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Zombie-Living

By Stephen Michalowicz

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: JUNE 3, 2010
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For more information, email Torontoist publisher Ken Hunt at ken@torontoist.com.

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  • http://undefined Machinations

    Harsh, but fair. And oh-so-funny.

  • http://www.twitter.com/vicdezen Vic De Zen

    Regarding the subscription price I find it a bit odd. I seem to recall receiving a number of issues of City Living for free. Maybe it was just a temporary promotion to encourage readers to subscribe.
    - Vic De Zen

  • http://undefined bigdaddyhame

    managing to publish for 15 years is no mean feat in the Toronto/Ontario/Canadian magazine market. Kudos to Binns for staying power. Maybe Toro et al were just too slick! Herein lies the key to staying power in publishing. Keep costs low and don’t be afraid to make a few mistakes along the way. Also, try to do something weird on a regular basis like hand-colouring photos for your covers.

  • http://undefined Amanda Factor

    You’re giving them too much credit. The title of the decor advertiarial was actually “Pink learn to decorate with this comforting colour.”

  • http://undefined Quin Parker

    BRAAIINNS
    No wait. TEEEEEETH

  • http://theintrepid.blogspot.com/ Stephen Michalowicz

    That’s just online. The magazine itself actually manages to get it right.

  • http://undefined JMcCormick

    Check out the photo of the editor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    http://www.citylivingmagazine.ca/editor_publisher.html

  • http://undefined cameronf

    “All photos by Stephen Michalowicz/Torontoist.”
    Really? You took those photos of Dr. Ali and Eric Fleming? Great work, Stephen!

  • http://undefined Christopher Merlot

    Ah publishing: the default option of so many derailed modelling careers.

  • http://undefined fearofcorners

    Photos of prints, yes. You know it and I know it. There’s no need to troll.

  • http://undefined Gauldar

    Beware the green eyed monster.

  • http://undefined Machinations

    So this is what happens when the Joker attacks small-scale publishing companies.

  • http://undefined montauk

    It’s like the poor, green-eyed woman’s GOOP. Nourish the inner aspect, people! Nourish it!
    I really want to believe these people’s eyes are indeed that green; that City Living Magazine is just a front publication for an ancient sect of wonky-eyed cannibalistic carnivores, like Elijah Wood’s character in Sin City (at best) or the Twilight vampires (at worst), that the incessant typos are actually coded locations for green-eyed monster cotillions and ritual feedings. Just as I want to believe the noisy construction apparatus outside my window that occasionally emits dolphin-like chirps is, in fact, a friendly pod frolicking at my window after the biblical flood that took out all the right-wingers. But in both instances, for all my fevered mental straining, I simply cannot manage it. It’s just an amateurish magazine and ungreased machinery, respectively, and there is no magic nor God.

  • http://undefined Gauldar
  • http://undefined David Toronto

    To use a British expression: I’d bin the rag.

  • http://undefined Amanda Factor

    Aha! I’m amazed that they got it right in print!

  • http://undefined spacejack

    Kinda Warhol-esqe don’t you think?

  • http://undefined deadrobot

    The site is plastered with 2006 copyrights. Have at it, pirates!!

  • http://undefined rek

    Torontoist: Exquisite Toronto News Culture, Events Photos and, Everything Else !

  • http://undefined Carthy

    My fave is the misplaced apostrophe in this line “articles on our reader’s most passionate interests.” that makes it seem as if they only have one reader. Which may be true.

  • http://undefined iron on heroes

    Where to begin? I was drawn in to take a closer look at this odd, loosely joined collection of ads and found no end of amusement, from the spelling and grammar errors (Mississauga Exquisite Dentist) to the article on decorating with Pink. The opening paragraph in the article seemed like an entry from Wikipedia to me, so I checked and lo, it was practically all there, word for word. A closer look at the strange interior shot , which didn’t look quite current, revealed a TAPE PLAYER in the setting’s shelving unit. The fashion shots of the editor are all from sometime in the late 80′s, I am quite sure, and the “celebrity” shots of her and various “celebrities” have no captions, leaving us more puzzled than ever . Or maybe I’m just so hopelessly out of touch that I don’t recognize these media giants. Sigh.

    Please, Patricia, give me a job fixing your pages.I could, I don’t know, change a font in the headings once in a while, or find you some stock photography that looks current even!

    I think I am a little obsessed with this magazine. I need help.

  • http://theintrepid.blogspot.com/ Stephen Michalowicz

    The article on decorating with pink was apparently so good that Binns decided to print it twice. According to the author, Cynthia Taylor, the article first appeared in City Living in 2006.
    You can read the article here.
    Here’s another gem I found in an article on home design:
    “People went to the moon, so they can build houses in Toronto.”
    Amazing.

  • http://undefined Amanda Factor

    I too began fantasizing (I guess) about getting hired by Patricia and completely overhauling the magazine, then realized it would be such an exhaustive effort. Starting a new, better magazine from scratch would probably be easier than attempting to save this trainwreck.

  • http://undefined Machinations

    Why would you want to eliminate what is clearly one of the most entertaining publications in Toronto?

  • http://undefined Amanda Factor

    Good point! Relentlessly criticizing this magazine is too much fun.