Ghetto Vision

Attitude goes a long way toward creating the visual, visceral writing and serious urban sensibility that Ghetto Vision lays claim to. It’s a good thing that their low-budget news-print pages aren’t pretty — Ghetto Vision is calculated to offend, and it might be disastrous for them to attract people used to the slick, bland, boring pages of many of Toronto’s other ‘life-style’ magazines. Regular features in #2 include what the Ghetto boys call ‘Goods’. Among other things this section sports a review of Reeses Peanut Butter Puffs Cereal, and a memorable reassessment of the Choose Your Own Adventure book series. The other articles are also stellar. Alex J. Ferron documents the way Toronto’s Skydome works in cahoots with the scalpers to keep people like us out of ball-games. Jove Cana presents a cartoon reenactment of the Just Deserts murder/robbery that marks out Ghetto Vision territory better than anything: this is an angry magazine that makes the mistrust and disgust of young people in Toronto a reality. The fact that many of these articles blur the division between fiction and eye-witness journalism only serves to make Ghetto Vision more credible: let the main-stream news-mags cling to the false division between writer and reporter.

magazine / Publishers: Alex J. Ferron/Kirby Stasyna / Main creators: Alex J. Ferron, Kirby Stasyna / $1.95 per, $20.00 for 12 issues / 689 Queen St. West, Suite 58 Toronto, ON M6J 1E6

 

 

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