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DECEMBER 2002
DEC 25-Merrrry Christmas everyone!
DEC 20-Last day of school! If you're not out already...this is the final day! Enjoy the holidays!DEC 20-Down to interview Hulk Hogan at a World Wrestling event in Toronto. We will be very polite to him.
DEC 13-Watch for an new television campaign for Faze Magazine in 2003. We've been advertising on GlobalTV (during some teen programs) but we've got a brand new set of very cool commercials ready to air early next year and we'll now also be on YTV, MTV and a bunch of other channels.
DEC 12-More planning for 2003...lots going on...a massive party in November 2003 at the Exhibition Place in Toronto with bands/extreme sports competitions/fashion shows/product demos etc. Faze is also releasing a Music Video DVD!
DEC 12-Loads of new subscribers this holiday season...we've mailed out a second batch to thousands of subscribers (including comp. list subsribers). We didn't want all the new subscribers to have to wait until Spring 2003 for their first issue of Faze.DEC 9-Had a last minute call to interview some hip hop band NEXT the next day. Couldn't find anyone to do the interview at such short notice. Ooops, maybe NEXT time.
DEC 6-Faze was at an exclusive launch of Matrix's new salon haircare products in Toronto today. Some top stylists working with Matrix's new Trix product lineup. Lorraine ended up being test model with a couple of the stylists. Matrix is the No. 1 selling salon line (i.e. only sold in salons) of haircare products...they're owned by L'Oreal.
DEC 6-Today's the last day to sign up to win the L'Oreal Gel'O Contest (Trip for 3 to Bahamas). Sign up from the contest page.
DEC 6-Happy Eid!
DEC 1-Happy Hanakah!
NOVEMBER 2002
NOV 26-Faze's Editor Lorraine (as you may have read in the Winter Issue) is planning to run a half marathon in May. Problem is she's not a runner...yet. Read about her latest challenge...she's got six months to become Marathon Girl! Check out her journal online here.
NOV 24-You can now subscribe to Faze Magazine directly online using VISA credit cards with our secure access Subscription Form. Click here to subscribe.
NOV 20-Faze's Maya met with Chantal Kreviazuk for an interview in Toronto today for an upcoming article. Unfortunately, our photographer didn't show up!
NOV 18-It's been a long time coming and much in demand...ED THE SOCK'S column in Faze Magazine has finally made it to the web. All five issues' worth....HERE
NOV 16-Another contest is online! Win a 27" Sony TV through Faze & Teletoon.NOV 11-There's a great new Humpty Dumpty contest going on...win a trip for 4 to see Atomic Kitten in....LONDON!!! Uh..well...you need to buy a bag of HD pretzels first...sorry.
NOV 7-Faze's street team heads to Montreal for the weekend.
NOV 4-New contests from the Winter 2002 Issue are online! Here.
NOV 1-If you haven't seen it yet, the Winter 2002 Issue of Faze Magazine is on newsstands now. Pick it up at Chapters or Indigo bookstores and other selected newsstands across the country. If your town's newsstands don't carry it, have them special order it just for you.
OCTOBER 2002
OCT 31-BOO! Did you eat too much candy at one sitting? And now for one of our favorite pictures>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>OCT 29-Congratulations to the Best Buy concert winners...Jina Lee, John Ashby, Cindy Lam, Mallory Meyer & Sarah Croft!
OCT 21-New contest online! Win One of Five Concert/Prize Packs to see Our Lady Peace live in concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on November 1st. Check it out right here and enter...only one week to enter!
OCT 10-Here's a first look at the new cover of the Winter Holidays Issue with Avril on the front! Going to press next week.
OCT 9-Alison interviewed O-Town.
OCT 1-Faze's Paul checked out the Microsoft Home Entertainment lineup for Xmas. Spent a quality hour with Bruce Shelley, the man behind the best-selling (and our favourite) PC series AGE OF EMPIRES. Bruce was taking great pride in taking us through his team's latest creation AGE OF MYTHOLOGY, due in stores October 10. Microsoft's Lisa Webber also ran us through some other hot PC games from Microsoft (MS Combat Sim 3, Links 2003, Sega RallySport, Zoo Tycoon Expansion Packs)
SEPTEMBER 2002
SEPT 30-O-Town interview coming up next week
SEPT 26-A bunch of new articles are up on the Health&Beauty/Style Section here. The Product Review Section and the Music Section are being revamped over the next 10 days.
SEPT 24-Faze Interview with Vancouver's Swollen Members. They're coming off a well-deserved successful year, launching their latest CD Monday Sept 23.
EPT 23-Faze's 500,000 copy Back-to-School Issue is Featured in Marketing Magazine.
