💆🫧 BREAKING: A spa day under $50?!

🎃 Pumpkin painting > carving. And you’ll get to do a whole lot of that at our Pumpkin + Petals Paint Night at Faneuil Hall on Oct. 26. Decorate four mini pumpkins with paint and flower petals while making new besties with Girlfriends Boston over light bites and drinks. BOOM. Members get $5 off.

👀 What’s on tap today:

Up first…

It’s Saturday. You’re a B-Side Member. You know the drill. These are the best buys, bargains, and bites coming up:

🍝 Last chance to grab Supper Club tickets! We have a few for next week’s meal at the Tip Tap Room on Oct. 14. Tip Tap is known for its unique meats (think: wild game bolognese and bison meatballs). So take this as your sign to do something a little ~different~.

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WHAT’S COOKING THIS WEEK?

Mie Goreng is a stir-fried Indonesian noodle dish. This recipe has over 600 reviews and 5 stars, and is just one of thousands of standout recipes waiting inside the vast library of NYT Cooking, which you’ll unlock for a full year if you become an annual member at 50% off below.

👀 Plus, our members get access to curated Boston Globe content every Saturday — paywall-free. Here are this week’s reads:

Hotels, halftime shows, and hot goss

👀 Now THIS is the tea we’ve been dying for. Here’s everything you need to know about Taylor Swift’s supposed Charli XCX diss track on “The Life of a Showgirl.” 

😢 Why are more young people getting cancer? The numbers don’t lie: Between 2010 and 2019, rates of 14 cancers increased among people younger than 50 in the United States. 

💉 It’s official: Costco sells literally everything. You can now get Ozempic and Wegovy at about half price. Here are 5 things to know.

🍨 How do you create a new ice cream flavor? An ice cream scientist, obviously. This South-of-Boston ice cream shop has one of their own, which explains flavors like applewood burnt ends, lobster, and cotton candy fizz. 

😛 Wanna be BFFs with your favorite restaurant? This famous restaurant insider shares his tips for being treated like a regular. Spoiler: It includes getting off your phone. 

🏈 Looks like there might be TWO Super Bowl halftime shows … kinda. MAGA rage over Bad Bunny being the headliner has sparked an alternative show (yes, Charlie Kirk’s org is hosting it).

😮 Talk about a mic drop. In Jane Goodall’s parting interview, she said she’d launch Trump, Musk, Putin, and others into space.

🤑 Send this to your rich aunt who wants to visit: Three Boston hotels ranked best in the world for Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards.

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