UPDATE! - Hi All! We're in the midst of a huge website upgrade. Actually, it's going to be a completely new website (www.faze.ca). It's taking a bit longer than expected but hopefully it will be worth the wait. We're looking towards relaunch in late-June, with new sections and features being added throughout the year. Here are some of the things to look out for: Thousands of amazing articles, reviews and photos online to check out The Faze community will be able to comment on every article and photo Upload your own articles, reviews, poetry, music or videos or event listings Personalized login page featuring your favourite things on the site Polls, games, quizes, horoscopes, columnists Loads of new contests Accumulate points by participating in the Faze community: use them to buy cool stuff Streaming Radio Channels, including Faze Radio (interviews, chats) FazeTV launching later this year

March 16th-20th:
L'Oréal Fashion Week Fall 2008

Paul, Carolee, and Karmen once again, participated in the always fun and exciting L'Oréal Fashion Week - shows and parties with designers, actors, VJs, and magazine moguls everywhere! For a closer look at our Fashion Week Frenzy, click here. Warning: there are A LOT of pictures!!!

 

* Coming REEL soon....the annual ReelWorld Film Festival in April 2-6, 2008, ReelYouth – Take One is a groundbreaking outreach program specially tailored for young people. The program presents full three days of screenings, workshops and filmmaker Q&A sessions and Faze will be there!!! Stay tuned for our interview and photos with the Founder, President and Young and Restless TV Star, Tonya Lee Williams and so much more.... For all the details checkout www.reelworld.ca

[FAT] Coming soon....Toronto's Alternative Arts and Fashion Week called [FAT] – April 9th through 11th to celebrate the fusion of over 120 artists from around the World in the third annual Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week and Faze will be there!   Simply put- [FAT] is the only outlet where the public and industry can experience their own vast artistic community in an open environment that celebrates fashion through the fusion of design, music, photography, installation, performance and video. [FAT] FACTS + This is a licensed event and photo id is required at the door + Advance tickets are $15 @ The Rage 13 Kensington, Urban Textures 44 Gerrard St. West, Magpie 884 Queen St. West $20 @ DOOR + For a complete schedule visit www.getfat.ca. Stay tuned for cool images and all the highlights, from our Faze team.

 

December 19 - Global News visited the Faze headquarters to interview Editor-in-Chief Lorraine Zander about the hottest Holiday 2007 teen gift ideas for both guys and girls. Catch Lorraine in action on the 6:00pm News on Global Television tonight!

 

 

December 11 - Faze attended a private show featuring the breaking new Canadian band, The Mission District. The six-piece band, hailing from Montreal , is a catchy mix of pop-rock with a distinct Brit-Pop vibe and they defiantly bring energy to the stage! The band has even caught the eye of Perez Hilton . Check out some of their tracks from their debut album Youth Games at their MySpace .

November 20 - Half of the Faze Team attended the Cadbury Chocolate Couture Collection Fashion Show at the Carlu where breakthrough designs were showcased featuring innovative techniques including chocolate leather, air-brushed chocolate feathers, chocolate leopard-print and a chocolate Mohawk hairdo. A must-see photos page can be found here...

November 20 - After the Cadbury event, the Fazers trotted off to the Motorola RAZR 2 Party thrown at Kool Haus, hosted by Hill and Knowlton, and DJed by STEVE AOKI!!! What a crazy night it was...Check out the photos here

 

October 22 - Faze's Paul and Karmen attended the opening of L'Oréal Fashion Week Spring Collection 2008 at the flagship Holt Renfrew on Bloor Street. The much anticipated cocktail event was attended by Supermodel IMAN, Canadian Idol Judge Jake Gold, Canadian Designer Brian Bailey, and much much more.
Click here to get the scoop on the event

October 11 - Paul Z. and Carolee C. attended the unveiling of the LG Shine at Birks.

September 2007 - Click here to see Exit Hair Salon at work with Nina and Supermodel Petra Nemcova before the Toronto International Film Festival.



August 17 - Faze was out at The Mod Club for CraveFest's Awards Night. Awards were handed out to both signed and unsigned Electronic, Hip-Hop, and Rock artists. Click here to check out the pictures from CraveFest 2007




August 16-19-More tennis at the Rogers Cup! Lots up upsets but the final match came down to the top two seeds battling it out in a fabulous display of tennis. #1 ranked Justine Henin of Belgium won two close sets to beat out Jelena Jankovic of Serbia.

August 15-Faze was on hand for Beyonce's clan (her mom, dad and sister Solange) as they rolled into Toronto's Ultra Club for the Canadian launch of her Dereon clothing line. Pictures coming soon!

August 13-Thanks to our partners at the Ontario Tennis Association for getting us out to check out the opening day of the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Toronto. The evening finished with an entertaining mixed doubles match between Anna Kournikova and John McEnroe against Jim Courier and retired Canadian star Carling Bassett. Pics coming!

August 13 - What's new at EXIT Salon? Click here to check out the boys getting whipped into model mode for the 3rd Annual 'CoverGuy' Competition...

July 26 - Editor-in-Chief Lorraine Zander was invited to experience a customized Redken hair treatment at the newly renovated Salon Escape in Yorkville by acclaimed stylist and salon owner Roberto Barbosa. Check out Lorraine's experience at the Salon.

 

July 26 - Denise, Alana, and Karmen had a busy afternoon at the Christmas in July event hosted by Strategic Objectives.

They got a sneak peek at all the latest products from the Body Shop, M&M Meat Shops (mmmm the bite-sized desserts!), Dyson Vacuums, and much much more...

Can't wait til the REAL Christmas!!!

 

June17 - Another year brings another Much Music Video Awards Show, where Faze once again was on scene mingling with the stars during the event and afterparty. Some of the big names in attendence were Hilary Duff, Avril Lavigne, Billy Talent, Finger Eleven, Sum 41, and Jay manual.Click here to check out the pictures and get the inside scoop from the MMVA 2007.

 

May 29 - The Faze team recently accompanied thirteen year old sensation Madison Lindstrom to La Senza Girl in downtown Toronto at the Eaton Centre. Click here for photos from the well deserved shopping spree. Thanks to La Senza Girl in the Eaton Centre for providing the young philanthropist a day she will never forget!



May 28 - Busy afternoon for some of the editorial team spent at events for GEOX footwear and Nike Sport.


