Profile: Rod Clarke, Kim Koch, and The Paper Hound Bookshop
/Local bibliophiles Rod Clarke and Kim Koch tell Keagan Pearlette the story behind The Paper Hound, the bookshop they started together in downtown Vancouver.
Read MoreLocal bibliophiles Rod Clarke and Kim Koch tell Keagan Pearlette the story behind The Paper Hound, the bookshop they started together in downtown Vancouver.
Read More"Whenever someone suggests that I decide on an answer–I say, no, because this is the way it needs to be. In this day, in this hour, what does love mean to you?"
Read MoreOn the plus side, the choreography was nice, and the lead actress, Paige Fraser, was very good. She’s a zippy, talented physical comedian, and her earnest smile makes you want to believe what she’s selling.
Read MoreFor seven days each year, Vancouver becomes a spring board for emerging talents—a warm and supportive space where they can showcase their work, sometimes for the first time. Highlights from this year's Vancouver Fashion Week? We checked out Noctex, Sally Omeme, and 44511234.
Read MoreJillian Christmas is the Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words, Canada's largest alternative literary festival. In this interview with SAD Mag, she shares some of her personal experiences with the festival and offers a special sneak peek of what to expect from this year's lineup.
Read MoreMeredyth Cole reflects on diversity and plaid at the 27th annual Vancouver Fashion Week Opening Gala. This March, VFW will feature more than 100 runway shows by international and Canadian designers.
Read MoreSAD Mag’s Shannon Tien chatted with Michael DeForge about his newest graphic novel Big Kids. The duo cover a lot of ground in this sweet little interview: from teenage growing pains to philosophies of graphic representation to the challenging art of drawing “tree sex”.
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Vancouver-based photographer Holly Armishaw’s latest work is a study in contrasts. The self-portraiture series, titled “Repressions,” depicts a young woman in a white slip, interacting with viewers in tableaux of fluctuating violence.
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.