New Toronto blogger: Rob Salerno

Please welcome Xtra.ca’s new Toronto blogger, Rob Salerno. Rob is a writer, theatre artist and regular contributor to Xtra and Xtra West. He also started Xtra.ca’s first blog back in 2007 – the Daily Roundup (now written by Scott Dagostino). We’re glad to have him back, and he will be posting his first entry shortly.

You can still follow Johnny Wacker online at sissydude.blogspot.com, for your regular dose of hotarious, vintage hotness!

Brent Creelman,
Xtra.ca web editor

Rob Salerno is a playwright and journalist whose writing has appeared in such publications as Vice, Advocate, NOW and OutTraveler.

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