front page of Now
Type	Weekly alternative newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Now Communications Inc
Publisher	Michael Hollett
Editor	Alice Klein,
Founded	1981
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Website: www.nowtoronto.com

NOW is an alternative newsweekly in Toronto, Canada published by Now Communication Inc .While officially named NOW Magazine, it is physically a tabloid-sized newspaper, printed on newsprint. It is distributed for free at circulation points in Greater Toronto, particularly in downtown Toronto. Its weekly readership was measured to be approximately 395,000 in Print Measurement Bureau 2006. An alternative weekly, alternately referred to as an alternative newsweekly or alternative newspaper, is a form of alternative media newspaper found in many centres in the United States and Canada. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Newsprint is low-cost, low-quality, non-archival paper. ... The Greater Toronto Area (called the GTA by local residents) is the largest metropolitan area in Canada. ... Print Measurement Bureau (PMB) is a non-profit Canadian company that specialises in gathering statistics about print media readership. ...

History

NOW was first printed on September 10, 1981 by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein along with several other former members of the Socialist League (also known as the Forward Group) such as Wayne Roberts, the former editor of Forward. While vaguely left-wing, NOW was intended not as a socialist paper but as an alternative weekly mixing arts and entertainment news with political coverage. With rare exceptions, it endorses members of the New Democratic Party for federal, provincial and municipal office. September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Hollett is co-founder and co-owner of Torontos longest-running free alternative newsweekly, Now Magazine and Now Communications Inc. ... Alice Klein is a is co-founder and co-owner of Torontos longest-running free alternative newsweekly, Now Magazine and Now Communications Inc. ... The Socialist League was a Canadian Trotskyist group fromed in 1974 by Ross Dowson and approximately twenty other former members of the League for Socialist Action after their faction was defeated at the 1973 LSA national convention. ... Wayne Roberts is a Toronto journalist who helped found the magazine Now in 1981. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Left-Right politics. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique in French) is a political party in Canada with a social democratic philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels. ...

NOW has been online since 1996, first as now.com and then as nowtoronto.com since 2000.

The Toronto Star launched eye weekly in 1991 as a competitor to NOW. As of 2006 NOW continues to have a greater circulation and is more widely read. The Toronto Star is Canadas highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. ... eye weekly is an alternative newsweekly newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

NOW is also a central sponsor and its owners hold an ownership stake in North by Northeast, a major annual music festival in Toronto. North by Northeast (or NXNE) is an annual 3-day live music festival and music conference in Toronto, Ontario held the second weekend each June. ... A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ...

Content

Syndicated content in NOW includes Dan Savage's Savage Love sex advice column, Rob Brezsny's Real Astrology, Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comeek and Matt Groening's Life in Hell. Prominent columnists include feminist activist and author Susan G. Cole who has recently been touring college campuses debating the merits of pornography with porn actor Ron Jeremy, Don Wanagas, Mike Smith, film critics Cameron Bailey and John Harkness, Joseph Wilson, and Tim Perlich. Dan Savage, in what he has described as an extremely flattering press photo of me (I wish I looked like the picture on my Wikipedia page) [1] Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964[2] near Chicago, Illinois) is an openly gay American sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist... Rob Brezsny is an American astrologist, writer, and musician. ... Lynda Barry (born January 2, 1956) is an American cartoonist. ... Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon; his family name is pronounced , rhymes with complaining) is an Emmy-winning American cartoonist and the creator of the American animated television series The Simpsons [1] and Futurama, as well as the comic strip Life in Hell. ... Life in Hell is a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening. ... Ron Jeremy (born Ron Hyatt on 1953-03-12) is an American adult film actor currently residing in Long Island, New York. ...

Controversy

Partly financed by extensive personal ads and sexual service ads, NOW became the subject of an unprecedented and unusual police raid on August 31, 1990. NOW's publishing company was charged with solicitation —"communicating for the purposes of prostitution" — through the "sex ads." The charges were eventually dropped. The same personal ads were a source of contention for North York mayor Mel Lastman who said he didn't understand them and for this reason banned NOW from being distributed at North York City Hall. However, the magazine was still available at the library which was housed in the same building. A personal or personal ad is an item or notice traditionally in the newspaper, similar to a classified ad but personal in nature. ... The sex industry is the term given to the industry formed of commercial enterprises which employ men and women in various capacities, generally relating to what is described as adult entertainment or erotica, as it comprises a number of forms of entertainment not considered suitable for children. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... Solicitation is a crime; it is an inchoate offense that consists of a person inciting, counseling, advising, urging, or commanding another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime. ... Whore redirects here. ... North York forms the central part of the northern half of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Melvin Douglas (Mel) Lastman (born March 9, 1933) was the mayor of the former city of North York, Ontario, Canada from 1972 until 1997. ...

External links

• NOW online edition