Golden Gate Xpress Podcasts

Welcome to Gator Talk, the Xpress podcast that brings city perspectives to local, regional and national news. Friends of the Library is a pop-up bookstore within the J. Paul Leonard Library at SF State that sells used books, DVDs and CDs. Friends of the Library President Barbara Loomis sat down with Xpress to talk about the benefits that the bookstore offers the SF State campus community. Check ou...

Two newspaper-plastered classrooms filled with tired, yet eager reporters sit side by side on the third floor of the Humanities Building. These are the magazine and newspaper production rooms, and the single door separating the two finally opened this semester. Welcome to Between the Issues, the very first collaborative podcast between the Golden Gate Xpress newspaper and Xpress Magazine. GGX Mana...

Members of SF State’s Cinema Collective reflect on horror films in the spirit of Halloween. Member Maureen Villanueva and President Paulo Campos speak on social issues within horror films, methods of production and reminisce on their own familial experiences with horror and Halloween.

Two reporter-cluttered, newspaper-plastered classrooms sit side by side in the Humanities building on the third floor. Dramatic keyboard clicks leak from the rooms, serving as the hallway’s consistent ambient noise. These are the magazine and newspaper production rooms, and the single door separating the two finally opened this semester. Welcome to Between the Issues, the very first collaborative...

Welcome to Gator Talk, the Xpress podcast that brings city perspectives to local, regional and national news. Henry Michalski is a San Francisco resident born in Kazakhstan with a rich history in the Bay Area. His parents, Joska and Fela Michalski, survived one of the darkest periods in world history, the Holocaust. Michalski learned about what his family went through and wrote their story in a bo...

Welcome to Gator Talk, the Xpress podcast that brings city perspectives to local, regional and national news. SF State student, Johan Casal, dances as one of the main leads in Netflix’s Bridgerton Experience in San Francisco. Casal received this opportunity through SF State connections. As this production comes to an end and Casal works towards further ambitions, he reflects on his own experience...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Last month, SF State announced the inaugural director of its new Latinx Student Center, Emmanuel Padilla. Xpress Managing Editor Myron Caringal sat down with Padilla, an SF native, to discuss the opening of the center, Padilla’s vision for it and how he plans on supporting the Lati...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. On June 24, many Americans woke up to the news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision among partisan lines to overturn Roe v. Wade, a court case that for over 50 years established that the Constitution protected a woman’s right to have an abortion. This decision sent shockwaves a...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. As the end of SF State’s last transitional pandemic semester comes to a close, host Chris Ramirez wanted to take a moment and reflect on what the SF State community has gone through over the past two years. He sat down with SF State student Lorenzo Ramos, who started a Change.org p...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. City Editor Anaïs-Ophelia Lino spoke to San Francisco’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” actor Jon Stieger about ushering and how to work your way up the workplace in a stage production. Check out the story here at Gator Talk.

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. On March 1, the California Department of Finance sent a letter to California’s congress detailing their recommendations for how a $500 million statewide grant for higher education student housing should be divided up. If approved, SF State would receive the largest share of the mon...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Earlier this month, an SF State student created an Instagram account by the name of “SF State Spidey.” The masked individual has gained 600 followers since being spotted on campus interacting with Christian protestors. Copy editor and guest Matthew Cardoza sat down with SF State’s...

In the Mashouf Wellness Center dance rooms, sounds of eight counts filled the room to inspire 43 dancers on Wednesday evening. They were there to audition for SF State’s new dance team, Dance Elite. In the premiere episode of gators on site, Xpress’s engagement editor Nicole Buss talks with Dance Elite’s president Grace Malatse.

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Last month, new California legislation was introduced to help prevent harassment in public places. Nonprofit Stop AAPI Hate sponsored the two bills, with a similar third bill being finalized. Diversity Editor and guest Myron Caringal sat down with SF State Professor and co-founder...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In celebration of Black History, Multimedia editor and guest Nicolas Cholula sits down with Dr. Oba T’Shaka to discuss the birth of the Black Studies department at SF State in 1968. Check out the story here at Gator Talk.

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Well, a lot has happened since the Fall 2021 semester. Editor-in-chief and host Chris Ramirez sat down with SF State President Lynn Mahoney to recap what happened between finals week and the start of the new semester.

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. The middle of November kicks off holiday shopping spree but then, a wave of "robberies" hit the Bay Area and local media labeled it as "looting". In the last episode of the semester, Managing editor, Samantha Laurey takes over as a guest host. She sat down with KQED PM Local News E...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news.  Copy editor, Ashley Lyn Osorio sat down with host, Sebastian to talk about what leading with lollipops is. Sit back and relax for this wholesome episode of Gator Talk. If you want to catch up with Sebastian, follow him on his personal and professional twitter @buchelimino&nbs...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Two months ago, a student reported a mice problem in the University Park North apartments. Editor-in-chief and co-host Chris Ramirez sat down with Facilities Services Vice President Frank Fasano to learn more about its response, and the issues students across on-campus housing are...

Welcome to Chiva Pod, a bilingual podcast for the Latinx community in the San Francisco Bay Area! Hispanic Heritage Month is long over but, Host, Sebastian takes you back with Golden Gate Xpress Arts and Entertainment reporter, Marlyn Sanchez Nol. They discuss movies with Latinx Leads! Stick around, you might find a new favorite. *Disclaimer* Mild Spoilers **Second Disclaimer** Seb never really ta...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. This week, Xpress’ City News editor Anaïs-Ophelia Lino takes over the episode for a Halloween special. This special Gator Talk episode serves as a love letter to the genre as the audience will hear cinephiles break down the impact Hays Codes had on horror movies. You’ll later hear...

Hey ya’ll, it’s Seb here. Your Visuals Editor and host of Gator Talk and Chiva Pod. We’re about to approach Week 11 in the semester. So I just wanted to take the moment to thank y'all for listening. Without y'all, we wouldn’t be working throughout the week to make an amazing episode for the audience. Thank you! I just have a couple of things I want to mention. 1. We at Golden Gate Xpress have a sp...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. This week, Xpress’ A&E editor Matt Faludi sits down with Bay Area music journalism legend Ben Fong-Torres ahead of the San Francisco premiere of his new documentary “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres.” Torres, an SF State (and student paper) alum served as...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Last week, the California Faculty Association — the union representing faculty across the California State University system — declared impasse in its contract negotiations with the CSU. Chris sat down with faculty from across the CSU to learn more about what the CFA is asking for,...

Chiva Pod is off this week but will be back for the last week of Hispanic Heritage Month. So welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. To kick off October — aka “Halloween month” — co-host Chris Ramirez explores the origins and characteristics of the Italian horror subgenre, the giallo. He talks to various cinema experts a...