🐼😍 This is Boston’s *cutest* festival

🏓 Dust off your paddles, B-Siders. Club Volo’s Dink 'n' Drinks social pickleball event returns to Assembly Row May 16, and B-Side Members get tickets for just $4. Enjoy open-play pickleball, a live DJ, flowing drinks (duh), and lawn games. Plus, hang out with other B-Siders, Volo members, and the B-Side team!

Want in? Start a membership for $1 for your first 3 months here to get this deal.

👀 What’s on tap today:

First up …

Our top five horror movies: 

Phew! Good thing we don’t watch horror! Here’s what’s going down this month:

🏐 Need plans for just $5 today? We got you. Club Volo's Spring Kick Off Party is TODAY from 3 to 7 p.m. at Assembly Row. Play pickleball, volleyball, bocce, and cornhole, then hit up the bar when you need a break. A free custom t-shirt station, Sweetgreen salads, and PopUp Bagels are all included. B-Side Members get in for $5. Become a member for $1 here and we’ll send you the code!

🤩 Throw your own pottery (round two)! We’re running it back with our friends at The Clay Table in Central Square for another $30 class ($60+ value) for B-Side Members only. During this 2.5 hour session, you’ll learn how to use a pottery wheel to make your own creation. Start that $1 membership here and we’ll send you the link!

🎩 Hot girls go on historical tours. From May 15-17, Salem Historical Tours is running exclusive tours about the town's privateers (legal pirates!) who wrecked the British Navy and made General Gage's life miserable. It's 90 minutes of drama rebellion, with a side of hot girl walk. Members save $7.

🧘 Breath in … and out … Our friends at Source Method Breathwork are hosting a FREE 90-minute community class on May 3 at The Foundry in Cambridge to kick off Mental Health Awareness Month. Expect breathwork set to music you actually know, guided journaling, and post-session mingling with drinks. Reserve your spot here.

🍫 Easy Chocolate Chunk Brownies. If you’re looking for a new go-to brownie, this is the one. Highly rated, this one only takes 1 hour total of your time. Get the entire recipe (plus the entire America’s Test Kitchen library) with the special B-Side Member deal of 3 months free + 37% off their annual membership.

Start a B-Side membership here to start cooking!

The rest of this newsletter — including Emily in Boston, the below exclusive things to do listings, and all of the above deals — is for our premium members who contribute to our journalism.

😛 $1 oysters!!!
⛳ Mini golf meets dating
🐼 80+ Asian food vendors … in one place

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🛶 Hot-air ballooning? Moonlight paddling? Here are five summer travel experiences you’ve probably never had before in New England.

😅 Hot take: Fidelity is bringing workers back to the office all week, every week. More Boston companies should do it.

🚽 What you flush down the toilet goes here. You won’t believe what it smells like.

✈️ Add this spot to your travel bucket list. With new direct flights to this Italian city, there’s never been a better time to go.

😟 What’s contributing to New England’s daily stress? One answer out-ranked the rest. Spoiler: It’s NOT the cost of living …

😍 Finding love at Barcelona Wine Bar?! Not all blind dates set up by The Boston Globe end in a second date. This is not one of them. 

🥘 It’s a big week for Boston restaurant openings. See: an upscale “Southern juke joint,” a new Southie tavern, a glamorous Allston rooftop, and so much more.

🚗 OK, now this is WILD. Even with $100 fines, many residents in no-tow Cambridge aren’t moving their cars for street sweeping … HELLO?!

— Written by Emily Schario and Claire Nicholas. Edited by Camille Dodero.

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