May 24-Editor Lorraine was taped for a series looking critically at the issue of plastic surgery and body image and the pressures "fashion" exerts.
Click here for photos from the TV set.

Thanks to Mendocino for a gorgeous outfit and Exit Hair Salon for another great hairstyle.

 

May 18 - Faze interns Megha and Amy descended into the neo-noir world of vampires via the newly released flick, Rise: Blood Hunter, showing at the Varsity Cinemas. Unfortunately, it wasn't a pleasant ride; it's unlikely that these vampires will get to sink their teeth into any awards.




May 5-Lorraine is featured on ET Canada discussing the lives of today's 20 year olds.

Check here for more images from the shoot

Thanks to Rob at Exit Salon for doing a great job on her hair.

 

 

 

May 1-Redken Canada invited our funky-haired Lex to Exit Salon for a playful styling session with their new URBAN EXPERIMENT line. Check out more from the afternoon here

 

 

May 1-Lorraine's face seems to be popping up all over the place these...MuchMusic's Listed series run about 10 times this week featuring Faze Editor Lorraine as a commentator on the Top 20 Teen Stars.

Apr 2-With the help of the original captain of the USS Enterprise, William Shatner, Rogers Wireless announced their new videophone today. Faze was there for a private interview with both Shatner and Rogers' head of marketing. The new Samsung phone will allow users to talk face to face with anyone using the same handset anywhere in Canada (on Rogers only). Like virtually everything cellular, Rogers looks to youth to be the audience most interested in the new technology. Shatner, when asked when the most important advice he could give to our readers, said "I know now that education is the primary instrument of success." (Video/photos coming soon)

Mar 29-The Faze team was at the Panasonic product showcase checking out the latest gear. Panasonic makes everything it seems, we saw gorgeous TVs (including a 103" plasma), a new generation of digital cameras, a shock resistant digital video cam (Doug let us drop it repeatedly on the ground!) and lots of other very cool gear (massage chairs, telephones, kitchen appliances, batteries, home theatre). We'll testing out some of the stuff you'll be interested in very soon!

Mar 22-Faze got the royal treatment up in Collingwood (Ontario's #1 ski resort). Ws we checked out some great places and things to do for upcoming contests for you guys to win! (Tough job but someone had to do it.) Thanks to Lou for setting everything up, unfortunately the skiing was not ideal with 15C weather. Highlights were excellent meals at the Westin Hotel, Copper Blue, Kaytoo and a relaxing afternoon at the Scandinave Spa.

Feb 7-Most of the events for the Faze crew are suited for the girls on the team here but today it was one for the guys! Personal care giant P&G held a launch event for their new lineup of razors (Gillette Fusion, Braun), deodorant (Old Spice), bodyspray (TAG), shampoo (Head & Shoulders), GQ Magazine's "fashion expert" flew up from NYC to give the Faze dudes a few tips. We'll see if they followup... The event also feature a former British rocket scientist turned Gillette razor engineer explained the science that goes into the new Gillette Fusion Phantom razor...he sure made an everyday tool sound pretty cool. Maybe Adam will start shaving more often?

Feb 6-The Faze team (Lorraine, Alex, Karmen) was at an very special media event with very talented 14 year old vocalist named Lexy. From Charlotte, NC with an international background, Lexy hosted an evening at the CN Tower's 360 restaurant. With a new album just out, and a strong management team behind her, we'll be following her budding career carefully and wish her all the best. Stay tuned for more on Lexy...photos, video, music will be posted soon.

Feb 5-New home office still being set up, please bear with us a we get all the glitches with phones, files and computers worked out. THANKS Y'ALL!

Feb 3-Faze was out in Halifax as video dance company Sights and Sounds put on another successful Nova Scotia Secondary School Students Association fundraiser dance at Mount St. Vincent University. Sights and Sounds has a great team out in the East Coast, where they started the whole school video dance party crazy in the mid-80s. Special thanks to the NSSSA team (Lorne, Frank, Heather & co.) and to our Sights hosts Bruce, Ben and Russell. Good times! Looking forward to another great year of school dance events across the East Coast!

Jan 26-Faze has been getting out see a whole bunch of Raptors NBA Basketball lately! Probably the best game in town these days! Tonight they beat the Boston Celtics to move further up the rankings, setting themselves up for a playoff run this spring! Go Raptors Go!

Jan 6- The Faze team will be reporting from Las Vegas on the biggest tech gadget show in the world. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) runs from Sunday to Thursday. Cellphones, gaming, audio, TVs, computers, cameras, etc...Xmas all over again. Look for a full feature story with photos from the event in Las Vegas. We'll be hearing from the heads of the world's largest tech companies (Bill Gates, Michael Dell, CEOs from Motorola, Nokia, Disney, CBS, etc.)

Jan 4-Back to business! The Faze teams are slowly getting back from the holidays and getting ready for another huge year: more great new issues of Faze, 500 school and campus dance parties, a fully redesigned kick-ass website/online community and eventually new office!!!

Jan 1, 2007-HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Lots in store for 2007! We'll fill in the details over the coming weeks and let you know what's going on over here. Have a great 2007!

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Dec 25-Merry Xmas to all!

Dec 19-Faze Xmas Party for staff and interns. Thanks to everyone who helped especially Lorraine, Carolee and Stephanie W and her friends. DJ and music provided by party kings Sights and Sounds.

Nov 25 - Congratulations to the winner of our FALCON BEACH CELEB NIGHT OUT CONTEST, Christina Gatto. She got to stay at Toronto's ultra chic Cosmopolitan Hotel, hung out all night with the stars, Steve and Jen, was whisked all over town in a super-stretch Ford Excursion limo which stopped off at Autogrill where they all dined in style, checked out the Rockettes Christmas show at the Hummingbird Centre and then went to Demetres for some dessert. A great night was had by all! Check out photos from the evening here.

Nov 21-Tek Ted checked out the Bell tech event in Toronto, lots of goodies for the holidays. We'll have to get some reviews up soon.

Nov 16-Faze was on hand for the official launch of the PS3, Wyclef played a hot set in the evening to help celebrate the long-awaited next-generation console. Pics coming soon...plus loads of reviews in the tech section.

Nov 14-The first of two big gaming console launches this week...first out the gates is the Nintendo Wii, with its motion sensitive handheld controller. Pics coming soon...plus loads of reviews in the tech section.

