Unnerving Magazine Is Toast Of Toronto
City Living, Toronto’s finest magazine, did not make this cover ironically! Rather, for elegance.
It really is worth reading Torontoist’s loving exposé of City Living, proof that success in the media can be found anywhere, anyhow. Maybe publisher and founder Patricia Binns was inspired by her very own self?
Charming of exquisite beauty, articulate, cultured, Patricia E. Binns created a magazine that would stay on coffee tables longer than any other and she named it City Living Magazine because it was devoted to all that was distinctive, beautiful and elegant.
Disturbing.
- Next Post: The Plight Of Print’s Lucky Ones »
- « Previous Post: Google Office Fire Digitially Captured From Like, 432 Different Angles
Comments (AU Comments | US Comments)
@SultanaEleusis: As a full-time picture-tinter, I don't want none of your fancy technology.
Caius
@Artur Van Asinine: This not very cultured torontonian has not seen it either. I want to know if Indigo knows there logo is featured prominently at citylivingmagazine.ca
Keith Talent
@Pope John Peeps II: This was quite a tidbit: "He tried to do away with his father in 1934, but the revolver misfired and so Fleming left home at the age of eight."
Keith Talent
@Ken Green: Every single time you have sat with chums in a diner and heard any one of them chirp, "Head 'em up! Move 'em out!" you were unconsciously channeling the lesser known but greater younger brother of Ian. He is the unacknowledged zeitgeist of the twentieth century western aura. Do you think you would even know of a Clint Eastwood without his sage sagebrush Seneca?
Once color photography arrives in Canada, they won't have to hand-tint their photographs any more.
SultanaEleusis
@snugbug: That is Patricia E. Binns, thank you very much.
onebadclam
@[www.citylivingmagazine.ca]
from the jumbled recollections of her childhood bouncing around to various relatives, to her thoughts on supermodel "Janice Dickerson's" new book, to a detailed explanation of how she uses astrology, reiki and "energy" in her life and work, this is a million-word glimpse into a truly bizarre mind.
kerrington.steele
she must be related to Jason Binn.
GORDONGARTRELLE
i hope to one day be posthumously given the surname "rawhide" too.
loosecanon
@aeebee: I take that back. All of it is now my favorite.
aeebee
I'm going to break my lurking streak to post my favorite passage from the site:
When you go through your copy at City Living Magazine or browse our website, I do hope you know she appreciates your interest in our publication and continue to visit us and take out a subscription with us.
aeebee
LOL. I immediately love this magazine. "He looked elegant in his tuxedo and scintillated on the screen."Really? So he physically emitted sparks on the set? Would have loved to have been there to see that.
"He had a very full life and was able to reach the top of his profession at 35."
The top? I never heard of this effin guy!
Ken Green
Patricia Binns is my new favorite Hall of Fame fameball.
As evidence of her accomplished journalistic career, she scanned and posted online a letter received in 1997 from some intern in the office of Diana (the deceased princess), denying her an interview request and telling her very politely to bleep off.
Binns lovingly captioned the image, "Letter from Diana."
I love this woman.
snugbug
Wow! An entire magazine written by the same folks that came up with the stuff you find here . . . [www.engrish.com]
I have never heard of, or seen, this 'magazine', and I buy approx 8 magazines a month from various locations. I do like the publishers photo, very " Warhol Death Mask".
secretagentman
Haha. When you see anything this terrible, you immediately have to read the weakly-written accompanying article. And when you start reading, you always want to skip to the end, to the terrible mishmash of words desperately trying to find a conclusion (which, in my time writing articles, I have also been guilty of, so...).
And true enough, the end of the article brings some truly majestic turkeys:
"I do believe the piranhas consumed the body. What an unpleasant end."
"Eric Fleming had a lot of challenges to overcome to achieve the success he did accomplish." (oh, he achieved what he accomplished did he? that's great.)
"You wonder what Eric Fleming did in his life to deserve such a horrid demise." (oh yikes. wow)
And the utterly, utterly, laugh-out-loud, completely amazing:
"Fleming looked at the blackened sky and said to Menardos, "it’s now or never!" Those were Eric Fleming’s last words."
wtf? is this the kind of magazine they hand out in health clubs? call me an uncultured torontonian, but i can't recall seeing this on anyone's coffee table.