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On the Rise San Francisco sourdough is iconic. The flavor and texture are renowned throughout the world, and most of us swear it’s the absolute best.
[ Story by Samantha Barclay-Saxon ]
Thursday, Mar 13 2008 7:25 AM

Carpe Noctem Ninety-nine percent of Americans never see a truly dark sky. One tenth of the world’s population live where it’s never dark enough for eyes to adjust to night vision. In an age where we pay to repair our carbon footprints halfway around the world, order organic produce delivered to our front doors, and Gavin has banned plastic bags, we ignore the light pollution problem right outside our front doors.
[ Story by Samantha Barclay-Saxon ]
Friday, Dec 14 2007 12:25 AM

V DAY 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of V-Day, the global movement to stop violence against women and girls created by the Eve Ensler, the innovative genius behind The Vagina Monologues. The “V” stands for Victory, Valentine and, of course, Vagina.
[ Story by Samantha Barclay-Saxon ]
Wednesday, Dec 5 2007 2:28 PM

Bunny Tales When you think of bunnies, do you think of sex? Hugh Hefner did. Playboy Bunnies became a sex icon around the world the moment the first Playboy Club opened in Chicago in 1961. Some argue that the Playboy Bunny has...
[ Story by Samantha Barclay-Saxon ]
Saturday, Oct 20 2007 6:23 PM

Reading Lolita in Tehran The desperate truth of Lolita's story is the “confiscation of one individual’s life by another." “We had become the figment of someone else’s dreams,” she writes of her students, as well as her country. “A stern ayatollah, a self-proclaimed philosopher king, had come to rule our land.” Nafisi’s students, who had spent half of their lives under this leadership, did not know to which world they belonged, or which one was real. Throughout her book, she shows readers this delicate line between fiction and reality. Her students battle within themselves, and within their environment, to find where they belong.
[ Story by Samantha Barclay-Saxon ]
Thursday, Oct 18 2007 10:25 AM

Detoxing a Racist Nation "A little boy and his father are in a car crash. They are both seriously injured and need to have operations. After an ambulance races them to the ER, they are rushed into operating rooms. The attending surgeon comes out...
[ Story by Samantha Barclay-Saxon ]
Saturday, Oct 13 2007 9:26 AM

[X]press Magazine Staff Experiences with Racism Brittany Price I was in the fifth grade when I started listening to hip-hop, way before it became a norm for white-suburbia. My parents outlawed any cd’s with those black and white stickers and frowned at the hours I spent...
[ Story by Staff ]
Friday, Oct 5 2007 11:56 AM

Hurrican Katriana and the Color of Disaster - a book review “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” Kanye West says, eyes dead-locked on the camera. Comedian Mike Meyers looks at him in disbelief. There is a moment of awkward uncertainty before the camera jumps away, leaving Meyers wide-eyed and mid-sentence....
[ Story by Samantha Barclay-Saxon ]
Saturday, Sep 1 2007 9:18 PM