Oil? Check. Money? Check. Magazines? Uh-huh

In case you missed it, there were a couple of magazine mentions in the celebratory piece by Anne Kingston in Maclean's, about boomtown Calgary .

The story referred to a major fundraiser for the reopening of the Grand Theatre, the new home of Theatre Junction, a local performance company:

"As with everything in Calgary these days, oil money runs through the project. The first to donate was Jackie Flanagan, a local pistol and the publisher of Alberta Views magazine. Flanagan is also the ex-wife of Allan Markin, the chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Limited, a guy from a working-class neighbourhood who helped turn a junior resource penny stock into a major player with a market cap of $35 billion."

A little later in the story,

"Residents joke that the city's new prosperity can be measured by the influx of glossy Calgary-centric style magazines filled with stuff to buy. Vince Wong, co-owner of the popular club Bungalow, is part of a team about to launch the Canadian version of Ego, a Miami-based free city magazine distributed in boutiques and hotels. The plan is to begin with a Calgary version, then roll it out in other Canadian cities. "Calgary is a city on steroids," Wong says. "I don't want to be anywhere else. It's non-stop." "