A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from an ‘Emerald Tutu’ to the Day of the Dead

Mark Wahlberg is reaching out

Mixed reactions to Will Smith’s slap

With ‘Everything Everywhere,’ Daniels escape genre trap to make the multiverse meaningful

Media consolidation accelerates in Somerville

I can be happy to be nappy in Massachusetts

Being Black in war-torn Ukraine

Whoopi Goldberg’s confusion about the Holocaust is America’s, too

While people keep dying on MBTA property, force pays official $178,190 for ‘easier’ work

The Left Bank of the Charles Review, a quarterly, is free to savor online, but it’s not free of the past