Innholdsfortegnelse for August/September 2022 i Zoomer Magazine

Sea Change Sixty years after he was the first to sail solo across the Pacific, from Japan to North America nonstop, yachtsman Kenichi Horie, 83, accomplishes the same feat in reverse, becoming the oldest person to do so, and proving time is on his side. Indigenous TikTok Knowledge Elsie Paul, 78, an Alberta-born Métis-Cree Elder, boasts more than 64,000 followers on TikTok, where her videos teach youth about their culture and heritage. Jonathan Searle, 56, who appeared in the film Jaws as a child, becomes police chief of the town where part of the movie was filmed. Said a local man-eating shark, “No doubt, this certainly is a setback …” Score one for the history books. In a league that’s trying to keep pace with the times, the San Jose…

FREDERICK “FRECK” VREELAND was born with style dashing through his veins: His French American mother was none other than legendary fashionista Diana Vreeland. The OG Anna Wintour was an editor at Harper’s Bazaar from 1936 to 1962 and editor-in-chief of American Vogue from 1963 to 1971, and – just as Wintour is today – the dedicated brains behind the Met Ball, which she single-handedly transformed from stuffy fundraiser to costume-party extraordinaire. Diana’s circle of fabulous, fashionable friends included British celebrity photographer Cecil Beaton; the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson; and former U.S. first lady Jackie Kennedy, for whom Diana acted as personal stylist. Coco Chanel was a close friend and the late Vogue editor-at-large, André Leon Talley, was a devoted mentee. Diana was no less glamorous at home, where her…

IF THE JETSONS PROVIDED A CRYSTAL BALL for 21st-century life, flying cars and homes in the sky would be the norm. The colonization of space is still far in the future, but video calls are commonplace, food and drinks can be delivered at a button’s push and — if you count Roombas — robot maids exist, too. Though our lives have hewn closer to Earth, it’s never been easier to explore boundary-pushing realities in the expanding virtual realm known as the metaverse. More than a buzzword, “meta” means to go beyond and “verse” – as in universe – is a nod to the world we live in. It’s a broad term for the online world that bridges the physical and the virtual. In the metaverse, which is expected to define…

WE ALL NEED TO EAT. That’s why food is the slyest, cleverest art medium. But creativity has been thwarted by chaos in the hospitality industry, which was hit hard by the pandemic. Professional experimentation with food as art – a trend that, before 2020, had been fuelled by the relentless social media beast, ever-hungry for more compelling imagery – was put on hold. A new dawn is here. In the same way that self-expression exploded into a riot of extravagance on fashion runways and the streets, the food and beverage universe has become a Technicolor field of dreams. Elaborate anthropomorphic gateaux, smoking cocktails, butter, ice and chocolate sculptures and vegetables transformed into dragons or demons have long existed as fleeting objects of beauty and awe, destined to disappear down our…

FOR SOMEONE who was born in the village of Come By Chance, N.L., Arlene Stacey conducted her professional life in no way “by chance.” My dear friend, who died of lung cancer on May 21, 2022, at 67, was a meticulous editor, a consummate grammarian and the fulcrum of magazine production. Every comma and semicolon had its place and, in Arlene’s world, exclamation marks had few reasons to exist at all. Thanks to her encyclopedic knowledge of publishing built up over a 40-year career, “ask Arlene” was a recurring phrase in the Zoomer magazine office, where she was managing editor until her retirement in the spring of 2021. A sense of calm would descend over the editorial department when she arrived for the production cycle – everything was going to…

IS IT JUST ME? Excited as I am to resume my pre-pandemic social life, I can’t seem to keep it straight. I am either double-booking, forgetting to RSVP, or saying yes and forgetting to go. The few occasions where I managed to show up have left me exhausted. The internet is full of articles about social awkwardness and anxiety after COVID-19. Could that apply to me? It’s not as though I am emerging from partial social isolation. I have felt very fortunate to have gone into work every day – with a very small team through the worst of it – and there are more staffers in the office now. I have played doubles tennis, seen friends in small groups, eaten in restaurants and attended a couple of shows, when…

IT WAS HIS EXCHANGES with a younger generation of Black kids on social media, British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful writes, that encouraged him to step up his career-long ethos of inclusivity – one that led to the Order of the British Empire in 2016 for his services to diversity in fashion. That responsibility to young people is also why Enninful finally agreed to share his story in his engaging new memoir, A VISIBLE MAN (Sept. 6), one of our most-anticipated reads. “I set out to bring the ‘othered’ to the table,” he says in the book. “We’re here to inspire and give people something to dream about as well as a sense of the possible here and now.” Born on an army base in Ghana to a seamstress mother and…

