Issue 6 of Sad Mag is fast approaching! Until the release party this Thursday, read an excerpt from Kaitlin McNabb’s article on the Chinatown Casino.

In between the discount T-shirt store and sparse strip mall in Chinatown is an abandoned building once ripe with insurance bureaus. The doors are barred, the windows are papered and graffitied, and the fragrant musk of regret lingers at each entrance. But above the cracked plastic awning hangs a worn neon sign. Its colour, slightly faded, still glimmers. Its relaxed, scrawled lettering seems the epitome of a good time—Chinatown Casino Third Floor.

-Kaitlin McNabb

Photography: Krista Jahnke