Zoomer Magazine

10/09/2025

September is here – even for grown-ups it has that expectant back-to-school feel in the air. No wonder there are so many exciting offerings on the small screen: the month is absolutely stacked with new streaming series. We've curated a few of our fav suggestions. And → we want to know what TV shows you are watching? 📺

September arrives – even for grown-ups – with that expectant back-to-school feel in the air. No...

09/09/2025

Clear space on the bedside table - the fall literary season is coming in strong right out of the gate with long-awaited new novels. We've curated the 13 best books to read in September. 📚 ↓

The 13 Best Books to Read in September

03/09/2025

Play It Again: this weeks edition of Zoomer’s trivia challenge brings you back to the golden age of toys – talking dolls, electric train sets, plastic soldiers or classic boardgames. Give our toy test a try. ⬇︎

Most children today spend their free time playing games on one of their many smart devices....

28/08/2025

On her 60th Birthday, the Shaniassance is in full swing and about so much more than nostalgia. It's tempting to say that Shania Twain walked so that Swift and so many other modern performers could run. 🎉 Happy Birthday Shania! ⬇︎

The TikTok challenge launched in 2021, set to Lukas Graham’s hit country song of the...

20/08/2025

Should people rely so heavily on online reviews? The answer to this question is nuanced. Academic research has shown there are many reasons to suspect reviews are not quite as valuable as they may seem. 🛍️⬇︎

Imagine you’re looking to buy a new grill. You want to make sure you purchase a well-built,...

19/08/2025

Deborah Cox has long since been a wine-lover, but (still) doesn’t consider herself much of a sommelier. Making her own wine, in fact, never crossed the singer’s mind until some unforeseen free-time allowed it. ⇩🍷

At Toronto’s impossibly grand Casa Loma, stars sparkling through the garden’s glass pavilion,...

18/08/2025

This weekend many of us were saddened to hear of the passing of Tristan Rogers. In the coveted circle of the soap opera world - Tristan was a STAR! His portrayal of the iconic Robert Scorpio on General Hospital was a master class. He appeared in 1,400 episodes of GH (over 45 years!) and was introduced in a riveting nail-biting 1980s plot line that remains best-in-class. He also blazed a trail on Y&R for almost a decade as con artist Colin Atkinson. ⭐️ Rest in Peace Tristan. [1946-2025] /

18/08/2025

Social media continues to change our language. Cambridge Dictionary has officially added , and to their dictionary for this year. (Along with 1000's of other word words). Go ahead, use one of those in a sentence - if you're not GenZ. 😊 If you insist, we'll give it a try ➪ "that's so skibidi" 😬 Cambridge Dictionary

14/08/2025

To mark the 56th anniversary of Woodstock – which ran from Aug. 15 to 18 – we revisit Zoomer's 2019 story reflecting on the iconic rock festival’s 50th anniversary. In the slow march of milestones that loom for a generation of a certain age, Woodstock defies nostalgia on so many levels it’s head-spinning. ⬇︎☮️ ZoomerRadio

To mark the 56th anniversary of Woodstock – which ran from Aug. 15 to 18 – we revisit Zoomer...

13/08/2025

We've made our picks for August's hottest reads: ride out the heat wave with the month's coolest (new) novels that feature a
'reissue' and a long-awaited English translation. ⇩📖

Ride out the heat waves with the month’s coolest new novels

11/08/2025

Turns out being an Oscar-winning actor isn’t the only thing Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and Russell Crowe have in common. They all dig dinosaurs and have spent hundreds of thousands in order to own a prehistoric bone or two. ⬇︎🦖🦕

Turns out being an Oscar-winning actor isn’t the only thing Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and...

08/08/2025

Whether you first watched 'summer blockbusters' in the theatres when they came out or caught them on streaming services since, test your knowledge of the summer escape blockbusters with our latest Zoomer trivia challenge. ⬇︎🎬

When the smash-hit movie Jaws hit the big screens and frightened theatre-goers in June of 1975, a...