03.04.2009
Hi-Lo
By: Joshua Glenn | Categories: Spectacles

Hi-Lo Foods

Hi-Lo Foods is a Jamaica Plain, Mass., supermarket whose sign we’ve always found inspirational.

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About the author: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn is a Boston, Mass.-based writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst. He's cofounder of HiLobrow (named by TIME one of the Best Blogs of 2010), Significant Objects, and Semionaut. He's been a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Observer (London), Feed.com, and the Idler; he's toiled as a magazine, website, and newspaper editor; and he's authored and edited Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s he published the seminal intellectual/pop culture zine Hermenaut.

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4 Comments to “Hi-Lo”

  1. Matthew Battles says:
    March 4, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Yes, we have!

  2. Lucas Gonze says:
    March 4, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    But not the produce. :)

    I used to live near there, back in the mid-90s. Been a long time…

  3. Richard Grijalva says:
    March 5, 2009 at 7:40 am

    It’s the only place where I can find masa and a decent tamale steamer in Boston. Oh, and lard, too.

  4. mbattles says:
    March 5, 2009 at 11:31 am

    Lard=schmalz. Hilobrow!

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