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The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

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“Paw-sing” to de-stress

Lissette Vargas
December 22, 2014

The sidewalks surrounding the corner of 29th and Broadway in Oakland are packed with curious passersby peeping in through large floor-length windows. They peek into a cat’s paradise: scratch pads,...

A Moot Point

Katie Mullen
December 21, 2014

For a soccer player, the field is their safe place. It is where they go to blow off steam and forget about the real world for any amount of time possible. There have been tears left in the grass, blood...

Art for Profit

Chantel Genest
December 19, 2014

http://youtu.be/UEVqRgNUqTg As he works on a large scale, lavish mural project on the blight-ridden streets of West Oakland, artist Joshua Mays is approached by a local business owner. The middle-aged...

Bionic Boys and Girls

Katie Mullen
December 19, 2014

Nights are the worst; it is hard to sleep when you fear your child will never wake up. Disease does not sleep so, as a parent, you never fully sleep either. She wakes up every night, sometimes more than...

Sisters by blood or letters?

Xpress Mag Staff
December 19, 2014

Written by Farnoush Amiri & Olympia Zampathas More than sixteen thousand undergraduate women are involved in sorority hazing annually, but when asked, it is obvious that there is more percolating...

Twerk it Out

Janelle Moncada
December 19, 2014

Recently, famous entrepreneurial socialite, Kim Kardashian, “broke the internet” by releasing exclusive photos of herself posing nude for a spread that will be featured in the Winter...

Pressures of Gastric Proportions

Tami Benedict
December 19, 2014

When you turn eighteen, there are a lot of things going through your mind. You are probably receiving college acceptance letters in the mail, celebrating that you are no longer in high school, finally...

Online Radio: Changing the Broadcasting Landscape

Ivane Lund-Soyombo
December 18, 2014

In 2003, after nearly ten years broadcasting on 93.7 FM out of the basement of a residential building in the Castro, SF Liberation had their studio raided and their broadcasting equipment confiscated...

Akiba Kei gone local

Caty McCarthy
December 17, 2014

Japan has been known as land of the most hard-working people in the world, home of over two hundred flavors of Kit Kats, the anime utopia, but perhaps most notably: a mecca for quirky, diverse fashion. In...

A new oasis for SF drag

Chantel Genest
December 12, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MN_0VIOxYI&feature=youtu.be Trannyshack has spent the past twenty years performing in various venues and touring around the world, but this New Year’s Eve, San...

The last mural standing

The last mural standing

Jannelle Garcia
December 11, 2014

Culture contains the seed of resistance.  Latin music floated down the street, artists painted on wooden fences, and over one hundred people stopped to admire the vivid, aged, and descriptive murals...

The space between the panels

Nadine Quitania
December 10, 2014

A look into the comic book culture's past, present, and future... As a kid, Brian Hibbs would go to the bodega around the corner of his house in Brooklyn to check out the spinner rack full of comics....

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