Customers can claim one free, 720-calorie chocolate chip cookie during the month of April from this fast-growing chain coming to Cambridge.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s poet Nikki Giovanni, sex revolutionary Candida Royalle, joke fests and mystery comedy, new plays and folk metal, “Dope Science,” a tribute to Lana Del Rey and “Essays in Praise of Excess.” 

Coffee cake’s crumb topping gets swapped out at Flour Bakery + Cafe for a buttermilk icing drizzle that doesn’t impress.

Harvard plans to take the empty former Coop Annex building at 12-30 Palmer St. and reuse it for new commercial ventures and outdoor space.

The Cambridge Housing Authority’s four shiny commercial kitchens remained unused for the most part since 2013, but now serve residents daily meals from budding food businesses who need a place to cook.

It’s an exciting moment to be a vegetarian. Harvard-founded startup Mooji has created a plant-based rib-eye being served at a Boston-area steakhouse.

Nowhere else but in Frank Herbert’s “Dune” is spice so essential than at Sumiao Hunan Kitchen, where the question is always “How spicy do you want that?”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the tiny-piano-using Chromic Duo and Cambridge Symphony Orchestra; robots, AI and eclipse prep; Joie de Vivre, horrors of the sea, edible insects and more; and Brexit and tech writer Kara Swisher.

Eggplant and miso come together to add a unique element to a simple egg and cheese sandwich, the best thing at 1369 Coffee House.

The 60th anniversary celebration of Tutoring Plus has Bar Enza food, themed tables and honors for local educator Khari Milner to help a nonprofit teaching and mentoring children for free since its start in 1964.