Happy Saturday, B-Siders!
❄️🏒 BIG NEWS! We’re teaming up with the Boston Fleet (our pro women’s hockey team!) to give B-Side Members discounted seats to Boston home games. Up first: The Fleet’s Women's Empowerment home opener on Dec. 3 at Agganis Arena. Start a 14-day free trial, and we’ll send you the links to the tickets.
👀 What’s on tap today:
Bottomless tacos!!!
Help! Am I a pick-me girl?
Snowport smash or pass
Up first…
B-SIDE GUIDE
Pizza, patronus, and “Popular”
Image: Reagan Byrne. Illustration: Emily Schario.
’Tis the season of giving … and in true B-Side fashion, we’re giving you deals, freebies, and fun all over Boston. So consider this your November cheat sheet.
Here are the best bites, bargains, and buys happening in town:
⚡ *Expecto* a free drink at this hit show. Reminder: Emerson Colonial Theater is hosting B-Side Night for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. Members, unlock a special $49 all-in ticket that comes with your choice of drink at the bar.
🍕 Make the *ultimate* bar pizza. Good news: We’re running back our famous pizza-making class at Bardo’s on Nov. 18. at 6 p.m. We have 45 spots available for pizza making (and crafts!) Grab a ticket here — members get $10 off and a complimentary drink!
🎶 Free concert anyone? Our friends at Orkest are giving B-Side members FREE tickets for their next concert at Back Bay Social on Nov. 10 — it’s a great way to take in Boston’s up-and-coming musicians. Just use your discount code at checkout or flash your membership pass.
The rest of this newsletter, including reviews of Snowport food and even more exclusive things-to-do recs, is for our premium members who contribute to our journalism.
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👀 Plus, our members get access to curated Boston Globe content every Saturday — paywall-free. Here are this week’s reads:
😵💫 Kids these days … From aura to unc, here are the key translations to help you decode today’s hottest teen slang.
😅 Help! Am I a pick-me girl? “I hate to admit it, but I did go on Instagram and looked at his exes and girls he had crushes on in the past.”
🥦 Pot lounges are about to become a reality in Mass. Here’s what they could look like. Think: “Tasting rooms.”
🥪 The Globe’s food critic has spoken: All’Antico Vinaio is officially in Boston. But are the long lines worth it? Yes and no.
💅 In Kim K’s new show, anything can be a power suit. In “All’s Fair,” a legal drama wrapped in a kitschy, slightly-outdated version of feminism, the power suit is framed as a relic of a smashed patriarchy.
🎤 This pop star whisperer is from New England. Meet the Grammy-winning Maine songwriter behind big pop hits like ‘Espresso.’
🇨🇦 Traveling Americans are posing as Canadians again. The ‘flag-jacking’ isn’t going over well …
😬 The MAGA movement has a choice: Embrace nationalism while keeping overt bigotry out of the coalition? Or just go full racist? And it seems some prefer the latter …
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