Another year, another two issues

If the Ryerson Review of Journalism didn't exist, we'd have to invent it. It comes out on the world's most peculiar schedule -- two issues in quick succession in April and May -- but that's because it is, after all, a teaching exercise. Nevertheless, it's doing stories about the magazine world that aren't done very much by mainstream media. And all this despite being under threat of closure because of funding problems. Another good reason to show up at the Launch Party in April13 at the Hotel Boutique Lounge* in Toronto, starting at 5 p.m. And at least take out a subscription.

* This name reminds me of Calvin Trillin's lampoon of ubiquitous "continental" restaurants with a name like Maison de la Casa House. Or a place I once saw in Tweed, Ontario called "House of Boutiques".