There was a lot of hype about Walrus but, like lots of things from Toronto, it turned out to be stuffy-whitebread and boring. Though I did like their recent article on marriage — kept thinking: “Oh, so true. So true!”
Enter Maisonneuve, arguably Canada’s coolest magazine. And what do ya know? It’s from Montreal. To shame, Ontario! Subscribe to Maisonneuve now for $19.95 and get all of the ’04 issues, a hip Montreal band CD and some postcards. You can’t go wrong with that! — or a magazine subtitled “Eclectic Curiosity.”