La Brasa is a rare fine-Mexican restaurant serving an equally rare dish of quail that’s tender and sweet, with a lightly crisp skin from wood-fired roasting.

There’s one change around the state’s coming transformation of McGrath Highway into McGrath Boulevard that Somerville officials are trying to stop: removal of a pedestrian footbridge. A traffic signal change is also causing concern.

Fights break out at Somerville High School roughly once every two weeks, School Committee members heard, but a look at the Capuano Early Childhood Education Center showed a more delightful side of education.

As a frequent visitor to Tulum, a beach town on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, Abner Gonzalez wondered “Why can’t we bring Tulum here?”

Public meetings this week look at Pollinator Action Plan updates, the disabilities commission’s role in the coming year and open space and recreation ideas.

Public meetings this week look at buildings proposed by Foss Park and Trum Field, a Highland Avenue overhaul, municipal broadband and more.

For an “Open Studios” event there was many a closed door Saturday at the weekendlong Brickbottom and Joy Street art buildings in East Somerville. That made each open door in the labyrinthine postindustrial buildings a delight.

Public meetings this week look at building repairs, separating sewage form storm water, keeping the arts thriving, a Somernova expansion and more.

Public meetings this week look at road reconstruction on West Broadway, a parklet proposal near Union Square, ward-by-ward neighborhood meetings and more.

Public meetings this week look at plans for removing zoning requirements, labs and a pocket plaza in the Assembly Square area, auto repair shops and more.