today in the news

i love this city.

Rannie took this beautiful photo from our balcony before out shoot yesterday. We took photos for the Vitamin Water Canada blog and in his 140 project. Stay tuned for that. Good day yesterday mostly around the house working on a couple upcoming projects.

Went for an evening stroll with Sabrina to Bellwoods and visited a friends roof patio for some wine and sunset. Stopped by CTS on the way, my fav shop. They had a bunch of items that were $1 and I picked up a couple vintage dresses I can totally do a Pretty in Pink switch to. I’m giving Zoey (my sewing machine) a workout this winter.

Heading to the Fairlie Agency for a little co-working woith Carly-Anne today. Haircut at 4 with Darren, think I’m gonna buzz it one last time for summer. Dinner with Jeremy and some friends tonight, we finally all get to meet his crush. Loser karaoke after that but I’m gonna have to call it an early night. I still haven’t packed for Bud Camp  and we leave at 7am.

Check out this vid I make a cameo in by My City Lives. I’ve been in a few of their videos one on the red carpet and one about genYTO. Check out their site to see more stuff about our wonderful city and some other cool peeps talking about it.

Gotta run. Lots of work to do. See ya on the internet loves!

Vroom Vroom!

I love summer and sad it’s almost over but quite looking forward to Fall fashion and the return of tights and boots. Next weekend my friends at Notable TV invited me to the Distillery District for a weekend long event featuring cars and bands called Lexus Live at the Distillery. (Cars & bands to means there will probably be some babes.) Chum FM & Virgin 99.9 will also be hanging out along with some pretty rad Canadian talent. I love visiting this part of town. I need to take Team Boston there when they visit. Kinda reminds me of the oldness of Newbury Street.

The event is Aug 27-29 and is the Canadian Debut of a new Lexus baby called the CT 200h & Worldwide debut of the CT 200h Tour.  This is the only Canadian stop and the only chance you’ll have to check out the new ride before it comes out next year. Hope Dad reads this cause there’s also the Lexus Targa GS 450h race car. Now that’s the fast one, vroom vroom!. I’ll take one of those please!

There’s refreshments & you can catch the free shows at these times:

The Stills (Friday 7:00-8:00pm)
Lily Frost (Sat 12:00-1:00pm)
The Midway State (Sat 5:00pm-6:00pm)
Paper Lions (Sun 3:00-4:00pm)

I’ll be there for the Friday night show for sure. If you’re going, tell me. Also for a little more info check out the post on Notable TV.  This is Lexus’ second dedicated hybrid, i.e. only hybrid model and it is no gas. No gas! Bring on more hybrid!

I hope I get to sit in test drive the race car!!

the most beautiful girl, in the room

Sabrina = best.

Livin’ life in 3D baby.

#WarpedTour: guest post by @jordanrachael feat @lights @taylormomsen @OfficialAAR

Earlier this summer I sent two people as Casie Stewart Brand Ambassadors to Vans Warped Tour – Mike Albertini & Jordan Rachel. I gave them all access media & back stage. I asked Jordan to write about her experience & here it is.

I’m Jordan, reporting for casiestewart.com … Van’s Warped Tour 2010.

The Van’s Warped Tour is known to have one of the biggest set lists for any concert, with 70+ bands appearing at our hometown Toronto date, there was no shortage of genres represented.


From the smooth poppy vocals of newly acclaimed Mike Posner, to the grungy rock sound of Taylor Momsen’s band The Pretty Reckless, fans of all kind gathered to see their favourite bands.I had the opportunity to get all access, backstage, media access with my partner in crime Michael Albertini.

One of the first things Mike and I saw was a pretty tough looking dude sporting a “F**K JUSTIN BEIBER” tshirt.. (yes, spelt like that). From then on, we knew that this day would be one for the history books. The first artist we knew we had to see was Mike Posner, and as I suspected, with him came along a following of loyal fangirls. Although fairly new to the scene, or at least to my knowledge of him, he’s had a pretty steady crowd goin’ on. I guess that hit “Cooler Than Me” has really caught on!

Soon after, we hit a few other bands such as The Cab, and The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (They were insane!!!)

Then it was time for The Pretty Reckless, and most importantly for us: T.MOM!

Not gonna lie, I have been a big fan of Gossip Girl for a while now, but let me tell you I have now seen Lil’ J in a whole new light… and I loved it! She had passion, and surprisingly, she’s got pipes!! Afterward we had to meet her.. duh.

Throughout the day, we spent a little time back in the crew’s area to scope the scene..
We had encounters such as chatting with T.Mom in her pajamas, talking to Lights about her “Lights Army” and running into Tyson Ritter of the All American Rejects while he was cruisin’ on his skateboard.

Then it was back to the bands, from Mayday Parade (a personal fave) to the All American Rejects, to a childhood flashback Sum 41. Deryck Whibley hasn’t changed one bit since the old days! Apart from his split from Avril Lavinge. Our last band of the night was quite a nice change of pace, metal/hardcore band from Queens, New York, Emmure. They had one of the most insane crowds of the night, but I guess that’s what comes with the genre. The fans really do go all out.


Overall, my experience at the 2010 Van’s Warped Tour was pretty awesome, I saw some bands I’ve been dying to see for years, had the opportunity to photograph them, and even speak to a few personally.

Warped Tour ’10, you were sweet.
– Jordan Rachael (@jordanrachael)