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09/23/2025

Lowriding recently came to life in the Mission District on Saturday during the King of the Streets Hop & Lowrider Parade, where families, car clubs and fanatics gathered to celebrate the unique art and craftsmanship of every vehicle. Events like this highlight lowriding as more than just a hobby, but as a celebration of creativity, cultural pride and community.

“It’s been a root of my pride,” said Cesar Ponce, the president and founder of Family First Car Club Norcal section. “It’s been a source of motivation to be able to say, you know what, I want to be different.”

Lowriding is a vehicle customization culture that originated in Southern California in the 1940s. The term “lowriders” refers to the vehicles, often characterized by elaborate paint jobs, murals, interior designs, chrome detailing and hydraulic suspension systems that allow the driver to adjust the vehicle’s height.

The culture first took shape following World War II when Mexican American veterans returned home with mechanical skills and access to a surplus of affordable cars. Beyond the mechanical modifications and designs, lowriding also includes gathering in car clubs, cruising and participating in car shows.

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✍️ & 📸 : Daisy Martin Del Campo

09/22/2025

Arriving in San Francisco this past weekend, folks were greeted with barricades and colorful streamers lining Mission Street. Overhead, the large banner from the San Francisco Lowrider Council announced its annual free event, King of the Streets Hop & Lowrider Parade. Starting from 20th and Mission streets, the area was packed with old school cars of all kinds, from Buicks to Impalas; every vehicle was decked out to the max. Each owner stood proudly next to their cars or checked out the others on display. Visitors enjoyed themselves, with people posing next to cars, taking selfies and even hopping in cars for a quick photo shoot.

By noon, there was a crowd of people walking around the already stationed vehicles, starting from 20th Street down to 26th Street. The parade was set up behind Capp Street, with people in their cars patiently waiting or conversing with others around them about the sweet rides they decided to bring out. When the clock struck 1 p.m., two lanes of lowriders began to cruise between 20th and 26th streets, blasting old school hip-hop and rap. People lined the streets with their phones out, recording their favorite vehicle of the afternoon or dancing to the music with a beverage in hand.

The parade lasted for about two hours, but that wasn’t the only thing the council planned for the day. From 4-6 p.m., a competition for the highest hydraulic jumping was streamed live on CBS News. Cars selected from California cities competed for the highest jumps. All generations were free to compete in the event, with some as young as 18. With shining cars still lining the streets and even small concerts and competitions, the whole bay came out to see a tradition going strong as ever.

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✍️ & 📸 : Sofia Isabel Reyes

09/20/2025

Transit Month in San Francisco kicked off with a bang, ushering in the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency’s festive “Bussin’ Bingo.”

Cheerfully red and white checkered, bus-themed bingo cards encourage transit riders around the city to explore outside of their normal routes to complete the game. Riders were encouraged to participate by visiting local businesses and ordering event-exclusive menu items. At the end of September, SFMTA promised an exclusive facility tour and raffle entry to those who filled out 16 squares on their bingo cards.

The San Francisco Transit Riders, an independent nonprofit that advocates for public transit riders, created the month-long holiday “Transit Month” six years ago as a way to uplift the importance of public transit networks in San Francisco.

With roots in the Bay Area, Transit Month continues to thrive through SFMTA, Caltrans and BART’s celebrations.

At the helm of the 2025 Transit Month festivities is SFMTA Public Relations Officer Nia Evans. On the heels of Evans’ ultra-successful 2024 Transit Month Event, “Tasty Transit Tour,” she planned “Bussin’ Bingo” with the goal of encouraging riders to engage in a city-wide exploration through public transit.

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✍️ : Ozzy Palacio ()
📸 : Lindsey Hoang () & Jolie Willson

09/19/2025

The smell of popcorn and churros led students to the second floor of the Student Services Building as the brand-new Equity & Community Inclusion Center hosted their first official event in their new space.

The ECIC, an over $2.5 million project that was officially completed this semester, hosted a “DECILand” open house event to welcome students to the new center.

Eventgoers were treated with food, including popcorn, churros, horchata and cotton candy, as well as activities such as arcade basketball, but only after their meal ticket was stamped by visiting each of the different centers and familiarizing themselves with where each group is situated.

Dalyce Brown, the outreach, recruitment and retention specialist and coordinator of the inaugural event, previously worked for Disney and took inspiration from Disneyland to come up with “DECILand.” DECI stands for division of equity, community and inclusion.

