Club Six showcases interactive art show “So You Think You Can Paint?”
Geordan Mallory didn’t come to Club Six for just drinks when she and her friend got paint smeared on their clothes while creating a surreal portrait of a dinosaur and a squid using…
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church hosts weekly Sunday Night Mic event
On Sunday mornings, the large wooden doors of the St. Luke’s Espiscopal Church open for their Holy Eucharist and worship with Rector Dana Corsello. But, on Sunday nights, they open for a different reason:…
SF State’s Runway 2012 fashion show showcases secondhand clothing
Armed with scissors, pins and sewing machines, students in the Advanced Apparel Design Problems class transformed clothing they found at a Goodwill store into new and trendy outfits that will grace the runway…
ASI-sponsored Rhythms Music Festival kicks off tomorrow in the Annex
It all started as a joke three years ago. When one SF State student should have been studying, he instead made a Facebook group titled “If 15,000 people join this group then the…
“CockTales” facilitates open expression of masculinity and fatherhood
In Latin cultures, machismo is defined by pride, physical strength and power, but 22-year-old Abel Gomez Jr. takes pride in something else: his queer identity. It wasn’t always this way, Gomez kept his…
Sf State theatre arts extends annual One-Act Fringe Festival
Most playwriting students at SF State never get to see their creations come to life on stage with actors, design or sound. This is exactly why Roy Conboy, head of the playwriting program…
PHOTOS: SF State poetry organization creates room for student expression
For junior Imani Cezanne, writing poetry is like saying a prayer. She likes it to be completely silent, so she can feel the words come to her as she puts them down on…
San Francisco’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade celebrates 161 years and attracts thousands
Whether it was the fear of being pinched or the pure spirit of Irish culture, hundreds of people gathered alongside the streets of downtown San Francisco adorned in green feathered boas, sparkly shamrock…
Disposable Film Festival celebrates innovative filmmaking for fifth year running
In 2005, CVS drugs stores released a disposable video camera. The small one-time-use device cost $30, and could shoot 20 minutes of standard quality film. Afterward it would be returned to the drug…
“Straight Outta Hunters Point” sequel highlights neighborhood issues, changes
Kevin Epps grew up in the West Point projects of Hunter’s Point. As a kid he would look out his window at the spectacular view of the Bay Bridge and the ships that…
Oscar-winning alumnus attributes success to SF State cinema department
This golden knight holds the sword of a crusader, stands at 13.5 inches tall and weighs 8.5 pounds. His name is Oscar. For SF State alumus Ethan Van der Ryn, the recipient of…
Day of Action at SF State dampened by bad weather
A low turnout and rainy weather brought gloom to SF State on Thurday’s walkout as a part of the national Day of Action for Education. Despite many flyers posted throughout campus announcing the…
Bad Movie Night in the Mission showcases examples of terrible filmmaking
Predictable plots, lousy special effects and obvious overacting are just three of many elements that make for a waste of money at the movie theaters. But at The Dark Room, they are all…
VIDEO, PHOTOS: Valentine’s Day pillow fight sends singles and couples swinging in the name of love
Valentine’s Day is about more than kissing, teddy bears, heart-shaped boxes of candy and sappy love songs. Here in San Francisco it’s about smashing strangers in the face. The weapons of choice were…
SF State theater group puts modern twist on biblical story in “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
It’s a story of biblical proportions. The trial of the ultimate betrayal. Judas Iscariot, the apostle of Jesus Christ, went down in history as the disciple who turned in his soon-to-be crucified leader to…
SF State student and alums Do It Live!
Commitment, hard work and friendship are three of the elements that helped one SF State student and two alumni create and maintain their own theater company a year ago, Do It Live! Productions….
Trust a dominating force in BDSM relationships
Trust is the foundation of any relationship, especially one that involve whips, handcuffs and choking. BDSM stands for bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism. It is a type of…
Abstinence an option for some SF State students
Five years after they started dating in their senior year of high school, SF State graduate student Alyssa Palfreyman had sex with her husband Sam for the first time. Waiting to have sex…
Friends with benefits: unlike movies, can be complicated
In a poster for the movie “No Strings Attached,” Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher smile at each other while putting their clothes back on in a disheveled bedroom; the tagline reads “Friendship has…
Egg donation: keep your eggs in your basket
Got eggs to spare? Because with a price tag of $5,000 for a few eggs, a woman’s ovaries may seem like a gold mine. Egg donation centers have been targeting young women, such…
Designated smoking areas at SF State become social hub for smokers
Students show up to the two designated smoking areas of State Drive in small waves, chatting, mingling and lighting one another’s cigarettes. The smell of smoke lingers, isolating the smokers from the rest of the campus….
Long-distance relationships: Overcoming difficulties
Holding hands, kissing and going out on dates are all typical ways to showing affection when in a relationship, but these kinds of intimate interactions can be difficult when your partner is not…
Breaking up online: how social media can affect the end of a relationship
Relationship status: Heartbroken. Ending a relationship is hard enough, but in the digital age, things have become more complicated with social media outlets including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr changing the way we relate…
VIDEO: What gets you stressed and how do you cope?
Students are no strangers to stress. With work, school, finances and family to worry about, stress tends to be an unwelcome presence in many students’ lives. But how should they deal? Xpress asks…
LGBT conference aims to uplift transgendered community at SF State
If you look at the concept of gender through black and white lenses, you’re missing out on the colorful array of ways to understand and express identity. Although SF State is a welcoming…
SF State fashion: the latest looks from thrift stores, H&M, Urban Outfitters and more
Nathalie Donche,21, Communications, Jr. Donche likes to keep her style simple and put together, with a sprinkle of bohemian. She likes to shop at Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters but H&M is her…
SF State recognized by Princeton Review for being green
The multiple tricolored disposal bins, the lingering aroma of organic coffee and the light breeze of passing bicyclists in clearly-marked bike lanes do more than create a picturesque scene of SF State. Aside…
New Parents Council intended to keep parents of SF State students in the loop
SF State has always been a melting pot of students, professors, administrators and other faculty members. As of this semester, we now add parents into the mix. The Parents Council is an organization…
Facebook a safer, more effective tool for finding roommates than Craigslist
Roommates–you either love them or you hate them. In the two years I’ve lived in San Francisco I’ve had nine roommates and I found the majority of them through Craigslist. Most of them…
VIDEO: SF State Students talk masculinity in “Cocktales”
Personal stories of experiences and challenges with masculinity were among the many topics discussed at the third annual Cocktales event at SF State, hosted by campus prevention programs in hopes of brining an…
