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Extra, Extra: The New Yorker Gets Our Ads, McLovin Gets OId, and the Worst of Rob Ford Gets Tweeted
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- All the advertising for the June 28 issue of The New Yorker is Canadian—”every ad page other than a house ad,” reports the Times‘ Media Decoder blog, “has been sold to Canadians: more than a dozen government units, tourism organizations, financial firms and educational institutions.” Inevitably, it’s that way because of the G8 and G20 summits. Eye‘s Kate Carraway is “personally very concerned.“
- Torontoist gets invited to all the coolest parties. Yesterday, for instance, we got an email informing us of “Mclovin celebrating his 21st bday in our awesome city.” (The poster’s here.) Yep, Christopher Mintz-Plasse won’t need that fake I.D. from Superbad to drink in his native States anymore, because he’s an adult now. And all adults know that the place to be in Toronto on a Thursday night is Peter Street, to celebrate the birthday party of someone sort of famous whom they’ve never met.
- Things that we’re glad exist on Twitter: @shitrobfordsays, presumably a riff on the hyper-popular @shitmydadsays. But only nine tweets?
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