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You are feeling really dark and against the world. Dwell in this. Go into your room, turn off the lights and rave dance to the Mortal Kombat theme. You will feel alive. As sweat drips from your forehead, think of all the starving people in the world. It sure sucks to be them.

Famously known as ahead of their time in denim designs, the small Swedish clothing line Julian Red emerged from the eclectic underground art and music scene below the streets of Sweden and is now hanging with top name designers and appearing in fashion weeks all over Europe. The men’s and women’s clothing line was named [...]

ION has a couple of KÄRV t-shirts to give away to lucky readers of this issue. Launched in 2000, the clothing company prides itself on its vintage-inspired garments that provide a parallel with the latest fashion trends. The company’s designers, based out of Montreal, work day in and day out to ensure quality through [...]

Feverishly trying to catch up with a tour schedule, driving a Subaru through a “horrible blizzardy mess” in Pennsylvania is probably the most representative setting to catch up with Minneapolis’ two-piece Lookbook. Their debut LP Wild At Heart is a collection of brilliant tracks which have all the power of a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but have [...]

Why should vampires get to have all the sex? Zombies are enjoying an extraordinary renaissance in pop culture right now. Fast zombies, funny zombies, pet zombies. We’ve seen practically every variation on George A. Romero’s modern zombie spawned by his cult debut Night of the Living Dead in 1968. But Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce is [...]

Pornographic content warnings are most commonly followed by a blizzard of flashing images of tits, ass and other forms of human flesh that us folk at ION Magazine are far too polite to mention (who are we kidding!). Kathryn Macnaughton’s tantalizing collages of mixed media need no such warning, despite their graphic content. In spite [...]

One man’s quest for self-actualization as he journeys through reformation, revolution and a rebirth of his very being.
You could be forgiven for thinking that you have flipped open a copy of Faith Today or some equally devout publication spurting advice about rebirths and self awareness, when in fact, you are about to embark on [...]

I know some of our most loyal readers work in retail. Seriously, they’re the people who can come up to me, recite the entire contents of past issues and let me know about all the typos they spotted. I always found it flattering until I started working retail and realized the main reason these [...]

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So I bought one of those gift cards for the iTunes digital store thinking I’d be able to transfer the credit to my girlfriend in the US on her birthday. Or, if not, I figured I’d at least be able purchase and send songs using the iTunes infrastructure. I don’t use a [...]

Check out our street edition on Issuu.
This month’s cover features the collaborative project She & Him which consists of Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward, otherwise known as M.Ward. Now, we didn’t put Zooey and Matt on the cover just because they’re easy on the eyes, they’re easy on the ears too. After much success with [...]

You know how much better the White Stripes are than most bands on the planet? Well, this movie is that much better than most concert movies ever made. Under Great White Northern Lights documents The White Stripes 2007 tour of every Canadian province and territory, including a one-note show in St. Johns and a show [...]

01 is a Vancouver based bi-monthly, online magazine and daily blog. Its contributions come from creative-minded Vancouverites, as well as a handful of individuals outside the city. 01 is launching its first art exhibition this month at the 107 Shaw Gallery in Toronto. The exhibition runs from March 11-April 3 and will showcase international artists [...]

Somewhere among the rain-filled streets of Vancouver is a neighbourhood called Main Street and within this “hood” is a light blue panelled house with a tire swing out front, just like the one in The Wizard of Oz. To the naked eye this house might appear to be like any other on the street—ordinary, pedestrian [...]