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🎃 Not to brag but … we found the BEST Halloween plans. We have TWO free pairs of tickets ($500 value) to the Boston Public Library’s Nightmare in the Stacks Halloween party (think: an open bar, a live band, and tarot card readers).

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👀 What’s on tap today:

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B-SIDE GUIDE

You’ve earned it! And no, we don’t need to know what “it” is. We just know you deserve it. <3

Here are the best bites, bargains, and buys we found this week (spoiler: there are TONS of freebies!):

🧠 Boston’s got a lot of big ideas. With your free B-Side Member ticket to this year’s Globe Summit themed “Revolutionary Ideas,” you can hear from speakers like Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s and author Elin Hilderbrand. Start a free trial here to redeem.

👏 Consider this permission to treat yo’ self. Members can grab a one-way ticket to some TLC with $30 off a first-time massage and/or $20 off membership massages at any Squeeze location! Want in? Start your free trial here.

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WHAT’S COOKING THIS WEEK?

This recipe for Sweet and Spicy Tofu With Soba Noodles, with nearly 6,000 reviews and five stars, is a quick weeknight meal perfect for vegetarians. It’s 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 below.

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

🕷️ Your favorite unhinged spider is reporting for duty! Here’s why Dunkin’s viral ‘Spidey D’ ad campaign is the future of marketing.

👯 Friendship is elusive. It also keeps you young. New research shows that social connection slows aging, if only we could make time for it. Here are 7 ways to foster it.

😭 “The Great Resignation” is ancient history. Welcome to the era of ‘job-hugging,’ where people cling to their current roles while riding out an uncertain economy.

👀 Mayor Wu is at the top of her game. From crushing D.C. foes, her skills as a politician have never been more obvious. So … what’s next for the mayor? 

😬 Well, this is certainly a headline: White House press secretary texts reporter a ‘your mom’ joke in Trump administration’s latest dig at the press.

⚽ Boston’s women’s pro soccer team shanked its rollout. Can Legacy FC come back from behind? The team’s female founders are ready to give it another shot.

🎁 Hey, ChatGPT: What should I get my mom for Christmas? Shoppers are turning to AI for advice on gift-buying, so OpenAI introduced Instant Checkout to help users buy without visiting a store’s site. 

💻 Remember when the internet crapped out on Monday? Here’s what to know about the Amazon cloud outage that exposed some major vulnerabilities (and just how much we rely on Amazon).

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