Humorist Benjamin Marquis will set the stage as Master of Ceremony of the event which will offer a number of performances by the worlds most talented Burlesque artists, such as Coco Lectric, Miss Sugarpuss, Bonbon Bombay et Michelle L’amour.

Burlesque Performer and Founder of the Festival Miss Scarlett James will grace the stage alongside special guests April March, Satan’s Angel and Tiffany Carter. “The Festival is in honor of this amazing period in time when night life was synonymous for Glamour and good times.” Says Scarlett.

A Fashion show will kick of the Festivities on the 25th, showcasing fine Parisian Lingerie from Lise Charmel as well as a sneak peak of the NEVIK Fall /Winter Collection by Montreal Designer Kevin Allwood.

The Fashion show will be followed by a music show “Oh Canada” featuring Canadian performers, headlined by Montreal’s own, singer ASHLEY KING.

This is merely just the beginning, as the whole weekend will be filled with sexy glamour at the Montreal Burlesque Festival 2011.

Visit www.montrealburlesquefestival.ca for tickets and information.

What is it about cars that evoke so much adoration from young and old, male or female… even animals love cars! Have you ever watched a car pass by with the family dog in the passenger seat, it is hard to figure out sometimes who is enjoying the ride most: the dog or the driver! Sure, there is the person who will tell you with a straight face, that cars are made to get you from point A to B, but I am sure that even this person after seeing the cars on the following pages would not help but get their heart on for the four sweet rides in KA’s car feature.

1. GOOD KARMA : The Fisker Karma

When we started this issue’s car features, we had a clear list of the cars we wanted to feature, and the 911 turbo was nowhere on this list. You see, this was an error in familiarity. The 911 Porsche was a car that I have driven in countless times and somehow even though I thought this car is definitely the best in its class, my familiarity with the Porsche made it ‘not as exotic’ in my mind. But as fate would have it, that was all to change. The director of fashion, Ashley King is a car fan (I think in some ways she is more of a fan than most guys out there), she knows what she wants and she likes them fast, very fast. So when she was given the task to choose the car for this issue’s fashion editorial entitled “Sexy Secret Agents” shot at Starlink Aviation, she wasted no time in contacting Lauzon Porsche and requesting a white Porsche 911 turbo 2010 model. You will notice that I said white, but the car on this page is black. It seems that the white was no-longer available for the photo shoot, but actually the black was Ms. King’s favorite to begin with, but how did that change my mind you ask…?

Have you ever seen a black ‘spit shined’ Porsche 911 turbo stalk up on to an eat-off-the-floor white private jet hangar? Well after this, I am sure if you had a magazine with a car section, you too would make space. Imagine that 35 years ago, when the turbo Porsche was introduced in Europe, they actually thought the market would be satiated after 500 deliveries. Now try 80,000 to be correct with no end in sight.

Since the 911 revolves around the motor, the majority of the upgrades are here. By integrating the cylinder blocks and the crankcase, the weight of the car is reduced, dedicated oil returns— ok that’s not exciting stuff, but all the tinkering around with the 2010 model’s engine, made this engine 22 pounds lighter. Now that means more fuel efficiency and actually, a faster, sexier beast.

3. JET ON WHEELS : The Maybach Landaulet

What is a Maybach? This word by itself conjures up so many things: royalty, a King from a Shakespearian novel, even at times a sorcerer in an Arthurian legend. I remember the first time I saw a Maybach, I had no way of thinking about the car in terms that was readily available in the context of cars. This car was so over the top that to start would be impossible. The price is impressive with most models starting at half a million dollars and others like the one on this page, going for over a million. What makes a car worth a million you say? To that I think I would not have the answer and as this is not the forum for answering these questions, but more to display for the sake of beauty itself. Just as the viewer will look on a beautiful painting without thinking of the price, then too the Maybach Landaulet asks the same. Do you remember the scene in Sex and the City 2 where the 4 white Maybachs pulled up to pick up the girls? Now if we suspend for a minute all the comments about the movie itself, that was definitely a cool scene (the first time).