SEPT 18-Catch Faze Magazine on MTV's primetime show Select. Interviews with a bunch of the Faze team, Maya, Hilary, Ian, Lorraine and others as well as in-school interview and Faze's Maya interviewing the Rascalz...on at 3:30, 8:00 & 11:00
SEPT 13-More SNOWJAM, especially for Maya. We also had Trevor & Neil McOstrich down checking out the scene.
SEPT 13-SNOWJAM Time in T.O.! Checking it all out. Faze's Maya interviews The Rascalz, while MTV Canada films (more footage for their Faze feature.) We checked out the Snowboarding competition, the skateboarding and BMX demos and took in some great bands, including The Rascalz, Mighty Mighty Bosstones & Dropkick Murphy.
SEPT 12-MTV Canada is featuring Faze Magazine in an upcoming show. The lovely Exan, Toronto host of Select, checked in on during some Faze school focus groups, spoke to some of our teen writers and went to our production facility for interviews with Faze founders Lorraine and Paul as well as former Faze covergirl and longtime contributor, Hilary Rowland.
SEPT 10-Faze interviews BBMAK
SEPT 8-Off to the TV set for Editor Lorraine for cameo in an episode of Canadian reality show, SWAP, where a Navy? cadet is "Swapping" places/life with a model.
SEPT 7-Faze campout up north...great weather and one of the best Northern Lights displays we've ever seen in southern Ontario
SEPT 6-Happy Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah!
SEPT 3-Back to School...Fun, Fun, Fun.
AUGUST 2002
AUG 30-Enjoy the long weekend everyone!
AUG 30-Faze founder and editor Lorraine's Birthday! Happy B-Day Lorraine!
AUG 29-Catch the MTV 2002 Video Awards live on MUCH MUSIC and cheer on AVRIL LAVIGNE in a few categories! She's featured in the current issue of Faze (we interviewed her first in April 2002) and Avril will get even more coverage in the next issue.
AUG 29-Just got in some exclusive images from the studio for an upcoming flick Four Feathers starring Kate Hudson, Wes Bentley, Heath Ledger
AUG 29-Faze's Liane went to meet hot pop-punkers Treblecharger for an interview that will likely end up in the upcoming printed issue and definitely online.
AUG 28-The Faze interview with MONICA. Article coming soon.
AUG 28-Got some great New Balance yoga/workout gear. They make some of the best running and cross-training shoes on the market and we ain't just trying to win brownie points with them, editor Lorraine and resident squash pro Paul both really do swear by them.
AUG 27- Interview with Canadian band Theory Of A Deadman. A Chad Kroeger find. And guess what, they sound just like Nickleback.
AUG 26-A new Avril Lavigne interview should be happening this week...her life's so complicated right now, we hope she can fit us in.
AUG 22-Rave/Dance Party thrown in Toronto by Dutch company Unilever to launch their new AXE deodorant product line. Appropriately, they flew in Dutch electronica superstar DJ Sander Kleinenberg. Freakin' amazing evening! DJ Sander was interviewed by Lorraine & Alana...we'll get that up as soon as we can, hopefully with some pics.
AUG 16-Faze attended the Rascalz CD launch party in Toronto.
AUG 15-Montreal gets Fazed
AUG 15-Faze road trip east - Quebec & the Maritimes.
AUG 12-Down at BMG for the launch of the Shawn Desman video.AUG 6-Faze Interviews in Toronto with the head of Ford Modelling agency and head of A&R for BMG Music (A&R=artist & repetoire"). Working on a story about the "IT" factor in selecting tomorrow's stars!
AUG 4-Faze is at the Pink/Lenny Kravitz show in Toronto. Great show. Review coming soon.
AUG 1-Checked out the latest Motorola cellphone technology. Very sweet.
JULY 2002
JULY 31-Faze is at the video shoot interviewing hot new Canadian R&B singer Shawn Desman. White guy.
JULY 31-Interviews with rapper Rascalz from BC. They've got a hot new CD out this month.
JULY 30-Brand new Health/Beauty/Fitness/Style section online that will continue to grow. It's here.
JULY 30-Faze was down at the first day of Popstars 3 auditions in Toronto.
JULY 29-Faze Back-to-School officially hits newsstands. Buy it at Chapters/Indigo.
JULY 18-28-World Youth Day (week!) is hitting Toronto. It's great to see so many young people from all over the world. The Faze team is out taking in a little World Culture. WELCOME TO TORONTO EVERYONE!!!JULY 20-Faze Interview with MARIO, a teen R&B star that's storming the charts lately.
JULY 8-The Back-to-School Issue has come off the presses and is being packed up in Back-to-School Packs releaseed in August, Our Lady Peace is on the front cover.
JULY 1-Happy Birthday Canada (135th)
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