Less testing for Covid through laboratories where results are reported and more use of home tests make case counts less reliable, but the Cambridge Public Health Department believes there is enough testing locally, where test sites continue to see demand.

Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is an absurdist multiverse overload, but the directors are bummed when science fiction is just a plot point that doesn’t ask big questions – such as “How do you find each other and truly see each other, when there’s so many things trying to pull us away from each other?”

Gig-economy employers such as Uber and Instacart, and a state bill that could free them from obligations expected for companies with full-time workers, were condemned Monday by city councillors as “trying to put the screws” to working-class people, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology drew criticism for “union-busting” in the run-up to a vote.

The city will cut its walk-in Covid testing program to once a week after offering free tests as often as five days weekly, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has eliminated mandatory testing for students and staff.

Public meetings this week look at making a neighborhood in Alewife; bike lanes through Porter; school district budgeting; a Net Zero Action Plan update; solutions in helping the unhoused; permitting for Starlight Square and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology food kiosk; and more.

The city didn’t identify the “institutions of higher education” that were contributing the lion’s share of new Cambridge cases. An announcement March 3 said that 82 percent of new cases were tied to higher education between Feb. 28 and March 2.

Industry Lab is home to a dizzying array of talented tenants, uniquely curated by managers to draw from arts and technology. The lower-cost spaces have residents ranging from robotics and medical device companies to a folk singer and filmmakers.

Public meetings this week look at getting bike lane advice and finding solutions for homelessness; the aftermath of a student protest and appointing a permanent superintendent; and the future of Cambridge Street; and getting town-gown reports from Harvard, Hult, Lesley and MIT.

At 50 years old, Grendel’s Den is not only going strong, but has come to embody the essence of Harvard Square and how it (always) “used to be cool.” The podcast we’re putting together, “A People’s History of Food and Drink: Five by Ten in the Den,” is meant to bring people back to the nostalgia of each of its decades.

A Classical Revival building by an architect known for Roman Catholic churches featured five domes with two exhibition wings and a circular theater with seating for 3,000, and the world’s first Shoe & Leather Exposition drew 30,000 visitors on opening night. But success was short-lived.