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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. Our own Paul offered to fly himself over to the region to physically work in the rescue efforts on behalf of the Red Cross and two other Canadian programs, but they weren't looking for actual volunteers, just donations. Our best wishes are with the victims and their familes.
P.S. Lorraine's first cousin 20 year old cousin was on the beach in Phuket, Thailand when the tsunami hit...she was one of the lucky ones that made it out alive and without severe injuries.
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 Chendke is off to India
for 3 weeks! We'll miss you.
July 30-Check out more of Surya's 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 not about THAT Superman.)
July 7-Paul and Jayne checked out a special advance screening
of Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, hosted by Bluenotes.
Jayne will have a movie review on the site soon... ;-)
July 2-INTERVIEW: Lorraine and Maya were checking everything
out backstage at Edgefest. The was a special Faze interview
with Good Charlotte for an upcoming edition of Faze. Maya
and Lorraine went out to hang with the band afterwards,
and the verdict is...the Madden brothers and their bandmates
(and manager) are exceptionally nice/cool guys!
July 1-Happy Canada Day everyone! The Faze gang was off doing different stuff, Paul, Lorraine
and music editors Jen and Kelly checked out Chantal Kreviazuk
and Spirit of the West at Downsview Park.
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