MAY 23-Faze is off to the Air Canada Centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs playoff game against Carolina!

GONE!

MAY 22-Our Lady Peace interview set up, look for a feature story in the Back-to-School Issue.
Shame about the snow in Calgary. Global warming, hmmm???

MAY 21-Oh yeah, talking about contests, there are only ten days to go in the Spring Contest...Rollerblades, RootsTeam Canada Sweaters, Motorola VBox and more up for grabs.

MAY 20-Magazine is on the printing presses, it's looking great. Oh yeah! Some great prizes in the new Summer contests...there's a Polaroid contest where you can win Cameras, CDs, Roots Watches, Faze Mag subscriptions...and there's the Summer Giveaway with a BMX Bike, Soccer, Ban Prize Packs & his and hers New Balance running shoes!

MAY 17-Enjoy the long weekend.

MAY 14-A big congrats to Neil McOstrich, who recently hosted the 2002 Marketing Awards, and is also a long time member of Faze's Advisory Board. Next bash for Neil will be the advertising awards ceremony in Cannes, France. Life's rough...

MAY 13-Magazine is completed and off to pre-press. Look for Pink cover story plus articles on Simple Plan, The Calling, BMX Biking, Ed the Socks' column and lots more.
Here's the cover shot on the right:

MAY 9--Back to business for Faze...slowly.

MAY 8-- BACK-TO-SCHOOL!!! -- One of our key employees has been enrolled in the Magazine Publishing course at Ryerson in Toronto. Classes started tonight. We wish her a rewarding two years!

MAY 7-Funeral service and reception held today.

MAY 3-Faze's Summer Issue, due to hit the presses in the next few days has been temporarily postponed approxiamately two weeks due to the death of our mom.

MAY 2-My mother, who has been battling liver cancer for eight years, died prematurely at 9:10am in her hospital bed after being given an accidental overdose of a painkiller, Dalaudil, by a nurse. We are absolutely stunned. We love you mom.

MAY 1-Happy May Day...a big celebration day in most countries in the world...except Canada..
Also, one of my personal heroes, Aryton Senna, died eight years ago today while leading the San Marino Grand Prix.

APR 22-28---Faze Magazine is proud to be a sponsor of the 2002 World Doubles Squash Championships held in Toronto. Other sponsors include J&J, P&G, Labatts and BSharp Technologies (our site hosts).

MAR 30-All the stories from the Fall 2001 Issue of Faze are now online! Lots of great pics will follow soon.

MAR 26-Interviewing great new Canadian band A Simple Plan, out of Montreal...look for coverage in the summer issue of Faze Magazine. Later, Faze's Maya and Lorraine attended the Mike Bullard Show featuring guests A Simple Plan.

MAR 24-Whew...was that the most boring Oscars ever or what!!! The granddaddy of the many annual popularity contests for the Hollywood film industry saw strong shows of support for any movie that featured American soldiers and the night was especially sweet for the ethnic African community in the USA, with hottie Halle Berry and Denzel Washington pulling off big upsets for best actor/actress. Australian Russell Crowe likely would have won if he didn't appear to break the marriage of American sweetheart, Meg Ryan.

MAR 11-Checked out the CTV studios, actually got lost in the CTV studios, TSN hockey host Gord Miller let us in the back door and we wandered through the TSN and CTV studios until we found our way to the front desk. Busy place...I think they need a bigger building. Note: CTV owns TSN, Comedy Network, OLN, and 11 other channels.

MAR 10--Oh yeah! New spring contest info on the website. Check out the new spring 2002 issue at Chapters and Indigo. Win a Motorola VBox with 3 months free service from Rogers ATT Wireless. Win a pair of high performance Rollerblades, Roots Olympic Sweaters, Bubble Bag scented purses. More contests always coming online and in the magazine.

MAR 9--Maya checked out The Calling at their Toronto gig at the Opera House. Two thumbs up says she.

MAR 8--Off to interview the band, The Calling, as they visit Toronto on a busy touring schedule. Stay tuned for the interview in the next issue (Summer 2002)

MAR 8--Happy International Women's Day!

MAR 7--Faze Mag was at Sony Music for the showcase of a new band, Flicker, that is on the verge of being signed to a major contract. They put on a great performance, showing they could take their studio sound and put it on stage live. Good luck to them!

FEB 27-The presses are rolling and the first issues of Faze Spring 2002 ship to newsstands Friday. Check out SHAKIRA on the front cover. Pick it up at CHAPTERS and INDIGO bookstores or subscribe here! Also Watch The GRAMMIES Tonight at 8 PM. Go Nelly...

FEB 25--Whew! The Spring Issue is all wrapped up and off to press...and if we may say so ourselves, it's looking good! Features include Latin star Shakira, Canada's own teen Hayden Christiansen from the upcoming Star Wars movie, the Street Racing Scene, interviews with the wonderful Michelle Branch, the band Train (who deserve to win the Grammy for best song of the year), Ed The Sock's Column, and lots more...

FEB 21--Faze was at a great evening launching the Canadian version of the Pantene Pro-Voice talent search. A vocal talent contest for female singers. All you budding Nelly Furtadoes and Jewels and Kitties...this means you! We met up with some great girls: Anastasia from Montreal band SKY, Laryssa Harapyn from STAR! TV, Exan from MTV, and India.Irie, who was there performing a few tunes for the crowd at Guvernment Nightclub in Toronto. Photos coming to the gallery soon!!

FEB 16--The winners from the WHAM-O Snowboogine Board Contest have been selected and we're contacting them...shame about there being no snow (in Southern Ontario, anyways.) Who says global warming is hoax?

FEB 2--The winners from the WINTER CONTEST have been selected, we are in the process of contacting them and will post the names on the site in the next week! Thanks to thousands of entrants, and congrats to the many, many prize winners!

FEB 1--FAZE met with a very talented teenager, Jesse-Marie Louis down at Attack Records offices. We will be keeping an close eye on her while her singing career takes off. Jesse has a fabulous voice, has great looks, and has a great personality. She's already being backed by a major cosmetic company and a beverage company (not Pepsi!)

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JAN 28--Faze is helping to promote a great new contest at Yoplait! It begins Jan 28th and closes April 7th. Click on the link to instantly win 1 of 1000 web prizes ($20.00 Indigo/Chapters coupons!) and check out the site for details on winning home theatre packages, Xboxes and some other cool stuff. Click here: YOPLAIT!

JAN 20--Watch for articles and great photoshoots on Hayden Christiansen and Shakira in the upcoming Spring Issue of Faze

JAN 16--Congrats to the 5 winners of the Michelle Branch contest!

JAN 15--Today's the last day to enter the Michelle Branch contest. The response has been great with over 2000 entrants. Stay tuned for more on Michelle in the next issue.

JAN 14--Maya interviewed Michelle Branch live today for an article in the upcoming Spring Issue.

JAN 11--Some more articles have gone online. Pics added to some Summer 2001 articles, like the Everclear interview. Still working on getting the product review site up by the end of the month!

JAN 9--Upcoming articles in the Spring Issue: Street Racing, Star Wars teen hunk Hayden Christiansen, Shakira, Michelle Branch, Train and lots more!

JAN 7-Website has been booming. Traffic is up again. We've blown through 300,000 hits a month. Guess we better hurry and get some more stuff on the site!!!

JAN 1-Happy New Year everyone! Have a happy and healthy 2002! Thanks for your support!