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Happy Saturday, B-Siders!
🍝 Introducing our most delicious member event yet: B-Side Supper Club. The concept: An intimate, multi-course meal for B-Side Members at a hot local restaurant for just $30 a ticket (yes, including tax and tip!). We’re hitting up Tony & Elaine’s in the North End for our first group dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 16.
😩 Having FOMO? Become a B-Side Member to secure your ticket for this month’s Supper Club (and the next!). Find the link to book in your perks doc.
👀 What’s on tap today:
This restaurant got FIVE stars
Now entering: A new COVID variant
More late-night bites
Up first…
B-SIDE GUIDE
Fenway, foodies, and First Fridays
Image: Jim Davis/The Boston Globe. Illustration: Emily Schario.
So let’s add another round of fun to your to-do list with the best buys, bites, and bargains we found this week:
🏓 Not sold on plain ol’ pickleball? Try it with bubbles — for free! THREE lucky B-Side Members will win a pair of tickets to Bosse’s “Paddles & Prosecco” event (normally $40!). Become a member below to enter the giveaway via your perks page, and watch your inbox on Monday to see if you’re a winner winner chicken dinner.
🤤 You’ve seen Taste of Cambridge … and Taste of Eastie … and now, the Fenway is joining the food fun with Taste of Fenway, a night of stuffing your face with the neighborhood’s best bites. Bonus: It’s one of the cheaper Taste events we’ve seen!
The rest of this newsletter, including where to drive your own electric boat before summer ends and eight exclusive things-to-do recs are for our premium members who contribute to our journalism.
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👀 Plus, our members get access to curated Boston Globe content every Saturday — paywall-free. Here are this week’s reads:
😋 Add a new restaurant to your bucket list. ‘Cause this Greek spot in the South End just got a five-star review from the Globe’s food critic.
💉 From Ozempic envy to ghosting friends: As pricey weight-loss drugs go mainstream, jealousy and judgment follow. Here’s how GLP-1s are reshaping relationships.
🧑🎓 Pour one out for the over-achievers. Harvard students are so overscheduled with extracurriculars that they don’t attend class, professors say. Why are we not surprised?
😎 Summer ain’t over till it’s over! Here’s your guide of where to soak up the fleeting days of sunshine around Boston. Catch us driving our own electric boat!
😬 They’re rich, they travel, and they love to complain. This is what it’s like being a travel agent to billionaires. Warning: One dropped $100K for his kid’s vacation, provided she agreed not to contact him.
🦠 Here we go again: A new COVID variant has entered the chat, which def explains why cases are rising in Massachusetts.
🚗 Got a free weekend and a can-do attitude? Here are eight New England trips that pack food, adventure, and relaxation into 36 hours.
🐸 The local TV news tea is PIPING. This longtime news anchor said she suffered discrimination on the basis of her race and gender (she’s a white woman). And some think part of what she allegedly did wasn’t that bad.
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Social calendar, check! If one thing is true about being a B-Side member, it’s that you’re never the friend complaining about having nothing to do (probably the opposite).