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No More Pencils, No More Books: School's Out Forever Fear and weariness is a normal part of human nature. What is around the corner is usually unknown, keeps us on our toes and preserves excitement. Admit that the uncertainty of life and the curve balls thrown our way create...
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Thursday, May 15 2008 6:46 AM

Sin Is In In today’s society, there are no such things as saints. As human beings we embody good and bad qualities that create a balance, but in most, an imbalance is clear. It seems people think it’s cool to side with the...
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Thursday, Apr 24 2008 8:00 AM

Shock-Free Mentality: As a native San Franciscan, it is extremely difficult to shock me. My parents tried to keep me in what they hoped would be an everlasting, protective bubble, but, inevitably, the city acted as a sharp pin—POP! So there I...
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Thursday, Mar 13 2008 6:35 AM

Achieving the Ultimate American Dream A 30-second clip of one of President Kennedy’s speeches made him truly ponder the President’s words: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” This memorable and important phrase solidified Senekeremian’s goal to one day become President of the United States.
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Friday, Dec 7 2007 7:22 PM

AIR Concert The electronic sounds are broken up with perfectly timed whispered French nothings mixed with the English language spoken clear with French accents. The audience closes their eyes and are instantly swept off to a dreamland as if literally floating in air—a feeling you can’t help when listening to the appropriately named French electropop band.
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Friday, Dec 7 2007 5:28 PM

From Tiffany to Gabriel, to Zander Zander considered himself a masculine female for the majority of his life and began his female-to-male transition a couple of years ago beginning with weekly testosterone injections. Biologically still female, Zander, a self-proclaimed "trans-man,” only had one defining female sex characteristic altered with chest reassignment surgery. With neatly groomed facial hair, a filled-out physique and deep voice, there are no traces of Tiffany left over.
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Monday, Nov 5 2007 6:15 PM

Child's Choice At preschool in his Midwest town, George played dress-up with little girls. His teacher told him that only little girls did those things and little boys weren’t supposed to. Sometime before, when George told his mother that he was a girl and not a boy, Shannon responded by saying that God intended for him to be a boy. But George was insistent—“God made a mistake,” he replied.
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Friday, Nov 2 2007 6:22 PM

[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

Tony Bennett - a concert review Bennett may be old in number, but his style and grace are as fresh as when he first started out. 32-year-old Michael Bublé, this generation’s Bennett-style crooner, followed in Bennett’s footsteps and applied everything Bennett embodies into an act of his own.
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Wednesday, Oct 3 2007 5:31 PM

Accept Me for Me Children laughed at her when the teacher would butcher her name and ridiculed her when she was grouped in the less-than mediocre “Chinese C” class, where all “non-Chinese” and disruptive students were placed. “I didn’t know the criteria for being placed in Chinese C, B, or A,” she recalls. “All I knew is that the A and B classes had good full Chinese kids and the C-class was everyone else. But I was good.”
[ Story by Jennifer Tarantino ]
Tuesday, Oct 2 2007 7:06 PM