Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.

A famous brunch lives on at its sister restaurant, State Park, every Saturday and Sunday, and the Vincent’s space gets a new concept in spring.

St. Patrick’s Day brings special menus and live music to Cambridge and Somerville. We also offer a good way to skip the festivities if it’s not your thing.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an outdoors Parka Dance Party, comic book drag, music for St. Patrick’s Day, storytelling and brain science and visits from the Blind Boys of Alabama and Alan Cumming.

To think of Puritan’s bluefish melt as the best tunafish sandwich you’ve ever had would not be off base, but it’s just the start of the seafood treats here.

The Bon Me chain is expanding, an Italian restaurant is coming to East Cambridge with Charles River views and two eateries are expanding their hours in Cambridge License Commission approvals Thursday.

This poblano pepper-topped tortilla makes for a tasty option from the daytime-only to-go menu from Olé in Cambridge’s Inman Square.

Cambridge and state officials were rebuked in a ruling by the state’s Appeals Court over a case pursued “on error of law” and for a comment never uttered.

Public meetings this week look at the police response to the shooting of Arif Sayed Faisal last year and how to use city-owned land in Central Square; the economic impact from installing bike lanes; and bringing ice cream and Coop renovations to Harvard Square.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Domo Genesis and Sofiane Pamart perform, we boil down maple sap, juggle, sing opera about influencers, talk the “American Prometheus” and AI invades and Harvard explores “Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World.”