NSFW? The image you R'd out looks about as genitalicious as a Ken doll's.

Maer, put your investor's money where your mouth is and get Miss Spiers to run this site... she'll be nice and embittered from her recent failure.

What did the founders pocket on the deal?

She makes Amanda Congdon look like Nancy Grace, and Rachel Sklar look like Christine Amanpour.

That was for the original tabloid in Montreal. The glossy NYC version came later.

It's here
http://www.rrj.ca/issue/2001/spring/332/

In the same year, Vice began courting major publishers such as Larry Flynt Publications, owner of Hustler and Rap Pages, and News Corporation, which owns the underground hip-hop label Rawkus Records, to back an expansion and redesign. There was little interest. But when the Montreal Gazette phoned, Smith told the reporter there was a bidding war between those two companies and Behaviour Publications, the company responsible for buying and revamping Shift magazine. It was a lie. When Behaviour owner Richard Szalwinski read the article, he called the boys into his office. The guys stumbled their way through some explanations and, when they were done, Szalwinski asked them to come back Monday with a valuation of their company.

Do some research, Radar: They got their funding for the magazine the same way--told a reporter a tech zillionare was interested in giving them money, and he did. They're all fucked, indeed.

That gawdawful megamix medley music tells me Radar is biased in favor of the "unabashedly gay".

Can we get a 'Where are they now' on some of the so-called hot campus sex columnists of the early '00s? How are they holding up, y'know, psychologically?