Kristine Sostar McLellan checked out Janeane Garofalo's JFL NorthWest show at the Rio Theatre on February 24, 2016. The verdict? It’s clear there's something special about the stand-up comedian; her strength on stage, and her connection with her fans, stems from her being exactly who she is.
Read MoreThere are movies, and then there are movies. Features so inventive and uncanny that they send you for a complete spin, unable to move on without rethinking your approach. The Lobster was one of those movies.
Read More"Utter absurdity and general discombobulation...quite the cinematic treat." Sarah Bakke reviews two bizarre JFL NorthWest Comedy Festival films: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment (2015) and Çetin İnanç's Turkish Star Wars (1982).
Read MoreUntitled art space has been around for a whole year now, and we're so impressed with everything Untitled has put together so far. After a fruitful twelve months, the gang at Untitled are excited to announce The Untitled Show: Vol II.
Read MoreEnjoy SAD Mag's top picks for Incite: a free bi-monthly event series featuring an impressive range of local, Canadian, and international authors.
Read MoreAfter telling the alarm to snooze my device blinked––a Facebook notification. It’s so-and-so’s birthday, help them celebrate by sending them a message. It took a moment for my groggy morning mind to focus and place so-and-so’s name. Then I did. So-and-so is dead.
Read MoreTrevor Noah’s performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on February 19 had the audience hurting from all the laughing and smiling. Find out what South Africa's comedy king had to say about Vancouverites in this neat little review by Sagal Kahin.
Read MoreSAD Mag's Ljudmila Petrovic reviews PostSecret, a two hour interactive show about interconnectedness, common human experiences, and, of course, secrets.
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.