Nov 10-12-Who's watching the fort??? Seems all the Faze guys went to Montreal for a big video gaming conference weekend (Arcadia!). Meanwhile a bunch of the Faze girls went to New York City for a little biz, tourism and shopping!

Nov 2-Crazy day/night. Too many events to cover. Lorraine and went to La Senza. Ted and Paul went to the launch of the new LG Chocolate phone, celebrities were in the house, including Fefe Dobson, Kardinal Offishal among others. A pretty cool phone was launched amongst the fashion show, music and good food.

Nov 2-Faze reporter Alex Gill and Lorraine did a My Chemical Romance interview for our next issue.


Nov 1-Faze was glad to be a part of the Bell Celebrity Gala again, a fundraising event for Sick Kids Hospital. It was a big success again in its 15th year. According to the website "The Bell Celebrity Gala is the highest attended Celebrity event in the country and this year there will be more famous faces than ever before!" There definitely were! Here's a small look at the evening.


Oct 31-Happy Halloween!


Oct 25-An HP event to check out their latest camera & printers for the holidays and beyond. Reviews to follow.

Oct 22-A new article is up about a new anonymous chatroom room (gamtalk4teens.org) for teens who need to talk through possible problems with gambling.

Oct 20-Lorraine, Alana & Carolee attended the Pink Bedroom Gala hosted by Jeanne Lottie and Covergirl raising money for breast cancer research. A wonderful night was had by all!

Oct 18-Afternoon was the XBOX'06 bash at the Brant House. We had the Faze guys trying out all the new games from all the major studios, EA, Capcom, Ubisoft, Sega, Eidos, etc. It was particularly tough to rip Ted away from EA's FIFA 2007. Thanks again to the High Road team.

Oct 18-Our tech guys checked out the latest Olympus camera goodies.

Oct 16-21-TORONTO FASHION WEEK! Lots going on, with our team checking out the latest styles for next SPRING. We'll get up a whole gallery of photos from the shows soon.

Oct 6-We'd like to welcome Stephanie to the Sights and Sounds team! She'll be working with us on various projects over the next few months.

Sept 27-Faze's Lorraine was featured in an October 2006 Flare Magazine article on her volunteering work with Hero Holiday, a project in Dominican Republic for teens.
Click to read

Sept 21-Our sister company Sights and Sounds is expanding, adding more DJs to help with a booming fall season putting on the best school dance parties in Canada. One of our star young DJs Josh is joining full-time to help take care of the hundreds of schools calling in to book dances. Cool fact...Sights and Sounds has been around for 24 years, but the average age of the staff across Canada is only 22! The excruciatingly hip and knowledgeable Sights & Sounds celebrity DJs will soon be featured in a new CD/concert review section on Faze. While their opinions will be highly regarded...we at the magazine just hope they can write half as well as they can spin!

Sept 20-HUGE NEWS!!! Faze is moving into a new office in December! Located on Avenue Road in Toronto, just north of Yorkville (home to the Toronto Film Festival). Look out for our sign in the new year! The Faze building will be become the centre of the universe in no time...

Sept 19-Faze was at the launch of Timex's new line of high end men's watches (they were beautiful) followed by an afternoon look at all the latest and greatest from Microsoft for the coming holiday season (new webcams - a first for Microsoft, new games, new keyboards, Student 2007, Windows Vista, etc.) As for the new Microsoft MP3 player, the Zune, Canada should be seeing it launched in Jan 2006 (vs. Nov 2006 in the US). Thanks to the girls at High Road for another great event.

Sept 9 & 10-The Faze team was out at the Virgin Festival held on Toronto Island...we'll have lots of great photos and some chats with the bands from the event online and in an upcoming mag. Here's a photo of Faze founder Lorraine Zander and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson:
Click for more photos

Sept 5-BACK TO SCHOOL!! Chance to see your old friends, and make some new ones! Have a great year everyone.

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Aug 30-Faze founder's Lorraine B-Day! Happy Birthday girl!

Aug 29-FujiFilm events for Ted and Paul; Lancome Canada for Lorraine!

Aug 28-Very sad news, our friend and partner Aldo's father passed away: we're thinking of you Aldo.

Aug 28-Faze was down at the Pirates of the Caribbean event in New York City!

Aug 13-AIDS 2006 Benefit Concert held in Toronto featuring Alicia Keys, Our Lady Peace, Chantal Kreviazuk, Massari and others (including Bill Gates - talking not singing)

Aug 4-Faze hooked up with the Absolute team to check out Shakespeare in the Park in Toronto for Comedy of Errors, a modern take on the 500 year old play. Surprisingly enjoyable!

July 22-Fashion photoshoot for the Fall issue...wow we're already working on Fall? That's scary I'm just starting to enjoy the summer! Thanks to models Julie & Brodie, and to Yanyi and Sarah for all their help.

July 21-Lots of running around for the Toronto crew - meanwhile Lorraine, Jayne and Trevor have returned from the 2006 Hero Holiday in Dominican Republic safely! Welcome home, congrats on a week of making the world a better place! Check out the Hero Holiday site to find out what it's all about.

July 20-Big prep day for the weekend style photoshoot, Vanessa and Denise were joined by Yanyi to choose from and organize about 100 potential pieces of clothing.

July 18-A first chance for some of us in Toronto to play with the new Nintendo Wii. Pierre-Paul Trepanier and the C&W ladies hosted a nice intimate hotel suite gathering to experiment with the revolutionary new controller systerm. The Wii will be released in November 2006.


Paul and Jodi Goulart try a little virtual fishing



July 14-Meanwhile in San Francisco, Paul and Kelly met up with Tali Fischer from video game company EIDOS. Tali oversees the super successful Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Hitman series and a whole bunch of other hits. Went to a very hip Italian restaurant, Mona Lisa for dinner to talk video games and life.

July 10-Check out the latest on the contest page...win a collection of juicy Simon & Schuster titles for some hot summer reading...


May 7-Some of the Faze team ran in the Sporting Life 10K run in Toronto, congrats to Denise, Lorraine and Paul.

May 3-The Faze girls were at a special fashion show put on by Nike Canada featuring a wide range of their clothing and accessories for the Fall season.

Apr 27-30-The World Squash Doubles Championships were played in Toronto this week and Faze's own Paul made us proud, making it all the way to semi-finals, where he lost a very close and exciting match 3-2.

