Words: Emily Gadd
Photos: Tearsa Joy Hammock
Right on the edge of the Financial District in San Francisco is a small store that sells medicine for all kinds of ailments like insomnia, chronic pain,...
Words: Kelly Leslie
Photos: Jessica Worthington
Ryan Card stands between eight-foot-tall glass dividing walls that separate the rooms of the small office building he works in, located on the two hundred...
Words: Kenny Redublo
Photos: Godofredo Vasquez
The propane tanks hiss as they pump fuel into the burners. Steam comes out of every boiling pot as they cook the day's batch of broth. Bins of hand...
Words: Babak Haghighi
Photos: Alejandrina Hernandez
Bob Flasher’s RPT 520 class is not your typical lecture. Flasher, or “Flash” as students call him, is not your typical lecturer. And SFSU’s...
Words: Ben Pack
Photos: Virginia Tieman
When I woke up on October 10th I wondered two things. If the Giants had avoided elimination against the Reds, and why my room was so damn hot. A nurse...
Words: Molly Sanchez
Santa Claus is not supposed to take interviews. The official “Guide to Santa MEDIA Questions and Answers” put out by GGP Corporate Communications stipulates in screaming...
Words: Ruby Perez
Photos: Andy Sweet
A thick layer of cigarette smoke hangs above the outdoor area of San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill as concertgoers cluster tightly next to one...
Words: Babak Haghighi & Molly Sanchez
Photos: Babak Haghighi
Sharon Houston, a dark-haired comic from Los Angeles, stands in the oval of light cast on the dark stage of a Mission District...
Words & Photos: Kelly Leslie
The sun has yet to awaken, but a sea of residents from the Bernal Heights neighborhood flood Alemany Boulevard farmers’ market with empty produce baskets, determined...
Words: Emily Gadd
Photos: Jamie Valaoro
The smell of freshly bound books filling the air of a bookstore; the yellowed pages of old books in a library; the sound of fingers rubbing against two pages...
Words: Ruby Perez
Photos: Alejandrina Hernandez, Andy Sweet & Ruby Perez
The below information is a personal commentary by Ruby Perez on each location. She sat down with SF State’s...
Words and Photos: Jennifer Sandoval
San Francisco is a city for foodies. More than any other American city, San Francisco has the highest per capita of restaurants, putting even New York to shame....