A building originally announced to be finished in 2020 – in an estimate from March 2019, before the Covid pandemic – has been completed and sold near Kendall Square.

From the opening shots of an Icelandic volcano belching rivulets of lava and the churning north sea, Robert Eggers’ Viking saga “The Northman” casts a foreboding scape that brims with brutal beauty and primal allure.

In this wistful tale of time travel, relationships are elevated to the status of more common movie tropes of going back to save the world or stop a horrendous cataclysm.

If you want a lunch that’s relatively healthy and light, fast and easy to eat (no fork or plate, and low mess), to me that’s a falafel wrap with hummus and a lot of veggies, pickles and banana peppers. But not all falafels are the same.

Though there are design details to be worked out, Cambridge’s next tallest building – a 38-story residential tower proposed for 135 Broadway, Kendall Square – won general approval from the Planning Board and Cambridge Redevelopment Authority last week.

Public meetings this week look at a pair of commercial buildings proposed for Kendall Square, an update on Covid aid money and the city’s energy use disclosure law.

Part of the Main Street eatery portfolio that includes high-end Italian spots Sulmona and Amelia’s Trattoria, Mex can be different things depending when you arrive and what you’re looking for: Come late for a club ambiance, come early for the casual taco cafe or chill tequila bar aura.

Public meetings this week look at approvals and timelines for the next set of bike lanes and a study of their business impacts, a 400-foot tower for Kendall Square that would be the city’s tallest, a pause on office and lab development around Alewife, a possible guaranteed income program for the city’s poorest and much more.

Cambridge and Somerville sites will add to the portfolio of a small chain specializing in healthy, plant-based food such as grain bowls and smoothies. They will join locations that include Central Square as well as Lowell, Boston, Brookline and Salem, and cafe-yoga studios in Harvard Square and Boston’s South End.

Bring tissues and prepare for side-splitting laughter as Michelle Yeoh, the queen of martial arts, takes center stage to model mending broken souls and relationships – and saving the world – in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”