Apr 26-An evening with Isaac Mizrahi, the flamboyant New York designer, who is now being brought to the masses in Canada through Fairweather.

Apr 20-This time it's off to the AVEDA College salon for Alana and Lorraine to have their meticulously trained students again show us their hair cutting magic.

Apr 13-THE SUMMER STYLE PHOTOSHOOT! Takes place with the jungles of the Rainforest Cafe as the backdrop, the best we could do to find summer at this time of year in Toronto :-) Some fun pics from the shoot up online soon.

Apr 12-Lots of running around for the Summer photoshoot tomorrow! Plus...some lucky staff had haircuts done by very talented stylists-in-training at the Aveda College in Toronto.

Apr 11-Lorraine and Kelly checked out the Goo Goo Dolls in concert and then went over to check out a late night recording session for a new Canadian artist.

Apr 10-Lorraine interviews the Goo Goo Dolls in Toronto.

Apr 3-Lorraine is a guest for an entire hour of TV's Goldhawk Live talkshow in an episode dealing with all-age nightclubs in the aftermath of a stabbing at a Toronto club (12y.o. girl stabbed another 12y.o. girl).


Mar 20-Have a behind the scenes look at the Faze photoshoot for the Spring cover featuring the stars of Falcon Beach, Steve Byers and Jennifer Kydd. Win a chance to get out for an evening with these two hot stars! Details coming in the Spring issue out soon!

Mar 17-The Faze girls were out checking out tropical jungle locations (in Toronto!) for our Summer photoshoot.

Mar 17-Happy St. Pat's day, particularly if you're Irish.

Mar 16-Faze interview with The Veronicas, the twins from Australia. After attending a bunch of Toronto Fashion Week events some of the Faze gang went to check them out in concert.

Mar 16-A couple of new film reviews up online, She's The Man and V for Vendetta here.

Mar 15-Dozen of lucky winners across the country won special advance screening passes to the launch of the new Amanda Bynes movie She's The Man, courtesy of Faze and Dreamworks.

Mar 13-Toronto Fashion Week has kicked into full gear with the Faze girls out at a bunch of events all week long.

Mar 13-Jayne checked out the screening for V for Vendetta, very powerful film, done by the Matrix guys.

Mar 12-The tech/games/gear section has been freshly updated with a bunch of new reviews.

Mar 3-Wanna be on TV? Off-key voice rule out Canadian Idol? Here's something that might be for you.
Skooled, a reality TV series is doing a casting call for the upcoming season...sign up online here.


Mar 1-Our Editor Denise is off to PARIS!!!! for the weekend. Wow...have a wild time! Hoping for some pics...

Mar 1-Lorraine and Paul checked out the opening of Kai, the latest lounge/club launched by young entrepreneur Travis Agresti, whose other club Inside, which he started at age 19, attracts the likes of Vince Carter (now a part owner), Tyra Banks, Mark Wahlberg, Nelly Furtado, Prince.

Mar 1-It was back to school for Faze founder Lorraine as a guest speaker for a course in the Ryerson University magazine publishing programme, which Lorraine had graduated from herself a few years ago.

Feb 28-Alana and Jayne from Faze were at the nomination party for the Gemini Awards (i.e. Canadian Television award show). Jayne was definitely the best person to send as she is an actress herself, even starring in a short movie that ran last year in the Toronto Film Festival!

Feb 26-Check out a new Faze supported contest being put on by Maxell Canada. Win a pair concert tickets to see Canadian Idols Melissa O'Neill and Rex Goudie and meet them backstage and more goodies.
Check it out at Maxell Canada

Feb 25-So the Olympics are over and Canada won the most medals we've ever won at an Olympics - 24!!!! That's third best amongst nations, and only one behind the US (which has 10 times our population)

Feb 20-A very exciting outing for the guys from Faze (who are starting their own magazine later this year by the way!) Karima Adebibe, the new official Lara Croft spokesmodel (of Tomb Raider fame) was in Toronto after recently winning the global role in a high profile search in London.
She's pictured here in an outtake from the Faze photoshoot with Paul.

Feb 19-Aldo from Faze is heading over to check out the last week of the Olympics! Unfortunately, hockey fan that he is, Team Canada (men) have flunked out of the games but there will be lots of Canadians going for gold (and silver and bronze).

Feb 15-Final planning meetings for the spring cover photoshoot with Falcon Beach stars Steve Byers and Jennifer Kydd. Look out for special behind the scenes video footage online following the shoot!

Feb 14-Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Spread the love!

Feb 3-Ted and photographer Rob will be down at a Virgin Mobile event meeting with Canadian babe Pamela Anderson.

Feb 2-Spring photoshoots getting lined up this weekend and next. Let's hope spring comes just as quickly.

Feb 1-Welcome to Denise Wild, who is joining the Faze team as our Editorial Director. She'll team up with Faze founder Lorraine to take the magazine to new heights over the next 12 months and beyond. Denise was formerly a beloved editor over at Flare Magazine, where among many editorial roles she was well known for her sassy "Ask Miss Wild" column.




Jan 27-Part of the Faze team is in Collingwood, Ont. hitting the ski slopes.

Jan 13-Live phone interview with Hilary duff today!

Jan 12-Faze was out checking out the best squash players in the world playing in Toronto. Currently, the no. 1 player in the world is bad boy Jonathan Power, a Canadian!!! Jonathan is hoping to win in front of his home crowd.

Jan 9-Alright back to school & back to work!!!

Jan 2-Lots in store for Faze in the New Year. Stay tuned for some big developments as Canada's #1 teen magazine continues to grow!

Jan 1-HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Have a great 2006.

Nov 21-XBOX 360 Launch in Toronto, with OK GO playing a gig during a night of checking out the first wave of games for the new Microsoft console.

Nov 10-Faze's Paul plays in a pro squash event. We'll be cheering him on.

Nov 8-Holiday event featuring Fujifilm, Samsung, Grand & Toy and a bunch of other great gift ideas for the holidays.

Nov 4-Ted is in Montreal checking out a couple big video gaming events!

Oct 31-Busy day for tech guru Ted as he runs from a big Bell announcement (city wide highspeed wireless access!) and then checks out the LG Electronics event.

Oct 26-An exciting star-studded evening at the Bell Celebrity Gala featuring hundred of Canadian celebrities, fashion shows, musical performances and a fundraiser dinner which raised over $1 million for the Toronto Sick Kids Hospital. Here's a pic of Lorraine and Jayne with Suzie from TV's Rockstar INXS. More photos coming soon!!!