TWO YEARS AGO, a 50-year-old woman walked into Dr. Renita Ahluwalia’s clinic in Toronto, desperate for help. Her cheeks were badly scarred and the cartilage in her nose was destroyed, making it look as though it had caved in at the bridge. It was one of the worst cases of a cosmetic procedure gone wrong that Ahluwalia had seen in 10 years practising dermatology. “I don’t know what was injected into her skin, but I believe that it caused a rare inflammatory condition that leads to ulceration,” she says. “I’m doing my best to treat it, but it has caused severe, permanent damage to my patient’s face.” That patient is Fernanda, who didn’t want to use her last name for privacy reasons. About five years ago, Fernanda saw a sign…

IT’S BEEN A HALF-CENTURY since Paul Henderson notched the magical goal (above) that lifted Canada to a victory over the Soviet Union, but the memory remains vivid for those of us glued to our TV sets on that September afternoon in 1972. The goal marked the glorious climax of the month-long Summit Series that proved we were champions of the hockey world – albeit by the slimmest of margins. It was a fitting finish to the emotionally draining, frantic and unforgettable eight-game rollercoaster ride that produced moments of highly skilful play, offset by violent skirmishes.  Gamesmanship trumped sportsmanship between these two bitter on-ice rivals and Cold War enemies. “It was a war. Our society versus theirs,” recalled team captain and emotional leader Phil Esposito (mixing it up with a…

AS a widow and single mom, Lena Nguyen – now 82 – emigrated in the 1970s from Vietnam to Canada, where she settled in Ottawa with her four children, Lyn, Van, Tu and Tom Ly. In the 1990s, she moved to Vancouver, where she owned and operated a beauty salon called Lena’s. Floridian engineer Jack Barrett, now 90, had recently relocated to the West Coast when he strolled into her shop looking for a haircut. Here’s how they found love. Lena Nguyen: Twenty years ago, Jack came into my salon for a trim. He was tall and handsome – 6-4 – and a polite, proper gentleman. It was love at first sight. Jack Barrett: She was so beautiful and vibrant. Full of life and energy. I started visiting more…

DEBORAH COX BREEZES INTO A SWANKY Miami restaurant on a quiet weekday morning looking like she stepped off the cover of a magazine. Imbued with the voice of a diva, but not the airs, Canada’s pre-eminent R&B singer, clad in a coral, body-skimming Michael Costello dress and chunky, coffee-coloured sandals, emits hints of the classic Guerlain fragrance, Shalimar. The 48-year-old is composed and accommodating, with an easy laugh and radiant skin. Cox lives 30 minutes away in the South Florida home she shares with Lascelles Stephens, her manager and husband of 24 years, and their three children: son Isaiah, 19, who starts his second year of college this fall, and daughters Sumayah, 16, and Kaila, 13. Today, the trailblazing songstress is a muted version of her glamorous onstage persona, notable…

HAVE AN INDELIBLE memory of meeting David Cronenberg on a deserted stretch of Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway. It was after midnight. The elevated highway had been cleared of traffic and turned into a stage. Wrecked cars were artfully strewn along the tarmac. A crumpled Lincoln Continental lay on its back like a giant beetle, T-boned into the side of a bus, luminous under the stark halo of klieg lights. Stepping around the shattered glass and twisted metal, Cronenberg came over to greet me. “Welcome to my playground. It’s beautiful, isn’t it!” As the director surveyed his tableau, to the sound of a thousand starlings screeching from their nests above the Gardiner’s Stonehenge pillars, his eyes had the thrilled gleam of a thief in the night, an artist who had somehow…

Poor Sex and the City fans. It seems as if one day they were carefree, sipping Cosmopolitans, teetering around in Manolos, and the next, they were confronting drinking problems in the 2021 sequel And Just Like That…. The show’s funny but all-too-realistic portrayal of the downside of boozing it up poses an uncomfortable, anxiety-inducing question: Is this a reflection of our lives, or is it just entertainment? Either way, if you related it to your own drinking, then the zeitgeist has spoken. The sobriety trend has hit the mainstream. It’s a topic that pops up everywhere, from Facebook groups to spirituality-themed podcasts to sober-curious advice columns. Alcohol-free drinks get prime shelf space at grocery stores, and there are sober bars from Los Angeles to Montreal offering “placebo” cocktails with names…