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DECEMBER 2004
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.
NOVEMBER 2004
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).
OCTOBER 2004
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.
SEPTEMBER 2004
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!
AUGUST 2004
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 2004
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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