“It’s Christ-like, he thinks. The way he moves over the pavement, gliding up and down hills without expending any energy, just like Jesus did over that lake or whatever. Jesus never exerted himself when going anywhere and neither should he, he thought. All made in his image, right?”
Read MoreA girl, younger than he, watched confused. She threw her hands in the air as if to say “what’s wrong with you, boy?” She patted him on the head but he continued to sob.
Read MoreUnfortunately, there was one issue with his tribute: the subject wasn’t dead yet. They wouldn’t be dead for a while either.
Read More"Yeah, cauterized. Whatever. Anyways. So crazy.” You know you've heard that person, you may have even been that person. This week's POBE tackles the loud, hot, and obnoxious.
Read MoreThe airport’s fire alarm had been going off for nearly twenty minutes before I finally started getting into its rhythm. Not once did anyone around seemed worried by the 90s drum-and-bass styled warning for us to get to safety.
Read MoreIn January police closed a street in Florence, Alabama, after a suspicious package was found outside of the local courthouse. The package turned out to be a bag of hotdogs.
Read MoreOne of the tenets of people watching is the search for answers to those wildly inconsequential questions that float on the surface of our daily tedium like lily pads, this particular one decked out in Juicy Couture.
Read MoreOne by one we held the fragrant slips of paper to our faces. With one movement of her brow the woman behind the counter let me know she thought I was an idiot.
Read MoreJill Goranson and Kelsi James presents Burn Blue, a multidisciplinary performance, at the 2026 Vancouver Fringe Festival, exploring water, memory, migration and colonisation, and the meaning of home through dance, music, poetry, and puppetry.
Blue Heron director and guest curator or VIFF's "Leading Lights" series, Sophy Romvari, sits down with SAD Mag to discuss the series, her reflections on Blue Heron and the unique powers of film as an art form.
October’s astrology forecast invites us into the shadows, asking us to sit with uncomfortable emotions and face the darker sides of our relationships. Now is the time to reflect deeply, embrace solitude and emerge with a better understanding of ourselves.
Doretta Lau’s debut novel We Are Underlings pulls no punches with its takedown of hypercapitalist corporations and the class dynamics of workers, managers and executives within a corporate structure, nor with its exploration of the meaning of life and death under late-stage capitalism. At the centre of the novel is Zita Chang, an associate marketing manager at the Nine Circles, a theme park devoted to death and the afterlife, whose coworkers begin turning up dead just weeks before the park’s grand opening.
Explore Tombolo Make-Believe Mall, a pop-up children’s art gallery by Anita Cheung and Ryleah Resler, featuring whimsical storefronts, interactive activities, workshops, and artworks from young local artists in Vancouver, running from September 18-26.
