Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

This here is the cover of the new issue of Spacing

magazine. I’ve been a regular contributor to the magazine since issue three and out of all the work I’m thrilled to be involved with Spacing rates very highly.

The theme of this issue is intersections and while I only have a book review in this issue I’m looking forward to reading everyone else’s contributions. Here’s the party info:

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Wednesday, February 21

RELEASE PARTY:
Thursday, February 22nd
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W.
8pm, $10 (includes mag), DJ Chris Thinn

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Another day, another magazine going belly up. This time it’s Toro, a Canadian men’s magazine cut from the Esquire A Good Year video A Good Man Is Hard to Find dvdrip Basic video , GQ cloth. The magazine’s publishers cited weak ad revenues. I had been eyeing the magazine for many, many months and it was very high on my list of places I’d love to have my work published. Sadly that won’t be happening.

The magazine was wonderfully designed, had its share of good writers and very creative editors. I’ll miss seeing it drop out of the Globe and Mail

• The Magic Roundabout video

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Toro

‘s demise raises an interesting question. Good, creative, interesting content, most of the time, requires money. Either to create (those photo spreads are expensive) or to buy (great experienced writers, illustrators and photographers deserve to get paid well). A few magazines buck the trend by being extremely wily, resourceful, and by publishing relatively infrequently (Spacing

, is a great example of this). But Toro‘s demise is yet more evidence that it’s tough for smart, interesting magazines in Canada to get enough cash to survive. It seems that sustainable magazine publishing in Canada is an elusive idea.

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Tomorrow night Newmindspace will be restaging Queen of Hearts. Last year, Kevin, Lori and dozens of volunteers skulked around downtown Toronto and painted hearts all over Queen streets. Don’t worry the paint washed off after a few days. The end result is documented in this lovely photo by Amanda.

Out of the many, many things Newmindspace does (subway parties, pillow fights), this one is probably my favourite. It’s just plain cute and effective. I dare you to not smile when you see these little pink hearts dotting Queen St.

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Then again. I’m a big softie. I might even put on my parka and go out, despite the very unfortunate forecast.

Ok, not so lazy. Finished a book review for Quill and Quire, drafted a campaign update for my TPSC campaign against truck billboards and now I’m sitting at Tequila Bookworm Mum & Dad buy

reading things online.

A few things that caught my eye:

Harvard got its first woman president. A good thing considering Larry Summers was a touch mysgonistic. That sound you hear is the other shoe dropping. (from the NYT)

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The State Dept. apparently asked a bunch of writers to write about what it means to be American. Includes Michael Chabon (one of my favourites) and heavy hitters like Richard Ford and former poet laureate Robert Pinsky.  (from Metafilter)

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Disgrace ipod And finally a French prof writes a book about how to talk about books you haven’t read and sound smart. Uhm watch the movie…. duh. (from Arts and Letters Daily)

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. Flickr stream here.

So I’m back online after an extended absence due to an insane amount of work on Torontoist. In my absence the blog was overrun by spam and more spam. Sadly most of the old content could not be saved. Also, the old blog was getting kind of stale so I went in search of a new template.

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So here it is, version 2.0 of this blog. Here’s hoping that this one is more permanent. Drop me a line.