Public meetings this week look at trash bins and Alewife development (and IQHQ’s plans there), budgeting for the next fiscal year, infrastructure for The Port and meeting candidates to become the next city manager.

An Alewife-area beer garden won approval Monday from the License Commission to take over part of the Fresh Pond Mall parking lot.

Public meetings this week look at $22 million in direct-aid for lower-income families, the city’s budget for the next fiscal year, a moratorium on construction of labs and offices around Alewife, a Fresh Pond beer garden, bike lanes on Brattle Street, municipal broadband and ideas for improving The Port and the future of Cambridge Street.

The family-run Turkish eatery Lavash Bar & Grille is in a soft opening on New Street with dishes from a classic shish kebabs, islak burger and iskender to mezes such as manti dumplings, sigara borek cheese snacks and kibbeh of ground lamb so perfect and neat it feels like a crime to bite into one.

These looks at what’s on the big screen in the coming week include the latest pull at a “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and a putrid “Pursuit,” but also the devastating “Sundown,” delightfully weird “Strawberry Mansion” and feel-good “Dog.” The DocYard screens “Rock Bottom Riser” and there’s lots to look forward to at The Brattle and Somerville Theatre.

“Moonfall” is pretty much the antithesis to Adam McKay’s smug “Don’t Look Up,” in which the world has been alerted to our imminent demise and no one cares – or cares only for financial or status reasons. In this B-tier tear, there’s just instant mass hysteria and a stampede for the hills.

To bend the curve of climate change takes more than the goodwill of Cantabrigians. In the case of waste escaping into the Alewife Brook and overdevelopment in Cambridge Highlands, the City Council, Planning Board and city manager must work together to ensure all new construction is part of a solution.

These looks at what’s on the big screen and streaming in the coming week include reviews for “Scream,” “The Whaler Boy” and “Shattered,” as well as the gems coming to The Brattle and Somerville Theatre, from some of the best of 2021 to the new “Days,” “About Endlessness,” “In the Earth” and “Censor.”

An affordable-housing project that will overlook Danehy Park won praise from members of the Planning Board on Tuesday. One member called it a “poster child” for new Affordable Housing Overlay zoning that reduces the power of the board in refining projects before they’re built.

Public meetings this week look at swearing-in the new City Council and School Committee; ending single-family zoning, building an 100 percent affordable-housing mixed-use project on New Street; tearing down the Garage mall; replacing a Harvard Street apartment building destroyed by a 2020 fire; and more.