Oct 23-Sean Paul interview today, Sean takes on Faze's Lorraine and new teen intern Shenieka.


Oct 23-The Faze gang was at the Sean Paul launch party in Toronto.

Oct 20-Vail Resorts, the company behind 5 hot U.S. ski resorts (Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone, BeaverValley and Heavenly in Lake Tahoe) got Faze out to see a great hockey games as the Leafs beat the Carolina Hurricane in overtime! Thanks gang for the lovely evening!

Oct 20-Preview of the new version of Windows...it's named VISTA.

Oct 19-Faze Editor Lorraine is taping an episode of VOX on TV-Ontario, as the featured guest as the show looks at teen fashion and school dress codes.

Oct 19-Lorraine is speaking at Seneca College.

Oct 19-Check for our opininion of a Pitney Bowes Postal Meter that was given to us to review.

Oct 19-Motorola event in Toronto, man these guys have very cool phones...love those RAZR and ROKR models, the ROKR includes iPod MP3 player functions, who ever needs to buy a Apple iPod product now???

Oct 18-Lorraine and Alana checked out the launch of the new massive Clarins Spa in Yorkville.

Oct 18-Faze pulled off another fashion shoot today for an upcoming issues, thanks to all who helped out...from clothing suppliers to the models to our long time photoguy, Rob!

Oct 17-Event with Indigo/Chapters owner Heather Reisman, as she announced this year's teen book club advisory panels (made up of teens, of course).

Oct 16-FAZE in NYC --- Editors Lorraine and Jayne were in New York City hosting a fundraiser for Hero Holiday, a project in Dominican Republic helping homeless Haitian refugees/children.

Oct 13-A Fujifilm camera event, Paul and Ted checked out the latest advances in the already excellent Fujifilm digital camera lineup. Faze has been using Fuji digitals for the last five years, including all the pics on these pages.

Oct 12-A highlight event for Faze's Paul...Creative Labs was in town showing off their latest tech goodies. Started with a look at their ZEN line of MP3 players (who needs an overhyped iPod) and their ZEN VISION unit which show photos and play videos as well as MP3s. Great lineup, great selection of models and colours to choose from. Also checked out a cool motion detecting PC webcam. And for all you PC gurus out there..we had a full demo by he Creative team of the latest and greatest generation of Soundblaster audio cards, the X-FI series. Fantastic sound, particularly was impressed by the surround sound processing in the headphones. And for all you bedroom musicians out there, the X-Fi sound card is unbelievably powerful, affordable, and can be the anchor for your PC based recording studio. Watch for an article on setting up a low-budget but hi-performance home recording studio in the coming months!

Oct 12-Sharp launched their new television for the coming year at a Royal Ontario Museum event. Ted and Paul checked them out and were in love with pretty much all of them.

Oct 10-FAZE in CHICAGO---Faze Editor Lorraine and Kelly from distribution both ran the 2005 Chicago Marathon (for the 2nd year in a row). That's a cool 42 kilometres!!! Way to go, girls!!! Paul, Alana, Jody and Sabrina were cheering from the sidelines. Also running was long time Faze advisor Robert Warden, who ran it in 3:19 which was fast enough qualify him for the king of all marathons, the Boston Marathon. Amazing for his first marathon ever.

Sept-WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!!! (Bring back summer :-)



Here's the Fall issue,
featuring none other
than Destiny's Child

Aug 10-A last minute get together will Destiny's Child in Toronto, Paul/Surya and our new reporter Amanda were on hand for a very intimate gathering organized for special needs children from the Ronald McDonald House. Beyonce, Michelle and Kelly spent an hour talking, listening, dancing and laughing with small group of kids. They then headed off to play their last concert in Toronto, but not before they answered a few questions on their fondest memories together and their plans for the future for our special September issue of Faze. Watch out for it!!!

Aug 9-Lorraine is off to Winnipeg to check out the set of Falcon Beach, a teen drama series that is running this coming fall on GLOBAL-TV. Faze helped support Falcon Beach's pilot earlier this year, check out the Faze page about Falcon Beach. We'll get some more Falcon Beach stuff up soon.

Aug 5-Some of the Faze team is off to cottage country this weekend for some meetings and some honing of our skiing and wakeboarding skills!

July 24-Happy Birthday to our wonderfully talented editor Surya!

July 22-Big Quebec trip for some of the Faze team,

July 13-20-Lorraine, Jayne, Trevor and Kyle are off to Dominican Republic as part of the Hero Holiday where they (and a huge group of Canadian teens) will be building housing for homeless Haitian refugees: mostly children and their families, some of whom are currently living in a local garbage dump. We will be featuring photos and stories from their experiences here at Faze Online. For more info check out the Hero Holiday website.

July 2-It LIVE8 day! The greatest series of rock shows ever put together. While the London concert lineup was absolutely amazing, the Canadian show in Barrie, ON was also spectacular with acts like Simple Plan, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Motley Crue, DMC, Bryan Adams, Our Lady Peace, Tegan & Sara, Sam Roberts and lots more! One of the best acts of the day was Australian band, Jet. Faze was there to check it out first hand. Photos to follow soon! Here's the link to the official Live 8 website

July 1-Hope everyone been enjoying the summer issue featuring The Killers!

July 1-Happy Canada Day!

June 13-Jayne is leaving us for a week in NYC...have fun!

June 11-Faze was down at the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake checking out an afternoon play and interviewing two of its young stars, Nicole Underway and Harry Judge for an upcoming career piece on being a stage actor. They were great. Oh yeah, and Niagara-on-the-Lake has some great ice cream stores! Mmmmm-mm.

June 9-Our two senior editors Lorraine and Surya went to the Canadian Journalism Awards event/dinner at the Metro Convention Centre.

June 9-Another fantastic time at this year's EMI Music Publishing summer rooftop party. Always the hottest party of the NXNE music festival, this year had the usual eclectic mix of musicians and industry types, from Kalen Porter to Fefe Dobson to the boys from Billy Talent (singer Ben Kowalewicz is pictured at left with Faze girls Holly and Berkley). Thanks to Mike and his crew for putting on a great event. Lorraine (Faze founder/editor) even ran into her old boss up from New York, Steve Scharf, from back when she used to work in Manhattan in the music publishing biz.

