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June 30, 2009
A busy end to the half year! Lots of great stuff being planned for the summer and fall! Stay tuned. (Oh, and we're going to be checking out the first three episodes of the new season of True Blood tonight!)
June 26, 2009
A little Faze tradition was repeated today...the last Friday of the month BBQ lunch party on the patio! (that's bit of a mouthful) It also was another chance to say thanks and farewell to four great interns from our Jan-Jun 2009 sessions. Jessica D, Jessica H, Claudia Infusino Zoe P - thanks ladies for being part of the team and becoming our friends. And we know we'll be in touch lots in the coming months and beyond.
June 25, 2009
We unfortunately just missed a live in-studio performance by our very talented friend Naomi Striemer this evening...she lives in L.A. but we hope to connect again soon. She has an amazing voice, listen to a few of the tracks on her myspace page: www.myspace.com/naomi
She'll be performing a few shows in Canada this summer too.
June 24, 2009
Nintendo Holiday (as in Xmas Holidays) Showcase downtown today...Ted will be covering that, Paul wishes he could have made it too!
Lots of running around today, some of the team are off to a summer team BBQ put on by our friends at Hero Holiday in Hamilton.
June 21, 2009
Oh what a night...we're all exhausted with aching feet from 9 hours in high heels (especially Dana.) We had Jessica D working the pre-party and Lorraine and Dana working the MMVA red carpet/show and after parties. So many great, fun people, old and new friends AND lot of great pics...we'll be making a special gallery in the next few days, and the best pics will end up in the next issue of Faze.
June 21, 2009
Happy Father's to all the dads out there! Happy summer to everyone in the northern hemisphere! And...happy MMVA day to everyone who will be a part of it, or even just watching! We'll be down at MuchMusic early in the evening to get set up for a crazy night of interviews, photo ops and an overall fantastic night. They have a great lineup again this year. Big names performing include Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, Billy Talent, Jonas Bros., Alexisonfire and Nickelback.
June 20, 2009
Getting ready for the MMVAs!
And happy midsummer day to everyone! (It's a big party holiday in parts of northern Europe, especially Sweden and Finland today)
June 19, 2009
We were out to cheer our long time Faze friend and intern, Shenieka at her graduation ceremony - she completed a diploma in Journalism!
Meanwhile, earlier in day, Solo Bace Hair Salon in Yorkville (midtown Toronto) was the host salon for the new Schwarzkopf hair colouring line, Essensity. A couple of the Faze girls got complimentary hair treatments. ;-)
June 18, 2009
The Faze team met up for private interviews with two Disney girls Selena Gomez (who was on the cover of TeenVogue this month) and Demi Lovato. They were both super sweet. The girls were in town for a red carpet gala screening for for their new movie Princess Protection Program. After the interviews every went and got ready for the screening in the evening. Editor Dana and intern Jessica D from Faze had a full day of action...we get a review and more pics up soon.
Prepping for the MMVAs, our own in-house celebrity Lorraine (Faze founder/editor) was at the studio of one of her very favourite, very wearable Canadian fashion designers, NADA (www.nadadesigns.com), picking out a one-of-a-kind dress for Sunday's event. We're sure she'll dazzle as always, and we'll definitely have lots of pics from the event! Thanks to Faze stylist Carolee for setting Lorraine and Nada up.
June 17, 2009
Faze will be sponsoring 2009 Miss Teen Canada-World. Their motto is Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful. We've been impressed with their strong commitment to go way beyond the just the looks of their contestants with a very strong focus on talent, leadership, ambition and charm - the whole package. Faze is very happy to be supporting this new kind of competition, along with well known charity FreeTheChildren. The finals night gala takes place on Saturday, July 25th at 8pm. If you want to be a part of it all you can buy tickets here. Faze will be covering the entire week leading up to the finals! Stay tuned! Check out the finalists here.
June 17, 2009
Guerlain, who has continued to impress us over the years with some of the most beautifully designed cosmetic products and, especially, containers for their products (just visit a Guerlain boutique to see what we mean.) As high end and classy as it gets. This week they hosted a highly secretive gathering of beauty and fashion editors to get an advance look (or is that sniff) of an upcoming fragrance for fall. No bottle pics to show you yet, but it really did smell great, very floral.After the flood...grrrr, our office is a mess, a poorly planned reno forced on the tenants by the property manager has turned into a disaster, as two separate rainstorms, days apart, have soaked the entire building from roof to basement, all four floors, disrupting life for all the tenants in the building. Ceilings are sagging or crumbling, carpets and flooring are ruined. Looks like we'll be going virtual for summer (email will definitely be the best way to reach us!)
