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Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

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...

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...

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...

28/28L 19th Avenue changes at the expense of others

Jannelle Garcia
November 18, 2014

Disapproval of the new bus route was made clear by community members at the Muni Forward 28/28L19th Ave Rapid Project open house, at Mercy High School on Thursday, November 6th. A total of fifty-one...

Faded Finds: a mobile fashion boutique

Hillary Smith
November 17, 2014

San Francisco residents invade Dolores Park every weekend to soak up the sun (when it is around) and visit with friends. Vendors sell jewelry, soap and crafts from small booths or vehicles lining the park. On...

Golden Gate Bridge officials urge for bridge toll

Katie Mullen
November 10, 2014

The Golden Gate Bridge: a San Francisco icon, a world traveler’s destination, and most importantly, a means of getting from one side of the bay to the other. It seems that people may have forgotten that...

Two Sisters Bar and Books – a place for couples and not books

Jannelle Garcia
November 6, 2014

Soft jazz, low lighting, yellow wallpaper with Japanese families dressed in kimonos, and the amount of couples are the first things that one notices when they enter Two Sisters Bar and Books. The...

‘Bad Dads,’ an art tribute to Wes Anderson’s charming films

Catherine Uy
November 1, 2014

Hundreds dressed as their favorite Wes Anderson film character for the fifth annual “Bad Dads” art show and Halloween costume party at Spoke Art. This year, the San Francisco gallery showcased...

Ten Things Not to Do on Halloween

Alec Fernandes
October 31, 2014

San Francisco has lots of frightful fun happening all over the city this Halloween. But even though there are many events to choose from, here is a list of ten things to avoid doing tonight: 1....

La Cocina gets small businesses cooking

Ivane Lund-Soyombo
October 31, 2014

When Cristina Avantes moved to San Francisco in 1999, the move was intended to be a change from her everyday life in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “I came to study fundraising and administration for nonprofits,”...

Fans wait on Market Street in anticipation of seeing the 2014 World Series Champions. |Photo by Dani Hutton

Quest For Three: Giants Parade Livestream in SF

Tami Benedict
October 31, 2014

We're live at the Giants Parade today, check it out. Remember to tweet @tamimarieb and talk with me on the stream!

Talking Dead with the Walking Dead

Michael Leri
October 30, 2014

It had been years since the outbreak. I had not seen an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia since the start of the apocalypse. Mac had just lost his "mass" and Frank did not want to do the...

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