SF State artist forges storytelling craft
Rather than simply picking one medium to master, April Martin Chartrand has gone so far as to completely create her own art form altogether. Her art form called ”fiberalchemy,” is her attempt to…
Q&A: Dying Fetus’ Trey Williams on new album ‘Reign Supreme,’ tour and death metal
Editor’s note: This post contains some explicit language and material that may be considered offensive. Death metal has always been about pushing limits to the extreme, either musically or lyrically. Naming your band…
VIDEO: SF State takes on romantic tragedy ‘Lorenzaccio’
The stage of SF State’s Little Theatre is an arena of manufactured shadows. Giant mirror-plated pillars surround the stage and can be rotated on command to bounce the ominous lighting in any direction….
Q&A: Milo Greene’s Robbie Arnett on songwriting, tour and San Francisco
Los Angeles indie-folk quintet, Milo Greene has been on quite the tour lately. After their debut self titled album peaked at number one on the Billboard Heatseaker 100 this summer, they have embarked on…
SF State’s Voice winner balances love for music, education
When the winner of SF State’s Voice competition was announced in Jack Adams Hall Oct. 25, Anna Nguyen seemed to freeze, standing with her mouth agape in complete surprise at hearing her name,…
“Shotgun!” displays off-the-cuff student acts
Most college students understand the feelings associated with having to produce decent work under duress and intense time constraints, but believe it or not, a large group of student directors, writers and actors…
Biology major Anna Nguyen named SF State’s Voice
The office of Student Life has finally found SF State’s Voice with the conclusion of the month-long singing competition Thursday night. Anna Nguyen was dubbed the winner of SF State’s first singing competition….
Original student plays to hit big stage at One-Act Fringe
This fall, the biannual One-Act Fringe series expands as students are challenged in adapting their performances to a larger format at McKenna Theatre, the main stage in the Creative Arts Building. Every semester for…
Virtual Vet Corp illuminates veterans’ experiences, struggles
On top of the trauma of investigating heinous crimes, Bob Hollingsworth’s base was under mortar fire during his entire time in Iraq. He estimates that his base was mortared more than 1,000 times…
PHOTOS: SF State students show off vocal chops in ‘Voice’ competition
Student Life has taken it upon themselves to discover who has the greatest voice on campus with SF State’s Voice Competition. The month-long singing engagement is based off the popular NBC reality TV…
SF State cinema professor Pat Jackson wins Emmy for sound editing
Nicole Kidman’s voice-over narrates a hectic scene of Soviet paratroopers jumping out of planes to an uncertain fate while orchestral music swells with dramatic portent, signifying the outset of the second Great War….
SF State art class to host Art Faculty Exhibition from ground up
The half-empty room is itself a blank canvas. The white walls wait as they are slowly transformed into a broader work of art with the political, surrealist, contemporary and abstract works of others….
The Depot, ASI to set up new venue at SF State for The Growlers Sept. 14
In a dark nook carved into a basement wall, musical guests amplify their talents over the mezzanine and down into the bustling and buzzing recreation and dining level. The sounds of live music…
99 Stock Productions to present “Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness” at SF State
As if the first couple weeks of school were not crazy enough, 99 Stock Productions is bringing their performance of “Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness” to SF State’s Studio Theatre Sept. 7…
VIDEO: Bisi & The Moonwalker serenades Haight Street
Equipped with his black Fender acoustic guitar, Joshua Smith sways on Haight Street alongside his partner Bisi Obateru, who is armed with a microphone. After picking a spot they set up a makeshift…
SF State cinema student Chandra Reyes takes another glance ‘through the looking glass’ with winning film
A young woman with painted-black hair awakens inside a square, checkerboard room — and she is not alone. She is being watched by an anthropomorphic hare, a young man wearing a white waistcoat…
