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It's Saturday January the 28 around 8:21PM and

Meet Vancouver Magazine's New Editor

A few weeks back we reported on the ousting of then editor Matthew Mallon of Vancouver Magazine. It wasn't like we danced the fox trot on this news, but some readers didn't enjoy our tough talk about Vancouver's un-fun Vanity Fair. At any rate the mag has a new editor for us to write about. Meet Gary Ross. Here's an older bio ('cause you know they don't have any information out about this yet, and no February issue either:

Gary Ross is editor of Saturday Night magazine. A former partner in the publishing firm Macfarlane Walter & Ross, he is also an award-winning magazine editor and writer. Now BC-based, he has served as a senior editor at Toronto Life and authored books, including his bestseller Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony, which was recently adapted into the film Owning Mahowny.

What we found interesting, was this bit of dirt about Ross from Antonia Zerbisias - and you know I'm scratching the bottom of the barrel when I'm quoting her. But damn if she isn't right.

Strange considering its title. You'd think that something called Saturday Night would be, in this age of celebrity and cheekiness, glammed up with Vanity Fair-style profiles and features. But no.
I could never quite put my finger on why this was -- until last month when I attended a St. Joe's film fest party for both Saturday Night and its sister publication, Toronto Life. There I met Ross who told me commuted back and forth from his home in B.C. to edit the magazine. He quizzed me at length about blogs, and I got the distinct impression that he was not as clued in about much of what was happening in the online and pop culture universe. I just didn't pick up any kind of passion from him.

Of course, I was drinking these weird blue martinis at the time so my impressions might be coloured by a vodka fog.

So on the one hand, he seems to be interested in blogs which is interesting - will Vancouver Magazine? Toronto Life wasn't - but on the other hand, he doesn't seem to be a burning fire of passion on the topic of cool. Of course, Saturday Night is defunct, again, and Ross is now in Vancouver working for a magazine that has trouble in the best of times updating its website. But for the sake of fun, let's just see what he does with it