In the first episode of “The Editors Cut,” editor-in-chief Bailey Zitko and senior editor Eddie Monares sit down with Xpress senior digital editor, Bianca Sieraski, and reporter, Josh Miranda, to talk...

When Ferris Bueller performed his computer hacking feat and broke into his high school’s computer system to “excuse” one too many absences, the idea of hacking came across much more lighthearted...

Near the corner of Ocean Avenue and a mile away from campus, Lucho’s puts their own spin on brunch, combining Yucatán Peninsula cuisine with Mexican-American dishes. For the first episode of Literally...

In a fluorescent-lit classroom, where whiteboards are usually filled with mathematical equations and diagrams, Professor Mojtaba Azadi’s early-semester ritual changes that typical writing on the wall. Instead...

By 8:30 a.m., Mason Zimmerman has already placed his faith in two things: a banana and the fragile promise that today, somehow, the city won’t kill him.  He rolls out of Embarcadero Station in a...

Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln were already critical of AI’s negative effects on higher education when the CSU cut the metaphorical red satin ribbon and entered into its OpenAI contract. Nearly a year...

Men’s baseball, women’s indoor track and men’s soccer are completely different sports, but SF State put them in a position to have a common similarity: they have been terminated from the athletics...

The Prelinger Library challenges the traditional formula that conventional libraries follow: fluorescent-lit rooms lined with standardized books, sometimes digitized or enclosed collections and large-scale...

The new China Basin Park has a bit of everything: walking and cycling paths, a fenced dog park, a shaded grove of trees, a garden boardwalk, terraced seating and a sandy shoreline on McCovey Cove with...

“Do you know what normal boobs look like?” my mom asked, facing me in her closet as I sifted through her clothes. The question didn’t faze me. In our “no questions off limits” household, nothing...

By the third day of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the morning fog was still lifting as a small crowd of 60 gathered on the dewy grass. Emmylou Harris — the legendary singer-songwriter and, arguably, the...

Across the street from Martha & Bros. Coffee Co. in Noe Valley — just 18 miles from his childhood home in Oakland — Ben Fong-Torres sits in a squeaky metal chair. He’s sipping a large coffee...

Staff reporters Sarah Louie and Bailey Zitko sit down with head baseball coach Tony Schifano and seniors, infielder Justin Johnson and pitcher Nathan Shinn. Following the announcement made by the SF State...

As the scent of coffee and sound of chatter fill the Cesar Chavez Student Center, deja vu hits Chris Chatmon. He’s been here before, but not quite. Thirty years ago, Chatmon and his mother — SF State...

20th Century Philippine handbag made of Piña displayed at the SF State Global Museum. (Bailey Zitko / Xpress Magazine)

While riding the 1 Muni bus along the Embarcadero on a rainy morning, Angely Alas reached into her pocket for her student ID to pay the $2.75 rider fee. She panicked: Where’s her ID? She dug into the...

Where known and unknown faces warm the room and conversation is contagious, enter a third place. These informal gathering places where people connect over shared interests, aren’t hard to come by at...