. The building is due to be torn down to become lab space, though, and neither kung fu nor sword skills can hold off the bulldozers. A development moratorium might.

The idea of stopping office and lab space from being added in the Alewife area until city planning is in place passed the City Council in 7-0-2 vote Monday. But that moratorium needs its own process.