Happy Saturday, B-Siders!

🥣 Time to get behind the wheel! We’re teaming up with The Clay Table on April 24 for a $30, 2.5-hour pottery wheel class ($60+ value). Learn how to use a real wheel to make your own creation at their stunning Central Square studio. Start a membership for $1 here to get a spot! We’ll send you the link in email.

👀 What’s on tap today:

  • New thrift shop alert!

  • In: Social saunas

  • Fenway ticket hacks

First up …

B-SIDE GUIDE

Fitness, fashion, and food (duh)

Image: Reuters. Illustration: Emily Schario.

Spring is back. Fenway is back. Your social calendar? Well, since you’re a B-Side Member, you know it never left. 

Here are the best bites, bargains, and buys to keep that bad boy fed:

🏃 Run to beat cancer. RACE Cancer's Boston 5K Spring & Summer Series is back with chip-timed races along the Charles River from April through September. B-Side readers save $20 on the Full Season Pass with code BSIDE20eight races, plus free UPF shirt and personalized race bib. Post-race parties include beer and pizza, and all proceeds help crush cancer.

💫 Listen, learn, and grow with like-minded women. Rise & Thrive Women’s Conference hits the Boston Center for the Arts’s Cyclorama in the South End on Sunday, April 19 featuring chats with women leaders, shopping, and plenty of chances to connect and learn. Expect music, fashion, and inspiring energy all day. B-Side members get a free ticket. Start a membership here for $1 and we’ll send you the code!

🍫 Skip the tourist traps and eat where the locals are. Off the Beaten Path Food Tours is a women-owned biz where expert guides take you through Boston and dish the details on neighborhood flavors. Think chocolate crawls through Harvard Square, doughnut tours, and immigrant-owned gems. B-Side members get $10 off any tour starting today. Start a membership here for $1, then you’ll get the code in your inbox.

🥐 Get your new croissant coupon! Members get another free petite croissant in April from Lakon Paris Patisserie’s Seaport location (only available on weekends). These are Lakon’s viral croissants stuffed with decadent fillings and decorated to perfection. Download your pass after starting a $1 membership. You’ll get everything you need in email.

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.

📚 Tradwife time travel
🚨 Thrift finds from $30
🍦 Hoodsie affogato drop
🧘 Free slow flow yoga

If you start a membership for $1 for your first three months below, you’ll be able to continue reading today’s issue at bside.beehiiv.com!

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

🔥 Your foodie bucket list keeps growing. This fiery Indian food pop-up (and B-Side Certified spot) is drawing lines out the door in Boston

🧖 Ditch your phone (and your clothes). Here’s why saunas are becoming the new social hot spot

⚓ Finally, the answers we’ve been waiting for: Where do the ‘Real Housewives of Rhode Island’ live?

🍞 Pour one out for our gluten-free girlies. “I made a career with carbs. Now they make me sick.”

🏨 Take your five-star stay home with you. Hotel guests steal these items the most. Bathrobes are unsurprisingly pretty high up there …

😬 Leave “To Catch a Predator” to the cops. Assumption University students tried to set up a sting on Tinder. It all went terribly wrong.

🐱 When can we move in? A Somerville Victorian’s makeover includes two-story-tall bookcases that double as a cat climbing wall

🍹 Drink up! There’s a new non-alcoholic cocktail bar in Jamaica Plain.

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

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