The anti-Whole Fooders struck again this morning, this time risking their necks to drape a couple of banners (one in English, one in Spanish) from a billboard advertising Polish ham atop the Hyde Square CVS.
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By adamg - 3/21/11 - 12:15 pm
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council's newly formed Whole Foods Ad Hoc Committee holds its first meeting on Tuesday, March 22, starting at 7 p.m. in the middle classroom of the First Baptist Church, 633 Centre St.reet.
By adamg - 3/15/11 - 12:02 am
Mark reports his wife took this photo in the Whole Foods in Brighton. He adds:
By adamg - 3/9/11 - 9:53 am
On a 9-8 vote, vows to find an alternative for the former Hi-Lo site that won't turn Hyde Square into a gentrified pocket of rich white people, which it says Whole Foods would do, Jamaica Plain Patch reports.
By adamg - 3/2/11 - 9:06 am
BJ Ray doesn't get why people are organizing protests over the closing of the Hi-Lo but not the Agassiz School:
By deselby - 3/1/11 - 12:53 pm
Articles about the rally and meeting last night. Sounds like it was fun.
JP Patch: More than 200 Rally Against Whole Foods
JP Patch: "Crackling Tension" Marks JP Forum on Whole Foods
This article draws from my earlier post on the subject:
It still appears to me that there is a hidden agenda here.
By deselby - 2/27/11 - 5:35 pm
A group calling themselves "The Coalition for an Affordable and Diverse JP" or "Whose Foods?" is organizing a rally tomorrow at 6 pm at Mozart Park, Mozart and Centre Streets. Who are they?
View Map Mozart and Centre Streets
By adamg - 2/20/11 - 10:13 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports a Boylston Street market is now bringing in an entire pig every other Friday for fresh butchering.
Meanwhile, the pro-Whole Foods We Are All Whole Foods is now matched by Whose Foods?, whose goal is to block Whole Foods and stop gentrification. In the middle is Whole Foods: Listen to JP.
By adamg - 2/1/11 - 8:21 am
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council and Hyde Jackson Square Main Streets will host a community meeting on Feb. 8 "to discuss what the arrival of Whole Foods means for JP and the Hyde/Jackson neighborhood."
By adamg - 1/24/11 - 10:47 pm
The mayor's office has scheduled a Friday meeting with employees of the soon-to-be ex-Hi-Lo in Jamaica Plain to give them help finding new work - possibly even at the Whole Foods that will replace the store.
By adamg - 1/20/11 - 9:01 am
Both the Globe and the Herald parachuted reporters into exotic and beguiling Jamaica Plain yesterday to cover the news - broken last week by the Jamaica Plain Gazette - that the Hi-Lo is being replaced by a Whole Foods. Both stories read like dispatches from foreign correspondents earning a bit extra by writing something for the travel section, for audiences looking for the next hot locale to jet to.
The Herald starts its report by informing us that Jamaica Plain is "earthy-crunchy," but subtly warns the Hi-Lo is located in "a gritty neighborhood in transition," which the cognoscenti know translates to "lock the doors on the Land Rover" while on safari there.
Also, the Herald informs us, JP has a "funky mosaic" of "young families, hipsters and Hispanic residents who could benefit from the foodie paradise and the jobs it will bring."
By adamg - 1/14/11 - 5:57 pm
The Jamaica Plain Gazette sounds the death knell for Hi-Lo, 415 Centre St.
By adamg - 1/24/10 - 10:31 pm
Steve Nadis reports spotting salt-free Saltines at his local Whole Foods. Is that like water-free Poland Spring?
By adamg - 12/4/08 - 8:47 am
Legally Brunette dishes on the woman she first thought was Garner, then realized she wasn't, but only after she tried to figure out what she could possibly say to her.
By adamg - 2/10/08 - 10:52 pm
Kelly reflects on a trip to her local Whole Foods Market tonight:
... There I, along with my fellow Volvo- and Prius-driving, ageing, former hippies, stocked up on over-priced tofu, tempeh, organic veggies and whole grains in bulk, while wistfully eyeballing the hemp clothing. We dutifully bagged our groceries in the cloth bags we brought with us, and made our way home.
I haven't completely gone over to the dark side, however. My cupboards still contain such miracles of modern chemistry as Double Stuff Oreos, Lucky Charms, gin, and Spaghetti-os, and probably always will. ...
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