😮🥤 Where to get this viral sweet treat

Happy Friday, Boston!

🏈🐶 Wanna start your weekend with a smile? You won’t be able to help it watching this video of Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs losing and chasing a tiny puppy at the team’s dog adoption event.

🥳 And happy birthday to B-Sider Sonja Randall! We hope today you get to run around as happily as that tiny pup. Have a great one!

👀 What’s on tap today:

• Mother nature cranks the heat

• Music and martinis in Harvard Square

• This dog’s got talent

Up first…

SUMMER FRIDAYS

Sandcastles, sidewalk sales, and salsa

It’s time to LOCK IN, B-Siders. We’re nearly two months into summer, which means starting now, every summer Friday counts just a little bit extra. 

Lucky for you, there are plenty of things to do on tap:

🏖️ Marvel at some EPIC sand sculptures. Planning a beach day this weekend? Make it Revere Beach so you can check out the annual international sand sculpting festival. It’s on from July 25 to 27, and per usual, the sculptures will be completely mind-blowing. Bonus: It’s free!

🥯 Finagle this (internet) famous bagel. PopUp Bagels, which is famous for its “grip, rip, and dip” philosophy, is expanding its Boston footprint and opening a new location today at Assembly Row … and it looks like there’s gonna be caviar?! 

😋 Try a new summer treat. “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” stans, RISE. The viral dirty sodas have arrived at Brookline’s Far Out in flavors like its signature Kookaberry cola and creamsicle. Not into soda (or Mormon wives)? On July 26, Honeycomb Creamery is soft-launching its famous seasonal sweet corn ice cream before it hits the shelves. Your ticket includes a scoop.

🍷 Channel your inner wine mom. Time Out’s first-ever winefest party is on July 26, which = TONS of free wine samples from the market’s top brands. It’s free, but grab a ticket here.

🎉 Go to a (trauma-free) family reunion. At the Boston While Black family reunion on July 26, there are no grandmas asking about your dating life. Just tons of food, music, entertainment, and community at the Lawn on D.

🍅 Continue your garden girl summer. Lesbos is hosting a Lesbian Garden Party on the Common on July 26. Think: Tarot readings, croquet, custom poems, and a “take a flower, leave a flower” table. Bring your own blanket and food to share!

🛍️ Be a Brookline baddie for a day. Head to Coolidge Corner on July 26 and 27 for its annual sidewalk sale! Tons of local shops are participating, but you know we’ll be hitting up Brookline Booksmith for 50% off select gifts.

💃 Feel the music (for free!). Salsa and bachata the night away on the Charles at Magazine Beach Park. Stop by July 27 at 6 p.m. for a beginner class followed by free dance until sunset. Prefer your music a little … smoother? Stop by the Cambridge Jazz Festival on July 26 and 27.

🇵🇷 Show your Puerto Rican pride. Franklin Park is going to be bursting at the seams with Puerto Rican food, music, culture, and community July 26 and 27 at Boston Puerto Rican Festival.

🚶 Take a stroll through JP. At the neighborhood’s summer stroll, duh! July 27, Centre and South streets will be full of sidewalk sales, discounts, refreshments, and tastings from alllll of these local businesses.

CITY

Quick & dirty headlines

🥵 We hope you enjoyed the cool-ish weather this week. Because today, Mother Nature is turning up the heat. The actual temperature should max out somewhere in the mid-to-high 90s, but the absurdly high dew point will send the humidity to tropical levels, driving up the heat index (or the “feels like” temperature) well into the 100s. Unsurprisingly, Boston is under a heat advisory until tonight, when thunderstorms should roll in and cool things down. The silver lining: It’ll set us up for some PRIMO weather Saturday.

🚇 The MBTA grim reaper is back on its BS. This weekend’s victim: The Orange Line. From July 26 to 27, the line will shut down between Wellington and Back Bay. Regular shuttles will make all the usual stops between Wellington and North Station, AND express shuttles will run directly between the two. But from North Station to Back Bay, you’ll need to hop on the Green Line for service. Pro tip: The Franklin/Foxboro, Needham, and Providence/Stoughton commuter rail lines will be fare-free between Forest Hills, Ruggles, Back Bay, and South Station.

🎶 This new Harvard Square spot has music AND martinis. Enter: Lou’s, a new 289-seat space that’s somehow a full-service restaurant, cocktail bar, and live music venue all rolled into one very sexy, retro package. In between the nightly live music performances from local musicians and DJs, you can order oysters or shrimp cocktail from the raw bar, steak frites, or a grain salad, and sip on *reasonably priced* cocktails (hi, seasonal spritz!) or a signature martini. It opens July 26, make a res here.

QUICK QUESTION!

🥵 Finish this sentence. A 90-degree summer day is …

ONE LAST THING

This dog’s *very* special talent

Some dogs can sit and shake. Some dogs save lives. This dog has a gremlin voice. Meet Enzo, a blue Staffordshire terrier slash dog celebrity that’s gained over 2 million followers thanks to a *very* special talent: His “gremlin voice.”

Instead of a more traditional bark, Enzo makes a sound somewhere between — as his owner puts it — a dolphin, a turkey, and a velociraptor. Just listen to it. And he uses his gremlin voice to share daily words of affirmation with his followers, which have gotten so popular that his brand helps pay his owner’s rent. 

But the main goal of Enzo’s account isn’t just fame and fortune. It’s to help show the world that bully breeds are far from the scary or mean stigma they sometimes get. At least in Enzo’s case, he’s definitely all bark, no bite — or whatever that sound is.

Check out our full video on Enzo and his mom here.

— Written by Gia Orsino

🐶 Thanks for reading! As Enzo would say … Bldlideldiledlbldlideldiledl.

🍦 The results are in: Shocking! Gia thought her preference for a cup over cone made her unique, but it turns out 46% of B-Siders agree — although, to be fair, we did split the cone vote. One reader said: “Not about those sticky fingers.”

🎵 🛍️ Don't forget to grab your tickets to Best Day Ever, our Aug. 2 food, music, and shopping par-tay at Artists for Humanity!

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