The City Council voted 8-1 on Monday to ask the MBTA to reconsider a bench design some consider “hostile architecture” installed recently at Cambridge T stations.

In this notebook about dining options during Covid-19: Healthy tofu to go from Bon Me, House of Chang and The Smoke Shop.

A third community fridge has come to Cambridge: A “Fridge in the Square” that lets the hungry stop by to take what they need, installed in front of The Sinclair nightclub in Harvard Square.

If the obvious worst thing about this year was the coronavirus, the best thing is just as apparent: Our response to the pandemic as a city and as individuals.

There’s no suspense to naming the worst thing to happen to Cambridge this year: It’s the coronavirus. But we saw plenty of other disappointments and frustrations of 2020, even if some of them were worsened by the impacts of a pandemic.

New Year’s is bound to be an indoors affair while a pandemic is till raging outside, but there are ways to make the night festive and unique.

In announcing the $40,141 shared by 24 musicians, Passim showed how coronavirus has made a difference in awards that began in 2008: The year’s applications reveal “a dramatic increase” in requests for audio and video recording equipment for home studios and livestreaming.

If there was any doubt: The Boston Celtic Music Fest will be online for its 18th year due to coronavirus restrictions.

Wait, did someone say there were four construction sites expected in Harvard Square’s most prominent two blocks, around the square’s MBTA headhouse? Add to those work the Harvard Coop has begun at its flagship store at 1400 Massachusetts Ave.

Expect a fourth Harvard Square construction site within a couple of prominent blocks as a 50,000-square-foot building at 1430 Massachusetts Ave. was announced Wednesday as sold for $45 million.