The annual free Cambridge Open Archives, sometimes called the Cambridge archives crawl, is back after a pandemic pause – and now online. Some delving into historical records citywide is already available, and other events are streaming on Instagram Live as soon as Monday morning.

Even First Amendment issues were raised by staff considering if a map of public bathrooms should make it onto Cambridge’s Open Data Portal, though everyone agreed on one thing: The map is a good resource that should be available to everyone.

A conspiracy theory that medical authorities are inflating the Covid-19 death toll has persisted since early in the pandemic. Cambridge isn’t immune to the misinformation.

Cambridge Community Television and Cambridge Day will offer an in-person course called “Become a Community Journalist” over four hourlong sessions in October.

An opportunity to catch the sketches and building blocks leading to such acclaimed films as “Taste of Cherry” (1997) and “Certified Copy” with Juliette Binoche (2010).

One America News Network, a source for information considered far to the right of Fox News, has a new political reporter: Neil McCabe, who once ran The Alewife weekly in North Cambridge and edited The Somerville News.

The lack of recent local news in the Cambridge Chronicle was explained Wednesday: The legacy paper’s sole staffer left to work at an independent site on the North Shore.

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.