The one – off Maybach Landaulet study lets the passengers enjoy the open-air via a retractable roof that electro-hydraulically disappears into the rear-parcel in (get this) 16 seconds flat, leaving the reinforced rear windows in place and the chauffeur’s compartment completely enclosed.

With all white — from wheels to the front white indicators and the seychelles white leather appointed interior – the “jet on wheels” is powered by the twin- turbocharged V12 engine that gives a whopping 450kW/612 hp from a displacement of 5980 cc. What does this all mean? Well basically, this thing can fly.

4. THE ONE : Aston Martin One-77

Have you ever seen an Aston Martin go fast, it is the strangest thing to witness. It’s as if there is a slow motion machine, the car just suspends time and then “vroom” it’s gone! It’s not that it even speeds past you, it just strolls at 145km per hour past you all low and growling. The Aston Martin is a study in perfection; a car that seems to defy conventional wisdom and succeed where others have failed terribly. Lets see, build it by hand: check. Build it in limited quantity: check. Every now and then, build only 77 – that’s it, that’s all, and put a price tag of over one million on it: check, check, check.

The sight of “the One” our loving name for the new Aston Martin one-77 is as mind blowing as the first sight of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. You can’t and I mean, you cannot seem to take your eyes off her. There is something silent, haunting, brooding and unfair about such a thing not coming back home with you. It is not a wonder that this vehicle feels less like a car and more like a vehicular art form. Yes, I think this should become a new word: “vehicular art form”. The car is based on a sophisticated carbon fiber chassis with a hand crafted aluminum body, making the 7.3 litre V12 super, possibly the only Aston Martin (while on slow motion passing stealth mode) seem well, invisible to the naked eye. With 77 of them to be produced in the world, the chance of seeing one is practically impossible, but we are pleased to have it here on the pages of KA giving you this rare glimpse of “The One”.

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The KA collection consists of beautiful rings, a tennis bracelet and a circle of life pendant, all in semi-precious “life” stones. Proceeds from sales will go to the My Jamaican Heaven foundation —

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Imagine a time when the earth was pure. And imagine a time, tens of thousands of years ago, when all of earth’s water was original, untouched, and absolutely perfect. Imagine water absorbed by the clean atmosphere, and then falling as snow. More snow falls and, it becomes compressed, becomes ice and, as thousands of years pass, it is locked deep and safe inside Greenland’s frozen heart. The heart beats, the ice moves, and gradually it breaks away and an iceberg is born.

Icebergs melt – this is a natural phenomenon that has been going on for thousands of years. And when they melt, they add fresh water to ocean water. There is scientific concern that too much fresh water melting into salt ocean water may have long term effect such as raising sea levels, and/or making natural ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream, behave differently. Therefore preventing too much ice melting into the sea is a good thing. However, compared to the total amount of iceberg ice melting every year, the ice captured for GLACE Rare Iceberg Water is literally a drop in the ocean.

GLACE, harvested directly from the icebergs, is so exquisitely pure, you will never have experienced anything like it.

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BVLGARI BLV

BLV Eau de Parfum II is inspired by a modern vision of the colour blue that suggests the extremely natural
character of the fragrance and at the same time reveals its intense, sophisticated side.  The name -BLV
Eau de Parfum II – conveys both conceptual and formal richness, capturing the evocative power of the
Bulgari brand and becoming an ideal anagram of the essence of the contemporary jeweller.

Classification: This is a positive, reassuring fragrance, able to bring opposites together: freshness
and naturalness on the one side, and a highly intense perfuming effect on the other.

Characteristics: This creation is based on essential things, on the foundation stones of perfumery:
amber, iris, musks, wood, patchouli flowers, violets.

Top note: Head notes of luminous violet delicately blended with subtle, airy hints of star anise and
liquorice and brightened by fresh, light, frosty mandarin.

Middle note: The heart notes conceal an unexpected soul - iris absolute, an exclusive
floral touch – blended with a warm, woody base enhanced by Haitian vetiver,
which gives BLV Eau de Parfum II an elegant exotic touch. Before evolving into the
base notes, the fragrance is enriched with intense patchouli flower, an original
diversion that accompanies the final moments of the essence.