“The students, they love us. They love us at staff, make sure that they know where we are and how to find us,” Brown said. “I just wanted new students, old students to be more acclimated with this space and feel like, ‘Hey, not only do I belong here but I’m comfortable here,’ but also just to be in a new community with other identities, other students that you’ve never probably approached before.”

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✍️ : Eddie Monares (.monares)
📸 : Seamus Geoghegan () & Jolie Willson

09/19/2025

Heavy spoilers ahead.

When Jenny Han’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty” trilogy of books was first adapted by Amazon Prime Video in 2022, fans were already itching to see who Isabel “Belly” Conklin would choose to spend eternity with. The love triangle between Belly and the Fisher Brothers, Conrad and Jeremiah, sparked a heavy debate among fans as they chose teams when each summer rolled around.

After news broke that Han had changed the trilogy’s ending for the series, fans were left speculating how the series would wrap up its story. After three seasons full of trials and tribulations wavering between the two brothers, Belly ultimately chose Conrad in a rewarding climactic scene. With the constant misunderstandings and longing, it all paid off when Belly finally chose what she’s wanted all along, committing her life to her first love.

Most of this season was dedicated to Belly and Jeremiah’s wedding, which was eventually called off because of Conrad’s aching confession to Belly. Belly then runs away from her life in Cousins Beach and moves to Paris to focus on herself. A year flies by, and the series finale picks up with Conrad patiently awaiting Belly outside her Paris apartment.

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✍️: Lourence Alturino ()
📸: Amazon Prime Video

09/19/2025

Fidelity is a fickle thing. The act of adaptation heavily relies upon an artist bringing unique perspectives to preexisting work, whatever it may be. In “The History of Sound,” Oliver Hermanus has handsomely directed Ben Shattuck’s script, one based on Shattuck’s own short story. Aye, there’s the rub.

Rigidity is the modus operandi for this gay love story set before, during and in the aftermath of World War I. Rigid is the public expression of love between these two men, rigidity is what one was raised on and what the other eschews yet falls into. Though it may feel apt for a formal rigidity to dominate the film’s craft, this endless standstill quickly proves tiresome.

The saga follows Lionel Worthing, played by Paul Mescal, a musical prodigy whose preternatural sense for sound, known even as a child in 1910 Kentucky, sets him on a path to Boston Conservatory where he befriends fellow David White, played by Josh O’Connor, with whom he falls into a whirlwind romance. The war tears the two apart as White goes off to the trenches, but they reunite years later and venture on a song-recording mission through rural Maine while contending with how to love each other and still live in the repressed 1920s.

While this is rich as a premise, Hermanus and Shattuck’s adaptation gets stuck scratching at the tip of the iceberg. There are clearly inner worlds within Lionel and David, made so clear by Mescal and O’Connor’s sweet and earnest performances, but their passions are rendered so chaste in the edit until their fires fizzle faster than an audience can keep up with.

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✍️: August Hammel ()
📸: Gwen Capistran

09/19/2025

San Francisco’s District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio was recalled on Tuesday due to policies that neighborhood residents believe didn’t benefit the entire community. Some speculated Engardio to have more interest in other districts, which was an idea mainly influenced by the passing of Proposition K. The proposition was a citywide ballot measure in November 2024 that “permanently closed the upper Great Highway to private vehicles to establish a public open recreation space.”

The supervisor, who was seated in 2023, has been criticized due to his stance for the closure of the highway and the opening of Sunset Dunes. Some who opposed Engardio accused him of neglecting issues such as public safety, housing affordability and fostering community unity within the neighborhood, which encompasses the west side of the Sunset District.

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✍️: Jaiden Forey
📸: Eddie Monares .monares

09/16/2025

Once a year in Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Botanical Garden hosts Flower Piano, an event where pianos are scattered across the garden with pianists performing at designated spots. Founded by Dean Mermel and Mauro Ffortissimo, Flower Piano 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the event.

From 10 a.m. to noon, pianos are open for guests to play until pianists take over at noon and play until 7 p.m. On Friday, Flower Piano’s opening day, Larry Pascua played “My Little Sunshine” by the garden’s entrance, and a crowd gathered around the piano to sing along with him.

