If it’s Friday, and it’s summer, that means there’s a Jazz at Sunset concert at the EcoTarium in Worcester. This unique setting allows the audience to bring a picnic and sit out on the lawn, bringing blankets, lawn chairs and their favorite snacks.

Ralph Nader’s shot at being elected president Nov. 4 is slim, to say the least. But as the longtime political activist wraps up a marathon campagin across Massachusetts — which included a stop here in Worceter — he seems to be looking for something bigger.

For 365 days in 2006, Mike Nyman strode out into the city’s far-flung corners, camera in hand, and found a city of life, a city of not only possibility, but of real present day vitality.

How is it you can build a house in Worcester with no legal access to the street? That’s the question a couple on Whipple Street is asking after discovering their home of 30 years is landlocked.

Yelling obscenities at the dumb-ass driver next to you who’s chatting on his cell phone and veering into your lane? City Counselor Rick Rushton would like to give you some relief.