Erin Kobayashi was the Copy Editor for the Summer 2004 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Dear Blog…
From jaded teens to aging bachelors, online diaries give us a glimpse into the average life
She is 20 years old. She was born on September 11. She hates Toronto girls for being so skinny. She hopes her father will kill himself. She feels like a loser and a poseur for discovering cool bands through eye Weekly, not through the so-called “scene” she desperately longs to be part of. She is […]
Smitten with S.M.U.T.
Whether you define it as porn or erotica, S.M.U.T. penetrates its way through the orgy of competing adult-only publications
Jen Bowers, the editor and creator of S.M.U.T. magazine, emerges from the dark and smoky Zen Lounge on Queen West in downtown Toronto, where the publication is having its launch party. The 29-year-old greets me with a handshake in the lobby and upon finding out that I am part of the “media,’ passes me a […]
