ORANGE JUICE HURTS MY STOMACH SO I DRINK APPLE. MARTINELLI’S IS SIMPLY THE BEST. PURE 100% JUICE FROM U.S. GROWN APPLES, MARTINELLI’S JUICES CONTAIN ABSOLUTELY NO SWEETENERS, PRESERVATIVES, OR ADDITIVES OF ANY KIND. Since Martinelli’s first gold medal in 1890, the Company has received more than fifty gold medals for product excellence. I CAN TASTE WHY.

J. PRESS BEGAN AT YALE UNIVERSITY OVER 100 YEARS AGO AND HAS UPHELD CLASSIC AMERICAN STYLE TO AN IVY LEAGUE STANDARD EVER SINCE. I MIGHT HAVE ATTENDED NYU BUT I DEFINITELY DON’T LOOK LIKE I DID IN MY SILK POLKA DOT SCARF.

ON NOVEMBER 5, 2008, PUFFY TRANSFORMED HIS ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT INTO A BARACK OBAMA VICTORY PARTY. WHAT NORMALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN A CLASSIC DIDDY EXTRAVAGANZA TURNED INTO AN EVENING OF GREAT JOY, HOPE, AND CELEBRATION. HIP HOP AND PATRIOTISM FILLED THE AIR IN UNISON. IT WAS AN AMAZING SIGHT TO SEE.

NOW WE CAN BE OLD SCHOOL WITHOUT HAVING OLD TECHNOLOGY. Casio updates their famous calculator watch WITH A databank THAT holds names and phone numbers, a calendar set to go TO 2099, support for all TWENTY-FOUR time zones, and a curency converter. AVAILABLE IN WHITE (PICTURED), BLACK, GREEN, AND YELLOW. NOW IF ONLY NINTENDO WOULD RELEASE AN UPDATED MODERN-DAY SUPER MARIO BROS WATCH.

YO-YO, MC LYTE, TREACH, PHIFE, Q-TIP, FU-SCHNIKENS, CL SMOOTH, GURU, DAS EFX, WU-TANG, KRS-ONE, AND MAD LION JOIN FOR AN INCREDIBLE CIPHER ON THE FINAL EPISODE OF “THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW.” PEEP Q-TIP DROPPING LYRICS FROM “MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS” AND CL SMOOTH DROPPING SOME FROM “THE MAIN INGREDIENT.”

IN 1988, FISHER PRICE RELEASED A SERIES OF MINIATURE CASSETTE PLAYERS CALLED POCKET ROCKERS. THE DEVICES PLAYED MINI TAPES THAT FEATURED POPULAR SONGS OF THE TIME AND COULD ONLY BE PLAYED ON A POCKET ROCKER. MY FAVORITES INCLUDED LEVERT “CASANOVA/FOREVER LOVE,” THE FAT BOYS “WIPE OUT/ROCK RULING,” THE JETS “CROSS MY BROKEN HEART/YOU GOT IT ALL,” WHITNEY HOUSTON “I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY/SO EMOTIONAL,” TIFFANY “I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW/COULD’VE BEEN,” LISA LISA AND THE CULT JAM “HEAD TO TOE/LOST IN EMOTION,” DEBBIE GIBSON “SHAKE YOUR LOVE/ONLY IN MY DREAMS,” AND THE BANGLES “WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN/MANIC MONDAY.”

GINGER ROSE IS SINGER/SONGWRITER JOEY DELLAMEDAGLIA AND MUSICIAN/PRODUCER/SONGWRITER CHRIS LIGGIO. AFTER FORMING THE DUO A FEW YEARS AGO, THEIR DEBUT ALBUM “YOU’LL LOVE IT IN THE MORNING” WAS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2008 IN JAPAN ON MANHATTAN RECORDS AND HIT THE NUMBER ONE SPOT ON THE JAPANESE ITUNES ALBUM CHART. THEIR DEBUT SINGLE “RED LIGHT” REMINDS ME OF CLASSIC HALL & OATS AND FEATURES THE AMAZING ABSTRACT. CLICK HERE TO BUY THE ALBUM.

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MICAH JESSE IS A NEW YORK-BASED CELEBRITY BLOGGER WHOSE WEBSITE MICAHJESSE.COM PROMISES TO “QUENCH YOUR THIRST FOR AMAZINGNESS.” ASIDE FROM THE GOOD-HEARTED, POSITIVELY SPIRITED GOSSIP BLOG HE HAS ESTABLISHED, HE BRINGS FUN VIBES AND HIGH ENERGY TO EVERY PARTY HE ENTERS. MICAH IS ONE-OF-A-KIND. SEE BELOW AS HE LIP SYNCS JENNIFER HUDSON’S “LOVE YOU I DO.”

ASIDE FROM THROWING THE LEGENDARY WEDNESDAY NIGHT PARTY AT SERAFINA A FEW YEARS BACK, OWNING HOTSPOTS PM AND BIJOUX, AND BRINGING SEXY PARTIES TO EVERY PART OF THE WORLD, UNIK ERNEST ALSO ESTABLISHED THE EDEYO FOUNDATION. Edeyo is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the future of children in Haiti by rebuilding dilapidated schools, supplying students with learning materials, and providing them with nutritional support. LAST NIGHT I DEEJAYED EDEYO’S OPENING EVENT OF “HAITI: HUNGER & HOPE,” A PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM EXHIBITION BY NIGEL BARKER AT MILK STUDIOS. BELOW IS A PICTURE OF UNIK AND NIGEL IN HAITI.

ALTHOUGH I MET BIGGIE TWICE – ONCE AT SUMMERJAM AND ONCE AT THE PALLADIUM – I NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO DEEJAY FOR HIM SO THIS PARTY WAS PARTICULARLY SPECIAL. WHETHER YOU ARE A HIP HOP FAN OR NOT, “NOTORIOUS” IS A MUST SEE. A TRULY MOVING FILM ABOUT THE TRIUMPHANT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF A MUSIC LEGEND. WHILE EVERYONE WAS CLEARLY EMOTIONALLY DRAINED LEAVING THE THEATER, THE PARTY QUICKLY TURNED INTO A JOYOUS CELEBRATION OF BIGGIE’S LIFE.