Base note: An unusual sensual accord of three amber notes, where the sensuous
caress of benzoin blends with the suggestive intensity of ambergris and the cistus
flower and ends with the velvety tones of musk, the last irresistible sensation.

CREED LOVE IN WHITE

Worn and enjoyed by not one, but two, First Ladies of the United States, Love In White evokes
America’s most visible and influential women. It is the first CREED fragrance ever to debut in
the USA, as opposed to France. On the night of November 16, 2005, the exterior lights of the
Empire State Building were pure white in honor of the debut of Love In White. The fragrance
takes its name from Mr. CREED’s love of sailing.

Classification: Floral / Oriental

Characteristics: Hand-made with ingredients of rare quality from five continents.
A worldly mix of blossoms in the hands of Mr. CREED becomes a fragrance at once
exclusive and welcoming.

Top note: Orange zest from southern Spain.

Middle notes: Young iridescent rice husk from Tonkin in the south Asian seas; iris
from Egypt; white jasmine from the Italian coast; daffodils from the French Riviera
; magnolia from the mountains of Guatemala; and Bulgarian rose.

Base notes: Vanilla from the island of Java; ambergris from Calabria; sandalwood
from Mysore, India.

Comparatives: Sublime Vanille, Vanisia, Jasmin Imperatrice Eugenie, Acqua Fiorentina

CREED SUBLIME VANILLE

The first in a new CREED collection called Royal Exclusives, CREED Sublime Vanille
is an investment-quality fragrance and object of art from master perfumer Olivier
CREED and his son, Erwin. The new collection is one of the most ambitious projects
in CREED’s 249 years, a statement to the aesthetic world about the legacy, quality and
collectability of fragrance as art.

Classification: Exotic vanillas hand blended with light citrus and rare musk

Characteristics: Rich with fine vanilla, a most beloved fragrance element across all
times, places and cultures: a truly enduring ingredient. The packaging honors
perfumery’s finest traditions, still practiced by CREED: hand-blown Pochet glass
bottle etched with CREED’s crest, multi-faceted cut glass stopper that turns bottle
into sculpture and gold-and-fabric pump for releasing scent.

Top note: Vanilla from climbing orchids of Tahiti, heady Bourbon vanilla of South
America.

Middle note: Luscious Tonka bean for profound depth.

Base note: A touch of bergamot orange for a citrus accent with a bracing dab of
Calabrian lemon. Rare musk.

Comparatives: Vanisia, Love In White, Original Santal

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Richard Branson has announced plans to take passengers on flights into space with the Virgin Galactic.

Only for a few minutes, but with a view like no other — this is the ride of the future. Full Feature in 2nd issue of KA MAGAZINE

Singer Ashley King sits in for the KA Magazine Advertising Shoot of the Hjellegjerde Baloo Chair.

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F I S K E R K A R M A

AIMED AT THE CAR LOVER AND THE LOVER OF LIFE “ALL LIFE” THE FISKER KARMA HITS THE BULLS EYE — CEO HENRICK FISKER ; A MAN KA WANT’S TO TALK TO —

I remember being at my new favorite spa in Montreal and after a few minutes of small talk I couldn’t help myself, I had to start talking about the Karma; My car, well not as yet my car but the car that I knew will be mine, with the same longing that we all remember having on that bicycle or Allison when we were in 4^th grade.

I told her about how this car was designed by the man that was (( designer of my other girlfriend; Austin Martin ))) , how the car had the lines of a race car and the ass of well a great car. I was raving on the fuel efficiency of this my dream car (100mpg) , the solar panels on the roof that made it seem, so future and yet achingly familiar all at the same time. She stared at me and it was then I realized, that even though I was excited this excitement was not fully transferred . Disappointment started to creep in and I, about to change the subject when my lady asked me wide eyed.

“that sounds great Mr. Allwood but is it fast.

I smiled ….

Yes very, very fast…

Interview with Henrick Fisker

KA Magazine March issue