Here's the scoop, and you better brace yourself. 'Tis a sad day here in Hartford, as the mother magazine of all things cool in Hartford has finally succumbed to its ultimate fate - death. Yes, the rumors are true, CT Slant magazine is finally over. Sniffle, sniffle. We can't help but wonder how Hartford will continue to go on without its one true guide to all things hip.
We have to admit, the billboards and talk of a new magazine in town got us a little excited. After years and years of turning to the pages of the Hartford Advocate (yawn), it was finally nice to see someone else emerge on the scene. But ahhh, such trickery! The minds behind the Advocate and Hartford Courant (ala New Mass Media) pulled the wool over our eyes and delivered a piss poor excuse for a magazine with a focus of looking at life in Connecticut with a different slant. Cute.
As we're sure you will agree, there was nothing cool about CT Slant. It focused on a handful of downtown restaurants, nightclubs, far away exotic locales no one will ever visit and other fodder. We nearly pissed our pants when we read in the May 2007 issue that knitting was cool where "hipsters everywhere can be seen knitting on the subway..." Seriously?!?!?
So with the absence of CT Slant, what will take its place? Low and behold, Phoenix rising. There's now a new website that will be run by the same people called Metromix. Looking back we only wish we had got in on the death pool for CT Slant from the start. Anyone willing to take bets on how long this one will last?
So with that said, we bid you a fond adieu CT Slant and leave you with one of our favorite gravestone epitaphs:
She Did It The Hard Way
Bette Davis
RIP
Bette Davis
RIP
2 comments:
The Lords of Oxford Street live two doors down from me. I was excited to see that I live so close to something hip and cool. And now you're telling me that the magazine is going bust. I might as well move to West Hartford...
The magazine could have been better. The Lords of Oxford Street seem like a cool lot.
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