The Boston Compass newspaper, launched a little over a decade ago as a one-page zine, is now an eight-page paper with newsrack boxes across Boston – and expands again this month with the launch of its first Web series. Cambridge’s Pauline Kaba is the host.

Lesley University is adding an interactive media program to its College of Art and Design starting in the fall, to be led by six faculty from the closing Becker College, Lesley announced Tuesday.

A relocation for the Somerville Media Center that was threatened in 2019 is finally coming due, and its television, radio and podcasting studios and labs will have to be packed and moved by June 30.

Sea chantey TikTok somehow became the music that sang goodbye to 2020 and ahoy to the new year. Folk musician and chantey expert David Coffin will tell you all about those videos you’ve been loving and lead a free, virtual Sea Chantey Sing on Feb. 19.

The Urban Food Initiative, also known as Daily Table – the nonprofit grocer that just opened its third store in Central Square – is being given a “2021 Champion in Action” award in the category of Covid-19 Relief by Citizens Bank and NECN.

Burgeoning scientists, engineers and technology lovers of all ages will finally get a peek Tuesday at The Hive, a development at the Cambridge Public Library centered around science, technology, engineering, arts and math. It was first meant to open in March, some 10 months ago.

The first issue of The Left Bank of the Charles Review arrived with the new year, promised quarterly by Joseph Levendusky – a traveler, lover of music, left-leaning political critic and sitter in cafés.

We promised to use contributors’ money to maintain, expand and improve Cambridge Day – and though it’s still a work in progress, it’s only in progress because of those contributions.

Cambridge Community Television has found its third executive director in Jessica Smyser, the leader of an arts and education nonprofit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who before that worked in the Cambridge and Somerville music industry.

If ever there was a signal for Cambridge to get over its weird, anti-democratic resistance to letting its meetings be seen and recorded consistently, it came last week when the School Committee failed to make clear if or how residents could watch an evaluation of the school district’s superintendent.