June 16, 2009
Lorraine was at the new swank Hazelton Hotel in Yorkville for the unveiling of a new fresh look for beauty accessory company Goody. It's not even on their website yet but looks like they've revamped their logo and packaging, in a nice step forward with a more modern look.
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June 11, 2009
Faze was at the launch party for a new Diesel fragrance down at Toronto's Eaton Centre. The verdict....it smells pretty good! ;-)
Meanwhile the team is getting more requests for interviews with a bunch of the celebrities that coming into town for the MuchMusic Video Awards...better known at the MMVAs. It will be a busy and fun weekend (June 19-21)!June 4, 2009
Lunch
Welcome to our newest member of the Faze team, Breanna, who will be helping out with editorial. Dana and Brianna went to the lovely rooftop Panorama restaurant for a sneak peek at the DVD releases Paramount Pictures will be coming out with later this year (esp. Star Trek)
Afternoon
Meanwhile Lorraine's team were at the Indigo offices checking out the Fall lineup of books and goodies Canada's largest bookstore will be featuring for their fall season. In fact 90% of the stuff we saw weren't even books at all. Standouts: a stapler that doesn't use staples, an delicious collection of collection of cookies (which we happily sampled) and a beautiful lineup of party invite stationery from their sister store Pistachio.
Evening
Lorraine was part of an exclusive group of magazine editors introduced to the fall lineup of products from Clean & Clear at a dinner event at the Royal York hotel.
June 3, 2009
Every is recovering from GirlzNightOut here and we'd planned to give everyone the day off...but magazine life is, well, "complicated" ...seems Avril Lavigne is in town and we got a late night request to come interview her this afternoon in Toronto...so Dana and crew will be off to that!
Dana and Lorraine met Avril at a downtown hotel to talk about her plans and projects for the coming months. Avril has been a busy girl and this fall we going to see a new clothing line, a collection of fragrances AND a new CD!
June 2, 2009
PARTY! Performances by Stereos, Ocean Buried, The Cunningham Sisters, Absolute; free manicures, food, drinks, celebrities, actresses, actors, inspiring speakers, lots of prizes, VIP gift bags in an exclusive private country club setting! Huge thanks to everyone (there were so many) who helped make GIRLZ' NIGHT OUT sooooo amazing!!! We'll get a photo gallery up soon! Meanwhile send us any cool shots you have from the evening to webmaster@faze.ca or post on the Girlz Night Out Facebook page.
FADED MEMORIES RELEASE!!! We interviewed Anne-Sophie Dutoit last week, she wrote, directed and starred in the film Faded Memories (Reves Perdus in French). It's available in DVD today! Good luck to Anne-Sophie and the movie! Check it out, it looks great.
June 1, 2009
Alright, only one more day to go until Girlz Night Out...one of the coolest events we've ever put on (and we've put on 10,000 teen parties over the last 25 years! Get on the exclusive Faze guest list! Click on the banner for more details.
May 28, 2009
Awwwwww, our wonderful Claudia has finished her internship with Faze and will be recovering with a two week trip to the beaches of Florida! Today was her going away party featuring her favorite pizza and another stellar cake from the kitchen of our editor Dana! Best of luck with everything Claudia, hopefully we'll be working together in the future!May 25, 2009
Dana interviewed the amazing young French Canadian star Anne-Sophie Dutoit who's out promoting the upcoming June 2nd DVD release of her movie Faded Memories. The intense teen love story was written by Anne-Sophie at age 14 and then at age 16 she both directed and starred in the big screen production! We'll have an article up in the next couple days and Faze will also be featuring a contest where 25 people can win signed movie pics/posters and special edition DVDs. Here's the film's website... www.fadedmemoriesmovie.com
April 27, 2009
Another beautiful day in Toronto! 28 degrees and sunny! Faze enjoyed it with meetings on patios and a great dinner with San Diego Tourism. We've been to San Diego a few times already for Faze articles and contests and love it! It's really the place to visit to learn to surf in California, with warmer weather and water - and some of the best surf schools in North America, including the one we visited Surf Diva.