June 9-Our style editors Jayne and Alana went to the party announcing ECKO's 'Getting Up' hip hop bash happening later in August at The Docks in Toronto, which will feature Nas, L'il Jon, Ciara, Kanye West, Ludacris and a boatload of other big names, including Canada's own Swollen Members, Rascalz and Kardinal Offishal. ECKO clothing founder Marc Ecko was there at the party. Here's some of the Faze editoral team pictured at right.

June 9-Lorraine was at Covergirl Event at the Tea Emporium.


June 7-A trip to Hamilton to meet the Absolute team (they're taking a huge group of teens to Dominican Rep. to build homes for Haitian refugees. Checked out a great band at the Lazy Flamingo.

May 31-Interview number two with the Killers as they passed through Toronto!


May 29-The Faze team (10 of us) ran in the NIKE 10K in Toronto. Weather wasn't spectacular but it was a good time, running on the island was really nice, we ran on grass, sand, road, wooden boardwalk. Congrats to everyone on our team, especially Rebecca, Ashley, Holly and Kyle (who was the fastest of our crew). Check out more on the Faze Nike 10K weblog

May 8-HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to moms everywhere!

May 6- Happy B.C. Youth Day

May 1-Lorraine was in Montreal for the L'Oreal Professional Color Style Awards

May 1-Sporting 10K Run...some of the Faze team ran the morning race, decked out in some great running gear from Nike Canada, thanks to Derek Kent and Mike Beleza for your support!

Apr 28-An interesting mix tonight: A dog fashion show (Paris Hilton would have been impressed) in Yorkville and a teen girl prom fashion show at Queen St. W. boutique Exhibit to promote Jeanne Beker's new book The Big Night Out.

Apr 26-A busy day for Faze writers with both Sloan and Juice interviews scheduled

Apr 22-Faze interviewed The Killers for the upcoming Summer Issue.

Apr 22-Happy Earth Day!

Mar 21-Happy Spring! Man, that took a long time to arrive.

Mar 11-Congratulations to Madeleine S from Toronto who won the Ashlee Simpson contest! Have a great time at showand say hi to Ashlee for us!

Mar 10-Jayne and Alana were there for a launch party for Toronto Fashion Week.

Mar 9-A last minute contest is up on the site to meet Ashlee Simpson and check her out in concert when she visits Toronto on March 13. Hurry and sign up today - winner will be drawn on Friday at noon!

Mar 1-VIRGIN MOBILE Canada launched its new prepaid cellphone service today with much fanfare...UK billionaire-entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson rode a zipline from the top of a tower down to Dundas Square in Toronto, jumped in a monster truck and crushed some cars. Youth focused, edgey and fun their ad campaign launches in a couple of weeks. Sir Richard hosts a launch party this evening...more photos to follow.

Sir Richard Branson in Toronto toasting the launch of Virgin Mobile

 

 

 

 

Feb 28-Lorraine and Kelly went to the screening of MGM's Be Cool starring John Travolta and the after party in Toronto. Two thumbs up from both our reviewers, a review will be online very soon!

Jan 20-New contest online...win $500 for you and $500 for a friend to go on a shopping spree. Click through to the contest page.



Jan 17-News about a new teen drama premiering on Global later this month, Falcon Beach.


Jan 10-Lorraine and Jayne are down at the launch of a new Clarins fragrance.

Jan 6-HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FAZE!!! WE'RE CELEBRATING OUR 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TODAY AND IN THE MONTHS TO COME!!! WHOO-HOO!!!
--- LOOK OUT FOR THE SPECIAL 5 ANNIVERSARY ISSUE OUT THIS SPRING!

Jan 1-We wish everyone a safe and happy 2005!

Dec 26-One of the worst natural disasters of the last century happened today. A giant 9.0 earthquake (the largest in 40 years) struck off the coast of Indonesia producing a massive tsunami surge that has devasted coastal area throughout the Indian Ocean. Perhaps as many as 200,000 people were directly killed by the waves.

Dec 25-Merry Christmas Everyone!

Dec 16-Warner music Xmas party in Toronto!

Dec 15-Girls lunch out today!

Dec 14-Faze's founder and editor Lorraine is the guest speaker tonight at Ryerson University. Lorraine will be speaking to a class of student enrolled in the Magazine Publishing programme...a great programme Lorraine herself graduated from a couple years ago.

Dec 12-Faze is helping out with the annual Children's Aid Society holiday celebration in Toronto.

Dec 9-PR Agency Media Profile had their Carnivale-themed holiday party. A great event!

Dec 8-A United Way Charity performance at the Phoenix Concert Hall in Toronto brought together Canadian artists such as Sam Roberts, Danny Michel, K-OS, Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Harmer, Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy, Tom Wilson and others and writer/poet Michael Ondaatje and CBC sportscaster Ron MacLean. The joking around, guest appearances, relaxed chatty atmosphere was fantastic. Great job Patrick.


Dec 8-HAPPY HANUKKAH!!!

Dec 8-Lorraine and Jayne checked out the launch of new Yonge street boutique, ACCESSORIZE, a British chain.

Dec 7-Love of Reading event at school in Toronto with Chapters/Indigo.

Dec 6-Interview with Victoria BC-based teen singer/songwriter Christine Evans, who was in Toronto this week. Christine's hit Take Me Home is a featured song on the latest edition of one of the best-selling compilation series Women & Songs. Link here to listen.

Dec 1-Faze's Interview with Chingy in Toronto. Surya got it on with the Chingster..he left with a fresh copy of Faze to read on the plane home.

Nov 30-H&M event.........

Nov 29-L'OREAL hair day for Lorraine and Alana............................

Nov 24-Clarins event in Toronto............

Nov 23-BENQ concert series...............

Nov 23-New Balance event in Toronto....................

Nov 16-Lorraine is down helping with the pro squash tournament at the BCE Place featuring the top players in the world including Canada's own #1 Jonathon Powers.

Nov 15-Indigo launched its Teen Book club. Indigo owner Heather Reisman was on hand to congratulate the advisory panel of five teens as they begin their roles as reviewers.

Nov 14-Faze is down doing a series of interviews, photos with Keshia Chante on the set of her new video. Lorraine was joined by our photography interns Ana K and Jono B.

