Subject: SFSU

• Boxing Bootcamp: Day 4

  June 21, 2007

• Hot Protester On Protester Action, Sean Penn Presiding

  December 11, 2007

• The Demise of Hyphy Discussed Tonight at Ear Hustle

  March 25, 2008

• Happy Cesar Chavez Day!

  March 31, 2008

• 'Bedlam' at San Francisco State: Desperate Students Pack Classes -- and Must Request Library Books 48 Hours in Advance

  If college is intended to brace young people for the real world, consider San Francisco State students well prepared. They're paying more, receiving less, and coping with conditions most Americans thought were more likely to plague a university where classes are occasionally canceled due to rocket attacks. With budget cuts to the California State University System hitting home at the same time as a 10 percent tuition increase, SFSU students are finding their candles burned at both ends. Studen

  January 29, 2009

• San Francisco State Ranked WAY Better Than Stanford (in National Recycling Contest)

  A novel manner of demonstrating one's school spirit...Finally -- a competition that rewards college students for amassing empty beer bottles.Midway through the "RecycleMania" competition, our plucky hometown schools are among the nation's leaders. San Francisco State ranks 12th, one spot ahead of City College -- in a field of 198 (last place: Union College. C'mon Dutchmen, get on the ball!). Stanford, by the way, is ranked 70th. The 10-week competition, which concludes later this month, rewards

  March 4, 2009

• SFSU Hosts Panel Discussion on Radio Play

  Psst. Wanna get your song on the radio but don't know where to start? This Thursday, Strive Management presents "Clearing the Air: Everything You Need to Know About Getting Radio Airplay & More," a panel discussion and workshop aimed at unsigned, independent artists, which covers the basics of radio 101, such as the difference between a music director, a program director, a DJ and a radio personality. The panelists include KBLX air personality Sterling James, ex- Engery/Alice PD Jon Peake,

  March 24, 2009

• Night+Day

  May 1, 1996

• Also Playing

  April 30, 2008

• Electro Selectors

  DJs Jefrodesiac and Richie Panic keep dancefloors crammed with Frisco Disco and Blow Up.

  March 12, 2008

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  May 2, 2007

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  October 11, 2006

• Sistah Kamala

  June 14, 2006

• Fight Club

  November 9, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  May 25, 2005

• Comedy, Errors

  March 2, 2005

• Sketching It Out

  February 23, 2005

• The Pub in Publishing

  Readings and writings at the Edinburgh Castle

  December 22, 2004

• Deco Dates

  Fashionable Fridays

  April 21, 2004

• All Sewn Up

  April 14, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  February 4, 2004

• The Filth and the Fury

  The Hemlock gets down and dirty

  October 29, 2003

• The Lady Lily

  This isn't Skinny & Sweet!

  September 10, 2003

• Going Into Labor

  August 27, 2003

• Tea Me

  Big fun for big gals

  July 2, 2003

• Mystery Theater

  Scott Heim's cult novel -- in the flesh

  April 30, 2003

• Return to Chinatown

  November 13, 2002

• Poisoned Gods

  As museums return stolen religious artifacts, Native Americans are learning that their most sacred objects may kill them

  September 4, 2002

• Export AA

  Ann Arbor Film Festival

  November 17, 1999

• Dog Bites

  July 21, 1999

• Reel World

  December 2, 1998

• Night + Day

  July 22, 1998

• Night + Day

  March 11, 1998

• The Five Days of Eros

  February 11, 1998

• Night+Day

  November 12, 1997

• Night+Day

  September 17, 1997

• Night+Day

  May 21, 1997

• Night+Day

  November 20, 1996

• Night+Day

  December 4, 1996

• Night+Day

  October 16, 1996

• Aisle Seat

  March 6, 1996

• Who's San Francisco State's 'Alumnus of the Year'? We'll Give You 1,000 Guesses. You Won't Get It.