April 25, 2009
Just in time for the Brazilian Carnival Ball in Toronto, we've been hit by some long awaited tropical weather, 28 degrees, sunny, humid (although we then got a major tropical storm!) The Brazilian Carnival Ball is the largest Brazilian Carnival event outside of Brazil, and includes dozens of floats and performers flown in from Rio for the massive party. It's an exclusive fundraiser gala that's been going on for the last 43 years, raising over $53 million for various charities. This year $2.6 million was raised for research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. It's easily the best gala of its type in the country and we have a great gallery of photos up to prove it!!
April 24, 2009
The Cunningham sisters stopped by the Faze offices to hang out, and gave us a special live a capella performance of the song they wrote and performed in Ottawa for President Barack Obama's visit there a couple months ago. We'll get the video up soon!
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In the evening it was fashion show time for some of the stylish Faze chicas!!! Faze in-house stylist Carolee and interns Jessica and Claudia went to take in the 2009 edition of F.A.T. (Toronto's Alternative Fashion & Arts Week) Photos to follow.
April 22, 2009
Our South American expedition team is back with amazing photos and stories about their very busy five days spent in the sub-tropical Argentinian province of Misiones around the Iguazu Falls. Check them out here and vote for Iguazu Falls in the New7Wonders competition!
April 16, 2009
A minor glitch for our South American travel team...3 hours after leaving Toronto their Air Canada flight encountered a patch of turbulence and the pilot reported "contol problems" forcing him to turn back around to Toronto for an emergency landing...leaving them stranded until another plane could be organized...they arrived safely though in Sao Paulo, Brazil and then eventually arrived at their destination in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina - 12 hours late. The emergency landing made all the news channels, even CNN. Here's one of the stories.
April 15, 2009
A Faze team is off to Argentina via Brazil to check out the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. Iguazu Falls are best of all waterfalls in the world combined into one in a stunning jungle setting on the border of Brazil and Argentina. We'll have a whole lot of photos and stories about our adventures around the Falls region here coming up soon!
April 10, 2009
Happy Passover and Happy Easter weekends to everyone! Faze will be closed Friday and Monday! Whoo-hoo, gotta love long weekends!
April 9, 2009
Our old colleague Adam dropped by the office to hang out for a while! Always great hear from our former Fazers as they go on to conquer the world! Actually considering the office is pretty much all charming females, we're surprised Adam doesn't visit more often.
April 8, 2009
Editor Dana's off to lovely Halifax to visit the set of the figure-skating flick Ice Castles and interview the film's co-stars Rob Mayes and real-life skater Taylor Firth. Ice Castles is a remake of a 1978 classic teen romance and should be out later in the year as buzz builds for the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
April 7, 2009
The Faze editorial team got to see the latest collection of Alberto Europeen hair products as the Alberto roadshow dropped by the Faze offices.April 6, 2009
Welcome to our newest editorial intern, Claudia! Great to have you aboard!
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Intern Jessica D has been busy with a few band interviews and there will be articles to follow.
March 24, 2009
Paul and Ted were off to the annual Panasonic showcase to a get briefed on all the latest in camera technology in the Lumix line. (okay, time for some tech-talk) Most exciting was a new digital SLR, the Lumix GH1: a midsize full performance DSLR with HD Video (Stereo mic, 1080p at 24fps, 720p at 60fps). Not cheap but the first combo full capacity DSLR/HDVideoCam we've seen on the market. Some great Lumix waterproof/shockproof point and shoot digital cameras in a wide variety of cool colours.
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Meanwhile, Faze editor Dana was working it hard today, interviewing actor Alexander Ludwig star of Race To Witch Mountain before racing back to Toronto for another interview with rapper Lil' Mama. All between tending to her ill puppy...Dana's our lil' mama.March 16-20, 2009 - LG Fashion Week in Toronto
One of our favourite weeks of the year! Lots more to follow....pics, stories, sideshows, etc.More updates coming soon for 2009!!!
As always, it's been a crazy 80 days so far in 2009...we had thought the new site would be up and running by now, but it's still getting some last minute improvements...sooooooo....we'll have to get all the latest up here on the Faze blog very shortly. The team is still recovering from Spring Break in Cancun and Fashion Week...but we'll get this done soon! ;-)
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