Room with a Mew: Vancouver's First "Catfé"
/SAD Mag's Farah Tozy sits down with cat enthusiast and Catfé owner Michelle to discuss her new pawject. Vancouver's first ever cat cafe opened on Monday, December 14. Meow!
Read MoreSAD Mag's Farah Tozy sits down with cat enthusiast and Catfé owner Michelle to discuss her new pawject. Vancouver's first ever cat cafe opened on Monday, December 14. Meow!
Read More“What do you call a greenhouse with nothing growing inside?” Taylor Basso and illustrator Amelia Garvin on teenage house parties, shared joints, and one very old wandering cat. Look for more high school-themed poetry and fiction as we prepare to launch our 20th edition: High School.
Read MoreBAS is a monthly photo series at sadmag.ca. With a penchant for light erotica and general horseplay, the gang at BurnAfterShooting braves Vancouver’s seedy underbelly, striving to push the boundaries of what can be considered tasteful and proper.
Read MoreBlast from a few months ago during VIFF, SAD writer Sarah Bakke had the delight/horror of reviewing AAAAAAAAH! by Steve Oram and Jason Lei Howden's Deathgasm.
Read MoreReflections on high school by an actual high schooler. Words by Jessica Schmidt, art by Jamie Smith.
Read MoreWhen I walked into the Cultch, the greeter immediately warned that the show would be between 100-120 minutes without intermission. I beelined for the bathroom, then to the bar. Not only do they serve beer (and wine) at the Cultch, but they’ll even let you bring it to your seat inside the theatre. This evening was off to a great start.
Read MoreSAD Mag was lucky enough to chat with award-winning writer Amber Dawn about her teenage years to celebrate the upcoming launch our High School edition. Turns out, Teenage Dawn was every bit as cool as Adult Dawn, even if she didn’t know it yet.
Read MoreWhat do residents of comfortable first-world countries do when confronted with a massive and tragic refugee crisis? Trish Cooper's new play Social Studies, playing at the Firehall Arts Centre until December 5th, both dissects and celebrates our attempts to do good.
Read MoreVancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner’s latest poetry collection, sometimes, forest, approaches land as language, tracing the interconnections between nature, ecological disaster, and the human heart and soul. The collection offers a vocabulary for theorising the political and the personal at the intersection of ecology.
After a long period of rough astrological weather, November’s astrology forecast invites us to move from introspection to action. Now is the time to embrace chance and reconnect with our truth.
Leah Nelson and Sarah Leavitt shows us the labour of love, loss, and life in striking film Tangles at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2026.
In Experiments in a Failed Repair, an art exhibition that deconstructs and decolonises the monumentalisation of violence, Ghinwa Yassine challenges viewers to confront human violence through the rubble and remains of homes destroyed by war—and to imagine the lives that once existed within them.
Brett Nelson reviews The Effect, the latest production from The Cultch that explores the chemical nature of love and grapples with depression.