The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

A guide to SF’s most haunted places

Lissette Vargas
October 28, 2014

Walking down into an empty dark basement as a child in Chicago, Jim Fassbinder experienced his first ghost encounter. He began to play with the shadow of a man on the wall, a man who was nowhere in...

Hand forged and handmade, a look into the world’s oldest art form

Lissette Vargas
October 27, 2014

It starts off as a flat copper disk. A steady stream of blue and purple fire bursts out of the blowtorch in her hand, melting the solid metal she holds up with tongs. With a heavy hammer she pounds...

Girl on Fire

Lissette Vargas
October 24, 2014

During the Iron Age, blacksmiths rapidly moved up the ranks of society due to their important role in village survival. They worked with the fire from a two thousand degree forge to pound...

‘Mortified’: a night of humiliation

Lissette Vargas
October 22, 2014

Six hundred and fifty people crowded the DNA Lounge last Friday where brave adults stepped behind a microphone to share excerpts from their humiliating childhood diaries, journals, and love letters. Gray,...

Happy Safe Sex-ing, SF State

Lissette Vargas
September 30, 2014

“Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die.”   Coach Carr instilling fear in the teenagers of America in 2004’s Mean Girls is the first thing that comes to mind when I think...

Hazing Tragedy Shakes Bay Area Greek Life

Lissette Vargas
September 16, 2014

Along Malcolm X Plaza, fraternities and sororities set up booths to advertise Fall “rush,” where prospective students participate in a recruitment period in hopes of gaining an invitation to the...

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