With all due respect, a City Council query into the Law Department and its reported surge in requests for public records didn’t go far enough to root out the problem.

A body discovered early Wednesday in Davis Square, one of Somerville’s most trafficked locations, went unremarked upon the entire day by police and city officials. With no notice to the media, the public death went unreported except on a citizens’ Facebook group.

The “Greater Boston” audio drama podcast has built up a big audience over three seasons, helping it crowdfund its way from new professional necessities into stretch goals.

The evolution of local guy Mark Wahlberg has been an intriguing process, starting as a troubled Dorchester gangbanger and winding up a filmmaker whose work – his latest is “Father Stu” – serves as a reflection of his faith.

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?”

Say what you will about Nextdoor, but on Friday a post popped up in my inbox that I have to admit gave me brief, gleeful release from reading grim world headlines.

If you have a child who loves movies and aspires to be a film critic, join Cambridge Day film editor Tom Meek this weekend for an online Junior Film Critic’s Workshop as part of the Belmont World Film Festival.

The Cambridge Chronicle has a new editor and reporter, a transition that sparked discussion about the weekly paper’s long-term role in the community after the previous editor urged residents to support local journalism by subscribing.

City councillors paid tribute Monday to Amy Saltzman, as of Friday the ex-editor of the Cambridge Chronicle, and expressed sorrow that corporate ownership of the paper had hollowed out the weekly paper’s staff over the years.

Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding opportunities at the city’s public high school, is in the process of presenting $71,250 in college scholarships to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School graduates.