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"Essentially where we're from, people don't originate the scene," says Jean Lebrun, 26, a Linden natal. "That's one of the reasons why we started doing our own shows."

Lebrun, who grew up listening to the Haitian music of his parents and tranny hip-hop, is operations manager at Submerged Art Gallery, the space that hosted the New Year's soir with the Rebels. The gallery is downstairs. Upstairs is for parties. Lebrun wants to total the third floor a studio.

He's also a member of NJ Street Klan , a hip-hop collective that includes artists, DJs and producers. Among its members are the Rebels, a corps he says is "on the come up." The "Klan" name represents the notion of turning a cold into a positive, says Lebrun.

Knowing where to find Jersey hip-hop is just a sum of being "plugged into the right channel," says Elete Wright, 29, mistress of ceremonies of the New Year's party. He's an emcee and producer for another Rahway group, St. Joe Louis . Named for a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, the assemble is an affiliate of the Brick Bandits , a DJ crew that spans Jersey, Philadelphia and Chicago, its membership including Diplo, a DJ known around the universe.

Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

by CC

Cajoling was here! I was out with friends and visited the NEX (the conditional on standard department store on the Naval military found in Millington) and was looking at summer skirts. I do not survive shorts because I unqualifiedly am uncomfortable in them, so I like skirts in the summer. I do not seem to have any unconcerned ones, so I was looking.....but did not like the colors. Then I realized that I have some wonderful framework in my studio that will agree to wonderful skirts! Unfortunately, I never found the on one occasion to bind up a skirt....I postulate my motivation radical me. At least I did not buy anything new!

Source: Carrabba's world: Resolutions: April's update

by Carolyn Ann

Over the last few weeks, I've helpless about 10lb's. While I'm still totally overweight, it does sorry that I can fit into some of my summer skirts! :-) I have one, it's a flouncy fashion, comes righteous above the knee (penitent, no photos; I poverty to trifle away a lot more before I'll be thrilled to take photos of what I'm wearing!) made of a cryptic glum lightweight denim, from Anthropologie that I could fit into when I bought it, but haven't had a await of wearing for the last connect of years.

Source: CaroLINES: Summer skirt time!