We’re almost at the weekend, which is great because I’ve been sleeping terribly and could use a factory reset. Enter, The Pause Festival: it’s back Saturday with B/SPOKE classes, complimentary Drybar blowouts, fun activations and a panel of Boston women leaders.

Win a pair of tickets, grab your bestie and go be offline for a few hours.

JUST ANNOUNCED

• UK heavyweights Loathe are making their way across the pond for the Stranger to You Tour, touching down at Citizens House of Blues on Tuesday with Fleshwater and Prostitute. Secure your seat.*

• Stone Zoo gets the Halloween treatment next month with hundreds of illuminated pumpkins, carved scenes and sculptures stretching up to 18 feet tall. Jack-O-Lantern Nights starts in Stoneham on October 1st.

• Don’t miss this rowdy party of music and activism when 35+ bands from across the country assemble around Camberville for Honk! Festival October 9th-11th.

• Irish trio Chasing Abbey is taking the show stateside next spring and they’re saving Boston for last. The tour wraps at Paradise Rock Club on April 23rd.*

• Find even more just-announced Boston shows to add to your calendar!

WHERE TO GO APPLE PICKING

Planning to hit the orchards this weekend? Greater Boston is loaded with farms where you can fill a bag with crisp apples, sip hard cider, hop on a hayride and demolish a cider donut (or three). Biting into that juicy Honeycrisp is so much more satisfying when you yanked it off the tree yourself.

THIS WEEKEND

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• Cue “Here Comes the Bride”… we just don’t know who the bride is yet. Matchmakers choose the lucky couple and then they actually get hitched at Alibi’s mock wedding tomorrow.

• Spend Saturday with cinnamon sugar, caramel and the cozy flavors of fall. This cake decorating class is dedicated to New England’s superior fall dessert.

• The William Clapp House and James Blake House open their doors to the public on Sunday and we’re not missing the chance to find out why there’s a massive pear sculpture in the neighborhood.

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