Bella Luna/Milky Way Restaurant & Lounge is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with parties, T-shirts and Prince. Founded in Hyde Square in 1993 by Kathie Mainzer, Charlie Rose and Carol Downs to create community through food, art and entertainment,…
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Holidays in JP: Secret Recipes: Ian’s Rosemary Roasted Vegetables
The Gazette asked various JP people and institutions to share their favorite holiday recipes. Whole Foods Market at 413 Centre St. offered the following: A Jamaica Plain resident for 15 years, Ian St. Germain’s love of cooking with fresh local…
Holidays in JP: Farmers market offers new ideas for cranberries
Egleston Farmers Market will host a “Cranberry Slam,” featuring a local chef, on Nov. 23 to highlight the Thanksgiving Day staple. Three chefs, including Executive Chef Eric Cooper of Jamaica Plain’s Ten Tables restaurant, will demonstrate their recipes for cranberry…
Holidays in JP: ‘A Carol Christmas’ family show returns
The “A Carol Christmas” theater show, one of Jamaica Plain’s most popular holiday traditions, returns to the Footlight Club for its 12th year on Dec. 6 and 7. Part musical, part comedy and part improv, the family-friendly show raises money…
Holidays in JP: BAPA holiday decorations coming
The Jamaica Plain Business & Professional Association (BAPA) will organize a window decoration competition for local businesses again this year, President Brad Brown told the Gazette. “It will take the same format as last year, with judges walking around,” he…
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Nonprofit steers students to JP apprenticeships
When Helen Russell asks eighth-graders what they want to do for a living as adults, they usually respond about working at a video game or sneaker store. Russell, who heads the Jamaica Plain-based nonprofit Apprentice Learning, runs a program that…
JP workshop offers artists space, classes
BROOKSIDE—The Stonybrook Fine Arts (SFA) workshop is a resource to learn and develop skills in metalwork, sculpting and jewelry-making. The small workshop tucked next to the Samuel Adams brewery at 24 Porter St. in Jamaica Plain provides classes, workshops, commissions…