💅🙄 This isn't a *regular* museum night

🍶 We’re already dreaming about this. Our first B-Side Supper Club was SO good (see below), we’re running it again on Oct. 2. The location: Award-winning Brighton sake bar The Koji Club. See the sake tasting menu here. We only have 10 spots left, so snag a ticket while you can!

👀 What’s on tap today:

Up first…

It’s Saturday again, B-Siders. And you know what that means …

Here’s our roundup of the best bites, bargains, and buys we found this week:

🏈 See you at kickoff. Last call for our massive Patriots tailgate at Cisco Fenway on Sept. 21! You already know B-Side members get mouthwatering foodie specials, including a canned bev and mozz sticks for $10 and FREE chicken tenders if you register here. 

🤤 The Fenway party doesn’t stop there. Tomorrow’s tailgate kicks off Fenway Foodies Club’s football dining deals, a series of sweet foodie perks at our fave restaurants in The Fenway (like ShyBird and MIDA). Flash this digital passport from Sept. 21 to Oct. 5 to take advantage.

🥯 Get excited to swap till you drop. On September 27, join us at Quincy Market upstairs for our huge collab event with Sustainable Swaps. With Pop-Up bagel in hand, peruse the swap, enjoy live local music, and shop local vendors! RSVP here.

💕 Let us help you find love. The Dating Game, our smash-hit series with Aeronaut Brewing, is BACK on Oct. 6, and we need some participants! This round, we’re looking for heterosexual folks. Apply to play here!

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

🍳 How much protein do we *really* need? Spoiler: It’s probably less than whatever the gymfluencer on your FYP says.

🐱 Remember Somerville’s wacky bike path cat mayor campaign? Well, 90 candidates, over 6,000 votes, and a whole lot of silliness later, there’s a new cat mayor in town …

🍦 Ben & Jerry’s is down a Jerry. After 47 years at the helm, co-owner Jerry Greenfield has stepped down from the iconic ice cream brand over concerns that it couldn’t speak up about social issues under its parent company.

😭 We’re just gonna say it: Boston is losing daylight FAST. If you can handle it emotionally, here’s *exactly* how much slips away each day.

🍴 Not sure where to eat this weekend? This list of Boston’s most exciting new fall restaurants is a fabulous place to start. 

💍 We’re soulmates … BUT he doesn’t want to marry me. Yikes! That’s the conundrum facing this week’s “Love Letters” write-in. 

😋 Is Burlington, Mass. the new Boston? OK, probably not. But its foodie scene IS popping off. Here are the five best spots. 

🧠 Finally, some good news about scientific research: Thanks to a $30 million philanthropic gift to Harvard Medical School, a new Brain-Body Center will produce cutting-edge research in cancer, autism, and more.

🚗 Boston is one of the most crash-prone cities in the country. But, alarmingly, people of color are nearly FOUR times more likely to be struck by a car, even in majority-white neighborhoods.

🪲 As if climate change weren’t bad enough: As New England gets warmer, we can expect more creepy crawlies to move in, from bacteria, to disease, to bugs. Gross!

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