With a gold-star-worthy tomato sauce, Mortadella Head is an easy favorite simple slice of pizza in Somerville’s Davis Square.

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.

As credit card use increases, so do the cost of credit card swipe fees. The lack of competition among card companies – Visa and Mastercard are essentially an industry duopoly – is a problem.

Cambridge officials are largely optimistic about the city’s economy and where it’s headed in 2024, though some issues complicate the long-term outlook.

Somerville has celebrities of its own, folks who were born here, raised here or chose to live here for a while and have made their mark nationally and even globally, sometimes for the best of reasons and sometimes for the silliest.

Another potential rezoning of Somerville’s fabrication – or “fab” – district was met with intense opposition during a meeting of the City Council’s Land Use Committee.

The Harvard Book Store recently scuttled an expansion to Boston’s Prudential Center but now has the chance to reinvest in its flagship Cambridge location.

Public meetings this week look at making more housing and making it more affordable, a decision on a plan to reclaim the fenced-off Jerry’s Pond, room for small tech at Porter Square and planning for the Massachusetts Avenue of 2040.

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.

The cafe foods that come to mind when Americans dream of Paris are at the PRB Boulangeries in Cambridge’s Kendall Square and Somerville’s Ward 2.