Nov 13-Lorraine, Jayne and Alana were out at the For The Love of Breasts Gala, hosted by former Faze "coverboy" George Stroumboupoulos. It's an annual fundraiser supporting breast cancer research.

Nov 10-Our fashion editor Alana's BDay!

Nov 4-Jayne is off to New York City again!

Nov 4-Fujifilm event at an art gallery featuring a well-known Toronto photographer trying her hand at digital photography to showcase the expressive quality of digital cameras. The FUJIFILM website.

Nov 4-Down at the Diesel fashion event in Toronto...very cool styles coming out of this company for both guys and girls.

Nov 2-Ted K and Paul were at the Nintendo new product/game launch party in Toronto, featuring the new dual screen version of the GameBoy (appropriately called the DS).

Oct 26-Sony PS2 Event feat. The Roots in concert at the Guvernment. A very well run event and a great show. Thanks to Tali, Cynthia and the Segal and Ketchum PR team for putting on a first class event.

Oct 25 & 26-The Girl Event, co-sponsored by Faze Magazine, Rogers Wireless and the YWCA was held in Mississauga. A couple thousand girls attended this empowering two-day seminar hosted by Faze columnist and former GirlzTV host Sara Cauchon. We'll get some photos up soon. Congrats to Samantha Saidafye, winner of the prize pack Faze was giving away at its booth!

Oct 20-Faze is partnering with Canada's Top Model, a search for new Canadian modeling talent. It's a no-fee opportunity for young Canadians to throw their picture into the online mix and see if anything becomes of it. Winning models will get a modeling contract and an opportunity to appear in a style photoshoot for Faze Magazine in 2005.


Sept 29-More interviews with student interns!

Sept 28-Congrats to Faze teen, Rebecca Hazell, for being featured by the Toronto Star as one of their outstanding student athletes. She is the leading scorer for her school field hockey team and is also a top-ranked squash player. Rebecca helps us with editorial planning and also models for our style and makeup sections.

Sept 28-Faze interview with Ajax punk unit, Not By Choice.

Sept 27-Lorraine, Maya, Alana are in Montreal for a photoshoot and interview with Simple Plan for the cover of the Winter Holidays issue of Faze out in November. Check out the contest to meet them HERE

Sept 26-Surya was down at WORD ON THE STREET (although it was actually in a park), a festival of publishers (books/mags/newspapers) and their readers. Faze really shoulda been there in force (booth/street team etc.) Surya, our most literary Faze staffer was definitely in her element, and rightly chastised the rest of us for not attending. That will be remedied in 2005!!!

Sept 24-Faze Magazine will be used in TV series Freaks of Nature, as part of the plot!

Sept 23-Lorraine and Jenny hit a Motorola cellphone event introducing their latest industry leading styles.

Sept 22-Microsoft invited Faze down to check out there latest lineup of consumer products for the 2004 holiday season and beyond. Thanks to the HighRoad gang as well as Lisa/Kim/Sue/Hersh and Barry for the tour. Highlights featured the enhanced Media Center PC systems, new "connected"smartwatches, cool new mouse and keyboard designs, Zoo Tycoon 2 and more. We'll be reviewing a number of products when they are available over the coming weeks.

Sept 21-Faze was at a packed performance by Ivana Santilli at Toronto club Revival. The show, the first of a series of different styles of music, was presented by electronics company, BENQ. BENQ has virtually come out of nowhere (formerly known as Acer) in the last year to be a leader in the flat-screen monitor world and they're looking forward to huge successes in other areas such a flat-screen TV, digital cameras, projectors, MP3 players and computer peripherals. BENQ VP Jimmy D (a musician himself on the side) is seen here with Jayne and Lorraine from Faze. BENQ Website


Sept 21-A Faze posse hit a Toronto fashion week party at C Lounge hosted by Stylus Model Management.

Sept 20-A few new co-ops students have joined the Faze editorial team for the fall season. Editorial is being finalized for the Winter Holiday issue out later in November which will feature Simple Plan on the cover (recently awarded the fans' choice award at the 2004 MMVAs)..

Sept 18-Surya and Jayne were at the Toronto Film Festival closing gala.

Sept 13-HOORAY FOR JAYNE! A bunch of the Faze crew was out to support the premiere of Jayne's big screen debut at the Toronto Film Festival. Jayne played the girlfriend of the lead character in director Joseph Raso's short film"Groomed", a comedy. She is pictured at the right with her co-star, Andrew Garman. She was great, particularly her tear-filled breakup scene that opened the movie. Jayne also had a great time at the festival closing Gala on Saturday with other festival participants.

Sept 12-Lorraine interviewed Aselin Debison, the East Coast girl with the angel voice, in Toronto today. Aselin has a couple performances in town later this week.

Sept 10-Another contest...win 1 of 10 The Loudness rock compilation CDs (actually it's a 2CD set). Sign up HERE.



Sept 10-A whole bunch of new contests: win Roots watches, Skechers shoes for a year, Clairol highlight party kits and a Nokia cellphone HERE

Sept 9-The long awaited VIDEO GAME REVIEW SECTION section has gone live and will be updated and enhanced throughout the entire fall. Give us your feedback and suggestions and comments on games for XBOX, SONY PLAYSTATION 2, NINTENDO GAMECUBE AND GAMEBOY ADVANCE, NOKIA NGAGE AND PC. TED KRITSONIS is the lead reviewer and star of the section. Ted's just returned from checking out HALO 2 out in Seattle. Read his comments online and in the upcoming issue of Faze Magazine.

Sept 7-Faze's own Jayne Rae is off to her ancestral Scotland but she'll be back in time for the Toronto Film Festival premiere of the short film Groomed, which features Jayne's big screen debut.

Sept 8-A new contest is up to win very impressive Texas Instruments TI-84 calculators. HERE

Sept 7-Welcome back to school. Have a great year.

Sept 3-6-Enjoy the last long weekend of the summer!

Aug 31-August 31st!!!???? Wow, that was the fastest summer yet...cannot believe it's back to school already.

Aug 30-BACK TO SCHOOL in some parts of the country....like...Alberta.

Aug 30-As expected, the weather in San Diego was beautiful, the staff at the Hotel Del Coronado were fantastic and everyone had a great four days in California!

Aug 26-Faze is heading to Coronado Island near San Diego with contest winners Chelsey and Sarah and the host of Global's Teens Dating, Katherine Ryan.

