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  • Passion Magazine: Style Life Culture

    Passion Magazine - November/December 2007I just wanted to give all of you a heads up on Passion Magazine a “new” publication aimed at women between 25-40. I was honoured to be given the opportunity to help design the layout of the magazine, as well as design and code the website (Drupal can be soooo stressful! Still needs tweaking!). But here’s a shot at the cover with the lovely and talented Ms. Alicia Keys. Magazine publishing is a learning process, so hopefully with comments and criticism by readers we’ll be able to make Passion successful in our demographic. Kudos to all the hard-working staff!

    Here are some of the cover stories:

    • Alicia Keys: The Grammy Award-winning superstar talks about her new album, the joy of helping others and what’s next
    • Avoiding the post holiday financial blues
    • Chaka Khan: Back in the game after a 10-year break
    • Sign of the Times: Examining the ‘new’ nuclear family
    • 2 Words that can define you and help design your life
    • Stocking stuffer ideas for the entire family

    The November/December issue of Passion Magazine is now available at Chapter-Indigo locations, as well as some Shoppers Drug Mart’s. Dont forget to visit PassionMag.ca to enter the Samsung Camera Giveaway Contest!

  • Jully Black’s Revival In Stores Tomorrow!

    Jully Black - RevivalIf you haven’t heard the premiere track “Seven Day Fool” from Ms. Black’s sophomore album titled Revival, you’re missing out. I just came back from Jully Black’s showcase performance at The Supermarket in Toronto. This woman has such a great voice. It was a pleasure putting together her revamped official website JullyBlack.com (although cross-browser compatibility can be a pain). Be sure to check it out, as there are photos, videos, audio and wallpapers (avatars will be up soon). Jully blogs regularly to the site, so if you want to keep up with what she’s going through as her new album drops, keep it linked.

  • King Midas and the Skittles Touch

    You ever wish you had the ability to turn objects into something else? Like gold… or better yet food? Well “Tim” here has that awesome power. Only thing is, that it’s not all that it cracks up to be.

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0WBiME_fM[/youtube]

    Very clever ad from Skittles. I feel like buying a pack right now. :D

  • Ugly Betty Season 2 Premiere

    *spoiler warning*

    Dammit… just as I was about to give the writers of Ugly Betty kudos for such a good season premiere, they had to ruin it with the revelation of a dream sequence!

    If you remember from last season’s finale, Santos (Hilda’s fiancé) was a victim in a convenience store robbery. That show ended with Betty informing Hilda of the news at her son’s school play, and her breaking down in her arms.

    Now that left us thinking is he dead?, is he just injured? Why is Justin talking about missing his grandpa who’s in Mexico when his father just supposedly died?!

    The anticipation was finally over when I saw Santos waking out of Hilda’s bathroom with bandages around his supposed gunshot wound. Tonight’s episode went on with the happy couple savoring their time together, even though Hilda was very anxious about Santos being out of her sight (lest he get shot again).

    Then in the last 5 minutes of the show a nice, bright bedroom with Santos saying his vows to Hilda in her wedding dress was ruined by a cut of Hilda in her darkened bedroom with tears in her eyes. She finally admit to Betty that Santos was gone.

    It’s not good to tease an audience like that. I have enough dream sequences with all the soap operas I watch. I didn’t need to see it on one of my favourite prime time shows!

    They could’ve kept Santos (played by Kevin Alejandro, who coincidentally had a reoccurring role on one of my favourite soap operas, The Young and the Restless) on the show. It would have been realistic if he survived the gun shot wound, dammit!

    On to the other characters. Alexis woke up out of her coma… but she doesn’t realize that she became a she from a he (did you get that?).  Daniel kicked his pill habit, and Betty buried her last reminders of Henry.  Amanda and Marc search for the truth regarding her paternity (the scene with her parents is hilarious!).  And Claire and Wilhelmina clash.

    There was a low shot of a man’s feet as he stepped of a bus at the end of the episode.  I thought it was Santos (hey… it could happen!  He could’ve said “F&*% NY!  I’m moving to Woodbridge“, and left the show that way after he got injured from gunshot wounds).  But it was Henry coming back to town.  I’m looking forward to seeing his relationship with Betty grow after the fact that his girlfriend may or may not be pregnant with his baby.

    So aside from the little Santos trickery the show did, the season premiere was pretty decent.

    Here’s a clip from Las Pasiones de Betty:

    [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=okms6Ix4G04[/youtube]

  • Heroes Season 2 Season Premiere

    Hiro and Kensei from Heroes - nbc.comI’ve been waiting on this episode for months! And it was well worth the wait because it kept me wanting more.

    Set 4 months after the time when the season finale ended, tonight’s episode of Heroes let faithful viewers piece together the happenings after the citizens of NYC eluded the Peter-the-bomb-threat.

    Almost didn’t recognize Nathan with his new bush-man beard. Glad to see hottie Peter is still alive, even though he was trapped in a shipping crate in Ireland for what seems like months.

    Poor Hiro… he always seems to get himself into some predicament. He needs to beware of that whole space-time-continuum thing. Kensei not being Japanese is a bit of a twist.

    Looks like Claire’s made a new friend, even though he kinda has stalker tenancies with him flying up to her window and ogling her from a distance, then floating off like a feather in the wind.

    Nice to see that Matt finally made detective (although he got a divorce) and Mohinder still fighting the good fight. Molly’s dreams are freaking me out though. I wonder what the writers are gonna do with that storyline.

    The elders Ms. Petrelli and Mr. Nakamura have a long history behind them. It sucks that it doesn’t look like George Takei is going to be in any more episodes. Maya (Dania Ramierez) is a nice addition to the show. I like the dichotomy in her character as it pertains to her personality and her dark power.

    Can’t wait until next week! :)

    I also PVR-ed Journeyman. Looks like a decent show from the previews, but I’m too tired to watch it right now, so maybe tomorrow.