Tara Thorne

We began this journey back in the fall of 2004. The thought was that, in this horribly accelerating age of the kids and their crazy internets, we would bring things back to the page. Where there were weblogs with weblinks, we would provide a real page with a real link. Both activities centred on reading […]

We’ve refrained from mentioning JD Fortune in this space because there are a lot of things about that whole deal we don’t understand, including who was gunning for an INXS reunion in the first place and how popular the new line-up for a band nobody gave a shit about has turned out to be. Anyway, […]

This week we received a tube of “mermaid bait” (gummy worms) as promo for the late March release Aquamarine starring Emma Roberts — AKA niece of Julia — as a teen mermaid. It’s a waste of studio money, but we’re not going to spit in the face of free candy (except for the time we […]

The latest Vanity Fair — our annual favourite, The Hollywood Issue — has caused quite the brouhaha thanks to its guest editor, retired fashionista Tom Ford. The issue’s centrepiece is, as always, its portfolio of celebrities, which this year has a theme of “naked.” Keeping within the spirit of the festivities, you’ll find Ford on […]

We shrieked with delight when a normally dreaded email forward fell into our inbox yesterday. The subject: Interview Opportunity with ELLEgirl Editor in Chief Christina Kelly. Anablog devotees know of our admiration for the formidable Ms. Kelly — the curmudgeonly guiding force of the late, great Sassy magazine; a bastion of credibility in the early […]

An Anablog operative was reading a recent issue of Found magazine — the one “dedicated solely to printing ‘found’ items, e.g., hilarious teenage break-up letters, fucked-up grocery lists, awkward rejection notices,” she clarifies — and noticed some Halifax content. One story is an interview with local MC and producer Classified (fun fact: he went to […]

Our experience with Reader’s Digest extends mostly to dentist waiting rooms and airplanes, though we often marvel at how some version of RD is printed in a couple hundred countries. But an eagle-eyed reader pointed us to the January 2006 issue, featuring dreamy diver Alexandre Despatie, and its rather earnest feature on reader-voted Heroes of […]

Back in October we alerted you to an excellent piece by Stephen Beachy in New York magazine, which wondered, “Who is the Real JT LeRoy?” The story implied that the cult author of Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things — whose much-touted backstory as a Southern ex-hooker rescued from the parking lot […]

Take One — the magazine about the Canadian film and television industry — has recently released a $24 special edition (available at better newsstands near you and online at www.takeonemagazine.ca) that purports to have chosen the “1001 Greatest Canadian Films and Filmmakers of All Time.” “All time” is a bad concept for lists. It’s out […]