🎁🥳 We’re giving you the best gift EVER

🚨👚 FREE MERCH ALERT! For a limited time only, the first 50 members to buy a Best Day Ever ticket (using a secret code found on their perks page) will score a free B-Side tee, available for pickup at the event! These exclusive shirts are printed on ultra-comfy Comfort Colors blanks and come in a muted purple. This promotion will only last until 11:59PM SUNDAY, so act fast! Upgrade here.

🖌️ And for our next event… on Aug. 7, B-Side is teaming up with Boston Public Market and Laurel Greenfield Art for Community Art Night! Members get a free drink, $5 off, and a take-home watercolor kit. Get tix here!

👀 What’s on tap today:

Up first…

Alright B-Siders, the countdown is ON for Best Day Ever. There’s exactly one week until our party in Southie, so if you haven’t grabbed your ticket yet, what are you even doing? 

💵 This is your chance to hit the cash grab machine, contribute to a MASSIVE art mural, find vintage gems, and so much more, all while vibing to an all-day lineup of live music, featuring:

💜 Plus, B-Side members get VIP treatment with the best ticket price, early access to the event at 2PM, first dibs at Select Markets vendors, an exclusive show by viral singer-songwriter Simon Robert French, and a Best Day Ever tote bag filled with B-Side goodies. 

🍕Worked up an appetite from the fun? We’ve got you covered! More than 10 local restaurants will be handing out complimentary food all day long. Whether you’re craving a gooey Levain cookie, savory gyro from Greco, or bites from Love Art Sushi, you’ll be snacking from start to finish. 

— Written by Zoe Iorizzo

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

✍️ President Trump says he doesn’t ‘draw pictures’ … except, he does. In fact, he’s something of a high-profile doodler.

🌴 “Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday!” Those words, clipped from a 2024 U.K travel ad, have become TikTok’s trendiest sound. But how exactly did such a random clip rise to TikTok ubiquity?

📲 TD Garden just had its first-ever phone-free concert. And, shocker: Despite the 11,000 attendees, it wasn’t that hard to pull off, and the results were kind of awesome. 

✈️ The U.S. is bleeding tourism dollars. Since Trump took office, the U.S. has seen a HUGE drop in international tourism, and it’s looking like it’ll cost us billions. 

🥤 RFK Jr.’s latest mission: Make Coca-Cola healthy again. This fall, the company will roll out Coke with cane sugar in the U.S., instead of high fructose corn syrup. But is it actually that much healthier? Spoiler: Not really.

🥩 Is … beef the new eggs? Because the way meat’s prices are rising in Boston (29% since January!), it certainly feels that way.

📺 CBS said Stephen Colbert’s cancellation was “purely financial.” But to this former New York Times editor, the decision was “obviously political.”

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