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DECEMBER 2006
Dec 25-Merry Xmas to all!
Dec 19-Faze Xmas Party for staff and interns. Thanks to everyone who helped especially Lorraine, Carolee and Stephanie W and her friends. DJ and music provided by party kings Sights and Sounds.
NOVEMBER 2006
Nov 25 - Congratulations to the winner of our FALCON BEACH CELEB NIGHT OUT CONTEST, Christina Gatto. She got to stay at Toronto's ultra chic Cosmopolitan Hotel, hung out all night with the stars, Steve and Jen, was whisked all over town in a super-stretch Ford Excursion limo which stopped off at Autogrill where they all dined in style, checked out the Rockettes Christmas show at the Hummingbird Centre and then went to Demetres for some dessert. A great night was had by all! Check out photos from the evening here.
Nov 21-Tek Ted checked out the Bell tech event in Toronto, lots of goodies for the holidays. We'll have to get some reviews up soon.
Nov 16-Faze was on hand for the official launch of the PS3, Wyclef played a hot set in the evening to help celebrate the long-awaited next-generation console. Pics coming soon...plus loads of reviews in the tech section.
Nov 14-The first of two big gaming console launches this week...first out the gates is the Nintendo Wii, with its motion sensitive handheld controller. Pics coming soon...plus loads of reviews in the tech section.Nov 10-12-Who's watching the fort??? Seems all the Faze guys went to Montreal for a big video gaming conference weekend (Arcadia!). Meanwhile a bunch of the Faze girls went to New York City for a little biz, tourism and shopping!
Nov 2-Crazy day/night. Too many events to cover. Lorraine and went to La Senza. Ted and Paul went to the launch of the new LG Chocolate phone, celebrities were in the house, including Fefe Dobson, Kardinal Offishal among others. A pretty cool phone was launched amongst the fashion show, music and good food.
Nov 2-Faze reporter Alex Gill and Lorraine did a My Chemical Romance interview for our next issue.
Nov 1-Faze was glad to be a part of the Bell Celebrity Gala again, a fundraising event for Sick Kids Hospital. It was a big success again in its 15th year. According to the website "The Bell Celebrity Gala is the highest attended Celebrity event in the country and this year there will be more famous faces than ever before!" There definitely were! Here's a small look at the evening.
OCTOBER 2006
Oct 31-Happy Halloween!
Oct 25-An HP event to check out their latest camera & printers for the holidays and beyond. Reviews to follow.
Oct 22-A new article is up about a new anonymous chatroom room (gamtalk4teens.org) for teens who need to talk through possible problems with gambling.
Oct 20-Lorraine, Alana & Carolee attended the Pink Bedroom Gala hosted by Jeanne Lottie and Covergirl raising money for breast cancer research. A wonderful night was had by all!
Oct 18-Afternoon was the XBOX'06 bash at the Brant House. We had the Faze guys trying out all the new games from all the major studios, EA, Capcom, Ubisoft, Sega, Eidos, etc. It was particularly tough to rip Ted away from EA's FIFA 2007. Thanks again to the High Road team.
Oct 18-Our tech guys checked out the latest Olympus camera goodies.
Oct 16-21-TORONTO FASHION WEEK! Lots going on, with our team checking out the latest styles for next SPRING. We'll get up a whole gallery of photos from the shows soon.
Oct 6-We'd like to welcome Stephanie to the Sights and Sounds team! She'll be working with us on various projects over the next few months.
SEPTEMBER 2006
Sept 27-Faze's Lorraine was featured in an October 2006 Flare Magazine article on her volunteering work with Hero Holiday, a project in Dominican Republic for teens.
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Sept 21-Our sister company Sights and Sounds is expanding, adding more DJs to help with a booming fall season putting on the best school dance parties in Canada. One of our star young DJs Josh is joining full-time to help take care of the hundreds of schools calling in to book dances. Cool fact...Sights and Sounds has been around for 24 years, but the average age of the staff across Canada is only 22! The excruciatingly hip and knowledgeable Sights & Sounds celebrity DJs will soon be featured in a new CD/concert review section on Faze. While their opinions will be highly regarded...we at the magazine just hope they can write half as well as they can spin!
Sept 20-HUGE NEWS!!! Faze is moving into a new office in December! Located on Avenue Road in Toronto, just north of Yorkville (home to the Toronto Film Festival). Look out for our sign in the new year! The Faze building will be become the centre of the universe in no time...
Sept 19-Faze was at the launch of Timex's new line of high end men's watches (they were beautiful) followed by an afternoon look at all the latest and greatest from Microsoft for the coming holiday season (new webcams - a first for Microsoft, new games, new keyboards, Student 2007, Windows Vista, etc.) As for the new Microsoft MP3 player, the Zune, Canada should be seeing it launched in Jan 2006 (vs. Nov 2006 in the US). Thanks to the girls at High Road for another great event.
Sept 9 & 10-The Faze team was out at the Virgin Festival held on Toronto Island...we'll have lots of great photos and some chats with the bands from the event online and in an upcoming mag. Here's a photo of Faze founder Lorraine Zander and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson:
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Sept 5-BACK TO SCHOOL!! Chance to see your old friends, and make some new ones! Have a great year everyone.
AUGUST 2006
Aug 30-Faze founder's Lorraine B-Day! Happy Birthday girl!
Aug 29-FujiFilm events for Ted and Paul; Lancome Canada for Lorraine!
Aug 28-Very sad news, our friend and partner Aldo's father passed away: we're thinking of you Aldo.
Aug 28-Faze was down at the Pirates of the Caribbean event in New York City!
Aug 13-AIDS 2006 Benefit Concert held in Toronto featuring Alicia Keys, Our Lady Peace, Chantal Kreviazuk, Massari and others (including Bill Gates - talking not singing)
Aug 4-Faze hooked up with the Absolute team to check out Shakespeare in the Park in Toronto for Comedy of Errors, a modern take on the 500 year old play. Surprisingly enjoyable!
JULY 2006
July 22-Fashion photoshoot for the Fall issue...wow we're already working on Fall? That's scary I'm just starting to enjoy the summer! Thanks to models Julie & Brodie, and to Yanyi and Sarah for all their help.
July 21-Lots of running around for the Toronto crew - meanwhile Lorraine, Jayne and Trevor have returned from the 2006 Hero Holiday in Dominican Republic safely! Welcome home, congrats on a week of making the world a better place! Check out the Hero Holiday site to find out what it's all about.
July 20-Big prep day for the weekend style photoshoot, Vanessa and Denise were joined by Yanyi to choose from and organize about 100 potential pieces of clothing.
July 18-A first chance for some of us in Toronto to play with the new Nintendo Wii. Pierre-Paul Trepanier and the C&W ladies hosted a nice intimate hotel suite gathering to experiment with the revolutionary new controller systerm. The Wii will be released in November 2006.
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July 14-Meanwhile in San Francisco, Paul and Kelly met up with Tali Fischer from video game company EIDOS. Tali oversees the super successful Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Hitman series and a whole bunch of other hits. Went to a very hip Italian restaurant, Mona Lisa for dinner to talk video games and life.
July 10-Check out the latest on the contest page...win a collection of juicy Simon & Schuster titles for some hot summer reading...
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