New England Roadways tweets a tour bus heading outbound in the left lane on Storrow Drive got stuck at the Dartmouth Street footbridge around 10 a.m.

Whole Foods holds its "town hall meeting" to introduce itself to Jamaica Plain on Thursday, 7 - 8:30 p.m. at the Curley School, 493 Centre St.

Then, next Thursday, the Jamaica Plain Forum holds a panel discussion on Gentrification: What Does it Mean for JP? featuring a panel of an advocate from City Life/Vida Urbana), which has opposed Whole Foods, the presdent of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp., which is looking at leasing space it owns to a possibly competing market, and UMass professor Michael Stone, who studies affordable-housing issues. The forum starts at 7 p.m. at the First Church in Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot St.

Masshole Mommy reports on a family trip to New York that included a relatively long wait to get to talk to the hotel concierge because of the guy in front of her:

The guy who was talking to her was also a masshole. I know this because he had on a t-shirt from Monty's in West Bridgewater (it’s a motorcycle shop). Anywho, this idiot apparently decided that he just had to have a Celtics visor and had the girl calling all over the city to see if she could find one. I guess it didn't occur to him that he wanted one before he left Massachusetts? Of course, she couldn't locate one. Shocker.

And T mugs, T shower curtains and these T flip-flops. The MBTA and Ward Maps in Cambridge today officially open the MBTA online gift store, where you can buy all sorts of T tchotchkes - even old destination signs from extinct trolley lines and new custom-made life-size station signs.

Ward Maps is operating the shop at no cost to the T for the next five years and will pay the system royalties on sold merch. The T hopes the new revenue will help defray some small part of its operating expenses.