{"id":694,"date":"2026-08-31T11:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/?p=694"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:07:32","slug":"newzapalooza-2026-is-all-set-for-nov-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Newzapalooza 2026 is all set for Nov. 14!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newza-2026-Insta-promo-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-695\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newza-2026-Insta-promo-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newza-2026-Insta-promo-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newza-2026-Insta-promo-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newza-2026-Insta-promo-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newza-2026-Insta-promo.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TORONTO, ON-TAAAAAA-RI-O \u2014 Kiddies, save the date for this year&#8217;s edition of Newzapalooza, also known  as &#8220;The Media Event of the Year,&#8221; hosted on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Hard to believe it&#8217;s now 22 years since a bunch of Toronto-area hacks with musical talent of varying degrees first left their newsroom day jobs behind to compete in a media battle of the bands extravaganza, but here we are. We&#8217;re back at it with another special live karaoke band edition, featuring the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanwhitlock.ca\/theapproximators\">The Approximators<\/a>. True to our roots, it&#8217;s a night to sing, cheer and have fun with colleagues and friends of Newzapalooza. Spread the word!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deets:\u00a0<strong>Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026 at <a href=\"https:\/\/theduketoronto.com\">The Duke on Queen St. E<\/a><\/strong> A benefit for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cafdn.org\/\"><strong>Children\u2019s Aid Foundation of Canada<\/strong><\/a>, as always. It\u2019s for the kids!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tixtree.com\/e\/newzapalooza-2026-live-band-karaoke-7afd17b738f1\">available here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, ON-TAAAAAA-RI-O \u2014 Kiddies, save the date for this year&#8217;s edition of Newzapalooza, also known as &#8220;The Media Event of the Year,&#8221; hosted on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Hard to believe it&#8217;s now 22 years since a bunch &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/?p=694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}