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The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

Half of Dolores Park to close for renovations

Anais Fuentes
December 5, 2014

A place where drugs and alcohol are as commonly seen as puppies and babies. Where hippies, drug dealers, musicians, and families can all be found sharing the same sixteen-acre space with each other....

Q&A with Creative Action Network co-founder Max Slavkin

Jannelle Garcia
December 4, 2014

Max Slavkin, twenty-seven and an LA native, is the co-founder of the small startup Creative Action Network. The startup is a website that runs a crowdsourced campaign and sells prints, apparel, and...

Greeks call to cancel how MTV sees Growing up Greek

Greeks call to cancel how MTV sees “Growing up Greek”

Olympia Zampathas
December 3, 2014

Just when society thought that they had been freed from the grasp that was "Jersey Shore," MTV has come up with its newest, and possibly more offensive, sequel "Growing up Greek." As someone who is...

Healthy food for the broke college student

Calla Camero
December 3, 2014

Now that Thanksgiving is over, the leftovers are running out, and we are returning to our normal routines of school, work, and (if you are like me) a very small budget for food, it is time for the college...

An open letter to Facebook Analysts, re: Ferguson

Dani Hutton
December 3, 2014

America the free, the beautiful, the progressive. Unless you happen to be a young black man, then you are automatically a thief. Or a rapist. Or a murderer, and general delinquent who smokes weed, and...

Drinking to get through the holidays

Lissette Vargas
December 3, 2014

The smell of pumpkin spice, peppermint, and pine lingers in the air. Empty red Starbucks cups fill the trash bins, and Christmas carols are blasting from every speaker in town. It’s hard to escape the...

Now Kourtney Kardashian is trying to break the internet

Tami Benedict
December 3, 2014

A pregnant and almost naked Kourtney Kardashian graced our computer screens today as word broke that the oldest Kardashian had posed nude for DuJour magazine. Now as we all remember, Kim Karadashian...

Caught in the crossfire of Ferguson Protests

Lissette Vargas
December 2, 2014

On New Year’s Day in 2009, twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant was shot and killed by a BART police officer at Fruitvale station. On February 26, 2012, just shy of his seventeenth birthday, Trayvon Martin...

San Francisco gives us a reason to feel crabby

Lissette Vargas
December 1, 2014

Eighteen hours before the official start date of San Francisco’s crab season, fisherman on the bay dropped their crab pots in preparation for its launch. The San Francisco Bay is home to the Dungeness...

Top Five Holiday Movies that can get you into the Holiday Spirit

Janelle Moncada
December 1, 2014

Thanksgiving has passed and the Black Friday mayhem is finally over. The turkeys and pumpkin pies will now have to wait another year until their popularity can rise once again. For now, it is time...

Justin Timberlake rocks Oracle Arena for his 20/20 tour

Tami Benedict
November 27, 2014

Hundreds lined up in the cold last Saturday, waiting for the doors of Oracle Arena to open to get them one step closer to seeing boy band hottie, Justin Timberlake. Timberlake has come a long way...

Beats n’ Stuff #6: polygonal melodies

Caty McCarthy
November 27, 2014

  Hey guys! It has been two weeks, which means it is time for another Beats n’ Stuff. In this week’s column, I spotlight some tunes from some of my favorite video game soundtracks. From...

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The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University
Fall 2014