Champagne Supernovas

Totes Umbrellas, the fab-u-licious blog from Wesleyan’s Katey B, Kate, Joe John and Justin, has decided to go supersonic and rocket off to more fabulous discos in the sky.

They shall be missed.

Check out their site for forwarding info (and a nice shout out to Scary Bunnies), and visit our new fave music blog courtesy of Joe John, IT’S THE MONEYSHOT!!

Tiny Bubbles

For you. From us. At the end of a long day.

● Jacklin leaves the DeStefano campaign:

“Former Hartford Courant columnist Michele Jacklin and Democratic gubernatorial contender John DeStefano Jr. have parted ways - just four months after Jacklin was named a high-ranking campaign aide.Both sides declined to discuss details of the separation, offering only polite comments about each other.” …

● Shonshay from the Mirror Boiyz has a cool new hip hop blog, It’s the Money Shot!! –run it, bitches.

● If you build it, they will come.

VIP store undergoes renovations; set to open this fall“MANCHESTER - Renovations to a former furniture store on Oakland Street have begun as owners of a sexually oriented business make plans to move into the space later this year.

The exterior of the former Huffman Koos store at 480 Oakland St. will include façade work and new signage for VIP, also known as Very Intimate Pleasures, according to information from the town’s Building Department.

Town Planning and Economic Development Director Mark Pellegrini wrote in a short report to the Board of Directors late last month that building permits have been issued to VIP and work on the building is expected to wrap up in September.” …

Hip Hop / Indie / Pop / Fabulous

From Scary Bunny #77:

Who said Greater Hartford’s music scene was one-dimensional? Um, that would be me, like 17,000 times. Well, I was wrong, sort of. Check out The Mirror Boiyz, Homo Hip-Hoppers out of Wesleyan University.

From their MySpace profile:

“Repping the not so glorious hood of Middletown, CT, The Mirror Boiyz rap about everything from fun topics such as America’s Next Top Model’s Cycle 5 contestant Ebony Taylor to more serious topics such as sexual predators on the internet. The Mirror Boiyz are the gayest thing to happen to the indie hip-hop scene…in a good way. Together, Perfidy and Shonshay are creating a unique sound for their 2006 debut album “PLAT’NUM”, finding the place where homo, hip-hop, and hipster collide.”

The Mirrorboiyz play the Bling Bling Café on Albany Avenue in Hartford this weekend. Well…they don’t, but imagine if they did.

Actually, you can check them out at the WestCo Café at Wesleyan on April 8.