Jasmine Ochoa aka Love Angel ‘Gata’ is an Airbrush Technician from San Bruno, Ca. Since starting her journey as a small business entrepreneur in 2021, her art has reached people all around the Bay...
Chloe Little sits on the edge of a red rolling chair in the corner of their bedroom studio, flanked by MIDI keyboards and audio cables. Beside them sits Babytron, a modular synth made from a plastic baby...
At 56 years old, Lisa Martin has a full set of dentures. She had all of her teeth pulled at once, after nearly nine years of active alcoholism and a lifetime of oral neglect. Separate from her substance...
Cat·fish
/ˈkatˌfiSH/
INFORMAL•US
Lure (someone) into a relationship by means of a fictional online persona
“Mary DiCarlo was being catfished for the second time.”
She wants to go...
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday as London Deutsch’s classroom starts to fill with smoke and the smell of burning chemicals. Today, her class is testing different fabrics’ reactions to flames. Students...
*This story uses widely-known stage names to protect the identity of the dancers and sex workers*
Andy Rose nervously stands backstage behind a velvet red curtain in her light up rainbow pleasers, pounds...
Miguel Francesco Carrion, Staff Photographer October 15, 2022
On an early Saturday morning, thick fog covered Daly City like a large weighted blanket, and Mayor Rod Daus-Magbual got ready to start his day.
First on the agenda was a literature drop around the...
In April 2022, the band Obsolete Man played for a surging crowd of punks at Church of the Buzzard, an old warehouse in Oakland. The show had everything — from the smell of pungent body odor to old punks...
Caroline Vanzandt, Staff Writer September 16, 2022
Fall is in full swing. The air is hot with the last breaths of summer, and students are back on SF State’s soil in the largest numbers since the pandemic. But how are the school’s newest faces handling...
When her alarm goes off at 7 a.m., Serena Gomez reaches for the snooze button. She lays in bed for another thirty minutes, pondering life and how she made it through another day. At 7:30 a.m., she gets...