Aug 17-Congratulations to Chelsey B of St. Paul, Alberta who will heading to San Diego, California for a luxury weekend and will co-host the season opening episode of Teens Dating on Global this fall.

Aug 17-The winners have been drawn for the California trip and are being contacted by phone. We'll have the names up on the site as soon as we can.

Aug 17-Hot Caribbean musical artist Kevin Lyttle was interviewed today by Faze's own Caribbean hottie, Lorraine. She is from Trinidad (born in the same town as Canada's #1 pro golfer Stephen Ames.)

Aug 17-The California Spa Getaway contest is now officially closed and the winner will be drawn as soon as the 19,000 entries are compiled. A lucky winner will be off to San Diego for a luxury weekend at the end of August.

Aug 14-Faze hit the Warped Tour, mainly to finish off an upcoming afeature/interview with Good Charlotte (Lorraine interviewed Joel Madden this time) and had a photoshoot for the same piece. Rob and Al took care of the photoshoot. Checked out Billy Talent and Story of the Year two feet from the stage (while avoiding flying spit).
Back in the media compound met a whole bunch of good peeps from the bands and crews and our fellow reporters from MuchMusic (Jen, Sarah, Hannah). Thanks to Mark/Steve/Matt for putting together the interview/photoshoot and the Paula D for cooking up burgers for the entire VIP community.

Aug 13-Hurricane Charley bashed Florida today. Faze's Lorraine was down in Orlando (where Disneyland was closed for only the second in its history) although she left by plane just as the storm neared. She said she would have loved to be there for it, and I'm sure she would have gotten us some great photos.

Aug 13-Jayne from Faze investigated a murder today...acting as a police detective in a TV series, Mastermind, which should air later this fall. Cool.

Aug 6-Are you the fastest kid in Canada? The NikeRunDown is another cool marketing event/competition being put on by Nike (other great ones have been the Battleground Streetball tournament and the Nike 10KM Run). This time it's a multi-city search for the fastest 13-18 in the country, with the finals in Toronto, September 5. Read the press release here.

Aug 10-Faze writer Alicia Cox had a live interview w. Ashlee Simpson today in Toronto.

Aug 10-Everyone's sneaking away...Lorraine hits Disneyland! Surya went to West Virginia, Maya's in India, Jayne heading to the big screen...your webmaster here needs a holiday too....

Aug 1-Surya made it back from Virginia...though US Customs banged up her laptop on the way back.

July 30-Our superstar teen reporter Maya is off to India for 3 weeks! We'll miss you.

July 30-Check out more photos from the Canon Envirothon in West Virginia HERE.

July 29-Faze girls spent the day at the Masters Tennis tourney in Toronto at the slick new Rexall tennis stadium. The day ended with an interview with tennis superstar Andy Roddick, the number 2 player in the world, and, earlier in the day, his coach, former pro Brad Gilbert. Check out the Masters Tennis website.

July 28-Associate Editor Surya is off to cover the CANON ENVIROTHON down in West Virginia. Watch out for updates here.

July 27-Lorraine did a phone interview with USHER!!! for the next issue.

July 26-The Masters Tennis Tournament has started in Toronto and Lorraine, Maya and Jayne checked out a great opening match as Agassi beat Tommy Haas 2-1.

July 26-Lorraine's recovering from a busy, sleepless weekend in San Diege (hey, wait a minute...it was a supposed to be a spa weekend?...could have been the partying and the overnight flight home?) Everything went perfectly, the episode of Girlz TV featuring our two winners will be shown later in August.

July 22-The two winners of the Faze's California Spa Getaway are off to San Diego for four full days. They spent the night in Toronto and then left for California at 6 am this morning! They're joined by mom Lori, Lorraine and the crew of GirlzTV. Have a great time girls!

July 21-Stay tuned...Faze's Gaming section will be going live in the next 10 days. And the star of the section, game reviewe god Ted K, still glowing from the Greek soccer victory, will be heading out to the West Coast to check out the latest on the highly anticipated HALO 2 for the XBOX. The team here at Faze loved the first version a couple summers ago...everyone at the time played it all the way through. So we're all looking forward to the fall release. TedK will of course only have to wait until next Friday!

July 21-Maya and Paul at a Toronto event showcasing...get this...gift ideas for Christmas time!!! Actually a lot of it was appropriate for fall too...particularly the Levi's clothing and Grand & Toy products.

July 20-Lorraine and Jayne were at a showcase for Fall products featuring Marc Anthony, Body Shop and other product lines. Thanks to the Strategic Objectives gang.

July 17-Jayne Rae, our resident thespian, was at the Canadian Film Festival this weekend. Checking out four different movies. Maybe next year one of them will be starring Jayne herself, after getting her first big screen role earlier this year in a film screened at a New York film festival.

July 15-CONGRATULATIONS TO TIFFANY CUMMING! She's going to enjoy a luxury weekend with her best friend Randilynn in San Diego, California!!! PLUS,Tiffany and her bud get to host an epidose of GIRLZ-TV which airs nationally in August and they both get a NOKIA cellphone and a bunch of L'Oreal Paris PureZone stuff. That's all good for them...BUT..good news for everyone that didn't win...THIS GREAT CONTEST ISN'T OVER!!!...We have another month to go before we draw another Grand Prize winner for yet another trip to San Diego and a chance to host TeensDating on Global. So....get your entries in HERE.

July 14-Tonight at 11:59 is the last chance to enter for the first drawing of the California Getaway contest...get your entries in HERE.

July 14-Theatres across Canada had special VIP screening for the new Hilary Duff flick, A Cinderella Story. Handed out to moviegoers leaving the movie were two copies of Faze magazine, one with Hilary on the cover and the current issue featuring Avril Lavigne and a special Hilary Duff prize pack. A strong Faze contingent of Faze editors, interns and models were out at the Toronto screening.

July 13-INTERVIEW: Lorraine and Jayne met with Judy Schwarz, the stylist for Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, and the fashion guru behind their entire clothing/cosmetic empire. Before the interview Faze was asked not to ask about Mary-Kate's current health problems (rumours of anorexia and cocaine use).

July 12-The new Back-to-School issue came off presses today and shipped out. It won't make it to the public until early-August. The Black-Eyed Peas are featured on the cover!




July 11-Jayne took Lorraine to the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake to see George Bernard Shaw's 6 hour epic play Man and Superman. (Written 100 years ago, so no, it's n