Dec 25-Merry Christmas!


Dec 19-Happy Hanukkah!

December - Lots of great holiday parties mixed into a busy month for everyone at the office!

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!

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OCT 31-Hmmmm.....too much Hallowe'en candy again this year?

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.

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

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And......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!

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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's 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!

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