Public meetings this week look at West Broadway reconstruction, tenants and landlords rights, homelessness and a “dark skies ordinance,” a composting program, improvements for cyclists and a new Woody’s Liquors on the Medford border.

Public meetings this week look at road reconstruction on West Broadway, a parklet proposal near Union Square, ward-by-ward neighborhood meetings and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera ends “The Cutlass Crew,” a Rock & Roll Rumble gets started, there’s a “Sims”-themed art exhibit and poetry from ancient Greek and Latin to John Keene and Carl Phillips reading and giving a Dark Room Collective oral history.

Public meetings this week look at traffic and parking in West Somerville and on Holland Street, school superintendent finalists, cable franchise fees and more.

You can’t find gumbo too easily around this town, so it’s good news that The Boiling Crab is finally open in Harvard Square.

J and J opened as a convenience store selling barbecue chicken back in 1990, and has kept its old-school feel in the most endearing ways. Among its specialties are big meaty prawns sautéed with a garlic port wine sauce – in concept, a simple dish, but it‘ll keep surprising you in the most satisfying ways.

The man accused of killing Robert Favreau, 22, of Cambridge, pleaded not guilty Thursday and is being held until a July 20 virtual detention hearing, court staff said.

A Cambridge man was killed Wednesday in Somerville, and a Somerville man is under arrest in connection with the incident and due to be arraigned Thursday in District Court.

A Norwood man has been charged in the hit-and-run that killed Allison Donovan, 40, a Somerville resident who was born in Cambridge and attended Lesley University.

A pedestrian died Friday evening in an apparent hit-and-run while walking in a crosswalk near Teele Square in West Somerville.