  If you've ever peered through the media guides for college sports teams, there are several sources of unintended joy: Mini-bios querying the players about their favorite foods or movies (Really? Scarface, again?); upbeat recaps of 2-9 seasons, or, best of all, the list of a school's "notable alumni." Yes, the Kenny Gorelick who attended the University of Washington is Kenny G (they must be so proud). Both Gary Larson and Linus Pauling are Washington State alums. My own alma mater of U.C. Berkele

  May 8, 2009

• Who Wants to Get a Whiff of Flower Smelling of Rotting, Fetid Bodies? You Know You Do -- Head to SFSU This Weekend.

  SFSUA stinky weekend is in store...Anecdotally, your humble narrator recalls a story about a local couple who demanded their money back from an area arboretum after their wedding was ruined by an unexpected blossoming of the garden's prize corpse flower. And they don't call it a corpse flower for nothing. If you've ever wanted to experience the olfactory sensation of a plant whose odor really and truly could be mistaken for a large, rotting animal -- now's your chance. Corpse flowers, which grow

  June 26, 2009

• Lucky You! SFSU Corpse Flower Has Yet To Emit Its Signature Noxious Stench -- So Viewing Hours Have Been Extended!

  U.S. Botanical GardenIt's a stinker -- and it's lateSan Francisco State greenhouse manager Martin Grantham reports that several hundred people have dropped by his muggy domain in the past several days -- but were sorely disappointed the place didn't stink like the fart depository. That's because, as we've noted before, SFSU's 14-year-old corpse flower is in its last stages before bursting into its first odious bloom; the native Indonesian plants bloom rarely and erratically. Like volcanologists,

  June 30, 2009

• Prelude to a Stink: SFSU's Stubborn Corpse Flower Still Yet to Bloom

  Will SFSU's corpse flower ever open up and stink for the masses?Is the long-delayed bloom of San Francisco State's reticent corpse flower somehow tied to the state budget process? As it stands, we have neither -- the state is issuing IOUs and the school's 14-year-old corpse flower, predicted as ready to release a nauseating odor and bloom for the first time as early as last Friday is still stubbornly holding out. As of this writing, the flower is decidedly un-stinky and un-bloomed. Soyary Suntho

  July 2, 2009

• Week of August 29 - September 4, 2007

  August 29, 2007

• Corpse Flower Redux: Stop-Motion Video Catches Bloom, Decline of Stinky Plant -- and a Couple of Hippies

  Our loyal readers, as well as those with a disproportionate interest in malodorous local flora, remember a series of articles we wrote in early July about San Francisco State's shrinking violet of a corpse flower. After holding out for days past experts' repeated predictions of its imminent stinky bloom -- an event that only occurs once in a decade, if then -- the otherworldly looking plant noxiously opened over the July 4 weekend. We were there with our camera to document the event. At the time

  August 5, 2009

• School Daze: S.F. State Announces its 'Furlough Calendar'

  Sadly, they're all just trying to crash a biology class at SFSU...​When we see college students walking, serpentine, on Friday nights, talking too loudly, and eating pizza slices in both hands, we feel nostalgic. When we see them hauling 75 pounds of books out of the library, that strikes a chord, too. But when we report on desperate students crashing classes they'll never get because of budget cutbacks, being forced to apply for library books 48 hours in advance, or, now, the release of San F

  August 10, 2009

• Greenhouse That Introduced Public To Incredibly Stinky Plant Now Offers Bite of Incredibly Tasty One

  'Miracle Fruit'​Our green-thumbed readers may remember the July saga of San Francisco State's corpse flower. The exotic Indonesian plant crossed up experts from every local university by stubbornly refusing to bloom. But, when it did, it sure lived up to its title. Visitors to the SFSU greenhouse were invited to write down their olfactory impressions of the flower; some submissions included "trash juice," "vomit," and "my pants." After inviting the populace to sample a plant that actually emit

  August 27, 2009

• S.F. State Students, Staff Not Thrilled About Furlough Days -- But, Hey, Four-Day Weekend

  Long weekends are less fun when taken because the state's dead broke and run like a banana republic​For San Francisco State students, staff, and faculty, extended furlough weekends are kind of like a fantastic spread at a funeral. Sure the deli selection is outstanding and the bread is fresh and hot -- but Grandma's dead. So SFSU personnel enjoy four-day furlough weekends like the one commencing today -- who doesn't like time off? But it really puts the damper on it when you're taking time off

  October 23, 2009