Photos and interview by Helen Tinna
Fantasy Makers is an East Bay adult playhouse that brings one's fetishes and fantasies to life. Photojournalist Helen Tinna interviews Patience Morgan, a professional...
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...
Words and Photos by Sara Gobets
While many students are locking themselves in their rooms or living in the library until finals are over, SF State student Brittany Moore is using study breaks to take...
Festival Review: Friday Recap
By Airha Dominguez
With temperatures in the nineties, festival-goers walk barefoot on the grass, refill their bottled waters, and reapply sunscreen after each performance. Thousands...
Written by Tami Benedict
Legendary comedian Joan Rivers died in a New York hospital Thursday, a week after going into cardiac arrest during a medical procedure.
"It is with great sadness that...
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Written by Olympia Zampathas
Photos by Brenna Cruz
For a Tuesday evening concert and over an hour and a half before the opening act is scheduled to begin, lines on...
Summer is officially here, so what better way to celebrate than with some new tunes? We’ve compiled for your listening pleasure, a rad playlist to kick off the summer. We’ll post a Soundcloud playlist...
<strong>Video by Macy Williams and Daniel A. Nelson</strong>
We traveled to El Segundo to Bill Smoth Custom Records to film vinyl records being made. Owner Kevin Smith describes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiEdH4Gjjio&feature=youtu.be
Written and filmed by Andrew Cullen
Photos by Jessica Christian
Stand at the end of Fourteenth Street in West Oakland. This neighborhood...
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Written by Marianna Barrera
Photos By Ryan Lebrich
As soon as the sun sets, the mob slowly starts to gather between Sansome and Commercial Streets. Soon hundreds of people are...
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Written by Melissa Landeros
Photos by Tony Santos
Thick, coarse, dirty, unbearable to get around—SF State design students could not help but complain about having to work with...
Written by Katie Mullen
Photo by Tony Santos
It’s a beautiful Saturday in San Francisco. The sun has come out to play and so have you. You and a group of friends decide that the only thing to...
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Written By Ben Tasner
Photos by Lorisa Salvatin
A child of two deaf parents, Meir Schneider, was born with cataracts, glaucoma, astigmatism, and nystagmus. As a young boy he...
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Written by Jessica Mendoza
Photos by Gavin McIntyre
As you walk down the streets in the Marina district, every corner you turn is bursting with restaurants showcasing the finest...
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Written and Photographed by Nicole Crittenden
Summer is here! Hopefully this means you will have a little more time to relax and enjoy San Francisco’s foggy climate (and maybe...
By Nicole Dobarro
I was naked in the darkest space I have ever been in. I willingly shut the door but my fingers refused to let go of the handle. Instead they only gripped tighter. My mind filled...
Written by Ben Tasner
Baby Boomers return to school in pursuit of facing new challenges and accomplishing life-long dreams.
In June of 1973, Anthony Maglio took off from Waco, Texas flying a freight...
Written by Nicole Crittenden
Atop the second floor in the Cesar Chavez student center lies a student organization unlike any other in the nation. The room emits life and energy as people continually...
Written by Bek Phillips
We were the Phillips Entourage. We were the lucky number seven, and all we had was each other.
During the days most siblings would go to their respective schools and say...
Written by Katie Mullen
Apparently, he was sitting right next to me with his arm around me the whole time. He wanted me to know he is always with me and he is helping my spirit navigate through the...
Written by Anais Fuentes
After losing their homeland 300 years ago, Catalans are still fighting for their independence.
For Americans, September Eleventh will always be remembered as the tragic day...
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Written by Justice Boles
Photos by Jenny Sokolova
You walk into the bottom of Cesar Chavez. You’re hungry, the smell of Ike’s and Nizario’s wafts through the room, but...
Written by Jourdon Ahn
Photographed by Gavin McIntyre
This year President Obama composed a memorandum for immediate release, addressing the harrowing prevalence of rape and sexual assault in our...
Written by Jessica Mendoza
The name Barry Bonds immediately evokes memories of steroids and legal indiscretions. He’s known as the man who took the home-run king title away from Hank...
Written and Photographed by Anais Fuentes
Beaming down from the sky with blistering heat, sun rays cover the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. This isolated desert area, about a dozen miles...
Written by Justice Boles
You have seen the trailer for Disney’s Maleficent by now. Starring Angelina Jolie. Has the badass CGI and the creepy song. You know the one… er... three. Anyways, for those...
Written by Erika Linker
"Aren't you going to eat the meat I put in there for you?"
The dreaded and familiar question had been lobbed at me before I could turn away and hide the remaining contents...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s65GbpdaL0&feature=youtu.be
Written by Katrina Andaya
Photo & Video by Tony Santos
She looks up just for a brief moment as her green and yellow hula-hoop spins...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNFcoDbBT4&feature=youtu.be
Written by Matthew Reyes Photos by Ryan Leibrich
It’s raining.
Not a welcoming mist rolling over the Bay Area on a calm winter’s...
Written by Melissa Landeros
In the summer of 2005 SF State established the Guardian Scholars Program (GSP), which would prove to be life-changing for a number of students.
The program, created to...
Written by Bek Phillips Photos by Gavin McIntyre
“I love you, mom.”