“It’s basically just getting the community together, just really have appreciation for art and beauty and nature all entwined together because we are very blessed and lucky that San Francisco Botanical Garden opened it to us musicians,” Pascua said. “If you really look at it …. a piano is in the living room and as Dean would say, ‘When you put it into nature, it gives it that extra element.’”

Stephanie Linder, CEO of Gardens of Golden Gate Park, runs the nonprofit partner to the city to operate the gardens. According to Linder, $600,000 was raised for the event to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the San Francisco Botanical Garden. Flower Piano started back in 2015 to celebrate the 75th anniversary.

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✍️ & 📸 : Paul Singh ()

09/16/2025

“Fue fácil llegar aquí”, dijo la estudiante internacional de China Yijun Zhou. “No tuvimos problemas”.

Zhou y sus amigas Yuran Song y Meng Ying son estudiantes internacionales chinas que llegaron a la universidad estatal de San Francisco listas para estudiar el año completo y dejar el clima húmedo de China.

Esta segunda semana de clases, la disposición de estas tres jóvenes hacia la ciudad y los Estados Unidos permanece optimista y resuelta, a pesar de la más reciente propuesta de la administración Trump, que intenta eliminar la política de “duración de estatus” para estudiantes internacionales y de intercambio, limitando las visas a un periodo de cuatro años. Este es un claro contraste con el período de gracia original de 60 días tras la conclusión del programa educativo del estudiante.

La propuesta de agosto es respuesta a lo que la administración y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional consideran “abuso de visa”. También están revisando las visas vigentes en los Estados Unidos por si hay violaciones, como “inelegibilidad, lo que incluye personas permaneciendo más allá del plazo establecido en una visa, actividad criminal, amenazas a la seguridad pública, participación en cualquier tipo de actividad terrorista o suministro de apoyo a una organización terrorista”.

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✍️ : Autumn Rose Alvarez (.rose.a) & Jaiden Forey () Translated by Melanie Ochoa
📸 : Alessandro Sanchez (.pinturicchio)

09/16/2025

Since its inception in the 1990s, Surfline has gone from a popular website that surfers use to forecast to being the only option for surf forecasting in the market. But now they suck at it.

Whether you’re planning on surfing Pipeline on the north shore of O’ahu or Lower Trestles in San Clemente, you’re undoubtedly going to be checking Surfline before you go out. Surfline allows you to check the swell (height and time interval in between waves), tide, wind and water temperature.

Yet, the information that most surfers will focus on is the wave height measurement and conditions, which Surfline assigns to various breaks across the world.

Unfortunately, since Surfline’s recent AI integration with their “LOTUS” model, the wave height measurement has become wildly inaccurate and possibly hazardous.

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✍️ : Alex Ortega (.alex_)
📸 : Wikimedia Commona

09/15/2025

Several years after its announcement, “Hollow Knight: Silksong” became playable.
On Sept. 4, Ari Gibson, William Pellen and Jack Vine, also known as Team Cherry, finally unleashed their second game to the world of voracious gamers.

Initially conceived as additional content for 2017’s “Hollow Knight,” Team Cherry’s blending of Metroidvania and Souls-like game theory was announced two years later as a full-fledged sequel to the megahit indie debut.

Fan fervor grew after the announcement, but the small Australian team left behind few details about the game’s development. Year after year, gamers held their breath for an official update at industry conventions, conferences and awards shows, only to be let down over and over again…

San Francisco State University student Charlie Leake spoke about his journey leading to the release and his first 45 hours playing “Hollow Knight: Silksong.” Leake, a fourth-year environmental studies student, is a project lead for SFSU’s Game Development Club.

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✍️ & 📸 : Elijah Shaw ()

09/15/2025

This Wednesday and Thursday, San Francisco State University will host its 20th annual Constitution and Citizenship Day Conference with speakers Jonathan Gienapp and Stephanie Jones-Rogers.

The federal holiday celebrates the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. In 2005, new legislation was established surrounding the holiday that required every educational institution that receives federal funds to celebrate the holiday with educational programming.

Marc Stein, professor of history at SFSU, has been the conference coordinator since 2015. Stein said there will be an array of topics covered across the eight sessions, including populism, the First Amendment and government censorship of LGBTQ+ history.

“There are a lot of things related to constitutional law that are the subject of great national concern right now, whether it’s birthright citizenship or executive authority or checks and balances, the rights of undocumented people and sending the National Guard into American cities,” Stein said.

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✍️ : Maya Latz ()
📸 : Sana Hussaini

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