💃🍑 Your assignment: Shake ya booty

🍜 We’ve been sitting on HUGE Supper Club news. Don’t all jump at once — on Jan. 14, we’re hosting our next B-Side Supper Club at Jahunger Cambridge, the cozy Uyghur noodle joint that just earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand. See the menu here. To buy a ticket, start a free trial below, and we’ll send you the links in your email!

🎂 Quick note: We’ve loved celebrating everyone, but in 2026, birthday shoutouts are becoming a B-Side Members-only tradition. Think of it as our way of saying thanks for being here. <3 If you want a birthday shoutout next year, start a free trial of our membership and then fill out the form in your email.

👀 What’s on tap today:

Up first…

B-SIDE GUIDE

💃 Shake ya booty like a pop princess. We’re teaming up with Diva Dance Boston on Jan. 15 for a members-only $10 dance class (regular $32!). Together we’ll string together beginner-friendly moves set to Tate McRae’s “Sports Car.” 

😘 Valentine’s Day checklist: Delete Hinge. We’re teaming up with “Love Letters” to host the ULTIMATE matchmaking night at WBUR’s CitySpace. Step 1: Buy your ticket (members save $5). Step 2: Fill out our very scientific dating quiz (provided after you buy your ticket). Step 3: We play Cupid. Step 4: Show up for an organized blind date (that also comes with a few surprises). 

🧘‍♀️ Manifest your dream life in 2026. Girlfriends Boston is doing their part with a feel-good morning of movement, journaling, and vision boarding at Time Out Market. Start the year aligned, energized, and surrounded by girls who get it — B-Side Members get 10% off.

🎻 Start 2026 on a high note. Literally! B-Side members can snag a $30 Young Maestro subscription from Boston Baroque. That covers the New Year’s Celebration and every concert in the 2025-2026 season at the B or C ticket level. Reach out to [email protected] with any Qs!

🚠Plan your next ski trip around a free dinner. The Conway Area Humane Society is running a fundraising raffle that costs just $10 to enter, and you can enter every day from Jan. 1-31. Enter here to win a $50 gift card to your choice of more than 20 local restaurants, and use it as an excuse to plan a trip to one of the country’s most beloved ski areas.

💸 Here’s your excuse to order in: We’re sharing some DoorDash discount codes that get you $8 off $30+ at the following Boston restaurants:

The rest of this newsletter, including the below perks and things to do, is for our premium members who contribute to our journalism.

🌯 Free Chipotle on Extra Sweater Day
🏀 ~$60 Celtics tickets for winter blues
🎄 BOGO Christmas Carol tix
🧶 20% off rug tufting at Tutuland
🥂 20% off a Winter Wonderland brunch

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

💅 Mr. H, you look amazing. The Globe’s food critic has a new take on this Seaport restaurant: Style over substance, and nobody seems to mind.

👀 Keeping up with the Brown shooter story? Here’s the Globe’s live blog that has the most up-to-date info. 

💊 Take a chill pill (literally). As anxiety rises, more people are turning to beta blockers to help them survive grocery stores, breakup chats, and the general experience of being a human.

🍎 Out: An influencer’s “what I eat in a day.” In: This scientist who studies protein and healthy aging’s “what I eat in a day.” Hint: Greek yogurt and tuna.

🍺 Well, cheers to this: This reporter tried the $240 Samuel Adams Utopias beer. Here’s what it’s actually like.

📺 Add this to the queue. These are the top 10 (ish) TV shows of the year. Hard agree with No. 1. 

🍰 This new bakery really is THAT girl. What you need to know: It’s run by two sisters. It’s in Newton (right off the Green Line). And the cakes (allegedly) SLAP.

🎶 Obama’s got SERIOUS taste. The former President just dropped his list of favorite movies, books, and music of 2025 (which include a Boston-born singer and a Harvard professor).

✍️ Programming note. We’re taking off from the newsletter for the holidays. We’ll be back in your inbox with more on Jan. 3. Happy holidays!

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