Those were the words she wrote before she emptied a full bottle of Vicodin in her hand and methodically took each pill....
Written by Ben Tasner Photos by Lorisa Salvatin
Students rest their arms and legs as they lie on the floor of a darkened dance studio. The room is an ocean, and their bodies, like softly...
Written by Katie Mullen Photos by Lorisa Salvatin
To define hip-hop as a musical genre and culture is to make sense of an oxymoron. The true essence of hip-hop resides on the continuum between...
Written by Katrina Andaya, photos by Ryan Leibrich
“The noise you are hearing is a sonic boom,” Daren Wilkerson, a semi professional whip cracker, says under his brown Indiana Jones hat.
“The...
Story By Nicole Crittenden Photo By Jenny Sokolova
Nestled between the protective arms of her mother, one-year-old Jessica Iniguez and her parents say goodbye to their home in Jalisco as they depart...
Written and illustrated by Nicole Dobarro
With a teasing view of the Golden Gate Bridge peaking out above the fog, my eyes were peeled across acres of foliage while my mind shuffled through...
By Julian Lim
Photos by Lorisa Salvatin
Only half of the emerald neon sign is on. A grouping of the center letters, which in whole spell out “Mission Cultural Center,” is nearly invisible in...
Written by Nadine Quitania
Photos by Tony Santos
In the Bay Area, the Noise Pop Festival is not only for new music discoveries, (the opening bands this year were insane) but also love and respect...
Written by Nadine Quitania
Photo courtesy of Matt Kowal-Noise Pop 2009
San Francisco’s annual Noise Pop indie music, film, and art festival is just around the corner. The week-long festival, held...
Written by Jessica Mendoza
Now that baseball season is just around the corner, Giants fans are preparing themselves for another exciting season by sporting their Giants gear and rushing the ticket...
By Nicole Dobarro
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It’s 3 a.m. and it’s been a long night of inhaling cheap whiskey, tolerating the hoots, hollers, and enduring the judgement of walking...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vlgp7uJkbU
Written by Dani Hutton
Elixir--Winter Sour--$11
Have you ever wondered what a Christmas tree tastes like? No, probably not. But, in the event that you’re...
Written by Mariana Barrera
Photos by Rebekah Didlake
From pizza lovers to commuter-students, meet the spectrum of people that roam our campus.
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Written by Jourdon Ahn
Welcome to a new kind of sex column, where we believe in a safe space for (a)sexuality that encompasses all peoples and their beautiful pussies and penises.
I’m seeking...
Words and photos by Tony Santos
Braving the open sea, wrangling wild animals from the depths of the ocean, and taking the kill home to feast upon the meat.
Ok, it’s no Deadliest Catch, but...
Words and Photos by Mike Hendrickson
Summer Fenton began snowboarding when she was four years old. By age six she was competing and had picked up her first sponsorship.
When Mammoth Mountain...
In case you’ve been living under a rock and/or aren’t an anglophile, Doctor Who, the longest running science fiction TV show, recently hit its fiftieth anniversary, complete...
Written By Xpress Magazine Staff
San Francisco is 47 square miles. Within those miles cage between skyscrapers and Victorian architecture, there’s a plethora of hole-in-the-wall bars and restaurants...
Written by Macy Williams, Jake Montero, Maggie Ortin and Matthew Reyes
It's the middle of the week, and the weekend is just past the figurative horizon. Here are some tunes the Xpress Magazine staff...
Written by Macy Williams & Sarah Todd
Photos by John Ornelas
Had midterms last week? If so, we know for a fact that you haven’t even thought about a Halloween costume. The festivities are just...
By Macy Williams and Melissa Landeros
Photos by Mike Hendrickson
Print is never easy to pull off, but with a little swagger these students mix it up. Keep your eye on campus for florals, camo...
Written by Rhys Alvarado
Photo by Mike Hendrickson
I wrote a column last semester about my single attempt at online dating and how one bad instance would forever pull me back toward the old-fashioned...
Written by Thomas Figg-Hoblyn
Photo by Ryan Leibrich
Recently I brought up the idea of writing a story about the dangers of using a cell phone because of radiation to some of my colleagues on staff,...
Written by Rhys Robinson
Photography by Gavin McIntyre
Raider Nation, I know times are tough and there may be a crisis of faith. Your days spent defending the last decade, football Sundays...
Written by Tom Rizza
Photos by John Ornelas
There is a house - a large house - on a hill in a gated community in Pleasanton. Winding through a maze of McMansions, it would be no surprise that white,...
Written Jake Montero
Photos by Dariel Medina and Sarah Todd
Every Sunday millions of Americans collectively decide to stare at their televisions for 10 or so hours, eat copious amounts of non-vegan...
Steampunk Fashion: Emily Marshall from Xpress Magazine on Vimeo.
By Lina Abascal
@linalovesit
Nestled in the industrial warehouses of the South of Market, is a subculture that combines elements...
By Lina Abascal
@linalovesit
The San Francisco State University student body is filled with active consumers of dance music, but is also a learning environment for a community of aspiring industry...
Written by Victor M. Rodriguez
@vrod18
Walking in from the busy streets of the Mission, the ambient smells penetrate the nostrils and carry a familiar coffeehouse scent. The perpetual shelves...